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flybywiresim / msfs2blender2msfs

Fork of the official Blender glTF 2.0 importer and exporter designed for MSFS 2020
Apache License 2.0
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Development Question #5

Open ghost opened 2 years ago

ghost commented 2 years ago

Hi, I'm one of the developers in the Asobo Team of FlightSimulator I'm trying to collect some information on the various blender exporter provided by the community I wanted to know the reasons that drove you to create a new exporter instead of this one https://www.fsdeveloper.com/forum/resources/blender2msfs-toolkit.256/history Is there any technical reason for this? Thanks

CaptnBobFS commented 2 years ago

The main author has taken a break from project. I am not a developer but simply a follower/user but thought I’d reply. My understanding is that the FBW team wanted their own, robust importer/exporter which lead to this add on’s development. The main advantage to this add on is its import capability. Outside of that, it is not as robust as the current version of Blender2MSFS. There is a discord channel for this utility which can be found here: https://discord.gg/agAWyQwp

pepperoni505 commented 2 years ago

Hi, main author here. The main goal for this plugin was to essentially "emulate" how the Sim's build system works for glTF files. It's also able to import glTF files that have been through the packaging system. While the plug-in you linked was appealing, it didn't have the functionality mentioned above, and it appears the author of that plugin has abandoned it.

This plugin makes it very easy for livery creators to import a plane into Blender straight from the source files and create custom decals to allow for ultra-high detail liveries.

pepperoni505 commented 2 years ago

@lpierabella We've decided to resume work on the addon due to the high demand both from the community. We're open to the possibility of working together

ghost commented 2 years ago

Hi @pepperoni505 as discussed here we are currently working on an official Blender Exporter. I cannot tell you much more ... The FlightSim team will keep the community updated on this subject in the next weeks However, I can already tell you that emulating the MSFS build system is something that we do not recommend.