There will be another brief pause for a few days to make some adjustments.

OK after a few days investigating the reported issues of lights in the conversion models the following seems to have been ascertained. 1. It is not an MCX issue. 2. Makemdl does not like a gap of 300 between a LOD and the next one so it will change things. 3. No matter what you do to try and force-a...

No it is the Service Pack 2. If you have that installed. Check your version in game and see if that mentions SP2. I would guess that if you don't know what SP2 is that you haven't applied that to FSX so it shouldn't be an issue. If the version that you installed includes SP2, which doesn't sound lik...

So it was a Steam issue. Interesting to note. Thanks for the update.

No, the Market Place is in MSFS.

In the Market Place.

That is what I was thinking but I didn't know for a fact.

No it is a catch all error for FS9/X. If it was corrupted I think you would see system crashes not crash to desktops.
I don't think that there is anything useful there but if somebody thinks there is then they will say so.

It is an OS system file.

I don't think so unless you activated folders that are on your one drive. If you are going to uninstall and reinstall then I would do that and that alone and test in game. What you have to do is find stability then add something else, check stability etc. When it becomes unstable you have found what...

Do you still get the CTDs if you deactivate Coningsby?

OK thanks for that.
I shall keep that in mind in case i need to use that once the investigation is complete.

Excellent stuff. I shall download that.

Thanks, John. That is what I understood. I loaded up Mike's FS9 F-16s to see how it works for his mdl's. He has it setup exactly the same way I set it up. He has only 4 lights for the whole mdl, four are needed for the block 40s, and they are all attached to the nose gear door Top point. Something i...

OK, so if the LODs can be called anything you like why not 1,2,3 and 4? I thought the numbers meant something or am I very wrong. Also how can you change the LOD number in MCX. I haven't seen any option for that. Can you confirm that for FS9 you have to add the effects to every LOD, but the other si...

That is useful to know and you maybe 100% accurate.
The process doesn't feel right to me. Then on top of that it doesn't pass the lights down to lower LODs like you would expect it to.

We shall see what is discovered. I guess I am a guy that likes to understand why something works the way it does.

Just to be clear. You have never been able to access the Developers FTP from the website, only the Hangar. All developers should be able to swap/combine work through their current access method. I know that you guys have got safety precautions in place, understandably so, but we don't anticipate you...

Hi John, The LODs for these models are 400, 100, 50 and 10. It makes sense that what you are saying about the LOD 10 but there is definitely something not quite right about the rest. MCX creates, on the export, a mdl with LODS 201, 100, 50 and 10?! It also creates X files for 400 and 200 but doesn't...

OK an update here. Leading on from a report from Hartwig which created quite a few test mdls for him to test it does seem as if there is an issue with MCX converting these. As I am only doing conversions to FS9 I can't say whether it extends to the other sim conversions or not. My gut feeling is tha...

I should say that that as I believe it the FTP server will be OK it is just that it will not be accessible from the website. I can understand the desire to ensure that there are copies of everything kept in other places but unless my understanding is completely wrong you should still be able to stor...