The New model Viewer is Awesome

[sadjad-vosoul]

Happy New Year

 

i just wanna say thank you for this new flawless update on MODEL VIEWER 2 :thumbup:

 

Cheers

ISAAC

 

IIF Project :https://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=216906

[Frank00]

What kind of viewer is it? And where can we find it?

[joey45]

In the bin folder of the main directory..

[Helles Belle]

Is it picking up the saved games folder yet?

[Nealius]

Yes, much easier to preview liveries now.

[assafm25]

Do we have a refresh option so we not need to re open the probram and re load the model and texture in any dds changes we made on the folder ?

[Vitormouraa]

Do we have a refresh option so we not need to re open the probram and re load the model and texture in any dds changes we made on the folder ?

 

Not yet, unfortunately.

[Captain Orso]

If anyone knows how to get ModelViewer2 to work with liveries in '..\Saved Games\DCS...' it would be much appreciated.

[SkateZilla]

If anyone knows how to get ModelViewer2 to work with liveries in '..\Saved Games\DCS...' it would be much appreciated.

 

I believe the problem is known, the issue is it adds the DCS Root to the beginning of the saved games folders you add in the autoexec file.

[Magic Zach]

Model viewer 2 has been around for longer than December. October even.

I've been using the regular model viewer for ever, but while I had never opened MV2 that was right under it in /bin, I know it's been there for some time already.

I recently has some issues, which in short required I do a decent repair, after deleting the regular model viewer. But after I've done the repair, the regular modelviewer is no longer in /bin, it wasn't put back in! But I've started to use MV2. There are some improvements as far as I can tell (took me a few minutes to figure out how to see liveries in MV2, with different things being reorganized), but it's similar enough I easily slipped into using it.

[SkateZilla]

Model viewer 2 has been around for longer than December. October even.

I've been using the regular model viewer for ever, but while I had never opened MV2 that was right under it in /bin, I know it's been there for some time already.

I recently has some issues, which in short required I do a decent repair, after deleting the regular model viewer. But after I've done the repair, the regular modelviewer is no longer in /bin, it wasn't put back in! But I've started to use MV2. There are some improvements as far as I can tell (took me a few minutes to figure out how to see liveries in MV2, with different things being reorganized), but it's similar enough I easily slipped into using it.

 

ModelViewer.exe was removed w/ 2.5.4 I believe.

[Grajo]

Hi,

 

Thanks for the post sadjad-vosoul. I did not notice that there was any improvement in the model viewer tool until I have read this post.

 

I was working in some liveries for Mi-8 some time ago and I found it fairly useful, but this new version is just much better, specially because a part from many other new features and GUI improvements, now you can reload the textures from your liveries with the click of a button which speeds up the process of visualization a lot, specially when tweaking spec maps.

 

Nice one Devs!:thumbup:

[Captain Orso]

I believe the problem is known, the issue is it adds the DCS Root to the beginning of the saved games folders you add in the autoexec file.

 

That's one issue, but it's more than that.

 

I added 'c:\Users\Orso\Saved Games\edModelViewer2.openbeta\autoexec.lua'

 

with:

 

mount_vfs_liveries_path("../../../Users/Orso/Saved Games/DCS.Liveries")

 

and it stops complaining about not finding the path, but it still doesn't find ANY skins in my DCS.Liveries folder and appears to then also not fand a bunch of 3d objects :cry:

[mr_mojo97]

On the back of this, am I supposed to have edmodelviewer2.openbeta in my saved games folder?

[SkateZilla]

On the back of this, am I supposed to have edmodelviewer2.openbeta in my saved games folder?

 

Yes

[mr_mojo97]

Cheers

[SkateZilla]

That's one issue, but it's more than that.

 

I added 'c:\Users\Orso\Saved Games\edModelViewer2.openbeta\autoexec.lua'

 

with:

 

mount_vfs_liveries_path("../../../Users/Orso/Saved Games/DCS.Liveries")

 

and it stops complaining about not finding the path, but it still doesn't find ANY skins in my DCS.Liveries folder and appears to then also not fand a bunch of 3d objects :cry:

 

if your mounting vfs from starting folder of

/Saved Games/edModelViewer2.openbeta/

 

then you might have too many " ../ "

[SkateZilla]

It loads Livery Folders fine for me, It's just a matter of getting the path correct:

 

For example I had to use "../" 4 Times to Back from the Current /DCS Installs/DCS World/Config/ModelViewer/ to the Root of the Drive, then the path is DCS.Aircraft/<aircraft>/Liveries.

 

So if you're going from your /Saved Games/edModelViewer2.OpenBeta/Autoexec.lua, then you need to add "../" once to back to the main /Saved Games Folder, and then the path.

 

The problem I do still have is if the Folders are on a Different Drive Letter

so:

mount_vfs_liveries_path ("../DCS.Liveries/")

[Captain Orso]

It loads Livery Folders fine for me, It's just a matter of getting the path correct:

 

For example I had to use "../" 4 Times to Back from the Current /DCS Installs/DCS World/Config/ModelViewer/ to the Root of the Drive, then the path is DCS.Aircraft/<aircraft>/Liveries.

 

So if you're going from your /Saved Games/edModelViewer2.OpenBeta/Autoexec.lua, then you need to add "../" once to back to the main /Saved Games Folder, and then the path.

 

The problem I do still have is if the Folders are on a Different Drive Letter

so:

mount_vfs_liveries_path ("../DCS.Liveries/")

 

From my experience, the model view is assuming its base location to be in the DCS World installation. When I use the full path in 'mount_vfs_liveries_path' I get this warning:

 

21:04:43 WARNING: Output directory does not exist, or is not readable! C:/Program Files/Eagle Dynamics/DCS World OpenBeta/C:/Users/Orso/Saved Games/DCS.Liveries

When I use just "../DCS.Liveries/" I get:

 

21:06:39 WARNING: Output directory does not exist, or is not readable! C:/Program Files/Eagle Dynamics/DCS.Liveries

When I use "../../../Users/Orso/Saved Games/DCS.Liveries", I get NO errors(!!), but when I load the 'P-51D-25-NA.edm' I get this:

 

 

... and it still doesn't find my liveries in my DCS.Liveries directory.

 

And when I load a livery from '..Bazar/Liveries' there are still textures missing:

 

[SkateZilla]

attach your autoexec.lua and I'll check it.

[Captain Orso]

There she blows! ;)

autoexec.lua

Edited January 28, 2019 by Captain Orso
spelling *duh*

[Nero.ger]

is there a way to limit the framrate?, i dont need 400fps :)

[SkateZilla]

is there a way to limit the framrate?, i dont need 400fps :)

 

Preferences, Check "Use fps limiter", enter max fps

[Captain Orso]

attach your autoexec.lua and I'll check it.

 

Hi Skate, did you see anything in my 'autoexec.lua'?

There she blows! ;)

[SkateZilla]

Hi Skate, did you see anything in my 'autoexec.lua'?

 

yeah, why did you remove the other lines?

 

local lfs = require("lfs")
local function service_file(file)
return file == "." or
	   file == ".." or 
	   file == ".svn" or 
	   file == "_svn" 
end

function scan_for_textures(path)
local lower_case      = path:lower()
if lower_case:find("liveries") then
   mount_vfs_liveries_path(path)
   return
end
local is_texture_path  = lower_case:find("texture") ~= nil
local mounted_already  = false 
for file in lfs.dir(path) do
	if not service_file(file) then
	   local fn 	  = path.."/"..file
	   local attr 	  = lfs.attributes (fn)     
	   if attr.mode	 == "directory" then
		  scan_for_textures(fn)
	   elseif is_texture_path then
		  local ext = string.sub(file,-4)
		  if '.zip' == ext then
				mount_vfs_texture_path(fn)
		  elseif not mounted_already and (
			 '.dds' == ext or
		     '.bmp' == ext or
			 '.jpg' == ext or
			 '.png' == ext or
			 '.tga' == ext) then
				mount_vfs_texture_path(path)
				mounted_already = true
		  end
	   end
	end
end
end

function scan_for_environment_cubes(path)
local lower_case = path:lower()	
for file in lfs.dir(path) do
	if not service_file(file) then
		local fn = path.."/"..file
		local attr = lfs.attributes(fn)
		if attr.mode == "file" then
			local ext = string.sub(file,-4) 
			if '.dds' == ext then
				AddEnvironmentMap(file)
			end
		end
	end
end
end

print("----------------------------------------------------------------")
print("scan for textures and liveries")
scan_for_textures("CoreMods")
print("----------------------------------------------------------------")
scan_for_textures("Mods")
scan_for_environment_cubes("Bazar/EffectViewer/envcubes")
print("scan done")
print("----------------------------------------------------------------")