My "View" is Askew

[falcon409]

Yea, I know. . .keep your hands off stuff you don't understand, lol (or, if it ain't broke don't "try" to fix it). While doing a livery for the Saberliner I decided to change the colors of some of the color swatches, which are in the mdl file. I had MCX open and figured "I can do this". I made a copy of the mdl and put it in a safe place, then changed several colors. I then saved back to the mdl file (using the FSX/MDL exporter function). then closed MCX and reloaded the mdl. All looked good. . .colors were there so I closed it and loaded the Sim.

First thing that gave me a clue I had a problem was that in the Aircraft selection window the airplane was about the size of a pin head. No problem, I can fix that. . . .loaded the airplane and although I could hear the engines running I was about a mile from where the airplane was located. I went to tower view and there she was, everything looked fine. I finally slewed her to the ramp near the tower and gave it a once over. Everything is as it should be, I just can't get the view (spot or locked spot) to work correctly. I can also get into the VC and that is perfect.

Anyone who does conversion have an idea as to how to correct the view problem? I know RADitor(?) will correct the view in the selection window, but will that also correct this?

 

[WarHorse47]

Sounds like the parking radius got changed somehow. Do you have "RADitor" or another program for reading/editing the parking radius??

 

[falcon409]

Ahh, Thank you Arno for everything MCX has become. The MDL Tweaker saved the day! I knew that changing the radius would fix the Aircraft Selection view, but never considered that MCX might have something as well. MDL Tweaker did the trick. I just loaded the original MDL took a shot of the original "Radius and Bounding Box settings" then loaded the current mdl, made the changes and voila. . .good as new. So changing material colors in MCX works if you cross your "T's" and dot your "I's" and hold your tongue just right, lol.