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Next week I will upload the Max 2012 32/64-bit exporter plugins... sorry for the delay.

Post a screenshot of your hierarchy in 3dsMax... looks like your bolts and meshes are not properly linked under mesh_root. You should have stupidtriangle_off under mesh_root and then all the meshes in a hierarchy under them. mesh_root >> stupidtriangle_off >>>> your mesh hierarchy ...also, you need to use "Affect Pivot Only" and move the mesh objects' pivot to [0,0,0]

I'd be willing to donate... would also be nice if you had a "map-of-the-week" or something like that ...to help maybe generate more mapping activity.

What 3D modeling package do you use?

I updated the animated Crosswalk logo walk cycle based on comments from @@AshuraDX... (not uploaded though)

If someone else wants to do it -- go ahead.

So I thought that for the 64-bit plugins I should probably have the progress bar display the "Crosswalk Logo" (since it's powered by the Crosswalk SDK)... ...instead of the animated dotXSI logo. So I made the following Animated Crosswalk logo (wish I could get YouTube to loop it): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZWsV8xLhuo&feature=youtu.be What do you think? Give me some feedback...

I recall walking away from my computer at the end of the mission-- just letting it fly... never hit a boundary. I don't think it had any. Perhaps it's a different construct altogether.

Couldn't things be scaled down? How does X-Wing Alliance do it? They don't appear to have boundaries...

@@eezstreet -- can you (will you please...) answer my previous questions?

IMO, there should be better flight mechanics... especially for near-Earth vehicles like the T-47. Is it possible to make a different map/game-type that would support open space maps? How were X-Wing Alliance maps generated that seemed endless??? Can a game-type be added that allows for that kind of map style???

@@DT85 & @@Xycaleth -- would be nice if it would create the G2 Skin file as well.

@@KENNITHH -- why is your modeller going from Milkshape to 3dsMax5? My friend Jed made a dotXSI 3.x exporter for Milkshape. You/he can get it here: http://www.wunderboy.org/apps/xsiexport.php If there is something that needs customizing for Carcass.exe (I.e., model_root) we could ask Jed to compile a customized version.

Autodesk support has told me that Crosswalk development will likely go the way of Softimage (My hunch is that there will probably only be a Crosswalk 2015 version) ...and that we should migrate to FBX as an intermediate exchange format. So @@Xycaleth (or another coder) will need to get animation support into the FBX2Ghoul2 converter... good thing there is that it could incorporate the existing FBX Viewer that is also embedded in the standalone Autodesk FBX converter.

Perhaps you have somehow put your monitor into power saving mode where it goes to sleep like that-- check your power conservation settings under control panel

I'm using two nVidia GTX 580 3GB cards... I've not done anything to stress them out... I also have downloaded nVidia's free, unsupported Gelato GPU Renderer... there is a plugin that goes along with the Gelato Renderer that supports 3dsMax 8, 9, 2008 (called Amaretto) and one for Maya called Mango... not sure of the supported Maya versions. I've not really done anything yet to stress test these cards... to see where I would hit a memory issue... but I think for GPU rendering the entire scene has to fit in the graphics memory on each card.

@@DT85 & @@Psyk0Sith -- what's your graphics card setup?

@@Psyk0Sith's website has some humanoid tutorials.

What Graphics Card (and 3D modeling software) are you using? How many graphics cards and how much memory do they have? Do you see any issues with your modeling apps (in regards to your graphics cards)?

@@DT85 & @@minilogoguy18 -- now that I think about it... there is already a proven, free dotXSI 6.0 to dotXSI 3.0 converter for Maya users-- it's called Softimage Mod Tool. So there's no need for me to recreate that wheel. Maya users can use that to convert their dotXSI 6.0 content to dotXSI 3.0 and then use Carcass. So I can scratch that off my To Do List.

Sorry, I don't want to spend all my time coding... I have enough coding projects... I'm anxious to get back into 3ds Max modeling & animation.

LoL, yes I know that... I was just saying that you can see the webpage as it originally was with it's download links. I just captured their original FAQ regarding the dotXSI4Max plugin source code. From what I can tell... it appears to me that only the object code was ever made available for Maya and not the original source code. I downloaded the Maya 6.5, 7.5, and 8.0 object code from the softimage site years ago.

You can see the original web pages for the dotXSI exchange for both Max and Maya in the Internet Wayback Machine-- and the download links-- from what I can see there was only ever the object code that was made available and I have that. After I finish my character rig I will attempt to create a dotXSI 6 to dotXSI 3 standalone converter. I also want to make a dotXSI 1.1 to dotXSI 3.0 converter. And I still have my dotXSI Importer plugin project for 3dsMax... which is still a WIP.