User created 4D scenery content RC10 - IPACS Aerofly Forum (2025)

Einiges konnte ich bereits u.A. dank der mittlerweile vorhandenen (RC10) Tutorials herausfinden (die scheinbar noch nirgends offiziell announced wurden - sind diese immer noch work in progress?), diese beschränken sich aber fast auschließlich auf Konvertierung alter Szenarien bzw auf das Erstellen von Panorama-Szenarien.

Was ich schon herausfinden konnte:

<[file][][]
<[tmxglscene_impexp][][]
<[pointer_list_tmxglmaterial_impexp][material_list][]
<[tmxglmaterial_impexp][element][0]
<[string8][name][Mat01]>
<[string8][shader_hint][]>
<[list_tm_tmtexture_index_pair_impexp][texture_list][]
<[tm_tmtexture_index_pair_impexp][element][0]
<[string8][channel][diffuse]>
<[string8][name][grid_gray]>
<[bool][repeat_s][true]>
<[bool][repeat_t][true]>
<[float32][uvscaling][1]>
>
>
<[list_tm_shader_fixed_uniform_impexp][uniform_list][]
>
>
>

Wäre schön wenn etwas mehr Infos diesbezüglich geteilt werden, reicht auch erstmal formlos hier als kurze Antwort

Danke & Gruß

Translation via Google Translate (did not want to write everything in both languages):

I'm in the process of learning how to create my own 4D content for RC10.

In RC7 version, I had managed to create, convert and integrate 3D objects in a panorama.
But I did not manage to do it in higher version.
Table, radio, tank, flag...

Update: I figured the alpha part out - it can just be included in the diffuse .png / .tif texture and will be used automatically as a mask.
But the texture name should NOT include "alpha" in the name when trying to convert it, the converter for some reason will not convert it and also will not throw any errors

Still desperately trying to figure out how to set a material to be self-illuminated though.. Any help?

Update: I also figured out a way to use the luminance channel, however the material always still needs a diffuse part to be visible, which then visually heavily impacts the brightness of the object in daylight. I would love to be able to have a way to render a material without any influence by sunlight. I also realized the luminance channel only works with static3d objects, not decal objects.

If I use a transparent diffuse texture, the whole object becomes invisible despite having a bright color with no transparency in the luminance channel (so the alpha component in the diffuse channel acts as a global mask). If I use a black diffuse texture, the bright colored luminance texture still gets heavily dimmed during daylight. This is probably there for city lights etc. to appear realistically only illuminated at nighttime, but I wonder if there is a way to override this behaviour with some tag in the .itg or sth

Without any documentation I'm struggling to make progress.

Anyone knows how the light_config.tmc is linked to the object .tmb? Without e.g. loading the island_obj.tmb on Creek Island, no lights get loaded at all, so the creation of lights defined in the light config file seem to be relying on some information included in the object .tmb file.

Apparently the light group name is important as the lights disappear if i change the light group name, but I don't know what information my object .tgi file needs to contain in order for a light to appear.

Turned out the testgeometry I had used to try to place a light was buggy (imported from Cinema 4D to Blender) - when I use a native blender plane, light creation works perfectly fine simply by naming the object in the .tgi file the same as the light group in the light_config.tmc (even seems to be case-insensitive).

I'm struggling with the next thing and since I already wait for Email Feedback, I don't want to spam addition Emails right now.

I want to rotate an object i am loading in my scenery .tsc.
According to this thread from 2017, this feature was already added to FS2, so I'm curious, hasn't this been added to RC10 or am I using it wrong?

No matter what values I use, the object seems to be placed in the same orientation every time.

Not that familiar with the panorama scenes, but they are similar to the 4D scenes.
You can put the objects directly into your user scenery folder.
Export your model from blender as .tgi with the Blender Plugin from IPACS.
Check that the texture names in the .tgi represent your actual texture names (they can be converted from e.g. png to .ttx, you probably know the process from your air plane models)
It helps if you already apply materials with the same texture names in blender, the Exporter Plugin will then put those into the .tgi automatically
Then use their RC10 SDK to convert the .tgi to a .tmb and put it in your scenery folder and load it in the .tsc

Use "virtual" for collision objects and if you use "static3d", the texture names must match or it will load nothing since there is no fitting texture

hope this helps, but maybe you already figured it out

For dynamic objects you are probably right that they need to sit with the other objects as they are organized independently from scenes which kind of makes sense for reuse (but may be tricky for distribution of scenes with custom dynamic objects).

Texture name example in the .tgi file

Yes, I discovered that afterwards
Except for dynamic elements.

more details..

After some research I managed to illuminate the landing field

First of all, you need to associate an image_light.bmp file with the image_color.bmp file used for projector mapping.
Black image (RGB(0,0,0) with the mapped areas of the projectors in white.
Then create a light_config.tmc file describing the position of the spotlight and the cone on the ground.