NilsS

I am going to make this request in a new post as well. Does anyone really go thru 59 pages of a thread? I read a science fiction novel my Michael Moorcock about twenty years ago, which was based in an parallel earth where the dirigible never lost use as a popular means of transportation. There is such a wealth of talent at Simtropolis, that I would like to request a mod similar to the canals, that will allow simcity players to add dirigible docks to their cities ( like the Empire State Building was supposed to function ). It would be beautiful to see a ship like the Hindenburg sail into my cities. I think that this would add a whimsical (yet practical) touch to the game.

Thank you for the tutorial phillippbo. I like to make models with Autocad. I was hoping that I could do most of the work with this tool and then finish it with the B.A.T. I did a test run and the model previewed well in the B.A.T. but it exported with only partial planes. ( ie: one half of a rectangle from the diagonal ) I had refitted the LODs and reset the lights as your tutorial suggested. I can see alot of 3ds files available in the ST EXchange with messages indicating that they were being abandoned. Is there an inherent incompatibility between 3d studio objects and the B.A.T. , even though both tools are products of Autodesk? I will not pursue this approach, if that is the case.