MSFS SDK Tutorial - Asobo's Blender exporter is available NOW!

[@gracebyseven]

Wonderful Federico. What a blessing these tutorials are. Thank you!

[@Kingnothing75]

thank you Federico for a very helpful tutorial! I'd be lost without your help.

[@lucabloor1086]

Thank you sooo much! This saved my project as I couldn't figure out how to use this.

[@johnarnold7460]

Federico you have done it again and once again we MSFS 'developers' are better for it. Your tutorials are easy to understand and do not leave anything out (ie no assuming the watcher knows some things).

[@MSFS-SDK-TUTORIALS]

Thanks my dear friend 😊

[@ChrisA7X89]

Thanks for the tutorial! Had to reinstall everything and forgot how to make it work again (it's been a time since I installed it initially.) Now everything's good again

[@TubeLessons]

Great work, Federico. As allways.

[@stephansiebertz1870]

Ciao Frederico,
Grazie mille - thank you very much for your tutorials. I am getting into designing helipads and hospitals for msfs.

[@MSFS-SDK-TUTORIALS]

You gonna a great time, some hospitals are boring, but modern one a art! If you jump on the discord I hava a couple of German guys enjoying with hospitals and helipads 😊

[@alvarobravo177]

This are great news! As you said, this is support for a free software (Blender) that anyone can learn and use 😊

[@Mrazgoodaz]

Seems like Metallic/Roughness gets exported properly from Blender to texture folder but it doesn't export upon building the package.

[@pavelkarai5265]

Thank you! You are the best !!!

[@ezryder48]

good informative video, thank you

[@neth77]

This is great thanks.

[@eraldosammurierasam9913]

Great news !!! Thanks a lot

[@magnetic333]

Hello I have many errors from python runtime, What version today I can Use with 1.3.0 asobo exporter ? LTS 3.3.1 ou LTS 3.3.3 ? Thanks

[@MSFS-SDK-TUTORIALS]

Hey there , at the moment I have 3.3.3 lts and the 1.3.0 plugin, no error so far exporting scene or planes, just some slowdown with lot of animations
Maybe you might want to join the Discord so we can analyze the issue better with screenshot s
discord.gg/YFqAM6yV

[@helifors]

when i install in blender i dont see the addon its not working enymore

[@magnetic333]

Hello what is the second texture "comp", compilation ? How to do ? thanks

[@MSFS-SDK-TUTORIALS]

comp is COMPOSITE, but you can call the texture whatever you want
It is a texture used for PBR material, and is composed of ambient occlusion map in the R channel, roughness map in the G channel and metalness map in the B channel
I've made a video about them, check this out:
ua-cam.com/video/2xd8KMlkXNA/v-deo.html

[@magnetic333]

@@MSFS-SDK-TUTORIALS thanks, one software or plugin for doing that quickly? When I have textures I would like to make that automatically.

[@MSFS-SDK-TUTORIALS]

@@magnetic333 there Is a free software called materialize, if i remember correctly you shoud have the ability to compose different texture Maps
Or substance painter (pay)
Or Photoshop
The idea beyond doing them manually Is that you Will likely end to Paint the Maps to best match your Needs 😁

[@demotoken]

HI i was wondering how you add your house into msfs2020?

[@carolinanumber1830]

Great video. Forgive me but at 3:00 minute marker to close the settings/ the multi.. window you hit what key? It sounds like "M" but mine doesn't close so I can get back to modeling :)

[@MSFS-SDK-TUTORIALS]

It's "N"
That panel is also known as the N panel

[@wouldntyou_like_to_know]

Thanks for the video! So this exporter is easier/more functional than the original blender2MSFS exporter?

[@MSFS-SDK-TUTORIALS]

At least Is gonna be more supported
And at the moment has already some functionality that blender2msfs toolkit miss (collision shapes and proper lod export to name some)
About being easier, all of us were already used to the former exporter, so a bit of a learning curve Is to taken into account, but yeah, Is not rocket science 😉

[@Andrewhg1995]

Does the LOD export function work? I can't seem to get my head around it... However, I have had some success with the older exporter that you used in your LOD tutorial, there just seem to be some limitations?

[@MSFS-SDK-TUTORIALS]

They works well!
instead of calling the LODs collections x01, x02
give them the name "yourObjectName_LOD0", "yourObjectName_LOD1", "yourObjectName_LOD2"
in the exporter setting, click Group by Collections
before exporting click reload LODs a few times
and then select all the collection in the list

[@Andrewhg1995]

Thanks @@MSFS-SDK-TUTORIALS After resolving an installation issue, I have got it working now! Renaming the collections is a very helpful pointer, greatly appreciate your assistance!

[@takewing19]

Thank you

[@travismichael024]

Does this exporter work for later versions of blender? I tried installing it several times and I cannot get it to work.

[@MSFS-SDK-TUTORIALS]

The later Exporter version (1.3.0) is granted to work with Blender 3.3.x (and it does)
Newer version of blender may work or may not, that's your choice trying them
I'm already fine with 3.3
(And I run also a separate 3.1.2 blender install with plugin version 1.1.6 with no problems at all)

[@francis-bravoairspace2895]

mamu! Thank you!

[@Cli4D_Designs]

Please i need help.. im new to exporting and i tried the steps and when i export i only get a 3d model format and xml file on the folder.. no bin file and the texture folder does not auto generate as well. Thank you in advance for whatever help that you may lend.. I did type "../texture" on the settings tab by the way.

[@MSFS-SDK-TUTORIALS]

Hi Cli4D, make sure your meshes are inside a collection and that in the settings, in the texture textbox you have "../texture"
If you don't succeed, join on discord and send the .blend so can take a look
discord.gg/h5c6UvBrVR

[@phcos1]

Hi Federico. First of all, a huge thank you for all your video. Thanks to you I was able to share some scenery of my town "Beaufort SC". As usual, I do all you showed us, but that time when I export, I can open the gltf file and my antenna looks good, just as it is in blender, but when I try to build the package, either inside of MSFS, or with fspackagetool.exe directly in the folder of my scene, the 2 texture files (png and jason) are not created. I have the message " glTFLister | Model texture not found in texture directories:
I saw that with sdk17 people have problem to export from 3DS. Does some of you here have a problem with Blender too? It was working well with the toolkit, but now with blender3.1 and Asobo's Blender exporter, I'm stuck.
I'm not sure if it is the right place for asking. I should try to log on discord.

[@MSFS-SDK-TUTORIALS]

Hi Phil, thanks for you kind words!
In the new exporter, click on the settings Tab and type "../texture" in the texture textbox
Once you export, your textures Will be placed there

[@F5PZQ]

now I use version 3.1 and it works thank you very much for your help and also for your very good tutorial see you soon for the rest of your adventure

[@ChokDK-bryllupsmusik-duo]

@@MSFS-SDK-TUTORIALS Hi.. Please put this in the description :)
I was about to buy new glasses to see what it said :D
../texture

[@adelhaiba]

Thank you very much, very informative, can you make full detailed explanation of the whole plugin?, please.

[@slowhand7184]

Is the addon in any way different from the MSFS Toolkit for blender that I have been using for quite some time now?

[@MSFS-SDK-TUTORIALS]

The only difference by now is that the new Asobo exporter can export collision shapes.
But, since the former exporter is not supported anymore, the new one is gonna be officially supported by Asobo. Since there are often changes that can brake some functionality,this is the go to for the future!

[@slowhand7184]

@@MSFS-SDK-TUTORIALS Thanks for the info and for your video as well as thanks to Asobo and to everyone developing this exporter!

[@leji320]

Help me, when exporting it says error.
TypeError: Cconveting py args to operator propeties: keyword "export_displacement" unrecognized.

[@MSFS-SDK-TUTORIALS]

The Asobo exporter works perfectly with blender 3.1 , that error is likely from Blender 3.3

[@Zoltan74]

I downloading Microsoft Flight Simulator glTF 2.0 Importer and Exporter for Blender. 1.3.1 version, and not working! I Tested in Blende 3.3.1 LTS version ,and .2 and .3! Error message: Extension Microsoft texturesdds is not avalible on this addon version! I want to improve an already completed airplane, but I can't get it to load into Blender! Not only is there a problem with this one airplane, I can't load another airplane! What could be wrong according to you?

[@MSFS-SDK-TUTORIALS]

Hi, the Asobo plug-in is not suitable for dealing with already compiled stuff (what are you trying to do, if you don't have the sources or permissions from original creator is basically copyright infringement)
For study purposes, this can be useful
github.com/flybywiresim/msfs2blender2msfs

[@Giampa_Pol]

Hi Federico, thanks for your great tutorials. I would like to ask you why using Blender version 3.2.1 I can't export objects well: the .bin file is missing, the other two are there. I installed the ADDON you indicated and followed your explanations but this thing happens to me: there is no .bin file. Thank you

[@MSFS-SDK-TUTORIALS]

Ciao Giampaolo, grazie!
What have your tried with Blender version 3.1?

[@Giampa_Pol]

@@MSFS-SDK-TUTORIALS hello, do you advise me to try on version 3.1? thank you grazie mille

[@MSFS-SDK-TUTORIALS]

@@Giampa_Pol Si, avevo letto di problemi con la 3.2.1, quindi ti consigliavo la 3.1 che è quella che uso normalmente..
Comunque nel frattempo ho installato la standalone della 3.2.1, fatto una prova ed esporta regolarmente!

[@Giampa_Pol]

@@MSFS-SDK-TUTORIALS probabilmente sbaglio qualcosa sicuramente, ma non saprei dove, devo seguire fotogramma per fotogramma il tuo tutorial. Grazie mille, gentilissimo

[@pilotmpl]

do you have like a beginners tutorial?? I followed this exactly and keep getting an error message when i try to export.
***Converting py args to operator properties : keyword "export_displacement" unrecognized***

[@MSFS-SDK-TUTORIALS]

Hi Michael, all the airport series here on the channel is very beginner friendly
About you error...are you using Blender 3.3?
The Asobo export is fully compatible only with blender 3.1 (some minor incompatibiliets with Blender 3.2)

[@pilotmpl]

@@MSFS-SDK-TUTORIALS actually I am using 3.3, I'll have to try with blender 3.1! Ill give that a shot later, thanks!

[@JozefKudla]

@@MSFS-SDK-TUTORIALS I had the same issue, I had to downgrade to 3.1 and it is now working as a charm.

[@danirivera5673]

hermano, el mejooor, MOOOOOOOOORRRTAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAALL

[@elcarelushin6373]

Can't export multiple collections at once without setting one by one?

[@MSFS-SDK-TUTORIALS]

Yes sir you can
The exporter creates a single .glTF (and .bin) per each collection

[@patriciomassun]

Hi Federico! You have wrong the path to paste the add-on (or at least it doesnt work that way for me).. You needs to paste the addon in the ""user"/appdata/roaming/blender/3.1/scrips/addons"

[@MSFS-SDK-TUTORIALS]

Thanks Patricio, should work exactly in the same way
Basically in my installation path the add-on should be available for all users while in yours only for that specific user. If you have a single user in your machine, doesn't matter ☺️

[@patriciomassun]

@@MSFS-SDK-TUTORIALS for some reason it doesnt work for me when copy to the "program file" (it doesnt appear in the add-on list) weird! Great channel! thanks for share your knowlage ;)

[@TimAyro]

Does this not work with Blender 3.3? I keep getting some sort of traceback error.

[@MSFS-SDK-TUTORIALS]

No, use 3.1 (or 3.2 but has some issue with lights)

[@kaitoharrison872]

Hi, I have been trying to import model using the addons but cannot find any import optimon anywhere.

[@MSFS-SDK-TUTORIALS]

you can import gltf files directly using File -> Import -> gltF 2.0

[@天涯摘星]

thank you for your great job! But I found that latest version sdk seems not working correctly. Especially in texture part.after select msfs standard,the model turned into a black one, and no texture can be added on.

[@MSFS-SDK-TUTORIALS]

the sdk has nothing to do with the Asobo Blender exporter
I'm using the latest versione of the Asobo Exporter and Blender 3.1 and texture with standard material work flawlessy, both in blender and in the sim, maybe your are doing something wrong when adding the texture?

[@天涯摘星]

@@MSFS-SDK-TUTORIALS maybe, i'll try again. thank you again for your videos!

[@davidjacobs8558]

I can't seem to make this one work, but
Microsoft Flight Simulator (FS2020) Model Importer for Blender ( msfs2blend )
does work. it's version 0.4 now.

[@DavidSomen]

Thank you Frederico for your excellent video tutorials. Could you possibly make one on creating lights in Blender and how to export them into MSFS using Asobo's Blender exporter. All of my model assets work great in Blender and MSFS but I have spent many unsuccessful hours trying to export lights created in Blender into MSFS. Many-Many thank in advance 🙂

[@MSFS-SDK-TUTORIALS]

Thanks David, I have planned to shed some light on Lights, a tutorial will come 😉

[@DavidSomen]

@@MSFS-SDK-TUTORIALS I realy look forward to this. Three days ago I made some working lights using Blender 3.1 & Asobos's Multi-Export glTF 2.0 BUT now I cannot make more. Sometimes I get the error: Could not find attached bounding box. Other times in the sim it shows an outlined box where the light should be but at an odd angle. Can't wait for your light tutorial. Thank you in advance 🙂

[@cptairwolf]

Holy shit this is amazing. Does it come with a sample blender project?

[@MSFS-SDK-TUTORIALS]

Thanks man , I strongly hope that all the
.max files that are now shipped with the SDK will be available for Blender also! , the plugin seems to me stable enough to be release with SU10

[@cptairwolf]

@@MSFS-SDK-TUTORIALS I agree, in the least, they should have a blender version of the DA62 and possibly a heli once they come out. I've been having trouble getting the new addon to work with Blender 3.2 though unfortunately. Also, exporting seems far more difficult now that there's no easy way to "export selected" which was my favorite way to export.

[@Morgan-iv4ye]

Hello, would it be possible to use this tool to export the 3d height map and textures of map?

[@MSFS-SDK-TUTORIALS]

Uhm the tool export 3d models in glTF format, i don't what you want to do

[@Morgan-iv4ye]

@@MSFS-SDK-TUTORIALS I’d ideally like to export a part of the map such as New York or something, and convert that into a map for assetto corsa.

[@MSFS-SDK-TUTORIALS]

@@Morgan-iv4ye so you need a way to acquire a New York map, and is certainly not with this tool. Than you need import it in assetto Corsa, and certainly is not with this tool
Maybe you have to start with the Assetto Corsa SDK and work your way with something really easy so you can understand why this tool is not for you

[@2filos]

Excelent Federico. This will force me to migrate to Blender 3.1, right?

[@MSFS-SDK-TUTORIALS]

Yeah, if you want to use the new exporter only 3.1 or above Is supported. The old exporter still works in 3.1 too 😅

[@vivid_clarity]

Great Tutorial! How do I place the exported scenery into msfs?

[@MSFS-SDK-TUTORIALS]

Thanks Tyler, you need to create a project in the SDK, insert a modelLib asset group, add your exported model there and compile, have a some video here on the channel explaining how to

[@vivid_clarity]

@@MSFS-SDK-TUTORIALS ok I have a package and everything setup now and built but my object is unknown in the scenery editor for some reason…

[@MSFS-SDK-TUTORIALS]

@@vivid_clarity there's a chance that when exporting you could have changed the guid of your object (different from the one in the placement .xml)
This is the main reason of "unknown"
If you are able to join my discord
discord.gg/h5c6UvBrVR
You can send me your sources and will give a look on the evening

[@vivid_clarity]

@@MSFS-SDK-TUTORIALS ok I will join the discord now, your help is much appreciated

[@CFEMarkevärn]

Do you know how to create an XML file?

[@MSFS-SDK-TUTORIALS]

@@CFEMarkevärn do you mean on export? In the Asobo. Multiexporter Tab for every collection there is a generate XML checkbox

[@AlexanderGarzon]

I think animations are not working with this plugin. At least its not working for me.

[@MSFS-SDK-TUTORIALS]

What kind of animations are you trying? Mine are all pretty much working

[@elgalopinos]

Thank you very much Federico for the tutorial. It seems to me that there is nothing new in this addon that we don't have with the "old" one, maybe the collision effect...
Thanks for showing the way to install it, I usually add the zip file, but this didn't work for me now.

[@MSFS-SDK-TUTORIALS]

Hi Rafael, at the moment the difference between the two exporter Is not that much, but Is gonna increase over time, the toolkit has not going to be any longer supported, unless someone else fork the project. The Asobo exporter Is likely to follow msfs developement, so we can continue using Blender in the future even If Asobo changes something radical in the simulator

[@elgalopinos]

@@MSFS-SDK-TUTORIALS Hi Federico, you are right, for future changes is good to start using the new exporter, I hope it will be then updated

[@cebrady]

One difference is being able to actually see your glass materials.

[@patrikdimitrov]

And how to I put this model into fs 2020?

[@MSFS-SDK-TUTORIALS]

you need to create a project in the SDK, insert a modelLib asset group, add your exported model there and compile, have a some video here on the channel explaining how to
ua-cam.com/video/2xd8KMlkXNA/v-deo.html

[@patrikdimitrov]

@@MSFS-SDK-TUTORIALS Okay, thank you

[@jonnie2bad]

doesn;t work for me can't activate the plug in

[@jonnie2bad]

solved, must use blender 3.3.9 cannot be the latest version it is not compatible

[@MSFS-SDK-TUTORIALS]

@@jonnie2bad correct,
Any 3.3.x versions works with latest 1.3.2 plug-in

[@jonnie2bad]

@@MSFS-SDK-TUTORIALS thanks for replying. I'm trying to import a gtlf to make a livery but i can't seem to import anything with this add on?

[@MSFS-SDK-TUTORIALS]

@@jonnie2bad hi,
Asino plugin was never meant to import "compiled" glTF
You can have more luck using the good old fbw importer
github.com/flybywiresim/msfs2blender2msfs
Or this one
github.com/bestdani/msfs2blend
Please note to avoid running multiple add-ons side by side in the same blender installation. Each one require specific versions of blender, so advice to use portable (.zip) blender versions for this purpose ☺️

[@kickoff3312]

Hi Federico Your explanations and video are really fine. Thanks a lot ! Now, I would like to 1) import an airplane lod00 file from a third party into blender, 2) modify some very specific parts of the airplane and 3) reimport it into MSFS. Can you do this with such exporter/importer ? Many thanks for your help !

[@MSFS-SDK-TUTORIALS]

@@kickoff3312 Hey thanks for you kind comment!
The Asobo plug-in doesn't allow importing already compiled glTf (for copyright reasons)
I don't support anything about dealing with stuff one doesn't own rights,
For studying only, and without any support, you may try with the Flybywire plug-in, it is still on GitHub. It will likely brake some feature of every recent decent airplane on export (and hope it does so!)

[@kickoff3312]

@@MSFS-SDK-TUTORIALS Thanks for your answers, Federico ! I will check FBW !

[@stevenbeeckman3019]

Anyone got this to work on Mac OS X?

[@stevenbeeckman3019]

Looks like it does! I added installation instructions to the GitHub repo via a pull request, I hope it gets merged!

[@gavares3]

the exporter doesnt work, please remove this video

[@MSFS-SDK-TUTORIALS]

Uhm, it works, really. What kind of issue to you have?

[@gavares3]

@@MSFS-SDK-TUTORIALS i have tried this numerous times and i cannot get a modelk to show up in fs2020, also i think it would help if you show the blender folder structure -> fs2020 folder structure, this plugin is very confusing. I have tried for 3 weeks now and this exporter does not seem to bring models into the steam version of fs2020.

[@MSFS-SDK-TUTORIALS]

@@gavares3 hi Rob, wouldn't you mind joining my discord so we can take a look at your issues?
discord.gg/2G4JMaEN
The goal of this video was just to introduce the new exporter, is not a full zero to msfs course ☺️
I have plenty of other videos on the channel showing how to make a project, how to make object,how to export them and later compile and adding into the sim

[@rms59]

I see nothing of value in this new version. Just a copy of the old.

[@adrienseppanen5517]

Hi! great tutorials and have helped me a bunch! im just getting this problem that when i try to export it, everything is okay. but when i run it through fspackagetool.exe to check that everything works, im getting a red and yellow message "mesh (0) primitive (17) has an invalid triangle mode, only triangle lists are supported, primitive (17) of mesh (0) ('main building 1') has no faces". i get this same message for 7 different objects. I haven't had this problem before but suddenly when I updated my textures due to texture issues im getting this. I checked everything in my blender file and see no problems concerning textures or the model. wondering if you can help me out! thanks!

[@MSFS-SDK-TUTORIALS]

Thanks Adrien,
You likely have some bad geometry there, not a big deal!
Before exporting, in Blender go to object mode, select all, go to edit mode, and clean your geometry via Mesh/cleanup, delete loose and also degenerate dissolve
Also a merge by distance helps (and remove bunch of useless vertex)

[@adrienseppanen5517]

@@MSFS-SDK-TUTORIALS I will try that out thank you! buona giornata!