There is a simple trick to fix when your custom model becomes invisble when its center is offscreen

But I forgot what it was I have a vague recollection that it was something you had to in the .SUR section of FL Model Tool?

Can someone refresh my memory?

SWAT_OP-R8R wrote:
try to resize it by factor 1 and then save it
usually thats all you need to do

Thanks SWAT. I didn’t work though.

I wasn’t sure whether you mean just the .SUR or both the files, so I tried first with .SUR only and then with both the ,.3DB and the .SUR. Also, tried it with all the three types the FL Model Clober offers (scenery, weapon/danage object, ship/station).

Looking into the .SUR file, I think it had to do with this line:

Surface      :
CenterX      : -0.020241	 CenterY : 0.010830	 CenterZ : -0.510531

But can I just manually set all the centers to 0.0?
EDIT Yes I can but it also doesn’t solve the issue.

Hmm seems like I had a similar problem in 2010 already :lol:

Jeider wrote:
May be problem in CMP settings:
http://www.elite-games.ru/images/freelancer/modding/wire_dock2.png
Model will not appear when radius is too small.

The model does appear, but not when its center goes offscreen. (BTW I did check what you pointed me to, and the radius of my enlarged model is larger than the vanilla one — although the enlargement factor is not the same; but I leave this for now as I know too little of these values to mess with them. Thanks anyway!!)

Btw meanwhile I noticed that the supposed resized .SUR hasn’t been resized at all. Reading back, this apparently was a problem recognized at the time, and Adoxa made his SURresizer to compensate this part of FLMT. But I do not succeed it with SURresizer either (also, there is no “Do it!” button on that app, so I can only assume that entering the desired values and then hit “save” should do it, but apparently it doesn’t.)