Modeling and Texturing

Yeah, you can ALWAYS get the shape you want with quads and tris. Here’s the reason - all faces are tris. All faces are rendered as tris. If you’re using an N-Gon to get a curve, look at it from a different angle - it doesn’t render correctly. There is NEVER a reason to use N-Gons to get shape. There are some vague reasons to use them for setting up advanced geometry, but it is considered very sloppy form to have N-Gons at all for production models. It breaks edge flow, and causes all sorts of problems. Trust me, get out of the habit. Once you figure a few things out, it becomes very obvious as to why it’s bad. Keep as many quads as possible, tris when needed, and never N-Gons.

Yeah, just got them, the latest iteration for 2.6 the others won’t be so useful. I can’t use Gimp 2.8 kept getting crashes dealing with larger files.

UPDATE: I’m gonna make an original R-Type vessel for Discovery, perhaps the first of many original designs. Is that OK? They’ll each get a vessel-bound superweapon based on their purpose and design. How cool is that?

Ooops so I actually textured the wrong part for the cockpit then. If it’s that light colored part at the front then I will have to at least triple the size of the ship to make it match the size of the in-game chars (18 cm)

Edit btw thx a lot, I will be digging thru that list to see what’s available, credits will be added to the game

Great you found this out! I will take a look on this at the weekend. Probably, if nobody can find anything, I will convert those to todays FL, too.

That’s ok sumanuti, i just did, works great! Thanks for the tip 🙂

The animation is there, plus i added a few extra hardpoints i needed for my project, the important thing was to get the animation working which thanks to you, is now working great.

HeIIoween wrote:
Ah, then no - i though it is secret automated way 🙂

No, every model was manually ripped of the original models, corrected in dimensions and exported again.

Not only those 2 are weird scaled. Just compare the Drake with the Bloodhound, or look how huge the Wolfhound is. The Patrior is smaller than Starflea too for example.

Part 2 posted.

Sizer’s Tuts

turret as a weapon? animated barrel/gun part must be assigned to the “rev” node. This is automatically done (at least with Ms CmpExpoter 0.3),

i cant use 0.3 as it never exports correctly. is there any other way to do this.

Ill test the kHed, that looks a bit more user friendly. And Gisteron, nope, just nope.

HunterSteel wrote:
Well, I made a new model. This one has 485 polygons in it.
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Would this be better?

~Hunter

For shore, as first ship paintjob.
BS wil be no problem after.

Just so you know,

these fighters. One of them, the first pic you posted, was done originally for the original New Universe Mod that never got completed. When we came to the realization that the mod was not gonna get completed the ship was moved to another mod we were running and continually updating called: Level 2. Where me and Kleotal created a Merc Guild faction gave them a starbase called Outreach, and Kleotal completed the ship line with an additional 4 fighters.

As you can see, Level 2 has long since ceased, but i still do have it on my HDD with the rest of the ship line. If your interested in having them all.

Cheers

robocop wrote:
Apparently I didn’t adjust the LODranges enough, changing it to 0, 15000, 15000 seems to have resolved the problem.

Don’t know why, but it works now.

Probably because most custom models you’ll find in freelancer only have a single LOD, therefore you only need two entries:

LODranges = 0, 15000

Every entry you add on the end will not be read because there is no mesh for it.

Nah, it’s a special node type, just like Nebula in starspheres. They have unique properties.

limits
one of the solutions

All done on the tuturial, but nothing is working, ships, stations and all the rest just transparent, tell me in what may be . Thank you.

Add later: it works, thanks. I would like to know how to apply it to 3db files.