There's a thread here and somewhere in it you should find a link to lancers sur tool. If not click on his profile and find the link to his site, I know there's a download there. It's simple to use and can make a useable sur tool for near enough any ship.

Thanks guys for another easy solution fixing this.
The .sur made from my .cmp failed to work - again (see attachment).
The mounted guns and ship at dock/dealer is invisible.
Maybe couse that .cmp was edited after sur splice method as tutorial says (cons.fix)?
Will try again to make one from scratch importing original eagle cmp, rename each shape, assign new material and sur build new sur (is this right method?).

BTW in shiparch.ini the clone of eagle needs also custom:

?

P.S. Curious to know is anyone did this already? Pure vanilla eagle clone with different texture on each part?
... sry for to much questions - maybe I learn something - someday ...

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Well dunno how u did that magic sur trick which looks almost like original but hat down for it.
The thing is my old cmp was wrong after my failed spliceing and thus ur sur didnt worked at all.
So I made again new fresh cmp with no groups and puting it all together got some results.

- in attachment is current combination -

But now on original eagle even I have no wing I see my guns mounted.
Also, new eagle shows ripped bottom wings while docked - dont matter, that not hurts.



My process of making cmp in MS:
- import original cmp
- rename all parts except HPs
- assign new textures to them
- select all
- rotate 180 0 0
- scale 92 92 92
- export with default options that comes (like scale down 92 with no any groups)
??? is that OK?

Also tried making groups (7 of them) to separate wings from body (to be able maybe in shiparch.ini rename [Collision Group]s to those) but that cmp in space showed no material except on body. Also failed to make HPs attached to right places like original has.



Is it rly that hard to make one?
Gibbon u r atm closest to have credits next to its STATS

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Do you really need to re-model it? Just making another MAT file won't be good enough?

Following your hint after rotating did:
- scale all 100 100 100


- export as seen on pic


(why it must be scaled up/down?)


Thanks for learning me using that tool proper way. Finally I am capable making vanilla surs.


They r .dds format saved like this:


All OK?

Deleting [CollisionGroup]s form shiparch.ini I got rid of original broken bottom wings which r ripped when viewing trough original skin.
The problems that still remains:
1. On original eagle ship with no main wing in dealer (docked) guns show up on list look here
2. I think on scanner new eagle will not show up correct (only guns) - not confirmed!
3. Still need icon to make for it

Bout 2nd point is that VMeshWire that is imported to cmp?

Sorry for to much questions all but at some point I get feeling to drop this - but on the other hend to much time and work learning/building and in the end not to succeed.

P.S. I attached new files for ur expert examines!

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I don't understand why you have had any problems at all with the FL Model Cloner. It always works for me and is literally 2-5 minutes of work to rename the meshes, groups and textures and produce the new mat and cmp files?

Then the sur is exactly the same too if all you want is the same size ship with new colour scheme?

Or is my mind getting foggier by the day?

This thing sometimes rly can go on nerves.
OK! The new eagle is finally operational. Even his wings cant be broken/lost dont matter he will have strong armor anyway. The original behaves like it should/did.

About MS cmp export resize thing - I played a lil and got I think identical size with this setting:
- resize before export 88 88 88
- export with 92 default
(with 100 up, than 100 down - Eagle is bigger in game)

@ StarTrader - I have v1.1.1 b20 Fl Model Cloner which fails to produce valid cmp. Simply in HardCMP preview is blank! Can u make one with new names for preview?
BTW it will not be same as mine cose my parts use separate texures (left wing not same as right wing and top fin his own, ...).

After all this my frustration again begun!
In process of updating .mat file with new fixed textures trough UTF Editor simply my dds cant be clean anymore! The old files was made with diff. v. plugin with this settings used with no problems.
Using new shown in above post with next settings I got this:
DXT3/Alpha



DXT1/No Alpha



@ Gibbon (or anyone else) - May I ask you to save me this psd files in attachment to correct dds formats?

I rly like this forum and watching all development u masters do.
God bless u all!

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