no offense, m8
its just obvious something's wrong either with the naming or with the direction or with the file itself. it would work otherwise, wouldn't it? you'll get it, for sure.

Freestalker means it was "Finger Trouble" - we all get it.

Hi Mirkha. It's multi-part, 23 groups. I've attached it for you and anyone else who wants to see it, with its new sur and the .mat file.

The "nugget" ( actually I should call it "doughnut" ) is made in 4 parts - top, bottom and 2 sides. I could have made it in 6 or 8 parts to be more form-fitting, but it's good enough.

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STAvioki.zip Size: 281.64 KB; Hits: 280

Yes its already included but not in the GUI since the last time I tested the .sur file did not work at all. Gonna have to look into that, because a lot has changed since then.



Shield bubble? There is no such thing. Are you talking about my converter?

Concerning the rest: It's nice to read that it seems to be working for now. I will try to fix the last errors in the next days and call it version 1.0 without beta, so that I can start the next version someday soon (assuming no further bugs being found)...

This is what we called the "Shrink wrap" - Sur explorter does this, and it is present in the vanilla surs for warships. Only fighters have the shield bubble.

When we export the sur parts to use with sur splicer, there is no "shrink wrap" around the ship at all.

I don't know if this "no shrink wrap" is needed for anything? Bases or scenery for example?

The surs we have been making until now are only faulty because they have had no hpids. Otherwise they work well without the shrink-wrap.

This is one "why?" that I have not yet understood.

When we use Sur Splicer to make surs, there is no shield bubble and no shrink wrap either, yet those surs work well for collisions and hits too.

So - should we always have a shrink wrap on large models, or are there vanilla models of anything (bases, scenery, other?) that must be made with no shrink wrap?

Shield bubbles are just for your eye, details. If your shield is online the hit detection will use this shield bubble. No hit will reach your ship, it will hit the bubble far around the ship.
But you don't realy need this, like I sad: just a detail.

The sur converter won't create shield bubbles. And one point for you: shield bubbles are using extra surfiles (they are defined in select_equip). These bubbles are represented by a 3db file without visible geometrie and just a HpConnect Point.

The reason why .sur files generated with the sur splicer don't have convex hulls around everything is, that it uses the trick to put every group as complete new part into the .sur file, meaning that you have for every part a new header, a new group, a new triangle list and a new bit section. This is what basically is used for multipart meshes (although the multipart groups also seem to be included in the very first part of the files, didn't have the time to look into that yet).

It seems that until now no one besides me figured out how the bit section really works, so they just used one entry instead of multiple (a side effect of the tree is that if you only have one node it also is the convex hull around everything). As soon as you have more than one node you need this hull to tell Freelancer where the geometry starts and where it ends.

If i would use the method the sur splicer uses the file size would be way larger as it is already now if you have many groups. Plus it was never meant to be used that way.