Modeling and Texturing

Xarian_Prime wrote:
Blender is outright awesome… but not very newbie friendly.

But there are tons of very good tutorials out there 🙂

Since Sizer hasn’t updated his link yet, I did a bit of digging through the downloads section and found it. Here it is to save everyone else the trouble:

http://the-starport.net/freelancer/download/visit.php?cid=9&lid=2659

yep, i have reallythink that you have really made it ^^
Good photoshop skills anyway 😉

Unfotunatelly I am going to Prague tomorrow, where I will have no PC…internet also via my phone, so all my plans concerning FL are gone for a long time. Yea…in this case, bye guys, take care and don’t give up playing and supporting Freelancer 😉

@ Timmy,

On the first page, I uploaded a vid showing them mapped on a cube in game, and yes they suck. Check it out if you didn’t see it before.

oki thanks 😉

Thanks Bob. Am looking.

Yeah I have the latest UTFedit (I always take the best ^^). And that was THE EXACTLY thing what I wanted to be confirmed, THX adoxa!

Check at Nasa.gov, they have alot of 3D models available for free.

+1 for above post…lol

Yep, that was the problem. I did the MAT manually in UTF editor 2.1, thinking that was the most recent. 3.0’s much better.

Mini_Me wrote:
You could try adding a unique HP type on the weapon model, specifically for say… flamethrower_smoking or whatever, then go through alllllll the ship packages and add the effect via addon = .
In theory it should work; nothing should show up when the unique HP is missing (gun not mounted).

That works, at least if you add the effect by fuse. Only Problem: If you mount two flamethrowers then, the effect will only appear on the first of them.

Try it yourself: Create a fuse that fires instantly and adds an effect to the hp_fire hardpoint.

It’ll be getting a new name. Since it’s a Medicean ship, it’ll be an Italian name, but we haven’t decided on one yet, so we’re using Trident as the working name in the meantime.

YAY! It looks more aggressive than with my textures. Cool.

Glad it worked out for you guys. It was a team effort finding it 🙂

Thanks…it worked after I’ve deleted the other nodes 😃

OK.

So if you export and open the current texture, let’s assume you want to keep that for two sides perhaps.

Now double the size of the canvas (if it was 512x512 make it 1024x1024), and you can see that the original texture will take the topleft quarter of the canvas (move it if you need to). That will now leave room for 3 more textures of the same size as the original.

Oh - by the way - make your textures resolution 72 pixels per inch), e.g.1024x1024x72

So create your 3 new textures, being sure that each one is the same size as the original, and fit them into each quadrant of the canvas.

When you are happy, export the new texture as .dds, import it into a copy of the original .mat file with UTF Edit, and if the node was MIP0 rename it as MIPS. Save the new .mat file.

Remember to copy the new .mat file into the model folder. Re-open the model in MilkShape and see how the new texture looks.

Use MilkShape’s Texture Coordinate Editor to move each face of the container to align it on the correct texture.

For best results it’s better to separate each face of the container into a single separate MilkShape group if it’s not already, I’ve not looked. To do that, copy the whole group first, then select the copy, rename it, and delete the bits you don’t want. Select the whole group again, copy it again, rename it to suit, and delete the bits you kept in the new group, so you don’t have duplicates. Keep the whole group until you have done this for all faces, then delete the groups you don’t want.

It’s not too hard.

When you move on to curved shapes you will need to use one of the more advanced UVMappers.

Let us know how you get on.

Well, that fixed it. Thank you very much for the heads up on that, I was getting very frustrated by this point.

Now I can move on to breaking something else (and learning useful stuff in the process).

Try it out and let us know. Experimentation dude…

Google on how to make an alpha layer. There is tons of help out there on the net for non-FL specific topics such as this.