Ahoy sailors
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Ahoy there Sailors before i begin buissnis let me intruduce me self,
i’m Capn John Silver, Pirate Capn at your survice Bowoi need an guy that use milkshape and know how to use it,
oi builed some ships and an Planet with Google Sketchup
and i need someone to fix them for FLone of the mod owners accept me ships but he asked that me or some one els can fix them so they fix for FL
and if you wanna say that i gonna try it but i cant cus my Trail is over and i cant use it anymore
so i need an friendly Sailor that can help me to fix thempls reply me here if you wanna accept the task
and add me on msn or Xfire so i can send the file’s of the ships and PlanetXfire: silver325
Msn: [email protected]i hope yall accept the Task sailor cus i really want to try out me ships:)
John. Silver,
PS: sorry for my bad english i’m Dutch
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Now I’m not as good as some people here, but I’m going to try and get this right, although I probably wont, and as I haven’t used sketchup in ages almost a year and a half so this is assuming the basics haven’t changed since I used it last.
Now I don’t know without seeing the poly count for the models and such, but I’m 80% sure you wont be able to use them in Freelancer.
Sketchup has this horrible idea of creating both sides of the shape the you make. As in it counts both faces. So instead of a cube having 6 faces it will have 12, but because Freelancer works in triangles, you have 24 triangles to process, half of which you will not see, now that might not sound much. But if you’ve got a model with 700 faces, assuming all these are infact rectangular faces, you’ve now got 1400 faces and 2800 triangles to render, it becomes a lot more nasty if you use other primitives other than the cube as a sphere with 16 segments has 32 triangular faces and 192 square faces, and because Freelancer uses triangles, that’s 416 triangles that have to be processed, and that’s just for one sphere. The thing is while you can easily have hundreds of spheres on screen in google sketchup or 3ds max, or Maya, whatever modelling program you use, these are often upto date, optimized engines. Freelancer is an old game, and can’t do all these brilliant optimizations and such, combined with the all not to reliable CMP and SUR files it can be an arse.
However, and this is a hell of a big however, it’s not impossible, you CAN get google sketchup files into freelancer, I’ve done it, it just requires a little bit of tweaking in something like 3ds max, where you make the model super huge an get inside of the model, and because the faces are drawn you can just, ignore back faces, and delete each face of the inside, it’s long winded, and there are probably quicker ways to do it, but that’s how I did it, once upon a time, just make sure you don’t delete the other side of the face, as you’ll have a hole you don’t want :). -
Sorry for the late response.
Welcome to The Starport.
Regards,
Roo.
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Beware with this guy. Maybe some of you know his old name [BSG-75]Bill Adama. He caused the closing of the BSG Exodus server. This guy is a serious troll, if you let him to do his things, you will meet many backstabbings.
We banned him from the Olympus Freelancer Complex(Nightstalker’s Universe Mod), but I know there are some servers too where he have permanent ban. In the first time, he will be very gentle then start his crap behind your back. He is not a modder or anything, but love to use other peoples work just like those would be his owns. This was the main reason why he got banned from the DevianArt. I saw, he re-registered there with another account, but poor in sense to use another email adress. So, if you take my warnings or not, watch your servers if this guy showing up. He is good to turn the players against the server staffs.
And now, some words to you mister “John Silver”:
May if you try to re-register on the Olympus Freelancer Complex Forum with another ISP, we will catch you everytime. You did enough bad things to earn this lifetime ban.RJOtto
Olympus Freelancer Complex EU-1 server owner
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Thankx for the heads up rjotto …
But something tells me this info shoulda been sent to the admins
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This is a very serious accusation, rjotto. I would like to remind everyone involved that we are not a place to resolve past conflicts. We thank you for the warning, but I don’t think we should base ourselves off past experiences solely.
I will ask to both of you not to continue this discussion in the current thread so it does not devolve into a flame war. John, if you would like to defend yourself from rjotto’s accusations, please do so via PMs to myself and other parties you would like to see involved.
Thanks everyone,
FF
