Custom made starsphere doesn't show up

Silver

For two days now i’ve tried to get my own starsphere working without any success. I’m familiar with modeling so that’s not the issue, the problems begin with exporting the scene.

Here are the steps i used to get a pretty good looking but non-functional .cmp file:

Export the scene with the CMPExporter
Update the .cmp file by exporting the materials (MAT export)
Edited the .cmp with UTFEditor
Resized the scene with FLModelTool (Scale 1)

It looks like this then:

So far so good. Of course i’ve tried dozens of different ideas in the .cmp file, read and tried solutions from here and here, but the background of the system just stays empty.

I’d appreciate it if anyone would be so kind to explain the odds of exporting a starsphere to Freelancer, like the settings in the .cmp exporter, and what i need to take care of while editing it in the utfeditor.

Thanks in advance!

Forsaken

Most people don’t remove the hardpoints on the starsphere model. Thats the reason they dont appear. However, it looks like you did that. I REALLY think that you didnt flip the faces of your cmp model (so they show inward).

One way to troubleshoot this is… to change your material type to DcDtTwo. Go ingame and check it out. If you can see something… then thats what it is.

Forsaken

One more thing… I’d highly recommend you use more unique names on your starsphere parts. With the names you have… you’re bound to have some CRC conflicts.

Silver

Thanks for the answers. The problem was quite simple: The model just wasn’t big enough. I resized it with FLModelTool and suddenly it works, hehe.