Starsphere from scratch

Nieckey

Hi all,
Â I was back, ;D . im working on my mod for a long time, now i has determined to make some new Starspheres and update most the old starspheres, but a encounter some problem on make new starspheres.
Â i make a sphere in 3dsmax, then export to ms3d for output it as CMP. and it can showup in HardCMP, but i replace it with starsphere_li01.cmp enter the game, it will not showup ingame(show black background).

Â how do i fix it?

Forsaken

Use UTF editor and remove the hardpoint node.

Also, did you flip your faces so the texture appears on the inside?

Nieckey

@Forsaken:

Use UTF editor and remove the hardpoint node.

Also, did you flip your faces so the texture appears on the inside?

Hi Forsaken, Thank you very much for kick me out from the maze, I “Face Extrude” my mode and reDo all thing, it work!

Forsaken

Im happy it was the solution you needed Glad to help!!!

Xarian_Prime

Thats some nice work there Nieckey ;D

HeHe… now i have a question… Im trying to build some Starsphere’s… Got Dev’s Utility working for “starbands”… but adding
anything else is a drama (tryed to add a nebula pic from NASA…) what size .tga would i need to “encompas” about 1/8 or the sky? all i’m getting is a tiny little square way out behind the starpshere…

Is there a tut i can follow?.. been looking and i can’t find one for either the “tool”… or UTF… (also looking for a NPC/UTF reskin tutorial as well… thought i’d chuck that in… )

Alucard

I’ve been missing with these lately and can’t seem to get them to work as well. In ms3d, I’ve reversed vertex order, to get them inside the box:

http://i113.photobucket.com/albums/n240/Alucard1_01/ms3dreverse.png

Now in Hardcmp and utf editor I see them:

http://i113.photobucket.com/albums/n240/Alucard1_01/utf2.png

Here’s the tree in utf (I removed the hardpoint)

http://i113.photobucket.com/albums/n240/Alucard1_01/utf1.png

Any ideas?

cata123

Use NebulaTwo instead of Nebula material type .

Moonhead

cata123 wrote:
Use NebulaTwo instead of Nebula material type .

NebulaTwo ?? Wow, what does that do? A Nebula with a texture visible from both sides?

Btw is there a list of known / usable material types? I wanna make a planet and use two-sided textures, and it was something like DcDtTwo, but I forgot the actual code (it was years ago). And besides, knowing all possibilities would be good thing!

Alucard

Sorry, with Moonhead, what do you mean.

Timmy51m

Here’s a list of all texture types courtesy of lancer solurus.

http://digitalbrilliance.com/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=268

Alucard

Even though its say not used in FL? Where do I put it?

Alucard

Nevermind, lol. I had it set to dtdc or whatever it was. Thanks mates.

Moonhead

Timmy51m wrote:
Here’s a list of all texture types courtesy of lancer solurus.

http://digitalbrilliance.com/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=268

Many thanks to you and to LS

Alucard

Here’s to you guys for helping, enjoy:

http://i113.photobucket.com/albums/n240/Alucard1_01/screen2-4.png

http://i113.photobucket.com/albums/n240/Alucard1_01/screen3-2.png

Alucard

Quick question, since I’m using a box shape, the edges are able to be seen. Is there a way to fix that? (the edges of the box) Here’s what I mean:

http://i113.photobucket.com/albums/n240/Alucard1_01/screen6-2.png

cata123

Yea i had many headackes with the border texture on a starcube .
You have to edit the UV coordinates to increase or decrease a little the values (for example you make the textures with uv = 0.009000 and 0.000100 at start and end - sorry i can`t explain better).
I recommend to export your skybox cube model with milkshape 3D ascii and edit manually yorself.
All the trouble is because the textures are interpolating at edge and by their sum it results the white border.

Alucard

Sorry mate, unsure what you mean. :-?

cata123

well maybe you understand from the image :

See in first image the textures are interpolating at edge creating the black stripe.
In the cubemap the texture is mapped exactly at is the mapping square .
Second image is the cubemap edge “fixed”. You see the textures are a little shorter so they don`t come one on another .
The texture is mapped smaller than the mapping square .
Hope this time is clear .

Alucard

Ok, I’ll try that in a bit.