Milkshape & Plugins - Latest/Best versions and where to get them

StarTrader

This thread tried to keep things together…

http://the-starport.net/freelancer/forum/viewtopic.php?topic_id=3747&forum=9&post_id=39212#forumpost39212

I jest of course - it is this very thread!

DO try to read before getting irate.

By the way Adoxa, your 110mb utilities links don’t work, can you update them?

Thaddeus

Changed the link on the first post, should now point at the archived download

Dromedary

Thanks for the links, all working. Now i have a new question, why doesn’t it work in MS 1.76? It used to. Only difference is it’s now on my laptop and i’m running W7 64bit. All my other FL plugins work except this one

cvekiboy

adoxa found solution for some plugins that refused to work. Cant guarantee it solve yours, but no cost to try it!
Stick these 2 files into MS folder.

StarTrader

Dromedary wrote:
Thanks for the links, all working. Now i have a new question, why doesn’t it work in MS 1.76? It used to. Only difference is it’s now on my laptop and i’m running W7 64bit. All my other FL plugins work except this one

Adoxa’s 110mb site is still not accessible.

Dromedary: 1.76 is very old, and all the plugins I have work fine in 1.85 beta.

adoxa

My “new” page is here. I’ll not be updating the 100+ posts using 110mb to point to it, though.

Dromedary

@Startrader

Just upgraded to 1.85 beta, and still have the same issue, wondering if i’m missing a dll or something from Win 7

@Sumanti

Thanks for those, tried them, no joy

StarTrader

Yes could be, i’ve not run them in Win 7 only in XP - can you set up VirtualPC or Virtual Box and run an XP Virtual Machine? That might do it.

But I also think others might help who are runnnig in Win 7? Guys?

adoxa

You could my try MilkShape plugin identifier. However, by default it just ignores errors, so change 10F6 from 01 to 00, first. Now hopefully it will tell you why it won’t load.

Freedon_Nadd

Hey guys, I’m sorry for the necro but I’m having the same problem as Dromedary with the 3db exporter.

I’m running Win XP32, tried MS3D versions 1.75, 1.84 and 1.85 beta, but it still won’t show in the export column. All other plugins are working.

I also tried sumanuti’s suggestion, it didn’t work. I don’t know how adoxa’s MilkShape plugin identifier works so I haven’t tried that yet.

Can anyone help?

adoxa

The identifier is a command line utility to show what type the plugin is. Here’s the results for my working exporter (Win 7 x64, MS 1.8.5 beta2):

C:\Graphics\MilkShape 3D>d/b#1 ms3dbExporter.dll
       241,664 a---- 25 Sep, 2005 11:07:50 ms3dbExporter.dll

C:\Graphics\MilkShape 3D>msplugin ms3dbExporter.dll
Export  -> Freelancer 3db

If the plugin doesn’t load nothing will be shown, but with the patch above Windows should pop up a message box saying why. If you have no message box and no output, then it’s not actually a MilkShape plugin at all.

Freedon_Nadd

Sorry, I’m not very good at this stuff. I can’t make heads or tails of it.

But if I’m getting this right, your 3dbexporter is dated 25 Sep 2005, while the one I downloaded from here is 10 Aug 2005. So you seem to have a newer version. Maybe that’s the problem?

adoxa

Indeed it is - that version requires VS2003 files ([c]MFC71.DLL, MSVCR71.DLL & MSVCP71.DLL[/c]). Since there doesn’t appear to be a dedicated redistributable for them, easiest just to provide the exporter that doesn’t require them, I think.

Freedon_Nadd

That did the trick! The new one works.

Thanks adoxa!

Dromedary

adoxa wrote:
Indeed it is - that version requires VS2003 files ([c]MFC71.DLL, MSVCR71.DLL & MSVCP71.DLL[/c]). Since there doesn’t appear to be a dedicated redistributable for them, easiest just to provide the exporter that doesn’t require them, I think.

Ahh, that old chestnut. Well good news is that this also works for me now as well in Win 7, cheers for sorting this out

traversal

Managed to import a CMP using CMP Importer 2.7 using Windows 10 (Milkshape 3D 1.8.5) today (27 October 2021). So, you might be able to remove that red text warning now, unless people have older updates still present.