Custom Stations
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I’ve been trying to create custom stations for a little while now. It seems like no matter what I’ve done I can’t get them to show up in game. My models show up in Freelancer Mod Studio, but not in the game itself. I’ve been working in Blender, exporting as an OBJ, then importing the OBJ in Milkshape 3D, then exporting the CMP/MAT files from there, then using FL Sur Builder to create the SUR file.
Things I’ve tried so far include: changed the “LODranges” values in the solarArch file, changing the “type” value in the SolarArch to planet, using FLModelTool to resize the CMP and SUR file. I even tried importing one of the stations from the base game into Milkshape then re-exporting as a CMP, but ran into the same issue. Not sure if any problems would be on the modeling/milkshape side or elsewhere. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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Here is the CMP file
[d]https://www.filehosting.org/file/details/819102/Wraith_LargeStation01.cmp[/d]
http://s000.tinyupload.com/?file_id=00842562909119468051
Here is the MAT file
[d]https://www.filehosting.org/file/details/819103/Wraith_LargeStation01.mat[/d]
http://s000.tinyupload.com/?file_id=06380221799373931620
Here is the SUR file
[d]https://www.filehosting.org/file/details/819104/Wraith_LargeStation01.sur[/d]
http://s000.tinyupload.com/?file_id=87509541864835587010
Here is my SolarArch entry:
[Solar]
nickname = Wraith_LargeStation01
ids_name = 1
ids_info = 1
;type = Planet
type = STATION
DA_archetype = SOLAR\Wraith\Wraith_LargeStation01.cmp
material_library = SHIPS\Custom\DK1\Wraith_LargeStation01.mat
material_library = fx\envmapbasic.mat
envmap_material = envmapbasic
LODranges = 0, 30000, -1
mass = 10000.000000
;loadout = dk1station1
docking_sphere = berth, HpDockMountA, 1400.500000
docking_sphere = moor_medium, HpDockMountB, 150.000000
docking_sphere = moor_medium, HpDockMountC, 150.000000
docking_camera = 0
solar_radius = 3600
shape_name = NAV_largestation
hit_pts = 999999961690316250000000000000000000.000000
destructible = falseI’ve found out that I didn’t add the “HpMount” to the CMP file which fixed the issue when I added it to my smaller (in terms of station size) CMP files, but doesn’t appear to work for something like this.
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FYI: Blender has a builtin ms3d exporter, which works nicely.
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Wow, that’s really huge and detalized. FL can’t support this amount of polygons in single 3db model.
Try to split your model to many different submodels.
If you in doubt about it - you can try cut some tiny part of your model and export it to FL. Model with less count of polygons must work properly.
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id worry more about creating a halfway decent sur for this shape/details
the poly count does not matter
if it was exportet via milkshape then the polycount by default is lower than what would be a limit in FL and I have stuff in my mod which is very close to that limitbtw. the solararch looks very familiar
this line is wrong:
LODranges = 0, 30000, -1LODranges = 0, 30000 would fit better for what you try to do
the -1 value is only something i use in my mod for a specific feature
As a matter of fact your cmp does not contain the stuff to make that work. -
Thanks for the explanation. For creating my SUR file I used the “FL Sur Creator” tool. Seemed to work well for my custom ships and what not. This tool seemed to work well enough for this, do you have another way you’d recommend for creating the SUR files?
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I would recommend Schmackbolzens tool for the surs. I used it for my mod and it is easy to use and flexible at the same time.
