Models giveaway

well… FF… ms3d “allows” for 2… but FL only shows 1… and normaly the wrong one (glowmap instead of the main)…

I’ve learned to just use the 1 per grouping & add glow via Photoshop trickery & a slight UTF edit… but i use ENB to “cheat” there… knowing the slightest bright part will “glow” anyways…

and as for groups vs 1 tex… its down to texture (.mat) size really… I have groups in the 10-20 mark on some… and that makes for a large file… but neg difference compared to a huge 1024/1024 wrapped texture at loadtime… for converters… its kinda Kreeargh/coxxon (one tex normaly) vs Fallen Warrior/Outalance … wich normaly have about 10-20 textures… same end result… & sometimes its easyer to go back and alter 1 0r 2 glowtextures than altering a large 1024 texture…

but above all… dds is your friend…

Hey… a Q… rectangle textures… I’ve always just used .tga for them… but is there a way to .dds them too?.. without LOD Mips of course…

You are correct but you can have your ships broken into several groups with a unique texture to each one. Note: When you export it using the CMP exporter, you still export it as one group. In this example model, I have 5 groups (main body, engine, back, canopy, and wings) and they all utilize a unique texture for each group. I however have exported it as one whole mesh when exporting it using the CMP exporter and it looks just fine…

Pic 1 - Demonstrating the multiple mats utilized on the ship

Pic 2 - Demonstrating the multiple groups utilizing a unique material/texture

Pic 3 - Demonstrating that multiple groups can be exported as one singular mesh and still retain the unique textures in each group

very cool work, but one small detail that you have overseen, since your cockpit glass is transparent and you are not using any cockpit mesh, you can look through the ship (e.g. when the planet was behind the ship)

the year comes to an end and have other problems and if everything comes to rest once more play freelancer.Freelancer will never die. 8-)

yes… Quick as in under an hour moppy no extra thought or planning there… just pure straight up conversion. (ouch!)

The 0ne texture has way less problems… (textures) in fact it has 0…
and took all of 10 mins to convert (if that)… & here she is 8-)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_wjd6yxjCA

hello, is it possible for someone to plz make the YF-19 and the YF-21 from Macross Plus and the Vaadwaur fighter for freelancer.

YF-19

YF-21

Vaadwaur fighter

Thankyou a million in advance

Space station idea

YF-19 & 21 are on Battleclinic Raz…
along with many, many more Macross/Gundam models

I have the models here… but they don’t look the best… well not as good as some of the other Macross ships on there…

If ye can wait a few days… I’ll convert both agian and see what i can do about the "cartoon"ness of the ships… basically it looks quite good as a model… but crap in FL

@ Sol… I’ll have a think about the TSP base… hmm… would have to be something pretty “mega”…

what is “really” needed in this dept… is another modular kit like Alderbaran’s awesome space lego… Simple models that can be pieced & coded together to make massive bases… but this time instead of boxy simple models… curvy biotype ones?.. claws… teeth… ect…

oh and wepons… there is a MASSIVE hole in the resource dept for new weapon models… some may be happy using vanilla guns… hehe but not I (lolz)

In the realm of weapons, standard weapons would just be a single piece as they won’t move much if at all.

Turrets would need two groups:
Base (portion that mounts to the ship and rotates)
Barrels (any portion of the turret that elevates to point at the target)

It has also been my experience that turrets and weapons are most often designed to be used with a specific ship or group of ships (such as certain turrets I use for my Star Wars ships) and aren’t really suited to use in a “pack” of sorts.

However, a generic pack of weapons and turrets may be something nice for the community to be able to use on their many plethora of vessels.

@Xarian_Prime

the ones on battleclinic i am from what i can tell from them are the Skins only which is why i was asking for the models.

the Va’adawar fighter ive not seen anywhere in FL.

@SolCommand

i thought you might like it one of my friends is trying to get that working but not having any luck. another thought is the Babylon 4 station sorry i do not have a pic of it.

WOW!!! thats a lot better than what i thought possible. really good work SolCommand.

NOOOOOO what have you done to the glorious Babylon 5

but it looks awesome anyway. you have very cool ideas to merge ScFI franchises together, btw, the domes on the Oltenia, i think they are from a Wraith Hive ship, is that correct?