Models giveaway

Seems you have quite a talent for modelling ships. Very impressive.

I would love to see the original freelancer ships cleaned up, if you catch my drift. They’re looking a little blocky and dated nowadays, a few added curves and smoothed edges would work wonders on them and give the original game a much needed facelift, especially if the textures were sharpened up a little aswell.

Has anyone produced a mod which improves the overall graphical quality of the vanilla game without adding new content? Other than the HD texture pack that is.

All the original ships are available in Milkshape format, if that’s any help. Don’t remember where I got it from, though, try searching for “freelanceroriginalships_ms3d.zip”.

dam… sry for the misinformation… I was under the impression that was the case… as its rarley used outside of nomad ships… & that particualr texture is referred to in dacom.ini… along with all its DcEc data

so i can make translucent ships… hmm… i do have a Q… if i set the emissive… ect in ms3d… does it translate to the .mat or will i still have to manualy (like i do now) use UTF to add my Ec nodes?

& yeah… FL’s stock ships have been updated a few times over the years… what would be better (& ive found a few of these as well…) would be “new” house ships that fit the existing style layed down by DA… once agian… been done & alot of older mods have many already…

Bases are where its at Sol… & .dfm’s… but that’s a path straight into the mouth of madness (as no-one really knows the way…) we have a part 1 from the mighty alderbarren (females)… but no real “public resource” male overhaul… or alien… I know some mods have these things… but they aint sharing … so sad

when that nut gets cracked… (one day)… ive got 100’s of different models from various sci-fi games that are just begging a seat at the bar… or to be bartender… i can get them into ms3d np… but pointless without a way to export them into FL… or any understanding of the rigging method used.

Keep up the fine work Sol… I’ll keep trying to build a decent enough mod to fly them in

Adoxa is right, as always. Google found it as always. This is a download link for the original FL ships in ms3d format that’s on the discovery site.

Original ships download

I know many people have cannibalised the original ships and added elbows and legs to them and stuff in an attempt to make them walk, that’s not what I meant.

I was referring to the fact that they look a bit like flying lego bricks now due to their age, Sols ships look very nice and smooth, nice edges and curves, a hell of a step up from the original content.

I’m not asking you to do this for me Sol, I’m not a mod maker, if you did this you would be doing it for yourself and just about everybody that still plays the game really.

There’s a huge advantage to tidying up the originals in the respect that they already have excellent sur files, plus every mod out there other than those that are total conversions will have a use for them and you to thank for them.

If you get a spare 5 minutes here and there just potter away at them and see if you think it’s job worth doing. If not, you’ve got plenty of other stuff to get on with by the looks

@ timmy…

closest i’ve seen to a overhauled mod “without” much new content was plasmafire or flak88… now… having said that… forget i mentioned PF… & go check out flak… if its extra fx your after… well i offered to help on A51… but was ignored, but still willing to help as im an A51 admitee from way back…

& yes… we keep Mr.Sol here quite busy… don’t we m8 (lolz) 8-)

Were you really ignored at A51? They’re a friendly bunch there, at least they always have been in the 5 or 6 years I’ve known them, admittedly you have to be among them for a while in order for them to get to know you but once you’re in, you’re in for life there. Good community, hope they manage to make it back, Glock deserves it for his efforts over the years.

As for Flak, Plasmafire, it’s all good stuff I’m sure, but I’m not angling for a mod to play here, it was a sugestion I thought might well benefit the entire community really, not me.

This game has a better chance of surviving if the community pools it’s resources, I know everyone agrees with that, it’s not often that someone like Sol comes along that seems so selfless, yet so talented at the same time, so if he could achieve something that benefits everyone, it would be a good testament to his nature. It’s a general feeling I get from this site, look at Adoxa, knocking down the obstacles that stand in other peoples way, people seem to be really pulling together here for the benefit of all, like some kind of last stand where the real genius’s are all together finally in the same room banging heads together, no surprise the boundaries have been pushed further in the last year than in the five years before.

Best of luck to you all I say.

For clarification on alpha channels, Freelancer uses in-texture alpha channels to determine opacity/transparency, not illumination (like 90% of other games do).

The way Freelancer works is it uses a second texture (Et), applied over the diffuse texture (Dt) which tells the game what glows and what doesn’t.

The only downside to “glow-mapping” is you lose specular highlighting. It is for this singular reason that Freelancer utilizes separated textures on its assets so that windows can glow while the rest of the ship still gets specular highlights.

Just FYI, in case you didn’t know.

When I get the opportunity later today I’ll post up a few pics of a FULLY glow-mapped ship.

Perhaps if you added some sensors, they could be used in Infinity….

Looks cool, considering it looks nothing like anything from FL, it can be used for practically anything.

Okay.

Very cool. I’ll be using this one for sure

HOT!!! :pint:

Oh, I likes that one. It may find a how in FW:ToW. Thanks Sol