Models giveaway

It was a Church of the…

… New Millennia!!..

… (mis)led by the infamous scoundrel, the most irreverent, the most scoundrelous, the most ignominious, the most infamous, “Reverend” Joshua Ringabellus Dong del Dongos de las NuevasEglisias de la Mancha de la Republica de los Nuevos Millennios, known as “Ringer” for short, well known in almost every shady Cardamom joint in NY and wanted in every civilised colony system short of the Rim Worlds for misappropriation of unwary citizens’ wealth, illegal donation-solicitation, false promises of a “life-hereafter” for those who donate the mostest, bigamy in the extreme with more than 350 registered widows (and who knows how many more unregistered), misuse of Public Funds, other shady dealings, and misappropriation of municipality parking spaces well up in the Notoriety Scale.

… And Jesus wept.

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;D

Wow ……1500hrs+ of work?

Your models are so Uber its not even awesome…its as the gopher says “its more than awesome…its…MAWSOME!”

how or where you bring the textures? get the texture for puddeljumperbay not out

The texture looks terrible. how would you do that

Wow, SolCommand, your models are beautiful!!!

If it’s really okay, i’ll use a bunch in the mod I’m working one. I plan to create at least three new Houses, so I need police and navy ships. And the coolness of your stations defies description!

Btw - I have been out of this for quite a while, but I notice there aren’t any .sur files in the .3ds archive… Is it possible nowadays to create .sur files from .3ds and .cmp files?

I realize that’s a rather n00b question, but at the time I remember the expertise modders were on a quest to decode the. sur files to be able to create new ones. I remember that anton created a tool to modify the sizes of existing .sur files, but that’s about it.

So, how do y’all get the collision data for SolCommand’s (truly stunning!) models?

Resizing existing .sur’s mainly, using the FLMT from anton…

Lancer S is currently working on the mother of all sur proggys… but untill its finished its either a resize… or hours (per ship) in ms3d building a half working .sur… (see various “my sur don’t work” threads).

all in all… its still a pain in the a$$ 8-)

Xarian_Prime wrote:
Resizing existing .sur’s mainly, using the FLMT from anton…

Lancer S is currently working on the mother of all sur proggys… but untill its finished its either a resize… or hours (per ship) in ms3d building a half working .sur… (see various “my sur don’t work” threads).

all in all… its still a pain in the a$$ 8-)

I see… So, when implementing a model (say, newmodel.3ds) from SolCommand’s archive, I should look for a stock model that resembles closest the outline of the custom model, resize it (if necesssary) with Anton’s tool and rename it to newmodel.sur. Right?

That’s easily said, but prolly a lot less easy to actually do!

yep… just rename it 1st, to save confusion, Its not the “best” way… but its darn hell the quickest & in most mods barley noticeable as the games normally moving faster… even in vanilla unless its a big ship with lots of blank spaces.

“FLModelTool10ab6” is the one you want for this task

Xarian_Prime wrote:
yep… just rename it 1st, to save confusion, Its not the “best” way… but its darn hell the quickest & in most mods barley noticeable as the games normally moving faster… even in vanilla unless its a big ship with lots of blank spaces.

“FLModelTool10ab6” is the one you want for this task

I just installed it The installer happened to be in my archive. a good thing I always kept stuff.

For now I gotta dig up some old star sytem files and redo them. The models come after that.

EDIT <offtopic>I actually might give it a try: I need a huge towerlike construction, and I used to create it with building prison archetypes on top of each other. (4 prisons made an octagon, and one octagon was one floor. That rendered a rather laggy star system - if the base was in sight, not if it were not.) But it might be easier to use a space_habitat thing enlarged 25 times (and, of course, retexture it). So that’s a nice way to practice both the clone and model tools.</offtopic>

did it!! :pint:

Moonhead wrote:

Xarian_Prime wrote:
Resizing existing .sur’s mainly, using the FLMT from anton…

Lancer S is currently working on the mother of all sur proggys… but untill its finished its either a resize… or hours (per ship) in ms3d building a half working .sur… (see various “my sur don’t work” threads).

all in all… its still a pain in the a$$ 8-)

I see… So, when implementing a model (say, newmodel.3ds) from SolCommand’s archive, I should look for a stock model that resembles closest the outline of the custom model, resize it (if necesssary) with Anton’s tool and rename it to newmodel.sur. Right?

That’s easily said, but prolly a lot less easy to actually do!

So what’s wrong with using Lancers sur builder as it currently is. version 2 to be exact? Builds better surs than using any of the original ones

I have the texture from Rheinland bar.If you still tip, so bring it on

Gibbon wrote:

Moonhead wrote:

So what’s wrong with using Lancers sur builder as it currently is. version 2 to be exact? Builds better surs than using any of the original ones

So, LancerSolurus’s Sur proggy is finished? That’s great! I assume it converts a .cmp / .3db / .3ds into a .sur?

(I’m at my work now - can browse web pages but not download anything, so cannot dl the app and try it)

@ gibbons -> nothin… lol, its a dam fine tool… dam fine…

Just thought i’d lay out the options for the man, & i thought LS was still in beta with the tool… that could cause some confusion to one who has never wrangled a sur b4…

8-)

A cmp and 3db yes, a 3ds no. I have been considering adding other model formats anyways but that is low on the to-do list at the moment.

LancerSolurus wrote:
A cmp and 3db yes, a 3ds no. I have been considering adding other model formats anyways but that is low on the to-do list at the moment.

That’s great!!!

Actually I am looking in the game folder, and I must confess I see no .3ds files. I really was under the impression there were as much .3ds as .3db files :-? Now I can’t fine a single one. The whole format doesn’t seem to exist! Am I going mad?! Have the Nomads infected my brain?

Anyway, I’m gonna try out your tool!

Btw it’s night here but the whole street where I live will have a scheduled power-down tomorrow morning, so I set the alarm to try out your prog and do some other things I’m really sleepy though, so sorry for typo’s or bad english