Texturing in Milkshape

I’m building a new ship, that is partly made from existing parts, and partly from new forms I made.

The wing (I prefer to talk singular here, althought there are in fact two wing, L being the mirror of R) was originally a cylinder. it doesn’t look like a acylinder anymore, but that’s the basic form I used to model it.

Now, the bottom and top of this wing are also what were the top and model of the cylinder. How can I texture this is in a nice way??

There are some textures at hand in my project (vanilla ones, so to speak) but if I assign one of those, the top and bottom remain grey, as if the texture was blurred or really stretched (if assigned at all, which I assume but can’t really tell.)

Is there way (in MS) to stretch and/or fit the texture?

Kuze wrote:
Forget about texturing in Milk…install some free 3D program or buy one and texture in those…MS sucks in modelling and sucks in texturing.

Texturing might indeed suck, but the modelling sofar has gone nice; it’s kinda self-explanatory and intuitive to do, which is good. 3DS Max is much less of those, although the basic forms are better than those of MS - luckily I found out how to export them and open them in MS.

_Timmy51m wrote:_You’re stepping into a totally different field than kitbashing vanilla ships. You’ll need to learn how to model and texture if you want to start creating new parts.

Time to think about what you want to achieve dude, most people model because they really like to do it, not because they want to make one or two ships for a mod.

It’s an effort vs reward scenario, not worth the effort required to learn modelling techniques unless you’re going to do a lot of it. Plus you’ll get sidetracked from all the other things you’ve got going on if you’re modding. That’s why most mods with original content are made by teams.

I’ve got a shed load of content in my mod, but it’s all stuff I’ve 3d ripped or converted from other games, it’s easy to convert stuff but hard to create stuff.

Do you plan on releasing a mod? If not then just rip the hell out of other games and you’ll have the world at your knees lol. I’ve got half the x universe, darkstar one, spaceforce etc spiralling out of control in my world. Right mental!

Thx for the good advice!!

I dunno whether I want to ‘publish’ my mod -that’s such a big word- but I might put it up for download when (if) it get’s finished before I die.

I mainly want to use existing models, and alter those, but occasionally I’ll be willing to add something. So I’m sure gonna delve into the tutorials SB posted in this thread. For the matter at hand, I assume I can take a relatively easy (but still painful) way by ‘paving’ the wings I’ve made with loose faces - which will prolly (so I hope) match easier with the existing textures.

Btw I have collected a huge load of ship packs that, in the days, were released to be used as seemed fit - if due credits were given. Baene’s packs, e.g., and there were more, including Gibbon’s packs (still to be downloaded from his site, although he left here in anger). Now that I’m using MS again, and able to create a .sur for them, I think I’m kinda free to use these, as they were released that way. I dunno if it’s still possible to write the authors (many of them used nicknames and have since left the scene)

And like you say, most of these supposed copyright issues(more a matter of ‘honour’ than of legality - as none of us actually got permission of DA/Microsoft to modify the vanilla models) only become important when you think of ‘publishing’ the mod.

StarTrader wrote:

These will help:

I’m sure they will. Great post man, thx!!

Wow, I just found (in MilkShape), under the Tools menu, the ‘Tile texture mapper’. That might be an inadequate tool for the pros amongst the modders, but for me, at this point, it is a nice and convenient option. I’m gonna play with it for a while.