3D Model Showroom

Here’s the original “Zulu” (From the USAF radio call like Bandit and Boogie)

It’s a lesson in exporting you models UVs so if the blow out when slicing a model for SUR files you can load them back.

This model was posted for anyones use back in 2005 on Lancer’s Reactor and I was working elsewhere when Anton and Crabtree but together that WTS mod.

EDIT: Sorry, scout of ancient posts says I DID know Anton. He developed FLModelTool! Yikes! He DID work with Crabtree on mod! Yikes again. That’s REAL housepower! So any loss of UVs in creation of SUR files was unintentional glitches. Sorry I doubted Anton. Mia Culpa.

It’s got all the textures and hardpoits set up, but their labeled in my shortcuts so you’ll have to relabel them before exportl into .cmp

And if you want to laugh, I used to get bashed for adding my own textures instead of using the games textures. Purists ruled back then.

Here’s another two ships in that mod that didn’t quite come out because they ended up having the same textures and are for all practical purposes the same ship when they are, but once with the right textures two different ships as you’ll see.

Another note. Other than exporting new .obj and .mtl. I didn’t mess with them. If they are filled upside down or have an odd scale that’s how the had to go into Milkshape back then. The exporter scaled and flipped them.

As for the story of why two different textures? To Mister George R.R. Martin. If you were playing Freelancer back in 2005 and and picked up on my rivalry between the Ice faction and the Fire faction and spun it into “The Song of Ice and Fire”? GOOD FOR YOU! I’m a fan of the screen version Game of Thrones. My backstory for these was from 2005. In the forums I put the models out on.

Here’s my song of the two sides: rivals to beat Corsairs vs Outcasts. Two planets one Ice like Toledo and another fiery and volcanic hance the factions that used to be from the same planet but split over religious differences. No bloody schism and/or war gets as bad as a religoius one. Present times included.

So here are the combatants in all their faded glory and again with my shortcuts for hardpoint names but in adhereance to my philosophy your going to cut the number of guns/turrets down to reason. Right? Right.

Here they are:

EDIT: Be careful trying to swap one ship’s texture on the other ship. Look at the right engine intakes and compare. There are subtile differences in the mesh and the UV’s might not line up from one to the other.

The last one I’m putting out from the old mod in pure form really had the UVs trashed and an odd name change in the .cmp where intead of Avatar it’s labeled “Pervatar” Which I think I know I know who did just to yank my chain. To which I’ll reply “Good one”.

Edit: Yep it was a jibe at my rants about Milkshape causing degenerate polygons. V 1.8. 5 and and exporter .3 and it still does! So if your model looks blocky in the engine import it again and you’ll find out most of the mesh is now a conglomeration of separate polygons and your CMP is twice to four times the size it should me. No workaround but to keep loading it in and exporting until it finally decides to work correctly. Setting smoothing groups doesn’t work either and what does work (sometimes) is the Model cleaner tool, but it will trash you’re UV’s. Which is what I’m afraid happened to these ships. What will REALLY cause degeneration in Milkshape export is setting LODs and no amount of exporting will help. That level 0 ship will be nothing but X number of single polys in the shape of your ship. Our slang for this was export perversion because the model became degenerate.

Same hardpoint shortcuts (lost that blasted script to label them into the obj and mat files.)

Here’s the Perva… Oops the Avatar:

Here’s the last from the old mod before I dig up more ones that have never seen Freelancer before. The last two were StarForger and Starfire. The StarForger had a gun platform all the way across the top, the Starfire doesn’t and thats the end of the difference. I decided to just post the Starfire here, I was never that in love with the StarForger version.

Like my Fury ship is now the Starfire was my favorite ride back in 2005 bacause some engineering design went into it eg: Gun Clearences. Since these were ready to pack up and into Mete’s Milkshape (Had that program before Freelancer. I used to mod Doom and Quake) And because of this it’s going to be upside down and probably backwards,but hey it’s a free model anyway. So look at the bottom. The gun bases are staggered in height too. Thats to keep guns on one row from firing through the ones in front of it. Might not matter in the engine, but real world your fire plinking you own guns would be in engineering parlance “fratricide” and anybody elses “A BAD THING”. So those bases avoid the issue no matter which rows you keep and which you toss. Just a neat design element you might puzzle over. Like that grill on the bottom. That was me asking myself “Where’s that landing force field coming from? Better give it an emitter.”

So here she is pilots,

Need a pilot for tha jazzy cockpit? The stock ones just won’t do?
Pulled this out of my closet (ain’t there one or two in everybody’s closet?)

Here’s somthing I just pulled out and posed for slipping in to the “big chair in the front office”. Stick a limuminance channel on the texture and let the opposition do a real double take!

Name comes from that old saying that there are old pilots and bold pilots, but no old bold pilots. WRONG! Come get yours!

Edit: Might have knock down the polygons here it’s apt to be higher than you’re ship. Might do that myself and repost here later in a lower poly version.

Just an update right now folks. Submitted (I hope) The dreadnaught and critter models for review.

Edit: As of this posting all the large models I submitted are in the download section. I thank the site for this and approving my “Super Ships” mod with ships I showed off in earlier postings.

This site might be “old”, but it’s still the BEST.

Though that “other site” still has archives of old posts that’s good for a chuckle. But, that’s about all it’s good for. Other that finding an “Anton” chatting with an apprentice “Friendly_Fire”. Ah weren’t we all younger then?

As I’ve already told you: upload them elsewhere, the download area isn’t functional enough to be worth it.

Wow, they’re all great Jefferson001. Especially the ‘Mars Ship’ is awesome!

Edit: Looking into putting them on a friend’s server and posting the link. That should take care of it.
10:05 at night here will work that out in am FF.

Reply to Moonhead; thank you. Lots of work from rough concept scetches there. Big Row and the punchline? Scripted for all of 95 seconds screen time.

PS: white dwarfs.

Hello people. Jeff here again live from sunny Toledo. Have I got something for you all tonight!
Not 1. No not 2 in one. How about a bargain? Nine models! All in one little zip! Got yourself a grab bag straight from a 3D Trade magazine. All were in .max and it was a Science Fiction themed issue. I have in this grab bag: 5 ships, 2 buildings and 3 things they called vehicles but if so they’re a traffic cop’s nightmare so I stuck them in to.

Needless to say, they’re not my work. Heck I found these in my closet on the insert CD. One thing. No textures. They’re low poly too. But free and (of course) in friendly .obj format.

So have fun and if anything jumps of the bag at you, send Spot home for me would you? …well on second thought. Never mind. Just punch the button down here.

Edits for misspellings Firefox beta test cashed smartphone and I’m back to reading 3mm characters in a magnifying glass using Thrice damned Chrome browser.

It’s EARLY Sunday morning here and BIG DUMB JEFFERSON001 shot out of bed cursing I HAVE A $!#@&!!! GOOGLE DRIVE! (Oh great, another closet to dig though!). Uploading those models to it and posting the link but have to pull out everything on it first. Haven’t touched it since July.

Though shooting things to the cumulous cache will free me to offer things that were off the table before. I’ll backtrack and see. I’m putting this before any more work in my virtual home town in Omicron Minor.

Please try to avoid double (or triple, quadruple, etc.) posting. You can edit your last post to add information there instead.

I’m trying FF and do when I can. Some forums I have no problems. Lose submit button if I try and edit, have to back out of site, home to google and back in. Posts has no problem. Does site have any problem with links to cloud? (At least one site I’m one does). Tech issues.

Thank you Jefferson!! Your Vessels rock mate, thank you also for bringing so much positive energy back in to the fl community.
Can we use them in Mods? Obviously I would credit you …

My good Corpse. Put them in anywhere you please. I got that Yamato model on the thread of that title, converting it to .stl (Stereolithography sp? Eyes are giving out.) and as soon as I get an opening having that puppy printed in plastic. Yes by all means man, put them in your mods. That in particular is why they getting given out. My suggestion is script them up, attribute there or in a comment line ( ; ). Naming the whole mode after me? No. Please. It’s you doing the major heavy lifting here. Putting a tight mod together is the point around here. My advice there is stretch yourself and be creative. You might not realize it man, but your learning skills in the process. No pal. I have no problems at all and thank you kindly for the compliment.

OK thank you!!
Here is my mod site, check in once in a while too see how your vessels and other meshes are integrated
alienworlds.freeforums.org

Well what a nice thing to wake up to. I certainly will. I’ve heard of the site. Though I and half the town I live in won’t be on MP up for at least a month. (City workers tore up cable.) It will give me some time to work on this mod I’m wrestling with. Enjoy the models. Probably see more you around here later ( hope.)

Edit: onithopter now in downloads!

Note about future models.
So far since I’ve came back to The Starport after long hiatus I have been relegated to using an LG smartphone.
Characters on screen can be as small as 2mm. Also Android has bugs, Chrome has MAJOR bugs, and Firefox is in beta testing and now that. I’ve got developer version crashes my PHONE when I beta test. After friends read past post to poor half blind me I’m utterly embarrassed at misreading the very nature of some things. Stress misreading. Also virtual keyboard used to type has developed serious bugs with Android’s new update.

Therefore Jefferson001 is signing off The Starport until issues are resolved. I will be back when my internet connection to my desktops is restored. This might not be for a month or so. I humbly apologise to the site for sequential posts, innumerable edits and other (annoying) things I’ve done here simply because of the number of handicaps I’ve had to deal with. Rather than embarrassing myself futher I’m leaving until those handicaps are gone and I’m posting from internet and not 4GLTE.

THANK YOU for you patients Starport.

I will keep the links to the cloud up for those downloads.

Edit: Thanks to Admin team cloud links going down as models coming up in dowload pages.

Jefferson001 signing off for now. Remember to check your six and change that vector at least every five seconds. It’s the Bogie you DON’T SEE that’s going to kill you.

Keep in mind that this is an old site for an old game and that it probably not worth investing into new software for the few regulary users.

Couldn’t get back to sleep got email notify.
No new software for website, just internet connection to desktop. Route desktop to HDTV through HDMI from video card. If watch tv, route to 29 inch monitor. Tried connecting keyboard to phone. Bad lag. Tried typing text on desktop and transferring to phone. Brilliant idea in theory, problem. Loses cut and paste ability in post well.
(No right mouse to click either). Just stylus and virtual keyboard. So I can wait until my internet is back up and I can function again. What happened was logging in on a friends computer and seeing the site over the internet when by phone didn’t play nice with my cloud drive. Then and there I said “No more.”

When Firefox rolls out of beta for Android things might be better. For now though this whole flaky Chrome-Android business with characters less than 5mm high is killing me.

I’ll monitor but post? Nope. Will work on patching cell screen to HDMI for visually impaired.

Edit: Thanks to Firefox for ability to read screen without magnifying glass. Thanks to efforts now chrome for Android followed suit. Screen expansion stays put while typing. Both no longer loses submit and other buttons on post and edit wells here and elsewhere.

I neglected to post something every modeler can use with a my own make over.
That little used ship accessory that for the sake of some sense of realism should get more use, but most said it looked like…. Well you know.
This item is just four sides and top and any sense of depth is from the 3D rendered texture. Texture will hold up at 256x256 resolution to replace older textures since the UV of old is retained. Just import new texture into mat file with UTF edit. So here’s my update of the old equipment base: