Well, I’ve been fooling around with this for, well, years by now, so I guess I’m going to ask you to help me out directly, for I guess I’m out of luck.

I’ve been looking for a way to get planetary surfaces into FL in an actually working manner. Visibility problems can mostly be solved by adjusting some values in the EXE, but I’ve mostly been out of luck with the surface file. I’ve been looking for a somewhat reliable automation for planetary surface creation, so it might not be 100% form fitting, but getting it to work would be a good start.

If any of you can get this working for me, and tell me how they did it, I guess I’d owe you all a cake or two.

And just so that I’ll give something in return as well:
An excellent toy to play with - Hierarchical Approximate Convex Decomposition.
https://code.google.com/p/hacd/
Go to source and do an svn checkout on the address provided (using for example TortoiseSVN). You will get a working application.

Well, here is the topic of my years-long despair:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/34513151/Terr.zip
Any help appreciated 🙂

I think the radius is used for a quick initial test, then the scale is applied for more accuracy. At least, that’s what I surmise for the bits stuff (an initial sphere, then refined as an ellipsoid), but that doesn’t really seem necessary in the surf description. Hm, maybe the radius includes the shield bubble, with the scale just being the ship?

Forget about it - it’s used all over the place.

1.) Good, good.

2.) I didn’t know this, as I’ve never used SUR splicer except to remove the shield bubbles from destroyed component SURs, and I’ve always done multi-part SURs.

3.) Again, I don’t know about single-part SURs, but they work for multi-part SURs when non-root components are concave. The files I e-mailed should show this.

MK

There has gotta be an hex offset for this bumps m0tah

Only two ways to implement that atm, via FLHook or FLAC as far as i know

Oh, I had a previous version of CRC Tool that’s why I did not get along well so far… Thanks loads!

he has Bj, happens there but its not as visible but it bugs him XD 😛