Hi guys,

I recently installed 15.4 Catalyst beta drivers for my R9 290X, and I’ve noticed I now have issues with missing textures on some ships in the Discovery mod. It all worked fine on 14.12 drivers, but now it doesn’t. I remember modders had this problem before, and it mostly was to do with setting FL to low detail then not displaying textures, but I’m not sure this is the same thing because it works on some modded ships and doesn’t work on others.

So the first thing I did was open relevant mat files in UTF Editor, have a look at the differences between the textures that work and ones that don’t to see if maybe its a format issue. The working texture and the one that is missing ingame are exactly the same in size, format (dds, dxt1), 1 mipmap level… but one displays ingame, and the other doesn’t. Funnily enough when I load the relevant CMPs in UTF Editor and preview the model, the one that doesn’t work ingame works there fine while the one that does is the one that is missing a few textures. So it doesn’t seem like an export issue.

The other thing I tried was to use the ENB dx8 to dx9 renderer converter, but that didn’t seem to have any effect.

What else could I check to see why only specific models are affected by this? Or is this a problem that cannot be fixed by modders? Any ideas/confirmations that its a driver issue?

Cheers, only noticed this thread now. Thanks for the fix.

How hard would it be to add capability for scanner classes into that as well? We already have powerplant and engine classes, now scanner classes would be very useful too.

Yea but ideally I wanted for ammo not to take up cargo space since it’s already max capped anyway.

What’s the relationship of the plugin to the global ammo limit constant? I assume it completely replaces it depending on whether the ammo_limit property was set or not?

Reason why I’m asking is that we’ve come upon a bit of a snag, ammo that is dropped into space and then tractored will bypass the ammo limit up to the point of the global constant. So lets say I have a launcher with ammo_limit = 25, the ammo constant is 70. I log in, buy ammo - I can only buy 25 as expected. If I launch into space and a friend drops some ammo at the same time however, I’ll still be able to tractor it.

This kinda breaks things. So we tried setting the ammo constant to 1 to see if that fixes it, turns out it does however it of course breaks other things: if there is ammo floating in space, you press tractor while you have more ammo in your hold than the ammo constant says you should, the tractor animation will carry on forever and nothing will be tractored.

So we have a choice between one bug or another. Is there some kind of a fix to this that won’t ruin either? I’ve looked in ammolimit.cpp and comments seem to imply that it should handle tractoring as well, so what could be broken?

Hi guys.

I’m not sure this can be done within the scope of FL itself (other than by creating a mountable slot, but this will not work for cargo/ammo I think), but I’ve been trying to find a way to make certain ammo unable to be traded between ships or jettisoned, so essentially behaving in a similar way to being mounted - except without the mount slot.

The reason for this is to disable players from trading ammo/regens within the scope of a firefight (and possibly other commodities). Is this in any way possible? Cheers in advance.

What about the 3dsmax exporter then? I heard that can export groups properly. Any chance where I can get a compiled release?

So splitting into several groups parented to root is enough then? No need to split the model into 3db files or however it works for vanilla ships?

Also, did any mods manage to successfully do this? It would probably help if I could look at their cmp files to get a clearer idea.

Does anyone know of any tutorials or the exact method how to model and export ships that have destructible parts? Example being vanilla capital ships which break up into a couple of debris parts upon destruction.

I assume that in addition to the actual ship model that people fly I also need to have a couple debris models to create during the fuse, but how exactly do I set it all up?

Cheers in advance.