OK. Posted this on my forums for people to see. Hopefully you’ll get a few more members now 🙂

I’d recommend informing some of the DIscovery, FL:CE, SW:WTS, CF, Void and Monkey Universe Admins as well about this. I’m sure we can get over a few hundred to join this group!

points to my own signature ^^

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Oops! Well done @Alucard!

Yeah @Kuze, would be cool to check them out!

Ditto! My bad. Thought it was yours, Kuze. lol

Well done Alucard! 8-)

A couple of suggestions

Did you make a loadout for it in loadouts.ini?

You referenced a base in universe.ini, but not the system for it. Is it there?

Did you build new paths? (shortest_legal_path etc)

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and, even though a few of these folks might disagree with me, I would recommend setting your start place through the newcharacter.ini rather than the mpnewcharacter.fl. I have been doing it this way for 2 years with no problems.

Indeed. Part of the problem I’ve come to realize is the raw code - when you’re adding more to the engine, regardless of rather it’s processed or not, the code itself is getting more and more sophisticated. I have a feeling poorly-optimized engines that run on a low-end configuration are still processing a lot of that high-end code - probably something like adding an “if” statement to a basic C++ program - regardless of rather the “if” is true or false, the computer is still processing that code.

Actually you can blame me for the tutorials as i rescued them from the original TLR site and reposted them on one of the incarnations of TLR. As i was unsure who wrote some of these tutorials i also mentioned at the time that if any of the original authors spots their tutorial then they should contact me and i’d amend it. Seeing as i’m no longer part of the admin team at TLR, this is not an option, but telling Dark_Angel about is now.

Of course i have nearly all of these on my forums as well at Gizmo Studios for those that are interested

SURs do not hold things such as normals, faces, etc. They’re strictly there to act as collision detection. The SURs are also noticeably simpler in their mesh than CMPs are, otherwise collision detection would take far too many CPU cycles to process (At least, back when Freelancer was released).

SURs and CMPs are two completely different formats, as far as I know. They probably have similarities, since they carry similar information, but I’m not versed enough into either formats to provide a better explanation.

As for the last question, that’s a definite no. CMPs without SURs have no collision detection, will often disappear once their center gets out of the field of view (effectively making the whole model pop in or out), and you’ll have a hard time selecting those meshes because the game also uses SURs to define where is a mesh selectable.

Shoot your modellers, if they can’t UVMap their own work then they ain’t worth having in your team.

There is nothing I hate more than UVMapping someone elses work, it’s been the cause of many a bust up in game modding communities.