Do not use this retarded mod manager maybe?

Thanks. Yes, i have an understanding, but I need editor cuz I have no sense of systems coordinates. I don’t like Level Planner cuz it cannot import map file into itself, so it’s possible to create map only from nothing.
Oh, where can I dl Tib’s or your editor to try?

Hiyo.
Found my old CD and installed a game again with modding kit and and wanna make a map for myself.
Having such trouble: game works perfect, but i cannot enter the editor. When I press Shift+F10 it starts loading, but when it finishes game shows error and closes.

Win 7 x64, c++ redistributable 2008 and 2010 installed, .net framework 4.5 too. What may cause such thing?

This game is not for everyone. There’re too much criticism on the web, related to graphics and other. But this game put me back to X2 atmosphere and that’s impressive. X series is not about graphics challenge. For me, X is MUCH better than star citizens and everything other. Haters gonna hate. This game is not about all what these reviews say.

1. This is not about ini, but about coding. Do you know C / assembler? If no - ask their develoers for a plugin or forget.
2. Don’t know about animation, but about creating you need to convert your PNG to DDS (it must be square and 512x512, 1024x1024, 2048x2048, etc). Then take an existing starsphere and replace existing texture by UTF Editor, or create your own sphere in 3DSMax and make a CMP from it (with some further UTF modifications, you have to replace some nodes, ask if you will choose this).
3. There’re few files related to this, you have to change both. Don’t remember which ones exactly.

Of course but seems it will be much easier for topicstarter. Also we still don’t have MAT exporter for Max

Do it through Milkshape?

VRay is a renderer for replace vanilla Scanline and MentalRay. Rendering with it with good setups will make your images much more photorealistic.
In smoothing I mean at least to use MSmooth button on sharp edges.

Good, but I suggest to make chairs much smooth, and learn a VRay for good render result if you want to achieve it.

Laws are not always right. They’re sutuative, adjustable for economical and political situations, and often made for governments’s self-defence. They cannot know and rule such things as people relations, and cannot even know the objective truth.
But yes, you own what you’ve made, and nobody is against it as I see.
I know that feel, I have my own project, btw. But i’d be pretty glad to share what I have after idea will be materialized and mod released. And I’m always free for exchange in sincere intentions.
Realize that “steal” thing means physical grabbing of an original source which exists in a single copy. Did he steal your HDD with sources so you don’t own them? Nop. So, please, be kind and positive, ask him for adding a notes to readme, something else which will refer to your origins. He never said that your ships are his ones, and ever didn’t tried to sell them as his own, never had an intention to harm something or someone.
Yes, of course stupid copypasting cannot even become a good mod, and time shows this. But that’s not about copypasting, it’s about people who make such trash and get a logical result.
I argee with most, just bring peace, bro, and don’t feed your ego.
I hope you’d have a deal. Good luck both.

Yea, w0dk4, that would be great! Thumbs up and waiting \m/

Ok ok I can assume that I wrote too angry post. Something unique is great and such intentions might be justified. But anyway all of our projects here are non-commercial, and I sure all of you must help each other to be better. Thats why he’s wrong. But yes, some discussions and permissions should exist. This is not a theft at all, this is just an impoliteness - must be said. I hope you two will find harmony in this problem and nobody will lose something.

Congratulations guys. You just killed an another good mod just because of your retarded self-importance. This is a community and everything must be shareable. Do not want to share - go home and be alone. You’re wrong, OP.

Sizer, what can you say about MAT files? How to make them for max-exported CMP?

StarTrader wrote:
FL Explorer was the work of 3 guys over 2 years, or the other way round, if I remember correctly?
Anyway it’s still fun (sometimes) using 10+ tools to make a new mod!

Don’t know who made this tool, but it’s too old for fresh demands i think, and Mod Studio is good replacement. But it’s useful feautures should fit Mod Studio well.

I don’t see any fun in this… CRC calculators, ALE converter without preview, tons of ini’s opened, fled-ids + Restorator, MS3D, Max, HardCMP, UTF Editor, DSAM, Excel… etc etc. Maybe it may be fun first time, but not as day-to-day work on my stuff…

Ya, thanks for reply
I always used milkshape, just wanna to try this way, maybe it is faster and better, also it can automaticly make wireframes.
Ok, it’s good idea to rename materials in Max itself and make in MS only the mat, i’ll try, thanks a lot.
Models exported directly from Max through this stuff cannot be displayed in HardCMP, so I also will have to learn how to place hards in UTF Editor.
Yes, i’ll tell you how it goes when i try.

Great, thanks a lot for your work.
But one thing i’d be glad to see in mod studio - writing to related files when adding a base, like freelancer explorer, thats only reason why i have to combine these tools.
For example, when i create a gate in explorer - it adds end-gate automaticly, when i create a base in system - it automaticly creates all other entries in related files. That’d be an amazing addition.

Anyone, please?

DragonRider wrote:
I’m more into just adding ships in the game. Like for example I want to add a ship from Discovery mod to my SP game (in such case I will ask the owners of the ship itself). And, as I mentioned, changing the hardpoints.
Another thing. When I want to add a ship from an existing mod, what files do I need to copy and where do I need to put them?

Hiyo. “Ship” in game contains section in ships/shiparch.ini, 3 files of model itself (cmp, mat, sur), and 2 entries in equipment/goods.ini.
By the logic, you have to use HardCMP to be able to view CMPs (3d model files) (it is also a program to add/edit hardpoints), find your model [get a files], copy filename, use search in shiparch.ini for this string [get a shiparch section of ship], then get a ship nickname, then search for it in goods.ini for 2 entries left. Copypaste all of this to your mod and edit as you want. And last thing you need is to make ship selling somewhere, try using something like Freelancer Explorer for this purpose.
Good luck in your useless intention, feel free to ask anything.