I’m trying to add effects to equipment like you would add stuff to ships, like the addon = stuff in goods.ini.

I like to be able to add lights and smoke effects so that when you add say, a flame thrower, the flame thrower will steam or smoke while flying. Or letting the player will be able add there own lights on there ship.

My main goal would be to add animations to items for example; a radar dish that spins when you equip it.

I’m guessing it is similar to how shield effects happen when you get shot, depending on the shield a different effect happens. But I haven’t a clue how this works.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you Crazy. Only tested it a little bit but it seems to work great.

Is there any way to let you use weapons while cruise engines are on?

http://the-starport.net/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=2054&forum=7

This thread describes how to do so with mines, but I would like to do so with all weapons.

Any help would be much appreciated.

Yes, changing the name seemed to work. One thing you guys forgot to mention is that HpMount needs to be put on the root. Not a big deal I figured that out fast.

According to some site I looked at transformation from fighter mode to gerwalker mode it takes around 3 seconds, longer if done automatically (as apposed to manually).

Ah, must be because they are called hpmount01. Haven’t tried it yet but that is likely the problem thanks.

Edit: I always had some problems bringing it in threw as .3ds file directly to milkshape. Ship always broke apart and other strange things any time I tried.

First a bit about how I build my models, so I might get rid of some unnecessary questions.
I build my models in 3D Studio Max 9. I zero in the model putting its center at 0, 0, 0. I export it into gmax then export it into milkshape as a MD3 file (I never found a compatible md3 plugin for 3ds).
Then I export the cmp and mat file. I use sur builder to build my sur.
Use hardpoint to put on hard points.

Now for the problem. No matter where I put my HpMount the ships I make look like they are below ground when they are in port. More or less like they are zeroed in while they are in a base.
Only way for me to change this is to raise the ship while I am making it. But if I do that they tend to miss jump holes. My other hard points are fine and there is no other problems with the models besides this.

Anyone know what the problem could be?

VF-27 Lucifer:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iI6WWB2r_FM

Textures messed up on me a bit around the cockpit and a bit on the fins.