ok i found a file called tlrtube.3db

i cant see a texture obviously cause its flipped to the inside, but i imagine that is the model. if it is then there may be a way to use it and hack to add a glowmap tree.

edit: i just realized that is the trade lane tube. where the heck is the model for the jumptube?

if sushi didnt beat me to the punch. we want to know if it is possible to add a glow map to the texture on the jump effect tunnel. there are two subtrees in the .txm

they both contain the same pattern. is it possible to add a third subtree to the textures and then code it to work like a glowmap as if it were on a ship?

thanks aden any help figuring this out is appreciated.

thanks for pointing me to the correct file. im really interested in seeing this come together!

thaks mini me. i have been a little busy and distracted, but i took a look there. sent you an email too, i wasnt able to nail down where the animation was located in the files. i looked at them in notepad but im still lost.

over in freeworlds we have been discussing cloaking due to the release of news about RL metamaterail that is truly transparent glass.

one of the ideas that was set forth is to make cloaking a highly penalized event.

starkill posted that if it was some way linked to huge power consumtion, the inability to shoot while cloaked, and a huge and constant shield drain that it may be an interesting concept. that would keep people from using it unfairly.

any thoughts?

welcome! i almost forgot this was a part of the whole thing! but i guess im not too busy to welcome a fellow freelancer!

sure minimi, that would be great! im looking forward to seeing what it looks like and how it can be altered.

well maybe if the hook is part of the mod client side it may be possible, but for freeworlds its mainly online players, so that wouldnt really matter as long as it was smooth animation and worked without crashes. but there could be another solution, it would have to be heavily coded but i was thinking earlier and thought what if.

say you link the animation to the cruise button or dock button like this: the button activates the code for the sequence in question (dock or cruise) and there is a line added that tells the game that the ship is releasing cargo. the cargo is a null cargo, the cargo never depeletes or takes up any space and is invisible to the player. the cargo is also linked to the cruise or the dock function so that unless the ship is clear of the cruise or the dock the wings wont return to their normal configuration. im not sure if that can all be done in code or it actually needs an object that tis invisible and coded in to be non depleteable and weightless.

im not an expert coder and im not even sure that will work, but its an idea.

is there any way to make a dummy command, like for instance one that is linked to the cruise or the jumpgate and then dummies the cargo drop without actually dropping anything? the default for us would be wings open, then closed during jumps and cruise, if that idea has any merit.

ok i got the ALE editor, and i loaded a file, but it didnt do squat, just sat there. no code or anythng is visible. it doesnt seem to be very functional.

oops, just found the temp files, looking at them in notepad now.

well thats great info, just wanted to clarify where the streaks were intended to go is outside the gate, like 3 seconds before going into the jump, is that an ALE animation as well?

the lightspeed tunnel texture would probably only be one or two and at the most 3 textures. i havent made that model yet so i have to see what can be done, and then how to implement the inside effect., but since thats definitely ALE then i would probably rather just work with changing only the texture.

this is a video i rendered of the possible new hyperspace intro animation. not to be confused with the wormhole effect between systems, but could be that it can be linked to the hyper bouy. im still doind research on that bt i can sideline it now that i have it complete.

the video is pretty terrible considering google video dumbed it down, but if you could only see the actual resolution you would be amazed, actually i can post pics of it too.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6062267052993442070&hl=en

and here are some stills of the animation, this was made using splines with the glow effect and self illumination map. its almost exactly the same as the original, but i added a little blue in to be sort of the difference between the original episode 4 and 5 versions of the effect and the ROTJ version.

that would be cool, hopefully someone will be able to figure that out. i would love to see it linked to the cruise function or even the docking function.

this is very cool!! we are looking at this at freeworlds and thinking of implementing it for the s-foils on the star wars ships!!!

i thought this was over, luckily i havent had problems getting on here lately. kids and their toys……

makes one wonder about the maturity level of the hacker in question. and the sad thing is it probably is some kid whos really smart, but is hooked on making people scramble while they play games.

sort of like the booter programs that were popular on chat clients for a while, this is kind of lame.

just to give a little more depth to it, over at freeworlds i have been working hard. just today i managed to put a nice litle animation together to emulate the start of the jump to light speed (before the wormhole effect) i also plan on making the replacement wormhole effect, but the question is if it is possible to reference another cmp than what is in freelancer. also what does the model have to be set up like before trying to export it? does it need to be a bunch of polygons? or can i just use the splines i have?

finally, can the visibility for the preliminary animation be messed with to only appear in a 3 second or 5 second window and then disappear (linked of course to the jumpgates which are invisible) and can visibility be set up so its very short range (only from the view of the pilot activating the jump)? and if all else fails can the animation be played like a movie in front of the pilot instead of an outright model animation (prior to the wormhole)? i know the wormhole effect has to be a model animation, but this other one is possibly going to be a bugger, since the effect relys heavily on the camera perspective.

i may post a link here later of the video i rendered to give a better idea of what i mean.

Bravo! sushi, im really lovin the new systems.

uh, YEAH! my brain is kinda foggy, maybe i should take a break LOL. thanks for reminding me.

hey guys, im looking at changing the bar music for freeworlds. the thing is (if memory serves me correctly) the modded bars only randomly play music, so you cant force one type of music for one or another bar. is this true? and has anyone come up with a way to work around it?