[magic]

Quickdraw and Vindicator downloaded.

Will have to make textures and texture them - this is for me the most boring and time consuming work.

Answers to your Q:

- Yes, head weapon is counted as Center torso weapon.
- load index is not used in game - ignore it.
- MechPart number is the number of the mech icon in icons file.

Mc2res.dll has:
Vindicator - 34033
Quickdraw - 33093

[magic]

Both of your models are missing parts (3ds files)

Vindicator - left_upper_arm and both lower_legs
Quickdraw - Right_gun, both lower_legs and right_foot

Please export at least one Lower_leg for each mech.
Arms and feet can be duplicated from the opposite side.

[Mad Bomber]

(opens models in 3DSMax, sees you are absolutely correct)

What the crap?  How did those subobjects not get exported?

I blame Wings' export code for this. I'll fix the problem this evening.

arglebargle

[Mad Bomber]

Well, I'm home a lot earlier than I thought I'd be.

So I figured out what the problem was. The names for each of the submodels was too long, and the converter was truncating them to 10 characters, which led to a lot of overlap (and thus some of them got ignored during the conversion process).

The models shouldn't be missing any parts now.

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[Mad Bomber]

So Magic, what all is needed for the shadow model? Is it just a lower-poly (<300 tris as you said earlier) version of the existing model, or does it need to be a weird flattened thing in order to work properly with the engine?

Oh, also...

(minor edit, i noticed the feet weren't triangulated, fixed now and reuploaded.)

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[magic]

Shadow model is the same model just lowered number of polys to max. For example, Vindicator head, just plain sphere with as less polys as possible.

Is that Dervish, final?

[Mad Bomber]

Gotcha, so just a lower LOD. I'll put together some shadows for the models I've already done, then.

Yep, that's a final Dervish. 

[Mad Bomber]

Dervish shadow completed.

Rockin' the low-poly like it's 1995, yo. 

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[Mad Bomber]

Here's a Vindicator shadow for ye.

Also, quick question on the CSVs, is there a limit to the number of variants? The most I see in a CSV is 5 (on the Jägermech).

*uploads a pile of CSVs and an icon anyway*

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[magic]

Also, quick question on the CSVs, is there a limit to the number of variants? The most I see in a CSV is 5 (on the Jägermech).

I dont know...

OK, you have:
- Vindicator completed model and shadow,
- Dervish completed model and shadow,
- Quickdraw completed model and shadow.

Please pack all 3 (final versions) of them in one file.
I will do the texturing. Will use textures from the existing mechs, cant make new, it requires too much time...

[Mad Bomber]

OK, you have:
- Vindicator completed model and shadow,
- Dervish completed model and shadow,
- Quickdraw completed model and shadow.

Please pack all 3 (final versions) of them in one file.
I will do the texturing. Will use textures from the existing mechs, cant make new, it requires too much time...

Quickdraw doesn't have a shadow or icon done yet. I'll do that later and pack it all together.

Edit: Here you go. Model, shadow, icon, and CSV for all 3 mechs.

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[Mad Bomber]

Stinger and Wasp models, shadows, and CSVs complete. Next up is the Hermes II (CSV already complete), then the Clint/Clint IIC (nearly identical models really, I figure if I'm doing the former I might as well do the latter).

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[magic]

Nice pics.

when you have all of them finished pack all in one archive...

[mikeva1]

I have just been looking at Dervish.3ds and the Wings 3d Dervish file. I can see that I have some distance to go before I am completely ready to attempt something like these pictures. Excellent work from what I see. Are these typical of what needs to be done for adding a new mech to MCO?

[Mad Bomber]

Phoenix Hawk done, because it's 4:30 AM and I'm too tired from my new job to try to break through my Hermes II-related modeler's block at the moment. As you can see I reused a lot of Wasp parts, which is rather appropriate when you think about it.

Also, Magic, did you get the Wasp and Stinger I sent you?

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