[MetalDestroyer]

Cobra -> ok, i search into Google the solidify.tsx and i found link BUT unfortunately it's especially for Ts 4.0 and 5.0.

Here the link in case of somebody want :
http://tvanonselen.tripod.com/solidify.zip

[MetalDestroyer]

Dabrain -> Okay, i just see to logos under your nickname i suppose you made only Inferno and MindGames.

[Lightspeed]

That's because the StarFox thingy isnt hosted here.

[Swamp_Thing]

Uh, what does that TS plugin "Solidify" do, afterall? What´s it for?

[KARMA]

almost nothing, if you can model properly

[Anaz]

The only use that I've found for solidify is to be able to modify pofs that  were converted to .cob, because PCS does something funny with geometry creation.

[MetalDestroyer]

Is it possible into Ts 3.2 to replace the default background by a new background color (Black, or another color) ?

And about texturing, what is the best to use ?
- the paint brush ?
- material retangle ?

[Carl]

Originally posted by MetalDestroyer
Is it possible into Ts 3.2 to replace the default background by a new background color (Black, or another color) ?

yes. right-click on the render button. the scene render options window will pop up in the lower left hand corner. to the right of where it says background, right-click on color. a color picking pallete will show up.

Originally posted by MetalDestroyer
And about texturing, what is the best to use ?
- the paint brush ?
- material retangle ?

use paint brush and the other tools in its menu for texturing. and material rectangle for putting on decals. i rarely use the latter myself.

[MetalDestroyer]

Ok, thanks anymore.

[MetalDestroyer]

Ok, now, i begin texturing the model, but i've got some problem. I make my own texture within a shot from Ts and then i modify this shot to create texture like the following :



But, unfortunately, the texture is larger than the upper left wing size.
I don't know how to proceed, i try into Lith Unwrap but, I can't put the texture into one face, instead of that Lith push texture in the entire model.

Here the actual model without my own texture.



The same but with another color :

[MetalDestroyer]

Hum, i'm in trouble now with Lith Unwrap and Ts.
I load the cob file into Lith for texturing, i put the texture well, then i save the wing, without traingulate it in cob format.

I reload this in Ts and what i see, the engine reactor lokks weird, the Hole has disappear why ??
But if i look properly in wireframe, the hole is still here.

[Nico]

Originally posted by KARMA
Consider that we have permission to use Darksaber's one

You do? What happened to him, he stumbled on "nice" and got a revelation reading the dictionary?

[Col. Fishguts]

DS can be nice...if you ask him nicely.

[KARMA]

Originally posted by Nico


You do? What happened to him, he stumbled on "nice" and got a revelation reading the dictionary?

we didn't really ask, he came here with some other guys about one year ago giving us permission to use his stuff. I guess they were interested in the scp project.
Unfourtunately we had always problems in finding people to convert stuff from other sources (actually whe had problems in finding people to do things at all), that's the main problem of the sw tc.

[MetalDestroyer]

I wanted to test my ship into Fs 2, but PCS tell me that my model have Polygon Point > 20 . What does that mean ?

[Cobra]

*shrugs* you got me. i'm just now learning how to model...

[StratComm]

The reason is that the faces around the "lip" of the opening are convex, meaning that you can draw lines across them in such a way that the line goes outside of the polygon that you want.  Modeling programs generally dislike this scenario, and right now Truespace is interpreting what you have as two faces, one capping the outer edge, the other facing inwards and capping the engine hole.  So what you've almost certainly got right now looks like the left part of the following pic, while it should look like (at least) the one on the right.


The polygon points thing is probably also coming from here.  Freespace now triangulates everything as it's loaded, but with Vanilla there were certain rules of geometry that couldn't be broken if the game was to work.  One of them was that a face could contain no more than 20 points on its edges, which leads to the error you're seeing.  In all likelyhood, the face failing you're seeing and the points/poly limit are both at the same place in the model.

[MetalDestroyer]

Actually, i've done the x wing with only 4 parts (the main part + the 4 wings). Each wings contain Gun/Engine/wing. i only use Union to mount different part into one (Gun/Engine/Wing), is it the reason of those  > 20 Polygon Points ?

But, if i want to convert only the main part, PCS tell me there are no group. How can i attribut Group for my model ?

[StratComm]

You've got to group the main LOD with a local light, using the glue tool.  Subobjects should be attached similarly.  To answer your other questions,

• Yes, boolean Union without proper cleanup (which takes a good bit of experience) can most definitely cause polygons with too many points.  In reality, and especially for HTL, everything should be triangulated anyway.
• The problem with the engine, as I tried to illustrate earlier, is that you've either only got one face for the flat ring around the front of the engine depression, or you've got a number of faces much less than the number of edges on the cylinder.  Both will cause problems, especially if you get it converted.  Use the create edge tool to split those faces up.
• In reality, you should probably be trying to make the whole ship one object, unless you're going to try to get the wings to open and close.  Clipping isn't as bad as it used to be, but convention is to unify everything if it isn't supposed to be a dedicated subobject.

[MetalDestroyer]

Originally posted by StratComm
You've got to group the main LOD with a local light, using the glue tool.  Subobjects should be attached similarly.

So, it means, i have to glue a local source wherever in the main part, doesn't it ?