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Offline Vasudan Admiral

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Though that obviously shouldn't happen with 1.3.6, why are you trying to use it over the autofacet version in the first place? Especially for a hard-angled ship? I've been assuming you were using the autofacet build since I gave you the link in the other thread. :\

Total smoothing on ships with hard angles and flat surfaces looks bad. Faces that are actually flat get shaded as though they are lumps, and small details get totally wiped out. Total smoothing is meant for organic ships; or at least ships made mostly of curves. If you want to add apparent detail, do it with polys rather than smoothing.


Back on the topic of PCS, it does indeed appear that 1.3.6 has a bug in the converter. I tried using it for conversions, and some of my stuff began getting the same stack overflow errors, even though the exact same files will convert without a twitch in the autofacet build.

Considering that some of the 'stuff' includes the TC-Tri (the Triton converts), Aeolus and Lucifer - all of which work without any trouble at all in-game via the autofacet build, I think it's safe to say something broke between then and now.
The odd thing is, both versions apparently use the same 'COB to POF version' - 1.3.4. :\
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Offline Kaine

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this still coming?
Any chance of a "pre-release" version with no pilots and non-transparent canopy? I'm not really a fan of the whole pilot thing personally, think it's a waste of polys.

 

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ERm...this has been done for a long time. It should be avaiable for downlaod on someFS2 modding sites....HM...come to think of it, with Hades-Combine down, maybe it's not up anymore.
If it's no, I'll uploadit is somewhere...sectorgame or freeport114
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Freespacemods.net seems to be the place to go now.
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Offline TrashMan

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Allrighty then..I'll upload it there.....geez, I got a lot of uploading to do givne that half hte hades-combine as mine :lol:

Mayhaps I should add normal maps to it or something..
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It's already there.

http://www.freespacemods.net/download.php?view.174



The Athena Mk2, but it's easily modified.
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Offline TrashMan

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Yeah, but I uploaded a newer version (has normal and shine maps).

Just replacing the texture with the stock one should do the trick. Copying and re-naming the normal map should work too.
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