[haloboy100]

so anyway, i was toying around with inferno in FRED. i found there was a "earth" model, and so i placed it, and saw nothing. i moved it around a bit, and somehow i got it into view (by moving it however million miles away...). turns out when i placed it infront of me, i was inside it since it was a hollow model. i'm trying to do that again for a background for a later mission i might make. any sugestions?

[Dark Hunter]

You want to make a mission inside the Earth model? 


AFAIK, the Earth model was put in merely to skybox a "3-D" planet as a background, not to be put into the mission proper.

[haloboy100]

i know. thats what i'm trying to do, to place it so far away that is looks like a background. but it's so friggin' huge that i can't do that...

[Wobble73]

i know. thats what i'm trying to do, to place it so far away that is looks like a background. but it's so friggin' huge that i can't do that...

Why don't you open up the final Inferno mission in FRED and see how those guys did it.   (I think the final battle is above earth???? I could be wrong though????    )

[haloboy100]

how the hell am i supposed to do that? all i got are a couple .vp files and in the missions folder in my infr1 folder it's just a bunch of backups that arn't .fs2 files

[Wobble73]

how the hell am i supposed to do that? all i got are a couple .vp files and in the missions folder in my infr1 folder it's just a bunch of backups that arn't .fs2 files

Use VPview or VPview 2.0 from Karajorma's FAQ site to extract the mission files from the VP's

Linky

[Snail]

Zoom in on the model. Then move it to the side. Keep zooming in and moving it, etc.

[G0atmaster]

Mission inside the Earth model would be interesting... I.E. a new race or something that strip-mines planets from the inside out... or something sweet like that.

[Snail]

I think it would be interesting if there was a Terran mining operation in a small fringe planet, like Aeous Affair. Then you would fly through and stuff.

[haloboy100]

Mission inside the Earth model would be interesting... I.E. a new race or something that strip-mines planets from the inside out... or something sweet like that.

that would be cool, but heres the thing with space sims: all the models are completly hollow, having only a very thin layer of pixels (or whatever) as the walls. now these pixels are one-way viewed, meening you can only see them from outside the model. if you go inside, you will see literally nothing but the edges of the polygons.

[haloboy100]

how the hell am i supposed to do that? all i got are a couple .vp files and in the missions folder in my infr1 folder it's just a bunch of backups that arn't .fs2 files

Use VPview or VPview 2.0 from Karajorma's FAQ site to extract the mission files from the VP's

Linky

...so i choose one of these? cause they don't work...(can't create image during installation, so the whole thing just shuts down)
http://www.descent-network.com/cgi-bin/descman.cgi?module=vpview

jsut problem after problem with me...

[Wobble73]

*Shrugs*


Works fine for me??

 



Anyone got any ideas?

[Snail]

Mission inside the Earth model would be interesting... I.E. a new race or something that strip-mines planets from the inside out... or something sweet like that.

that would be cool, but heres the thing with space sims: all the models are completly hollow, having only a very thin layer of pixels (or whatever) as the walls. now these pixels are one-way viewed, meening you can only see them from outside the model. if you go inside, you will see literally nothing but the edges of the polygons.

Well it would be stupid to have a mission inside the earth.pof anyway, it should use an Earth thing with caverns. Plus, skyboxes are transparent so you would just see mirrored versions of the maps.

[Rampage]

Disable "show model" and "show wireframe".  Earth should appear as a green dot.  Then you can place the dot wherever you want.

[haloboy100]

the dot only meens the center of the model so it aint much help

[Snail]

It's not like it becomes smaller or anything.

[haloboy100]

it's odd, last time i tried it i got to see the whole, model, but i put is 10000000+ away from the center and i see nothing. even when i opened up the last inferno level. (of course i do have show model and stuff turned on)

[Dysko]

"Show model" only enables you to see the cockpit of your fighter ingame.

[haloboy100]

by "show model" i ment in FRED, under the "View" tab

[Dark Hunter]

it's odd, last time i tried it i got to see the whole, model, but i put is 10000000+ away from the center and i see nothing. even when i opened up the last inferno level. (of course i do have show model and stuff turned on)

The Earth model appears in the second-to-last R1 level, called Nemesis. But I don't think you'll see it there either. I don't believe skyboxes appear as physical models...