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Modding, Mission Design, and Coding => The Modding Workshop => Topic started by: diamondgeezer on April 18, 2003, 07:14:16 pm

Title: Polys, converting, and textures
Post by: diamondgeezer on April 18, 2003, 07:14:16 pm
Hokay, I think that title covers it all. I have a me a big ole' battle ship model which is misbehaving. PCS gives the stack overflow error, and while COB2POF will convert the model it then shows up in ModelView with a 'none of the textures could be found' error and PCS tells me it's not a valid FS2 POF. The poly count of the main hull object is 794, with a total count of 1509 for the whole lot. Now, the last time I asked Kazan about the stack overflow problem I had with another ship, he told me the "model structure was messed up". This means sweet fanny adams to me, since as far as I can see my TS hierarchy is A1 SUPAR. Thus, does anyone have anything helpful to tell me, or failing that does someone want to have a little look at it for me?

[EDIT] Well here's a thing... I saved the scene in TS and converted using the latest PCS version... and it worked perfectly. Ver' strange - same model, just different way of converting it. Okay, crisis averted :)

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Title: Polys, converting, and textures
Post by: diamondgeezer on April 18, 2003, 11:24:13 pm
OK, so the model is in to FS with absolutely no problems bar one - I have a couple of turrets whose bases are acting... um... a bit wierd. They seem to be rotating around an axis a few yards off to one side, rather than through the centre. Any ideas for a fix?

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Title: Polys, converting, and textures
Post by: karajorma on April 19, 2003, 04:23:22 am
Probably a misaligned axis. Select that turret base, click on the move axes to center button. Then move the axes to the point you want the turret to turn around.
Title: Polys, converting, and textures
Post by: diamondgeezer on April 20, 2003, 09:08:06 pm
Worked perfectly. Ta muchly :)

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