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Modding, Mission Design, and Coding => The Modding Workshop => Topic started by: Amon_Re on April 29, 2003, 01:40:41 pm

Title: POF Constructor Suite
Post by: Amon_Re on April 29, 2003, 01:40:41 pm

Erm, can anyone explain to me why this thing would crash when converting a COB to a POF? ;)

Cheers,

Title: POF Constructor Suite
Post by: FreeTerran on April 29, 2003, 01:42:40 pm

What have the cob for a size how many kb's ?

Title: POF Constructor Suite
Post by: KARMA on April 29, 2003, 01:48:07 pm

if you talk about 1.34 it sound like a problem i had with double edges

 http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php/topic,14577.0.html


if you can't solve try older versions of pcs or try cob2fs2

Title: POF Constructor Suite
Post by: Amon_Re on April 29, 2003, 02:22:11 pm

I tried cob2fs2 that worked properly, however, loading the pof into modelview showed nothing...

I'm just toying abit with imagine objects i got laying arround, these are very old, but small models (less then 200k in size).

But it's not  that important for me atm, i'm not in a rush :)

Cheers,

Title: POF Constructor Suite
Post by: karajorma on April 29, 2003, 05:26:39 pm

How many polys does the model have? FS2 doesn't much like things with over 750 polys in any particular sub-object so PCS tends to also have problems with anything that has too many polys.

Title: POF Constructor Suite
Post by: Amon_Re on April 30, 2003, 12:56:12 am

Hmm.... that might be it, it's a converted imagine object, so the whole thing is just one object.... no subs or anything (dunno how to decompose it in TS)

Cheers,

Title: POF Constructor Suite
Post by: Bobboau on April 30, 2003, 01:34:11 am

you use the decompose into subobjects tool, it looks sort of like a stick figure with all the parts seperated, were it is depends on wich version of TS you are useing

Title: POF Constructor Suite
Post by: TrashMan on April 30, 2003, 01:42:22 am

Perhaps too many subobjects....

Say..I have a problem. PCS chrashes when I try to convert a shielded capship. (4LODs + shield, LOD0 has 96 subobjects)
Anyone have a clue?

Title: POF Constructor Suite
Post by: KARMA on April 30, 2003, 03:50:54 am

you have to count all the subobjects, lods and shields and destroyable versions etcetc.
evrything that isn't the main geometry at the base of the root

Title: POF Constructor Suite
Post by: TrashMan on April 30, 2003, 04:43:40 am

There are no destroyed versions.
4 LODs
60 normal turrets (boxes)
18 barreled turrets - 32 subobjects
1 shield (it is triangulated)
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Title: POF Constructor Suite
Post by: Amon_Re on April 30, 2003, 04:52:34 am

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Originally posted by Bobboau
you use the decompose into subobjects tool, it looks sort of like a stick figure with all the parts seperated, were it is depends on wich version of TS you are useing

Thx for the hint Bobboau, but i couldn't select decompose, it was greyed out, but i'll look back into it lateron, it can wait for now :)

Cheers,

Title: POF Constructor Suite
Post by: FreeTerran on April 30, 2003, 04:54:18 am

TrashMan can you me send the model at the evening ?

Title: POF Constructor Suite
Post by: KARMA on April 30, 2003, 05:14:26 am

convert the subobjects individually to see if there is one (or more) particular object crashing pcs

Title: POF Constructor Suite
Post by: IPAndrews on April 30, 2003, 11:47:00 am

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Originally posted by Amon_Re
Thx for the hint Bobboau, but i couldn't select decompose, it was greyed out, but i'll look back into it lateron, it can wait for now :)

Select the object you want to decompose before trying to use the tool.

Title: POF Constructor Suite
Post by: Amon_Re on April 30, 2003, 12:00:47 pm

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Originally posted by IPAndrews


Select the object you want to decompose before trying to use the tool.

Erm, i know that IPAndrews but thx anyway ;)

Cheers,