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Title: nico's cockpit
Post by: Bobboau on December 18, 2004, 01:45:10 am
were is it!?!
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Post by: FireCrack on December 18, 2004, 02:53:33 am
http://dynamic4.gamespy.com/~freespace/forums/search.php?s=&action=showresults&searchid=61982&sortby=lastpost&sortorder=descending
Title: nico's cockpit
Post by: Bobboau on December 18, 2004, 02:59:35 am
yeah, I tryed that.
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Post by: FireCrack on December 18, 2004, 03:27:31 am
hmm ok then, i hope someone else can help you
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Post by: Col. Fishguts on December 18, 2004, 03:35:52 am
Here you go: Clicky (http://n.ethz.ch/student/ebuerli/download/terrancockpit.rar)
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Post by: aldo_14 on December 18, 2004, 06:03:12 am
why not just make a new one?
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Post by: Bobboau on December 18, 2004, 11:35:24 am
cause I'm lazy, the one he made was great, and he made it so other people could use it so I want to honor his wishes.
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Post by: Lynx on December 18, 2004, 11:39:51 am
You need it for testing purposes? I could make one for you. I have another more detailed cockpit somewhere, but it has lots of separate parts(i.e) not glued to the model, intersecting and and a few textures compared to a single one. If that's no problem I can send it over to you as *cob file.
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Post by: Bobboau on December 18, 2004, 02:30:15 pm
no, I'm just doing some work on my HTL herc

and his was built to mach FS cutsceens of the FS fighters
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Post by: Bobboau on December 18, 2004, 04:52:50 pm
I just realised I forgot to thank Fishguts.
thanks Fishguts :D
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Post by: Lightspeed on December 19, 2004, 12:04:01 pm
Getting the cockpit to work as it should is impossible.

(At least no-one succeeded thus far)
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Post by: Bobboau on December 19, 2004, 01:19:37 pm
what you mean behind the transparent glass?
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Post by: Taristin on December 19, 2004, 01:25:54 pm
We've been plagued with clipping errors when we tried to use it for TVWP, so we dropped it.
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Post by: Col. Fishguts on December 19, 2004, 01:56:48 pm
Quote
Originally posted by Bobboau
I just realised I forgot to thank Fishguts.
thanks Fishguts :D


You're welcome. :)
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Post by: aldo_14 on December 19, 2004, 02:14:57 pm
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Originally posted by Lightspeed
Getting the cockpit to work as it should is impossible.

(At least no-one succeeded thus far)


The cockpit or a cockpit?
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Post by: Taristin on December 19, 2004, 02:29:01 pm
The. You've done yours successfully, but it's a different method than using Nico's.
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Post by: Bobboau on December 19, 2004, 03:20:54 pm
seems to be working
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Post by: Bobboau on December 19, 2004, 03:22:12 pm
ignore the ubber pixelated backgrounds

and there are large sections of that texture that are temporary.
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Post by: Singh on December 19, 2004, 03:31:37 pm
wtf.......

that is the ub3rn3sss!!!

*breaks down into internet speak at hte bueaty of that there herc
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Post by: Col. Fishguts on December 19, 2004, 03:34:42 pm
WHOA! ....just WHOA!
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Post by: Lynx on December 19, 2004, 03:49:59 pm
:eek2:

Veeery cool. That just shows how much better FS1 ships look than their FS2 successors.

Too bad you'll barely see that cockpit while playing.:(

Except, if.....:nervous:
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Post by: Singh on December 19, 2004, 04:00:27 pm
wait a second!!

Cockpit

+

Bob's animation stuff

= moving people inside of cockpit??!!!
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Post by: Turambar on December 19, 2004, 04:05:47 pm
that screen, my friend, is the sh1t

god f*cking dammit

thats so awesome

i think im gonna reinstall freespace just for that
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Post by: MetalDestroyer on December 19, 2004, 04:10:15 pm
Wooooahhhh, when is it done ?? Are there a Cockpit for each Fighter/bombers ??
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Post by: karajorma on December 19, 2004, 04:20:09 pm
The perseus has one but there are shine problems associated with it (Not that I care since shine doesn't work for me).
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Post by: Taristin on December 19, 2004, 04:32:22 pm
Fix the mapping on the herc, though. The stretching is not good. (On the recessed bits)
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Post by: DaBrain on December 19, 2004, 04:48:26 pm
Those pics are awesome! The cockpit looks perfect now.
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Post by: Unknown Target on December 19, 2004, 04:48:37 pm
Holy.
****.
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Post by: aldo_14 on December 19, 2004, 05:15:47 pm
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Originally posted by Singh
wait a second!!

Cockpit

+

Bob's animation stuff

= moving people inside of cockpit??!!!


But why?
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Post by: Jetmech Jr. on December 19, 2004, 05:44:18 pm
Jesus ****ing Christ, Bob! Are you mad?! You'll make my 'puter 'splode with all that Graphic l33tness! :eek2:
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Post by: Bobboau on December 19, 2004, 09:15:50 pm
http://freespace.volitionwatch.com/blackwater/HTL_herc.zip

ok, LOD0 is about 90% done, there are still a few details on the texture I'm not completely satisfied with, but I figured I'd post it so people can have it now, before I lose interest again.
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Post by: Turambar on December 19, 2004, 09:22:15 pm
great, now do it to all of the other fighters!!!
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Post by: Bobboau on December 19, 2004, 11:31:50 pm
post two unfinished pictures = 12 posts in 2 hours
post the nearly complete in game model = 1 post
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Post by: NGTM-1R on December 20, 2004, 01:36:31 am
Most of us can't actually do anything with the model, even look at it.
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Post by: Bobboau on December 20, 2004, 02:15:54 am
erm... realy?
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Post by: c914 on December 20, 2004, 02:44:33 am
Mayby they soo lazy and don't want  to run it in FS, open it in Aurora, POFCS, or just hasn't got Modeviewer that can open HLT models:D

Bob:  my litle adwice:) try to work with gun turrets, they are worst part of model
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Post by: Bobboau on December 20, 2004, 02:49:05 am
turrets? you meant the gun mounts? what's wrong with them exactly?
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Post by: karajorma on December 20, 2004, 05:04:09 am
The fact that they are just cylinders most likely. Don't know how much you can do to fix that without texture changes though.
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Post by: aldo_14 on December 20, 2004, 05:06:17 am
The end of the guns looks rough; there's less pixels than polys (or at least it looks that way) on the black 'hole' bit.  All you really need to do with that is recess it a bit, though; make it an actual hole.

NB: polycount?
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Post by: MetalDestroyer on December 20, 2004, 05:52:19 am
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Originally posted by Bobboau
http://freespace.volitionwatch.com/blackwater/HTL_herc.zip

ok, LOD0 is about 90% done, there are still a few details on the texture I'm not completely satisfied with, but I figured I'd post it so people can have it now, before I lose interest again.


Where do i have to extract files ??
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Post by: c914 on December 20, 2004, 06:06:43 am
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turrets? you meant the gun mounts? what's wrong with them exactly?


ehh my mistake i was thinking about gun mounts:sigh:

There are quite big soo they need details same like texsture had. Make on insiede them hole to:nod:
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Post by: Rictor on December 20, 2004, 08:02:17 am
Bob strikes again.

very nice.
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Post by: Admiral Nelson on December 20, 2004, 08:37:02 am
It's a gorgeous model. What happened to the cockpit in the released file? It has no pilot/instruments.
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Post by: Setekh on December 20, 2004, 09:01:27 am
Dude. Highlighted. :)
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Post by: MatthewPapa on December 20, 2004, 09:09:16 am
Holy F****** ****. This is so awesome. Those screens are total Ub3rn3ss!! Wow, I cant wait to play with those. Finally, we can play exactly how it was in the FS1 custence.
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Post by: Fury on December 20, 2004, 09:19:59 am
:eek2:

We. Need. This. In. TBP.
Bobboau, you need to tell us how you did it. :)
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Post by: aldo_14 on December 20, 2004, 09:32:18 am
It's not hard; model the hull and use a TGA with alpha transparency.  Model the cockpit as a seperate subobject, and also the inner cockpit glass  (again with alpha transparency; can just flip the original canopy faces for this).

Bingo.  Piece_of_piss, really.
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Post by: Bobboau on December 20, 2004, 10:18:13 am
actualy the way I did it the glass has a seperate texture and is in the same subobject as the hull, the cockpit is in a seperate subobject, if you look at the file you should be able to figure it out it's prety simple realy.
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Post by: aldo_14 on December 20, 2004, 10:20:59 am
I used to get conversion errors with the 'joined' glass because of identical face centres or similar; I just found it seemed to be more co-operative with a subobject (also, does that not help control the rendering order.... must check....)
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Post by: Sandwich on December 20, 2004, 10:23:02 am
:eek2:
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Post by: Bobboau on December 20, 2004, 10:33:41 am
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Originally posted by Admiral Nelson
It's a gorgeous model. What happened to the cockpit in the released file? It has no pilot/instruments.


eh, they should be in there, you do have the textures extracted for the cockpit (something like tercoc1 or something like that)?
is anyone else haveing problems?
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Post by: Bobboau on December 20, 2004, 10:36:55 am
subobjects are rendered before the main hull (main hull being the last thing to render) so if you can give the glass a seperate texture, and have that texture be the last texture in the texture list that is on that subobject the the glass will be he last thing that is rendered on that subobject.
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Post by: WeatherOp on December 20, 2004, 10:37:10 am
Way to go Bob, its looks so good, it makes me cry:( . That even makes it where you can put Command decks on Cap ships.
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Post by: Axem on December 20, 2004, 10:37:22 am
Yeah, when I downloaded it, the cockpit was missing too. And there's no tercoc1 texture included with the zip either.
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Post by: Bobboau on December 20, 2004, 10:52:39 am
hmm, your right, I forgot to include the cockpit textures, well I'm reuploading the origonal zip with this corection, and for those of you who don't want to redownload the whole thing here are the missing files
http://freespace.volitionwatch.com/blackwater/Tercoc01.zip
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Post by: Admiral Nelson on December 20, 2004, 10:56:14 am
Ediited as Bob beat me to it....

Thanks for a great model! :)
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Post by: Ulala on December 20, 2004, 12:58:33 pm
:eek2: More pics!! :eek:
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Post by: aldo_14 on December 20, 2004, 01:33:32 pm
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Originally posted by Bobboau
actualy the way I did it the glass has a seperate texture and is in the same subobject as the hull, the cockpit is in a seperate subobject, if you look at the file you should be able to figure it out it's prety simple realy.


I think you're right, cept I can't get that setup to convert so far.

Balls.
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Post by: MetalDestroyer on December 20, 2004, 01:40:38 pm
Just for your eyes :
(http://img82.exs.cx/img82/9757/fs2_Cockpit_01.jpg)
(http://img82.exs.cx/img82/9951/fs2_Cockpit_04.jpg)
(http://img82.exs.cx/img82/7329/fs2_Cockpit_12.jpg)
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Post by: aldo_14 on December 20, 2004, 01:55:43 pm
Bob, is your cockpit actually double sided?  Because that's the problem I've been having here.
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Post by: Col. Fishguts on December 20, 2004, 02:21:13 pm
Nice screens MetalDestroyer...those go into my FS_open propaganda folder
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Post by: xenobyte6666 on December 20, 2004, 03:33:55 pm
Got it working on my fs2, looks sooo pretty, been playing sync campaign with it, lots of hercs in that campaign :D

Cockpit looks sooo coooool, hehe

Was using 3.6.5 beta and 3.6.5 z_pack . at 1240*1024 32bit res
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Post by: vyper on December 20, 2004, 03:39:51 pm
Bob.... dude.... this is awesome. _This_ is why high poly models were implemented. :D
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Post by: Turambar on December 20, 2004, 03:48:05 pm
is it just me, or is alpha-env not working?

Edit: that sounded unclear

is it just me, or does the shinemap not have an alpha channel?
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Post by: Taristin on December 20, 2004, 03:50:47 pm
Err... it shouldn't. You want the glass to be see through, not the reflections. They should be opaque.
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Post by: Bobboau on December 20, 2004, 06:07:57 pm
I didn't make that texture for alpha_env

hmm those mechanical bits realy don't look very good without specular, i guess I'l have to try to actualy texture them a little, and I guess the guns do look a little blurry, I guess that's what I get for cutting corners and copy/pasteing from the origonal texture in a few places
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Post by: Ulala on December 20, 2004, 11:01:05 pm
Mmm, delicious. Excellent as always, Bob.
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Post by: Jetmech Jr. on December 21, 2004, 12:40:36 am
I love/hate you, Bobb. I love/hate you so ****ing much...
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Post by: Bobboau on December 21, 2004, 12:48:33 am
I'm updateing the zip, those of you who have bandwidth to spare redownload, the rest of you don't bother cause it's mostly minor improvements. (corrected some UV bugs in some nooks and cranies, general improvements to the texture)
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Post by: Falcon on December 21, 2004, 11:47:14 am
Whoa! :eek2:

:yes:  

Great cockpit.
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Post by: Nico on December 21, 2004, 01:27:03 pm
Hey cool, seems all my efforts didn't vanish in a big haze of "darn, can't be harsed to finish that" :p
From one of the pics above, I see orb radars have been added?
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Post by: aldo_14 on December 21, 2004, 01:29:24 pm
Yup.
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Post by: Nico on December 21, 2004, 01:36:55 pm
Oh, and what is that about animated pilots?
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Post by: MetalDestroyer on December 21, 2004, 01:41:01 pm
And add a beautiful cockpit like the babylon 5 mods do :D
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Post by: DaBrain on December 21, 2004, 02:03:16 pm
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Originally posted by Bobboau
I'm updateing the zip, those of you who have bandwidth to spare redownload, the rest of you don't bother cause it's mostly minor improvements. (corrected some UV bugs in some nooks and cranies, general improvements to the texture)


Hand me the texture when you're done with the UV map fixing (in other words: When the map is final UV-wise). I'll lend you a hand with the texturing. ;)

I can work out a nice env supporting shinemap too.
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Post by: aldo_14 on December 21, 2004, 02:21:09 pm
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Originally posted by Nico
Oh, and what is that about animated pilots?


Bobs adding in code to allow partial triggered rotation; i.e. press a button and a subobject rotates 45 degrees, etc.  So you could set up a pilts head to look to the side, for example.
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Post by: phreak on December 21, 2004, 04:41:45 pm
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Originally posted by Nico
From one of the pics above, I see orb radars have been added?


yea, i need an orb model as my procedural effect doesn't look to good.
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Post by: quadrophoeniX on December 21, 2004, 05:38:42 pm
gorgeous, bob!!
 As I can see you use your stencil shadow thingy - are there plans to let that live up to the latest enhancements? SCP seems very reluctant to incorp that into the latest build due to "bugginess" (??? ;o) ), well the cell shading never worked for me but THAT's in - i want those shadows, pleaase...
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Post by: Goober5000 on December 21, 2004, 06:11:01 pm
Yes, due to bugginess.  If we put all those features into FSO, you'd be pounding down our doors yelling about how nothing worked. :rolleyes:
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Post by: Unknown Target on December 21, 2004, 07:20:07 pm
Methinks the cockpit should be double-sided.
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Post by: Bobboau on December 21, 2004, 07:27:38 pm
the shadow build was implemented in such a way that even if I was tempted to simply merge it in I wouldn't be able to, I specificly coded that as a test and did lots of sloppy things so I knew I would have to go back and reimplement it.

the UV is prety much done, the texture is almost toaly new (I have the origonal texture in as a layer but it's barely sivable, it's there mostly to make sure I get to colors corect)
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Post by: Cobra on December 21, 2004, 11:36:32 pm
erm, Bob? my model viewer won't read the textures. and would you make a Command Bridge for cruisers, destroyers, etc.

[EDIT] Nevermind, i had to convert the tga's to pcx's

[EDIT 2] Crap, now none of the textures work.
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Post by: quadrophoeniX on December 22, 2004, 03:01:00 pm
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Originally posted by Bobboau
even if I was tempted to simply merge it in I wouldn't be able to


*qpX hangs his head,sniffs, sneaks out the thread and enters Lighty's shine thread*
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Post by: Cobra on December 22, 2004, 05:24:10 pm
can someone help me with the cockpit? it won't work anymore.
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Post by: MetalDestroyer on December 22, 2004, 05:45:56 pm
Drop the .pof file into models directory, and  the others into maps directory.
Then, play Fs 2 :D
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Post by: Cobra on December 22, 2004, 07:55:06 pm
duh, don't ya think i tried that already? FS2 doesn't read TGA files. tried converting 'em myself but nothing happened. still got the originals.
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Post by: Corhellion on December 22, 2004, 09:54:08 pm
:blah:...

...Get FS_Open 1.6 (or whatever they have now)

get the launcher...

under 'graphics' or...something like that...you'll see it...check 'TGA/JPEG maps'

...load FS2 with the UberUber Herc...

...Should work...

if not...***** at the Source Code peeps

Bob: niiice work man! :thepimp:
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Post by: Cobra on December 22, 2004, 10:46:36 pm
thanks. :D
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Post by: Taristin on December 22, 2004, 10:50:33 pm
...This shouln't have even been an issue. Cobra, do a wee bit more research... honestly.
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Post by: Cobra on December 22, 2004, 11:30:07 pm
OK, look. I was plagued with fast-reading since i was born. i tend to overlook things a lot. And I'm lazy to search. I'm downloading FSO 3.6.5 right now.
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Post by: karajorma on December 23, 2004, 06:39:01 am
If you're lazy to search you'll soon find that people are too lazy to answer you.
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Post by: Goober5000 on December 23, 2004, 04:59:24 pm
All right, enough of this.  Cobra, get off your butt and take some initiative.  Don't keep asking people to do stuff that you can perfectly well manage yourself.