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Modding, Mission Design, and Coding => The Modding Workshop => Topic started by: i90r on February 05, 2005, 09:39:43 am

Title: Help the NOOB pt2 Thrusters
Post by: i90r on February 05, 2005, 09:39:43 am

How do you make thrusters for the ship I did everything tutorials sed and I get nothing empty space ,
what is the object for thrusters is it another editable mesh or it must be something special, I added 4 boxes tektured them with thruster01 added them to hierarhi glued them with light and nothing am I missing something.

Title: Help the NOOB pt2 Thrusters
Post by: Unknown Target on February 05, 2005, 10:08:32 am

First of all, get a spell check. Second of all, use more than one period. Third of all, use the SCP, it doesn't use model thrusters, it uses bitmaps and such, so you don't need the models anymore.

Title: Help the NOOB pt2 Thrusters
Post by: Nuke on February 05, 2005, 10:11:35 am

i actually started taking the thruster flame model out cause i think they clash with the new flames anyway.

Title: Help the NOOB pt2 Thrusters
Post by: i90r on February 05, 2005, 10:27:18 am

1. Not all of us live in America
2. How , all I can get is Glow points , how to add texture and get thruster plume

Title: Help the NOOB pt2 Thrusters
Post by: Roanoke on February 05, 2005, 10:33:38 am

As UT said, thrusters are obsolete nowadays.

Title: Help the NOOB pt2 Thrusters
Post by: i90r on February 05, 2005, 10:44:03 am

Nevermind POC is case sensative

So what do you use instead, just having glow points seems boring.

Title: Help the NOOB pt2 Thrusters
Post by: karajorma on February 05, 2005, 10:48:48 am

i90r are you using FS2_Open or the retail version? It's important. If you're making HTL models for FS2_Open making thrusters for them is a big waste of time.

If you're making a model for the retail version then you should make thrusters.

Tell us which version you're using and people will be more helpful :)

(If you haven't tried FS2_Open give it a try now and get back to us once you've wiped the drool off of yourself :D )

Title: Help the NOOB pt2 Thrusters
Post by: i90r on February 05, 2005, 10:55:42 am

I am using retail , where do I get open versoion how big is it what is the diference?

Title: Help the NOOB pt2 Thrusters
Post by: karajorma on February 05, 2005, 11:38:36 am

FS2_Open itself is a new executable to run the game with. As such it's only 3-4MB in size.

To get the most out of it you'll need the extra media files and they vary in size reaching  somewhere around 200MB in total

As for the difference, it's like playing a new game :) Take a look at these  (http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php/topic,29768.0.html)screenshots for an example.

Check the 3.6.5 release thread in the source code project forum for more details.