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Modding, Mission Design, and Coding => The Modding Workshop => Topic started by: cptmaxon on March 17, 2007, 06:32:42 pm

Title: help importing freespace UV maps
Post by: cptmaxon on March 17, 2007, 06:32:42 pm

hello everyone , I'm new to the modding business and I was wondering if anyone here knows where I can find the UV maps for the freespace ships? , any help would be greatly apperciated,  I'm trying to create a ship set for a game called Space empires V ... and I thought I'd look to see if any of you guys who've been messing with freespace modding for years will know if I can get the UV and textures I need from teh stock game...
otherwise I'll have to do it from scrach...
thanks in advance for your help

Title: Re: help importing freespace UV maps
Post by: aldo_14 on March 17, 2007, 07:11:23 pm

Ummm, if you mean the pof (polymodels) and textures (retail is 8 bit PCX), they're in the *.vp files (a type of uncompressed archive the game snags data from).  It's close to my beddy-byes justnow, but try checking http://www.3dactionplanet.com/hlp/hosted/fsurp/help/ge/vptut.html

Title: Re: help importing freespace UV maps
Post by: Getter Robo G on March 17, 2007, 11:05:31 pm

Space Empires V you say? Cool...

You need an extractor to get the 8bit PCX image files out of the VP archive file.
http://www.descent-network.com/descman/

I thought SEV was a 3D game, so do you need the models as well? If so you can extract the .pof files (ships) also from the VP archive, then use a pof2cob program to get them into .cob mesh files that Truespace can open. You can use a few other programs to change the .cob to any other 3d file type you need.

I started a few SE4 mods but that quickly fell to the wayside... Mainly due to my lack of skills/assistance.

Title: Re: help importing freespace UV maps
Post by: Topgun on March 25, 2007, 09:29:19 am

you can export the UV's from the POf with Lithum Unwraper.

Title: Re: help importing freespace UV maps
Post by: Admiral Edivad on March 25, 2007, 10:31:49 am

@cptmaxon

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Title: Re: help importing freespace UV maps
Post by: takashi on March 25, 2007, 05:53:33 pm

one extremely noobish question that im just dying to ask: WHAT ARE HEADZ ANYWAY?

Title: Re: help importing freespace UV maps
Post by: Turey on March 25, 2007, 09:55:48 pm

Quote from: takashi on March 25, 2007, 05:53:33 pm

one extremely noobish question that im just dying to ask: WHAT ARE HEADZ ANYWAY?

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/karajorma/FAQ/Downloads/SilentThreatMovies.rar

Play VKitch02.avi

The other ones are great too.

Title: Re: help importing freespace UV maps
Post by: takashi on March 25, 2007, 10:15:09 pm

eeeeew. i hereby am with the NTF cause after the terrifying truth about the vasudans. any good NTF multi sqauds out there?

modify: the noob question has been answered. all users ignore this post and the two before it.