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Modding, Mission Design, and Coding => The FRED Workshop => Topic started by: Ioustinos on October 07, 2009, 11:28:17 pm

Title: My Mod Isn't Viewing Skyboxes in Fred
Post by: Ioustinos on October 07, 2009, 11:28:17 pm: Title explains most of it. What's a little strange is that when I replace -mod mymod with another, like -mod blueplanet it views skyboxes normally. What am I forgetting to do?

EDIT: It isn't viewing them in the missions either. And yes, I'm running -mod mediavps
Title: Re: My Mod Isn't Viewing Skyboxes in Fred
Post by: The E on October 07, 2009, 11:30:12 pm: Did you actually enter the skybox filename in the background editor?

It may help if you post the mission file.
Title: Re: My Mod Isn't Viewing Skyboxes in Fred
Post by: Ioustinos on October 07, 2009, 11:38:46 pm: Yes, I actually typed the filename in and pressed enter to exit the background editor.

By mission file, do you mean what appears in the mission statistics in Fred?

EDIT: it is viewing the starfield.pof, just not any of the big planet-like ones.
Title: Re: My Mod Isn't Viewing Skyboxes in Fred
Post by: Aardwolf on October 07, 2009, 11:48:40 pm: Quote from: Ioustinos on October 07, 2009, 11:38:46 pm
By mission file, do you mean what appears in the mission statistics in Fred?

No, by mission file he means the mission file. You know, the .fs2 file containing the mission? The thing you were making in FRED?
Title: Re: My Mod Isn't Viewing Skyboxes in Fred
Post by: Ioustinos on October 07, 2009, 11:51:59 pm: Yep, wasn't thinking clearly at the time. Attached.

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Title: Re: My Mod Isn't Viewing Skyboxes in Fred
Post by: The E on October 08, 2009, 12:01:17 am: Hmm. The skybox shows up just fine for me....

Did you create a shortcut to FRED and have you added "-mod blueplanet,mediavps" in the "Target" field on the shortcut's Property window (To get there, right-click on the shortcut, and select "Properties")?
Title: Re: My Mod Isn't Viewing Skyboxes in Fred
Post by: Ioustinos on October 08, 2009, 12:05:42 am: When I put in -mod blueplanet,mediavps there, it shows the skybox fine.

It's when I put -mod mymod,mediavps it doesn't.

I extracted the proper model from the blue planet vp into the models folder for mymod. If I skipped a step, I'm not quite sure what it was.
Title: Re: My Mod Isn't Viewing Skyboxes in Fred
Post by: The E on October 08, 2009, 12:08:57 am: You need to extract the texture for that skybox as well. It's maps\blueplanet3.dds, IIRC.
Title: Re: My Mod Isn't Viewing Skyboxes in Fred
Post by: Ioustinos on October 08, 2009, 12:11:13 am: Nailed it. Thanks. Feel free to delete the thread at your discretion.

I knew I was forgetting something. Grr.
Title: Re: My Mod Isn't Viewing Skyboxes in Fred
Post by: The E on October 08, 2009, 12:14:19 am: We don't delete threads around here. After all, there just may be someone out there who finds this helpful. ;)