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Title: Blah.. screw this..
Post by: Thorn on July 17, 2002, 06:22:45 pm: Well, the Bentusi station isnt co-operating, so I give you the Turanic "Assassin" Class Ion Array Frigate (http://www.3dap.com/hlp/hosted/tap/downloads/tioncannonfrigate.vp)
It doesnt have a tbl file, I've been too busy to rewrite it, with the moving and all...
It only has one weapon, and basic capship subsystems, so it shouldnt be too hard to write one yourself.
Title: blah.. screw this.... Turanic Ion Array Frigate Released
Post by: DragonClaw on July 17, 2002, 07:50:26 pm: doesn't the bentusi station have to be done eventually anyway?

meh... :lol:
Title: blah.. screw this.... Turanic Ion Array Frigate Released
Post by: Thorn on July 17, 2002, 07:56:14 pm: Yes, but this was already finished...
Title: blah.. screw this.... Turanic Ion Array Frigate Released
Post by: vadar_1 on July 17, 2002, 07:57:25 pm: didn't you release the kushan ion cannon frigate a while (long while) ago? We need something original here! Besides, the Trade Station is alot cooler

"uh... we see alot of lights..." - Kushan Ambassador
Title: blah.. screw this.... Turanic Ion Array Frigate Released
Post by: Thorn on July 17, 2002, 07:58:10 pm: Yes, but y'see when the thing doesnt work period, its kinda hard to release..
Title: blah.. screw this.... Turanic Ion Array Frigate Released
Post by: StyffyDawgIX on July 18, 2002, 01:16:32 pm: i'm gonna have to say.......well duh
Title: blah.. screw this.... Turanic Ion Array Frigate Released
Post by: DragonClaw on July 18, 2002, 04:48:31 pm: aren't you glad something was released anyway? would you rather have nothing? :p
Title: blah.. screw this.... Turanic Ion Array Frigate Released
Post by: StyffyDawgIX on July 19, 2002, 03:11:19 am: lol actually ...

i'm not gonna d/l any of tap's releases until the whole mod is done....makes me want it more and more :nod:
Title: blah.. screw this.... Turanic Ion Array Frigate Released
Post by: Petrarch of the VBB on July 19, 2002, 01:22:20 pm: In what way does the Bentusi Horseshoe not work?
Y'know, the first time I saw that ship I thought it was goin to clamp onto my (Kushan) mothership and run off with it!
Title: blah.. screw this.... Turanic Ion Array Frigate Released
Post by: Thorn on July 19, 2002, 02:54:39 pm: First off, when you convert it and open it in modeler, some of the mesh's points are way the hell off in the middle of nowhere, which makes it look demented, and it crashes the game when you try to run it.... I cant figure out why, I may have to rebuild it from scratch...
Title: blah.. screw this.... Turanic Ion Array Frigate Released
Post by: StyffyDawgIX on July 19, 2002, 02:56:14 pm: why don't you ask around th hw community Thorn?

there's ALOT of mods of hw...one specific guy that knows like...everything about modding, Delphy. Look around the community sites or post on the relic boards and you'll most likely be able to find him..

he's like a f'n god of hw modding
Title: blah.. screw this.... Turanic Ion Array Frigate Released
Post by: Thorn on July 19, 2002, 02:57:30 pm: I know him, I post at RN a lot, this is more of a FS/PCS problem though.....
Title: blah.. screw this.... Turanic Ion Array Frigate Released
Post by: StyffyDawgIX on July 19, 2002, 06:30:58 pm: my bad
Title: blah.. screw this.... Turanic Ion Array Frigate Released
Post by: elorran on July 21, 2002, 08:35:37 am: Be thankful there was a release at all. The guys are having quite a few troubles with the stuff.

And if anyone else dares to complain... (http://shanons.dns2go.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/hadoken.gif)
Title: blah.. screw this.... Turanic Ion Array Frigate Released
Post by: TheCelestialOne on July 21, 2002, 08:41:49 am: Quote
Originally posted by elorran
(http://shanons.dns2go.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/hadoken.gif)

Final Fantasy/DBZ mix... :D
Title: blah.. screw this.... Turanic Ion Array Frigate Released
Post by: Petrarch of the VBB on July 21, 2002, 02:02:36 pm: FF/DBZ
Title: blah.. screw this.... Turanic Ion Array Frigate Released
Post by: Thorn on July 21, 2002, 04:10:40 pm: I think thats more FF/Some old Super Nintendo fighting game that I cant remember...
Title: blah.. screw this.... Turanic Ion Array Frigate Released
Post by: Petrarch of the VBB on July 23, 2002, 01:08:58 pm: It could apply to any Super Nintendo fighting game, or any fighting game I can think of, especially the Tekken series.
Title: blah.. screw this.... Turanic Ion Array Frigate Released
Post by: DragonClaw on July 23, 2002, 03:52:24 pm: Its the d00d with the hat in 'mortal combat' :p

He shoots lightning bolts if I remember correctly
Title: blah.. screw this.... Turanic Ion Array Frigate Released
Post by: Alikchi on July 23, 2002, 04:53:51 pm: It's Black Mage from the original Final Fantasy.
Title: blah.. screw this.... Turanic Ion Array Frigate Released
Post by: TheCelestialOne on July 24, 2002, 04:12:02 am: Quote
Originally posted by Alikchi
It's Black Mage from the original Final Fantasy.

Could it be a Vivi/Rayden mix?

Or a Vivi/Vegeta mix?
Title: blah.. screw this.... Turanic Ion Array Frigate Released
Post by: Hole in Head on July 24, 2002, 10:16:48 am: Maybe FF/Street Fighter/DBZ. The Hadoken was Ryu's and Ken's fireball thing, but the effect is too dragenballish.

And is that from 8-bit theater?
Title: blah.. screw this.... Turanic Ion Array Frigate Released
Post by: Grug on July 25, 2002, 07:20:37 am: lol, so much for the bentusi station. :p

lets see one of dem guys flying around in fs2! ;)
Title: blah.. screw this.... Turanic Ion Array Frigate Released
Post by: Petrarch of the VBB on July 25, 2002, 02:57:37 pm: Hmmm... they are a bit, how shall we say, corpulent?
Title: blah.. screw this.... Turanic Ion Array Frigate Released
Post by: StyffyDawgIX on July 25, 2002, 03:20:33 pm: what i would like to know is how this thread turned from thorn saying he couldn't release the trade ship into a discussion of crappy fighting games...

(http://server35.hypermart.net/siggy/images/0_o.gif)
Title: blah.. screw this.... Turanic Ion Array Frigate Released
Post by: DragonClaw on July 25, 2002, 03:37:37 pm: Well Eloran decided to post a picture on the forum that obviously captured everyone's attention... and the discussion swinged that way... uhh... yeah.
Title: blah.. screw this.... Turanic Ion Array Frigate Released
Post by: elorran on July 26, 2002, 04:59:01 am: elorran.... DOUBLE 'R'!

And DragonClaw has a point. Though that said, we haven't been seeing much traffic in here lately. :(
Title: blah.. screw this.... Turanic Ion Array Frigate Released
Post by: [DP]Ghent96 on July 28, 2002, 05:50:38 pm: 'grats Thorn :) Looking good, as always...

how many different file formats have you tried as intermediates in your conversions?

You may be aware there is one small shared texture area on the bentusi ship, lod0, just behind the top center of the horseshoe's front. Dunno if that would cause a problem with a converter or not. I really dont know much about how FS2 uses models or what type of models... Have you tried converting to a lightwave mesh first to split apart the model into objects based on the different materials? Then perhaps convert to .obj or whatever format FS2 uses?
Title: blah.. screw this.... Turanic Ion Array Frigate Released
Post by: Thorn on July 31, 2002, 05:56:14 pm: It has to be converted to .cob, Truespace format, to convert it to .pof. It converts fine to Truespace. Renders properly and everything. Add the turrets, convert it, open it in ModelView, and either it crashes, or it looks gimped... I cant see it working by any way short of rebuilding it from scratch...
Title: blah.. screw this.... Turanic Ion Array Frigate Released
Post by: Rampage on August 13, 2002, 08:55:23 am: Quote
Originally posted by Thorn
It has to be converted to .cob, Truespace format, to convert it to .pof. It converts fine to Truespace. Renders properly and everything. Add the turrets, convert it, open it in ModelView, and either it crashes, or it looks gimped... I cant see it working by any way short of rebuilding it from scratch...

Maybe it's the Attack of the -- INVERTED TEXTURES!!!

I used to have the same problem when I was converting Hellbender models into Freespace 2 POF format.

By the way, can you give me an actual list of the ships that you haven't converted yet? The site doesn't help that much.

What this campaign needs is ORGANIZATION! I could start designing the first Cataclysm mission for ya' - FREESPACE STYLE! :D