[achtung]

Originally posted by Blitzerland
Truespace 3.2 is easily the most challenging modelling program availible.

If at all possible, use Gmax or Blender instead. Both are free, and you can eventually export any files you create to .pof.

Thats not exactly what everyone else has said so far.

[StratComm]

I'll second Blitzerland on this one.  Truespace 3.2 is the most abominable piece of junk in the modeling world, but it works if you're desperate.

[Carl]

don't listen to them. truespace is the easiest program to learn and use that i've ever used.

[karajorma]

Whether or not to use Truespace is contentious issue in the community. Some people hate it and some people love it. I say try it, GMax and while you're at it Wings3D and see which one you like best.

As for the light I'm a little surprised you can't find it. It's on the main toolbar.

IP Andrew's tutorial has a nice pic of the icons on it. http://underworld.fortunecity.com/pacman/106/fs2mods/shipcreationguide/creatingyourmodelusingts.html

Ah. It's probably hiding under the camera icon not one of the other lights (It does that in TrueSpace 6.6 which is what I use).

Look at the 3rd row on that page and the 4th icon up. That's the one you're looking for.

[achtung]

Thanks I found the light now I can get moving with everthing.

[achtung]

Now all I need is programs to convert it to .pof.

[karajorma]

You want PCS for that

[achtung]

Does the description in the oracle modding guide still work well for the newer version of pcs?

[vyper]

Originally posted by aldo_14


I always got Su-thep mixed up being a with 'Sue', myself........

Whatever happened to him?

[Black Wolf]

Originally posted by vyper


Whatever happened to him?

He went Lawyer.

[karajorma]

Originally posted by Swantz
Does the description in the oracle modding guide still work well for the newer version of pcs?

As far as I know the version in there was with the latest version of PCS

It's been a while since Kazan made any major changes to the interface for PCS.

[achtung]

It does look sorta different. The latest version is 1.3.42 I guess.

[achtung]

Wait, the link you provided took me to download the POF constructor suite not the other thing.

[karajorma]

PCS is the Pof Constructor Suite. what are you after? Modelview?

[Cobra]

use blender. it's easy to use, and it's free. Blender

[achtung]

The file i downloaded says pof constructor suite but the screenshots don't match up the modelveiw one looks like pof constructor suite.

[karajorma]

PCS and Modelview are seperate programs. Most people use both (as I do in the tutorial).

When I took a look at the tuorial again I've noticed that there is a shot of PCS in the modelview section. I think I'll have to edit that one out cause I that's what confused you When it says your screen should look like the screen below it was actually referring to the picture of modelview below that one

[achtung]

Thanks and how about a link to get  pcs that would be nice.

[karajorma]

There should be one in the What You'll Need section of the turretting tutorial