[Andalis]

I've been looking everywhere and can't seem to find installation instructions for putting ship models into Freespace 2. Any help is appreciated.

[Turey]

Are we talking converting models from other formats into a format that freespace will recognize, or just putting the files that someone else made into the right folders?

[Andalis]

The Latter, I downloaded some files from hades combine (Whitehall, the omega pack), dont know where to put them.

[Turey]

ohhhhhhh. To be honest, the Whitehall isn't in exactly the easiest ship to add.

Let's say you want to use the Whitehall with the mediavps. Here's what you do (assuming you're using this download):

1. put everything with a .pcx extension into freespace2\mediavps\data\maps\ (create this folder if you don't have it.)
2. put everything with a .pof extension into freespace2\mediavps\data\models\ (create this folder if you don't have it.)
3. create a new text file  in freespace2\mediavps\data\tables\ (create this folder if you don't have it) and call it whitehall-shp.txt.
4. put this in whitehall-shp.txt :

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#Ship Classes
#End5. copy the contents of TBL.txt into whitehall-shp.txt so that the contents of TBL.txt are between the #Ship Classes line and the #End line.
6. Rename the file to whitehall-shp.tbm.

That should do it.

[Andalis]

I did all that, but they dont appear on FREDs ship list, including various other ship downloads (I also put them in the mediavps folder)

[Herra Tohtori]

Are you running FRED with command line

$ FRED.exe -htl -mod mediavps ?

Don't be confused by the dollar sign, it's just there to show that it is a command line... bolded part is important part. If you dont use -htl option, you'll get problems with high-poly ships etc. And if you don't specify the mod directory, FRED will only read retail files in VP's and data directory in FS2 root folder.

You do this by making a shortcut to FRED.exe and adding the bolded part as command line parametres. Try that if you haven't already. Also, it's good to first check that the ship works in-game - does it? If it does, it should work in FRED too as long as you remember to specify the mod folder you used.

[Andalis]

Ok, that did it, didnt know you needed the mediavps command line, and yes I did have htl there, I also checked the models i-game (via the techroom things) they dont ALL appear on the list though, I think these are the omega ships. All of them work in FRED2, though the whitehall takes an ungodly amount of time to load.

[Dark Hunter]

It takes an ungodly time to load because it is friggin' HUGE, the third-largest (but most-detailed) installation I have ever seen.

If the ships aren't showing in the techroom... did you try using Ctrl-Shift-S? That keyboard shortcut will "unlock" every techroom entry in the game, useful for stuff like this.

You could also view them by pressing F3 on the mainhall screen.

[Trivial Psychic]

Are you running FRED with command line

$ FRED.exe -htl -mod mediavps ?

Um... the HTL command line for fred is -fredhtl, not -htl.  -htl used to be for FSO, until is was made on by default.

[Herra Tohtori]

Yeah, I remembered wrong. I don't use FRED that much myself, but as it seems, no harm done because he already had the correct -fredhtl command line in use.