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Offline ShadowGorrath

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Creating a new ship - how to ?
Alright ... So , I made a new ship in Wings3D , converted it to COB format and then to POF . I added a very basic table entry for it . But when I try to put it in FRED , it crashes it . That's because I have no idea how to :

add subsystems

add weapons

add textures

make it be in a normal size ( mine get's to be a size of 0 - invisible  :confused: )

fully write the table entry

etc.

So can someone please write here , or link me to some DESCENT , DETAILED and EASY tutorial on how to add ships into FreeSpace2 SCP ? If it's not too difficult of course ...

 

Offline Snail

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Re: Creating a new ship - how to ?
Texturing is the first thing to get done I think. But I don't know how to do that. :nervous:

 

Offline ShadowGorrath

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Re: Creating a new ship - how to ?
Texturing can be done later . First I need the model to work in-game - with all the weapons and subsystems . Then texturing and everything else . But currently , the model is invisible cause it doesn't have a size  :confused: .

I have PCS2 , but I don't know WHAT THE HECK DO I DO WITH IT and stuff like that .

 

Offline Hades

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Re: Creating a new ship - how to ?
Texturing can be done later . First I need the model to work in-game - with all the weapons and subsystems . Then texturing and everything else . But currently , the model is invisible cause it doesn't have a size  :confused: .

I have PCS2 , but I don't know WHAT THE HECK DO I DO WITH IT and stuff like that .

You have to UVMap and texture first for it to work.
EDIT:When you finish it and have the .POF I can do the POF stats; I am good at them.
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Offline ShadowGorrath

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Re: Creating a new ship - how to ?
Well , then teach me how to do POF stats . I actually want to learn to make it all by myself .

 

Offline Excalibur

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Re: Creating a new ship - how to ?
I think karajorma's turreting tutorial should be good for turreting, one you get around making all those lights in Truespace :doubt:

First time I tried it, I had two rectangle turrets (no hull) in FRED that didn't work. Stupid thing turned into a Useless fighter in game 'cause the model was corrupt. (Due to lights in TS3)
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