[Shrike]

Originally posted by X-Files Addict
Thanks, now i will be able to texture easier. no more damned 3dsmax crap (though it's odd that 3dsmax 4 costs 3500 and truespace costs 500 at most and truespace is better at texturing...)

3ds crap?  You have MAX and you're TEXTURING in Truespace?  Are you CRAZY?  TS has maybe half the texture options MAX does.

The only reason TS is even remotely useful is because you need to use it.

[Stryke 9]

I think this is another case of people with wierd ways of thinking about modeling... I mean, for US, TS does suck, because it lacks options and has the most assbackwards way of modeling in town. But for others... well, it simulates a paintbrush, sorta, which may mean something...

[LtNarol]

it has a better user interface and clearer option when it comes to UVmapping; modeling in TS on the other hand is rather, as you so colorfully put it, ass-backward.

[Reppyboyo]

in my opinion 3d studio max is da best

Truespace is too......crap to say the least.....

and if ur patient u can download 3dsmax 4 from the net....

[Kabal]

Originally posted by Shrike
3ds crap?  You have MAX and you're TEXTURING in Truespace?  Are you CRAZY?  TS has maybe half the texture options MAX does.

The only reason TS is even remotely useful is because you need to use it.

3DS Max doesn't use .pcx files. Freespace 2 doesn't use .bmp (at least as far as i know). See a conflict? Truespace uses .pcx files. Yay! Problem solved!:devilidea

[EdrickV]

Originally posted by X-Files Addict


3DS Max doesn't use .pcx files. Freespace 2 doesn't use .bmp (at least as far as i know). See a conflict? Truespace uses .pcx files. Yay! Problem solved!:devilidea

Hmm. As far as I can see my TS1 doesn't support PCX files. All my textures are in bitmap format.

[Kabal]

Does FS2 Support .bmp files?

[WMCoolmon]

No, but IrfanView is a good converter for BMP-PCX, in batches as well as single files (available at hotfiles.com, I believe)

[Nico]

Originally posted by X-Files Addict


3DS Max doesn't use .pcx files. Freespace 2 doesn't use .bmp (at least as far as i know). See a conflict? Truespace uses .pcx files. Yay! Problem solved!:devilidea

... use acdsee, photoshop, psp or whatever, and save the map as pcx when you want to convert to pof, et voila. big deal

[Kabal]

Wouldn't the model still look for the texture in .bmp?

[EdrickV]

POF texture names do not include the extention. FS2 will look for textures in whatever formats it supports. (Which from looking at the bmpman source seems to be pcx and tga, though I've not tried using tga files.)

[Stryke 9]

That, or track down and DL a .pcx plugin. There are plugins for everything in MAX out there, I have a hard time believing that some of the ones around could exist and a simple port plugin for a somewhat standard file type could not...

[Kabal]

There is one but it costs . I haven't been able to find one for free yet.

[Shrike]

Originally posted by X-Files Addict
3DS Max doesn't use .pcx files. Freespace 2 doesn't use .bmp (at least as far as i know). See a conflict? Truespace uses .pcx files. Yay! Problem solved!:devilidea

So what?  You're going to let a minor filetype problem get in way of using a far superior program?

[Styxx]

Besides, he could always find a free plugin to load PCXs...

[YodaSean]

Originally posted by Stryke 9
Eh?

TS1 is all you need. For a modeler other than that, refer to the Frick the System topic, which is quite dead but still useful...

A good free modeling program I've been using is gmax.  Download the "tempest game pack" after you download gmax and you can save your models as .md3, and then you can use any sort of model converting program such as 3d exploration too convert it to whatever else you want.