[Krackers87]

Hi ive been learning lately about Moding in FS2 so i decided to test my mettle on making a Somtaw harvester for you guys. Also the Turanic Raider Ion Frigate is missing the valubale tables in which are needed for it to be used.

[elorran]

Already noted, it should be sorted soon(ish).

[Thorn]

I had that done I thought... I'll see if I can find it when I get home..

[Darkage]

I got it on my birthday last year.

[Grug]

lucky u

[Krackers87]

better let me know soon.

besides mine just might look better  anyways im working on a harvester / worker pair

and if its done why isnt it on the site?

Also to be helpfully criticizing the ion frigate for the imps has not so good texturing. It looks rather bland and just gray on some places.

If u already have it i might still crreate one anyways cuz i need the practice and it wouldnt hurt.

[Thorn]

Because of the way 3d exploration converts the .lif files, its gonna be grey unless we do something about it, and editing all those textures is a bloody pain in the arse... too many of em
the .lif files have three layers... the base texture ( the only part you see when its converted), the main colour layer and the stripe layer.... the extra layers get left out when theyre converted...

[Grug]

+if we released everything as soon as we had it, what would be the point in d/l the finished mod?

so the models etc that u d/l r meant only to be a glimpse at what the final product will contain, and do give u guys something to playaround with.

as for the models, ask elloran, after all he is the "boss"

[TonViper]

So I see you won't mess with the texture colors of the homeworld ships.

Being a member of more than one Homeworld/HW:Cataclysm mod team, I know quite a bit about how the games texture system works.

If you'd like, it would be easy/not very time consuming for me to edit the textures to add the appropriate colors for you. (i.e give the Taiidan their trademark yellow/red colors (and a black version if you want it))

Just find my e-mail or ICQ in my profile and contact me via that if you want my help on that.

I'd very much like to see this mod be all it can be.

[elorran]

Once the texture files have been done into just a few master files they'll be easier to edit, but for the moment our concern is converting the ships themselves and getting them to work.  That and working on the demo

[TonViper]

Well, you see, It'll be much easier for me working on the original textures with their layers intact. That way, I can see exactly where the color should be applied. I'll simply edit the layers to include the desired color, and then collapse the texture to a single layer file with the new color. It shouldn't be too much extra work on your end doing that.

[Rampage]

Originally posted by TonViper
Well, you see, It'll be much easier for me working on the original textures with their layers intact. That way, I can see exactly where the color should be applied. I'll simply edit the layers to include the desired color, and then collapse the texture to a single layer file with the new color. It shouldn't be too much extra work on your end doing that.

Agreed.  We wish to stay on the original color schemes:

1. Taiidan - Yellow Hull/Brown Stripes
2. Turanic - Brown (Many Turanic textures do not have color schemes.)
3. Kadeshi - White (Many Kadeshi textures do not have color schemes.)
4. Kushan #1 (Ki'ith Man'aan) - Green Background/White Stripes
5. Kushan #2 (Standard Homeworld) - Gray Background/White Stripes
6. Somtaaw - Blue Background/White Stripes
7. Beast - Dark Gray Background/Red Stripes

[Krackers87]

what tools do you use to convert the models into fs2 format? I've been completely remodeling them with blender but maybe there is a program to uncompress the HW files?

[Darkage]

Originally posted by GoDoFeViL
lucky u

This is weird, i made that post in the internal. Because Thorn (sally:D) said he had the Inside Lightwave 7 book.

[Grug]

lol, well i came up with it so! (iv got the bread)

its was completely a coincidence ...

r u impling something

roflol j/k

[Krackers87]

what about what i asked about the hw tools?

[Grug]

well im not a model converter so i wouldnt be able to give an acurate guess

i think they use things along the line of truespace and probably some 3rd party converter of some sort? not sure....

[TonViper]

Yep, there's a program for that. It's called WinBIG. It'll extract the content of the packed format HW uses. And from there, you'll need 3d Explorer to convert the models from HW's .peo format.

This page should contain everything you'd need: http://www.b5mods.com/site/downloads_tools.htm (well, except for 3D Explorer, that is... You'll have to search the web for it or something, I don't have a link on hand)


And about those textures, just contact me on ICQ and I'll get right on it.

[Thorn]

righthemisphere.com or something like that...

[TonViper]

You could go there, but the version they have up expires after a period if you don't pay. If you search, you can find version 1.5 of 3dex, which doesn't expire.