[Bobboau]

on nurbed models, you have to extract the final mesh (there should be like a brown nurb looking button in the upper right hand portion of the nurb controle box) and when you convert it can take over a minute to convert them

[Taristin]

I did all that, but PCS crashes... That's my complaint.

[Raptor]

Originally posted by Venom
yeah.
personnally I'd beat down anybody who'd make ships with 10k polys trrets with a wet trout.

Whats wrong with a 10k turret?

(not that I would ever go THAT high, maybe 1-2k, and that only for barrelled turrets.......)

[Nico]

a 10k turret, ok. a capship with, say, 5 10k turrets, hugh. then put 3 of those capships in a mission. HT&L won't make your computer goes faster, obviously

[Kazan]

Originally posted by diamondgeezer
Well... not being funny Bob, I mean this is great work and all, but the whole texture thing worries me somewhat. I mean my carrier had over 60 textures when I'd done with it, and PCS told me where to go. I know that's excessive and probably inefficient use of textures but all the same is there anyway you might tweak this issue to have less of an impact?

had nothing to do with the texture count


BTW: that carrier would never run in game - too many GFX card state changes - can you say slide show

[Ryx]

Some changes.

Still gotta figure out the turrets...

[Knight Templar]

bleh.

*liked the first version better. It looks like you brought it with you to Thanksgiving dinner.

[Bobboau]

I don't like there little nose on it, looked better when it just had a flat virticle face, but some details there would defenantly be a good thing

[Taristin]

I like the copy I have... All textured ans shinemapped...

[StratComm]

Someone wants us to hate him

[Bobboau]

maybe I should start talking about how fun it is to use PCS to make cool looking things

[Taristin]

Who needs PCS?  Looky what I did.




It'sa gunna be in AotD... after a retexture job.  (And if I can figure out how I fux0red the turrets...)

[Nico]

well, the spec maps are severly fux0red, man. Missing smooth groups?

[Taristin]

PCS doesn't work on my PC, so yeah, no smoothing groups...

It's probably why the turrets don't work, too, but that's another issue.

[aldo_14]

cob2pof has smoothing in it, bTW - it had it ages before PCS did, it just took Venom / Nico ages to convince Kazan of that.

The map setting sare different, though.  IIRC in PCs you need to set the maps (in TS) to 'autofacet', but in cob2pof the maps were 'smooth' type.

[Taristin]

Well, I got PCS with the Facet build to convert cobs to pofs, but the facet build isn't smoothing. I wonder why.

[Nico]

Originally posted by aldo_14
cob2pof has smoothing in it, bTW - it had it ages before PCS did, it just took Venom / Nico ages to convince Kazan of that.

heh, yeah, I remember that

[aldo_14]

Originally posted by Raa Tor'h
Well, I got PCS with the Facet build to convert cobs to pofs, but the facet build isn't smoothing. I wonder why.

Check your hierarchy to make sure that the main hull isn't being treated in the same way as the turrets - that can happen if you have lights glued the wrong way or summat.

Um... otherwise, make sure the maps are on 'AutoFacet', not Faceted......very easy mistake to make.  Or maybe it;s just being wierd.....

[Taristin]

Well, that Ryx cruiser thingy converted smoothed, but the turrets don't work.

The Vasudan ships didn't smooth though. I'll have to look at them.

And thanks for the info, although I've already learned the placement of lights the hard way.

[Ryx]

Originally posted by Raa Tor'h
Who needs PCS?  Looky what I did.

*PIC removed*


It'sa gunna be in AotD... after a retexture job.  (And if I can figure out how I fux0red the turrets...)

Spiffy!