Author Topic: whats the hardest part to modding (Read 4460 times)

Nuke · **on:** July 06, 2004, 05:23:57 pm

so what to you find the most difficult task in making a mod. pe personally i hate naming things, but lets see what the community says.

Star Dragon · **Reply #1 on:** July 06, 2004, 05:36:03 pm

I voted for modling. Mainly because I can't and without models (or people that can work on them) your mod is basicly screwed before it begins! Substitues can work if your desperate but in the end you NEED models and MODLERS. No ifs, ands, or buts!

In second place I'd say getting turrets to work CORRECTLY as well as placing them (but I'm only guessign from the posts people make about it)

Third problem but also a biggie is mapping, (as once it's mapped you can spend how ever long it takes to find a texture look that works) but you cant experiment till it's mapped! It took me about 4-5 hours to get a decent texture scheme for Lar's model that I use as a generic White Base (Gundam) due to his raw model already being mapped! (thanks again to Lars for that!)

[EDIT] I can see Tin Can put much thought into his post

.::Tin Can::. · **Reply #2 on:** July 06, 2004, 05:37:04 pm

Modeling, simply because I can't do it!

Killfrenzy · **Reply #3 on:** July 06, 2004, 05:46:32 pm

For me it's texturing - I can't do it for ****!

Taristin · **Reply #4 on:** July 06, 2004, 05:52:23 pm

UV mapping. While I can do it, it's taxing at times. But naming my ships is hard too. I can think of individual ship names, but not ship classes.

That's why my latest project was a mesh Aldo already UV mapped. Drawing the textures was easy enough, but naming it was hard.

Nuke · **Reply #5 on:** July 06, 2004, 05:57:22 pm

i take uv mapping and texture schemes into consideration when i model my ship. i used to be, before htl anyway, a bit less considerate as to how i made my geometry look, causing the textured ship to look abit off. with the insanely high polycounts of htl i can create geometry that helps bring out testure features. so i consider moddeling, texturing and uv mapping all part of the same process. when you hand off untextured models to someone else they might not come out as youd like. i learned this with the first release of my chaos assault fighter which i handed off to be textured. i ended up redoing the whole ship from scratch doing the texture myself. the first few ships i did have all been redone to improve polycounts and texture quality. im getting to where im only limited to a lack of new ideas for ship concepts.

Knight Templar · **Reply #6 on:** July 06, 2004, 06:10:08 pm

UV Mapping, Textures and POFing...

Because they are the ones that I can't do.

Out of those though, I have the least idea of how to UV Map, so there you go.

Taristin · **Reply #7 on:** July 06, 2004, 06:11:34 pm

That's another part... inspiration. I lack that, often.

Knight Templar · **Reply #8 on:** July 06, 2004, 06:12:50 pm

Ah yes. I can model, but all of my 'good models' have never been completely of my own design.

Taristin · **Reply #9 on:** July 06, 2004, 06:34:55 pm

Almost Ditto. Some of mine are, but people keep telling me they look like some other ship...

Nuke · **Reply #10 on:** July 06, 2004, 06:34:56 pm

im still no good with missions. sexp logic drives me quite mad. my capship battles look dull, missions are boring, its just not something im good at.

Taristin · **Reply #11 on:** July 06, 2004, 06:36:22 pm

I don't do FRED. I do MAX.

*Waits for KT or DC to say something about that statement...*

Knight Templar · **Reply #12 on:** July 06, 2004, 06:48:48 pm

Meh. It kind of kills itself.

Sigma957 · **Reply #13 on:** July 06, 2004, 08:55:19 pm

Modelling for me,havn't got a clue on how to do this.

HotSnoJ · **Reply #14 on:** July 06, 2004, 09:49:31 pm

-@- == can do
-@- == can't do
-@- == So-so...see comments for more

[-@-]moddelling
[-@-]uv mapping //I can sorta do this. It's very taxing and I don't like to do it
[-@-]textures and other bitmaps //same as UV mapping
[-@-]animations //I've somewhat delved into this. Stills are easier
[-@-]fredding //I've FREDed some with FS1, but not FS2/FSO
[-@-]table editing //more then my fair share
[-@-]sound effects/music
[-@-]pof editing
[-@-]finding time to mod
[-@-]naming your ships, wepons, ect.

Black Wolf · **Reply #15 on:** July 06, 2004, 10:32:28 pm

Converting to POF. It's complicated, has many more rules than the other areas (thanks to FSO) and requires truespace. Ugh.

Col. Fishguts · **Reply #16 on:** July 07, 2004, 02:06:25 am

texturing......I mean GOOD texturing

Nico · **Reply #17 on:** July 07, 2004, 02:09:10 am

Gathering willpower and pofing

Nuke · **Reply #18 on:** July 07, 2004, 02:59:11 am

ive done some sound editing. i pulled a little gunshot sound off the net and sampled it a bunch of times to get my gatling gun sounds. reminds me of a nicholas barker drum solo

aldo_14 · **Reply #19 on:** July 07, 2004, 05:36:57 am

Texturing. Not because it's hard, but because it takes a ****ing age to do it.......(i.e. measured in days or weeks rather than hours)

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