[Omniscaper]

20,000 of optimized Galactica.....  Time for some turretting... and then landing bay/launchtube details... I forsee the uber BSG model will be around 30k. I hope your machines can run this.

[Unknown Target]

Wow...and what's that X-wing doing in there?

I'd love to play a BSG mod, can't wait for the release.

[Omniscaper]

What IS that x-wing doing there!? I'm at a loss. Consciousness fading. Who am I? HOLY SH*t its 1 pm..... time to go to bed....

[Turambar]

can you raise those armor plates on the sides of the back of the front part? or is that too many polies

[Omniscaper]

Gotta save the poly's.... still need room for all her turrets and launchbay details. When those are finished, I'll see if there's enough room to model ALL panels.

[Fineus]

She's a testiment to your skill Omni, well done

[Omniscaper]

Tanx dude. Now if only this kind of work paid for the bills......

Ok, does anyone know how the measurement system works in FS2? I set all my measurements in 3dsmax to their canon sizes.... when I play it in fs2 its much larger. I visually calibrated the FS2 sizes into 3dsmax and a typical fighter turns out to be 2-4 feet long. That can't be right.

[kasperl]

IIRC PCS contains a scaling thing. Mind you, I've never even used PCS, this is all from stuff I read on the forums.

[karajorma]

Yep. PCS does a 20:1 scaling by default. You can change that from the options.

[StratComm]

Actually from my experience PCS works much better with that 20:1 scaling than it does with 1:1 scaling.  Max units are conveinent, but before you convert, if you're going the PCS route, group everything and scale uniformly to 5%.

[Unknown Target]

If you have 3D Exploration, you can also scale it when you export it to a .cob. 5% is about fighter size, so work up from there.

[Taristin]

He's not scaling in PCs though.


Omni, bro, make sure that your units are set up to use the default max units.
One max unit = 1 FS meter. Anything other than the default max units gives odd off-sized results.

I learned that from personal experience.

[Corsair]

Mmmmmmmmmmm.... X-wing...

The Galaxic-whatever is pretty too.

[Omniscaper]

Wow... I got everything scaled correctly now. Now I lost all sense of scale. Perhaps if I change the FOV settings I can get that sense of "smallness" back. FS2 is weird!!! With default sizes and fov settings, its almost pointless to model the lower hangar deck and launch tubes. I feel claustrophobic and cramped alread just in the main landing deck which is already huge. The lower hangar deck is less than 30% its height, My ambitions for re-creating the launch tube experience is now shot.

[WMCoolmon]

Try playing around with the -fov parameter.

[Deepblue]

Fov helps . If you want a sense of scale go for a higher value.

[Bobboau]

just convert the ship out bigger.

and we shall need to talk about launch bay details, I have code made just for this (can be used for otherr things)

[Omniscaper]

Hmmmm... interesting. Ok, then.... hangar modelling continues.....

[NGTM-1R]

Well, there goes any hope in hell of my playing it...

[Omniscaper]

Don't worry there are lod's without the 9000 polygon ribs. Remember the older post I made of my progress... those will be the lod's.