[Dark Knight]

Very oddly the ship is reacting as if it's being lit from the front despite the fact that the star is as a 90 degree angle to it. Someone else should better have a look tho 'cos I've just had a reinstall and I'm still working out some bugs in it so that could just be me. The Turrets appear to be fine tho. It's just the main hull.

[knn]

The last time I used FSO I had worse problems (missing subobjects, no textures, and a strange bug with shinemaps when everything not shiny became invisible) with htl models (except the shinemap thing, which was universal), but it was a cvs build. You could try an older stable build. Anyway, thanks for your help and as a bonus:

[TrashMan]

Maby you should try getting Truespace and then port the max model there using Litium Unwarpper...

It preserves the UV mapping and it allways worked for me...

anyway, if you can't get it to work properly, I might be willing ot give it a try

[knn]

That's the method I used before. I hated it.

[ShivanSpS]

lol, you can enter "inside" the ship in any place, just do a run thight it

[knn]

great, I think I'll be installing TS and Lithunwrap   

[neoterran]

i hope you can fix the bugs, but you still did a great job anyway, knn. Keep it up !

Much better than the original Iceni

[StratComm]

Catch-up post!  The flythrough problem is because of the x-form needing to be reset.  The max plugin still doesn't produce 100% stable meshes all the time, but they are usually solid in at least most places.  The downside is that you'll need to unglue everything.  The turrets being in the "wrong" place is because detail-0 needs to be at 0,0,0 though it would still render correctly in game; having it out of place has consequences on other things.

also; I have converted many a mesh without the barrels as a child of the turret.

It works fine unless you want to animate the turret in any way.  You need to make it a child if you can possibly help it, though the turret code itself seems to compensate if it's not.

[knn]

Resetting the xform completely brakes turret positions, orientations and the scale of the big barrels. I'd rather use truespace than fix that. However it doesn't do anything to detail0. I fixed some turret locations, so I'm uploading a new version.
http://files.filefront.com/corvette2r_01fixedrar/;5141962;;/fileinfo.html

[StratComm]

Unglue everything, reset x-form on all the pieces, and glue it back up.  It's a pain, but it's necessary.  You learn to do that first eventually.

EDIT: Link, not glue.  That's Truespace terminology.  Sorry.

[Harbinger of DOOM]

When it's done.

= never

= bulls**t.

You've obviously never heard of Ambrosia Software. They finish things that don't have a release date all the time. Whenever they get asked when something will be released, the answer is always, "When it's done." And they make some damn good games, too.

Example: the Escape Velocity series
;D

BTW, I love that Iceni.

[neoterran]

Is the Iceni's unshiny side going to be fixed at some point ?

[Cobra]

probably not.

[neoterran]

so whatever happened with this ?

[NGTM-1R]

I ate it.

[Admiral Nelson]

Seriously, I beg SOMEONE, please finish this off!!!! 

[Gregster2k]

Heading for two years now... 

[Turambar]

hey, where is this thing?

we need it in order to make the high-poly installation from mission 2, basically that's the only thing left (apart from the colossus and arcadia) that looks kinda crappy

[TrashMan]

I ate it.

PREP THE EMERGENCY ROOM!
We're gonna need to open this sucker up....

Nurse, it's time to put him to sleep....Hand me that hammer!

[Snail]

I ate it.

PREP THE EMERGENCY ROOM!
We're gonna need to open this sucker up....

Nurse, it's time to put him to sleep....Hand me that hammer!

Just wait for him to crap it out.