[Woggy]

Please tell me how to install this and other models like it. I put it in the freespace2\data\models folder but ingame there's just an engine glow. No model and no texture. If you shoot it though the sheild flash and the guy says "hold your fire!" I think the game might be loading the model but not the textures... 


EDIT: I do have fs2_open...

EDIT 2: I found out myself, it all goes in multidata. Thanks anyway.

[Taristin]

no. it doesn't go in multidata. If you read the wiki, pof files go into the /data/models/ folder, and tga, dds, pcx files go into the data/maps folder.

[Cobra]

I just like having cockpits so I can turn on "show ship" and fly them around...

what's the command for that, again?

[StratComm]

Adding "show ship" to the flags area in ships.tbl.

[WMCoolmon]

Or just use an XMT:

Code: [Select]

#Ship Classes
$Name: GTF Perseus
$Flags: ("show ship")

$Name: GTF Hercules
$Flags: ("show ship")
;;...and so on...
#End

[MetalDestroyer]

Or just use an XMT:

Code: [Select]

#Ship Classes
$Name: GTF Perseus
$Flags: ("show ship")

$Name: GTF Hercules
$Flags: ("show ship")
;;...and so on...
#End

What is a XMT ? and what extension should we give to the file ?

[WMCoolmon]

http://www.hard-light.net/wiki/index.php/Modular_Tables

[m2258734a]

Hello,
   I believe I posted once about the Herc II already, but no one has answered my question, which is no big deal really. I just wanted to know if the "02" was going to be placed on the Herc II in the future or if it was decided not to be placed on it. Sorry if am sounding like a purist, and realize that I am not neglecting the bigger picture about the Herc II... it is awesome and I truly appreciate the work that was put into creating it. Thanks, guys.

[StratComm]

It was decided to not be placed on it for a couple of reasons.  The ones I know of (since I didn't actually make the texture) are that the 02 looks somewhat silly on every single instance of the ship, and because the map was mirrored completely.  So no, no plans (nor is it possible without recompiling the model) to put the 02 back on.

[m2258734a]

I see what you mean. Thanks for the update.

[Sheepy]

What about some kind of texture replacement like the Orion nameplates (or does that require a flat surface?), of work for a fighter but could be intresting

[StratComm]

That'd be doeable, but I can't get it now.  I'll play with that when I get back to school.

[Genoism]

ooo good stuff i like it a lot 

[taylor]

It'd be sweet if someone would fix the textures on this thing.  I'll ignore the 1024x2048 main texture for now (though someone probably will go to hell for that ) but what's almost impossible to ignore is that it's using the new texture for LOD0 and the original texture for LOD1/2/3.  The textures look very different so when you see a herc2 in game with the new texture, it's targetbox view has a completely different texture on it.  Idealy it would just have every LOD UV mapped to the same texture and that texture saved as a DXT1 compressed DDS with full mipmap levels.

[BlackDove]

That needs fixage.

[StratComm]

It does.  I didn't spend long on it when I converted it, so it could stand re-doing.  Unfortunately the maps don't exactly line up as it stands now so I'll just have to rebuild the LODs.