[Titan]

uhhhhhhhhhh..... whatever.......

i got freespace be "attaining" it..... shhhhh! 

[Colonol Dekker]

Ahhh, to be a mod virgin again, once thats taken you never feel the same again.
My MILO mod has never turned up, i e-mailed it to the Volition Mission archives, and it went *vanish*

[Unknown Target]

uhhhhhhhhhh..... whatever.......

i got freespace be "attaining" it..... shhhhh! 

Freespace 2 is free...

[Titan]

it is? oh.... wait! i use.... errrr.... i think its retail.... well it's not open thats for sure!

[Unknown Target]

Freespace 2 is freely distributed on the internet. And if you want to mod, I really suggest you get Freespace Open

An easy to follow tut I wrote:

http://www.game-warden.com/forum/showthread.php?p=47713#post47713

[Titan]

how big is the file? because i've got a lot of stuff on here.... but half of them i never play anymore.... but then again freespace keeps messing up my PC....

Edit: I asked my parents.... can anyone guess what they said?     


                                                    NO

[Unknown Target]

Someone's parents keeps them on a tight digital leash
Anyway, good luck with your modding though

[Titan]

i think ill do pretty good with the model part..... just realized i've been doing stuff like Truespace for years....
(i could use the computer pretty good when i was 4...  )

that no was a predicted answer.... but its probably what they would say.... maybe they would say yes but my computer is bad enough....  (me like that one... reminds me of..... well, me!)



Edit: I wanna welcome beam with the funny speech! WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!! 

[Getter Robo G]

Never seen a self beam request before... A little disturbing. 

[JGZinv]

I'm also a noob into this field basically, but having the wilingness to learn, ask questions, and
the resolve to keep going is what will get you your final desired result.

A lot of people just jump into modding thinking it will be easy to make their own world
in a couple days.... that's simply not the case.

LithUnwrap seems to be the main free tool for the UVmaps and application of a texture,
which is the graphics or skin on the ship. A model by itself is just blank.

You'll certainly need a regular 2D (two dimensional) picture editor, most people will
go with Photoshop - but that's costly. There's a free program that's very similar called The GIMP. There's also a version of that program that is made to look like Photshop - which I'd suggest that just for ease of use.
It's here - http://www.gimpshop.net/
Called GIMPshop.

After playing around with most of the freeware, I prefer 3DSMax 7 over them all. But as others
have said here - freeware can get you want you want.

I would very much suggest trying to retexture (aka change the graphics) on a existing ship
from Freespace2 Open before making your model from scratch. That may sound like a backwards
way of going about things - bit it will teach you a portion of he process.

Lots O Links -

Texturing Tutorials for Lith

http://members.lycos.nl/jonim8or/shiptex_tut.html

http://www.lancersreactor.com/t/forum/topic.asp?topic_id=29215&forum_id=29&Topic_Title=%2ATUTORIAL%2A+%2D+Texturing+with+Lithium+Unwrappeer&forum_title=Freelancer+Editing+Tutorial+Forum&cat_title=Freelancer+Editing&M=False

http://underworld.fortunecity.com/pacman/106/fs2mods/shipcreationguide/uvmappingyourmodelusinglu.html

These two explain about making good looking ships or parts thereof.

http://www.xwaupgrade.com/tutorials/texturing.htm

http://www.xwaupgrade.com/tutorials/texturing2.htm

Some minor notes about texturing in general.

http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php?PHPSESSID=ilrt7kt9ij1qer8a6dnpaia866&topic=26235.msg526539;topicseen#msg526539

http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php?PHPSESSID=aq56ei8vivpr1lt1v7749rf6h2&topic=42132.msg862376#msg862376

Links to other applications

Blender (for making ship models) - http://www.blender3d.com/cms/Blender.31.0.html

Truespace 3.2 - http://www.caligari.com/Products/trueSpace/tS3/resources/default.html

Otherwise, ask questions or search the forum here.
You might as well book mark the forum, as you will be back often.
There simply is no all in one guide as to how to do everything.

Good luck - welcome to the wide world of mods.


Robo G - haven't you ever heard of "beam me up Scotty" - there have
been many a self beamed individuals before this....

[ToecrusherHammerjaw]

Someone's gotta do it....

Gunnery control, target Titan!  FIRE!!!




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[Polpolion]

how big is the file? because i've got a lot of stuff on here.... but half of them i never play anymore.... but then again freespace keeps messing up my PC....

Edit: I asked my parents.... can anyone guess what they said?     


                                                    NO

That really sucks. When I was 11 I had a computer in my room with unlimited DSL access.

[bizzybody]

When I was 11 I had a calculator with a red LED display. It took four AA batteries and had a square root button. Nearly 25 years later... I still don't have DSL.

[Titan]

When I was 11 I had a calculator with a red LED display. It took four AA batteries and had a square root button. Nearly 25 years later... I still don't have DSL.

Huh?


P.S. I already have the latest version of photoshop.... yippee!!!!!!!!

[Flipside]

When I was 11, we bought a ZX Spectrum which was the newest computer on the market. By 14 I was a Sysop on a dial-up bulletin board for Amstrad CPC's...

[Titan]

............................... wha? 

[Flipside]

Don't worry, it'll get back on topic shortly, since everyone else was talking about what they were doing when they were 11, I thought I'd join in. It was probably started by your profile saying you are 11.

I'm 34, so actually remembering back when I was 11 was pretty hard work to be honest

[Taristin]

Im 22, and can barely remember being 11

[Polpolion]

Sorry, I just have to say this, it's really funny:

A few months ago, this kid Brendan, he is like:

"Hey guys, guess what I'm getting for my fifteenth birthday!! My very own PC!!!!!!"
 And then, I'm all like "Umm, thats nice ...I've had mine since I was like 10 years old."

He got so pissed, but it was so very funny... You woulda had to be there.


Ok sorry, back on topic...

[Dark Hunter]

*shrugs*

Your very own PC is not always a good thing. Mine this old junk heap that can't really do anything.
My father keeps it around because it can play old DOS games with ease, such as Descent (he loves Descent  ). I usually use the family computer, because it is powerful enough to do most things I want it to.