Author Topic: Color changig at Fenris class (Read 4942 times)

SF-Junky · **on:** December 16, 2006, 06:11:17 am

Following: I want to add another cruiser baised on the Fenris class (GTD Amalthea) with a different color on the side (turquoise or yellow). I've already simply changed the color of the cruiser-01-0xx-glows, but that didn't work. Do I have to change the *.POF, too? Or the *.DDSs?

Getter Robo G · **Reply #1 on:** December 16, 2006, 10:34:25 am

To change a ship texture (not just glowy parts) you need to change the base texture file(s), not just the ones with the -glow extension.)

Unless you edit a copy of the pof and make a new entry for that specific ship, ALL Fenris's will then look like that! (unless you're ok with that and don't care to use the regular ones at all no one will notice that.)

Simply open FRED tot eh mission you have your Fenris in and change teh name of the ship. Bingo you are done since you already altered the existing files... OR you copied the textures, changed the name by a letter and made a new ship entry and edited the pof to goto the altered textures so you can have BOTH old and new Fenris types in that mission...

Hope that helps you a little!

SF-Junky · **Reply #2 on:** December 17, 2006, 08:29:52 am

Quote from: Getter Robo G on December 16, 2006, 10:34:25 am

Hope that helps you a little!

Yeah, I think, I got it. Thanx.

But: How can I change the *.POF. I've already tried simply with texteditor or Word, but that doesn't work.

Getter Robo G · **Reply #3 on:** December 17, 2006, 01:02:23 pm

PCS - Pof Constructor suite (by Kazaan, who should be working on 2.0 but apparently got a life/wife now hehe)

(I dont use this unless I have to)

or

Modelview - load model hit edit change textures... ( use this with a 80-90% success rate when PCS fails).

Snail · **Reply #4 on:** December 17, 2006, 03:06:06 pm

~WARNING!~

Okay, this is a super A-1 n00b question:

Where can I get PCS, I've looked in a few places but never found it.

Getter Robo G · **Reply #5 on:** December 17, 2006, 04:12:50 pm

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

That is the page you want, explanations and DL links...

SF-Junky · **Reply #6 on:** September 01, 2007, 05:44:24 am

After I had given this up last December I've recently restarted working on that project again. But the cruiser01.pof is still confusing me. Where can I find "Fenris-HTL"? I've checked all the media_vps, but didn't find it.

TrashMan · **Reply #7 on:** September 01, 2007, 05:55:48 am

in the media.vp's ...it's also called cruiser01.pof methinks

Open it with VPView, extract hte pof. Open the pof with PCS, go to the texture tab and simply re-name all the textures (maps) with you own...save under a different name..you're done.

SF-Junky · **Reply #8 on:** September 01, 2007, 06:09:10 am

Errr...

I've extracted the following files:
cruiser01.pof
cruiser01-01a.dds
cruiser01-01a-shine.dds
cruiser01-01b.dds
cruiser01-01b-shine.dds
cruiser01-01c.dds
cruiser01-01c-shine.dds
cruiser01-02a.dds
cruiser01-02a-shine.dds
cruiser01-03a.dds
cruiser01-03a-shine.dds
cruiser01-04a.dds
cruiser01-05a-shine.dds
cruiser01-01a-glow.pcx
cruiser01-01b-glow.pcx
cruiser01-01c-glow.pcx
cruiser01-02a-glow.pcx
cruiser01-03a-glow.pcx
cruiser01-04a-glow.pcx

I've already changed the colour of the *-glow.pcx and copied them into my freespace2/data/maps folder for testing purpose. Shouldn't the colour of the Fenris be changed ingame now? It isn't. It's still red.

Mad Bomber · **Reply #9 on:** September 01, 2007, 12:34:37 pm

Glow only changes glowmaps.

Regular maps must also be changed (cruiser1-01a.dds, and so forth).

SF-Junky · **Reply #10 on:** September 01, 2007, 02:51:24 pm

But the glowmaps are the only parts which have this red color I want to change. The other textures are just gray. I don't get it.

akenbosch · **Reply #11 on:** September 01, 2007, 03:39:03 pm

how about you give mje a colour sample and i'll do it for you

Hades · **Reply #12 on:** September 01, 2007, 05:03:04 pm

Once I get PaintShopPro installed I might be able to do it for you.

akenbosch · **Reply #13 on:** September 01, 2007, 08:12:07 pm

i already did it (took 5 minutes)...its yellow. all i need to do now is upload it.

Hades · **Reply #14 on:** September 01, 2007, 08:25:37 pm

How about Screens first?

SF-Junky · **Reply #15 on:** September 02, 2007, 06:07:34 am

Hey, wow! Thank you very much, folks!

That's the colour I took first, but yellow is okay, too. You can send me the files to [email protected].

Vasudan Admiral · **Reply #16 on:** September 02, 2007, 07:25:48 am

That won't work sorry. That's the map the old, non HTL Fenris uses. You want to find "Fenris-HTL-glow.dds" and change the colour on that.

SF-Junky · **Reply #17 on:** September 02, 2007, 11:06:37 am

I already said that I can't find any "Fenris-HTL" in the mediavps.

Vasudan Admiral · **Reply #18 on:** September 02, 2007, 11:40:46 am

Well I know it's there because I made it, and I would have noticed if it was missing from any media VP release.

Are you looking in the right place? It's in 3.6.8 - "mv_models.vp "->maps. It's _not_ in "mv_textures.vp" as you might expect.

SF-Junky · **Reply #19 on:** September 02, 2007, 12:09:07 pm

If there was a medal in FS "greatest dweeb ever existed" I would already have been awarded it 1.000 times.

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