[Scooby_Doo]

Does PCS2 support the Truespace 7 cob files?

[Water]

Does PCS2 support the Truespace 7 cob files?

Well you're now able to test that out 

[Getter Robo G]

Great I was going to try it out but guess what, I cant figure out how to load a model...

I hit file but that only leads to a texture library and when you change it it only looks for texture files anyway, WTF?

I started looking for panels but now I wiped out my work area and cant close these blank open windows lol

Going to be a bit different than 3.2....

I am not a fan of the double load time as well, the good news is it accepts more formats I wont have to reconvert to a usable form for half the models I use as well as dds capability and more image formats...

Damn manual tells me about the object panel but not WHERE IT IS!!!

Counter intuitive BS.     

[Herra Tohtori]

Counter intuitive BS

Well, don't you just love it when there are things in the world that never ever change...

[chief1983]

SD, try the tab "TS6 Files" in the upper right of the inner window, then Load->Object.  That should do it I think.

[Getter Robo G]

Ah, I just tried something that worked. I forced open a model I know would load and hit the default button.
I can see the model now.


I'm not ready to dive into this this weekend. I'm knee deep in getting resources I have together for the NEW Xenoforce Mod (now being ported to C&C3). I have the Zeon only side WIP mod for beta testing.

[Scooby_Doo]

Yuck, for doing conversion and setup for PCS2, truespace 3 is far faster than 7. 

edit: Ugh finally found where you can switch from rendered to wireframe and/or wireframe & rendered.

BTW is rendering disabled?

[bizzybody]

If you want to push all the tS7 interface stuff out of the way and get to something familiar, there's a trueSpace 6 button near the top. Hit that and *ZIP*, you're looking at pretty much the default trueSpace 6.6 environment.

Now I just need to find where to disable the 3D widget and Magic Ring, and where to make new primitives pop up "On Grid" at the origin. I hope it can import workspace configurations from tS 6 because I have 6.6 exactly how I like it on a 19" widescreen LCD.

I downloaded the 7.6 installer and the manual and video installers. To save space but keep the manual handy, run the manual and video installers then burn the PDFMan folder and all three installers to a CD-R. Now you have a disk you can use for the manual and install just trueSpace 7.6 on your PC. That saves 213 megabytes of space.

So, MS bought Caligari eh? "Windows *VersionAfterVista*, now with full-featured 3D modeling and animation software built in!", followed by lawsuits from the people who bring us Lightwave, Maya, etc...

[Bobboau]

wow, I got to say they realy improved the renderer sence the last version I used.
http://www.hexellent.com/files/80/jupiter_pan.avi (note I only spent about 10 minutes setting that up so forgive the seams in the starfield)
something like that would have taken days to render before, but it got done in only a few hours, also used layered textures that almost never worked out right before, and look at the edge of the sphere, you simply can not make out any polygons, I think they may have finally implemented NURBS properly!

[Colonol Dekker]

I guess people are gonna like this one. . .
Bout bloomin time

[IPAndrews]

I couldn't download this. The site told me my IP address was blocked. 

[--Steve-O--]

hmmm...might have to check this out, and maybe retire old 3.2.

[Getter Robo G]

I tried to load a direct X mesh but it was all in pieces and not the whole model visable, just the outer bits...

[KewlToyZ]

I can't play that avi with anything?

[--Steve-O--]

just played with it and yeah...lots of buttons and gadgets. nice thing is the ts 6 setup is pretty familiar, and after some random button pushing i found the view and model moving tools used back in 3.2. the charactor skeleton thing looks handy to actually produce pilot models you can mold to individual cockpits, and the animation system overall looks like it might be nifty to produce cutscenes and such. 3.2 cob and scn import nicely, i have yet to test its compatibility with PCS. pretty nice setup and i cant argue with the price, beats paying what 4-700 bucks retail.
my one b1t@h so far is this....

WHERE THE HELL IS THE HIREARCHY EDITIOR TRUVIEW THING?
do i seriously have to DL that plugin again?

so thats my initial use rundown

[chief1983]

I don't think it came with any of the TS7 series, I recall someone a while back making a comment about using the 3.2 heirarchy editor plugin with 7.5 or so.  Not sure where to find it though.

[Hellstryker]

Shortly after installing and running it, AVG detected a trojan on a previously clean file. And now I can't get rid of it. probably just being paranoid, but meh

[Excalibur]

Imagine those guys that just payed $700 or whatever for 7.<6...

I think I might stick with Blender unless TS renders faster - their interface is crap, not to mention how the menu is at the bottom and I couldn't figure out how to switch it to top - but it's good that it's free.

The Blender community is probably going to be all over this one - which means competition, meaning (hopefully) free modelling programs better than the commercial (pay) ones.

[KewlToyZ]

I noticed an issue with the interface, when you switch to the 4 view tab at the top, if you switch out of 3D with the little drop down, you don't get 3D as an option to switch it back once you try 1D,2D, 4D options. You have to reset 4 view again.

[Scooby_Doo]

just played with it and yeah...lots of buttons and gadgets. nice thing is the ts 6 setup is pretty familiar, and after some random button pushing i found the view and model moving tools used back in 3.2. the charactor skeleton thing looks handy to actually produce pilot models you can mold to individual cockpits, and the animation system overall looks like it might be nifty to produce cutscenes and such. 3.2 cob and scn import nicely, i have yet to test its compatibility with PCS. pretty nice setup and i cant argue with the price, beats paying what 4-700 bucks retail.
my one b1t@h so far is this....

WHERE THE HELL IS THE HIREARCHY EDITIOR TRUVIEW THING?
do i seriously have to DL that plugin again?

so thats my initial use rundown

If you have the old truespace 3 installed you can grab it from there and run it.  It seems to work ok.