[Vertigo 7]

meh its no biggy. It doesn't seem to be causing any problems. Anyways, you're so awesome! thanks for all the help one this one =)

[TrashMan]

About the nameplates ... this has to do with the fact that transparent parts of the ship must be rendered last, and child objects are rendered before their parents.  So basically, if you have detail0 with nameplates as a subobject, the nameplates will be rendered first, causing this problem.  There is no way to fix this other than editing the hierarchy in TrueSpace.

This is ...strange... I recall the nameplate rendering fine for me..at least with the last version of the Archy. I might have to look into that.

[Herra Tohtori]

(...) select LOD0 and save as COB.

Code: [Select]

Warning: For ship 'GTVBS Archangel Mark II', detail level
mismatch (POF needs 5)
(...)


I've never converted anything more complex than a planet with rings into FreeSpace2, so correct me if I'm wrong but don't you need to select the whole object, with subobjects and at least one light, to get all the stuff into the cob?

Selecting just one level of detail would seem to me that it saves justthat into a cob - one LOD, no more... and seeing what the error report says, I would say it has something to do with LOD's all right.

Try and select the whole ship hierarchy on it's highest level so that all LOD's and debris and stuff are selected before saving the object as COB?

[Vasudan Admiral]

Not encountered that one myself but I'm fairly certain that error is just when the ship's tabled "$Detail distance: (<LOD0>, <LOD1>, <LOD2>, <LOD3>)" line doesnot match up with the number of LODs in the POF. So the much easier thing to do is just trim/add the distance numbers given there until they match how many are in the POF.

[blowfish]

*snip*

IIRC you can't select the whole scene for saving as an object (I might be wrong though).  This is irrelevant though, since all of the lower lods are children of LOD0.

EDIT: Oops

[Herra Tohtori]

Wat?



I'm fairly certain that if I selected detail-0 from there and saved the object, it would only save the detail-0 and it's subobjects. Choosing the whole model (not the scene) would save all subobjects of the model into the object, but the question seems to be irrelevant if PCS2 can import truespace scenes.

Also, your quotes make no sense.


EDIT: thanks for clearing things up, I never knew lower LOD's could be children of LOD0.

[Vertigo 7]

About the nameplates ... this has to do with the fact that transparent parts of the ship must be rendered last, and child objects are rendered before their parents.  So basically, if you have detail0 with nameplates as a subobject, the nameplates will be rendered first, causing this problem.  There is no way to fix this other than editing the hierarchy in TrueSpace.

This is ...strange... I recall the nameplate rendering fine for me..at least with the last version of the Archy. I might have to look into that.

I got the models from freespacemods.net. It's possible the ones on there are outdated. I saw that most of your work was being hosted on hadescombine but since its gone that was the onry source =/

[TrashMan]

I was thinking of making a new VP with the latest of everything I have in it...kinda hoped to ship it together with the second part of my campaign, but my FREDers have a nasty habit of dissapearing and taking a few missions with them.

Around 16 missions done, 10 left to go and no progress in the last few months. Been working on other things...heh.

[Vertigo 7]

i've been using your ships for a campaign i'm working on =p i love the detail in em, even tho i've had ta fix0r them up in some way or another