[peterv]

OK, here you have it! These directions are also in a text file in the zip.

And that's it!

Thanks, i'll try that.

[Akalabeth Angel]

Sweeeeet. I'll let you know how it turns out. Hopefully I can get that baby into Maya.

[Galemp]

It'd be easier to get the mesh into Max...

[Akalabeth Angel]

It'd be easier to get the mesh into Max...

    Yeah especially since .max only works with Max. You'd think if Autodesk owns max and autodesk bought maya they'd make the two sorta like compatible  (oh there's an idea!). Oh well, guess I need max and then get my mesh in there somehow.

[Colonol Dekker]

By that logic they could create a bastard variant of the two.

And lose half their profits.

I'm trying this outt in MAx9 32bit now.. Damn, this is simple cheers Thnx

[Col. Fishguts]

Yay, thanks a bunch.

[Colonol Dekker]

Looking at the quality of the max file makes me think you WORKED on Freespace.... did you? HUH?? DID YOU !?!?!?!?!

[Colonol Dekker]

Arggghhh it all goes wrong when i attach my model... I attach the first model (before cloning) to "HULL" then try to delete hull, removing my object in the process. Any particular settings?

Also i noticed if i try and run through the sequence in a dry run before deleting "HULL" my model and the harbinger dont "appear" with the scan. They're present from frame 0


Need tips

[Galemp]

Ah, you don't delete Hull. That would delete everything. Instead (in edit mesh mode) you have to select the Harbinger subobject and delete THAT.

And if you just put your model in there then yes, it will be present from Frame 0 because there's no animation associated with it. All the animation is in place--what you're doing is making the effects apply to your model, not to the Harb.

As for the Max file, partly it's from working with Max daily in Architecture school since 2003 but it's mostly self-taught. Thanks for the compliment.

[Colonol Dekker]

I'll try again. At least i remember my video post basics. I'll try again when i'm back from le'pub.

[Colonol Dekker]

Bak from the pub. All i managed to do was replace the wireframe one successfully. I replaced the solid hull in the same way. My model inherited the motion but not the scan in effect. Any preferences when attaching? I'm given three to do with material ids or summink. "hic"

[Galemp]

make sure you're out of mesh select mode, that is, there shouldn't be any little subselection icon next to the modifiers in the stack.
That way the Slice modifier will apply to the whole mesh.

[Colonol Dekker]

Remind me how to get out of mesh select mode pls

[Spoon]

OK, here you have it! These directions are also in a text file in the zip.

Instructions on generating FS2 ship/weapon loadout animations:

• Open the Max scene. Import your model, resize and reorient it and center it on the grid (it helps if you go to frame 60 or so.) Clone it in place.
• Select the solid Harbinger, go to the Edit Mesh base modifier, click Attach and click ONCE on your new model. Select the Harbinger mesh and delete it.
• Do the same with the wireframe Harbinger and the (not yet attached) model clone. Slide the animation bar back to help you hide the first model, after you've attached it.
• Find the appropriate material and replace the diffuse, glow, bump, and shine maps with your model's.
• Make sure the specular map is reflecting the Nebula texture and the background is the ssani background (both included.)
• Render at 202 x 185 for low-res, 332 x 304 for hi-res. Use the Video Post system to apply the glow effects, and output to 24-bit bitmaps.
• Use Bright (included), Irfanview, and the included command utility to remap all bitmaps to a common palette and convert them to PCXs. Use AniBuilder to create the ANI looping at frame 59.

And that's it!

Bringing back a way old thread back from the dead.
The link in the quoted post has 404'd. I was wondering if anyone has that file saved and would be willing to reupload it for me.

[Galemp]

Hurm. Maybe someone else has it, as I am in Germany and cannot help for a few weeks.

[Spoon]

Hurm. Maybe someone else has it, as I am in Germany and cannot help for a few weeks.

Hey, if you are back in Amsterdam you should make a small detour to Apeldoorn and bring me the data personally 

[Galemp]

Actually, it would be much better for me if you could come to Amsterdam, as I will be working.

Hey! Why not come down for Queens Day, the 30th? We could have a blast!

[Spoon]

Actually, it would be much better for me if you could come to Amsterdam, as I will be working.

Hey! Why not come down for Queens Day, the 30th? We could have a blast!

Heh i'd come but it's also my mothers birthday.  (And no, she's not the queen though she'd like to think that she is)
Besides, i'm too nerdy to enjoy big parties in big cities like that.

[Colonol Dekker]

I'll bring it into the library and upload it next week. harbssani.rar iirc?


(still having trouble, i should have remembered during our london jaunt...)

[Col. Fishguts]

Here

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