[chief1983]

That Radeon 9200 should be able to run PCS2 I would think.  I've never tried it myself on something that old though.  I doubt SP3 would help but I never had any problems installing it on my XP boxes.

[zookeeper]

Problem solved (or rather worked around, I guess): I switched to using the integrated Intel 82845G, at which point the crashes went away. Query OpenGL gives 1.3.0 as the version now.

[Vasudan Admiral]

Strange, but at least that confirms it's graphics card related through either the hardare or drivers. :\

[Spicious]

Did you do an reset x-form before exporting?  That error is usually because you did an move/rotate/scale before you exported (there's extra information in the dae file that the converter can't handle)

That could possibly be fixed if someone would send me a model with this 'problem'.

[Scooby_Doo]

I'll have to remake one for you, but there was a separate node entry that contains the rotate/translate/scale values.

[JGZinv]

Is PCS2 still open for improvements or suggestions?

I might be able to come up with one or two things feature wise, and there's a couple things
at least that are named (sort of) wrong... or at least they could be less confusing to new folks
if they matched like they are meant to.

[Thaeris]

Are we opening up the thread for bug reports? If so, I have a few in mind to report...

-Thaeris

[DaBrain]

I need some help with PCS2.

I'm importing a part of a collada model into a POF, which works great. It's actually amazing how well it works.

The only problem is, that it doesn't import the texture used on the new submodel. Is that a bug?

I noticed I can create new textures/materials in PCS2. How can I assign them to a submodel?


I'm using the October 2008 build, cause the newer Collada compatible build crash for me.

[chief1983]

There's a November one that should work, it crashes for you too?

[Reprobator]

I got a question too with collada,
When i export models from 3dsmax to pcs2 by collada, it works greatly with pcs2.
Now my problem is that when i export from pcs2 to 3dsmax, modify things, then export collada , when i open that with pcs2, pcs2 will crash... is it normal?
Because when you have to modify something on a existing model i don"t want to replace all the dock point  path etc... in pcs2 as it takes hours...
i'm not home i don't remember wich version of pcs2 i use, i think it's the last one.
Ah and when i save a pof, pcs2 will crash everytime, but it save the pof correctly... i'm running windows 7 64 bit version.

[FUBAR-BDHR]

If you have the original Model and have to edit it why not start with it, rename the old .pof, export the model and then do a global import from the renamed one?  You may have to still tweak a few things but no more then you have to do anyway.

[Reprobator]

because psc2 will crash too? i'll try it tonight !

[Reprobator]

Ok i've just try it,
When i use the global import, i lose all the geometry part, i mean i lose all subobject even detail-0

[Aardwolf]

So yeah, maybe if someone would pay attention to that thread I posted (http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php?topic=65680.0), we might not have to deal with all these "PCS2 will crash" bugs.

[FUBAR-BDHR]

Ok i've just try it,
When i use the global import, i lose all the geometry part, i mean i lose all subobject even detail-0

What version of PCS2 are you using?  I done this many times without a problem.   Well except for rotating subsystem and turret data needing to be entered correctly. 

[Reprobator]

Aardwolf: i m no coder at all, i don't see how i could give any help about it.
my pcs2.1 version is 4 jan 2009

[FUBAR-BDHR]

Get the 2.03 Collada from November (check Chief's sig used to be there) it's much more stable.  2.1 was an alpha release and is not at all stable.

[chief1983]

The 2.0.3 link should still be in the article in my sig link, unless someone removed it.

[Aardwolf]

Aardwolf: i m no coder at all, i don't see how i could give any help about it.
my pcs2.1 version is 4 jan 2009

I didn't say you were.

I'm just saying that as long as people are going to completely ignore the research I did to figure out the cause of that crash, and nobody is independently trying to figure out the problem, and nobody is working on a solution, it's not going to get fixed.

Edit: on a related note, everything after the PCS2 beta uses VBOs and, as such, will crash and burn. That's probably why Reprobator isn't using 2.0.3 / the Collada import version.

[Reprobator]

Well in fact i've just missed the last collada pcs2 version ;p
I did download it form the wiki, i'll try the one you told me this evening.