[acs07]

I did it with the forum's help I'm able to make my own capital ships, thank you.  But I cant get the textures right every time I go to put on a texture on my model in truespace2 trail ver I get only a striaght color (red) I wanted a red machine look for my ship, but I only get a red color only I don't know what i'm doing wrong can someone help?  these are the steps I took when i used the bmp file it was 256 size and at 16 million colors when i texed it, and when i was done i converted them back to 256 colors and saved them as pcx, then put one in fs2 folder and one in the data/maps folder under 8 char)

[Starwing]

You have to give your model an UV map first, or the textzres won't show up.

[acs07]

I figured out a way, I have to texture each piece 1st before I glue and save them all together thanks.  And by the way what does UV mapping do anyway?

[Starwing]

A UV map is a special shape that the textures are applied to, and then Truespace uses projection to calculate how the textures will look at the face. Somehow as if you put a transparent foil with an image on it in front of a wall and then put a light in front of it so the image is projected against the wall.

[Bobboau]

no peaces, it causes problems, make it out of one object, model, mesh, or what ever you want to call them. one, no guleing

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[JarC]

Don't mind Bobboau, he's addicted to a single subobject and is using a UVofTS...  

Have you looked at IP Andrews TrueSpace guide?
 Freespace 2 Ship Creation Guide

Some parts are also by the hand of Bobboau (and ofcourse Eternal One) but luckily Ian is not as opposed to using sub-objects as Bobboau is...(how else R U going to have rotating objects/turrets Bobboau?)

BTB. I discovered a nice trick if you triangulated an object and forgot to save a backup before ya did it...  

place a plane very close next to the object, but not touching it, then boolean subtract the plane from the object and viola, your untriangulated original object is back  

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[This message has been edited by JarC (edited 04-18-2001).]

[Bobboau]

look at the V meshes, they did it that way for a reson, turrets and such are not part of the hull.

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