[jdh300x]

I need a link to the collada importer for pcs 2.0.3
I can import .dae with 2.1, but I use 3ds max, and even when i do everything correctly,(including the xform) nothing shows up in the editor.
Please help me!!!

[X3N0-Life-Form]

I don't have an answer for you, but I do have an off-topic question:
Is there a reason why your potentially-useful-for-other-newcomers threads disappear?

We don't usually delete stuff around here, even horrible cluster****s of hate and flame tend to simply get split-locked, and your threads were actually quite interesting, and would help new modders asking themselves the same questions you did.
/off-topic

[jdh300x]

I have just started in HL, so I will probably make mistakes.
Please excuse my actions for now.

[BlasterNT]

Are you using the .fbx (the built in one) exporter or the OpenCollada exporter?  If you're using .fbx, you need to use OpenCollada, which doesn't come as a part of Max.  You can get it here:  http://opencollada.org/download.html

[jdh300x]

No i am not talking exporting from max. I already have that exporter and am not using the built in one. I am talking about importing those .dae files into pcs 2.0.3

[headdie]

PCS2 supports collada.

is your main model called detail0 ?

[jdh300x]

oooohhhhhh it has to be called detail 0. Ok i can work with that. Thankyou!!!

[headdie]

PCS2 only seems to pick up objects beginning with either detail or debris when it imports dae, everything else seems to be ignored, sub-objects can be called anything though, but it just leaves you with a blank screen as though you never asked it to load a file

[jdh300x]

IT IMPORTED!!!
Thankyou sooooo much.
Now how do I get turrets onto my test cube without making them in max?
I heard some people telling me I could do all of the turreting in pcs.

[headdie]

The mesh has to be done in the modeling program but the rest is easiest done in PCS2

[jdh300x]

reset???

[Droid803]

Please calm down, in max, link the turrets to your cube called detail0.

[jdh300x]

Is there any way to get these turrets without actually making them, like importing the orion .dae and taking the turrets off or something?

[headdie]

with newer versions of PCS2 you can import, but knowing how to create and attach turrets is a very useful skill, I believe it is not to difficult in max and it will make creating capital ships much easier.

[jdh300x]

This would be my first capship, so i would like to make it easy just to make sure i am importing\exporting and such correctly. I have pcs 2.1 Alpha, so how might I import these turrets exactly. Would i steal them off the actual orion model in pcs, or would i have to load it in pcs and then do something?

[Droid803]

Go to objects and then hit import, select the orion POF, and then select the turret object to import.
You can do it all in PCS2.

[jdh300x]

One more tiny question. I have got this turret into pcs2 (Thankyou very much so far, it has worked perfectly!)
No i just need to move it onto the hull. It is way off in the distance.

[headdie]

its the offset line in the object's properties

[jdh300x]

Okay i see it.
Are those cooridnates. How would i get it onto the hull.

[Droid803]

Just change the numbers, they represent its coordinates in cartesian space (3D), so pick a point on the hull where it would sit, and set its coordinates to that.

in short, just change a number and see what it does!!!!!
 
LERN
2
TRIAL
AND
ERROR

that or you could come to my house, drop off $6,000,000,000 and I'll give you the version of PCS2 with the "read my mind and place it on the hull exactly where I want!" button. It's awesome, but too bad it only works once.