[FekLeyrTarg]

Hello guys and gals,
I've just come up with another idea.
I remembered that there is a mod for Star Trek: Bridge Commander, with which you can replace textures (like ship names and registries) on a ship without having duplicate models, saving lots of disc space. It's called the Skinning and Damaging tool.
And then I thought. Why not having something similar in Freespace?
My idea is, like BC's SDT, to put certain lines in a ship's table entry to replace textures. For example:

$Replace Textures:
     +texture1 to replace: Sathanas.dds
     +texture1 replacement: Sathanas_green.dds
     +texture2 to replace: ...
     +texture2 replacement: ...
     ......

Of course it would probably the best if FS2 would automatically replace the shine-, glow- and the other maps as well.

I think that if FS2 would have such a feature, we wouldn't have to have duplicate models with different textures and we would save a lot of disc space.

PS: If I made you curious about the SDT, you can inform youself about it there: http://bridgecommander.filefront.com/file/Skinning_and_Damaging_Tool_V20;30522

[Kobrar44]

Well, there is that thing, but I have no experience with it.

[mjn.mixael]

It doesn't work.. and many have hoped for it to be fixed.

[FekLeyrTarg]

Odd. Looks like I missed it when checking the Ships.tbl entry of the wiki. Good to know that it's there already even though it needs to be fixed.

[niffiwan]

actually, if my memory is correct the cause of the issue was the misuse of a "memcpy" in FSO, and all the memcpy issues have been fixed recently so it might be worth another quick test to see if it's working now.

[Kopachris]

And if that still doesn't work, there's always texture replacement available in FRED, iirc.  (Isn't that how we normally do Orion nameplates?)

[Boomer20]

Would it be possible to implement the texture replacement with the team colours bar?
For example with the Orion, the nameplates are tabled and you use the drop down bar to select your desired nameplate.
Would this be possible or does the colours table only work with purely changing colours?
Just a thought

[mjn.mixael]

actually, if my memory is correct the cause of the issue was the misuse of a "memcpy" in FSO, and all the memcpy issues have been fixed recently so it might be worth another quick test to see if it's working now.

Nope, still not working.

[Goober5000]

actually, if my memory is correct the cause of the issue was the misuse of a "memcpy" in FSO, and all the memcpy issues have been fixed recently so it might be worth another quick test to see if it's working now.

Good thinking.  I would have to track down Taylor's original patch though; it was never committed.

[FekLeyrTarg]

And if that still doesn't work, there's always texture replacement available in FRED, iirc.  (Isn't that how we normally do Orion nameplates?)

I also tried that one. I also doesn't seem to work.