Homeworld Ships

[AlexPaladinStorm]

Aye. The Sur(face) file still isn't finished, and I don't know how to get it to work perfectly around the model - We'd need somebody who actually knows something, like whoever did, indeed, import the Homeworld models- because the surface model for them worked perfectly to represent impacts on the model. If I could get that to work, as well as the other parts, I'd be submitting the 3 or 4 or so files that make up a single FreeLancer model.

For the other Homeworld ships, that won't be as much of a problem- I'll be able to use the .sur file that came with the original import job with little or no problem. It's just this one model needed so much extra work, it's now larger than the original model, and the arm-wings don't get counted in for collisions.

I'll also need to make a new 3db file. This shouldn't be too hard- it's just an icon, right? Just skin a plane object with a stylized picture of the ship. It's just the matter of getting the stylized picture of the ship to look right is the problem.

3db, CMP, sur, mat (bw_ships.mat renamed), and a txt chunk that is the custom scripting to be added to the game's database. And likely a changed infocard and such. I don't know too much about the scripting end of this. But I do have a Ship Scripter utility that may help on that, I'd prefer to mostly just borrow from the current Acolyte's data and augment it where necessary. It's just I need to find everything on it.

Again, I'd like to have the .sur file finished. If you can handle the scripting end of things, then I can let you take it from there.

But I need to know how the .sur file, and the exporter for it, works. An importer would be nice, to see how the 'model' is rendered in the original files.

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Currently: Remastering Kiith Somtaaw's Acolyte Fighter. These Homeworld ships need some Sirius work done on them. ^.-

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