I too am trying to add an entirely new ship to the universe...
(I'm assuming that's what you mean... :p)

I don't have 3ds max or maya, and I'm trying to do it all with Milkshape, the supplied UTF editor, Bini, and ResHack., I've edited all the files I can think of that would add a new ship to the game...I havn't had any luck importing textures into a .mat file though...

I'm sure I'm getting myself into a lot more work that i expected...but it will be fun to fly my own ship if it all works.

-problems I have to date are:

1. How do you create .3db files? ...(I'm not sure if a basic one is created with the CMP exporter with milkshape or not)

2. How does one create .sur files?

3. How do you get the textures into the .mat file and can anyone supply info on the ASCII, DcDt , MIPS,...etc....

4. I placed my "new" ship at Planet Pittsburg. You can go to the ship dealer, click on him and it tries to pull up the "ships for sale" window. but it immediately closes. On a positive note, my game doesn't crash.

(I know we have some forums on editing existing ships, but how about a forum on creating entirely new ones!...and getting them to actually show up!)

Caio! and any help would be great!

~The "Cord"

Textures in freelancer are dds files. get the Nvidia dds plugin for photoshop. then import the texture into utf edit.

if we don't have photoshop, are we SOL?

Happiness is a belt-fed weapon.

there's also a commandline tool that converts the tga <->DDS

i ment
what format do i export my mesh to ?
and how do i do to export it to that format ?

do i need a program and is there one fore free somwere ?