look in the tutorial section ******TUTORIAL*** Transparent Windows by jackel
sorry I still dont know how to link things yet.
"keep it icey man I dont want to get killed out here" you know who

No, you misunderstand.

I don't want to *make* a *new* one, I want to know where the existing ones are stored so I can *edit* them directly.

I've trawled over Jackel's tutorial three times over already. Give me some credit.

Unless I'm missing something very obvious...

mat files in the ships folders
"Now all you have to do is go to FILE, SAVE, and save it as a TGA. It will "yell" at you saying it can only save a copy of the image, just ignore that. Now all you have to do is open your -----MAT file----- and add the texture there. Oh, and don't forget to add the texture in Milkshape as you normally do."
you be the judge did you miss something obvious.
"looks like I got some company" bounty hunter 1-alpha

Edited by - Keith on 05-05-2003 04:39:10

Seeing as we're quoting...
"I'll be damned if I can actually find which .mat or .cmp file they're stored in."

What I'm saying is, the *existing* glass textures don't actually seem to be stored in the various Ship .mat files. We've got panels, engines, debris... but no glass texture. And I don't know where to find them.

If I was making a new ship from scratch, then that bit of Jackel's tutorial (which *is* for making new ships) would be helpful. I'm attempting to just change the colour of the Eagle's cockpit canopy though from that amber to a different colour, which requires me to locate it directly, export it, then import it back in. But I can't find the thing.

Thanks for trying to help though!

Edit: Unless they're stored in this lod texture file, which would therefore be *the* most bizarre place to put it.



Edited by - Kasdia on 05-05-2003 05:00:06

look at the shiparch.ini file all the ships show which file there located in.
you can also change the cockpit view here by switching one for another.
I didnt like the titans as well as the eagle so i just put the eagle view on the titan, thats the easy way.

OK
Look in ku_playerships.mat -> material library -> K_glass
there are three nodes Dc; Oc; Type

Dc -> The Color
0.227451
0.172549
0.098039
0.000000
I Think the first three are RGB ( 58;44;25 )
(divide your Colorvalues with 255)
e.g. RGB 0;64;123
0.000000
0.250980
0.482352
0.000000

Oc -> Tranperency

0.800000 -> 0.700000 is more tranparent
0.000000