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SUR for the Norexant

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Post Tue May 02, 2006 3:37 pm

SUR for the Norexant

I was looking through my Solurus systems mod and found a ship marked "Klingon Norexant." When I looked at the cmp, however, I noticed that it is actually a romulan Valdore (or something like it), from ST: Nemesis. But it doesn't have a sur file. Was this intended? Does the ship work without one? If not, I would most appreciate someone directing me to anything that can make a decent sur. (I do know that the topic is being discussed)

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Post Tue May 02, 2006 3:47 pm

At the moment we can't make our own working SUR's, the SUR exporter that we currently have can only give us a 50%-ish working SUR and that's only after a complete rebuild and reworking of the ship model.

The best bet for all current CMP's is to use a vanilla SUR and resize it to fit with FLModelTool (in the D/loads).

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Post Tue May 02, 2006 3:50 pm

Thanks.

Post Tue May 02, 2006 10:36 pm

I´ve made a new, more fitting sur for the Vesuvius with the exporter and it worked fine without any afterwork.

Post Wed May 03, 2006 5:36 am

Stefan just out of curiosity give your ship & SUR a proper test, start a game with your ship and remove the shield, then fly to some pirates and give them some target practice. Sit in turret view and watch the shots hit or pass through your hull, you'll find that shots will probably register on some of the extremites but that most of those aimed at the ships centre will pass clean through. This is the problem with this beta exporter as some of the main hitboxes don't register damage, which makes them useless for use in game.

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Post Mon May 15, 2006 3:12 am

Well, the TCS Vesuvius is quite easy-shaped.
I tested it in the Badlands with the Destructible Universe Beta version and I was attacked by loads of outcasts and rogues.

Post Mon May 15, 2006 1:18 pm

What's the poly count for it as I'm finding that the lower the count the better the SUR works (it's still far from perfect), take the shield bubble for instance it has under 100 polys and works almost all of the time. Also what shape is it as the more primative the shape the better it seems to work.
Having said that it's still useless for the vast majority of the ships we have as they have high poly counts and more angles than you can shake a stick at.

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Post Mon May 15, 2006 1:54 pm

Xeno,send me a written request for my Valdore and u can use it.It has a fully working SUR

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