I've made a ship in 3dsmax, and I've imported it into Milskshape, but I'm having trouble with textures and dummy triangles. Where can I go for some milkshape tutorials?

Where can I get milkshape.
And is it free.

oh, and btw, if u're emailing me yer FL files, please also include the Milkshape original files so I can check out how u're naming stuff.

Milkshape is shareware, but very very cheap and worth every penny, looker close in the thread and u should see a couple of links.

Not sure about Milkshape tutorials... Look around, I find it quite intuitive anyway.

Regarding the ship not showing up in the game. One reason could be that the ship is "below the ground". In Milkshape you may have to raise your center point up by a few hundred to get it "above ground" so it can be seen.

Well, I've got the textures to show up in the game. Now the problems seems to be that they don't line up with the actual model. This specific ship has only 1 TGA file for the whole texture. It lines up fine when viewing in milkshape but when it comes to the game it's not. I tried rotating and mirroring the texture with no luck. Any ideas would be appreciatted. Thanx

@Eisen: I'll send that file now

Update: I guess it is something wrong with textures, because all I can see in the game is the ship's equipement Everything else is working
I have, btw, the same problem with the older version of Tigershark. Dralthi, on the other hand is working.

Edited by - {Tolwyn} on 05-04-2003 10:42:49

Update2: ok, I've found the problem. It was caused by duplicated materials. Additionaly they had wrong names Apparently, original names were lost after the conversion to Milkshoe format.

Update3: http://www.scifi3d.de/temp/FL/hornet1.jpg
http://www.scifi3d.de/temp/FL/hornet2.jpg
http://www.scifi3d.de/temp/FL/hornet3.jpg

Edited by - {Tolwyn} on 05-04-2003 10:48:33

Edited by - {Tolwyn} on 05-04-2003 11:44:28

hehe, excellent work, I managed to get it fixed and sent it to u, then read the forums, so sorry for that Glad it worked out well for ya, And remember just to keep an eye on yer mat names

I'm currently working on the Dragon (Lance) fighter from wc4, Everything seems to be going ok, but that ship uses quite a lot of textures (11) not sure how well it'll handle that, ah well...One way to find out

well, I've sent you a much better version. As for me, I'll concentrate on getting other ships into the game

Hello people

im having a problem similar to one above everything shows up ingame but the texture is screwed! like above i noticed the texture name changed to material#2
so i renamed it back to what it was supposed to be and exported again making SURE i replaced the 1st cmp but the texture is still screwed any help where im screwing up please

btw. ive never used milk b4 ive always used max i had to turn the model upside down in milk in order for it to be right side up in game

Edited by - Quevey on 05-04-2003 20:12:32

you have to flip the texture... I had the same problem

Thanks buddy that did it 1 more question does this support high res textures and lightmaps?

I think it is not supported.

I tried to use the Dralthi model provided with the plugin, but instead of a fighter I see only "flying weapons" and no hull... Could someone tell me the exact procedure to use a custom model?

i need some more ifo on the texture because i dont see it

i am only atacking the people who want to kill me but what if they kill me first

Edited by - Gundam leader on 07-04-2003 21:49:38