** Tutorial ** - Drizzt4.0''s FL Ship Creating Tutorial

Sun Mar 21, 2004 7:02 pm by steve5113

Thanks for your great guide. I've read through it and the icon creating one and I can't figure out how to make the civilian skin mods work for just one faction. I now realise that I have to change their mat ids using the crc editor so that FL knows its not for all civ ships. I don't know what the different tga files within the mat file refer to what ship, if you know what I mean? Is there a tutorial anywhere for making mat files for FL ships which are faction specific? ie IMG civ ships a different colour from GMG civ ships. I understand the shiparch entries for mat files and I understand that I'll have to have separate folders for IMG and GMG civ ships.

Thanks for a great forum.

S

Tue Mar 23, 2004 12:06 pm by TommY_4_life

Drizzt...i have another problem, when i start pic2pic there is this screen in which i can make a certain file another file (fig to jpeg for example) but i cant come to the screen u show in the tutorial, do u have an idea?

TommY out

Movin' in for the kill

Tue Mar 23, 2004 10:30 pm by psycoscythe

TommY_4_life you might have a differnt version or something

Tue Mar 23, 2004 10:32 pm by psycoscythe

When i download the tutorial the zip file is empty do i need to get my winzip updated?

Wed Mar 24, 2004 7:16 am by Drizzt4.0

um.. i checked the download link i gave and its working fine... the pdf file is there... I also checked the TLR link and have resent the filewhile making sure that the pdf is there. hopefully you wont have this problem again.

NEWS!!!
I am now connected to the internet via a 2m cable line, so reconstruction of my tutorial has begun. Anyone wishing to help in this huge project MAY email me at [email protected].

im looking for:

editor/proof reader
research/writer
graphics/organization
tester/bug reporter

of course im still going to be writing as well... but im hoping this team will work together to plan and brainstorm and help pop this thing out in a month.

If knowledge is power, I intend to be just shy of GOD

Edited by - drizzt4.0 on 3/25/2004 12:49:26 PM

Wed Mar 24, 2004 3:55 pm by Sparky

I am not understanding the whole Hardpoint thing. Do I have to make a new face or what?

Thu Mar 25, 2004 4:45 am by Drizzt4.0

no not really... what you are doing is selecting the face/ or faces where you want the hardpoint to be and clicking duplicate selection from the edit menu OR regroup from the group menu... copying the hard point face allows you to move it around while regrouping that hardpoint face will completely detach the face from the mesh(so if you want to be able to move the hardpoint- duplicate dont regroup.) Or yes you could create a new face. but i really dont think thats necessary.

good luck,
drizzt4.0

If knowledge is power, I intend to be just shy of GOD

Thu Mar 25, 2004 8:54 am by pSYCHO

I would be happy to help ya

What was FL2 and is now ...............*suspense and drum roll* .................... FL: Fallen Universe!!!!

Thu Mar 25, 2004 12:57 pm by Ares:God of War

I know people have done it, so does anyone here know how to make a playership dockable? As in, I could be flying a battleship, and my clanmate could dock with it. I have an alternative planned, but it requires new SUR files. So does anyone know how to do this?

Thu Mar 25, 2004 5:54 pm by Sparky

Drizzt, I didn't fully understand that. Do you have any chat mediumsthat you could hit me up on?

Thu Mar 25, 2004 6:57 pm by Stinger

Boy did I miss this thread badly.

Part of the main thread now, sorry it took so long.

Thu Mar 25, 2004 7:47 pm by Drizzt4.0

hehe you could always sticky it...

Fri Mar 26, 2004 3:16 am by Stinger

technically, it is stickied

Sat Mar 27, 2004 4:25 pm by Firewing

I just realised that Truespace is excellent for FL modeling...

Any model you make you can save as 3DMax ascii which Milkshape opens imidiately....no exporter needed....
And given the fact that Truespace is friggin easy...hehehe...

Just one question:
When making LOD's do all of them need to have all hardpoints?

Allso, if 2 LODs have the same texture, does the MAT file have to be updated?

Mon Mar 29, 2004 10:11 am by Drizzt4.0

Sad Sad news...

The continuation of this tutorial must come to an end. I am no longer able to remake and keep up on this tutorial due to... certain aspects of my life. If someone was to want to continue and take over my tutorial I would appreciate it. You dont have to ask, just make sure you do a good job and give me credit for the original... it breaks my heart to leave it the way it is, but im glad it has helped at all... i never thought it would become what it has and thanks so much.
Here is the ORIGINAL WORD DOC for the tutorial.

i may be able to answer some questions everyonce in a while, but i must leave it at that.

Once again thanks everyone,
goodbye for now
drizzt4.0

If knowledge is power, I intend to be just shy of GOD

Edited by - drizzt4.0 on 3/30/2004 6:52:40 AM

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