first, you will need to export your ship from lightwave to gmax. As I don't know Lightwave, I can't help you about finding an exporter for it. But be sure to find an answer here I suggest you reading this tutorial as it is a step-by-step tutorial from the moment you make your ship in GMax.

Edited by - FriendlyFire on 12/27/2004 6:57:47 AM

why on earth would you want to put it into gmax when he has lightwave? ...lol

Just get miklshape and import the lightwave .lwo and open it up into milkshape, from there you can export it to freelancer cmp. And also conduct all your hardpointing using milkshape. No point in puting it into gmax, then have to put it into milkshape, when he could just directly put it in m.s. lol.

But a word of caution, if you made it in lightwave... did you use uv maps? Or planar mapping.... Cause it will need uv maps for use in other programs.

Well, im not a pro at lightwave, but whats the format im going to export in milkshape.
About the UV map I surtenly dont know how to uv map, Is it more easy in milkshape 3d??HU HU tell me!
ow and another thing, i dont have milkshape 3d
If you could tell me how to do the hart points and things like that it wil be nice
thank you for your help!

P.S.
I forgot to tell you not to give me any Lightwave websites because the tuttorial files are tooo biiiig and my modem is slow!
And ofcourse if i dont know how to uv map its clear that my sheep dosent have any thextures


Now you wil think of me that im making fun of this forum,but thats not write !Im jus a big fan of Freelancer and i whant me to fly my ship and kill LSF

@black_lighting : Srry, I never ever used LightWave of my life. Didn't know there was an importer for LightWave in MS3D. But then, I never had the time to mess with it, it's all bugged up Next time I'll just shut up...

Edited by - FriendlyFire on 12/28/2004 7:18:54 AM

actually i think there are two importers for lightwave in milkshape, and three lightwave exporters in milkshape... =p but regarding hardpoints... actually regarding making ships and putting them into freelancer... I still like the oldest and first (and only) tutorial I ever read

the borg sphere tutorial:
http://tfk.marlur.dnsalias.net/tutorial/

simple, easy, short, has everything you "need" to know to put a ship into freelancer from start to finish. (Including the hardpointing your asking bout)

edit:tho I should put a disclaimer out that there are much newer programs and exporters out there to make things faster then this tut has them done, such as the .mat exporter for miklshape which means you don't have to make your own .mat using utf, also there is the hardcmp editor program which will let you add/edit hardpoints to your cmp. But follow the borg sphere tut and you can't go wrong. Then you can go into the shortcuts people use.



Edited by - Black_Lightning on 12/28/2004 10:33:51 AM

You are my god thank you so much!

thx, but no thx, where do I get UTF editor and BINIQDU(from the tut. that you fave me), hu???
I also remember I had a tutorial from this website that included a list with all the bases and stations.
that tut. is preaty confusing what hardpoints are for the Torpedos, GUNS\ROCKETS, Shields, i found the engine but where is the thruster,

oooh now i remenber that the ship needs a colision box or sumthing like that, where do i get that?


thank you

Edited by - sergiu on 12/29/2004 6:05:04 AM

for all the programs and exporters ya need, try the freelancer editing utilities forum section =p

top most thread

http://www.lancersreactor.com/t/forum/t ... ing&M=True

put it on your favorites list, everything you need is in that thread


for collision boxes, just rename a prexsisting freelancer ship .sur file to the name of your ship, and put it in the same folder as your ships cmp. Later on you can deal with making a resizing sur, but you shuold just deal with getting it done before dealing with that. From the sounds of it, you should first finish your model, uv maps, and texturing before thinking bout putting it in.

i have a HUGE problem!
:.....-(
When i start Milkshape 3d it shows me a bug\error window with the options
Send Error Report -/
Dont Send Error Report -/ to Microsoft
...so i cant start Milkshape 3d...
-Are there other ways to expot my ship???
-My computer config. is:
Windows XP pro
Intel Celeron 2.40GHz
NVidia G-Force FX 5200 128 MB
!!!!!!the Milkshape 3d is 1.6.4!!!!!!!
Please tell me!

feew, i found out how to make it work, i just need to slower my hardware acc.
Im so happy

Glad you got it to work Sergiu. Can I recommend one thing however, Milkshape has free upgrades to later versions. 1.6.4 is well out of date, I recommend downloading 1.7.2 from the link here. Good luck with your modeling