Sorry to post on here, i`m pretty sure there is always somebody saying they need help importing a ship. I have read most of the ship creating link from imagine and gone through the ship creating tutorial a few times by Drizzit.
I`m creating the ships from frontier. I know that there are some low poly versions which are the same as the ones in the old game, but I wanted to create some updated ones. These are my first attempt at doing the whole ship making thing.
I have been a pretty busy ini editor modder for the last year, so i`m not completely new to this, but anyway.
The problem, created the ship using AutoCAD, exported as 3ds into milkshape. All looks fine, done all the textures (just basically for now as its the first one), done the hardpoints, exported the cmp and the mat.
But in the game the ship dosen`t show up. Its buyable, so there`s no errors on the ini side of things. The mounts are also screwed, they all appear in one lump in the middle and none of the textures show.
The model itself was created using a combination of solid and surface modelling. It is mentioned in Imagines thread that you can`t have holes in the model. Well, some of the surface geometry isn`t sealed. Instead, you can look from below and see the front and back of the shape. The actual model could be made from one piece, it dosen`t have a hole going through the middle of it.
I`ll keep trying, but if antbody has some ideas it would be appreciated..