Beginning Ship Skins

Sat Aug 26, 2006 7:23 am by Ronin_Eu

Thnx to Argh and Crabtree for their interesting posts on designing new skins for FL.

I have a query tho and pardon me if it hasnt been answered before:

Isit possible - and I am ssuming it is - to import the ship models direct from Fl into the Milkshape 3D.

I am new at this lark and all I want to do to start with is desing some new skins for use on my existing server if poss.

P.S. Might be handy to drop that little bit into your Skinning Tutorial Argh i.e How to import existing FL ship designs into the modelling system.

Cheers Guys

Wed Oct 04, 2006 8:41 pm by Holzbein

yep it is, there is cmp-importer aviable in the downloadsection ...

when textures r changed in milkshape use the mat-exporter (also aviable in the dl-section) to create a new mat file or updating an existing one.

in the shiparch.ini u can define what ship uses what .mat-file so u can make copy of the ship and offer it with a diffrent texture by changing the material line

dont forget to give it another nickname, otherwise it would collide with the original ship and define the new goods, hull and ship-package, for it, finaly find a place for the ship-package in the market_ships.ini, make shure u never offer more than 3 ships on a base ... thats it.

if u like to make npc's fly this ship (eg. a starflyer with a pirate paintjob) and include it in missions it gets more complex ... im still learning on that, so maybe a more expirienced modder might help ... ?!?

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