http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n253/Nym182/CMP.jpg


I know there are a few way of doing this but I never rly tried it. So I modeled this baby specifically to get 2 CMP files that were easy to attach and position...

If anyone Knows how to do this please post a detailed tutorial or give me some hints... the model is made out of 2 CMP's 21k triangles each. I can't export it as a whole since hard CMP crashes on me and says it runs out of memory or smthin. I can Actually have 1 CMP file of the ship But I don't know how to set the hardpoints in milkshape.

Any Ideas on this would be great. As a Result I will post the final result on the download section for anyone willing to have it ingame.

Ok so I managed to get the ship as a whole using the cargopod method...it looks amazing... I'll post a link in a few minutes...one problem...the cargopod part of the ship is not visible in the cityscapes and shipdealers... and when I hit another object the cargopod part od the ship gets detatched and floats off into space....anyone know how to fix this?

http://nym182.deviantart.com/art/Freela ... -153150717



I figured out why the pod kept bumping off of my ship...it had the hit point value set to -1 as I thought that would make it indestructible...apparently It didn't so I set a very high value and it fixed it...one issue remains... I can only see half a ship when I am docked on a planet or station...and it's just sad (((

Sorrs, that I can't be of any help, but.......

That's an AMAZING looking Ebonhawk, GREAT textures

That's really something I would like to get my hands on.

well stand by then, because Sushi, one of the Freeworlds TOW developers is going to help me splice the 2 cmp's into one
and that should resolve all issues. As soon as it's ready I'll make a little mod and put it in the downloads section for everyone to enjoy ...cuz I'm a nice guy and since I've learned so much and grown with tlr I figured I'd give smthin' back to the TLR community

Wow that looks amazing...I'll definately be wedging this into whatever mod I happen to be playin SP with at the time...might just play a trader for the first time since Vanilla WAY back when...can't wait for a release, and kudos on an awesome model/texture job!

Any news on progress? I'm definately anticipating this ship getting released. The mod I'm brainstorming atm, should I decide to include non-stock-themed ships, would definately want to get ahold of this baby...

Not yet, I need to do some more work on the model itself and resend it to sushi...but I've been busy with exams. on a paralel sidequest I'm still looking for a way to make cargopods visible in cityscapes...that would make my day...cuz splicing models apparently prevents you from scaling the cmp with fl model tool...or smthin like that...and according to sushi I have to split this ship into 4 different pieces...which is kinda hard cuz I specifically moddelled it for the cargopod method...so yeah...it will take a while. If anyone can dig up some stuff on cargopods that would help a lot. Discovery freelancer has this method where you can buy the cargopods and add them to your ship...but I couldn't rly figure out how that works. For now I'm playin SP with the model as it is appearing as half a ship when docked. I'm sure there is a simple thing I verlooked...something to do with how the game is programmed to render the cityscapes....I'm not sure where to look...but I'll figure it out somehow.

Lots of mods have mountable cargopods now iirc. I could have sworn the latest beta of Rebalance did...but I'm not much of a trader, so never messed with the ships that use em, never seen em on-world, nor looked at the code to figure out how it was done.


Also, thinking about it more, I might have an idea to get it working, if you wanna PM me what you have now, in FL formats, I can try playin around with it as it is. I've got lots of free time atm, so I can fiddle around with stuff. If not, that's ok, I can wait for the "official" release, just offering help. If you decide to send the files, send the single cmp as well, so I can try playin with it, too.