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+--- Thread: 3-D modelling tools...... (/showthread.php?tid=12125)
3-D modelling tools...... - Caribe - 09-15-2008
That must mean your biased to just blender.
3-D modelling tools...... - Jazz - 09-15-2008
heres wht you do. Dont save the stupid files in Blender formats. Save it in 3DS. Which i know you can do.
3-D modelling tools...... - Linkus - 09-16-2008
Export your files from Blender in 3ds format.
Import the 3ds file into Milkshape.
Export your file in CMP format.
Boom, all done. (Basically)
3-D modelling tools...... - RingoW - 09-17-2008
Well, i have done all my models with Milkshape and i like it. Its a low polygon modelling program, which is perfect for Freelancer. Right, it does lack some important tools, like subsegmenting boxes, but this way i learned tricks how to model things out. It is also true, i need more time for my models, than with other programs. As long as i make models for Freelancer, i will stay with MS. This way i don't have to do the whole import/export crap, except cmp, mat and sur file. Btw, mat file you can make manually with UTF editor, but its very time consumpting.
@Linkus: Its not that simple. MS is portraying the models in the counterdirection. Does mean, you'll have to rotate the model 180 degree, either along z or x axis. Before or after the export into MS. Other way your ship fly backward. Another thing is the size.
AoM
3-D modelling tools...... - Linkus - 09-17-2008
I didn't say that the ship would be correctly done:P
Good point though, not so simple.
3-D modelling tools...... - Doom - 09-17-2008
i actually use same program that is used for modeling airplanes, cars etc...it is very powerful and it has unimaginable options...but it lacks one thing that i need for putting ships into FL...cmp exporter..and there Milky comes in...i also do most of my texturing in it...
so although i dont like it very much, its necessary evil...