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Gmax and Ships Creation for X3TC

I couldnt sleep last night, so I messed around with learning how the X3 model compilation process works.

So far, I can import models, and also create my own. I have figured out how to bring in the base textures (materials). But now I have hit a barrier in which I cannot seem to export the model. I have put out a help call to Enenra at Egosoft to see if he knows what I am doing wrong.

Here is a ship I am doing presently as a simple 'see if I can import a ship into X3' experiment.

This is the Terran Drone which I am making into a version called a Terran Personal Launch. (Private non-military vehicle, similar to a car that could go from planet to planet, able to be equipped with Jump Drive and two lasers).

On this model, all I have done is attach some basic wing foils and a couple of stack effects lasers. The lasers appear on the hull when you install them on your craft in-game.



Bill
 
Bill that looks way cool kind of like an interstellar sports car, now if you cram a 454 RAT under the hood with a crane fireball full racing cam and muncie 4 speed vertical gate shifter this thing would make a great scout craft... mummm think of the possibilities...
 
GT182 said:
Bill, could I make a request for the Fire Fly from the tv series Serenity? If it's possible, and only if you have the time later on. I've searched but not found one for X3 as of now. With some weapons it would be the cat's butt for X3.
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GT is this what you are looking for? If so there is a Mod that has it already.
D_Firefly1.jpg
 
OK...I have to admit I've been fantasizing about the old "Starblazers" cartoon. I would love to see the starship 'Yamato' represented. "Fire the wave motion gun!" :icon_lol:
 
Last night, I got the exporter working.

One more step to getting ships into X3...

<-- jumps on the desk and dances a jig yelping 'yahoooo!'
 
Mike that is it, it looks awesome... an honest to goodness X3 Firefly. :applause:

Do you have a link to it?
 
Mike, I think the link is in the image address; here;


http://www.flatrock.org.nz/wolf


If you copy/paste the image address, you find where the image is hosted. Some of the guys that did the addons for X3 are in NZ, CZ, and the Fatherland. :d


Bill

EDIT: and hopefully soon, Phoenix... eeeks! lol
 
GT182 said:
Mike that is it, it looks awesome... an honest to goodness X3 Firefly. :applause:

Do you have a link to it?
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GT it is part of the DDTC Mod for Terran Conflict, I just installed that last night and it is amazing, these guys have done some real neat stuff.

Here is the link to the Post on Ergosoft, the dowmload is a good size but it is worth it.

http://forum.egosoft.com/viewtopic.php?t=250104

I am having a little trouble with the frame rates but I am not sure if it is the Mod or somethign else on my system, I am going to trouble that some tomorrow.
 
Man I miss that show Serenity... What a wild program. Totally new look on the future. Even their 'talk' was new and different.. like the word Atmo, and how they would phrase things in their sentences, like back in the early Western days of America..



Bill
 
Bill I am going to cheat one up this morning and I will give you a quick rundown on it. The ship may be avaliable as a Standalone add on somewhere but I have only found it so far as part of the DDTC mod. This Mod was just released last week and is visually awsome, and they have done some very neat stuff with the gameplay, however the initial release does have a small problem with performance, even with a 64bit OS and 8 gigs of RAM I am in slide show mode around any action at all. The developers have commented on the Mod board that performance is one of teh top priorities for Jan so hopefully this is a short lived issue.

Stay Tuned.
 
Thanks Mike. I'll pour through that tomorrow night.

Gmax still isnt exporting the model parts yet. When I export, things happen, but nothing shows up. What I should have are some BOD files, which will then be converted to BOB files and then placed into a CAT file package.

I have to learn to tune these things as well. They have basic airfiles, lol.. Similar to FS...


Bill
 
Bill you are way over my head, but I did see the terms BOD and BOB in the comments on that page so I suspect you can find some helpful stuff there.
 
Well, I just tried a different method in trying to get a model to export from Gmax into BOD format, and UREEEEEEEEEEEKA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


woooooooooo hoooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!


<-- jumps up on the table and dances a jig


So tonight or tomorrow, I hope to see if I can export a complete model of the Terran Launch sport scout and see if I can get it into X3...

:d



Bill
 
Yippee! Mike, I'm downloading DDTD as I type this. ;) It's going in asap... well maybe tomorrow, but it's getting installed. Also have the manual too. Gotta print it out and read up first. Vanilla TC is going going gonnnnnne.

Bill, I garuntee you'll be asked for that Romulan Warbird, and the Firefly if you decide to mess around with it. Maybe the Romulan Warbird could be that new Boron Warbird. ;)

These would be good ones too....
http://www.kitsune.addr.com/SF-Conversions/Rifts-Trek-Ships/Klingon_Vorcha.htm

http://www.kitsune.addr.com/SF-Conversions/Rifts-Trek-Ships/Klingon_KVort_Bird.htm

http://www.kitsune.addr.com/SF-Conversions/Rifts-Trek-Ships/Maquis_Raider.htm
 
GT182 said:
Yippee! Mike, I'm downloading DDTD as I type this. ;) It's going in asap... well maybe tomorrow, but it's getting installed. Also have the manual too. Gotta print it out and read up first. Vanilla TC is going going gonnnnnne.

Bill, I garuntee you'll be asked for that Romulan Warbird, and the Firefly if you decide to mess around with it. Maybe the Romulan Warbird could be that new Boron Warbird. ;)

This would be a good one too....
http://www.kitsune.addr.com/SF-Conversions/Rifts-Trek-Ships/Klingon_Vorcha.htm
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You know, those bright 'star' like fire effects of the proton torpedos, and the reddish ones for the Klingon plasma torpedo things (I forget what they were called), would be good for those. Would have to develop its own weapons in that case. It would really add to the ships though, firing off those torpedos at the enemy Q ships and J ships.. :d



Bill
 
GT182 said:
Yippee! Mike, I'm downloading DDTD as I type this. ;) It's going in asap... well maybe tomorrow, but it's getting installed. Also have the manual too. Gotta print it out and read up first. Vanilla TC is going going gonnnnnne.

Bill, I garuntee you'll be asked for that Romulan Warbird, and the Firefly if you decide to mess around with it. Maybe the Romulan Warbird could be that new Boron Warbird. ;)

These would be good ones too....
http://www.kitsune.addr.com/SF-Conversions/Rifts-Trek-Ships/Klingon_Vorcha.htm

http://www.kitsune.addr.com/SF-Conversions/Rifts-Trek-Ships/Klingon_KVort_Bird.htm

http://www.kitsune.addr.com/SF-Conversions/Rifts-Trek-Ships/Maquis_Raider.htm
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GT when you install the DDTC mod you will have the Fire Fly it is included that is where I got the screenshot. I would warn you though there are performance issues with DDTC it gets real slow when you are in a busy sector, the eye candy is awsome but there is a performance hit. I would recommend making a copy of the Vanilla before you install that way you can go back if need be. What I did was just Burn my whole X3 Terran Conflict folder to a DVD before I installed the mod, and then to test it I installed played it for a bit and then renamed the installed folder to soemthing else and copied the original back to the HDD (remeber to remove the Read Only attrib if you do this) and low and behold I had my vanilla back. BTW I was also able to go directly to the new modified folder even though it had a different name now and double click the exe file and it ran so I have both loaded and working, the only draw back is I have to copy my Saves folder each time I switch so I do not mix up the save games but that is easy.
 
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