Empire at war

Posted: Sat May 20, 2006 11:56 am

the mod tools have recently come out, has any 1 got any new ships in game yet?

is there going to be some sort of plugin for milkshape so u can convert them?

Posted: Sat May 20, 2006 12:18 pm

Well I've done a successful conversion of my Delta7 jedi starfighter, although I didn't code it, I just converted it it did work.

Cadet 3rd Year Joined: Apr 29, 2003 Posts: 92

at last some of the mods which r planned for it can get sum progress
is there a star trek conversion underway ?anyone know?

Cadet 3rd Year Joined: Apr 29, 2003 Posts: 92

map whats the poly limit of ships i take it it depends if its a fighter or capital ship

Posted: Sun May 21, 2006 1:40 am

so can u make models 4 it with milkshape and if so do u need hardpoints like in armada 2?

Cadet 3rd Year Joined: Apr 29, 2003 Posts: 92

am no sure about at the plug in is an exporter for 3ds max 6 so looks like u can only export it with max 6

Posted: Sun May 21, 2006 2:11 am

correct, the exporter is for Max 6 only. I have just recently gotten Max 6, and have so far done one ship, only partially however, and so far it looks good ingame, and does fire its weapons, after about 20 minutes of running through the coding. Only problem I am having right now is glossyness, shields, and collision mesh, MaP if you could help with this, it would be appreciated. Here is a picture of the ship, originally done for SFC.

EO

Posted: Sun May 21, 2006 2:14 am

there are no poly limits, the game is passed off vertacies rather than polys, well that is what LA and petroglyth said in an interview anyways.

Posted: Mon Jun 05, 2006 10:31 am

ok folks, I am currently working on two tutorials for EaW. The first being one for hardpointing a capital ship in Max6, and the second... a better way to make the engines glow. Hope to have an update soon. here is a shot of the fully functional Command Cruiser with all but one hardpoint showing, lol forgot to code that last one, before i added the engine glows. The tutorial will show you how exactly to do everything correctly.

EO

Posted: Mon Jun 05, 2006 8:54 pm

Does it use breakable hardpoints or does it just display the damage texture on the damaged hardpoints?

Posted: Mon Jun 05, 2006 9:02 pm

Looking great, Epytron!

Posted: Mon Jun 05, 2006 9:11 pm

at the moment its just the damage showing, havent felt like getting around to breaking the model just yet, plus I need to study the death meshes to see the full effect and what not, what damage points go where and what not...

EO

Posted: Tue Jun 06, 2006 11:56 am

oh yea, death models have to be considered aswell, at the moment all I have being working with is fighters so I didn't need them.