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Old 10-06-17, 02:19 PM   #2
gap
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Hi padmack,

I have had a look into at your other thread in the SHIV section, and your model looks nice

I wish I could help you, but nailing your mistake by simply looking into your file can be hard, if you don't tell us what file you have used as base of your work, what changes you have done, and t which point your model started crashing the game.

If you can't provide us with this information, my suggestion is to start over again importing your model in one of stock units. Everyone has his own method. The one I use is:

choose the stock unit you want to use as base for importing your own model in it, based on its similarity with your model.

Copy its files, and make them in a mod that you can enable/disable using JSGME.

Scrap all the non-essential files from it, i.e. dsd, val, zon, eqp and sns files.

Rename all the remaining files/folders so that they wont overwrite the corresponding stock files.

Simplificate the dat file, removing from it all the unneded nodes, and don't forget to also delete all the sim file controllers that might point to nodes already removed from the dat file.

Remap the Id's of the remaining chunks both in the dat and in the sim file, making sure that controllers in the latter file are ponting to their own parent objects after you have changed their id.

Start replacing the stock meshes with your own meshes, one by one. You will probably get to move/rotate some nodes, in order to make all your model subpart to be in the correct place relative to the ship hull.

When you have finished dong that, you can deal with physic parameters in the sim file.

When you have done with that, start adding back features to your ship (water reflections, caustics, sound effects, wake effects, damage boxes and spheres), one by one.

At each step, and every time you make a significant change to your unit, test your changes in game. If the shio is not crashing the game and you are satisfied with your last changes, don't forget to save a backup copy of your latest file. If the above conditons are not satisfied, get back to your last working backup, and start editing it where you had left it. If, while trying to add a certain feature or to edit a given parameter, the ship keeps crashing the game, or if simply you don't know how to obtain something you have in mind, just explain here what you are trying to do and what is the problem, and I am sure you will get plenty of help
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