I would say that by loading the full campaign the game is loading into the memory all other units in the roster, and probably one of them has an occlusion texture with the same name as the one you used. Thus it appears instead the one of your Uboat, giving a weird result.

Try to rename the hull lightmap texture in your Type VII and see what happens :hmmm:

First of all, again thanks by this another fanatstic work! this will add a very important eyecandy, a much more polished visual for the uboat.

Now for the problem above. This is not related with your work, as Hitman said, is about some conflict on the ids or names, more probably ids. In the campaign files we have others uboats using cloned conning towers that were made much before S3D and can have yet some conflicted Ids. Is just this. You need to isolate them or make your new one just unique, perhaps even the objects/nodes that they are applied over. If you have so much trouble I can help you in find them. You yet really have so much work to do with the new interiors, no?:up: We must help you!

i like the ideas of fm...and his skills, to make them become real.

great stuff!!!

:yeah:

I could kiss you, but i promise i wont:up:

I changed the ID for the actual 3d hull model and it now works perfectly with the full campaign files.
I just hope changing this ID hasnt had repercussions for other files. I did load up a single mission containing the ai controlled viic and it was fine so its a bit of a puzzle as to what was using the hull models ID. BUt anyway all is well now so im going through the rest of the VIIc towers/flak guns, when those are done i`ll release the mod for the VIIc boats.

May well have been the AI VIIC
IIRC we had a similar problem during GWX 2 construction or 3 with the IXD taking textures from something else
Cant recall what now as soooo long ago

Nice work :up:

Hi Flakmonkey,

you are welcome. I am glad I could help you once, too.

I guess it would be the best if someone could reclone the AI subs because the files of the player's sub are more often modded than the AI subs. Unfortunately, I don't know how to clone the sub :oops:

Cheers, LGN1

yeah, the lightmaps are missing on many objects in the game...also the ships look like "plastic" cause of this...so your idea is really nice!

Its actually easier to add to the ships than it is to subs due to most ships having fewer parts and usually only 1 material, i normally dont get close enough to enemy ships to notice the lack of shadows though.

Id love to add this to everything in the game but it would probably be too much texture data, after all each lightmap is another texture to load.

+Does anybody know which dat contains the meshes for the radar, specificly the one that wraps around the front of the tower?? Ive looked everywhere and cant seem to find it.

Nice :DL

I think it's sensors.dat in Library folder...

By now you guys know i like to tease you with pretty pictures, so heres a few more....

Seriously though the first part of this mod is ready to release, it will be for the VIIc only and include lightmaps for turm1,2 and 4(the uflak), there is currently an issue with turm3which is why its not there. The mod doesnt alter the skins so its compatible with whichever skin you are using.
Its 1:43am right now and im struggling to keep my eyes open so i`ll upload the mod first thing in the morning.

http://img692.imageshack.us/img692/6...mparisson3.png
http://img141.imageshack.us/img141/2...mparisson2.png
http://img222.imageshack.us/img222/9...mparisson1.png

+ sorry for the large images, i could have sworn i selected resize when i was uploading them!

You obviously have too much time. :D
Besides of that the shots are looking brilliant.

Regards,
DD

Brilliant work indeed. Looks way better then default texturing.

I just knew it, I just knew it. Alot more can get wrung out of SHIII\GWX3. :woot::woot::woot:

Thx flakmonkey and all. :salute:

it definitely seems to make the details on the sub stand out. : )