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Originally Posted by Type941
It's been a while that some tools are available for modding and some techniques have been perfected probably by now. I can't seem to figure out where to start with a very simple project.
I don't want to make a new ship. I want to take a current ship and give its copy to another country. Let's say for example I want to take Revenge battleship and give it to Russians. It's very accurate (russians had Royal Sovereign on lease) and doesn't require any 3d edits.
What I want is simply a copy of Revenge BB, put under Russia, and given it its own skin. That's all. Is it hard?
If it's not too difficult, I would do this thing to some other ships, like give the big liner to the red cross for example. Please point me to the right direction, or if anyone wants to walk me through this, I would really appriciate it...  |
You can try something like this
- Make a copy of the NBB_Revenge folder in the data\Sea directory
- Rename this copy of the folder to say NBB_Arkhangelsk and replace sequence NBB_Revenge with NBB_Arkhangelsk for every file name in the folder
- Replace BBRevenge in the NBB_Arkhangelsk.cfg file with BBArkhangelsk
- Open Pack3D, go to the NBB_Arkhangelsk folder, load NBB_Arkhangelsk.dat and clone it by pressing the "Clone" button
- Make a copy of the BBRevenge.cfg file in the data\Roster\British\Sea directory, rename it to BBArkhangelsk.cfg and place to the data\Roster\Russia\Sea directory
- Replace sequence BBRevenge with BBArkhangelsk in the data\Roster\Russia\Sea\NBB_Arkhangelsk.cfg
- Add new line BBArkhangelsk=Revenge Battleship in data\Sea\EnglishNames.cfg
- Give your new nice skin TGA files names which are different from NBB_Revenge512.tga or kk1CompleteMap.tga and import them to NBB_Arkhangelsk.dat using Pack3D (for a single skinned version of the ship)
- Check out brand new BB Arkhangelsk in the SH3 Museum
It can possibly work with keeping BBRevenge in both CFG files from the data\Sea\NBB_Arkhangelsk and data\Roster\Russia\Sea\ directories (then you do not need to add anything in EnglishNames.cfg) but I have not tested that.