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CB.. · 08-04-06, 11:52 AM

Just to let you know it's not just you!!
i made a Blohm und Voss Bv 138...skinning it proved to be some sort of fruedian nightmare..never even got close ...i've built and skinned dozens of aircraft for flight simulators and i couldn't even begin to understand what the hell was going on with SH3 texture mapping lol!! abandoned it as completely over my head!!

WHHHOOOOSH AND DOUBLE WHOOOSH AINT IN IT!!!
i tried every trick in the book that i knew and even invented a few just for the sake of making absolutely sure it was out side my ability to achieve....not a chance in hell
the really strange and annoying part was that normally --if your persistant enough--you finally beging to understand what is happening and can find ways to make it work...in this case after a weeks solid hard core trail and error..i was no wiser at the end than i was when i made the first stab at it...hadn't learn't a thing..other than there is some sort of multiple redundancy thing going on where by the model will attempt to use a texture file even if you have removed that texture from the model file dat and completely removed any reference to it with a hex editor...(i made a few attempts trying to adapt an existing model rather than making a brand new one from scratch..thinking i could repaint the texture file on the adapted model file and cheat my way past the issue by utilising the allready existing texture mapping..doing a repaint to finish the job..lol must have been mad...not a chance...

weird beyond belief..!!

nice models tho keep trying maybe you'll get further than i did..

08-04-06, 11:52 AM	#3
CB.. Ace of the Deep Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: UK Posts: 1,278 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	Just to let you know it's not just you!! i made a Blohm und Voss Bv 138...skinning it proved to be some sort of fruedian nightmare..never even got close ...i've built and skinned dozens of aircraft for flight simulators and i couldn't even begin to understand what the hell was going on with SH3 texture mapping lol!! abandoned it as completely over my head!! WHHHOOOOSH AND DOUBLE WHOOOSH AINT IN IT!!! i tried every trick in the book that i knew and even invented a few just for the sake of making absolutely sure it was out side my ability to achieve....not a chance in hell the really strange and annoying part was that normally --if your persistant enough--you finally beging to understand what is happening and can find ways to make it work...in this case after a weeks solid hard core trail and error..i was no wiser at the end than i was when i made the first stab at it...hadn't learn't a thing..other than there is some sort of multiple redundancy thing going on where by the model will attempt to use a texture file even if you have removed that texture from the model file dat and completely removed any reference to it with a hex editor...(i made a few attempts trying to adapt an existing model rather than making a brand new one from scratch..thinking i could repaint the texture file on the adapted model file and cheat my way past the issue by utilising the allready existing texture mapping..doing a repaint to finish the job..lol must have been mad...not a chance... weird beyond belief..!! nice models tho keep trying maybe you'll get further than i did.. __________________ the world's tinyiest sh3 supermod- and other SH3/SH2 stuff http://www.ebort2.co.uk/ The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity. W.B.Yeats Last edited by CB..; 08-04-06 at 12:10 PM.