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DivingDuck · 03-02-07, 03:40 PM

Moin,

the doctors say there won´t be any persistent damage to my brain.

There will be no further additional compartments, UFN. To understand why I have to tell you about this project which was initiated by Urfish. In the end it turned out to be an issue of hex editing only. After you´re through you´ll see that this pro isn´t made from magic. I´ve just copied and pasted some lines.
The first approach was based on implementing newly created objects to the scene. This worked out basically, but the major problem, the scence´s prelighting couldn´t be solved till now. Allthough the textures were apllied to them all new objects showed up "foggy". It seems that Pack3D isn´t able to import/export a specific section (TMAP). This section contains data necessary to enlighten the scene and works together with some data blocks that have been attached to the *.tga files to control prelighting. So I took another approach, I merged the command and radio room *.dat files and adjusted the camera sectors. That´s why no radioroom.dat is necessary. The CR.dat has grown from about 23MB to about 40MB. Pack3D refuses to import objects since then. And on the other hand we still have the problem of prelighting when adding new objects. Unfortunately the hinges are part of the radio room object. I rotated them already but the prelighting information was lost after re-importing. Actually I´m trying to identify the data that represent the hinges. Maybe there´s a way to rotate them by hex. As for the lights that shine trough the walls I´m getting closer to a solution. I´ve found out how this has been achieved with stock lights in the radio room. Applied it to the command room bulkhead and it worked. But for some unknown reason the lights in CR turn off when passing the bulkhead now. I´m at it and have reasonable assurance that it will work out fine.

Regards,
DD

03-02-07, 03:40 PM	#238
DivingDuck Grey Wolf Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Germany Posts: 902 Downloads: 10 Uploads: 1	Moin, the doctors say there won´t be any persistent damage to my brain. There will be no further additional compartments, UFN. To understand why I have to tell you about this project which was initiated by Urfish. In the end it turned out to be an issue of hex editing only. After you´re through you´ll see that this pro isn´t made from magic. I´ve just copied and pasted some lines. The first approach was based on implementing newly created objects to the scene. This worked out basically, but the major problem, the scence´s prelighting couldn´t be solved till now. Allthough the textures were apllied to them all new objects showed up "foggy". It seems that Pack3D isn´t able to import/export a specific section (TMAP). This section contains data necessary to enlighten the scene and works together with some data blocks that have been attached to the .tga files to control prelighting. So I took another approach, I merged the command and radio room .dat files and adjusted the camera sectors. That´s why no radioroom.dat is necessary. The CR.dat has grown from about 23MB to about 40MB. Pack3D refuses to import objects since then. And on the other hand we still have the problem of prelighting when adding new objects. Unfortunately the hinges are part of the radio room object. I rotated them already but the prelighting information was lost after re-importing. Actually I´m trying to identify the data that represent the hinges. Maybe there´s a way to rotate them by hex. As for the lights that shine trough the walls I´m getting closer to a solution. I´ve found out how this has been achieved with stock lights in the radio room. Applied it to the command room bulkhead and it worked. But for some unknown reason the lights in CR turn off when passing the bulkhead now. I´m at it and have reasonable assurance that it will work out fine. Regards, DD __________________ http://www.filefront.com/user/DivingDuck \| OpenHatch_V3_RH (SHIII)