[REQ] New Ships Added To Game

[mrbeast]

Yeah I no what you mean I have the SH3 hospital ship ported over to my game and though it looks pretty good, but as you say, it looks a bit flat.

Is it not possible to re-skin SH3 ship models with a SH4 grade skin?

[tater]

I think so, but having tried a little skinning... it's HARD.

That wreck is great!

tater

[mrbeast]

What I had in mind was if iambecomelife agreed, perhaps some of his models could be reskinned and ported over to Sh4.

[DeepIron]

What I had in mind was if iambecomelife agreed, perhaps some of his models could be reskinned and ported over to Sh4.

That would be cool... he's got some great stuff...

Is it not possible to re-skin SH3 ship models with a SH4 grade skin?

It's all in the texturing really. But for one thing... SH4 uses another set of "maps" to provide the "depth" that you see... Making all the textures for SH4 vessels isn't all that hard... I've already made them using Open Source tools. The remaining issue is packing them into an SH4 compliant .dat file.

[mrbeast]

Originally Posted by DeepIron

That would be cool... he's got some great stuff...

It's all in the texturing really. But for one thing... SH4 uses another set of "maps" to provide the "depth" that you see... Making all the textures for SH4 vessels isn't all that hard... I've already made them using Open Source tools. The remaining issue is packing them into an SH4 compliant .dat file.

Sounds like your making good progress on this

[DeepIron]

I'm at the point where I need to do some in-game testing to verify the new vessels will work properly. I've recreated from scratch the T, N and O files and tested them on existing SH4 meshes. Now I need to see if my UV mapping and meshes are going to work correctly. Making the individual components is one thing, having them work in harmony is another...

So, I'm cooling my heels a bit until we can get an SH4 .dat produced...

[iambecomelife]

Originally Posted by DeepIron

That would be cool... he's got some great stuff...

It's all in the texturing really. But for one thing... SH4 uses another set of "maps" to provide the "depth" that you see... Making all the textures for SH4 vessels isn't all that hard... I've already made them using Open Source tools. The remaining issue is packing them into an SH4 compliant .dat file.

Thanks for the compliments. If anyone wants to port my vessels to SH4 that's OK with me, as long as I'm credited & it's for free. If I'm still in the mood after finishing my mod for SH3 I would like to try and create a version of it for SH4 but right now I do not know how to convert SH3 ships to SH4. I think there was a tutorial posted on how to do this but I can't find it anymore.

[tater]

We are all hoping that when S3D becomes capable of doing this, importing a model will become literally a cut and paste level of difficulty---for the basic model. Obviously the zon file etc adds another level of complexity as werner could tell us

Your ships look amazing, BTW.


tater

[LukeFF]

The only thing I'm worried about WRT porting over SH3 ships is that the stock SH4 ones have a far more detailed interior model which is exposed when parts of the ship get hit by shellfire or torpedoes. Won't this be a problem, unless new interiors are made for the SH3 ships?

[sergbuto]

Originally Posted by tater

We are all hoping that when S3D becomes capable of doing this, importing a model will become literally a cut and paste level of difficulty---for the basic model. Obviously the zon file etc adds another level of complexity as werner could tell us

Yes, the damage model the ship comes with is an important factor for conversions to SH4. For instance, the damage model of iambecomelife's ships will be adapted to mod GWX (if I have understood correctly), if new zon definitions are used in GWX it may produce odd effects/no effects while using ships in SH4. The worst thing, one would not know that and would think on faulty torpedos or something else.