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Modifying ships that already exist
Posted: Sat Jun 14, 2008 9:46 am
by DaddyHoggy
Is it possible to make slight modifications to ships that already exist rather than just retexturing them. I'm surmising that the conversion to the .dat file used ingame precludes any backwards reloading into something like Wings3d or am I mistaken?
TIA
John
Posted: Sat Jun 14, 2008 11:16 am
by pleb87
If you look at the source, theres a folder with unconverted mesh files of all the stock models. Can't check this atm as i'm on the ps3 (hense the short posts) but i'll have a look in a bit...
Posted: Sat Jun 14, 2008 11:42 am
by Griff
there's a Dat2ObjTex.py python script that will take a .dat file and convert it to a .obj file - it keeps the texture UV's and everything!
you can download it here:
http://svn.berlios.de/svnroot/repos/ool ... onverters/
I found the link in a post Kaks made in the 'New Model Utilities' thread at the top of this forum
Posted: Sat Jun 14, 2008 11:49 am
by pleb87
Ah that was it lol but im sure the .obj files are also in the source as well...
Posted: Sat Jun 14, 2008 1:47 pm
by DaddyHoggy
Thanks guys - if my 1 yr old hadn't just woken up for a feed I'd be investigating it right now - but at least now I know where to look!
Posted: Sat Jun 14, 2008 4:42 pm
by pleb87
As I thought, if you look in the Asset Source folder in the Trunk, you will find mesh files and graffle files (don't ask me if this is of any use as I'm not a modeller, sorry!)
Posted: Sun Jun 15, 2008 12:01 pm
by DaddyHoggy
@pleb87 - cheers.
Posted: Mon Jun 16, 2008 5:42 am
by Commander McLane
Probably you could use DryDock as well. It has a couple of "save as"-options.
Posted: Mon Jun 16, 2008 10:39 pm
by DaddyHoggy
A long tie ago I was told DryDock was mac only - has this changed?
Posted: Tue Jun 17, 2008 9:27 am
by Commander McLane
Probably not. I am on a Mac and find it useful (although it has its limitations). But yes, may still be a Mac-only thing.
Sorry for the rest of the world!
