<r> It's been quiet lately. Milo is floating somewhere in space and I hadn't touched Starshatter in months. But then I had inspiration of creating tools for ship creation under 3ds max. I've been detailing the progress on <LINK link="http://starshattermods.com/forum/viewthread.php?forum_id=8&thread ...

<t> I'm not really in need of any patches and loads of new features, Starshatter is already a tremendous one-man effort as it is. But I can't help but feel we're left alone here, Milo never posts anymore. Just to show he cares about his brainchild. Maybe he's burned out from all that work, I wouldn ...

Professional, unique work! Can't really offer critiques or suggestions this early, though. Except "make more".

<r> This was not a serious mod project, but I'd figure I should at least show it here. I asked the users of the <LINK link="http://somethingawful.com"><s>[link=http://somethingawful.com]</s>Something Awful<e>[/link]</e></LINK> forums to pitch in ideas for a spaceship so that I could create it.<br ...

I'm using 3DS Max 8 and OBJ format to export. You can run into a bunch of problems when exporting-importing, but I&nbsp;wrote a short guide so others can avoid the errors I made (link in my sig).

Those are the sweetest&nbsp;spaceships I have seen in a while, quite original!

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<QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: Master_QG<br/>
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If you want to make an illumination map take only the glows from you orignal and black out the rest. I then change just the emissive map to a .dds file. ( I picked .dds because it was the smallest file size but you can use any graphic ...

<r> These are not really the same layers you see in PSP: you need separate .jpg texture files for diffuse, spec, bump and glow.[/align]&nbsp;[/align]I wrote a small guide to materials in TGS:[/align]&nbsp;[/align]<LINK link="http://shmup.org/ss/materials.html"><s>[link=http://shmup.org/ss/materials ...

<r> I tested it and it's like I described above -- only material names aren't important. The game continuously renders the MFD's and HUD into a texture called hud-512.pcx. I textured a cube with it and got a very unpractical heads-up display [:'(]<br/>
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This is how the texture is divided for ...

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: Badger343rd<br/>
what ties the avonics to the virtual cockpits???If we're to built dedicated pits with avionics,we need to know what files control the co-ordinates and separete it from the 2d view...ie...what tells the mfd that its connected to the mfd housing in ...

<r> The key is to use the --filesys parameter to launch the game, like this:[/align]&nbsp;[/align]stars.exe --filesys[/align]&nbsp;[/align]You probably know how to use the command line or edit a shortcut. This parameter makes the game read files outside shatter.dat. For new custom content, you ...

Badger -- What format do you have the model in? I could probably correct/texture it if you upload it to senduit.com/wikiupload.com or something.

Yeah, you should finish deffing one or two of them -- I guarantee it gives a burst of motivation to see your creations alive [;)][/align]

Yeah, there are news broadcasts, voice mails and such between the missions. The visuals are pretty simple: zooming around spaceships and planets. It really helps to bring out the story though.

The current mod archiver (http://www.starshatter.com/downloads.htm) can also extract .dat files.

<r> That's really cool -- It's nice to see people modelling stuff themselves. These guys are also doing a (megalomaniac <E>:P</E>) Star Wars mod: <LINK link="http://www.xwavi.com/"><s>[link=http://www.xwavi.com/]</s>http://www.xwavi.com/<e>[/link]</e></LINK><br/>
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edit for a suggestion: You ...

<t> Like the thread title says, is it possible to define new subsystem designs? The original ones are in a sys.def and define what components for example a fusion reactor has. I tried to make my own sys.def and even place it in a /systems directory, but the game is not reading it.<br/>
I'm hoping ...

<r> Apparently, there can be only four weapon groups/buttons.<br/>
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For your lasers, I can't check right now if multiple muzzles are supported. But you can define multiple weapons with the same group attribute, which is also the firing button label. Make sure your ship has enough power to ...

<r> No, it doesn't quite work that way. Let's say I have a newship.def that starts like this:<br/>

<CODE><s>[code]</s><i>
</i> SHIP

name:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Newship
display_name:&nbsp; Newship
class:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Fighter ...

Is there a way to point to .mag or .pcx files inside the shatter.dat? This way I could add a tweaked version of some ship without extracting and including all the art in a new .dat.