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I will quickly go through how to add the 3d model into Stride using the fvx file that was created when the 3D model was created.

So this is the screen before the model is imported. Make sure with the path Assets/Resources/Ships/BorgCubeEscort that you selected the BorgCubeEscort folder as this is where the model is going.

At the top of the screen click on Add asset.....

On the next screen that comes up click on Model on the left and then 3D model on the right.

You then need to bring in the fbx file yyou created when you built the 3d Model......

In my case I have the fbx model saved in Documents/Stride Projects/BorgCubeEscort.

When you have selected the fbx file press Open.

This screen will open up....now I have no idea if my Borg Cube Escort model needs to have the skeleton imported as well but for this test I am going to leave everything as default.

Press OK.

This is the moment when you add your 3d model into Stride....... note that each of the 4 pictures has a grey ball on the top left corner of the picture.... we need to change that or the export of the model will not happen.

What you now need to do is press the grey ball on the top left of the model as shown in the picture below.

Now you will see that the grey ball for the model has turned blue while the grey ball for the skelteon, materian and textures have turned green.

As soon as you have this you should be able to create the bundle file for the Borg Cube Ex[port ship.

What I do at this stage is do a File/Save and the Quit....... Then go back into it again. If you don't do this, sometimes the creation of the bundle file will fail until you exit from this screen.

When you go back in, we are ready to create the bundle files.......

Press the button at the top of the screen as indicated by the red arrow.

After you press that button which builds the project, the output screen should scroll green writing and end with the last line in Green Generate Bundles : Done.

If it ends with as numbert of lines in red, save the project, exit out, go back in again and build the project again.

If it still fails, make sure that the ball on the top left of the model is not grey...it should be blue.

Now we go to where the bundle files were created... You can see the location at the top of the screen shown below.
The 2 bundle files we want for the Borg Cube Ship are the 2 files which have the word Window in the file name.

These are the files we need for the next step of the tutorial...adding them into Distant Worlds 2.

Hi, great work, I hope it keeps going, also with the tutorial?

I am looking forward to playing this. Do your best!

this looks great. looking forward to using this mod in the future.