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Title: Been Authorized to give SFC the Mantis class warship
Post by: Starforce2 on October 26, 2005, 12:50:03 am
http://www.universeatwar.org/domwarsbc/StarforceProductions/Mantis/

Pix in a separate file. Needs a modder, comes in 3ds formatt and textures with lightmaps are in tga.
Title: Re: Been Authorized to give SFC the Mantis class warship
Post by: Klingon Fanatic on October 26, 2005, 01:03:30 am
 ;D  Wow! That really is different. Must be very hard to take out the saucer.

Thanks for sharing this.

KF
Title: Re: Been Authorized to give SFC the Mantis class warship
Post by: atheorhaven on October 29, 2005, 12:18:24 am
Downloaded and converted... just hp/dp'ing, so it should be up by tomorrow evening.  :)
Title: Re: Been Authorized to give SFC the Mantis class warship
Post by: Starforce2 on October 29, 2005, 12:50:58 am
I was beginning to wonder if I was going to need to post the fixed one from major payne. It's going to end up in armada too. ;D
Title: Re: Been Authorized to give SFC the Mantis class warship
Post by: Dizzy on October 29, 2005, 04:20:10 am
Imagine an X era Fed Mauler ship...
Title: Re: Been Authorized to give SFC the Mantis class warship
Post by: atheorhaven on October 30, 2005, 09:12:04 am
'Kay, it's done...

Starforce, do you have a list of credts for this ship that I can put into the ship's archive before I upload it?

I don't want to be putting in "Modeller: unknown", "Textures:unknown/atheorhaven", etc...
Title: Re: Been Authorized to give SFC the Mantis class warship
Post by: Starforce2 on October 30, 2005, 07:22:24 pm
Soon as I can catch him on msn again, usualy ever day or so, I'll let ya know. I think it was all done by captain tombs but I'll ceck to be sure.
Title: Re: Been Authorized to give SFC the Mantis class warship
Post by: cpthooker on November 02, 2005, 09:09:35 am
looks like she converted well. I am the creator btw, just checking to see how she is shaping :). I am not disappointed.
Title: Re: Been Authorized to give SFC the Mantis class warship
Post by: ModelsPlease on November 02, 2005, 10:01:30 pm
looks like she converted well. I am the creator btw, just checking to see how she is shaping :). I am not disappointed.

Very nice ship. Thanks for letting us port her to SFC  ;D
-MP
Title: Re: Been Authorized to give SFC the Mantis class warship
Post by: atheorhaven on November 02, 2005, 10:23:15 pm
looks like she converted well. I am the creator btw, just checking to see how she is shaping :). I am not disappointed.

Thanks cpthooker for letting us do this over here.  Had it's tricky parts to do, but not too much different than one of Mackie's meshes coming over from Lightwave.  :D

SFC will also give the benefit of giving the ship colored illumination maps, which you could then b&w if you'd like to reconvert over to BC.
Title: Re: Been Authorized to give SFC the Mantis class warship
Post by: Starforce2 on November 02, 2005, 10:29:04 pm
it wasn't already lit?
Title: Re: Been Authorized to give SFC the Mantis class warship
Post by: atheorhaven on November 02, 2005, 11:18:32 pm
it wasn't already lit?

The TGA files work in BC, but not in SFC.  They had to be converted over to BMP files, and from there, illumination textures needed to be created.  Bit of work, but wasn't too rough.  :)
Title: Re: Been Authorized to give SFC the Mantis class warship
Post by: ModelsPlease on November 03, 2005, 12:48:49 am
 :notworthy: :notworthy: :notworthy:
-MP
Title: Re: Been Authorized to give SFC the Mantis class warship
Post by: cpthooker on November 03, 2005, 02:33:44 am
well done then :) when will she be ready do you think?

The bridge commander model is nearly done, just a few hp issues.
Title: Re: Been Authorized to give SFC the Mantis class warship
Post by: atheorhaven on November 03, 2005, 09:51:30 pm
well done then :) when will she be ready do you think?
The bridge commander model is nearly done, just a few hp issues.


Got it completed and uploaded last night to Battleclinic late (so I wasn't able to post about it until now).

USS Mantis - SFC 2/3 compatble..
(http://www.battleclinic.com/docks/files/images/16dee22116fc395bc5f9664831744525.jpg)
http://www.battleclinic.com/docks/files/dist/index.php/file,bde6a7ef20f6b354a45c8e41c276a87c.zip

If anyone would like a SFC 1 version, just let me know.  :D
Title: Re: Been Authorized to give SFC the Mantis class warship
Post by: E_Look on November 03, 2005, 10:55:33 pm
Absolutely, my friend!  Right now, my shiplists (well, my models got deleted by accident and I haven't the gumption for quite some time now to fish through my CDROMs for all of those many models I put in over time!) for both SFC2s are toast.  All I've been playing is SFC1.
Title: Re: Been Authorized to give SFC the Mantis class warship
Post by: Starforce2 on November 03, 2005, 11:47:38 pm
man that thing does look mean. A good example of how ugly can work.  :o
Title: Re: Been Authorized to give SFC the Mantis class warship
Post by: Sandman3D on November 04, 2005, 12:06:05 am
Great job cpthooker and Alec!! :o I agree with SF2...in this case ugly and mean are synonymous. ;D
Title: Re: Been Authorized to give SFC the Mantis class warship
Post by: cpthooker on November 04, 2005, 04:43:24 am
ugly  :o
Title: Re: Been Authorized to give SFC the Mantis class warship
Post by: cpthooker on November 04, 2005, 06:20:57 am
will this be able to work in SFC3?
Title: Re: Been Authorized to give SFC the Mantis class warship
Post by: Starforce2 on November 04, 2005, 07:33:58 am
will this be able to work in SFC3?

yes. I don't think there is any difference in mod format between the 3 sfc versions, I think most of the changes were engine related (for alighting and what not)
Title: Re: Been Authorized to give SFC the Mantis class warship
Post by: cpthooker on November 04, 2005, 08:31:13 am
ok thanks
Title: Re: Been Authorized to give SFC the Mantis class warship
Post by: atheorhaven on November 04, 2005, 11:13:47 pm
yes. I don't think there is any difference in mod format between the 3 sfc versions, I think most of the changes were engine related (for alighting and what not)

Almost... drop a SFC 2 mesh into SFC 1, and you'll get a CTD as soon as you load that ship.  You have to go in and strip out the illumination maps with a modelling program and reexport the mesh back to .MOD, and then your game will load the ship with or without the physical textures being in the directory or not.  :)
Title: Re: Been Authorized to give SFC the Mantis class warship
Post by: cpthooker on November 05, 2005, 10:21:11 am
ihave been trying to add this to sfc 3 but not having any luck, i have read a tutorial, but could not understand it.
Any help please?