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Aerilon

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Well, it appears as though I've come across a rather tedious problem. Got two Breen ships which I converted, and retextured which aren't appearing correctly in game.

What happens you may wonder? Well, once I put them in game, only parts of the ships actually show up. I've checked that I've named the groups correctly to the joint tree, and that was fine, I've also wielded the vertexes together in the hope that would solve the problem, it didn't, and I've also tried reverting the vertex order on the parts that aren't showing. Again, this was done to no avail. I am officially lost.

Anyone had this problem before, or, know how to get around it?
 
Majestic

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If they have lightmaps check the materials conditions, (diffuse, ambient etc) as I encountered a problem a while back where only the lights showed up and it there are no glowing parts on that texture it may be the reason.

If not I would check the m_### to see they match the groups. If you don't use the merge trick I recommend that you do, it saves time and 99% makes sure the ship will work ingame.
 
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Aerilon

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Well, the m_### parts are fine, I've checked them countless times, as are the texture colours (Ambient etc). What is this merge trick you speak of though?
 
Avon

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The merge trick is what we lazy modders do to get the joint hierachy. Rather than adding all new joints from scratch each time, just open an old model, delete the mesh and texture leaving just the joints. Merge on your new shiney model, rename/reposition your joints and job done.

Are all your mesh joints correctly linked to the scene root?
 
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Avon said:
The merge trick is what we lazy modders do to get the joint hierachy. Rather than adding all new joints from scratch each time, just open an old model, delete the mesh and texture leaving just the joints. Merge on your new shiney model, rename/reposition your joints and job done.
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:lol2:

I used to do do this a lot, though wasn't aware it had a name. Now I know. A problem I found with it though, is that unless you scale all your models up in milkshape before you start, some models, when ingame, have very large, or very small selection bubbles.

Avon said:
Are all your mesh joints correctly linked to the scene root?
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They are, yes.
 
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