My TOS Adventure

[Jeddy]

Was listening to war of the worlds the other day, more specifically the chapter relating to Thunder Child, the iron clad that rammed a Martian Tripod. I suddenly thought "A NAME!!" and as such i looked to see which series i felt tahtw ould fit into better, and thusly decided that the USS Thunder child seemed TOS to me.

So i started designing, and creating, and! here we are!!

I have the vessel domplete, textured and ODF finished, but i cant get the ship to work, i get as far as loading an IA match and teh game crashes... when looking at it with Storm 3d viewer i can only see the Lightmaps.

Would this be linked with teh crashing??

The odf seems sound, it looks ok with me and Knight seems to agree it is right.

So can anyone help? if you can tell me, or if you want to have a quick look at the ship let me knwo and ill get a copy to you (it is very possible that its something else in my game thats screwed up, and i lack the STAII CD to do a fresh install)

Regards,
Jeddy

 

[Starfox1701]

Sure send it to me

 

[Jeddy]

ill PM you a link to download it tomorrow, im on my laptop about to go to bed now, so its the best i can do considering all the files are on my PC.

If you want to look at the ship before hand ive posted the untextured model in my low poly modeling thread in the 3d arts section

 

[Starfox1701]

Ok got it I'll let you know.

 

[StarBlade]

USS Thunderchild was also the name of the first Akira class starship we saw on screen, during First Contact. I have a model of her up on the shelf here.

 

[Jeddy]

i didnt know that lol, well thres goes my originality (Technically!!)

 

[Starfox1701]

Ok I PMed you a link to get the stuff I changed. It works on my game feedback please

 

[Jeddy]

so was there anything wrong with it?

 

[Starfox1701]

The models hardpoint map was a mess I couldn't make heads or tails of it so I redid it. There where about 150 to 20 matirials. I deleted all the extras. But the bas one was in the odf. It was missing the include line at the top that tells the game that this is a ship and what kind of ship it is. The layout of the hardpoints in the odf is how they were placed and I sent the MS3D file incase you want to add more or move some.

 

[Jeddy]

teh HPs was an import of the one Majestic used for his excelsior in YY. and as for the materials i dont know why its like that there were only 6 materials when i exported it.

btw my game is definately messed up, i cant get it to work :/

can you send me the tech tree and sprite files etc? just so i can see if i screwed that up?

 

[Starfox1701]

Ok the weapons sprite stuff for the phaser and torpedo I fited her out with are in the readme. What exactly is it doing?

 

[Starfox1701]

OK this all I put in the tec1.tt file

fthunder.odf 0

I didn't bother with a wireframe or build button

 

[Jeddy]

basically when i click "launch" in the Instant action menu it goes to load teh game, once it finishes loading the game crashes.

i was thinking if its something i have messed up previously then clean tech trees and stuff like that may help :/

the last ship i added was my new Sentinel Model and that worked fine, arg,

 

[Starfox1701]

sounds like you are missing an odf or have a name spelled wrong in the tech tree file

 

[Jeddy]

they all seem to check out :/ i really need to get a fresh install really dont i...

 

[Starfox1701]

There one other thing you can try first. install the fleet ops patch 1.2.5 and use the debuger to try and find out what file is messed up