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A little help please?

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Mukavich

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yeah. so i managed to create a fiarly decent mesh, and managed to get it all hardpointed. But when i go in to add the emitters for plasma and stuff, the SOD bugs up, can anyone tell me what i am doing wrong, or perhaps give me better instructions on how to add them (the emitters?) Also, how do i get the Texture to show up on the Sod model after it has been exported? it shows up fine in milkshape, but not in the viewer. Thanks.
 
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Avon

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Which viewer are you using to view it?
The sod viewer should load the textures automatically, but with CV you have to asign the textures to the model manually, if I remember correctly.
Also remember to put your textures into your RGB folder. So many times I forget to do that when testing a model:rolleyes:
 
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The emitters must be attached to the proper "h_" node. If your adding them wrong, then that would cause a problem. Also, when your moving around the emitters, make sure you do not move any of the central nodes like geometry, Hardpoints, etc. This will wreak the file, and you'll have to remove the entire hiearchy and start all over.

Also, what method are you using? The Cheat method or the traditional "from scratch?

As far as the Texture... Are you placing a copy of the texture in the Texture/RGB folder? Also, is the Texture "Squared" in a 2x multiplyer format (128x128, 256x256, or 512x512). And lastly, Is the Texture an Uncompressed TGA format file?
 
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Mukavich

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well, define "cheating" I have it all set, and they are definitely all on h_engines under h_damage like it's supposed to be... as for the textures, i think i forgot to put them in the rgb folder... whoops. :p
 
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Cheating is using the cheat method tutorial I made some time ago. It's here on the forums in the tutorial section. It's a simple method that allows people to bypass the hassles of creating a hierarchy from scratch. The main reason I made the tutorial was people often have problems creating a proper functioning hierarchy from scratch.
 
Avon

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Yeah I always cheat with joints. I stumbled across the idea by accident a couple of years ago, and always do it now. So much less hassle.......and I'm a lazy bum:sleep:
 
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