posted 01-29- 06:23 PM            

JT is teaching me how to do texture remapping in Studio Max. But, we both have some questions about OP studio.

1. Can i export all the 3d parts to an .obj file at one time? IF so, how? It will only let me select one part at a time.

2. After the obj file has been remapped and stuff..what next? Do i start a new .sm file, and them import all the messes and create anew .sm file (my first project is the mustang). Or can i just open the default p51...add the new meshes and then save it as p51x or p51mod? If so, where do you tell ops to get the textures from? There is a texture tab, do you just name all of your textures there and make sure they are in the textures folder?

posted 01-30- 06:28 PM               

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1. Can i export all the 3d parts to an .obj file at one time? IF so, how? It will only let me select one part at a time.

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B1.1.x doesn't do this but V1.2.x might. I say might because it exists in the version I have under development but I can't remember wether this was released as V1.2.0. I'll check and post the indev version if not.

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2. After the obj file has been remapped and stuff..what next? Do i start a new .sm file, and them import all the messes and create anew .sm file (my first project is the mustang). Or can i just open the default p51...add the new meshes and then save it as p51x or p51mod? If so, where do you tell ops to get the textures from? There is a texture tab, do you just name all of your textures there and make sure they are in the textures folder?

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If you are just making mods to the original P51, then use the P51 as a base. What I would do is just copy the entire existing P51 directory to another in the media/aircraft dir and then rename the dir and Sm file to be p51mod etc, and change the loadout file. To change the texture paths you can find the texture names in the 'Names' tab and edit them.

You can't add textures directly at the moment, but when you import a OBJ that has a Material file (*.mtl) and the materials are used by the imported meshes then a texture entry will be created that corresponds to ./aircraft/textures/mapname, where mapname is the texture name defined as KD_map in the MTL file.

posted 01-30- 08:57 PM            

Not too sure how to do this...is it in the help file?

The imported lod meshes should have the .mtl files, but for some reason ops1.1 did not see them. I made a new .sm file, renamed the default p51 tif but the part of the aircraft i remapped was solid black and the part that i didnt redo had the new tif file textured over them.

I have no clue what the hell I'm doing Maybe someone that has mapped textures to .sm files can help me out some. I'm lost.

posted 01-30- 10:55 PM               

By change the loadout file I mean edit loadout.ppf in the p51mod directory and change the name from P51D to P51DMod or something, otherwise it could get confusing in game.

posted 01-31- 07:08 AM            

Would it help if SDOE was installed in the default location c:/program files/fighter.....?

I currently have it on my D drive.