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Harmalarm

Yes this is known ADR. C2 has a different vertex and texture vertex order. Luckilly I have a little script for this that will help you do this in 3ds max: What you need to do is: 1. select you car part, probably the main car as this holds all the rotation vertices for the WAM file. 2. Select the ver...

Harmalarm

I see what you did there! Clever idea. All you need now is a proper animated texture and you are done right? Do you remember you can always set the draw distance in the tracks txt file, at the bottom right below the splash pixelmap entry? 1 // number of splash files CASPLASH.PIX // name of pixelmapf...

Harmalarm

Hell yeah! But the textures are a bit off no?

Harmalarm

Nice work Trent! Yes you are right, far easier to import an original car to see how it all works.

Harmalarm

Just tried the script, but get this error message at the beginning. The parentDialog cannot be defined so it throws an error. <br/><br/><img src="http://www.polygonengineer.com/wp-content/uploads/manual/tools/2015-01-06_10h17_59.jpg" alt="" class="postimage" style="display: inline;"><br/><br/>Commen...

Harmalarm

Oh wow. At first I thought, where do I remember that name from. Then it hit me when I saw the little town and flags. Man I played this game over and over and over! how did you get your hands on these models? I was always a big fan of the forest/mountain track. I think it was called "Rocky Pass&...

Harmalarm

Yeah great to see you back in the game ADR! I've always been a fan of you models. Such high detail, even back in the old days. :) You shop looks impressive. I read that some cars come with a turbo-smooth modifier for easy LOD access. Can you give an estimate of the polycount of the lowest levels? Or...

Harmalarm

Congratulation Trent, on the new arrival! :)

And congratulations on the first release! :)

I'll give it a whirl when I get to it today. I'm real curious to try it out, and to see the ui.

Harmalarm

Wow this is epic!

Harmalarm

Uh, that stinks... Then there isn't much else to do than just revert back to ase2asc. The carmatools really don't work on any installment lower than 2010... :(

What resources are you lacking specifically? Or doesn't the installer tell you?

Harmalarm

<blockquote class="uncited"><div>I'm starting to really appreciate what you can achieve with MaxScript and just how far the integration goes and some of the language features are very neat, but the way it handles some things is just awful.</div></blockquote> I feel that same love and share the same ...

Harmalarm

It's the thread in /wsg/ (this one if it's still up, more here) that gave me the idea.

Wow these are great. The rainy ones especially!

Harmalarm

This is amazing Tosh! What made you think of trying this? This will be a great a addition to C2. I can think of all sorts of applications, moving clouts, flying comets, raging tornado's, etc...

Harmalarm

<blockquote class="uncited"><div>I've got it neatly organised so you just run the ReincarnationTools.ms script file and it will load all the actual scripts and plugins and so on</div></blockquote> Cool! When you are nearing the end, you might want to consider looking at building an MZP. I've done th...

Harmalarm

Nice work on the helper objects and their custom geometry and settings. These are already the scripted plugins?<br/><br/>You do know that scripted plugin objects will only work if you have the scripted plugin installed, right? So if you are going to transfer files from pc to pc and one of them is mi...

Harmalarm

Ah, I vaguely remember having issues with this on my destruction derby mod. In the end I decided that all cars were better off having the same strength rating. Finally, I made it so all the cars are in every race as well... Perhaps this is the best way to go for you too, just giving all cars the sam...

Harmalarm

Oh that does look good! Once you get into the process of toolmaking you end up needing a lot of space for your UI and this is definitely the way to go for cleaning it up and making it comprehensible. This makes me eager to look more into the power of .NET in max as well.

Harmalarm

Interesting reads Trent, and great work so far!<br/><br/>Isn't a TDX almost exactly the same format as a DDS file but with a slightly different header? If you could manage to replace the file header with a proper DDS one, then you are done. I tried this via maxscript myself, but it doesn't seem poss...

Harmalarm

Can't you set the race to be started as a network gametype race somewhere?

Perhapsf you can set the 'default number of opponents' value to 0 in the general RACES.TXT file, just like it is set in the NETRACES.TXT file? I have no maps to test this quickly, otherwise I would'v myself.

Harmalarm

Maxine this is FUCKING AWESOME. You system sure works great though. I was thinking, are you suing specific opponent points for the caravans and random grid placement for the cars? Can this fix the having to restart over and over issue? Also that car looks great by the way. Can't wait to see what you...

Harmalarm

Great! Glad to be of service

Harmalarm

Not directly in Maya, but yes directly in 3ds max. I made a maxscript pack that can do that for you: http://polygonengineer.com/wp-content/u ... 130131.zip
This works with max 2010 and up.

Do you have experience in Maya as you ask specifically for it?

Harmalarm

That truck looks real promising dude. The driver model and interior dashboard have come out real nice. I also think the shading/highlighting on that big metal bumper has worked out real well! Unfortunately I do not think it is possible to attach a spinning fan to a rocking engine. The fan will proba...

Harmalarm

Hah, the about info I was waiting for!

Harmalarm

Nice work Trent. I see you have chosen a similar dummy for external MDL files (wheels etc) as I did :). Impressive shot of the imported Bleak City by the way. I don't have to think twice about that, It will never work on my system.<br/><br/>You know that the Texture files are basically DDS files and...

Harmalarm

Real nice work so far Errol. Too bad the FBX format is such a bitch and taking up so much of your time, but on the other hand it's a good challenge right? Or are you fed up with it by now?

Harmalarm

Oh yeah it sure does look promising!

Harmalarm

Ah no man, I'm sure yours will work just fine. If you keep at it you'll find more and more solutions and improvements, just like I did with the c2 scripts. ;)

I'm curious how you did the XML parts, as they are quite new to me as well. I did a lot of head-scratching when trying to parse them.

Harmalarm

Awwww, you beat me to it!! I already made a lot of headway with my importer a couple of months ago, but lately I have little free time to work on the planned exporter... :(<br/><br/><img src="http://www.polygonengineer.com/wp-content/uploads/manual/misc/Reincarnator_manual_wheels.jpg" alt="" class="...

Harmalarm

Nice work! I had a good couple of laps around the track. It is really satisfying to take the jumps and land them perfectly on the other side of the humps. :) Did you rip these models with Project 64? It is pretty neat what you can get. I manged to rip some of the San Francisco Rush 2 maps which are ...

Harmalarm

Sweet Mastro! You are really kicking it now aren't you? That track has a good color balance. Grim and dark. Are you using 3ds max now?

Harmalarm

Looks like a real happy slappy map. I'm sure you will add lots of chickens

Harmalarm

Double post; If you encounter any issues just let me know. I use max2012 as my main installment and haven't checked compatibility with lower max installments. Knowing Autodesk and their wonderful consistency... (NOT) it would not surprise me that certain functions are broken in older max versions. B...

Harmalarm

Mastro, is that Hyrule Castle in the background? :p

Harmalarm

Ah no there are 32 bit versions of every max installment. I created the package in 2010/2012. But Yes it schould work in 2008 and upward

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