Help with a small mod to space suit

[CaptG]

Has anyone added a gun to the space suit? I've modified the suit using doubleshadow's editor to carry an Alpha IRE, a shield, and expanded its cargo capacity and size. I wrote a script to add the items to the space suit everytime the player is in it, and it works. The weapon slot and the icon appear on the screen and the shields work, but when i pull the trigger nothing happens. I tried increasing the weapon power but that didnt do anything. Can anyone help?

[Gazz]

Did you include the weapon mounts in the suit's scene file?

Weapons must fire from *somewhere* yaknow.

[CaptG]

How can i edit the scene file? And where is the correct file?

[Flybye]

You have just asked the million dollar question LOL.

http://www.xwiki.chaos.net.nz/index.php/Main_Page

Yo need to read up on:
1) Unpacking your entire X3 folder.
2) Converting from .bob to .bod and back to .bob.
3) Creating/Editing a ship with weapons dummies
4) Getting a copy of GMAX (Free) or 3DS Max (a few hundred dollars with a student discount, over $3000 retail price)
5) Using DBOX to import and export X3 ships into either of the above mentioned editors.

Didn't think this was going to be easy, did you?

[CaptG]

Where can i get GMAX?

[Flybye]

http://www.turbosquid.com/gmax

Googling "Download GMAX" works for me

[CaptG]

Ok i have extracted the files from the catalogs, found the astronaut scene (astronaut.bob), and installed GMAX and DBOX. Now what do i do to open the file and edit it? I already opened GMAX and I am trying to figure out what to do next.

[Stevio]

Try reading some of the tutorials in the sticky

[Flybye]

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[CaptG]

Thank you that helps. I cant find the program to convert the .bob into .bod.

[Flybye]

http://www.doubleshadow.wz.cz

http://www.doubleshadow.wz.cz/x2bc/index.php?p=download

[CaptG]

Ive opened the astronaut_scene.bod file. All I see is a blue cube. How do i add weapon mounts?

[CaptG]

Ok I saved both files as .GMAX and then imported the weapondummy file into the astronaut_scene file. How do I save it? Or did I do it wrong?

[Flybye]

http://www.xwiki.chaos.net.nz/index.php ... work_in_X3

[Squelch]

I believe you now have to export the scenes back to bod, and then convert to bob.

It is probably wise to then use ship creator with your new/edited suit to be able to install into game without overwriting the original.

[Edit] ^ What he said ^ [/Edit]

[CaptG]

I was able to export the file as text and then changed it to .bod. I loaded X3 with the new file in place in a new catalog, the space suit works but there is no external sign of a weapon and it still wont fire. I had exported the file as a scene, so I changed it and exported it as a Body and loaded the game. The space suit wasnt visible but you could fire the weapon. It just seemed to originate from a point. Can someone help me?

[Stevio]

Make sure the Weapon ID in your scene is matched to that in Tships, (The P Number)

also make sure the weapon is set on a Camera right
Note the " C1 " References...

Code: Select all

//Astropnaut Cockpit cam
P 0; B ships\others\astronaut; C 1; N Bships\others\astronaut_1b; b
  { 0x2002;  0; 0; 0;  0.000000; 0.000000; 0.000000; 0.000000;  17500;  1; } // 1
  { 0x2002;  0; 0; 0;  0.000000; 0.000000; 0.000000; 0.000000;  -1;  -1; } // -1

//Weapon Dummy
P 1; B ships\props\weapondummy; C 1; N Bships\props\weapondummy_1b; b

[CaptG]

I can not get the X2BC compiler to recompile my .bod file back to .bob. Everytime it gives me this error:

Compiler - line 3, col 1 - Error: Expected version specification

Can anyone help?

[Stevio]

because scenes are not meant to be bobbed

the Scene must stay as "astronaut_scene.bod"
and the mesh File should be compresses to "astronaut.bob"

[CaptG]

its not a scene its a bod file. (astronaut.pbb)