3D Models and Stats Viewer : Version 2.0.3.2 (12th Dec 2010)

exogenesis · Post by **exogenesis** » Mon, 24. Oct 11, 19:32

Not seen that, is this for a modded or unmodded game.
Any screenshots ?

Chris122990 · Post by **Chris122990** » Mon, 24. Oct 11, 20:30

It seems to only be modded ships.

Here's an example:

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exogenesis · Post by **exogenesis** » Mon, 24. Oct 11, 23:11

Got a feeling it's possibly to do with 'safety-net' layers in modelling (?),
something like the flickering textures in some models (in the viewer only), see post:
http://forum.egosoft.com/viewtopic.php? ... 57#3322457

Not sure I can do much about it atm, without changing the way the viewer renders,
it's even sort of diagnostic, in a way.
What effect does turning off 'enable transparency' in Options menu, probably makes it worse...

Chris122990 · Post by **Chris122990** » Tue, 25. Oct 11, 03:13

Disabling transparency doesn't do anything to the box.

Sn4kemaster · Post by **Sn4kemaster** » Fri, 28. Oct 11, 21:52

Just tried to download this, and the web site is not available??

It's saying ''The requested URL /XModels3DViewerInstaller.exe was not found on this server''

exogenesis · Post by **exogenesis** » Wed, 9. Nov 11, 17:11

Everything should be OK now, I hope

Alex Corvis · Post by **Alex Corvis** » Thu, 15. Dec 11, 07:16

You know what's coming now?

Will there be an update to show the new ships and stations of Albion Prelude? Already tried to copy the files from the addon folder to the main directory but that does not seem to work.

Edit:
I repacked the AP game files into one single cat (for the t files) and placed it into the mod folder. Now most of the ships can be loaded, but the viewer crashes while loading 2 ships: that boron drone ship and another (terran?) one I can't remember at the moment, but I think it has to do something with the XTC special docks, which are used in the addon (I have the same problem with some ships from XTC).

surferx · Post by **surferx** » Thu, 15. Dec 11, 17:32

I wanted to see if the Albion Skunk was in the game. It just loads the vanilla X3:TC game files.

Post by **Alan Phipps** » Thu, 15. Dec 11, 17:53

@ surferx: Did you change the Viewer X Game Path to the Steam X3AP location (First Tab called Files)? Whether it then always works properly is another matter.

ConCorDian · Post by **ConCorDian** » Thu, 15. Dec 11, 20:26

there doesn't seem to be a unique location for AP if your on Steam. it seems to be intergrated to the Terran Conflict files system

Dank7430 · Post by **Dank7430** » Thu, 15. Dec 11, 20:28

ConCorDian wrote:there doesn't seem to be a unique location for AP if your on Steam. it seems to be intergrated to the Terran Conflict files system

You can find them in your TC directory under addon.

ConCorDian · Post by **ConCorDian** » Thu, 15. Dec 11, 20:31

i still cant seem to get it to work. what is the exact file im looking for?

Alex Corvis · Post by **Alex Corvis** » Thu, 15. Dec 11, 21:13

Of course the viewer can't show the AP ships because it only looks for the main directory and the mods folder. So by now you have to copy the 01.cat to your mods folder in the main directory. That works for my game. I hope exogenesis will update this great tool. And maybe fix the crashes while loading the xxx_land_scene files.

exogenesis · Post by **exogenesis** » Thu, 15. Dec 11, 21:23

Well, I bought the X-superbox (£7-50 gamersgate sale !) with the intention of giving myself
the option of registering & downloading AP (for free

).

But atm I can't make install the 'shop' on my PC, still very unconvinced about the S-word.
So can't currently do much....

Maybe the DVD version of AP wil be S-free, quite happy to pay extra for that.
Definately like the sound of the responses ppl are giving so far to AP.

As for Rebirth...will have to wait & see what happens with that...

Alex seems to have the right approach, get the cat/dats in the TC mods folder,
and the viewer should at least have a go.

edit : are the xx_land_xx files specific to AP ?

Alex Corvis · Post by **Alex Corvis** » Thu, 15. Dec 11, 22:43

The files are:
xtc_boron_dock_land_scene from xtc_boron_m7drone_scene and
xtc_terran_dock_quicklaunch_scene from xtc_terran_dc_scene

Since these ships are originally from XTC I had the same problem there. I think the terran ship might be the M7 that looks like inspired by that Star Wars, if you know which one I mean. Can't find a screen though.

No problems with the other ships.

gbjbaanb · Post by **gbjbaanb** » Thu, 29. Dec 11, 14:30

I've noticed the viewer works fine once you've copied the addons/01.cat + addons/01.dat file to the mods folder (ok, there's a new tab that appears) but the ship names are not present for the new ships.

eg. the new split armoured personnel transport is called SS_SH_S_TPP

Otherwise, all's good with the app.

Alex Corvis · Post by **Alex Corvis** » Thu, 29. Dec 11, 14:52

gbjbaanb wrote:but the ship names are not present for the new ships.
eg. the new split armoured personnel transport is called SS_SH_S_TPP

That's because the t file which contains the names and descriptions seems to be built a bit different to the ones of TC. I copied the entries to another t file from a ship mod and everything works fine.

Does your viewer show the boron and terran drone carrier? It always crashes (loading -> no response) with these two ships for my game.

gbjbaanb · Post by **gbjbaanb** » Thu, 29. Dec 11, 16:08

a "t" file. I only have a t directory.

Yes, mine fails to load either drone carrier. I guess we wait for a new version sometime.

Alex Corvis · Post by **Alex Corvis** » Thu, 29. Dec 11, 16:28

Sorry, yep, and there should be something like 002-L044.xml. Those text files contain all the written words. Open it with something like Notepad++ (MS Editor will destroy the file) search for the ship entries and copy them to a similar file from TC, best would be one of a ship mod, so you won't have to search for the right page-id (has to be something with a 17 in the end), or create a new one. That perfectly worked for my games.

exogenesis · Post by **exogenesis** » Fri, 30. Dec 11, 01:46

Thanks for the good advice Alex, keeps the old flame going

Hopefully I'll join in around Feb '12