[Tutorial] Custom 3D Model Import Tutorial

[killerog]

Here is a link to my 3D Ship Tutorial I started for XR. I have quickly this morning pasted it from my word doc into the X4 Github wiki that has been setup for modding stuff.

I have already used this to import my BSG model into the game but it may or may not be 100% correct. I am also now using blender so going fowards I will change and update this doc as we figure new stuff out and chnage it to use blender stuff.

https://github.com/enenra/x4modding/wik ... Tut-(Temp)

[Max Bain]

Wow! Thank you so much. Cant wait to see it finished. Then the ship production can start

[R_Romach_R]

I have a question.

While playing game I saw that often textures of ships are kinda warped. I thought that maybe they can't load quick enough. When I unpacked and imorted to 3DMax model of argon destroyer, I saw following:

https://www.directupload.net/file/d/530 ... vztery.png

Question is: did I imorted model wrong (in some steps) or is it original mistake of devs?

[Lc4Hunter]

Please resize you picture, it´s too large
The mods don´t like to see this.

back to topic:

Imported the destroyer too and it looks like this (rendered).


and like this in Max:


the black spots are the faces for the playerlogo.

and like this with textures:



The only thing i currently don´t understand is how the color comes on the ship... the textures are nearly completely white...

[TR0LL]

The only thing i currently don´t understand is how the color comes on the ship... the textures are nearly completely white...

Its most likely a shatter effect where the color is applied at runtime.

[R_Romach_R]

Please resize you picture, it´s too large
The mods don´t like to see this.

back to topic:

Imported the destroyer too and it looks like this (rendered).


and like this in Max:


the black spots are the faces for the playerlogo.

and like this with textures:



The only thing i currently don´t understand is how the color comes on the ship... the textures are nearly completely white...

Sorry for big picture. Your furthermost mesh is also has a little bit warped model. How do you spread out for 5 meshes? There are more of them.

[Lc4Hunter]

Sorry for big picture. Your furthermost mesh is also has a little bit warped model. How do you spread out for 5 meshes? There are more of them.

Not a problem for me. I just wanted to tell you before the Mod does

To spread the LODs you can use the "Select by name" function:





In the list you can work with parts of the name.
I usually do it in this order:
*lod1*
*lod2*
*lod3*
*collision*

The only parts that are still in place are the LOD0 parts an normally that are the parts you want

[R_Romach_R]

Thanks! Which 3DMax do you use? Maybe 2013 is not enough to import correctly? And can you try to spread out a few more meshes and see if some of them warped too?
When I'll return home I will spread them out like you.

[Lc4Hunter]

I´m using 2014.
What do you mean with "warped"? The textures at the hole in the middle of the ship?
Well, this isn´t important because thats the position of the landing pad so you do not see the textures there... eherything else looks ok so far - i think.

Edit:
Another interesting detail i figured out so far:
Fighters have a completely modded cockpit, capships not.

Modding fighters, or better S and M ships, will be hard because you also have to build a cockpit...
I´m currently trying to build a dummy for that but i´m sure it will take a while.

Capships, or better L and XL, don´t seem to have a cockpit. They use some kind of dummy for that.
Multiple ships with the same cockpit... that makes it much easier to build a capship because you don´t have to care about this.

I just haven´t found a dummy or something in the scene like in X3 (cameradummy)...

[R_Romach_R]

I´m using 2014.
What do you mean with "warped"? The textures at the hole in the middle of the ship?
Well, this isn´t important because thats the position of the landing pad so you do not see the textures there... eherything else looks ok so far - i think.

https://www.directupload.net/file/d/530 ... bd_png.htm

This is warped, ugly mesh. Do you not see it?

Edit:
Another interesting detail i figured out so far:
Fighters have a completely modded cockpit, capships not.

Modding fighters, or better S and M ships, will be hard because you also have to build a cockpit...
I´m currently trying to build a dummy for that but i´m sure it will take a while.

Capships, or better L and XL, don´t seem to have a cockpit. They use some kind of dummy for that.
Multiple ships with the same cockpit... that makes it much easier to build a capship because you don´t have to care about this.

I just haven´t found a dummy or something in the scene like in X3 (cameradummy)...

Yes, I think so too, just didn't pry into it too much.