Swamper's Service Station

cpast · April 13, 2009, 08:28:20 AM

I am reskinning your Seattle police units as black and white (car:

), but I'm having trouble with the car props. How do I update them with the new skin? Also, I tried to replace the badge, but it gave me this-

What could the problem be

?

Swamper77 · April 13, 2009, 08:49:59 AM

Cpast,

You won't be able to reskin the car props as they are BAT models, not automata models.

Looks like the UV map is messed up a bit for the door logo. Is it doing this only on the left side or both sides of the car?

-Jan

cpast · April 13, 2009, 08:53:17 AM

Both sides.
EDIT: Never mind the props. I deleted the prop exemplars and the reskin shows as props now.

Swamper77 · April 13, 2009, 01:50:20 PM

Cpast,

I can't figure out why the door badges are behaving that way on your computer. It appears that the polygons for them got rearranged somehow. The diagonal line of the badges should be the opposite way that yours shows. Did you alter the model in any way other than replacing the texture?

-Jan

cpast · April 13, 2009, 02:31:35 PM

No. I have no idea how to, anyway.

Swamper77 · April 13, 2009, 05:04:34 PM

Cpast,

I downloaded what I had uploaded to the LEX. It's not producing the problem that you are having. I can't reproduce the problem on my end. That type of problem only comes from altering the UV map for the door logos. My files were not uploaded with that problem. I don't know what to tell you.

-Jan

cpast · April 13, 2009, 07:16:17 PM

Ingame, it;s worse -

Also, I found that the alpha in Reader looks like this (its a circle in the FSH) :

nerdly_dood · April 13, 2009, 07:18:53 PM

Perhaps you might want to start over?

cpast · April 13, 2009, 07:19:32 PM

What do you mean, Nerdly?

Swamper77 · April 13, 2009, 08:20:51 PM

Cpast,

Nerdly is suggesting that you start from scratch in creating your reskin of my Seattle police car. It looks like the program that you used to make the FSH image of the door logo damaged your FSH image. Try creating the FSH file again. The Group ID of the images used on the model should be 1ABE787D and no bigger than 256x256. Anything bigger, and you will get a colored patch like you showed if you are running SC4 in Software Rendering mode.

-Jan

cpast · April 14, 2009, 03:52:42 AM

What is a group ID? Also, the size is 111x109, and SC4 is in Hardware Rendering. Finally, could you see if there is a problem with the FSH if I attach it?

Swamper77 · April 14, 2009, 12:08:01 PM

The Group ID is the second set of 8 numbers in an address of a game file (ie xxxxxxxx 1ABE787D xxxxxxxx).

Images for the game have to be square or rectangular and each side of the image has to be a multiple of 16 (ie 128x256, 128x128, 16x256). That is probably why your image got messed up and shows as a colored patch. A 111x109 image will not work in SC4.

-Jan

cpast · April 14, 2009, 05:04:53 PM

I'll make it 128x128.