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I've decided to make a swoop bike ((the swoop bikes from KOTOR))

and this is what i have at the moment :p
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PS: ignore the cockpit, i'm going to redo that part, i screwed it up

not bad, but why is it flat shaded?

my bad about that, i had the headlights option really bright

PS: thanks

Looks really exciting Penguin. Nice work

i need help, i've been tying to texture it for 3 hours now, i can texture one wing fine, but when i go to texture the other wing the texture gets put on upside down >.< ((textures thats ment to be on the top of the swoop appears on the bottom of it, etc))

is this becouse i made one wing then copied it and then just flipped it and move it to the other side?

yeah most likely, you should freeze all geometry before UV mapping and also freeze the transforms.

very good job penguin

Great job, Penguin, I was beginning to wonder what happened to you.



- Majin Revan

Cool, I made one of those a long time ago, not the same swoop bike, but KOTOR swoop. However i never got around to making a texture for it

Here is my final result...


PS: Penguib, if you mind about me posting my picture model here just PM and I'll delete it.

i'm thinkign i'm going to restart it when i have time, some how i mad eit really annoying to texture and stuff >.<

okay, ive remade the model completly and diddn;t copy anything so the textures will be fine, took me a tottal of 5 hours o.o

i just spent the last hour trying to texture it but at the moment its annoying me, hopefully i'll have it finished and ingame within about 4 days :p then i'll make a quick map with it in it and release the map and the model :p

update: put all the textures on, their a bit dodgy but its the best i could do, i created the lowrez model and the collision placed all the nulls, exported it ((just downloaded the 5.0 trial, :p)) but theres one problem, a command post is the size of its cockpit, lol,

yeah, always use another model for scaling reference.

lol, its back no scale :p but now i have a few ingame problems, the collision is all screwed up, theres a big invisible box going around the whole vehicle that gets annoying

also when ever you run over people they get hit by the messed up collision and die, lol.

i just copied the swoop bike polymesh and renamed it colloision and then in the odf put this in

OrdnanceCollision = "collision"
SoldierCollision = "collision"

You have to be careful with hovers. AddBodySpring (in the odf) does some crazy stuff with creating bounding boxes. Try tweaking the values. Also, check your .option file for the mesh. If -nocollision is there, take it out, if it isn't put it in.

hmmm, added -nocollision to the option file, diddn't work, removed the bodysprings and that hasn't worked >.<


but on the good side, becouse its a hover, the engines don't work, so i just made the engines damage hps with the engine effect and to start at 100% health, but the cool thing with this is one of the engines will always be on but the other engine will turn off and replaced by smoke when the vehicle is heavily damaged

but the down side is that the vehicle will have the engine effects even if no one is in it


EDIT: does scaling the vehicle affect the collision? becouse when i rescaled it it was to big, so i just put in -scale 0.42 into the .msh.option

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That be your problem, Pen. Re-export it for better results.

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hmmm, what ever i do, i can't fix the collision, i think i might have done something with the model but i really don't know what to do

Did you re-export the model as a bigger model from XSI? I think Pinioncorp's probably right.

yeah, the model is the right size, i'll add the vehicle in as a prop to see if the collision is still screwed