How does it not work? Did you click the checkbox for the data texture?

Mmm okay, that's strange.

Edit: Wow for some reason save seems to be completly non functional when I use the program that's been installed via the installer.. That's kind of embarassing, oh well, shouldn't be too hard to fix but I'll do to that tommorow night, it's kinda late now.

Oh yeah about the data thing, doesn't checking the data check box enable the browse button? Or do you mean having selected the texture you can't see it on the screen? If so, I haven't really implemented all their shaders yet, so visualization will have to be in game for a while, sorry.

Ok, last thing I can think of: Did you have a material selected in the list? I'll have to add one selected by default I guess. Much more user friendly .

If you dont see any materials in the material box chances are your model is untextured, or the converter you used erased the material data.

So the viewer doesnt read .dds itself, but is does convert say .tga textures to .dds correct?

Is the model supposed to appear bright white when you 1st open it in the viewer? I cant see any material settings to adjust ambient, specular, diffuse, etc. I am hoping the material setting from 3dsmax are saved.

Yea i have to re-assign the textures to my models in the viewer which is not a bad thing, because i can rename them for use in sins. I am just worried that my models will have a permanent glow upon import despite the da's textures, and alpha channels in the cl file

I hope the smoothing groups are saved as well. Otherwise my models will look like crap if groups are erased and default groups assigned. I will see for myself soon enough i am prepping 1 model as i type

I see you have emitters for engines, and weapons, but what about nav lights?

EDIT: I didnt realize the editor wont save my model. I re-assign all textures, give it a single emitter for a weapons test, click save..then nothing. My model disappears from the screen, and no .mesh file is created. Doh! forgot about the installer version not saving :/

Nav lights aren't that important right now. They can be added later. Thats a "nice to have" feature not a "must have" like saving the file

I feel your pain. Back in my homeworld modding days i've done many an "oops".

I forgot to say thank you for providing the tool despite it being broken right now

Ok i managed to get a model in game, but the problem is the textures wont show up. I know why they wont. It is because the editor saves the file locations of the textures used in the mesh file. In my case my C: drive. The game is installed on my D: drive

I used my c drive to avoid the endless clicking. I probably should have put my .jpgs in the sins textures folder, and linked them from there (yes i do have .dds copys of the textures).

I tried to manually edit out the file locations in the mesh file with notepad, but that results in the model crashing sins. My models can have up to 30+ different material lines. So manually editing 90 (30 for the cl, 30 for the nm, 30 for the da) entrys. Needless to say that was tedious Only for the model to crash the game afterwards.

Ill try relocating my textures to the sins textures folder, and try again, but for future mods there has to be general texture entry's in the mesh file, or else others will encounter the same problems i did when trying to run mods.

It did feel good to see one of my models in game despite it not being textured

EDIT: Ok, i give up. I moved my textures into the sins texture folder, and redid all of the material entrys.. here is the end result :/



I dont know why it is not showing the textures. I am at a loss.

You can make them too after spending 3+ years learning a modeling, and an image editing program. Like 3dsmax, and Photoshop. LOL! Your jealous at me? I am just an amateur hobby modeler. BTW my avatar is that very same model

DOH! Ok its official im an idiot. Had caps... :/ fixed, textures work, will post shot later.

You need to change the order of the textures to this order: CL is 1st, then DA, then NM. Right now you have it at CL, NM, DA. The way you have it now puts the normal maps where the data texture should be. The blue ghost glow was quite scary lol. I had to rename my NM's to DA, and DA's to NM as a temporary fix.

This is awsome! This tool is now "stress puppy certified". We can import models now folks!

If I remember correctly, you paint the luminosity in the color texture. There was a thread on how to texture sins model at some point, if someone has a link to it, that would be pretty useful.

Missed the thread, great. thanks for the reply.

Ill tinker about a bit, and post a screenie or two when I gets some time on my hands.

Between Team Fortress 2 mapping and playing, and now Sins games and modeling, I seem to be creating alot of work for myself...

Well, I thought I'd have an update tonight for the dds save thing but the library I'm always using to handle images supports reading most file formats, including dds and writing to file most file formats... except dds. Whoops!

Edit: Nevermind, it does support dds saving. Has much as I love this library, the documentation for it is abysmal and incredibly out of date.

Kenetor:
Mmm I don't know. Maybe something goes wrong with the save path. Have you tried saving to c:\? What's wrong with the textures, does it crash when you try to open one or you just have no materials showing up? Also, are you running vista or xp? I never go to try on vista.