I am trying to make reasonable representation LAFD LAX engine 51 to go with the LAX units. I play on wood's first map a lot and since there is the airport I use the LAX units to cover the area around the airport.
Now I have started by re-skinning the ALS engine, and this is where my first problem came up. I managed to get the sides to work but the front and back skin will not work. I followed the directions in the reskinning topic by MikeyPI, but the fire_engine1_2.dds doesn't seem to repack properly. Can one of the reskinning vets share their wisdom.
Here is what my unit looks like:
engine 51 front
Engine 51 back
Since I'm at it how do I apply these textures to a unit? I made copies of all the model files and the prototypes and renamed them to engine51 but they still referrer to the original textures for engine 7.
If this post is in the wrong place I apologize.
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Posted 28 October 2009 - 06:13 AM
You will need to edit the names of the textures in the v3o files to the renamed textures for Engine 51.
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Posted 28 October 2009 - 10:46 PM
So I need to get a model editing program?
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Posted 29 October 2009 - 09:33 AM
No you need to unlock the v3o files and edit them in notepad or notepad2(google it).
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Posted 29 October 2009 - 08:13 PM
Thanks guys.
So I have managed to get a separate prototype but I still can't get the second set of textures to apply correctly.
I don't know if they aren't repacking right or I'm not saving them right. I've been working on this for three days and still can't figure out what I'm doing wrong. I've even completely restarted. Does anyone have any Ideas?
Here is the latest pics of my progress.
edit: OK I think I figured out what's going on. The bottom part of my texture is been lost during packing or saving.
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So I have managed to get a separate prototype but I still can't get the second set of textures to apply correctly.
I don't know if they aren't repacking right or I'm not saving them right. I've been working on this for three days and still can't figure out what I'm doing wrong. I've even completely restarted. Does anyone have any Ideas?Here is the latest pics of my progress.
edit: OK I think I figured out what's going on. The bottom part of my texture is been lost during packing or saving.
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Posted 30 October 2009 - 12:48 AM
You cannot release skins without Hoppah's permission, that include posting apicture of the texture. I have removed the picture of the texture from the post.
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Posted 30 October 2009 - 01:12 AM
Oh OK no textures sorry.
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Posted 30 October 2009 - 02:17 AM
its fine to show the whole model with textures on it, and if hoppah says you can upload the texture then it's fine, just uploading the texture without permission can be seen as distiributing, because really you are, even if it is bugged, and that's bad.. It's okay, you didn't know
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Posted 30 October 2009 - 06:10 AM
OK so I've playing around with the texture some more and still failing.
I've gone back to 1.8 for the texture, I've used a different computer. Is there a specific way I should be saving the file before packing, my packed files are 129KB? Should I be using a specific format or compression? I'm using GIMP with the dds plug-in by the way. I still don't understand why the main texture works but the second one fail. 
OK enough whining back to try something else. If anyone as any advice or ideas I'm all ears. 
I've gone back to 1.8 for the texture, I've used a different computer. Is there a specific way I should be saving the file before packing, my packed files are 129KB? Should I be using a specific format or compression? I'm using GIMP with the dds plug-in by the way. I still don't understand why the main texture works but the second one fail. OK enough whining back to try something else. If anyone as any advice or ideas I'm all ears.
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Posted 30 October 2009 - 06:28 AM
in my experience i never repacked a reskin. every time i did it would crash my game.
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Posted 30 October 2009 - 10:58 AM
in my experience i never repacked a reskin. every time i did it would crash my game.
Hi pappy02us,
I agree with Jon on this one. I also do not repack the files once I have edited them, when I have tried I often find parts missing, so now I leave them unlocked and they are fine.
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Posted 30 October 2009 - 06:02 PM
Yay 
It worked. Woohoo. Thanks guys 
Now to get it in the game.
It worked. Woohoo. Thanks guys Now to get it in the game.
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Posted 30 October 2009 - 10:20 PM
Nice job, Id love to use it if we had an airport on the map.
On the repacking, i never repack either. Just a theory, but EM4 wasnt the best written game even in its day, so I suppose it has problems with files that were packed, and then unpacked. If the files never been packed, then it will pack it up fine.
On the repacking, i never repack either. Just a theory, but EM4 wasnt the best written game even in its day, so I suppose it has problems with files that were packed, and then unpacked. If the files never been packed, then it will pack it up fine.
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Posted 01 November 2009 - 10:50 AM
Thanks for all the help and praise.
I got it in the game. Here's a pic of Engine 51 working a medical call with Rescue 51.
Thanks again.
I got it in the game. Here's a pic of Engine 51 working a medical call with Rescue 51.
Thanks again.
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Posted 02 November 2009 - 09:46 PM
is very pity that you don't have permission to release it... I try to do my own version...
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Posted 03 November 2009 - 06:01 PM
Your reskins look good
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