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Halut Ship MDL mod...

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Halut Ship MDL mod...

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I was looking at this mod, Halut ships, containing an MDL of several new unique ship graphics. Are all five ship appearing correctly for other players of this game?

The utility for viewing the MDL is only showing the ship data for race 6 and 7. Zero through 5 and 35 will not appear, crashing the viewer/editor. I did see some of them, and saw an error. 7hor needs more than one frame for 8 faces; minimum of 8 faces. The command given in the 7 hor name is A32C1, but only one frame is given. This will cause errors in the game.

I will fix these ships and MDL and pack them as race 35 ships for all AI players to use. This will result in a much smaller MDL file (6 times smaller).

Perhaps I recieved a bad down-load?
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Reply #26 from Stardock Forums Top
Hmm.... I found a ship type accessable after all. Perhaps done as 16 bit with Dark Rain's utility? It was call "death" done for race 6 and 7. All the other ships for race 6 and 7 haven't been done yet. There are a lot of ships types not prefixed with a race identifier (races 0 through 7 and race 35). I'm not sure what going on there, or if they are even functional like that. They are not accessable either (with Dark Rain's tools).




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Reply #28 from Stardock Forums Top
Oh, I would think, that the 32 bit shipgraphics look a little bit better than the 16 bit graphic. ;)

Btw. Wow - Great work Turgotz!

Darklor
Reply #29 from Stardock Forums Top
Tested in the game... I don't see a difference. A tiny image in a 64x64 bit frame scarely has enough room to display all enough bits for it to matter, it seems. But, ya, I have seem some large gfx that look better if done as 32 bit and the baseline work uses lots of colors to take advatage of the 32 bit possiblities. All the game GC ships gfx are 16 bit, if I'm not mistaken? Yet, no complaints?

And TurgotZ's work is great! I hope he can find the time to finish the rest of the ships. I don't have enough time due to my work schedule; much less the time to learn "Multi." I hope other people and fans have the time to learn how to make new gfx with Dark Rain's Tools and Multi (or other tools); elsewise, who else can we expect such wonderful accomplishments once TurgotZ and a the few other fans "retire" or "leave?"