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Posted by Nahaku on October 20, 1998 at 21:40:36:

In Reply to: Re: 3do junk posted by Lex_kempo on October 20, 1998 at 20:32:16:

I wrote a thing on how templates work and adding 3dos for the gent working on a playable character based on an A-wing...I still have a copy. Since it hasn't been posted anywhere, here it is in a nutshell. The project you are working on should be in a folder of it's very own. This keeps things organized, and makes it real easy to add things without screwing up other projects. Copy your master.tpl or mots.tpl into that folder, depending on if it is JK or MotS respectively. Next, add any custom 3dos and mats and sounds ect that are not "stock" or that you had to extract using conman to be able to use. When all of this is in there, open the master or mots.tpl (template file) in wordpad. Next, open the template for the new 3do in note pad. (As an aside, this helps preserve the formating of the files you are dealing with, copying and pasting in wordpad will not let you keep the format of the .tpl file, but just pasting will.) Copy the template in note pad to the clip board, then open up the master template you have in Word Pad, scroll to the bottom, place the cursor and paste the copied text there. Then hit the "save" button, not the "save as". The master .tpl will be saved, and when you open the level in Jed, the new item will be selectable in the resource picker when you 2 click a thing, or place one. Now, some authors are not including templates with there 3dos. They usualy are not hard to make, things that need cogs though should have them with the file if they aremodified in any way. I have a template I whipped up for that com chair, and it looks pretty cool, the author did a great job...don't know why he didn't include a template though. Not trying to promote myself a bit here, but if you download my tree 3dos, there is a more complete explanation on how to add them, and I have templates included in that zip. If you download them and try them, you will get a good feel for how this works. They do use MotS textures though, so they won't show up textured in JK...you would have white trees :-) Good luck, let everyone know if you need more help.



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