Posted by JM on July 12, 1998 at 21:15:43:
In Reply to: Re: I'm back!!! Much help needed. posted by TA_JebFalcona on July 12, 1998 at 20:02:03:
What you are doing is importing the geometry of a 3do into jed, moving it around, and exporting. You need to pick up ver 0.8. And, you have to make each sector manually. Because nobody can figure out how to make a face in a 3do translucent! (Oh, wait, never mind. JED just doesn't save it.) Make a 3do thats just the tank, texture all the tank glass surfaces your nice greenish mat, and all the others something else. Now export. Open it with a text editor. Take note of the number in the mat list corrosponding to the greenish mat file name/ Now scroll down to the faces section in each mesh (It MUST be more then one, you need to have a visible base to the tank part. IE the bottom shouldn't be adjoined, and you should delete the bottom surface of the middle sector. under commands/keyboard/recovery.)
In each mesh under faces, in the second column, if you see the number corrosponding to the greenish mat, set the flags (In the flags column) on that same line to 0x2. I don't know if this will work, I will go try it right now.
Now, just stick the luke 3do INSIDE the tank one. Or, if EVERY tank is to have a luke, you can export it as one 3do, but be carefull, don't use the greenish mat on luke!