Posted by TA_JebFalcona on July 12, 1998 at 21:49:15:
In Reply to: Re: I'm back!!! Much help needed. posted by JM on July 12, 1998 at 21:15:43:
I have read the tutorial on creating 3D0's with JED, and could prbly work through it. But let me make sure I get what you are saying. Make my tank in JED, by itself, and texture it up with the Green MAT on the part that needs to be translucent, make a base for it, and DON'T set the surface to translucent etc. then open the 3DO with a text editor and change the flags for the green surfaces to something else that will make em transparent. Then open up my level (after doing the stuff with the master.tpl i assume right?) and place the new tank 3DO in it's spot, and then the Luke 3DO so that it appears inside the tank? That it? What was that you were talking about with the collide boxes and lag an stuff? Hmm...this seems like it could take a while.
: 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!