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Re: Star Trek Online
Already saw it, but still don´t have the time to try.
The game has a few good ships. I was trying a way to import them in 3ds max, as I do with the Bridge Commander mods, but never found a way to import the STO ships. Ideas?
The game has a few good ships. I was trying a way to import them in 3ds max, as I do with the Bridge Commander mods, but never found a way to import the STO ships. Ideas?
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Chainsaw_NL
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Re: Star Trek Online
That is a very hard one. First all the files are packed into a .hogg file located in the live directory. You will need to unpack that with a program like :
http://mod.gib.me/champions/bin-rev5.zip
use : Gibbed.Champions.Bacon.exe <input hogg file> <output directory>
It will then extract all the attributes for that bin file.
I have not yet found a way to import 3d ship model into max.
Keep in mind that all work in these files are copywrited and can not be reused or posted here.
http://mod.gib.me/champions/bin-rev5.zip
use : Gibbed.Champions.Bacon.exe <input hogg file> <output directory>
It will then extract all the attributes for that bin file.
I have not yet found a way to import 3d ship model into max.
Keep in mind that all work in these files are copywrited and can not be reused or posted here.
Re: Star Trek Online
A friend (Farshot) at the Bridge Commander forums found a way using a software that can capture mesh data: http://www.deep-shadows.com/hax/3DRipperDX.htm. He already done a test importing the Exeter (the one in the middles), and got success! 
See:
http://img18.imageshack.us/img18/7415/excalcomp.png
Here it goes what he said about this: "...The ripped model was around 10k tri's. I say "was" because by just messing with the saucer, I was able to remove a good five thousand triangles. STO models have a different way of smoothing than what we do with BC ones. STO's meshes all use only one smoothing group. At areas that need hard edges, like the rim of a Sovereign-like saucer, there are actually entire bunches of minuscule polygons that make it appear sharp. Without these micro-polies, the entire mesh would look like a blob, but with them the poly count is excessively high for a relatively low quality mesh."
See:http://img18.imageshack.us/img18/7415/excalcomp.png
Here it goes what he said about this: "...The ripped model was around 10k tri's. I say "was" because by just messing with the saucer, I was able to remove a good five thousand triangles. STO models have a different way of smoothing than what we do with BC ones. STO's meshes all use only one smoothing group. At areas that need hard edges, like the rim of a Sovereign-like saucer, there are actually entire bunches of minuscule polygons that make it appear sharp. Without these micro-polies, the entire mesh would look like a blob, but with them the poly count is excessively high for a relatively low quality mesh."