Darth-Ra Posted July 10, 2002 Posted July 10, 2002 If its any consolation, to speed up the process even more don't waste your time using winzip (i.e. suppose you want to update the .pk3 file) use pakscape, it will be easy to do the mods and u can also add, edit, view .pak, .pk3, and .zip files..... Just a penny for my thoughts...
Darklighter Posted July 10, 2002 Author Posted July 10, 2002 Thats cool, thanks very much for the advice. I don't mind you guys using any program you want on that part, just as long as you know how to pack it all into a pk3 file in the end. Thank you anyway!
Obikenobi Posted July 13, 2002 Posted July 13, 2002 Hey Darklighter I have been gone for a while busy with School. Did you ever get the Absath Jan working correctly? or is it a problem with the model.GLM and not having a way to direct the surfaces off and on as desired when replacing Kyle in single player? As I have suspected for some time now. Just wondering:D
Darklighter Posted July 14, 2002 Author Posted July 14, 2002 Hey man! Welcome back:D I think that that skin is going to be pretty hard to get working now. All of the threads about it have been closed down and removed. I think the mods felt it was unsuitable material:( Oh well... Meanwhile I found out something new about the SP/MP skin conversion. I don't know whether you checked back, but I have discovered that one part of the conversion process can be slightly changed if the SP skin won't work. I'll let you look... Also the mods have deemed this thread unworthy of stickyness:( :( Its bad, I'm like mortified. But I have to respect their decisions I suppose:( I'll see you around!
Obikenobi Posted July 14, 2002 Posted July 14, 2002 I am sorry to hear that, When MODS get too heavy handed it usually results in overall plain vanilla mediocrity for a forum, this thread is worthy of stickeness. Ill check my PM for the look you mentioned. Feel free to e-mail me at cronpa69@yahoo.com. NAW don't gotta respect nothin "Pard" just gotta put up with them I reckon! (best cowboy impression) Arrgh!
Darklighter Posted July 14, 2002 Author Posted July 14, 2002 If you just scroll up the page you will see what i've found out. And yeah its bad about the non-sticky:( but hey, what can you do... I'd really like to keep this thread alive so post here with requests, problems and questions about skin conversion and things related. I'd hate for it to slip onto the next page unnoticed:( so tell your friends about it, spread the word! Thanks:D
SEPtIc cHiLD Posted July 17, 2002 Posted July 17, 2002 Darklighter, do you know if skins using surfs (eg Jan w/o vest, shaved head jedi) can be used as kyle in SP. I've reskinned the shaved head jedi and it works fine as a MP character but won't work as kyle in SP, I just get the default jedi head.
Darklighter Posted July 17, 2002 Author Posted July 17, 2002 There seems to be a huge problem with surf files actually. The 'naked jan skin' incident was an absolute nightmare. I think it has something to do with replacing the actual files inside the assests.pk3, but I'm not quite sure. I'll have another go with that skin and get back here:)
drjimmy515 Posted July 17, 2002 Posted July 17, 2002 .surf files don't affect the player character in SP, which causes big problems for Jan, because, in order to make her torso and part of her hips appear (not transparent), you have to actually turn surfaces ON (torso_augment, hips, etc..). Getting rid of some .surf controlled accessories like capes and feathers can usually be done though. For example, if you want to remove Aayla Secura's gun holsters, just rename the holster.jpgs to "cheese" or some other bogus name or path (I think one of the Twi'leks actually used this method).
Angry Sandwich Posted July 18, 2002 Posted July 18, 2002 Originally posted by Darklighter I'm sorry to say, but I haven't had much luck with models at the moment. There is also a huge problem with surf files, I don't know how to convert them... Darklighter, are you saying that you can't get any player-made models to work in your SP game? I haven't had any trouble converting models into the SP game. I've managed to put Darth Maul, Blue Maul, Red Maul, Vader, Aayala Secure, etc. into my game. Its the same instructions as putting a player made skin in the game. I wanted to try putting Jar Jar in my game but I don't have a computer anymore (this is a friends PC). Its gonna be awhile before I'm back gaming. ... by the way, I too think this thread should be made a sticky. Its a relevant topic.
Darklighter Posted July 18, 2002 Author Posted July 18, 2002 Hey, listen, I have the models thing worked out now...its just cos they were a different thing to skins, I got a bit spooked...but its alright now. I think I have the whole model thing worked out...I just needed to alter a small part of the tutorial...those surf files are a nightmare though...
SEPtIc cHiLD Posted July 18, 2002 Posted July 18, 2002 so drjimmy, is there no way at all you can get surf files to work for the player character?? I've managed to fiddle with the npcs.cfg to get surfs workin for non player characters ie. naked jan,cough..but can't get it to work if you wanna use surfs for the model you're usin as kyle.
drjimmy515 Posted July 18, 2002 Posted July 18, 2002 Originally posted by SEPtIc cHiLD so drjimmy, is there no way at all you can get surf files to work for the player character?? No one has been able to get .surf files to affect the player character. sucks bigtime for jan...
SEPtIc cHiLD Posted July 19, 2002 Posted July 19, 2002 Originally posted by drjimmy515 No one has been able to get .surf files to affect the player character. sucks bigtime for jan... damn, and I'd made such a sweet jedi2 reskin I really wanted to use as kyle...
Reb Starblazer Posted July 19, 2002 Posted July 19, 2002 So let me see if I got this right. As of now, we're unable to replace Jan in SP because of turning on and off surfaces? Spast! I was thinking of replacing Jan with one of those female Twi'leks(Yin or Aayla to precise).
drjimmy515 Posted July 19, 2002 Posted July 19, 2002 Originally posted by Reb_Starblazer So let me see if I got this right. As of now, we're unable to replace Jan in SP because of turning on and off surfaces? Spast! I was thinking of replacing Jan with one of those female Twi'leks(Yin or Aayla to precise). Whoa.... you can replace npc Jan with whoever you want, and have full control of which of their surfaces are on/off by editing the npcs.cfg entry. If you want Jan as your SP player character, you can do that, but there's no way to turn off her vest and chaps without leaving a transparent void where her torso used to be.
Solarn'Gar Posted July 23, 2002 Posted July 23, 2002 Thank God I've found you people! I've been battling with changing NPC Jan without being able to get rid of that damn vest surface. For example, I've even tried just painting a skin over the vest! But that looks odd! haha Where is the NPCs.cfg entry for Jan, and how do I manipulate it? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Reb Starblazer Posted July 24, 2002 Posted July 24, 2002 What if instead of painting a skin, you replaced the surface? You could replace the vest with the torso image of the person you want to replace Jan with. It would put the image of the torso, over the torso, so you wouldn't really notice. This is all just speculation and has probably been tried before. I just thought I'd try and help:)
Solarn'Gar Posted July 25, 2002 Posted July 25, 2002 It's odd, I've been able to change the overall skin of jan to give her a different lookin SP, but in order to complete the change, I need the vest surface turned off, and it just doesn't wanna do it. From what some people say on this thread, it's not possible to switch off her vest surface. Simply pasting the torso skin onto the vest surface doesn't work at all! haha Damn game! Anyway, this has got me to thinking, that if I was to change Jan completely, and say turn her into Han Solo in SP, does that mean he'd have her vest too? hahaha Or is it some weird thing to do with her Model.glm file. Coz trying to surfon-surfoff her vest and torso_augment_off surfaces just doesn't wanna work. I'm sure this can be done somehow, as I've heard people talk about the naked Jan thing! hahaha and surely she ain't wearing a vest in that skin! hahaha How is all this achieved? Any R2 units out there to help me?
EmperorJello Posted July 29, 2002 Posted July 29, 2002 Indeed. I'm betting it's a model.glm problem... EDIT: Perhaps one of our resident model experts could solve it?
Phizzle Posted July 29, 2002 Posted July 29, 2002 I just got my model in there but is there anyway to make him small??? I read only npcs can be converted in size so I just need to confirm if I can or can't help would be appreciated :ewok:
Bell Posted July 29, 2002 Posted July 29, 2002 make an npcs.cfg to pack with your model and put this line it it. scale xxx where xxx is a number from 1 to 100. you can't make the model itself small unless you want to go through the HUGE task of creating a skeleton and animations for it.
Arkum Posted July 30, 2002 Posted July 30, 2002 Bell, how do you change it though, when i try to save the file after i change it, it won't let me. PLZ tell me how to do it.
Darklighter Posted July 30, 2002 Author Posted July 30, 2002 Or GreenPanther, you can download the Jedimod. Follow the instructions, load the mod in the game and start your own server. All the parameters should be set, so just choose the Yoda skin and he should be small.
Phizzle Posted July 30, 2002 Posted July 30, 2002 I was talking about Single Player. oh and thanks Bell
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