Guest pappy02us Posted October 28, 2009 Report Share Posted October 28, 2009 I am trying to make reasonable representation LAFD LAX engine 51 to go with the LAX units. I play on wood's first map a lot and since there is the airport I use the LAX units to cover the area around the airport. Now I have started by re-skinning the ALS engine, and this is where my first problem came up. I managed to get the sides to work but the front and back skin will not work. I followed the directions in the reskinning topic by MikeyPI, but the fire_engine1_2.dds doesn't seem to repack properly. Can one of the reskinning vets share their wisdom. Here is what my unit looks like: engine 51 frontEngine 51 backSince I'm at it how do I apply these textures to a unit? I made copies of all the model files and the prototypes and renamed them to engine51 but they still referrer to the original textures for engine 7. If this post is in the wrong place I apologize. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MCERT1 Posted October 28, 2009 Report Share Posted October 28, 2009 You will need to edit the names of the textures in the v3o files to the renamed textures for Engine 51. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest pappy02us Posted October 28, 2009 Report Share Posted October 28, 2009 So I need to get a model editing program? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xplorer4x4 Posted October 29, 2009 Report Share Posted October 29, 2009 No you need to unlock the v3o files and edit them in notepad or notepad2(google it). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest pappy02us Posted October 29, 2009 Report Share Posted October 29, 2009 Thanks guys. So I have managed to get a separate prototype but I still can't get the second set of textures to apply correctly. I don't know if they aren't repacking right or I'm not saving them right. I've been working on this for three days and still can't figure out what I'm doing wrong. I've even completely restarted. Does anyone have any Ideas?Here is the latest pics of my progress.edit: OK I think I figured out what's going on. The bottom part of my texture is been lost during packing or saving. SKIN REMOVED Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Newfoundking Posted October 29, 2009 Report Share Posted October 29, 2009 You cannot release skins without Hoppah's permission, that include posting apicture of the texture. I have removed the picture of the texture from the post. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest pappy02us Posted October 30, 2009 Report Share Posted October 30, 2009 Oh OK no textures sorry. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Newfoundking Posted October 30, 2009 Report Share Posted October 30, 2009 its fine to show the whole model with textures on it, and if hoppah says you can upload the texture then it's fine, just uploading the texture without permission can be seen as distiributing, because really you are, even if it is bugged, and that's bad.. It's okay, you didn't know Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest pappy02us Posted October 30, 2009 Report Share Posted October 30, 2009 OK so I've playing around with the texture some more and still failing. I've gone back to 1.8 for the texture, I've used a different computer. Is there a specific way I should be saving the file before packing, my packed files are 129KB? Should I be using a specific format or compression? I'm using GIMP with the dds plug-in by the way. I still don't understand why the main texture works but the second one fail. OK enough whining back to try something else. If anyone as any advice or ideas I'm all ears. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Texas_DPS Posted October 30, 2009 Report Share Posted October 30, 2009 in my experience i never repacked a reskin. every time i did it would crash my game. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShaneGreen Posted October 30, 2009 Report Share Posted October 30, 2009 in my experience i never repacked a reskin. every time i did it would crash my game.Hi pappy02us,I agree with Jon on this one. I also do not repack the files once I have edited them, when I have tried I often find parts missing, so now I leave them unlocked and they are fine.Take careShane Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest pappy02us Posted October 30, 2009 Report Share Posted October 30, 2009 Yay It worked. Woohoo. Thanks guys Now to get it in the game. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xplorer4x4 Posted October 30, 2009 Report Share Posted October 30, 2009 Nice job, Id love to use it if we had an airport on the map.On the repacking, i never repack either. Just a theory, but EM4 wasnt the best written game even in its day, so I suppose it has problems with files that were packed, and then unpacked. If the files never been packed, then it will pack it up fine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest pappy02us Posted November 1, 2009 Report Share Posted November 1, 2009 Thanks for all the help and praise. I got it in the game. Here's a pic of Engine 51 working a medical call with Rescue 51.Thanks again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danny96 Posted November 2, 2009 Report Share Posted November 2, 2009 is very pity that you don't have permission to release it... I try to do my own version... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
randomperson139 Posted November 3, 2009 Report Share Posted November 3, 2009 Your reskins look good Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
