SE:V Shipset Questions

[Fyron]

According to SEnet:

Like SEIV, the SEV vehiclesizes file defines primary and alternate model/texture files for each hull. In addition, it also defines a default, thus allowing for 3 possible file specifications. The file is set up to support the following additional models for ambitious shipset authors:

LightCarrier
HeavyCarrier
Baseship

Small, Medium and Light verisons of: Freighter, Drone, Fighter, Mine, Satellite, Troop, WeaponPlatform

Another thing to note is that the Organic and Crystalline racial traits in SEV provide specialized vehicles hulls. There are calls for specialized models and textures for every one of these vehicles, so a very ambitious shipset author could provide different textures in an "Organic" style for Organic races, for example.

[ToddT]

i took a peek at the human destroyer and crusiuer in Starfury demo. the txt files are mia so can't say anything about them, but the destroyer model is larger than the cruiser model. but in game thats not true. the face counts are aslo nearly 50% less. Not sure the number of slots is to big an issue,since tonnage limits would keep that in check.

[Phoenix-D]

The text files are there- check SpaceObjects_XFiles.txt. The cruiser has a base model radius of 444.293 and a scale of 0.008, the destroyer 588.822 and 0.004, respectively.

[ToddT]

SpaceObjects no such file in demo as far as i can see, have checked all directories. the model info provided, comforms what i sad about model sizes (i opened the actual .X files)
it seems you can create models any size you want then set scale accordingly.

[Phoenix-D]

Its in the Campaign 0- Backwater Blues folder.

[ToddT]

hmm saw that then skipped over it for some reason, anyway the scaling numbers are completly different
destroyer model radis is 5.0 and scaling is .01 versus 588.822 and .004

[Phoenix-D]

Buh-what?

That's..bizzare. I pulled those numbers straight from the copy of Starfury on my disk.