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<title>Adding ships with UE tutorial</title> </head>
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</body>Hi Everyone,
This is a tutorial for
importing and exporting ship models using DCER's
Ultimate Editor (UE).
The new function
can be found here;
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This is the screen we will be working
with the most.
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first
tutorial; How to do simple
replacement.
Select
"Open Ship Pack" and locate the ship packs you
have created or downloaded.
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Now just select the model on right you
are wanting to import. And on left select the
model you want to replace. And click on import.
And save.
NOTE; You may get a warning
message that palette is over 127 if you get this
message you will need to reduce palettes
manully. if this is not done model will not
display properly.
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Now, new model has been added and is
using all the same info as the model you
replaced. (ship stats, upgrades, cost,
mantinace, ect) And should have no problem using
and building this model in game.
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Second
tutorial; Adding model using 2 models on same
phaser slot.
(Note:
this all works the same if tring to put 3 models
on same phaser slot).
Open UE and open
Ship Pack you want to use. (see images above)
Before we begin just some rules;
No model can share a phaser slot with
any Vanilla models. There phaser slot numbers
are random so errors would be common.
Before a ship can be imported both
models (imported model and model selected to
share phaser slot) must use same scale and
amount of phasers.
You must plan out
what models you plan on using before making any
changes.
Example 1;
Using Oberth we
just added this will be the slot that will be
used for next model imported and will share
phaser slot.
click on "rename" in new
window input new prefix for model (if 2 models
on same slot use 2 characters like "H1" here)
(if 3 models on same slot use 1 characters like
"H")
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Now you will see under renamed model
"H1" and "Not used" spot named "H1_"
Next, I need the scale model to match
scale for both models. With the first model of
shared phaser slot selected click on "edit
Scale" In new window change scale to the same as
model you plan on importing from Ship Pack.
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Now that phasers amount and scale match
you can select not used spot "H1_" and model you
want to import from ship pack "HU". And click on
import.
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and save.
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Now H1 model is in game working but H1_
model files are in game but model is not in
uses.
Note; you have also changed scale
of H1 model from 75% to 95% so you could change
scale as before to even out both models and
split differance to scale of 85%for both models.
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third
tutorial; adding new not used model to
shiplist.
There are
many ways to add new models to shiplist I will
show 2 ways of added to shiplist
Example
1 "basic" using an upgrade slot.
Open UE
and open ship stats.
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Now select the slot you want to use and
in dropdown list find the not used model you
want to add. and edit name, class, and any stats
and if it is an upgrade ect.
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And save.
Now you have 2 models
sharing the same phaser slot and working in
game.
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Example 2 "Advanced" Adding model by
extending shiplist
Open ship stats as
before (see above)
Select a used model
that is close to the model you are adding then
click on "Create Copy"
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Next you will see an exact copy of that
model. now it is time to edit everything. First
open drop down menu and locate the new ship file
you just added and select the tga file that use
that model. And then edit all stats, so that
model will be unique.
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And save
Now you have increased
shiplist and added a new model.
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Fourth
tutorial; How to edit ship
scale.
This is now
a lot easier to do just go to
Edit->Graphics->Add/Remove Ship Models
then select the ship you want to edit scale on
and select Edit Scale. In the new window change
scale value to scale you want.
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And save
now you have edited
scale for that model.
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Fifth
tutorial; How to change what ships are seen in
screensaver.
This
also been made much easier to do go to
Edit->Ship stats You will find a check box
Appers in Screensaver Just check this box. only
catch is there is a limit to how many ships that
can be used by screensaver so you might have to
uncheck a model you do not want to see in
screensaver.
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and save
Sixth
tutorial; How to uses of behave as if built
by.
This option
will be rarely used by most people and has
limited testing. UDMIII will use this to add
assault command to all major races colony and
troop transports by selecting built by Klingons.
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and save
Sixth
tutorial; How to select What special ships are
used.
With the use
of this option you can select what ships are
considered special ships. this was only for
federation but with a little hex editing this
also can be changed. for more info on how to
edit read this post.
<A class=postlink
href="http://www.armadafleetcommand.com/botf/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=224"
target=_blank>Special ship post</A>
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Seventh
tutorial; How to lower palettes
used.
this will
reduce used palette from 119 to 102. By all
races and minors using the same explosions
textures.
Fisrt you will need to
download these files;
<A class=postlink
href="http://www.armadafleetcommand.com/botf/files/patches/palette.rar"
target=_blank>palette.rar</A>
Download and unrar to location of your
choice.
Next open UE and add files to
res file from edit\Other\Files.
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Next use add button and browse for the
file you just downloaded. Then add all file from
"gifs and hobs" folder.
If you have made
no changes to res file you can also add
palette.lst from "vanilla palette.lst" folder.
If you added palette.lst you are done.
and save.
If you did not add palette.lst
you will need to set palette for gifs.
With UE from edit\Graphics\Textures.
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Next select cbboom.gif from drop down
menu and select "use own palette"
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next repeat last step with cgndexp.gif,
csboom.gif, cshock.gif from drop down menu.
Next select fbboom.gif and click on
remove.
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next repeat last step for fgndexp.gif,
fsboom.gif, fshock.gif, hbboom.gif, hgndexp.gif,
hsboom.gif, hshock.gif, kbboom.gif, kgndexp.gif,
ksboom.gif, mbboom.gif, mgndexp.gif, msboom.gif,
rbboom.gif, rgndexp.gif, rsboom.gif, rshock.gif.
Next click on trim palette list and
save.
That is all I have for now, I hope
this tutorial helps
thunderchero</TD></TR>
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