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Swapping Models

by Matt Louie · in Artist Corner · 11/06/2007 (3:34 pm) · 6 replies

Hey everyone, this might be a really newb question but I am wondering how I swap out some of the flight examples models that I've purchased with some models of my own. The models I have created are in .dts format but whenever I just straight up swap a .dts file the game crashes on me. Is there some .cs file that I need to change to import different models?

Any help with be greatly appreciated.
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Torque Owner Mike Rowley
Mike Rowley
#1
11/07/2007 (3:56 am)
Check your console.log and see what's causing the crash. Another thing you can do is to make sure all your textures are in the same folder as your dts model.

Associate David Montgomery-Blake
David MontgomeryBlake
#2
11/07/2007 (6:28 am)
Also, make sure your model is setup correctly and that the datablock for it is setup correctly.

Torque 3D Owner Jean-Pierre Cuerrier
#3
11/07/2007 (10:17 pm)
Have you gotten this working?
Post back to let us know if more help is required :o)

RT

Torque Owner Nick Matthews
#4
11/08/2007 (3:42 am)
If its a player model (usually those are the most prone to crashing) you'd need to change the TSShapeConstructor (either at the top of player.cs in server/scripts or in player.cs in data/shapes/player) and you also need to change the player shapefile in the player datablock, not doing one or the other usually results in a nasty crash.

Matt Louie
#5
11/10/2007 (1:46 pm)
Hi everyone, thanks for all the helpful replies.

However, after changing my .dts file to point somewhere else in the Datablock, it still is crashing itself. I also am not able to find the TSShapeConstructor.

Thanks,

I am unable to check the console log before the game crashes. It crashes as soon as I hit "Launch Mission"

Matt Louie
#6
11/10/2007 (3:46 pm)
I finally am able to swap out models for my own. However these aren't player models, I am just able to swap out things like, bullet models, trees and other things. Is there some sort of special data that I need to configure to swap out a player model?

Thanks, any help is appreciated.