Help Finding Textures

posted on April 15th, 2013, 9:48 am

I'm working on my Star Wars Mod and I'm having a really hard time finding the right textures for ships and stations. I'm starting to convert the Imperial Faction and I want to use the Golan Space Defense platform as the base. But I can't find the textures. I looked in the SOD file via 'notepad'. It referenced something called 'default - golan33' but i couldn't find that texture anywhere in the Star Wars fleet command mod. I've got amisoft 3d viewer and i can view the model but it appears with white and green boxes. I put every texture file i had from the Star Wars Fleet Command Mod and it won't read it properly. I put the textures in the data/textures/pics/imported file but they won't show up. I really need some help here. It would be nice if there was a program i could load a sod into and it tells me what texture file is needed.

posted on April 15th, 2013, 9:58 am

Upload the file to something like Mediafire and send me the link on a PM. I'll download it and take a look for you

posted on April 15th, 2013, 10:06 am

Actually I just redownloaded the full version 1.1. I think some of the textures had gotten deleted somehow. I found the specific texture I was looking for. But it would still be nice to have a program that tells you more clearly than notepad what textures go with what model. I think the problem might be like the Clone Wars addon may delete some textures for some reason and that's why I couldn't find them. Its just been very frustrating. First I couldn't find the textures for the Repair ship and MC90, then the E-wing textures were missing. and it was just a big mess. But my Rebellion side is finished, it's not a separate race yet, but it's finished in terms of playability.

posted on April 15th, 2013, 5:59 pm

You may get your wish soon, Spartan

I've been working on an Armada debugger that checks for SOD errors and missing textures, as well as pretty much every little thing that can go wrong in a mod.

Only thing keeping me from releasing this thing is a bit of overload at work for the past few weeks. That should change by end of April

posted on April 15th, 2013, 7:10 pm

There is a far simpler way to view and import SODs and find out their textures. It's called MS3D (Milkshape 3D) there's a section that lists textures, just clicking on that right section and the listed names gives you a file name. I've been using it all the time and have always gotten the textures that I am needing for any ship or station. All you need is the A1/A2 SOD Importer and Exporter.
I have the program and all that and a zipped copy in backup in my DropBox account as a backup.

posted on April 15th, 2013, 7:35 pm

I'd get milkshape 3d but its expensive and i can't spare the money right now. I might just have to wait for Mr. Vulcan's debugger.

posted on April 15th, 2013, 8:42 pm

Spartan,

Its been a while since I downloaded it but I believe Milkshape 3d gives you a 30 day trail.

posted on April 15th, 2013, 10:51 pm

Pepperman is right about MS3D giving a 30 Day trial, plus I've heard that some people that use MS3D have given other users an activation key so they have the full product without having to purchase it. I was given my code in such a way when I downloaded my Trial Version after it expired, that's part of the reason why I've created a backup of it in my DropBox Account, that way even though I don't have the activation key able to get two, I still have the program without having to ever install it again.

posted on April 16th, 2013, 11:48 am

I'd also argue that for what it is, Milkshape3d is incredibly good value Think of something like Maya or 3d Max, and how much they cost. Yes, more functionality, but Milkshape3d still gives you huge bang for buck.