Viper2000

Okay ive modeled a ship with about 600 polys and got the textures working. I have exported to .3d and what I need to know is how much more do I have left to do before I can get this baby in game. BTW are there any tutorials out that explain step by step how to get a ship or object in-game?

Never mind. I figured it out

Okay Ive got a problem with my 3D max. The problem is with merging objects. I made a ship with several shapes linked together and when I went to export it into 3d format it said please select one node. SO I selected all the parts and hit export and it said the same thing again. It appears that I can only export one at a time. Is there any way to merge them?

Okay I found version 3.0 and I was wondering it there has been a plug in for importing models? [ 12-07-2002, 05:23 PM: Message edited by: Viper2000 ]

Darn. The oldest version I have is 4.2

Ive known some one who has got his hands on The Blue Book and he was surprised with what he read. Not too much about UFOs but more of things that have never been explained like this one about a jet test pilot who had just broke the sound barrier when he noticed something behind him on his rader and when he turned around too look it was a b-17 bomber. The pilot couldn't belive his eyes and moved abit close to get a better look, when he was close enough he looked into the cockpit and saw the pilot waving at him. The jet pilot got to close and the wings of the two aircraft touched and when that happened the b-17 took off into the distance and disappered. Everybody the man told thought that he was crazy until a couple of days later they found and old rusted b-17 bomber in a barn down the road from the base and on the wing of that bomber was a silver streak of paint. This sounded like some made up story to me, but it was documented in The Blue Book as an unsolved encounter so I dont know.

I think I might have an older version of 3D Max lying around somewhere. Good thing its 3d max I hate lightwave.

Well I think its a big improvment over the previous version.

What did u do SC!?! This game runs perfect on my comp now. Ive not had one CTD or any other type of lock up since I installed the patch. Nice work

Im kinda enjoying not cheating for once. You see im kinda like a cheataholic, if theres cheats ill use em and then wonder why I get bored so fast .

I have lightwave 7.somthing. Will that work with BCM or should I use 3d max 5? [ 12-07-2002, 01:18 AM: Message edited by: Viper2000 ]

I was just seeing if it was normal or not thats all.

Yep sure enough it did, thanks. Now I wonder why I over looked that before.

This has probley been answered before, but iv looked through most of the forums and all of the VCF and I still can't find it. Well the problem happened after I installed the RC23 patch and when I went to run the game it went through the splash screen and just went back to the desktop afterward. I tried the following to fix this, first I reinstalled the game, ran it, and it ran fine. Then I installed the 1.00.7 patch and then ran it, once again it ran fine. Finally I installed the RC23 patch and tried to run it with no success. So after that I got the new update which was RC28 and installed that, ran the game, and then screamed becasue it didnt work. Iv tried adjust video settings and iv made sure that all of my drivers are up to date. Iv done several of the diffrent debug extensions and none of them had any effect on the game. If anybody knows what could be causing this please tell me and if no one can tell me then I was wondering if there was a log file for the game or if there was anyway I could see what was happening in the background while the game was loading. [ 12-04-2002, 10:16 PM: Message edited by: Gallion ]

I know it has been awhile since anyone posted on this thread, but I can answer the bridge viewer prob, that is if it hasnt already. Anyway I had the same prob and it turned out that if there are any artifacts in your cargo or any that have not been installed, then systems like the bridgeviwer will take damage and until the artifacts are either installed or taken out of the cargo it will continue to happen.

You should try what I did and attepmt to take over the universe. It's not as easy as I thought it would be

Youd have to see my system to understand SC, it runs far better then any computer iv ever used. As for the mapped drive shut down thats already been installed. I think its the new video drivers I loaded, because it didnt start happening till after I installed them, or it could be everytime I shut down my V-scan because thats one of the things I was doing to play this game. Normally I whouldnt format my hard drive unless I was having alot of problems and as of right now there are none besides this game. Besides reloading windows whould take alot longer then 20 minutes on my system being that my 100 gb hard drive is half full with important stuff that whould take days to install and even longer to setup my computer back to the gaming system it is. All the other games run fine on my computer so unless anybody has any other suggestions besides get rid of 98 or reformat your HD then im going to stop posting about this, seeing as its not helping anyone and is just taking up space on the forum. Thanks none the less for the advice though. [ 10-12-2002, 11:55 PM: Message edited by: Viper2000 ]

Like I said my computer was built by a pro. That includes tweaks and updates. Iv got two utlitys that say my computer uses whatever avalible ram it has for programs and I never have had to run on VM in any of my games. Someone told me to reinstall windows. Do you mean just pop the CD in and install on to the old one or just reformat and install a new one all together. If either how whould that help?

Everybody iv talked to says win98se is still the best for gaming. Not the most stable but still the best and iv verified this with alot of ppl. If you have lag in somthing its not windows98 its your config unless the program was designed only for the new operationg systems and not 98.

Its not the OS its somthing in my drivers or config. Besides I still play the older games that XP wont run so I wont be upgrading till I get my new system.

Ok I installed the game on that system played for 20 minutes and then was kicked off by my boss and he played it for like 30 minutes before I finally got him off my computer(I said I had work to finish ). The game does run much more stable but alittle slower, I mean I can't have too many ships on the screen at once or else it lags and when a ship explodes somewhere its lag city. Anyways I got back to my house and updated my system video,sounds,chipset,and I even flashed the bios. I reinstalled the game and loaded it up and the mouse pointer was hiding and was only visable when I moved the mouse, but it wasnt like a pointer it was a garbeld mess and was very laggy. This happened in the menu and in the game so I exited the game and went into my graphics settings and slid the thing down one notch, restarted my machine,and the loaded the game. YEY we have a stable pointer,but the game was lagging alittle and was very bad when there was multiple ships on the screen. I can deal with that I guess but the part that got me was when I went to restart my computer it froze on shut down. It happens everytime I even start BCM I dont even have to play I can go in and exit then goto shutdown and my computer freezes. Does anyone have any idea what could be causing this?

Yes I have that much ram and from what I can tell it does use it. My computer was built by a pro and runs great, even better then my XP machine I use at work. Iv played heavy resource demanding games on this computer while running multiple programs in the background with no lag at all. The only reason I even posted with this problem was because it had me completly stumped. I was hoping some one else was having the same issue and could tell me how to fix it. All that doesnt matter now because im going to go with what Lightning bolt guy said to do and update everything then uninstall the game but before I reinstall the game im going to bring it down to my computer at work which is a 2.somthing Ghz p4 with a gig of DDR and XP, to see if it works any better on that one and yes ill remember to make sure everything in the back ground is closed before I play. If I notice a good diffrence then ill go out and buy XP right away but if not then im going to hold on to my OS and hold this game off till I get my new computer in about 3 months.

No the one on the update site is older then the one I have which I got from my mother boards website.

I know its not the best but from what I can tell this system should be fine to run this game, but thats not the problem im having. I understand that going to mission sites like that will lag down the game but that should be fixed when I restart the system shoudlnt it? I am running at the default resoultion. I use win98 because when I built this system win98 was better for gaming over XP,it required less overhead or somthing and XP from what I could tell was having a whole mess of problems with games so thats why I never bothered to put it on this system. Of course times change and now XPs better for gaming I suppose, so ill have to get that, until I do im stuck with win98 and if thats why im having this problem then ill shut up and not speak of it again.

Ok I get two and only two problems with this game that have become so bad that I have to start over. Problem#1. Whenever I get the warning that intruders are on board I goto the perscan and I get a CTD,almost everytime, but it very rarly does it when no intruders are on board. Problem#2. Whenever I use tacops to observe mission zones on planets I get really bad slow down after looking at multiple mission zones, not just on the tacops but everywhere in the game space,fp,etc. When this first happened I saved and restarted my computer, then I went back and loaded up my game, but the same thing was happening . The only thing that causes this is the Tacops and when lots of ships are in the area.