Sins of a Solar Empire Ships

[Auris]

Well, SoaSE is released now also in europe. Awesome Game, Awesome Ships. Looked like Homeworld 3:-) Any way to unfold ships from this game?

[GreatDane]

Hmmh...

Not yet.
Seems we'll have to wait for an SoaSE extracting program to be released. (Oh no! Don't you look at me! That's WAY beyond my capabilities!)
I haven't tried yet, but I guess the HW file extracting programs (like Spooky's tool) will work on this game.
Maybe try google; a program will be released at some day, I guess?
They do look nice, though. But I already have a shedload of stuff to unfold... (or would like to) *sigh*

GreatDane.

[Raven]

It's honestly sad to see that this community has held on by the skin of it's teeth. I'll try to do my part to restore this place to something we can call... alive...

If someone can send me what I need, I'll see if I can't gather my once renoun patience and design an unfold. Unfortunatly, due to events that have occured ovr the past 2-3 years, I have no sutible tools on hand to do a test fold.

[vizth]

there is a plugin in out for 3ds max that can import the models, and the textures are just in dds format.

plugin
forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/176051

what I've been able to do with it so far
img.photobucket.com/albums/v282/Vizth/Frig.jpg

I'm not very good with 3ds, and i don't know how to unfold the models, but if no one else here has 3ds, i can try to convert them to a format you can use.

[Raven]

I'll try to get my hands on the game. 3DS is supported by 3D exploration, and I have a DDS tool for convertiong textures. a few conversions and I should be able to figure something out. I'll post again when I've made some progress if you want ;D

On a side note, I just finished my first unfold in 4-6 years! It's the sawmtaww super acolyte mod for cataclysm. If anyone wants a copy, please PM me. ;D

[Raven]

Ok, I'm stuck. I can't get the textures to show up on the mesh. Iv'e followed all the directions on the site, but even with the pictures I don't understand anything beyond importing the mesh.

[vizth]

I converted the ship meshes to .3ds format. has TEC, Advent, Vasari, and pirates. stuff like turret defenses i still have to do. Apologies for any errors or wrong names.

www.mediafire.com/?rtn29h9yr5c

[Raven]

the only error I have encountered is the textures still don't show up on the model. I copied the textures from the game directory, but no cigar. If push comes to shove, I'll do some experimenting with binding textures.

[luciora]

You go Raven!