OK then.......back to modeling projects.........geez Dystopia took longer than I thought. . So I've been collecting info on F5. Looks like Iran was big F5e model user during iran/iraq war. Hell they make a couple rip off versions to this day. So it looks like the E model is what I am going to do. Actually, there are a heck of alot of f5 users out there. If we had new maps.......more 3rd world wars. (that sounds awful)

Any rate, anybody have good photos of m113a1 interior? Or any good referance material for that matter? I WANT MY PLAYABLE APC!!!!! Want it at least somewhat right. Not looking for 100% perfect here. Just not going to happen without me getting to an m113a1 and photo/measuring everything......to late for that anyways.

Work has resumed on gettting .50 cal in game. Nearly there. Major thanks to Andrey who has saved me HOURS worth of bungling around till I got it to work. . Plan is to just get the basic .50 in game, then switch gears to modeling that f5, and getting more referance material on the insides of m113. Then bounce around between the 3 until they are all done.

I have no idea if the following is any use:

http://afvdb.50megs.com/usa/pics/m113.html

LOL, yes that sight HAS been helpful. Its sad when I recognized that alot of that was from FT. Knox. I NEVER want to go there again...........EVER. Made Iraq easy as hell though. But alas, no more common bond of the 19d of the joy that is that place. Stupid army moving scouts away from there....... But I degress.

Ugh, have done an all nighter attempting to get m2hb in game. I think I have now officially lost my mind. The bad news....its not in game......exactly. The good news..........I have gotten it to show up in games model veiwer. With soso news of not being able to get textures to show up..........oh AND the dds to atf converter does NOT want to convert my bump map file. ugh! BUT the config is done and should work.....roughly. Will need alot of tweeking. So, if my brain was working........maybe an hour till I see if this works. But its not working so poop. I really wanted to get it 90% done today,last night, er whatever.

Yay........got to the point where I get critical error 005 -----Ya I dont think I have gotten that one before. But it appears there is something vary wrong when I converted psd to dds then to atf. Ugh so redo all that poop. so freaken close to getting it in game.

Well after powering thru the night and half the day............finally got this thing into sabow model viewer. Just need to find some stupid config error to get in game. I AM TIRED, keep making dumb mistakes. MUST FINISHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

texture looks like poop, but I expected that. Dont have shaders that match up with SABOW so tweek o rama until I am happy.


oh freaken joy........another error message.

Critical error
004: Unable to load mesh

[ M2hb_FBostov_type[s] = tabs\ostovs_mtc80.cfgpack ]

Hay kids, dont forget your ; or you brakie stuff. Fix one error and look another one. Why do i do this to myself when I am sleep deprived????????????????????????????

Oh dear gawd..........all sorts of screwed up

But they did kill stuff........

Quite big as for .50 cal

Have not had much time to work on this the last few days........but it is now scaled correctly and the config works vary well. Still needs to get cleaned up and a little more detail work done but its 95% done.

So next time I get a little time..........start the f5.

Anyone have any idea why the heck all the LOD's get displayed? Have redone EVerything, and I can not get this to go away. But other than that it works fine. This is an older screenie from yesterday and have done some other stuff since. But this really is driving me nuts.


Think I am going to walk away from this and go crash my DCS Blackshark. Then try redoing everything.........AGAIN. Vary odd issue. Reset x form, unlinked/relinked everything. Think I will try merging everything into a new file without any links. Whatever is causing this issue.......ugh.