question about ship model facing, my ships are flying sideways

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is there some thing that needs to be done to set the direction of the ship?  null point? im pretty sure the X,Y,Z ' s are all correct; i compared them to sins stock models.  but no matter what change i make it doesn't translate, always the same.

 

any help is appreciated and it will help get the FreeSpace mod rolling.  i know it seems like a silly problem but i cant for the life of me get them to face the proper direction.

 

BTW: i do get a 'function not supported by exp' error when exporting to .xsi(still get the file though and it converts to mesh).  i have followed the guide from ironclad(thankyou for that) but i did not include a -da and -nm texture files as i havn;t done them yet.  would they help with this issue? i dont think so but i am new the this stuff.

 

thanks.

 

 

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Reply #1 from Sins Forums Top
figured i would give a bump and add a pic of the model in xsi. the coordinates look right to me but it still flys sideways and on its side.

http://img375.imageshack.us/my.php?image=xsimedusahm3.jpg
Reply #2 from Sins Forums Top
I'm posting this here for EVERYONE'S reference, midnightjoker.

A ship should be centered on the origin in XSI. Your model isn't.

Axes: Y is the vertical axis. It determines up/down of the model. To fix it rotate the ship so the top of the ship faces the direction of the y-axis arrow.

Z axis if forward orientation. Rotate model so the arrow on the z-axis point towards the nose of the ship.

X-axis should be taken care of with those two aligned.

Credits for this explanation go to DANMAN3712. He explained it all to me.

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Reply #3 from Sins Forums Top
thanks for the response.

how can you tell its not centered? my p001-Center null point is at 0,0,0 and at the center of the model.

thats funny, yours are the 3rd set of directions i have read to use, with Y being the up/down. i will try it but really my problem seems to be that i change the mdoel facing, but it comes through the same. change it again, still comes through the same(same direction). yes im freezing the model before export.

if it was just a matter of getting the right direction i would have figured it out by now cause i have tried every direction. something else is causing it to stay in the one direction(i think).

i will keep struggling. thanks.

Reply #4 from Sins Forums Top
Is there a direction/facing lock of some kind enabled? No offense, but I really suggest you PM DANMAN about this. He should be able to help you better than me. I know ZERO about modeling.
Reply #5 from Sins Forums Top
will do man. thanks.