Rotating Structures

You need the standard entity file plus any NEW entity files you have added.

I have not added any "new" files.  All I did was copy the origenal file changed it from bin to txt. Then changed one line from "rotateConstantly FALSE" to "rotateConstantly TRUE"

Or do I still need some more files in the Manifest?

Just a copy of the original.

ok, I got that to work but now the structer is rotating around the Z axis and this is a TEC Civ research. Is there a way to make it roll on its Y Axis or would that require a new modle?

So it's flipping instead of spinning?  That's kind of funny.  I may enable that in mad scientist just to mix things up.

Yea, real funny, NOT. Being that I am a noob to modding do you have any suggestions to fix this? There is a line in there that says "ROTATEFACING" then if I put in a direction like "AWAYFROMORBITBODY" or "TOWARDORBITBODY" it will turn itself way or towards that planet and then stop. I want it to spin like a planet. Is it psible to use a panet entity file and turn it into the structure?

rotateSoundName ""
rotateFacingType "None"
rotateConstantly TRUE

No. At least not the way you want to do things.

Thats exactly what I did and thats what got it flipping. I Thats when I tried to use rotateFacingType and it would turn and stop. There has to be a way to get it to spin.

Thanks, Ryat, I wont wast my time.

Use particle system who give you almost a full control on the shader effect...

For the primary mesh, make a tiny cube ( or a pyramid with a triangular basis who use only 4 poly tri in place of 12 for the cube ) who is so small that you will not see it on screen... add all usual hardpoint to the tiny mesh, add at 0,0,0 a hardpoint who call your particle effect who render the real mesh... modify the bounding box value from the tiny mesh for match the real mesh ( needed for collision detection )... the particle effect need to use the ship.fx for render your secondary mesh... particle use a matrix system for rotation... you can make it rotate like you wish... possible to give some limit and make it rotate between these limit ( oscillation )... you can control the rotation speed too... and more...

Wow thats way to advanced for me this is my first time trying to mod anything. Sounds like I will need some more programs to do any of that stuff. What do you recomend for beginers?

The same that for pro... notepad !!!

Notepad will allow you to copy and past hardpoint, bounding value, and more from one mesh to the other ( the .mesh need to be in txt mode )... same thing for the particle file, i have never try to learn use the sins tool for it... only notepad for create/edit the particle file...

Well, it is how i like to work... it have already happen that i correct model from other directly by editing the .obj in the notepad too...

Best is to seek a little on these forum... someone have made plug-in for xsi mod tool who ease the hardpointing ( http://soase.weebly.com/xsi-add-ons.html ), someone other have made a easy tool for convert from bin to txt and reverse ( harpo tool ), a other one have made eclipse tool ( http://code.google.com/p/soaseplugin/ ), a other a full wiki related to modding ( http://soase.weebly.com/index.html ), etc... 

There is some topic who are worthy to be put in your browser Favorites... by example : https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/363233 or https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/366795

I am really doing poorly. Is there somone that could take on this project and get structures to rotate... properly?