Also, an error in the Dev references something in the selfillumination texture section of the Gs_Ship.fx...

Lets see the top part of the mesh where the textures are connected. Willing to bet none are from borking the ConvertXSI or material setup.

The text was good enough for what I wanted but anyone that models for Sins probably has XSI and the scene and texture are your best bet. I have no time now to look at it because SOA2 is on a push to get the new release out.

Sorry, never tried texturing with Gimp. Thoumsin should be able to help you there.

The team colour channel (Alfa) should be all black accept what you want to show as the team colour. With Photoshop I create a black square the size of the texture sheet and have a least 1 white pixel somewhere off the UV if you dont want to see it and paste the square to the alfa channel.

From http://soase.weebly.com/texturing.html

DXT5 ARGB 8 bpp | interpolated alpha
choose GENERATE MIP MAPS in the mip map generation

Gimp Users by Thoumsin

- open your .dds in Gimp

- colors > components > decompose ... rgba and decompose to layers option

- on the new pic created, remove the eyes icon before each of the color channel, you can maybe activate the chain icon in front of each color channel if you fear change these channel by mistake... be sure that only the alpha channel is selected... make your edit work...

- colors > components > recompose ... change made on the second pic alpha layer will be transfer to the first pic alpha channel...

- save

 

Couple of things to note here.

I deleted the material you were using and just used the default material.

You had two of the textures with invalid names for convert xsi which is why you most likely had to manually fix the material in the mesh.

• To clear out invalid images go to Render->Clip->Delete unused sources and clips.
• To select an image you already added to XSI go to Explore->Sources/Clips and select the previously added image.
• You'll know if the image reference is bad if it ends with a # in the Material view.

The tangent didn't look right compared to what I usually have so I deleted all the tangent data you had and created one tangent linked to your second uv-map.

Your textures weren't compressed or scaled right.

• The images should be 128, 256, 512, 1024, 4096 for the width or height dimensions. The width and height can vary or be the same but should be one of those values.
• You can use BC3 / DXT5 compression, make sure to select Generate mipmaps for meshes
• I'd recommend saving your source texture as a tga and using AMD Compressonator to convert to DDS personally. Gimp sometimes adds extra artifacts (shows as green blotches sometimes). Compressonator is cool as you can save the files as BattleShip-cl.tga, BattleShip-da.tga and BattleShip-nm.tga then batch compress them to DDS in one shot. The other advantage is you can edit the tga's without loss of detail.

After making these changes I re-exported the model to *.xsi and converted to mesh and the model showed up fine.

It's very dark in space...

128 x2= 256 x2 = 512 x2 = 1024 x2 2048 etc. Always multiples of 16

Red skybox is brighter.

Nice job.

Hahaha, awesome example. Good luck on your project, looks very useful.

Okay, so I went back and started over with the raw obj model, mesh pointed it, got the tangent map, (though it still looks kind of weird, not sure how to fix those or adjust them) reconnected the textures, and whatnot. Now in-game, it displays a random texture, usually from a vasari ship.