Place fighter/bomber model in mesh folder

Make a copy of an existing fighter or bomber entity
Connect mesh to fighter or bomber entity - add custom strings and icons
Make a copy of an existing squadfighter or squadbomber entity - connect fighter/bomber entity
Add all new entities to manifest, change count

Choose which frigate, capital, structure or SB that get the new squad attached

Blast away

There does not seem to be an upgrade mesh available for strikecraft so stuck with add new types. Can have as many types as you want but only the amount for dock 5? I put suicide fighter bombers at homeworld defence only, supper heavy bombers on carrier capital and SB and so on.

A particle effect is doable with an ability but will not always show if particles hit the limit late game. They are attached to a meshpoint like Above Aura or Centre have lots of particles attached or the blinking lights are particles attached to the meshpoint "Flairs".

A few good modellers have done and you have to wait for 1 of them for details. PM Thoumsin if nobody pops in.

Oh--I'm happy to have them as just models--I thought fighters were particle effects--which is how they fly through things.  I've already modded a dozen different types of strikecraft but was considering adding new models  for them.

Do you just add them as mesh files then?  And, do  strike craft have weapons points?

It would be awesome if I could just mesh them and use existing weapon effects--I can make the models proportional for that.

Thanks Iskatumesk that explains it (and thanks everyone else too).

So they will need weapons points in them?  I'm just wondering if I can swap my models and still have them work.  The XSI tools don't work properly on my PC and I have to have someone convert to mesh for me as well.  Somewhat limits my options.

The other thing I can do is hand edit the mesh files if I can just copy out the weapon point info, I can make my models with guns in the same places. 

I'm guessing here--I have not done any of this.

Typical mesh points are 2 forward weapons, 1 or 2 rear exhaust, 1 blinking light, above aura and centre points.

Needs a texture set and a tangent map. Icons with dock and launch, picture, fleet tree icon, select, move and attack voice sounds, engine sound

Send me the obj and I will see what I can do.

Dont know why so many people have issues with XSI

Hmmm--as I was stuck and had time...I pondered the vagaries of what might be wrong.

In my pondering, I considered Net 2.0 and it appears mine in Win 7 was somewhat corrupted.  So I uninstalled and reinstalled it and particle forge is open and seeming to have features that were not there before.

Of course now I will have to attempt to see if it works and learn to use it but then on to the XSI tool to see if it has been healed.

I blame Ryat.

Ok...XSI still not working.  Getting the command error that it's not a recognizable executable or batch file.

I've gone into environment variables and added the info there as well (it wasn't listed already) and rebooted and retried...still no luck.

Any ideas anyone?

Yeah--I'm admin with permissions and the files are all there in the right folder.  Dlls are registered and the like.   I'm trying something now to see if it works.

Maybe...I always use underscores instead of spaces.  Old habit which is helpful.