Want to start creating vehicles for Locomtion

Locoplayer · Post by **Locoplayer** » 01 Apr 2006 23:01

Hi, I have been apart of the forums for, 2 months now?, and have seen a lot of your work, and love it, I would like to start creating Vehicles for Lomo but have NO idea how. Can anyone help me out? Point me in the right Direction of some modeling programs?

P.S. PLEASE, if you don't have anything nice to say, don't say it.... thanks....

Breeze646 · Post by **Breeze646** » 01 Apr 2006 23:03

Okay this sounds more like a tutorial title but it isn't so you should put like I want to start making vehicles.

Locoplayer · Post by **Locoplayer** » 01 Apr 2006 23:09

Yah, sorry, I couldn't think of a title. I also figured this was the best place to put this topic because all the modders hang around here so....

Illegal_Alien · Post by **Illegal_Alien** » 01 Apr 2006 23:22

Every modeling program can be used. But sorry that i say it; and i will always say it: The search is your man.[/b]

Locoplayer · Post by **Locoplayer** » 01 Apr 2006 23:36

I didn't see anything using the search function, but I'll look again just for good measure.

Another thing is getting stuff into .DAT's, does the Vehicle creator do that, because I haven't been able to acces a .DAT through any programs. So If anyone could also point me in the right direction to acess .DAT's that aren't in Binary.... I would appriciate it.

Plastikman · Post by **Plastikman** » 01 Apr 2006 23:43

Locoplayer wrote:could also point me in the right direction to acess .DAT's that aren't in Binary.... I would appriciate it.

they are all binary..... i do have a team of trained monkeys with crayons and an abicus if you want to rent them....

otherwise search..look... read... took me about 2 days from start finnish on how to make a model just reading the forums... then again i am still learning and teaching others from my mistakes... the hard part is making the model from scratch...

Locoplayer · Post by **Locoplayer** » 02 Apr 2006 00:26

the hard part is making the model from scratch...

That's what I want to do. And btw plastikman, I love your vehicle packs.

they are all binary..... i do have a team of trained monkeys with crayons and an abicus if you want to rent them....

What I meant (sorry for the bad wording

) was that are there any programs that can translate binary into english, apart from you're monkeys. Could you clue me in on where to find them? Monkey's I mean. Oh, what are your rental charges?

Barry · Post by **Barry** » 02 Apr 2006 09:03

Hi Locoplayer,

Glad to see someone else who wants to add stuff. I won't go into any detail in this post, as the most important instructions you need are already in this forum, but hopefully I will gve you a few pointers for the sort of things that you should search for.

1) Create your model in the 3d app of your choice - the only stipulation is that it needs to be able to produce a series of images (sprites) from different angles.

2) Put these images through a converter - locomotion uses png files with a 256-colour fixed palette.

3) Generate the xml that you need. This contains the information (speed, costs, etc.) that is required for the object. The best programme for this is vehicle creator.

4) Put the xml file through LocoTool to produce a dat file.

5) Copy the dat to your objdata directory and then create or edit a scenario so that you can select the object.

Hopefully, this will help you to search within this forum and find the info that you need. Another good resource is the wiki, which is stickied at the top of the forum.

Locoplayer · Post by **Locoplayer** » 02 Apr 2006 18:58

Another good resource is the wiki, which is stickied at the top of the forum.

I looked through the wiki, and didn't really find anything about making vehicles, but I probably overlooked something.

Also, has anyone heard of Z-modeler (or however you spell it)? Is it a good program? I downloaded it, to try and create a vehicle for another game I was playing, but never got around to using it. Another program I was looking at was blender? I think.

I'll also refine my searches and search the forums a few more times, for any more info I might need.

EDIT: Thanks to Barry for the help

mayday · Post by **mayday** » 03 Apr 2006 02:31

here have you links for make modells with gmax:
gmax:
http://www.turbosquid.com/gmax
update for MSTS:
http://www.microsoft.com/games/trainsim ... s.asp#gmax
here are tools they your needed for gmax to working:
http://www.mnwright.btinternet.co.uk/

with gmax+MSTS tool kann you make models for loco and MSTS

Locoplayer · Post by **Locoplayer** » 03 Apr 2006 18:51

mayday wrote:here have you links for make modells with gmax:
gmax:
http://www.turbosquid.com/gmax
update for MSTS:
http://www.microsoft.com/games/trainsim ... s.asp#gmax
here are tools they your needed for gmax to working:
http://www.mnwright.btinternet.co.uk/

with gmax+MSTS tool kann you make models for loco and MSTS

Thank you SO much for the links, I really appreciate it.

Thank you to everyone else that gave me information!

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