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thefirstfleet [2012-07-30 01:43:34 +0000 UTC]

Have fun!

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ssgbryan [2012-07-29 16:18:34 +0000 UTC]

Good Morning mdbruffy, and thanks for the input.

I have the connie & the parts kit that greywolf starkiller made (along with everything else in the files to share). It is what led me to kitbashing all of David Metlesits' ships. I get around the registry problem by taking the model into hexagon and deleting the registry. I then recreate it as a texture in photoshop elements. That way I can have any ship registry I want. See "On Patrol" in my gallery , The destroyer is a rebadged Saladin (The Conte di Cavour, NCC 569) and the Von der Tann is a kitbashed Pilot Constitution.

I am still having a minor issue with registry numbers on the engines, but fortunately, you can't look at the port & starboard engines at the same time. I haven't figured out how to texture the engine nacelles individually, but I am sure that as I putter around in Photoshop, I'll figure it out eventually.

What I am trying to do is set up each ship just like mattymanx does his poser conversions over on foundation3d. I can import the obj and save it as a prop. The problem I am having is that the obj is inserted into the pp2 file instead of reading the .obj file in the Geometries folder. The direct import method also requires me to manually edit the pp2 to read the texture files - that part is easy (cntrl-c, then cntrl-v), but it is time consuming. I know there is a way to fix this short of deleting each vert in the pp2 file, but I can't find the tutorial that would tell me how - it exists, but I didn't think to download it.

My Hexagon skills are negligible, but I do have a way of (slowly) stripping out each section - primary hull, secondary hull, engine nacelles, engine struts, phaser mounts, etc and saving them as individual objects. This has been useful, because some of David's ships have weapons, but most of them don't. This way, I can just add any that are missing, or I can create an entirely new ship.

As an example, I am kitbashing David's TOS Miranda ship. I don't like the flying bridge, so I deleted that, removed some greebles, lowered the upper deck portion of engine nacelles, and I am replacing the standard engines with the engines on his Pilot Enterprise model and the ships in this fleet are from the Reserve fleet, like the Von der Tann elsewhere in my gallery. Think Phase 1/2 as opposed to Phase II Star Trek. The time-frame is right before the Federation-Klingon War described in "Spock Must Die!"

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mdbruffy [2012-07-29 12:46:15 +0000 UTC]

You don't need aq pp2 converter. Just import your obj into Poser and the file will be created when Poser adds it to the Runtime. I've been a Poser used since P5. Also, if you check out our"Files to share" folder, you'll find a ship kit and an add-on kit that will let you make most Starfleet classes. The only problem with the kit is the only registries it has are for the original Constitution-class ships.

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