skin attachment problem

[NovaRaptor]

This may seem like a silly question but were do i tell the game to recongize a certain skin for a certain unit. I'm playing A galaxy divided mod and i tried to switch out the old tie interceptor model for the new FOC one and the skin didn't show up. I tried some fandangling and still could'nt get it to attach. What am i missing?

[DragonShadow]

Did you put the FoC textures in EaW too?

[NovaRaptor]

Yeah... i put EV_TIE_INTERCEPTOR and EV_TIE_INTERCEPTOR_GLOSS into art/textures. And it still shows up that white Petroglyph missing skin. What else am i missing?

[NovaRaptor]

Nevermind I fixed it. Turnes out I told the fighter entry to use the new model but not the squadren entry. Oops.

[Logan Felipe]

I am also having the same problem; none of the models I've downloaded are showing their skins. They don't show up in .ALO viewer, and ingame, they show the petroglyph skin NovaRaptor was talking about. Even the skins of the frigates and corvettes, which don't have squadrons, don't show up.

[DragonShadow]

Did you export them from Max with the skin added onto the model?

[Logan Felipe]

Did you export them from Max with the skin added onto the model?

I don't have max...

[DragonShadow]

You didn't happen to delete Textures.MEG did you? That's the only thing that would cause all of them to stop working...or, your xml is calling for the wrong textures...

 

Anyway, if you hex edit the ALO model, do a search for TGA, and check the name of the base texture. If the name there doesn't match the filename of the texture, then change the name of the texture to match it...

 

That's really all I can think of right now...

[Logan Felipe]

Thanks, I'll try that (I've opened hexedit before, but it sort of hurt my brain; I'm not used to all those 1s and 0s  )

[darkrider]

try making sure the model is correct in the team code (where it specifies) dunno if this makes a difference but its worth checking