Soulstorm Force Commander

[Seaglen]

I'm really desperate to get the force commander skin to work in soulstorm, and so far, ive found loads of different files, all with differing names, such as Force commander_default, force_commander_wargear1 etc etc etc etc.

ive put the same bits i wanted changed in all of the files, and it still hasnt come up in skirmish!

any help on locating the files for the different parts of the skirmish force commander would be much appreciated!

[IBBoard]

Hangar-8 has a quick hotfix for his Golden Eagles set for SS. Having a quick look at its contents then there's ten textures in there:

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force_commander_default.wtp
force_commander_tgd_unit2_default.wtp
force_commander_tgd_unit_default.wtp
force_commander_tgd_war_gear2_default.wtp
force_commander_tgd_war_gear_default.wtp
force_commander_unit_default.wtp
force_commander_unit_war_gear_default.wtp
force_commander_war_gear_01_default.wtp
mm_force_commander_tgd_war_gear2_default.wtp
mm_force_commander_unit_war_gear_default.wtp


Not sure how many of those are relics of old code and how many are RSH files that Hangar-8 made up because the Relic defaults were not team colourable and were just that terrible gold. I know the "mm" ones were the last ones he found after wondering why certain bits weren't changing. Not sure what "mm" and "tgd" mean in the file names.

[stfas]

mm certainly stands for main menu

[Seaglen]

I'm not sure about it standing for main menu, as i've re-skinned a few force commander files in soulstorm, and none of them had mm in fron of them. but the main menu commander has been altered. am going to have a play with these 'mm' files.

[Seaglen]

i'm a little confused about how to get the mm wargear wtps.
i have found mm wargear and wargear 2 in rsh, but how do i get wtps?

ive tried the texture tool to extract them, and they become dds files. what are dds?
sorry if this seems like a stupid question, but im pretty new to files etc.

[Seaglen]

would it be possible for someone to upload or send the mm force commander wtps, as i cant seem to work out the rsh stuff.

where do i find this hotfix of hangar 8?
sorry to be so full of questions!

[IBBoard]

Firstly, please use the edit button for messages that are close together.

If there's only an RSH then you need to make the WTP yourself. Danimator made a tutorial a while back about making the required TGAs from an RSH file.

DDS files are Direct Draw Surfaces, compressed textures from Microsoft that are used by DirectX. The Gimp, Paint.Net and Photoshop have plugins to support them, but you can convert them to TGAs with the Texture Tool (hint: Options > Advanced Mode )

Hangar-8's hotfix was released in this thread.

I'm surprised the textures change the Force Commander. In DC he had different texture files for the main menu model, which was awkward because they put more detail in his upper torso which meant they only had one arm on the texture that they then duplicated. That's why the later Halved Marine mod doesn't have a halved FC. Or maybe it was the in-game model as well, since he isn't halved either now I think about it.