regarding the insignia, this is a nice one: http://www.trekmeshes.ch/meshes/meshesdetails.php?Name=KLINGONLOGO or this one: http://www.trekmeshes.ch/meshes/meshesdetails.php?Name=UFPLOGO.

I already filed a request there to use and/or create/find some new ones aka the rest of the needed insignia for us. Will see what comes out there.

I removed the 3DS Max glowys from UFPLogo, but without the blue glowy things the default grey was a bit unimpressive. So I textured it with a brushed metal texture, and the inner rings I made command gold and the olive leaves science blue-ish. kinda matches the new film's poster

Hmm I didnt ask for permission to edit mesh - but I think for personal projects with no distribution of mesh it should be fine.
Posting renders on forums is acceptible too.

Update:
I was about to do a big re-write of the viewer, a version 2 with less messy code and more clearly separated components (components which could later be used for the actual combat engine ), and I thought this would be the perfect time to also think about merging with the supremacy editor. So Mike and I talked and we're going ahead with the merge

Releasing the version 1 soon

@ Strings, to avoid copyright for mesh you only need Star Trek font, strike federation logo sign in Max text option, after that make it eiditable poly and tdaaa!

Woo! Matress likes more powerful editors! Feel the power!

Here's the prototype build of the BOTF2 Model Viewer, comes with a few models to look at (mainly chosen for their small file sizes)

The main reason for this release is to test for any more crashes on other computers with different graphics cards / OSs / overall configurations. I've already had a problem when I ran an even earlier build on my sister's PC, I think I fixed the issue but there could be other problems, which I won't know until I have more people testing it on different computer configurations.

Unrar into any folder, and run BOTF2ModelViewer.exe.
To run it you need have .NET 2.0 or above, XNA 1.0 Refresh, the latest version of DirectX,and a graphics card with pixel shader 1.1 or above.

Links below if needed:
.NET 3.5
XNA Framework Redistributable 1.0 Refresh
DirectX Redistributable - Nov 2007

And the actual prototype.
http://www.botf2.com/Shared%20Documents ... totype.rar

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Post is irrelevant.

I can't load the program, Strings; i'm getting unhandled exception messages and it won't let me copy-and-paste the error. The error is bigger than the window and I can't make it any bigger to take a screenie either. Stupid Microsoft.

There's no error log either - the only log is the loading one which has no error info in it.



I've got both of the prerequisites installed - but I don't know what the pixel shader thing that you mentioned is. How do you check whether you have it? And where do you download it from if you don't? I have 2x Radeon 9250 128mb graphics cards on my computer. (One so I can watch TV, the other for everything else )

Nice, and purty

I like what you did with the Fed logo making it all 3D,

Just noticed MOE couldn't load, here are my specs

AMD 3000+ 64bit
Radeon 1650xt i think

Regards Wolfe

Well the program is simple enough and I can guess what happened from the loading log It is supposed to draw the rotating UFP emblem after that, but it has failed. a likely shader problem.

And also

Ah, the Radeon 9250 only has Pixel shader 1.4. bummer, and the lowest I support is 2.0... for now. In theory, I know of a way to make it work with pixel shader 1.4, but it'll take some time to do.

Description:
Stopped working

Problem signature:
Problem Event Name: CLR20r3
Problem Signature 01: botf2modelviewer.exe
Problem Signature 02: 1.0.0.0
Problem Signature 03: 476a689f
Problem Signature 04: BOTF2ModelViewer
Problem Signature 05: 1.0.0.0
Problem Signature 06: 476a689f
Problem Signature 07: 3
Problem Signature 08: 6
Problem Signature 09: System.IO.FileNotFoundException
OS Version: 6.0.6000.2.0.0.256.6
Locale ID: 1050

FileNotFoundException..

Zeleni, can you tell me more about when it stopped working? When you clicked on a model or at the start?

When i clicked twice on exe icon.

Hmm I don't know what caused that...

Is there a log.txt created, and can you post it?

No, there is no log.txt. After clicking twice i get info from Vista- Botf Viewer stopped working... 1.check online for solution or close program

At least that means it wasn't my model loading that caused it, it happened before program started. Weird.

He's missing XNA or he needs to download the DirectX redistributable if he's running Vista.

Ah I forgot to say that DirectX is needed too,
link below.
DirectX Redistributable - Nov 2007

So to recap, you need all 3 of these installed, .NET 3.5, XNA 1.0 Refresh, and finally the latest DirectX. Let's hope this fixes it for Zeleni.

At least the headache I went through with the same issue allows me to diagnose it just by looking at the error .

lol gj

Regards Wolfe

Damn, so I can't use it yet?

Oh well,have fun with the models, guys. Someone else is going to have to set the hard points.

I added the DirectX requirement to your original post, Strings.

Thanks Matress, yeah I have to get that problem sorted, basically if it detects 1.4 or below, it shoud go to a simpler method of drawing the models. Less quality, but at least it should work then.

Doctor Mike great diagnose, direct x was the problem

Viewer looks nice Strings

Nooooooo, oh well don't worry MOE there are many thankless, arduous, masochistic tasks we can find for you for sure

Regards Wolfe

I have rotated malon ship few times, hull plate shines beautifully

I've added an extra set of shaders that only uses instructions defined in pixel shader 1.1. And I've updated the viewer to use by default the newly added technique, only allowing higher techniques if it can detect the GPU has the hardware capability.

Give it a try, Matress. (5.66mb download, has all models already)
http://rapidshare.com/files/77911582/BO ... 1.rar.html

had the same problem. works perfect now. superb work strings!

Tut had to wait for Rapidshare to let me download! Try using Mediafire in future, Strings - it's waaay faster AND there's no waiting times.

The download worked by the way! Matress sees ships!
Matress will have to do the hardpoints now!

i started to work on minors shiplist statistic, there will be changes, lots of changes and lots of work for Matress...

Fsck that, this man needs a SharePoint account. Gimme yo' e-mail address, strings.

Work Matress work. No Christmas for you, Bau Humbug.