Discussion Mesh making with Blender

[gattispilot]

So I took parts away as .obj and then editted them and textured. Then I will import them. I will need to separate by material

 

[Buck Rogers]

1 I think the mesh is not centered. Is there a way to do that

That can be tricky if the mesh is not symetrical. Manually move with "snap to increment" till it lines up?

 

[gattispilot]

Ok. Try this mesh. I made a texture with different colors.

 

[gattispilot]

Steamrunner
This is the mainhull texture. I want a more texture like the image

 

[llarian]

Steamrunner
This is the mainhull texture. I want a more texture like the image

Looks like greebles are in order.

 

[Luke Reichelt]

Ok. Try this mesh. I made a texture with different colors.

Looking good, although the mesh is currently facing the wrong direction, as shown below:



Also, you need to apply the mesh material parameters described in this post (assuming you haven't already done so).

 

[gattispilot]

Here it is 180 out. Since I am using different material. I think nothing needs to change. But just change the settings using notepad

 

[Luke Reichelt]

Steamrunner
This is the mainhull texture. I want a more texture like the image

You need to make the blend files for the Steamrunner available so that Buck Rogers (and the others) can help you out with it.

 

[gattispilot]

I get this for the Steam runner. I had to patch a lot of holes,........

 

[llarian]

The tutorial is in the "Resources" folder in the release package.

The mesh posted above has flipped normals all over the place, and 2 of the warp gondals are inverted (this comes from mirroring). Make sure all normals are pointing the right way. Also recommend "applying all transforms" before exporting.
Try splitting the bottom parts up, looks like a smoothing issue, or just bad mesh?

Where is the link to this release package, please? Also, which version of Orbiter is the starfleet trainer intended to use? The vessel does not show up in my version of Orbiter 2024.

 

[gattispilot]

@Luke Reichelt is using Spacecraft3/4 which works in 2016 does not work in 2024.

For 2024 here is a cfg. Just rename it from .txt to .cfg

 

[Blake]

Where is the link to this release package, please? Also, which version of Orbiter is the starfleet trainer intended to use? The vessel does not show up in my version of Orbiter 2024.

Tutorial: Blender Tools Tutorial

It looks like the 'Resources' folder didn't get put into the 4.5 LTS release. I'll fix that. The link above is the direct link from Github. You can also download the 4.2 LTS release, it is in there, and is the same.

Blender 4.2 LTS

Download links were on the original post of this thread, which appears to have gone missing.

 

[llarian]

@Luke Reichelt is using Spacecraft3/4 which works in 2016 does not work in 2024.

For 2024 here is a cfg. Just rename it from .txt to .cfg

My version of Orbiter 2016 chokes on this addon. Orbiter.log says that StarTrek_Sol.cfg (I missed it as log reset for something else). Does anyone have this file or similar for the StarFleet Academy Trainer? Re ran it. The file I seek is .\Config\Sol_Trel.cfg.

 

[Luke Reichelt]

My version of Orbiter 2016 chokes on this addon. Orbiter.log says that StarTrek_Sol.cfg (I missed it as log reset for something else). Does anyone have this file or similar for the StarFleet Academy Trainer? Re ran it. The file I seek is .\Config\Sol_Trel.cfg.

The Sol_Trek config file can be found here: https://www.orbiter-forum.com/threads/mesh-making-with-blender.41869/page-16#post-638055

 

[llarian]

The Sol_Trek config file can be found here: https://www.orbiter-forum.com/threads/mesh-making-with-blender.41869/page-16#post-638055

Thank you, my friend.

 

[gattispilot]

@Luke Reichelt

Are the Prometheus and steam runner good? If so I can move on to another vessel.

 

[Luke Reichelt]

@Luke Reichelt

Are the Prometheus and steam runner good? If so I can move on to another vessel.

The Prometheus is working fine, although I haven't had much time to test the Steamrunner.

I think you should start doing the Olympic next.

 

[gattispilot]

Ok. I export from blender as 3ds. BBUUTT there is a major section left out. A LLLOOOTTT of editing. rather than cut all the windows on that section I can just place them on the outside

 

[Luke Reichelt]

That can be tricky if the mesh is not symetrical. Manually move with "snap to increment" till it lines up?

Would you be willing to help out gattispilot with the Olympic?

 

[Luke Reichelt]

Ok. I export from blender as 3ds. BBUUTT there is a major section left out. A LLLOOOTTT of editing. rather than cut all the windows on that section I can just place them on the outside

Actually, I seem to be having a few problems with the Steamrunner at the moment - namely, it keeps causing Orbiter to crash. Clearly something is wrong with the mesh, but I don't know what it is exactly.