sea dogs papermodels

[chuckydown]

hello i am looking for some tool or plug in to convert sea dogs 3dmodel to other 3d file ext like 3ds, obj, etc because i want to make all ships in papermodels

anyone knows how?

thank you

 

[Inez Dias]

Are you talking about Seadogs (I) or POTC ?
For POTC get GmViewer from the downloads section somewhere at this site. It converts to .obj
How are you going to make papermodels from 3D models? Do you have a program for that?

 

[Suraknar]

Hey Chunckydown,

Unfortunently no such tools were ever made available.

The only tools we have for Sea Dogs are 2 viewers and a MAX pluggin to make new models for SD.

Maybe, Inez could come up with something however in that regard <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="" border="0" alt="smile.gif" />

Care to take a look at the SD models Inez?

 

[chuckydown]

hello i´m talking about sea dogs 1 because i think there are more ships.I have looking for a lot and is for that i´m now here asking

i have tried sea dogs2 viewer tool and i have a problem with 2 texture (the deck texture is the same for a lot models.


the program to make papermodel is pepakura <a href="http://www.tamasoft.co.jp/`pepakura-en`/" target="_blank">http://www.tamasoft.co.jp/`pepakura-en`/</a>

you have first to make some changes to the model but is a big program

here one tutorial with homeworld ship
<a href="http://www.ericksmodels.com/tips/paper/step0.html" target="_blank">http://www.ericksmodels.com/tips/paper/step0.html</a>

i just need a cff converter to othe format please <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/mybad.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="" border="0" alt="mybad.gif" />

thank you for your interest and SORRY FOR MY ENGLISH

 

[Inez Dias]

Sorry ckuckydown, but about SD1 I have no idea.

What exactly is the problem you're havong with the textures in GmViewer? If you want to retexture one model without having the deck texture in other models changed, that can be done (I think it's in the retexturing tutorial). Basically you `hex-edit` the texture name and rename a copy of the original texture to the new name.

Thanks for the links, this sounds COOL...

 

[Suraknar]

Your English is fine Chucky.

Thanks for the Links saw that tutorial for the Kushan `Fighet-Bomber`, very interesting indeed!

I somehow think it would be quite difficult however to do the same with SD Ships, there is many parts that are not really folded around like the Homeworld Models are.

And here texturing is very different, every part uses a different texture file, so a ship can have many texture files, its not the "all in one" approach like Homeworld, or the "all in two" like POTC.

nevertheless, if you really want to give it a try.

The only solution here is either for someone to release such a conversion tool (I know someone that is rumored to have it, but does not want to release it), or, for Inez to actually acknowledge the request above, and if she wants to invest some time, to examine the .cff file types.

A tool to convert the models of SD to VRML would be great I think, we could then prepare those models for POTC aswell. Its worth it to say the least.

I have been remodeling some of them based on screenshots, but that takes time (Any good ships takes a month to two months of work when done from scratch), if we had a tool like the Binder tool to convert those it would be lots faster.

Then again, its up to Inez <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="" border="0" alt="smile.gif" />

 

[chuckydown]

hello inez and suraknar
inez the problem is that when loading 3dmodel in deep exploration (i have to prepair because i have to quit a lot of elemets like canons in a first step) and assigning the texture to him,I must choose between all parts from the boat except the deck o deck texturing all the model (look like a wood ship, nice but no corresponding (what i really need is a 3dfile format whith textures included)

suraknar i know that is more difficult but i don´t need to make a"perfect" model like the game for example the canons are not to be included ,many parts can be joined

all this idea was born playing to pirates of the spanish main
<a href="http://www.wizkidsgames.com/pirates/" target="_blank">http://www.wizkidsgames.com/pirates/</a>
and i want to try, <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":" border="0" alt="laugh.gif" /> i now i am a small crazy boy (i am 32)


other interesting papermodel link <a href="http://aliens.humlak.cz/aliens/Aliens_papirove_modely.htm" target="_blank">http://aliens.humlak.cz/aliens/Aliens_papi...rove_modely.htm</a>

thank you

anybody knows the programmers ? maybe somewhere can put a script jeje

 

[Inez Dias]

<b>chuckydown</b>,
You can also use the character tool ( <a href="http://home.arcor.de/swigard/Downloads/TOOL/" target="_blank">http://home.arcor.de/swigard/Downloads/TOOL/</a>) to convert POTC models to vrml and load that into deepexploration, that way the textures are preserved.

 

[Suraknar]

<b>Inez</b>

Chucky wants Sea Dogs Ships not POTC Ships... <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/bookish.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":mm" border="0" alt="bookish.gif" />

Are you interested in investing some of your very valuable time to look in to this?

<b>chuckydown</b>

Hrm that table game looks really neat, I play Man O War myself, which uses Games Workshop Miniatures, which you hand paint etc...I am a crasy boy myself (also 32)..yeah!

I will be looking in to this more, however, by looking at the models for it, I don't really think that one would need to go through all this trouble of converting 3D models.

These things can actually be done using Illustrator/Photoshop.

If you go to <a href="http://www.thelib.com" target="_blank">www.thelib.com</a> you will find much information about Sea Dogs its models and textures and that can help you convert some of the SD ships in to a format to use with the tabletop game.

<img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/par-ty.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="" border="0" alt="par-ty.gif" />

 

[chuckydown]

suraknar i said idea came playing the game but now i want a ships models infront me table o shelf

inez the caracter tool have been perfect but i prefer sea dogs by the variety


thank you all