uglycow

Thanks for all the helpful information.

I was just using one texture file for a weapon. I got rid of my .x file I made and just used the game's .x file but added my texture. It works now, (the texture part.) I've been using truespace, but I guess it doesn't export .x files the way Galciv2 wants them. Any ideas on a modeler that GalCiv2 likes and won't break my bank account? There's no way I can afford 3ds studio or Maya.

Well now the game doesn't freeze but the weapon is invisible. The textures are not showing but it is acting like it's there. I couldn't find anything detailed about creating the weapon gfx in the mod article, is there another source to help silly people like me with this situation?

I'm probably being an idiot again. I thought that the textures would be saved in the .x file by the program I created it with. Do I actually need to save the textures as a seperate image file but give it the same name as the .x file for it to work?

Well now I'm stuck for the moment. I've changed names refering to the new animation in the GC2TYPES file in DA directory, after backing it up of course. but whenever I test my new graphic the game crashes. Any help?

I've been having problems. I guess I need to use a different 3d software.

What type of .x file am I supposed to create for weapon animations, (binary, text, or compressed)?

NM

Guess I'll just mod my own stuff and fix what you did then. Just in case the developers didn't notice: Disruptors are now back to being a big fat as big as my planet beam and phasors are worse, (among all the other stuff I have already pointed out). Why even bother putting new gfx in the beta if they are going to be taken out for the release?

I just remember the laser techs and the plasma techs having different animations. The disruptors used to be star trek style. And all the other stuff I listed. And all of a sudden wham! Back to original. I was wowed by them so much and now they are gone. I feel cheated basically. I don't have any mods running or even on my computer. But everyone will probably agree I don't know what I'm talking about... so feel free.

I'm talking about the lasers have different gfx, the plasma, the disruptors, the phasers are a bummer now. They used to be bolts. The special weapon you get for being evil is different. And for heaven sakes... fix the speed of the photon torpedo if you guys are not going to put better gfx in at least. I'll get to retirement b4 it hits anything. None of them have been changed that I can see. All the Gfx/Weapons files are exactly as they were in the last public

My home planet takes 2 turns to build a factory. Everywhere else it takes 6 turns. Shouldn't they all be 2 turns? All my colonies at this point are the same type as my homeworld.

The great weapon effects you had for the beta are gone! Now it's just back to boring old beams. What happened to the disruptor bolts? What happened to the pulse weapons? Can you guys at least put them on the library download section so those of us who want them can use them? Talk about a bummer. Not that I don't like the game but this was a big let down.

Yes!! Let the mass squishing begin.

Charge you for using your computer?? Where in blazes did you find out about that? Microsoft said they would have a solution for low income households to buy computers. You pay a low price for a computer, and then you buy digital time cards that the computer reads to continue using it. After a while or a short period of time, depending on how much

As to the drivers, most probably. But there are a LOT of people out there who really have no clue what's in their system, or, for example, what "DirectX 9.0c compliant" means or why a GeForce4 MX is inferior to a GeForce3. For those people, the Vista performance rating will be a godsend if it's reasonably predictable from a which-video-cards-equate-to-which-rating standpoi

Windows V3, V3.1, win 2000, Win 95, Win 98, XP etc - all were deemed by the doomsayers as the end of mankind as we know it, as they demonstrated Microsofts evil intentions. PCs were doomed to fall pray to an operating system so full of holes and obvious failures we may as well pack up the PC, go Apple and be done with it. Acutally Vista is meant

Oh, Vista doesn't have a driver database like xp does. You better have a driver cd that comes with stuff you get when you have Vista. And All those games that were made before or when direct X 8.1 came out will most likely not run on Vista. With Vista comes two dirext X versions. direct X 10 and a weird thing, (probably wrong about designation), like direct X 10.L for legacy. That is supposed to support all previous versions of direct X except below 8.1 and maybe even 8.1 itself. So if a game wa

I think we should start a boycutt on stores that sell Vista. Get petitions signed and stuff like that. If a large amount of the public went to Walmart and said: "We are not going to shop here anymoer until you stop selling Vista! And heres all our names on paper" And then all those people don't shop at walmart period and invite others not to also. After a month or perhaps a few months you better believe Walmart will start doing comercials about how good they are and finally if

I never knew any of that. They actually charge you on how much you are on your computer? That is HORRIBLE. H-O-R-R-I-B-L-E. I thought microsoft was PURE evil. Now they are at 150% evil. HEY look at that, they're at odds with the korath. Well you can buy the computer on credit or pay full price upfront and not have to deal wiht that. But th

*****Here is my original post with major editing so it can be read eaier. Sorry for my silliness ealier.***** One of my family frieds has a computer troubleshooting business. He is very successfull. He tried Vista and told me not to get it. Unless you spend for the top notch Vista version you will not get anything better than you have for secuirty now in XP. And the top notch version is ment for buisnesses, of course I would love to just burn a cd and have it not wor

Sorry, I'm trying to edit it again but the edit button is gone.

One of my family frieds has a computer troubleshooting business. He is very successfull. He tried Vista and told me not to get it. Unless you spend for the top notch Vista version you will not get anything better than you have for secuirty now in XP. And the top notch version is ment for buisnesses, of course I would love to just burn a cd and have it not work on anything else other than my computer I burned it on. That is one "protection" of the

Playing with the new gfx and then going back to the old makes the game suck. I need to correct myself. This doesn't make the game suck. It is just dissapointing. I just like the new gfx soo much.

Is this supposed to happen with the newest beta. All my weapon graphics have reverted back to the original galciv2 graphics. Playing with the new gfx and then going back to the old makes the game suck. I already sent in a debug and saved game to the correct email address but I was just wondering if this is how it's supposed to be? I have even unistalled DA and reinstalled DA and that does not fix it.