I seen this msg in my email.. But i haven't really been messing with these tools or this thread for a long time now. Not to mention that Smedit no longer works for me and i haven't learned any other schematic converting software. So unless someone else in the forums wants to help you.. then im afraid i will be of no help.. Aside from offering up a model in which could be used for conversion..
OMG, i love you! thank you!!!
You're welcome. Let me know when you've finished the ship as I'd love to see it when it's done.
I can no longer import .obj files into SMEdit which is how I used to convert models but I found a workarround. If you get Binvox you can use that to voxelise your 3d model and then import the binvox file into SMEdit and save it as a blueprint. I works well so far and also seems to produce better looking imports.
will do! ive been working on it the last few days, hopefully will have it done by the weekend!
DS9? Note there are multiple possible sizes on that one.
oops my bad. ok. ill try to explain. 1 obj of ds9 i have. 2 need to convert it to ship. that's ware I'm stuck. It wont convert. 3 I have a ship to station program that actually works.
Thank you for Showing this. I thought I gave dimensions my bad. 575 Would be nice. I like the off Dimension. Thank you. I like to use the center block as the core of any design (includeing ships).Nice job! And yep, Binvox to Smedit is the way to go. There's also one version of binvox that converts directly to a Blueprint, but likely you'll want to move the core anyway.
You can use various settings as well on binvox to get cleaner models.
DeepspaceMechanic your exporting ships from SM to smedit:? That would make sense, everything else on it seems to work fine with the newer versions.
ForgottenPrime It would be helpful is you also gave a max size for the station as well (e.g the longest dimension on the model you want in Starmade, such as 500 meters).
E.g Importing it as a Station and at 550m it looks pretty good I'd say.
Using SMEDIT's auto smooth it also looks pretty decent (just at exterioir blocks it clocks up to 900,000 though:
By that I ment you can't open up current ship blueprints from modern versions in smedit ( you would need to use an older version like your doing), you can only import with the newer versions.No. I wasn't even aware that you can go SM-->SMedit, actually, I did it just the other way around so far.
I'll have to check it again sometime if you say that SMedit works with newer versions too. At the time when it first failed to work for me, I thought it must be the change in chunk-size, so I've been using the last chunk-16 version ever since. (Or at least that's what I think I'm doing; I believe the chunk-32 update came right after version 0.198.485.)
The station looks absolutely beautiful on the pictures you have shown
I guess it would be better if it was you doing the import for ForgottenPrime, after he tells you the desired size, since you are much more knowledgeable about these matters.
550m seems a bit small for DS9 considering its interior size, combat capabilities, and average on-screen size.Nice job! And yep, Binvox to Smedit is the way to go. There's also one version of binvox that converts directly to a Blueprint, but likely you'll want to move the core anyway.
You can use various settings as well on binvox to get cleaner models.
DeepspaceMechanic your exporting ships from SM to smedit:? That would make sense, everything else on it seems to work fine with the newer versions.
ForgottenPrime It would be helpful is you also gave a max size for the station as well (e.g the longest dimension on the model you want in Starmade, such as 500 meters).
E.g Importing it as a Station and at 550m it looks pretty good I'd say.
Using SMEDIT's auto smooth it also looks pretty decent (just at exterioir blocks it clocks up to 900,000 though:
