Nice to see that updates are being made. I am however having problems. Namely the download provided isn't exactly public (due to registration requirement) and I can't launch the version I do have in 32-bit windows because it can't allocate the memory needed ("cannot create virtual machine" error) even if I try to launch it from a fresh boot with only 28% of my RAM in use (and I have 3.25 GB).
I will update the option menu to be more clear but the memory use is in gigs so putting 5 there will allocate 5 gigs of ram, and you can't leave it at 0.
What's to be sorry for? In my opinion it was something that was perhaps unanticipated.
I tend to use Firefox and it only comes in a 32-bit format (they have 64-bit nightly builds which are very unstable). Java.com's advise is if you use a 32-bit browser to use 32-bit java and if you use both, to download both in their respective browsers. I checked my versions and 32-bit was V7 Update 60 while the 64-bit was V7U25. The 64-bit version wasn't updating itself. Dealing with that now.
No worries will lock down all we need for SMEdit and then once again we have all that we need. If you have any requests for added features (lol other than new blueprint reading and writing) just drop a line here and I will reply.
How about this: when moving the core around a ship (in any direction), SMedit updates the "model" but does not automatically re-center on the core. It stays centered around what "8,8,8" originally was on the model. We can rotate the model around that point and that's it. It should rotate around the core block itself rather than the true "center" of the ship. Makes figuring out the placement of certain blocks a bit more difficult.
no you wouldn't have gotten this answer by reading above have not come across this problem before. It is a jar file chose "save as" and make sure it downloads as "SMEdit_Classic.jar" don't let it download it as a zip it isn't one.
You need to remember that if the blueprint uses any of the new blocks from 0.15x, Smedit won't open them. Some blueprints will also fail to load because of bad tag data. Here is an example snippet for my small-ish Destroyer (from 0.14x) as captured by the cmd console window (ran it from a .bat file so I could see the exact details of the error).
Reading struct
Reading member #1 controller (VECTOR3i)
Reading member #2 idPos (VECTOR3i)
Reading member #3 EffectStruct (STRUCT)
Reading struct
Bad tag data:
0000 f3 fd 00 00 00 02 fd 00 00 00 19 00 f3 fd 00 00 ????????????????
0010 00 03 fd 00 00 00 19 00 00 00 0d 00 09 50 6f 69 ?????????????Poi
0020 6e 74 44 69 73 74 0a 00 0a 63 6f 6e 74 72 6f 6c ntDist???control
0030 6c 65 72 00 00 00 03 00 00 00 08 00 00 00 0b 0a ler?????????????
0040 00 05 69 64 50 6f 73 ff ff ff fe 00 00 00 0a ff ??idPos?????????
0050 ff ff ee 0d 00 0c 45 66 66 65 63 74 53 74 72 75 ??????EffectStru
0060 63 74 f3 fd 00 00 00 00 fd 00 00 00 19 00 f3 fd ct??????????????
0070 00 00 00 01 fd 00 00 00 19 00 f3 fd 00 00 00 02 ????????????????
Its not that easy. This is a hotfix so older blueprints can be loaded (if they haven't been modified by the new build already). He's working on a total re-write of SMedit that can handle the new stuff. You can check his own forums for progress updates (I'm not a frequent visitor there myself) on "SMEdit 2".
you can actually set it so that it only smooths with wedgesSo, i gave smedit an honest effort, and went into some fairly detailed hull coloring and symmetry efforts, and produced this Saajuk-Cor ion cannon frigate from the original Homeworld, using only the extracted .obj from the original game, and then hull coloring only in smedit Classic. This screenshot shows extensive battle damage after a major battle, though, but I have to leave something to the imagination - don't want anyone stealing the design before it's done %)
Unfortunately, smoothing doesn't work very well in Smedit or Classic, yet. Lots of artifacts were produced by "corner" hull blocks where they shouldn't have been, instead of wedges. Smedit probably shouldn't be allowed to use corner, penta, tetra in smoothing. Only wedges.
