Hydra + Planes modding

[demeggy]

Lo all,

 

firstly, merry xmas. Now to the point; for about a year, I've been trying to work out how the heck I mod the Hydra, so that I can impor a new vehicle model for it in 3DS Max 8.

 

Using all the right plugins, I've still not gotten anywhere, and I can't find an appropriate tutorial anywhere.

 

I've seen some pretty swish mods done for it so far, the X Wing, a UFO, even a Dalek, so I was wondering if anyone could point me in the right direction and tell me how I go about doing this.

 

Cheers

 

Demeg

[92F]

Have you tried lookin through the tutorial thread?

 

If a tutorial doesnt exist for what you are after, theres a pinned request topic for tutorials.

[demeggy]

well, I found a sort-of tutorial on hierarchies, then I started looking arounf Z Modeler 2, and managed to understand them pretty much.

 

I'm having problems currently such as;

 

I delete the original chassis of the Hydra, and replace it with a bog standard square box (just for testing purposes).

 

I then make sure this is in the heirarchy of the hydra.dff down the bottom right of the screen under the name chassis.

 

I img tool it in, go in game, type in jumpjet to spawn the hydra and the game crashes. I'm a long way off anything yet, but that's all I'm getting so far, and I can't find anything anywhere.