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Title: Starship Creator/Dominion Wars model conversion (to BC)
Post by: FourChan on January 12, 2009, 08:41:22 PM

I was wondering if there's any way to convert the 3D Models that you create in Starship Creator to BC, I know they converted and were useable in Dominion Wars. (I hope this is in the right area :P)

Title: Re: Starship Creator to BC.
Post by: MLeo on January 13, 2009, 11:15:18 AM

I think that Dominion Wars used the same engine/format as Starship Creator.

You don't happen to know the file extension of such files?

Title: Re: Starship Creator to BC.
Post by: majormagna on January 13, 2009, 12:46:46 PM

I've been wondering this too, but the 'Type of file' part in properties only reads as 'File'

Which really helps...

Title: Re: Starship Creator to BC.
Post by: MLeo on January 13, 2009, 05:45:04 PM

What is the extension of it? As in, the group of characters after the last dot?

Title: Re: Starship Creator to BC.
Post by: majormagna on January 14, 2009, 10:43:45 AM

That's what I mean...  It doesn't say!

I've attached a sample of what I mean...

Title: Re: Starship Creator to BC.
Post by: MLeo on January 14, 2009, 12:00:49 PM

Please zip one of those files and attach.

Title: Re: Starship Creator to BC.
Post by: majormagna on January 14, 2009, 12:51:36 PM

Hey, here ya go...

PS: Sorry for Hijacking your thread FourChan...

Title: Re: Starship Creator to BC.
Post by: MLeo on January 14, 2009, 01:49:12 PM

Odd, it really doesn't have an extension!

I'll move this to BC Modding in the hope someone else knows (more) about Dominion Wars/Starship Creator modding.

Title: Re: Starship Creator/Dominion Wars model conversion (to BC)
Post by: Jay Crimson on January 14, 2009, 04:19:55 PM

It doesn't because I assume those files just hold some text saying "use component this, nacelle that, hull X, deflector that" and so on. Try looking for original components used by the game to combine into ships maybe.

Title: Re: Starship Creator/Dominion Wars model conversion (to BC)
Post by: MLeo on January 14, 2009, 04:28:01 PM

From my little venture into this (ok, googling) it would seem that Dominion Wars doesn't use the same format, so it has a built in tool to "import" designs.

I've looked in the file, it's the usual binary blob thing.
It starts out with a crew description, with stats, and the rest is all binary, no patterns.

Except for this one:
EGSUV\TUMMGDB60 this looks like a resource reference of some sort.

When I said no patterns, I meant no readable patterns, such as the one above.
There are some patterns in the binary data that seem to suggest textures (bitmaps), but not more than that, just suggestions.