This Freelancer is Not so free

[mongo2006]

Fellas I'm really stuck here, And I need all of you guys to help me.

I used to create ships for freelancer for the fun of it, I had F-15's and WWII Corsairs flying around in my private mod, it was a blast. But I've come to realize I have never used an original model or skin from the original game....

The Void has recently allowed clans to add skins to various ships. We have chosen the Anubis Mark II to represent the TRIAD clan. I will list the problems I have run into and maybe you guys can point me in the right direction, and please be mindful that I have already searched Google for 4 days now looking for my answers.


PROBLEMS

1. I cant find the .cmp importer, I can find 8 references to it on google but there is no download link for the DLL. I did manage to find the source for the importer but have no idea how to compile it.

2. Even if I did find the DLL, I need to know and a link to the version of MS that will properly import and export the .cmp.

3. Trying to do a work around by using the UTF tool. I might be able to export and import the skins needed to edit, but have no idea which arm to export.

So as you can see, I know my way around a bit, this wouldn't be an issue if Lancer was up but I've been away from the ship building scene for 2 years and everything has changed as you guys know.

I also remember a SDK that had all the original skins for the game, for the life of me I cant find that either. So knowing all I'm doing is a simple skinning of an original freelancer ship could you guys give me a step by step on locating the needed files to do this please?

Thank you all in advance

[kosacid]

basicly use utf edit on the .mat file and export the the graphics files and give them the extension .tga open them in psp or some thing change the ones you want and then import them back the ones that you have changed
there no need for othere software utf is all you need
basicly follow the texture library tree to the bottom and extract all the end points

[mongo2006]

wow.. thats sad we've been reduced to this, but hey ok you got it

[Gibbon]

Mongo,

Welcome on board. First things first, go here

eoa.seriouszone.com/news.php

Here you will find a CMP importer for Milkshape. I'm assuming you have a copy of that, preferably 1.76 or before. I'm assured that these work with later versions with a workaround, only problem is i don't know the workaround lol but def work with earlier versions.

With TGA textures, don't forget to flip them before you save them as you have to do this to all TGA textures otherwise they show up upside down. It's just the way FL displays textures.