Making ship weapons invisible

Making ship weapons invisible

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Hey

Does anyone know how to make the weapons/engines/sensors/modules invisible?  Ive built several custom ship sets and I would like the AI to play with them, but everytime they do, they just mess up the ships by placing loads of weapons and engines and stuff on them which are each about 1/4 the size of the ship, in the end the ships just look like bundles of components rather then the ship sets I made

If the components could be made invisible, then the computer could put as many as they wanted and it would still look like the ship I made.

Thanks

modding
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Reply #1 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

The hardpoints need to be inside the hull, and scaled down.

Reply #2 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

Hmm, that sounds complicated.  Im not that great at this, all I did to make the ship styles was follow Kryo's instructions on making custom ship styles.  I have no experience modding or anything like that.

How would I edit the hardpoints so they are inside the hull?

I noticed the star trek mod made their components invisible, thats why I asked but if its easier to make all of the hardpoints be inside the hull, then I just need to know how...

Thanks

Galactic Civilizations III
Reply #3 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

It is not something that is easily done. You need to edit the model itself, in a program like 3D Studio.

 

Reply #4 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

Alternately, there is actually a mod already that does this (UDFM), but it hasn't been updated recently. To get the same effect, if you have KHSM you can just replace all of the weapon model files with the blank model. Lots of manual work, but not difficult by any means.