This tutorial is made by the assumption that you want the same look on your shis as in EV NOVA.
1. You have the point you want your ship to rotate around on spot 0.0.0 in C4D
2. Change your view to isometric. In the camera menu.
2b. Add a Distant light with hard shadows at -1000 , 500 , 1000
Add a distant light with no shadows at 1000 , 500 , -1000
I´m not really sure of this as I got the light setup from Artanis.
3. Make sure you ship has the back towards the camera. If not rotate it (most likely -45 or 135 degrees). If this doesn´t work you´ll have to figure this out on your own.
4. Select your ship and go into the Timeline window (Timeline in the Window menu). Make sure you´re on fram 0, Hit F9. Now move the blue line to frame 35 and hit F9 again.
5. Now you have two editable frames. Open the "rotation H" text. And select the black spot that appears. This is the H rotation value of your ship.
Change the value of the last frame by -350 degrees.
If the value originally is -45 it should read -395 when you´re finished.
6. Now that you have finished animating the ship, you´ll have to render it.
Open the rendering options. Set the size to 100 X 100 This is a medium sized ship.( you´ll have to render 200 X 200 if you want to LASIK). LASIK is a technique that preserve details at small resoulutions. I won´t explain it here.
Render from frame 0-35.
Under save chose quicktime movie and a path to somwhere.
7. Now we have finished in C4D and can move onto Novatools.
If you haven´t already download the "m2s" application.. DO IT.
Drop your movie onto m2s. This will create two pict file. One Color and one mask.
8. Now open Resedit with Novatools. Open a plugin you have downloaded and delete it´s content. Remember to do a backup if it´s an important one.
(url="http://"http://homepage.mac.com/jonaswaage/filesharing5.html")http://homepage.mac....lesharing5.html(/url) have some plugs.
9. Hit Cmd-K(create new resource) and scroll down the list until you find PICT. Add a PICT resource.
Paste Both the color and mask image into the PICT resource.
Give them ID´s 2001 and 2002 by hitting Cmd I.
10. Create another resource. This time a shän resource. Give it ID 422 And a name.
Add the IDs in Baseimage and Basemask fields.
Frameprset is 36
Basesetcount is 1
BaseXSize 100
BaseYSize 100
11. Add a new resource. this time a Ship resource.
Give it ID 422 the same as the Shän. Give it the same name too.
add these values to your ship.
12.Now you´ll need the application ENrle. Drop you plugin onto it. Now it´s important that you gave the shän or ship resource a name. Or the files Enrle produce won´t show up.
They are there but i won´t explain how to get them.
Just give the resources a NAME.
13. Open the resources Enrle created and copy paste their content into your plug.
Delete the PICT resource as it is no longer needed.
Open nova, create a New pilot. On the first planet with a shipyard you should be able to buy your ship.
Please correct me anyone if there is something plain out wrong or something missing.
Feel free to contact me if you get any problems.
Jonas.
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And then there were silence.................
(This message has been edited by modesty_blaise_us (edited 07-23-2004).)
(This message has been edited by modesty_blaise_us (edited 07-23-2004).)
