This Freaking Game!!!

Aaaarrrggghhhh!!!! :(!

Why the HELL is it so hard to get models into this game properly?!!!

Even non-moddable games like Freelancer, with their reverse engineered hex edited model converters, seem to accept models easier. While this game with “built-in moddability” pukes out garbage from models with nothing wrong with them. And if you try to touch one single point on a model that does work, either to fix something or improve it, the damn thing self destructs.

This issue has bothered me greatly for a long time now, and my frustration level has been building. But it finally came to head last night, when I tried to make a small improvement to the X-Wing. Now the wings don’t show up anymore, again. And believe me, I spent hours going over the model to make sure every little god-damned thing was perfect polygon-wise. And I probably know more about the wierd quirks of the model converter than anyone around here. And before you say anything; yes, the improvement was so huge and looked so good it was worth trying to get it in. But the point is I shouldn’t have to worry about thing like that. I shouldn’t have to say, “Thank god, it’s in the game and working. I’d better not touch it ever again.”

And now the latest version of the Star Destroyer look like this:

I’m just so damn tired of having to spend hours looking at each polygon of a model trying to find “problems” that wouldn’t be problems in any another game-engine.

I can’t wait to see which model stops working next.

I guess I’m just mad because I feel PS blew its own horn so loudly about how moddable this game was supposed to be. And then offered no real official support for that. If it weren’t for people like Stephen, giving of themselves personally to help us, I don’t where this mod community would be. If a company tells me how great some particular feature of it’s product is, I expect a little real support. Maybe that’s selfish, but I’m mad right now. If PS had never announced easy moddability as a feature, I’m sure I’d be thrilled to have anything work in the game, like with my other game modding.

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