Truespace 4.3 Materials Files?
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Truespace 4.3 Materials Files?
I'm one of the odd people who found Truespace 4.3 much easier to use than later versions, mostly because I was only using it for static images for tabletop roleplaying games and don't use the animation features at all - mostly I made 3D models and exported them as graphics files with backgrounds etc from NASA and other sources, and added effects such as rain, lens flare, etc.. I got it when it was given away with a computer magazine in the nineties, and I think it's the most useful freeby I ever got from any magazine. But I tried 7.6 when it was released as freeware and couldn't get the hang of it at all, for some reason.
Here are a couple of examples of the sort of thing I did with it circa 2010:
A couple of spaceships
http://www.forgottenfutures.com/game/ff11/html/peri.jpg
http://www.forgottenfutures.com/game/ff ... ardkin.jpg
A Martian gun
http://www.forgottenfutures.com/game/ff ... arsgun.jpg
I've recently returned to using 4.3 after a decade or so, and while it's working OK I seem to have lost all of the materials files ( .MLB) other than the six or seven that came with the program. When I was originally using it I had a couple of dozen others I'd found on line, but I'm drawing a blank on them now. The clear red material in the gun picture is an example.
Can anyone point me at a source for them that still works? Alternatively, is there an easy way to make my own from texture files or other graphics?
Here are a couple of examples of the sort of thing I did with it circa 2010:
A couple of spaceships
http://www.forgottenfutures.com/game/ff11/html/peri.jpg
http://www.forgottenfutures.com/game/ff ... ardkin.jpg
A Martian gun
http://www.forgottenfutures.com/game/ff ... arsgun.jpg
I've recently returned to using 4.3 after a decade or so, and while it's working OK I seem to have lost all of the materials files ( .MLB) other than the six or seven that came with the program. When I was originally using it I had a couple of dozen others I'd found on line, but I'm drawing a blank on them now. The clear red material in the gun picture is an example.
Can anyone point me at a source for them that still works? Alternatively, is there an easy way to make my own from texture files or other graphics?
Re: Truespace 4.3 Materials Files?
You can try this oldie but goodie:
https://lunadude.com/rsrc_trueSpace.htm
https://lunadude.com/rsrc_trueSpace.htm
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Re: Truespace 4.3 Materials Files?
Marcus asked me this same question in an email and I gave the same answer. Unfortunately, a lot of the links are broken, even the internet archive version has a lot of dead links..trueBlue wrote: ↑12 Jan 2023, 15:41 You can try this oldie but goodie:
https://lunadude.com/rsrc_trueSpace.htm
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It's the clear materials I'm having trouble with - for example, the rocket exhaust in the first picture was a rod of blue gem-like material with a lot of lights inside it, worked very well. The gun was a similar red material, I think they came from the same file.
Later - just took a look at the software disks on the archive and searched for Truespace
https://archive.org/details/vintagesoft ... =truespace - search I used
Found 41 results, mostly demo disks but also including
Trueclips for Windows 3.1
https://archive.org/details/TRUECLIPS
Caligari trueClips is a CD-ROM of over 200 textures and 600 professional-quality 3D objects, included with trueSpace2. trueClips is designed as a companion product to trueSpace and provides users with a rich library of nearly half a gigabyte of professionally-designed content to be used as royalty-free building blocks and materials for trueSpace creations.
https://archive.org/details/caligari-truespace2-bible
This is the Companion Disc to the book Caligari trueSpace2 Bible by Peter M. Plantec
I suspect that Trueclips is probably the one I want from the description, just downloading a disk image now. I'll say more when I've had a play with it.
Later - just took a look at the software disks on the archive and searched for Truespace
https://archive.org/details/vintagesoft ... =truespace - search I used
Found 41 results, mostly demo disks but also including
Trueclips for Windows 3.1
https://archive.org/details/TRUECLIPS
Caligari trueClips is a CD-ROM of over 200 textures and 600 professional-quality 3D objects, included with trueSpace2. trueClips is designed as a companion product to trueSpace and provides users with a rich library of nearly half a gigabyte of professionally-designed content to be used as royalty-free building blocks and materials for trueSpace creations.
https://archive.org/details/caligari-truespace2-bible
This is the Companion Disc to the book Caligari trueSpace2 Bible by Peter M. Plantec
I suspect that Trueclips is probably the one I want from the description, just downloading a disk image now. I'll say more when I've had a play with it.
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Re: Truespace 4.3 Materials Files?
OK, trueclips has a lot of bitmaps and object files, but no prepared materials files - also the software won't run on my PC which isn't much of a surprise. I shall keep looking.
Re: Truespace 4.3 Materials Files?
These any good?
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Yes - book and construct have the clear materials between them, they ought to be exactly what I need - many thanks!
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Found some more on the Trueclips disc in the end - not sure how I missed them the first time except it was 1AM and I was half asleep.
SHINY is various smooth shiny metallic finishes in different colours
PLASTIC is smooth less reflective finishes, a bit like billiard ball colours
GLASSY is various materials with a glassy finish
There's also ROADWAY which is US road signs, which for some reason I can't get to work properly - it needs some bitmaps which I also copied across, but still doesn't work, and for some reason a copy of the WOOD file.
I recommend downloading the entire disk from archive.org rather than me uploading the files if you want these materials, since I obviously got something wrong.
SHINY is various smooth shiny metallic finishes in different colours
PLASTIC is smooth less reflective finishes, a bit like billiard ball colours
GLASSY is various materials with a glassy finish
There's also ROADWAY which is US road signs, which for some reason I can't get to work properly - it needs some bitmaps which I also copied across, but still doesn't work, and for some reason a copy of the WOOD file.
I recommend downloading the entire disk from archive.org rather than me uploading the files if you want these materials, since I obviously got something wrong.
Re: Truespace 4.3 Materials Files?
What you gonna do with them?Marcus Rowland wrote: ↑14 Jan 2023, 16:00 Yes - book and construct have the clear materials between them, they ought to be exactly what I need - many thanks!
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The general plan for the moment is to recreate some low-res monochrome 3D models (mostly of airships) in colour and high res as part of updating a role playing supplement I wrote in 1993. For example:Saul wrote: ↑15 Jan 2023, 02:52What you gonna do with them?Marcus Rowland wrote: ↑14 Jan 2023, 16:00 Yes - book and construct have the clear materials between them, they ought to be exactly what I need - many thanks!
The original from 1993, created using an old modelling program called Zing 3D.
The remake