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Modding sheilds

I was wundering if there is a way to mod shiels directly from the mesh.

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yes but I doubt you would be willing to go throught the hassle.

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Right now I'm not so shore about that. I have several things I am working on, and they need molded shielding. I mean even if it is hard, I would steal like to know.

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well, if you know the basick size and shape of a model and you make the mesh (_must_ be made of triangles) and you glue a light to it name it shield and glue it to a dummy object then compile it, you can use a hex editor to copy and past the SHLD chunk from one model to another (or you could try useing Aurora(for the copy past thing))

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Hang on a sec. Are you trying to add a shield to an existing .pof or are you trying to add a shield to a model you're building yourself?

If it's the former Bobboau's method should work (although I'd suggest converting the .pof to a .cob and use that as a base so that you get the size right).

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Originally posted by Bobboau
well, if you know the basick size and shape of a model and you make the mesh (_must_ be made of triangles) and you glue a light to it name it shield and glue it to a dummy object then compile it, you can use a hex editor to copy and past the SHLD chunk from one model to another (or you could try useing Aurora(for the copy past thing))

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