Hmm... looking at the mesh output, I can see several problems. First of all, bounding radii values are left unchanged, which could spell problems later on with stuff like collision detection and fleet positioning. Second, vertex positions seem to be off. For a conversion value of 0,333 I get stuff like

Position [ -48859127 -13343470 -301866150 ]

which can't possibly be right when the original values were

Position [ -48.859127 -13.343470 -301.866150 ]

Looks like the program just dropped the decimal point out of the number.

Also, since you can set the target directory, it would be more useful if the program did not automatically rename the file to Resized.mesh, since its redundant and takes up time having to rename the new file each time if you want to make several scalings (and most people wanting to scale ships want to scale them all). Final (minor) note would be that it would be good if you could store your target directory and not have to set it every time you open up the application.

could you contact me in ICQ?

ICQ#: 457-936-602 

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Implemented Batch Capability.

What do you think?

thats strage, i tried to resize ship meshes and it worked fine.

I found it. Was a typo in the Line MaxBoundingExtents, missed the first capital letter, sorry must have happend after testing *ashame*

Here the fixed Version:

http://rapidshare.com/files/153557395/resize_08.zip.html

tryied with ships and planets, works on my system

Screenshot :

Hmm, are you sure you downloaded the Latest Version? Should be 0.81 when startet. maybe you got the old version???

just downloaded the file from rapidshare and it is the actual version withou the capital error.

BTW:

for the technicaly interested user: there should be no lighting errors. because the tool just puts the vertexes closer together it leaves the normals as they were. I wonder why no one ever got the idea for such a tool its very very simple basic math (old position * scale factor)

EDIT:

Got it, i found the glitch, it was in the decimal again

Also refined it a little

Thanks, anyone else tried it out?

Maybe someone found some more glitches??

Hello NewBoerg,

                          This looks like a wonderful tool, just what i need for trying to resize models in Sins. But i am running Sins 1.12 and have taken the capitalship_colony.mesh and have tried to resize it from 1 to 2. I am assuming this means from 100 percent to 200 percent. I put the mesh files in the same directory and opened the program, selected the original file and highlighted it, browsed for the destination folder (i made a resize folder) and then clicked resize. I get a blue progress bar immediately all the way across, which made me believe of course it was done. In the resize folder the file is 2k (the original was 298k)

I renamed it, and put it in the mesh folder in the mod folder and tested it, but the program gets a runtime error and minidumps.

Am i doing this incorrectly?  Or is the 1.12 version now incompatible with your tool?

Thank you and take care, this is very very cool,

-Teal

EDIT:  Got it working!!  I had to convert to txt first and then do the resize. THank You Very Very Much for a Very Very Cool Tool!!!!    I appreciate it!!!!

-Teal

yes its VB6

Hello,

             Sorry for the problem, im getting a mscomctl.ocx error on attempting to start the resize tool. I looked online and it says it may not be registered, so i found the mscomctl.ocx in the system32 folder, and ran the cli to system32\ and did a regsrv ... it says it found the file but could not load it.    i'm about at the end of my experience with coding, so i dont know what to do next. Maybe there is something no the MS site, im not sure, but will try. If you know what is causing it, you can re-ply here or in the Sins forums Say something like "Hey Teal!"      Haha, you know. But thank you and take care,

-Teal

Hmmmm.... havent seen that one CanadaMan, i got the resize tool to work. I did a copy over on the mscomctl.ocx file that i got from the ms website. That and i re-downloaded the resize tool also, probably wasnt the tool, but it worked fine after i installed and re-started the computer.   

Happy Days!!!   Haha, anyway, it worked and everything is fine, the hardpoints fire for me, from the same points, how big did you re-make the mesh?  I notice that if i take them fairly large the textures all go red, or blue. Not very cool, but i was able to get that fixed by removing the secular textures for the models. Not the best fix of course, since it leaves out the beautiful sheen on the models, but it does take away the reddish  and blueish glare.  

Perhaps some of the more experienced modders could help you with the hardpoint stuff, but as i re-call, you have more experience than most of us here,    So the devs may be the only place to turn for an answer. Sorry, im just a little file tweaker mostly that has been getting into the meshes and textures and im in deep water over my head most of the time, and making guesses to see if i can get things to work.  Haha, anyway, take care and hope you get an answer that helps.

Sincerely,

-Teal

All you need to do is to set locale for the instance of the app. It may not be an easy task in such an ancient version as VB6, but it's kind of one line call in most other languages.

Cheers

can this be used to resize a pirate ship? I was thinkin that it would be nice to maybe resize one of their ships for a cap type ship.. does anyone know if there is a pirate ship thats been done already or resized?