Spring RTS Engine

I am trying to resurrect some old models from a spring 82 mod to spring 94. In the old version the model was working fine. In the new version when I set shadows = on, at spring preferences, I get a black model in-game. If I set shadows = off then the model is fine.

I tried adjusting the green channel in my second texture, but to no avail.
I even tried using a texture from another model (I changed the textures in upspring - dimensions match, and the texture is not black!) that works fine in spring 94, but I still get a black model.

Any ideas?

Thanks!

Nope. Post the model files so some can help you.

I ve uploaded two models (s3o, textures and scripts, unit defs just in case).

https://www.dropbox.com/s/eiikr8t74kboid7/models.zip

Thanks!

Lol. Well I can't really help(about to go jump into the jungle and internet gets expensive in new guinea. But maybe some else can. Best of luck!

sounds more like your graphics card/driver does not like new spring version. Are units in other mods black too?

Normals. I had this too.
Load it into upspring and invert the normals.

It was the normals, thanks!

hurray, world notice my advice was usefull once! Although it was not my advice in the first place. Thanks goes to devs, who regularly sort this sort of "moddev-bugs" out of the mantis prayers.


Report bugs, they would report you if they could!

I noticed that when I put the unit definition flag: 'hoverattack = true'
the default state of a gunship becomes to stay airborne. Is there another flag to retain gunship functionality but force landing at the end of the attack? -- Ignore this! It was lua script hidden somewhere

I have been translating untidefs, weapons and features into Lua. I ve made a matlab (thats what I feel comfortable at programming!) script to convert fbi unit definitions automatically to lua. I couldn't do it for weapons, since there is no 1 to 1 equivalence. If anybody is interested, I am happy to share, or run the script for you.

That's neat!
I guess my approach is useful if you don't want to pack the units in a mod, but that shouldn't be too difficult