I have two problems...

1. The ship model just doesn't show up. The guns don't even show.

2. The ship has no equipment... I can't give it weapons, thrusters, anything...

Both of these problems are in game... I don't know what is wrong with the ini files, I'm continuing the process of trying to find out.

have you hardpointed it in HardCMP? downloadable from here on LR

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make sure your INI has LODranges = 0, 10000 - multiple LODranges do not work for custom ships unless you create more LODs(levels of detail)

if thats not it, are you using the latest CMP exporter (v0.3)?

Yes, I have the latest CMP Exporter.

No, I haven't used the HardCMP thing. Let me download that and see if it works.

Can you use multiple triangles when placing hard points or can you only use one triangle?

Okay I got the HardCMP thing and tried loading my ship, but the ship doesn't even show up.

well, keep trying - it might be the size of the ship - too small and you gotta zoom in, too big and you need to zoom out. hardpoints are just 1 triangle apiece

Okay, I'll try making sure all hard points are just one Triangle, I'll also try increasing the size... then decreasing. Thanks for the help.

np - fyi the scale setting on the export doesn't seem to do much, which is why i use manual scaling before exporting

manual scaling being the select everything and then scale it before I export it correct?

'exactly - if you zoom out as far as possible in milkshape's 2-d view mode, a normal sized fighter will fill about half of the window.

Ohhhhh, that really helps for scaling.... I think mine is entirely too small.

Okay, I did what you said... I made it so all the hard points were 1 triangle. I made sure they were all spelled correctly. Just in case. I also increased the size. To about half the size of the 2d editing window. Still not working...

The ship isn't showing up on HardCMP.

The ship isn't showing up in game. Though it doesn't crash when I buy it or switch to launch pad.

In-Game... It shows it as having no weapon slots, thruster/shield slots. Though the amount of Nano Bots and Shield Batterys works.

I made sure that the textures are working.

Oh, when I go to groups... on Milk Shape 3d... It has a bunch of groups... Though if I remove them it starts removing the model... I used Rhino to make the ship, so I don't know if that changes anything. But, ya it has like 92 groups for the skin of the ship.

So, I'm like really lost, because in the tutorial, the person goes to groups and there is absolutily no groups there.

ehh.... email it to me in ms3d format and i will give it a look, coz i'm out of suggestions

Alright, you should be getting it soon. I sent it to you just before I sent this message.