Hardpoint Guide

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http://penguinmayhe.temp.powweb.com/...ntTutorial.pdf

A guide on hardpointing using HardEd, penned by Tel'Quessir of Point Defense Systems.

Enjoy and happy modding!

P.S: Feel free to post any criticisms, further questions and whatnot here.

[Homer Jr.]

Thank you, [G].

[Jaen-ni-rin]

Dustwars team is also thankful.
Now we don't need to re-hod stock models

[zenprime]

WOot! Been needing this! Now I don't have to worry about going bald from pulling hair out in fits of rage.

[Shipyard Nabal]

wow, thx. very helpful ^_^

[Archangel of Death]

I sense horrible things in my future with this...

[Zatch]

Many thanks, you saved my hair too.

[adamstrange]

So where is the tutorial because that link is dead and empty :gnight:

[Archangel of Death]

Works for me. Do you have Adobe Acrobat Reader? Its kind-of required to read the file.

[Tel'Quessir]

If you have contributions, forward them to me via PM and I'll amend the guide with proper credits given.

For example the "troubleshooting" section is underpopulated at the moment. There are a lot of things that can go wrong (esp if you're managing whole fleets of modded ships)!

[adamstrange]

Works for me. Do you have Adobe Acrobat Reader? Its kind-of required to read the file.

Yes i do.

When i click on the link,Adobe opens up and all thats there is a white blank page and on the bottom left corner of the toolbar it says "DONE" :blink:

I then right clicked to save it and when Adobe trys to open it,it says:

THERE WAS AN ERROR OPENING THE DOCUMENT. THIS VIEWER CANNOT DECRYPT THIS DOCUMENT

[adamstrange]

Ok i got it.

The problem was that i had Acrobat Reader 4.0 and the PDF'S that i was trying to open must have been saved with versions higher than this.

Once i installed V 7.0 i had no problem.

[Deionarra]

Definatly a useful little tutorial

One question I have to raise is why can't hardED open any .HOD files that I make myself using Maya(6.5)?

I have no problem opening the original .HODs but mine never seem to work.

Ofcourse I can edit the hardpoints of my own ships in Maya so it's only an issue if someone else was wanting to edit one of my .HODs

[Lancefighter]

This is an exalent tutorial! i can finaly do what i wanted with harded. exept that if you read the fourm on harded, you would know that pressing "t" with a position highlighted you would know that it would open up a posioner. this makes it much esiyer. i myself has forgone the "point picking" part and my hardpoints seem to work fine.(even if i did put them a few meters above the hull. ive been working on the galatica on the bsg mod(for fun, not for the mod as it only has 2 guns in the relise.[it is only the modle of the galacta over the fighter] it now has 4 points for guns and the trails work{kinda work}) theres my 2 cents on the subject later!

[TekGnosis]

not relavent, testing whether 'search' option in forum appears after I post. I know there used to be a #&$%# search option...

[Tel'Quessir]

As the PDS website has been shifted to a new host location, the link to the Guide is:
http://www.pds.hwaccess.net./forum/v...=326#post_4145

[fredd63]

I aim trying to make a pusarcorvete whit 2 guns one on top and bottom
I can change the position from the existing gun from top to bottom but if I make a new entry I can not change te name from new entry to what I want it stays new entry

[Babbo]

Tel'Quessir would you mind if I make that guide also available at HWAccess? Many thanks for considering.

[Tel'Quessir]

Sure, do that.

[Babbo]

Done and thank you very much.

[Tel'Quessir]

As I've received a ton of mails stating that folks can't find any working HardEd download from the Tanis Shipyards here, I've taken the liberty to upload a copy to Filefront:

http://files.filefront.com/HardEdexe.../fileinfo.html