Help needed on 'SC4 Model Tweaker'

[Fantozzi 4,067]

Scaling works perfect - but the button to flip a model is always grayed out in SC4MDT. Is there something special I have to do first?

Is it possible to flip props in LE or PIM-X? I know this posibility only for textures.

[NCGAIO 562]

Flip function this only available for a single model for all zoms and rotations

[rsc204 21,805]

Or to put it another way, there are two types of model you can use in SC4, one is actually 3D, usually reserved for automata and transit networks. The other is only 2D, most buildings, props and other items are made like this.

If the model you are using is the latter, you can only view the model from 4 fixed perspectives (rotations) in 5 different zooms. If you actually flipped such a 2D model's texture, you'd end up with something that looked terrible. Whilst you can flip the texture, it would distort the UV mapping. That's because the perspective is locked-in by the angle used in the rendering process.

Short answer: to flip a model, you need the original model files for use in SC4BAT etc, plus to re-render the model.

[Fantozzi 4,067]

56 minutes ago, rsc204 said:

Whilst you can flip the texture, it would distort the UV mapping. That's because the perspective is locked-in by the angle used in the rendering process.

Ah! Got it. Thank you.