I'm trying to make a template for a new 3do. I've read the tutorials, but I just can't figure out how to properly select a parent template. Could somebody please tell me what to select so that my level doesn't freeze everything up?

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ok, the way i do it is, use the template creator in JED. Fill in everything else other than the parent template, then double click that, don't select anything when that window pops up, your template is in the list to the right, select decor if the player will never get to your 3do, walkstruct if it's not metal, and zwalkstruct if it is. If it's an actor, then select actor, tell me if you have any problems.

We need to know what it is before we can tell you what parent template to use.

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I'm pretty certain it's supposed to be an actor. It's a 3do that I'm trying to make into a skin. I used _actor as the parent template. The level isn't freezing anymore, but the 3do isn't there.

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Well you know how to use skins in JK, I saw your catian skin screens on the showcase. Thusly, allow me to assume you are making an enemy, freindly, or pedestrian. That said, you're going to need to fill in all the information in the template creator for this template using information normaly found in the closest actor type, i.e. if you want it to behave like a stormtrooper fill in stormtrooper info. Then change the 3do to your skin. If the skin is kyle or Jan 3do based, fill in the pup as ky.pup. If the skin is stormtrooper 3do based, choose whatever the ST pup is. The other way to do it is make the cog and keys and pup and snd and all that crap from scratch. Likewise, if it is pedestrian based, fill in all the closest ped info or make your own ped files*. If I'm wasting my breath and this is the player, in the master.tpl change the walkplayers' 3do info to that of your skins' 3do name.

[This message has been edited by Val_Langley (edited September 03, 2000).]