modders and shipset creators - please read

[dogscoff]

OK, Last night I uploaded a major update to my space vikings shipset. My shipset will include images for non-standard ship sizes like corvette, heavy destroyer, prospector and battle moon.

These extra images *can* be implemented without hardcode changes if modders are prepared to support them, and this is the beginning of my campaign to make it happen.

Therefore I have started work on a reference table for shipset creators, which tracks all the different ship sizes used in the various mods.

This table will show what images are needed for compatibilty with which shipsets. It also gives useful comparative data which may help you decide how each ship should look: For example size, speed, bonuses etc.

Anyway, please look at the page on <A HREF="http://www.sandman43.fsnet.co.uk/vikingmoddata.htm">hull data</A> bearing the following in mind:

- it isn't finished yet. I have a *lot* more data to put in and I have to make it more readable.

- Shipset creators: Have I left anything out? What do you consider when designing each image?
Also I would be interested to know if you have ever released any non-standard ship images. I believe S-J has released a battlemoon pic but I haven't had a chance to look at it yet.

- modders: I have only included a few mods so far, and I may have mis-represented one of those. The standard and devnull data comes straight from the relevant vehiclesizes.txt files. I will do the same research for all the mods I cover, but you could save me some work by telling me how/ if your mod varies from the standard.

-file names: If modders do begin to support extra ship images, it would make sense to have a single standard for filenames. (ie it would be a pain if one shipset used heavydestroyer and another called it hdestroyer) I would like my website to be the central reference for this standard, and so I have allocated some arbitrary (but logical) file names. If you have any opinions or prior work on this subject, please post here.

I'll resurrect the space vikings thread, with a URL if you want to see what my additional images look like.

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