Ship Images

Zunos · #1 April 6th, 2002, 04:51 PM

How do we use more than one image per vehicle size?

PsychoTechFreak · #2 April 6th, 2002, 08:07 PM

Phoenix-D · #3 April 6th, 2002, 09:05 PM

You can and you can't.

If you have Gold, you can set up to three imagaes. Two in the file and one default.
Works like this:
-Gold looks for the Primary image, if it finds it, it uses it
-If not, Gold looks for the Secondary image. If it finds it, it uses it.
-If THAT is missing, Gold looks for the default image (race/generic). Uses that.
-If THAT is missing.. methinks SE4 will give you an error and/or cycle through pictures more or less randomly.

Phoenix-D

PvK · #4 April 7th, 2002, 03:06 AM

If you really want say, two types of Battlecruiser graphics, you can mod the vehiclesizes.txt file. Just duplicate the Battlecruiser section, and change the primary picture filename of one of them. This will give you a choice of pictures for the same class of ship. If your shipset doesn't have the secondary picture type defined, you'll just see two identical choices for the same ship size. This would be a mod to the game data, though, and would break existing games (you'd have to start a new game to use it properly).

PvK