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Originally posted by Atrocities:
I am no modder, but I think I understand what you are saying.
If you create a new ship, your tanker, you have to put a bitmap image of it into each race file. Man that takes time.
But what you propose is to make it go to a single directory where a single bitmap image can be used by all the races.
This would make modding a new ship into the gam a lot easier however, every race would have the same new ship.
Am I close?
That's exactly what the game does right now. Let's say it's looking for a cruiser picture, it will first look in the races directory, when it can't find the file it will use the picture in the genericrace directory (hope that is the right name). This is for example why the neutrals all use the same ships, if you put a shipset in a directory of a neutral and rename it properly the neutral will no longer use the generic shipset but it's own.
::Joins the fight about what Markavians was thinking::
I think what he means is that the game should look for a file in the races directory, and if it can't find it just use another suitable picture from the same race. This way you can make the program look for pictures for a large satellite (not included with original races), and if it can't find it can still use the standard satellite picture. If this is implemented you could make pictures for your own shipset for additional hulls, but you don't have to do it for all the races. The other races will still use their own pictures, and not some out of style generic picture.
But I can't read John's thougths maybe he should answer this one himself..
[This message has been edited by henk brouwer (edited 08 February 2001).]