StarBase--- BaseShip

[Gil Hamilton]

When naming this unit in Gold, which name is used? I read the article on the CD, but it seems to have been written before Gold or 1.67.

[disabled]

Primary Bitmap is used first, if there is no primary, it goes to the second one (the one underneath the first bitmap entry.

[Gil Hamilton]

Huh?

Are you talking AI Modding?- I'm not ready for that, yet. I'm just trying to name this vessel for a shipset.

[ZeroAdunn]

The way it works is as follows:

In game when you go to design a ship the game looks for the picture, in the datafiles it looks under the vehiclesize.txt for the ship.

Entries:
Primary Bitmap Name - It will look for this image first

Alternate Bitmap Name - it will look for this image next

In default SEIV it will look for baseship first, then starbase.

[Gil Hamilton]

Got it..Thank you both!

[CW]

Do I understand it correctly: If the game can't find either the primary or secondary bitmap it will go over to the Pictures\RaceGeneric folder and use the generic image instead?

[Suicide Junkie]

Yes. I use that effect in Pirates & Nomads so that any shipset without a "worldship.bmp" will use the generic one, from the planets images:

[Andrés]

For example the Praetorian are the only stock race that has a Baseship picture.

The primary/secondary picture feature lets their Baseships look different from their Star Bases, without forcing all other races that to have a Baseship picture too.