Has anyone created new formations?

[raynor]

On Monday, I'll post a simple graphical formation editor I've been working on. It lets you edit formations by placing tiles on a 19x19 grid and moving them around as you like. The Last piece I'm working on is the code to change the type using a Right Click menu and such.

Here is a very simple formation that puts two beam weapon ships up front. Behind these two ships are a couple of artillery ships. Bringing up the rear are two missile ships. In order to use this formation, you will need to go into the Ship Design window and add the types: Beam, Artillery and Missile and then assign these types to ships.

Sadly, I haven't found any other way to customize the ship types other than saving the empire to a *.emp file--which is not a text file. Anyways, here is the data for this simple formation I created mainly to test my understanding of the 'type' field:

Name := Column
Description := Beam ships, Artillery ships, Missile ships in a column
Leader Position Xpos := 9
Leader Position Ypos := 7
Leader Design Type := Beam
Number of positions := 5
Position 1 Xpos := 10
Position 1 Ypos := 7
Position 1 Type := Beam
Position 2 Xpos := 9
Position 2 Ypos := 9
Position 2 Type := Artillery
Position 3 Xpos := 10
Position 3 Ypos := 9
Position 3 Type := Artillery
Position 4 Xpos := 9
Position 4 Ypos := 11
Position 4 Type := Missile
Position 5 Xpos := 10
Position 5 Ypos := 11
Position 5 Type := Missile