Starfury & Moddability

[General Woundwort]

Originally posted by Taera:
I am debating whether should i spend money on the game, and heres a thought. Just exactly, how moddable is the game? Say, if i wanted to include some of my Taeran ships, say, How do i do it? I modelled my ships in Moray/Povray.

It's going to be a lot of work. You have to import the model and the BMP skin (others here can give you a better idea of how to do that). Then you have to have smaller pic files for the shield display on screen, and for the ship purchase window. Then you have to "map-out" the ship's component layout in a textfile (i.e. how many component spaces it has and its' general shape). Then you have to hope you didn't key-in a mistake somewhere that causes the thing to crash. Then you have to work that ship into the random encounter files, the ship purchase lists, the AI tactics files...

That's all for one ship. Now do the rest of the fleet.

Possible? Yes. But it's almost a full-time job, at least for an 'amateur' gamer like me. You might find it easier, who knows? Ask Drake how he did on his BG mod.