The neo-standard thread- Standardising additional hull sizes.

geoschmo · #1 January 21st, 2002, 11:06 PM

I am confused as to why you need this SJ. If a shipset does not have either a primary or secondary shipset it should use the generic pic for that ship class, correct? As far as an absolute minimum of images needs for a shipset in SEIV, all it needs are the main, pop_mini, pop_portrait, race_protrait, battlecruiser, and battle cruiser_mini. (The two BC pics are just so you don't get an error while setting up the empire)

Anything else that is missing and the game will pull the needed file from the generic pics, if it can't find a primary or alternate in the pictures/races/empirex directory.

The only thing that would cause a problem beyond this is if the generic pics didn't have all the neo class pics. Then you would have images missing in the game. It might generate errors too, not sure about that one.

Geoschmo

geoschmo · #2 January 21st, 2002, 11:08 PM

OK, I forgot for a moment that the secondary image was added with Gold, so most of you don't have that yet. But even then, you don't need a list of alternates. If it can't find the primary, it will use the generic shippic.

Geoschmo

Suicide Junkie · #3 January 22nd, 2002, 05:57 AM

So, do you still want the program to fill-out a shipset with similar images, or not?

The point was to make all the ships in a set look like they belong together, rather than having a few silvery defaults popping up in a Xiati shipset, it will, at worst, make every ship/base image look like the battlecruiser, and every unit look like the population...

The defaults are required in case the shipset designer and user both decide not to fill out all the images...

geoschmo · #4 January 22nd, 2002, 06:11 AM

DOH! I forgot about that. I guess It's been too long since I was a regular in this thread. Sorry.

Geo

Andr�s · #5 January 22nd, 2002, 07:14 AM

Yes we do need the program. And we also need to finish the couple of pictures still missing in the neo-neutral shipset, if dogscoff didn't make any progress I'll give it a try.

Val · #6 January 22nd, 2002, 04:00 PM

Isn't SE IV G going to have a full neo shipset for the neutrals that we could use? Anybody know if any of the Gold races are going to take advantage of the expanded shipsets?

geoschmo · #7 January 22nd, 2002, 04:27 PM

The only change that made it into Gold was the addition of the secondary ship pic in the vehiclesize.txt file. For the stock hulls the default secondary pics are identical to the primary pics.

No neo-generic images made it in as far as I am aware. Nothing was mentioned in the history file anyway. I don't have the gold beta with me to check and see if the images were added without being mentioned.

Who was making the new generic images? Were they sent to Tamp Gamer to be included in the Gold release?

Geoschmo