Brightness/contrast

Bman · #1 April 1st, 2002, 06:33 PM

I've gone as far as editting the graphics for those ships and putting a big red square around them so that they can't sneak up on me in a game. I've wondered if anyone has used the dirty tactic of creating "invisible" ships and using them on PBW?

Gryphin · #2 April 1st, 2002, 06:37 PM

Brman,
Um, not that I ever would but now that you have brought it up, How do you do that?
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geoschmo · #3 April 1st, 2002, 06:59 PM

quote:
Originally posted by Baron Munchausen:
You'd think that SE IV GOLD would be the perfect opportunity to use improvements like this, too. Has anyone compared the graphics on the gold disk to the originals?

I did a quick check and the Sallgan escort at least still blends in to the background. Almost invisible unless there is more than one, in which case the empire flag appears. Perhaps this would be the fix, simply make the empire flag appear for all single ships like it does for multiple ships.

Of course if someone pulled a nasty trick like having an empire flag that was black with a couple stars on it...

Geoschmo

Bman · #4 April 1st, 2002, 08:15 PM

Well, you'd have to ask a ship designer to be sure, but I think if you make the small Version of the ship as an empty black square (i.e. don't really draw anything) then the ship will be invisible on the game screen. Then the only time you could find it is if you clicked on the sector the ship was in, then it would show up in the ship info panel. The ship would also appear if it was over a planet or warppoint. If you also (as geo mentioned) made the empire flag all black then the ship would even not be visible in these instances and then the only way to find it was to randomly click in sectors to try and locate it. As a player, once you discovered someone was doing this to you, you could either (a) remove that shipset from your computer then the game would use a random ship picture so you could see it. or (b) go edit the shipset and put red boxes or something in each picture to make them visible.

quote:
Originally posted by Gryphin:
Brman,
Um, not that I ever would but now that you have brought it up, How do you do that?
< image Inocent Smile >

Gryphin · #5 April 1st, 2002, 08:34 PM

I think I will edit the ship sets as suggested.
I also will play arround with making grey or off white background.

Lisif Deoral · #6 April 1st, 2002, 08:59 PM

quote:
Originally posted by Bman:
I've wondered if anyone has used the dirty tactic of creating "invisible" ships and using them on PBW?

That would be rather pointless...
As soon as you notice the problem, you can simply change the pictures or even delete them, keeping the directory (the game will employ the neutral shipset). Moreover most players won't appreciate the attempt.
I usually change the shipset colour when two empires employ a very similar (or a very dark) one.