Race/Ship set designers, can someone do this? (Invisible Shipset Finished!)

dogscoff · #1 January 15th, 2003, 06:07 PM

Slick, Ruatha, I understand your concerns but there is no harm in making such a set for single player purposes.

If anyone tried to play PBW like this, other players would either object before the game began (since they'd have to download shipset.) or just substitute the black set for a conventional one, renaming all the files so that the game thought it was the "real" one.

Images should be in .bmp format, 128x128 for portraits, 36x36 minis and 20x20 for the pop_mini. Not sure about shields and things.

I'd be interested to see how small this shipset zipped down to - I reckon you could get well over 95% compression on plain black images

[ January 15, 2003, 16:09: Message edited by: dogscoff ]

mlmbd · #2 January 15th, 2003, 06:24 PM

It wouldn't be that tough to do! Just make 1-Black 128x128 for the portraits. Take any shipset (that already exist) and copy the name for that bmp and paste it in to the line off Save As. Then load that File you just save and repeat it until all the portraits are done. Then do the same for the 'minis'. Starting with a black 36x36 bmp.

Shipset complete. For you own personal use it might me fun. But not even you could see your ships while you were playing.

mlmbd

Ruatha · #3 January 15th, 2003, 06:34 PM

It was originally spawned as a kind of secret Rangers organisation. Unknown but taking a secretive hand in the play.
Mostly for single player but could be used for RP PBW also as a benevolent secret force.

And about not seeing them, for the AI that wouldn't pose any problem.
And a human player can go through the "ship" screen and access them from there.
The only problem would be stacks, as the number would show, ie fighters etc.

[ January 15, 2003, 16:36: Message edited by: Ruatha ]

Ed Kolis · #4 January 15th, 2003, 07:27 PM

You could always create a racial tech that gives hulls with level 6 cloaking...

mlmbd · #5 January 15th, 2003, 07:51 PM

Ruatha, if you make the bmp's invisable, then 'no one' can see them. Not even you. You could scroll the the ships one at a time (or fleets) it would take you to the sector where your ship(s)/fleet(s) are, but you would not be able to see them. They are "invisable". You couldn't even click on one of the ships. Invisable is invisable, not cloaked!

mlmbd

Ruatha · #6 January 15th, 2003, 10:10 PM

Yes, but when I click on a ship in the "ship" screen it jumps to the relevant sector, marks the location of the ship and makes it active. So I'll know where they are and will be able to order them around.

Fyron · #7 January 15th, 2003, 10:19 PM

Don't forget the spacebar!