Changing Ship Graphics
Eric
overview screen?
ie. Take the Light Ship for example. It, as all other ships have 4 images
associated with it. For all ship it seems to be image # 2 that is used for
the ship overview screen. Image number 2 for the light ship is downright
drab and ugly. Is there a way to put image #1 or #3 in it's place? They look
oh so much nicer, especially #1. I'd do the same for some other ships as
well. It's also about time I replace the planets Leia with a much better
looking picture.
Eric
Magik
accessible (read only) through the v4face2.dll. You may be able to
submit a revised graphic to Tim and have him replace it.
Magik
Lord Lancelot
to change the graphic ?
In the Vgap 3 days, they had a lot of alternative picture, even
replacement music for vcr.
(they were .bmp)
Lord Lancelot
Zaabur
the ship list.
I think that Tim is not going to release the control of that files
because of this whould allow developers to make new ship design. As
soon as it released those files, the community could make other
versions of the races and I believe that Tim would not like it.
Bye
Fdo: Zaabur
Amaranthine
He could add an "Alt" folder within each game folder. The client could
check this folder on boot up, and if, for example, it found a file
titled "hull60_2.jpg" (or are they .bmp?), then the 2nd picture of hull
#60 (Crystal Light) would be replaced with that graphic.
You would have to distribute the new graphics to all players for them
to see the new graphic, however.
cocomax
that image will become the Fed leader image. . .
s101.bmp is the new alt race symbol.
Tim
Zaabur
Any alt to ships?
Bye
Fdo: Zaabur
Lord Lancelot
Many players including myslef Use RaceView.exe to look at other races.
It would be nice if raceview look for those ALT bmp as well.
Tim could you list all the possible ALT ?
I'm pretty sure this will find it's way to the Wiki so you won't have
to repeat yourself.
Lord Lancelot
Sebastian
> Tha very good to know, I'm almost sure nobody knew about this.
Tim posted this at least tree times now (since I read this group). So there
should have been some who know about.
Greetings
Sebastian
Black No1
quite a while now.
Still as Amaranthine suggested it would be a very cool feature, if you
could have alternative pictures for races (and ships) for each game.
This would be especially interesting for games with a roleplay touch
(as it is now, all games would have the same picture or you need
several copies of planets on your pc).
Concerning the programming:
Ships: Tim could us the mechanism for alternate pictures that is
already in effect for the race-pics (every ship-hull already has a
unique number, so this could be very similar and thus (hopefully)
relatively easy)
Alt Folder: Using the information of the current gamefolder
(sCurrentGameFolder) that should be present, as other information is
being read from it, too, the current mechanism could be modified by
just changing the directory to look for pictures to something like sDir
= ".\WAR\" & " sCurrentGameFolder "\BMP".
@Tim: If this is in fact easy to implement, I would like this feature a
lot as I believe that easy customization can add a lot of value to
software.
Jochen
Lord Lancelot
As Already be created.
2 important question remain
What size (in X,Y pixel dimension) must be the Race Leader Image to be
the same size as the original one ?
What size (in X,Y pixel dimension) must be the Race Symbol Image to be
the same size as the original one ?
Lord Lancelot
I had several and lost them.
All the vgap 3 links are dead, and Donavan site only has a pack with
the vgap4 picture for vgap3.
I recall " Timo" pack was a good one and they were several other good
one.
If you have a pack let me know, I want to start building a replacement
pack for Planets4.
Lord Lancelot
Lord Lancelot
Pics and imgaes for vgap3
http://www.thelastdomain.com/tldvgappics.asp
Lord Lancelot
Lord Lancelot
FED
* Fed Original
* Fed Kirk, L101.bmp, S101.bmp (See how to transform .png to .bmp)
* Fed Picard, L101.bmp
* Fed Riker, L101.bmp
Lizard
* Lizard Original
* Enterprise, L102.bmp, S102.bmp
Birdmen
* Original
* Romulan, L103.bmp, S103.bmp
Stormer
* Stormer Original
* Klingon Martok, Martok L104.bmp, Kahless L104.bmp, S104.bmp
Privateer
* Privateer Original
* Orion Enterprise, L105.bmp
Cyborg
* Cyborg Original
* Borg Locutus, Locutus L106.bmp, Borg Queen L106.bmp, Borg Queen
II L106.bmp, S106.bmp
Crystal
* Original
* Tholian Enterprise, L107.bmp, S107.bmp
Empire
* Original
* Emperor_DarthVader, L108.bmp, S108.bmp, Gold S108.bmp, White
S108.bmp
* Darth Sidious L108.bmp, Darth Maul L108.bmp, DS LighSaber
L108.bmp, Palpatine L108.bmp, Thrawn L108.bmp, Vader L108.bmp
Robot
* Original
* Cylon 1978, L109.bmp
* Cylon 2003, L109.bmp
Rebel
* Original
* Leia Gold bikini, L110.bmp, S110.bmp
* Leia White and Gun, L110.bmp
* Yoda LightSaber, L110.bmp
Colonie
* Original
* Colonie 1978, L111.bmp
* Colonie 2003, L111.bmp, S111.bmp
Peeps
* L801.bmp Resized the too big race leader picture who come with
the race pack, the picture is so big it messup planet4.exe when you
read message from peeps player to you.
Scavenger
* Original
* Jawa Star Wars, Jawa and gun L803.bmp, 5 Jawa L803.bmp, Jawa and
Crawler L803.bmp
UEA
* Original
* Equilibrium, Gun Stance L805.bmp, Shadow L805.bmp
* Starship Trooper: Dead bug L805.bmp, Face L805.bmp
Lord Lancelot
Lord Lancelot
cmer....@gmail.com
in response to this:
* 2 important question remain
*
* What size (in X,Y pixel dimension) must be the Race Leader Image to
be
* the same size as the original one ?
*
* What size (in X,Y pixel dimension) must be the Race Symbol Image to
be
* the same size as the original one ?
I've had a play around with resizing the images etc, and the message
screen is where the limitation will occur as it will push buttons out
of the window. you can go a little bigger than the standard images
(200x250) for the race leader without problems, but this is a sensible
limit to use.
For the Race Symbol, this can be increased from it's standard size of
150x150, up to 225x160 without any problems.... but at a width of 225
it is right up against the side of the window. If you go any longer
the image will still display, but there is text that will be floating
over the image.
If changes are made to race view to allow these images to override the
settings in there, then those max sizes will probably have to change
back to the default.
Hope that helps.
CMer
Lord Lancelot
The offcial size have been found, wiki updated.
Lord Lancelot