Progress report: Added two more ships to the Sith Empire (the Mu-class Shuttle and the I-7 Howlrunner), two more ships to the Civilian comparison (the YT-2000 and the Pinook), two new ships to the Alliance (the Consular and the R-41 Starchaser), and five new ships to the Trade Union (the Recuscant, ...

Thanks, and you're welcome. :) Unfortunately though, I have no experience with lighting. I've only worked with existing 2D images that already have shadows and such (though I admit that with some of my ships I did some mirroring and minor manipulation). I imagine some ships might get too dark in are...

Thank you, and it was my pleasure. Creating the tutorial was more fun than I expected (probably why I put it off for so long). I just now went through it again and fixed a few typos.

Update: I now have 13 facings done for the Kilrathi fighters. I also added three new fighters to the Sith Empire: the Assault Gunboat, Missile Boat, and Preybird. Additionally, I have created a 2d Ship Facings Tutorial which can be found here: http://forums.kronosaur.com/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=5645

This tutorial was requested by RPC a while back (before Christmas I think) and I said it would "be a few days" before I got around to it. :oops: Well here it is now... Let me know if you have any trouble following it. I do not consider myself great at explaining things but hopefully this will help a...

Damn, I just realized that if I give the marker in orbit one 100% chance, it'll eliminate the possibility of no marker being generated. I should've realized that from the start.

OK, status report time again... I've done facings for 7 Kilrathi fighters, updated the Sith size comparison with two new ships (the Sentinel shuttle and the TIE-X M3 which is really just a TIE Interceptor with missile launchers added to the outside of the wings), and I updated the Syreen size compar...

OK, well I got a working solution to have the player start near a random planet. What I did was put the following code inside each orbital group just after the Primary: <Siblings radiusInc="8"> <Table> <Marker chance="50" objName="Start"/> <Null chance="50"/> </Table> </Siblings> This gives a 50% ch...

Well, trial and error. We'll see. I'll let you know how it works out.

I have those three topics saved so I can view them offline and they have already helped me quite a bit, though my current topology is just a single system for testing purposes. Since I'm still in the process of making facings for the rather large number of ships I'll be using, most of my work has ju...

OK, ideally this is what I want to do, but I can't figure out exactly how to make it work or if it is even possible to do it the way I want: Have the player start in a random level 1 system at a random planet, regardless of which starting ship they choose. Alternately, if I can't do the random syste...

So it's been over a month since my last update. :oops: Blame the holidays. I haven't much exciting to report, mostly just to say I'm still working on this.... I am now up to 13 facings for the Sith Empire (all of the fighter sized ships up to...or down to, depending on how you look at it...the Lamba...

OK, so it's been over a week since my last update, but I have not been idle. I've updated the Sith Empire with three new ships - Lancer, Carrack, and Fury. The Fury was a pain to find a top-down view. The image I settled on was actually of a lego version of the ship, but at the size I scaled it down...

In addition to doing a few more pirate fighter facings, I also resized the carrier and added three new capital ships to the pirate fleets - 1 cruiser and 2 corvettes. And here is a preview of the Federation stations as well as their construction and mining ships. This is still a work in progress as ...

No new size comparisons to report. I'm working on the Trade Union comparison, but it needs more ships before I post it. Anyway, I've fixed the facings for the TIE Fighter, added facings for the TIE Interceptor, TIE Raptor, and 10 pirate fighters. I'll be doing more facings in the coming days, concen...