Need Advice

Macgeoghagen · Fri Feb 18, 2011 2:59 am

Thanks to your sound advice, I was able to release this weapons pack.

http://xelerus.de/index.php?s=mod&id=871

Macgeoghagen · Sat Feb 19, 2011 8:32 pm

I've run into a problem with making a player ship. In particular, getting the graphics for the armor/shield display to be my ship rather than the sapphire yacht. GIMP wants service pack 2. Could somebody recommend another free graphics program ?

Sat Feb 19, 2011 8:50 pm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fotografix

Fotografix is a freeware graphics editing program for Microsoft Windows. It has been noted for being portable and light on system resources while still providing features found in larger software.Apart from basic painting tools, Fotografix includes several image manipulation and correction tools. It also supports layers, along with some advanced features such as layer masks, adjustment layers and editable text layers.

Fotografix can open and save images in most common raster image formats. It can also open multi-layer images in Adobe Photoshop's PSD format and GIMP's XCF format, though layers can only be saved in Fotografix's native FGX format.

Macgeoghagen · Mon Feb 21, 2011 2:45 am

I have my armor and shields figured out. next thing is to make a sprite sheet for my player ship. Is there anything I need to do to set the number of facings in the XML or is it set to 40 facings automatically?

Mon Feb 21, 2011 4:54 am

look at the image resource code

Mon Feb 21, 2011 12:10 pm

by default the game engine chooses 20 facings.

If you want 40 facings ships you have to manually add a line to the ship:
rotationCount= "40"

Look at playership.xml for examples.

Macgeoghagen · Mon Feb 21, 2011 11:23 pm

Thanks. Are there any tips or tricks to making a ship sprite sheet? It looks like my procedure will involve screenshots and editing the photo x40 for the ship, then copying the sheet and whiting it out for the mask.

Macgeoghagen · Fri Feb 25, 2011 2:56 am

Thanks to the continuing advice of more experienced modders, I was able to make a player ship mod. You can't have it until I sacrifice a lump of ABS plastic to LEGO group and their legal dept. blesses the mod.

ThePrivateer · Fri Feb 25, 2011 3:03 am

Macgeoghagen wrote:Thanks to the continuing advice of more experienced modders, I was able to make a player ship mod. You can't have it until I sacrifice a lump of ABS plastic to LEGO group and their legal dept. blesses the mod.

hehe. Sweet ship -- maybe you could take this one step further and make LEGO Transcendence (y'know how LEGO has LEGO Star Wars and all that...)

The ship looks cool - reminds me of all the ones I used to build years ago...good times.

Ooh. Maybe you could make a custom explosion - when you attack another LEGO ship, bits of LEGO fly off!

Drako Slyith · Fri Feb 25, 2011 3:54 am

Well, there are roughly 62 LEGOs for each of the 6.3 billion people on earth. In 400 years, perhaps they flood the Earth, people wade through discarded LEGOs on the sidewalk. With no other options, Earth had no choice but to build with LEGOs.

Fri Feb 25, 2011 11:58 am

Drako Slyith wrote:With no other options, Earth had no choice but to build with LEGOs.

Can't wait! :D

Fri Feb 25, 2011 7:30 pm

alterecco wrote:
Drako Slyith wrote:With no other options, Earth had no choice but to build with LEGOs.
Can't wait!

me either

Drako Slyith · Fri Feb 25, 2011 10:12 pm

Either that or they rise up and harvest our bodies for energy

Sat Feb 26, 2011 7:14 pm

I sense a fan fiction post coming up :D

Who is going to take these legos and run with it?

Drako Slyith · Sat Feb 26, 2011 8:44 pm

I assume the Luminous AI sees potential for it.