custom wrecks

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Silentdances
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how would one go about creating custom wrecks? (image format, how to call to it)
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Oh, good question! I am not sure there is a way- the wreck object uses the ship image. Then I think it is applying a layer that produces the damaged look.

To create wrecks that are just wrecks to begin with, you just need to make them a station and choose an image for them.

(Look near the bottom end of the Transcendence.xml file to find some wreck station samples.)
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So in other words, to do that you need to use the ugly CSC-style ship/station hybrid?
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:shock: What?

You know those wrecks that are around that you never destroyed? Those are simple stations. They just use a ship graphic to be static wrecks.


CSC station/ship is NOT ugly. It is a tricky little set up to make use of some advanced events. I like <OnAttackedByPlayer> and find it handy for many things.
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A wreck uses this code in the image element:

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	<Image shipwreckID="&scRepentant;, &scEI100M;, &scBarbary;"/>
Which produces a wrecked version of the ship UNID you add to shipwreckID="UNID".

Nothing to it.
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Oh, good question! I am not sure there is a way- the wreck object uses the ship image. Then I think it is applying a layer that produces the damaged look.

To create wrecks that are just wrecks to begin with, you just need to make them a station and choose an image for them.

(Look near the bottom end of the Transcendence.xml file to find some wreck station samples.)
yep.. that would have been it.. I had thought that the leaveswreck = "value" was referencing a numbered list.. instead it's expressing the chance of a wreck occurring.

thanks :)

added: I had been using low values, and never getting a wreck
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Periculi wrote:CSC station/ship is NOT ugly. It is a tricky little set up to make use of some advanced events. I like <OnAttackedByPlayer> and find it handy for many things.
I think he means the code, but i don't know what's so ugly about it... :? It's almost identical to a station code- the encounter system is slightly different though.
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