I'm dead far from being a modding god, but at least by now I have gained some insight into the engine workings of FL. And the only way to change hull color seems to be to modify the surface texture of the ship itself - but that'd apply to _all_ ships of that type galaxywide, then, meaning every "Startracker" out there would be black with a red rim from then on. So no individual "identifying" effect with that.

Besides, even this wouldn't work in MP since only YOU would have that modified texture and see it in the game, but everyone else would still see that standard grey hull instead. You'd have to make every client copy that new texture into his FL installation make them see it.

*erm* a word to the gods:
Did someone even figure out how to import textures into the shipfiles yet? Correct me, but I think not... =/

D_R

One work around for this would be to make a new instance of a ship for every desired ship texture.

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Kru Noctum
Project Director
Freelancer Software Development Kit

HCl is working on a program that'll allow importing custom ships and textures

Ahhh, perfect. *bows to HCl*
I wish him best luck.

Maybe I'll finally able to attach my little creation here to my Shiphull then.
Nice, aint it? Took me 3 hours to get the bird to look just right...



cya,
D_R



Edited by - Digital_Ronin on 20-03-2003 16:52:59

*sigh* ok, then i think we've to wait for the add-on ( hopefully.... ) besides that, everyone who knows bout modding is a modding god compared to me

erm...D_R...this logo reminds me of the Snow Raven. could there be any similarities? *gg*

Edited by - Spiritwalker on 24-03-2003 13:54:14

Snow Raven... lol, someone actually noticed. *respect*

Yep, I let myself be inspired by that logo a bit after searching the web for a good-lookin hawk/falcon logo a long time.
Then finally I used Corel Draw (vector imaging) to make one from scratch - still having that raven in mind. But basically, I only liked and adapted the agressive curve of the wings. The head was too asymmetrical for my liking, it was too long-stretched to look really evil and also waist tail should be different in my one.

*looks*
Indeed, one can still see the likeness. Funny to see that my aesthetic sense made me design the rest of the animal quite similar to the old logo

I didn't even have it in front of me while designing, only saw it once during my surfing, thought "hey,nice wings" and moved on - maybe my memory influenced me. Still interesting so see someone notice the similarity. Guess I should take that as a compliment...

D_R


+++ " Infinity? Nah, been there. " +++ =)

*eyes his post count*
Yay! Look at me, I'm the eternal board recruit!
Remind me to go smack myself the next time I put an underscore in my name.

Edited by - Digital_Ronin on 24-03-2003 14:16:32