Custom ships in Cityscapes?

Fri Apr 02, 2004 2:51 am by Firewing

All those ships that fly around in the cityscape are standard FL ships... clearly the cityscape has to reference them somewhere (probably from the goods or shiparch...they have no weapons and equipment visible..)

So, there must be a way to put, let's say , a Patrio flying around insted of the Defender...

Fri Apr 02, 2004 5:51 am by black_lightning

that's all scripted data, and you have to manually "remake" everything in terms of writing the .thn scripts. You designate a ship hull (.cmp) then you have to addon engines, lights, and anything else you want on it in the specific .thn file. Then you have to make a new START_PATH_ANIMATION for the ship in the .thn. Though oyu might be able to just get away with changing the ships template_name="yourship.cmp," but you wlill have to go through and change the engines which are attached to it else the flames will be for that of another ship.

Fri Apr 02, 2004 7:15 am by Chips

Alternatively, once decrypted, just change all existing ships to other ships in the file, as it doesn't use a loadout file at all. The names are nicknames for ships from shiparch.ini file. Easy enough.

Sat Apr 03, 2004 1:06 pm by Firewing

So it can be done!?

Great...now...how to decrypt the thn?

Sat Apr 03, 2004 1:45 pm by Chips

Find the tutorial about thn editing,and download the decoder provided. Its not going to be made too easy for ya - so search

Sun Apr 04, 2004 2:12 pm by Firewing

F***! Decoder gives me some esystem error and doesn't work!
ugh!

Sun Apr 04, 2004 11:34 pm by LordFjord

What kind of error?
You are sure the paths are right?

give a bit more info, then maybe ppl can hlp.

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Mon Apr 05, 2004 7:15 am by Firewing

Well, I extract the Fled-Thorn.exe and when I click on it I get:

"System Error &H800700C1 (-2147024703)."

On the other hand, I allso downloaded the SciTe and while it can open a thn file, I can't make heads or tales of it, since the encoding looks wierd...

Tue Apr 06, 2004 1:27 pm by Firewing

Help?

Tue Apr 06, 2004 1:48 pm by Chips

I didn't make the thing, and i have never had any problems with it either. Therefore, my knowledge into trouble shooting the application is about as good as someone who has never used it. I have no idea. Try contacting the maker - but are you using it correctly perhaps?

Thu Apr 08, 2004 10:50 am by Zack Lyons

Try downloading it again. Maybe a different version?

Thu Apr 08, 2004 2:29 pm by Firewing

there is nly one version...could be becoause I have WinXp...
does it have to be inside a specific folder?

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