You can change the background animation in the Main Menu, you just need to know how to manipulate THN files, and NO, i am not going to teach you. I am not sure if there is a tutorial about that or not, but its NOT EASY.

There is a tutorial i just found it, but its sooooooooooooooo confusing
and u have to code alot. why cant Microsoft just make it simple?

I like that ship too, I wouldn't mind doing that for you if you told me where to get the music, I never saw the movie. But I love the show.
It's really not a huge task.

Hm, i wonder if i could make a cute little program that displays a ship for you.

Shouldn't be too hard, anyone want it?

EDIT: By that i mean, it produces a THN file, in a mod, that when activated changes the background animation to showing off your ship

EDIT2: Hell, i could let you choose the background music too, wouldn't be hard.

Edited by - Blackhole2001 on 11/22/2005 5:14:27 PM

Blackhole if you can make a prog that creates Thn's for intros, rooms and cut scenes then HELL YES. Thn's are the one part of FL that I hate as I've had to make one or two new ones for Rebalance and I hate doing them, they make my brain hurt.

Rebalance 3.5 Dev. Team
rebalance.blue-ion.net

Er, no, i just meant one for ships. You know, you type in the ships name, and POOFTA, it makes a mod with a fully working main menu background with your ship in it.

And custom music if you want it.

How's about one that will show any number of ships... have a series of lights go from zero light to full for a few seconds, showing a given ship rotating ... then fade to black, replace the ship with a new one?

Not a terribly hard thing to code, THN-wise, and more impressive than just having a ship on-screen.

If you want to see an example THN that will display a row of ships moving past the camera, take a look at Warriors of the Sky, Beta 1. I stole/modified a THN from Free Worlds to make that one work...

I was originally only going to do the Ship "FireFly" but now I’ve got the FF fever and are thinking of making a full on FF MOD. Correct to the FF universe.

Here’s what I’ve been thinking it could have.

Remember CORRECT to the FireFly universe:

* No shields.
* Only some ships have weps, and pretty basic ones at that. (Maybe two weapon types: Flak Cannon and Missiles)
* Only 1 system (but Huge)
* No Nanno Bots/Shield Bats.
* Less ship encounters in outer territories, more in inner worlds.
* Less Gun play and more trade based.
* LARGER planets/suns.
* Unique scanners/engines for the different ships.
* No trade lanes/Jump gates/jump holes (Free flight only).
* Not all ships would have "Starburst" ie. Cruise (I’m thinking Starburst would be at 1500k and take 1:30 to charge & max engine power 200k)
* No thrusters (Cept fast burn rocket shuttle)
* All Known FF Planets/Bases/Stations.
* Less Quick fights. (More evasive action/Stronger ship hulls/Less weapon re-fire rate.)
* More personalized ship combat. (No more massive fighter groups of 20 fighters, 3 Max/But heaps Tougher to kill)
* Lots of unsolved conspiracies (ie. Blue Sun corp.)
* Derelict ships/destroyed bases/debris.
* All civilians in the outer territories are scavengers. (They will turn on you to get your cargo)
* Armor/Sensor upgrades (Especially sensors, cause i you can see bad guys comming and they can’t see you. You can get away)
* Reps alot Harder to repair.
* Lower Class Pirates may disengage from combat if u kill there leader.
* Reavers (on outer rim territories & that Planet of death)
* All Know FF commodities.
* All Know FF fractions.
* Custom Rumors (again blue sun/ earth that was etc.)
* Custom weps (NOT MANY)

If Possible

* Custom Main Menu with FF animation in the BG playing the FF theme song.
* VTOL Engines working, with: speed “0” = engines facing down.
* Cry Baby. Bought as an expensive commodity and jettisoned to attract near by AI ships.

* Ships *

FireFly transport
FireFly Shuttle (I was thinking that this would be the ship that you would start off in)
Alliance Gunship
ASREV (Alliance Short Range Enforcement Vessel)
Bounty Hunter ship
Reaver Corvette
Reaver Cruiser
Reaver FireFly
Alliance Cruiser
Large Cargo ship (Civilian)
Fast burn Rocket Shuttle
Repair ship
Luxury Liner

Thats about all i can think of right now.

If you have any comments or corrections to my list, or think that you could help make this MOD a Reality then post here or email me.

Godzero.

In response to Argh, yes, thats what i was planning, except it was just going to be the Scrolling Ships method, maybe with a little background eye candy. Nothing fancy.