The Random Ship Recipe Maker

Marasmusine · Post by **Marasmusine** » Fri Aug 01, 2008 1:16 am

I'm going by the scale of BFs default ships here, but the patrol craft this has been generating for me have been the size of battleships (6 to 8 pieces) - compared to the 2-piece patrol craft in the game.

Droid · Post by **Droid** » Fri Aug 01, 2008 1:31 am

Well, there's not much you can generate with 2 pieces, now is there?
Nor is there much room for...anything.

Da_Higg · Post by **Da_Higg** » Fri Aug 01, 2008 2:31 am

Droid wrote:Well, there's not much you can generate with 2 pieces, now is there?
Nor is there much room for...anything.

The Zelus disagrees.

Droid · Post by **Droid** » Fri Aug 01, 2008 7:12 am

I meant, how much design can youg et with 2 pieces. anyone can make a Zelus.

Marasmusine · Post by **Marasmusine** » Fri Aug 01, 2008 7:27 am

I'm just saying that, on the scale of the default game, patrol craft are constructed from a core and two pieces, whilst destroyers (I know, I said "battleships" above; my bad) have 4 to 6 pieces.

There's lots you can do with two pieces. Design limitations often give pleasing results (look at some Doom 2-sector levels, for example)

Droid · Post by **Droid** » Fri Aug 01, 2008 7:48 am

Being too restrictive often produces bad results. Please use two section 8's and not make anything generic. (its impossible)

Namigob · Post by **Namigob** » Fri Aug 01, 2008 12:19 pm

Marasmusine:
I'm going by the scale of BFs default ships here, but the patrol craft this has been generating for me have been the size of battleships (6 to 8 pieces) - compared to the 2-piece patrol craft in the game.

I never intended the ships of any class from the recipe maker to match those in the actual game.

You probably don't need a recipe for a two section ship.

ok, I've figured out how I want to do thrusters. The user now has an option
to use thrusters or not. You can now download version 5.0 and give it a try.

Show me your random ships!
I'll be posting some of mine soon.

Any constructive thoughts or ideas about the recipe maker are welcome.

AutoHummer · Post by **AutoHummer** » Fri Aug 01, 2008 1:54 pm

Something's not right......

Error log timestamp Friday 08/01/08 01:53:56 PM

Runtime error: index: 0 is outside of collection bounds

Error(Exception)>>defaultAction
Error(Exception)>>activateHandler: <anUndefinedObject>
Error(Exception)>>handle
Error(Exception)>>signal
Error class(Exception class)>>signal: <'index: 0 is outside ...'>
OrderedCollection(Object)>>error: <'index: 0 is outside ...'>
OrderedCollection(IndexedCollection)>>errorInBounds: <0>
OrderedCollection>>at: <0> put: <anOrderedCollection>
BasicOnDemandCompiler class>>readTknFile: <aMixedFileStream> callingProgram: <anUndefinedObject> commandLine: <Basic>>start
Message>>perform
NotificationManager>>empty
NotificationManager>>runPendingEvents
NotificationManager>>runEventLoop
Message>>perform
Message>>evaluate
Process>>safelyEvaluate: <aMessage>
Process>>evaluate: <aMessage>

Marasmusine · Post by **Marasmusine** » Fri Aug 01, 2008 5:31 pm

Namigob wrote: I never intended the ships of any class from the recipe maker to match those in the actual game.

That's fair enough, then.

Namigob · Post by **Namigob** » Sat Aug 02, 2008 1:25 am

AutoHummer: Something's not right......

I'm assuming you get the error immediately upon opening the program.
I really have no idea what could be wrong.
What windows operating system do you use?
I have only tested this on windows XP.

Namigob · Post by **Namigob** » Sat Aug 02, 2008 1:41 pm

Here are some of my random ships:

A collection of .shp files I made from random recipes.
http://www.mediafire.com/?fzntjyw5nfy

and pictures:

AutoHummer · Post by **AutoHummer** » Sat Aug 02, 2008 1:48 pm

Namigob wrote:
AutoHummer: Something's not right......
I'm assuming you get the error immediately upon opening the program.
I really have no idea what could be wrong.
What windows operating system do you use?
I have only tested this on windows XP.

Windows XP for me,too.
I use a quad-core CPU,2GB RAM nvidia XFX Graphics card(Does it matter?

)
and yes,I get this error immediately upon opening the program.