Shipmaking Q&A

Zoid Crusader · Post by **Zoid Crusader** » Sun Mar 15, 2009 7:17 am

What happened to pacman? im serious though where is he now? you know that laser that looked like pacman?

EDIT

question 2 out of no where my sprites are becoming the ? sprite when i put them in why is this happening? the sprites worked fine before please help

Sponge · Post by **Sponge** » Sun Mar 15, 2009 11:09 am

Maybe if you actually took a few more seconds to form coherent sentences, people may actually be able to figure out what the fuck you're talking about. Bad grammar, or in your case, no grammar, makes everyone think you're an idiot. Now you have to double the time you've spent by making a clarifying post. If you had done it right your first try, you probably would have saved yourself time. Good job, dumbass.

Hieda no Akyu · Post by **Hieda no Akyu** » Sun Mar 15, 2009 11:23 am

Zoid Crusader wrote:Out of nowhere my sprites are becoming a '?' sprite, when I add them. Why is this happening? They worked fine before. Please help!

Do you still have the sprites in the same folder they were in? Do they even still exist?

Also, grammar fix.

Zoid Crusader · Post by **Zoid Crusader** » Sun Mar 15, 2009 8:51 pm

I was wondering what happened to the pacman laser. Like maybe months or maybe even years ago people where modifying laser beams and making them look better.

And Akyu What do you mean? I put the sprites into the battleships forever folder but when i import them they are replaced by the "?" sprite here is the error message:

ERROR in
action number 1
of Other Event: User Defined 0
for object gui_tools:

Missing sprite!

Custom sprites\es\Battleships Forever\AD_Fr011.png

Press ignore to replace with '?' sprite, or abort to terminate Shipmaker.

aceship · Post by **aceship** » Sat Mar 21, 2009 11:59 pm

Can someone explain EriErin's Fin Fannel?
@EriErin : Can I Use your FinFannel

Bad Boy · Post by **Bad Boy** » Fri Mar 27, 2009 7:41 am

I don't know if this is a bug, or if I'm doing something wrong, but no matter what I do, weapon shooting and not shooting triggers are failing.
I noticed this while trying to arm my steampunk ship, and created another ship to test it. They're both inside the rar. In both cases, weapons that start not shooting won't shoot, then when triggered to, they will, however, they won't stop shooting when they should.
Here's the download for the ships, any help would be appreciated.

Sorry for doing this, but I'd love an answer, and I've waited for about a week so...

jwa8402 · Post by **jwa8402** » Fri Mar 27, 2009 9:56 pm

Zoid Crusader, what the hell is up with that file address? Ok, you shouldn't put sprites in the general folder, they should really be where the creator of the pack said to put them, ie: custom sprites/ad/forunner/AD_FR011.
If everyone puts them different places, noones ships will work, or we will all have three different copies of the same sprites. So the answer to your problem is that some sprite or more likely folder has probably gotten renamed or moved . Could be wrong but thats what happened for me.

The pacman laser, as far as I know, was just a amusing modification of a beam weapon made by Chaos Theory and antisocialmunky.
Heres the old link

MasonDonn · Post by **MasonDonn** » Tue Mar 31, 2009 11:38 pm

Hey, everybody, I just discovered the wonder that is BSF a few days ago, and I was trying to make a few ships of my own. Ive read through the guides, but I cannot, for the life of me, change the depth of the main section you start with. Is it even possible? Thanks in advance.

Danny420Dale · Post by **Danny420Dale** » Wed Apr 01, 2009 12:20 am

MasonDonn wrote:Hey, everybody, I just discovered the wonder that is BSF a few days ago, and I was trying to make a few ships of my own. Ive read through the guides, but I cannot, for the life of me, change the depth of the main section you start with. Is it even possible? Thanks in advance.

Changing the depth of the Core?

Short answer: No. Long answer: Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
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MasonDonn · Post by **MasonDonn** » Wed Apr 01, 2009 12:54 am

Thanks for the quick response. Sucks, but I think I'll be able to manage.

Also, Zero Punctuation reference ftw?

Ixranin · Post by **Ixranin** » Wed Apr 01, 2009 3:31 am

You could make the illusion of the core being on top though. Attach a section to the core, and set it to the depth that you want the core to appear at. Then go to the "Stock Misc" folder and drag the matching core sprite into shipmaker and set it as a doodad.

You could shrink the section to 0 if you don't want it in the way too.

Boarthephoenix · Post by **Boarthephoenix** » Mon Apr 13, 2009 4:03 am

Hello, I was wondering if there is a nice idiot proof guide to making rotating turrets? I have been using Mako's Guide to Triggers and so far so good, just a bit confused on the making of turrets. Thanks for any help.

firevikin125 · Post by **firevikin125** » Wed Apr 15, 2009 5:14 am

Is it possable to change the size of the core?

VNilla · Post by **VNilla** » Wed Apr 15, 2009 5:18 am

Use the I and K buttons just like any other section.

nu-ker · Post by **nu-ker** » Sat Apr 18, 2009 12:30 am

Hi I would like someone to link me to a topic on making custom sprites if there is one because i can't find one.

If there isnt such a topic can i plz have info on what program i can use (i know some have been mentioned) i would like to know that can any program that can make gif and png etc will do or is it only certain programs (i would like freeware if possble) and maybe a few tutorials.

Also on the subject of tutorial maybe have a few tutorial videos on youtube etc, just a idea.

Thanks