(outdated) Guide of random shipmaking stuff you want to know
Posted: Wed Jul 09, 2008 10:09 am
This is a guide to random things I myself and others have learned over the course of making ships that other people may want to know, or that will help the budding ship builder circumvent certain issues and things like that.
Do not re-post things other have said in this thread. In this case redundancy is unnecessary and I will probably beat the hell out of you for it. If it's been posted elseware on the forums though and not here, that is acceptable.
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1. Plasma Torpedoes do not recolor well so don't try with them.
2. Do not clone or mirror Do-dads it makes the game offset them when it loads the ship and that doesn't look at all pretty.
3. In order to recolor point beams, you must set the color in the "Outer color" option rather then the bullet color. The latter causes the game to crash.
4. Aegis glow is determined by both the color of the section and the glow. Try playing with both to get some interesting effects.
5. Make sure when your setting speed settings on a thruster to put it in decimals. (Unless of course you have hax speed) I made the stupid mistake of not doing that and it caused just one thruster to grind a ship to a screeching halt.
6 Custom pallet colors don't work. Either you'll have to remember the RGB values or just use the stock colors available for custom coloring.
7. When you set core health. The larger your ship is the more health sections farthest out of the core lose. It's not a noticeable amount but it might be wise to Custom HP your ablatives.
8. Larger map sizes actually generate more lag then smaller ones even with nothing on them. Testing your ship against another would be best on a smaller map.
9. When mirroring Frosch Guns or GluonBolters, certain areas for their data are set to "0" on the mirrored copy. On the Frosch Gun, the Bullet Speed is set zero, and on the GluonBolter it is Bullet Turning. To fix this simply click the "Edit" tab in the Shipmaker, click on the mirrored module, and change the entry for Bullet Speed or Bullet Turning to "-1" for its default setting. Also the two Fabricator modules have their Color setting set to black when they're mirrored. Thrusters sometimes also do it.
10. Some sections will offset when mirrored. Check your work.
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If anyone wants to add to this list. Post it and I'll add it. If anyone wants to prove any of these otherwise false. Do the same, I'll look it over, and remove it from the list if your correct.
Do not re-post things other have said in this thread. In this case redundancy is unnecessary and I will probably beat the hell out of you for it. If it's been posted elseware on the forums though and not here, that is acceptable.
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1. Plasma Torpedoes do not recolor well so don't try with them.
2. Do not clone or mirror Do-dads it makes the game offset them when it loads the ship and that doesn't look at all pretty.
3. In order to recolor point beams, you must set the color in the "Outer color" option rather then the bullet color. The latter causes the game to crash.
4. Aegis glow is determined by both the color of the section and the glow. Try playing with both to get some interesting effects.
5. Make sure when your setting speed settings on a thruster to put it in decimals. (Unless of course you have hax speed) I made the stupid mistake of not doing that and it caused just one thruster to grind a ship to a screeching halt.
6 Custom pallet colors don't work. Either you'll have to remember the RGB values or just use the stock colors available for custom coloring.
7. When you set core health. The larger your ship is the more health sections farthest out of the core lose. It's not a noticeable amount but it might be wise to Custom HP your ablatives.
8. Larger map sizes actually generate more lag then smaller ones even with nothing on them. Testing your ship against another would be best on a smaller map.
9. When mirroring Frosch Guns or GluonBolters, certain areas for their data are set to "0" on the mirrored copy. On the Frosch Gun, the Bullet Speed is set zero, and on the GluonBolter it is Bullet Turning. To fix this simply click the "Edit" tab in the Shipmaker, click on the mirrored module, and change the entry for Bullet Speed or Bullet Turning to "-1" for its default setting. Also the two Fabricator modules have their Color setting set to black when they're mirrored. Thrusters sometimes also do it.
10. Some sections will offset when mirrored. Check your work.
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If anyone wants to add to this list. Post it and I'll add it. If anyone wants to prove any of these otherwise false. Do the same, I'll look it over, and remove it from the list if your correct.
