Shipmaking Q&A
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- Anna
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Re: Shipmaking Q&A
WUT.
I am not touching your ship with a 50 foot pole.
Or talking to you.
Ever.
Ever.
Again.
Why?
Because I tried to load your ship in Shipmaker and discovered that you've apparently dumped almost all your SWA-style sprites into the "Kae_alien" folder, and every weapon sprite into the "Stock Weapons" folder.
So as far as I'm concerned, you are dead to me.
I am not touching your ship with a 50 foot pole.
Or talking to you.
Ever.
Ever.
Again.
Why?
Because I tried to load your ship in Shipmaker and discovered that you've apparently dumped almost all your SWA-style sprites into the "Kae_alien" folder, and every weapon sprite into the "Stock Weapons" folder.
So as far as I'm concerned, you are dead to me.
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- Aralonia
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Re: Shipmaking Q&A
I would honestly have to agree with Anna on this regard. Your ship, quite unfortunately, looks very...Anna wrote:
...questionable.
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Re: Shipmaking Q&A
And you'd know all about ships that look questionable.Aralonia wrote:I would honestly have to agree with Anna on this regard. Your ship, quite unfortunately, looks very...Anna wrote:
...questionable.
But hey, at least it's not purple.
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Re: Shipmaking Q&A
@WUT there is a list of correct sprite names use it!!!, and maybe soon ill motivate myself enough to finish the download links
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Re: Shipmaking Q&A
Im currently building a space station/ star base thing but im having a doodad problem:
The stations outer 4 platforms are connected to a round section in the middle which rotates. As you see on each platform is a red doodad with 0 animation speed to keep it glowing all the time (a DooBlinkFader) but the upper platforms doodad doesn't appear and under platforms doodad is misplaced, but in the shipbuilder they are all well placed, i also noticed this effect only occurs when the plaforms spin, if rotating is disabled the doodads work just fine.... any idea how to solve this problem?
The stations outer 4 platforms are connected to a round section in the middle which rotates. As you see on each platform is a red doodad with 0 animation speed to keep it glowing all the time (a DooBlinkFader) but the upper platforms doodad doesn't appear and under platforms doodad is misplaced, but in the shipbuilder they are all well placed, i also noticed this effect only occurs when the plaforms spin, if rotating is disabled the doodads work just fine.... any idea how to solve this problem?
Hey what does that button do??? *head explodes*
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- Anna
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Re: Shipmaking Q&A
There is no way to solve the problem, doodads don't work on rotating sections.
However, if the intent is for the whole station to rotate, you don't need rotating sections anyway. Just set speed and acceleration to the lowest possible values in Shipmaker, and give the station a turning speed, and the whole thing will spin on the spot. If you only want part of it to spin, and for other parts to remain stationary, then sorry, you're kinda out of luck. Doodads on rotating or moving sections simply don't work.
Hopefully this will be fixed in a future version of BSF.
Assuming we ever get a new version.
However, if the intent is for the whole station to rotate, you don't need rotating sections anyway. Just set speed and acceleration to the lowest possible values in Shipmaker, and give the station a turning speed, and the whole thing will spin on the spot. If you only want part of it to spin, and for other parts to remain stationary, then sorry, you're kinda out of luck. Doodads on rotating or moving sections simply don't work.
Hopefully this will be fixed in a future version of BSF.
Assuming we ever get a new version.
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Re: Shipmaking Q&A
Counter-rotation should work. It should appear to be stationary, but you won't be able to use doodads on it as it's still technically rotating.Anna wrote:If you only want part of it to spin, and for other parts to remain stationary, then sorry, you're kinda out of luck.
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- Son Tzu
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Re: Shipmaking Q&A
Is it possible to manually edit filepaths in a shp file? Please be possible...
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Re: Shipmaking Q&A
Yes it is possible.
Not even death can stop the truly determined.
My goal is to build the most epic thing possible, PERIOD.
I told them, "I want to add to the world."
They said, "Then learn how to use the editor."
I asked, "What is the editor?"
They said, "Life."
My goal is to build the most epic thing possible, PERIOD.
I told them, "I want to add to the world."
They said, "Then learn how to use the editor."
I asked, "What is the editor?"
They said, "Life."
- Son Tzu
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Re: Shipmaking Q&A
I see. Perhaps you'd like to share the knowledge of how to do this with the rest of us...?
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- Anna
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Re: Shipmaking Q&A
Open the .shp file in notepad.
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- Son Tzu
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Re: Shipmaking Q&A
Tried that earlier and it didn't work. Turns out I was doing it wrong . Now to go and edit out those double folders...
Don't worry chaps, they couldn't hit an elephant at this dist
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- Son Tzu
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Re: Shipmaking Q&A
Another question: What's the correct folder name for fraxy sprites? Looked in Preachers list, it's no there. The download makes a folder called "Fraxy sprites", but a ship I tried to download seems to want the folder to be just called "fraxy". Also, I seem to remember a bug fix for the tesla but I can't remember where (I have looked). I have surfaces turned on, and anyway it seems to work in sandbox, it's SM that doesn't seem to like it.
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ERROR in
action number 1
of Key Press Event for S-key Key
for object obj_sidebar:
In script saveShip:
In script SaveShipSB4:
Error in code at line 258:
if l_type == Tesla then
at position 17: Cannot compare arguments.
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ERROR in
action number 1
of Key Press Event for S-key Key
for object obj_sidebar:
In script saveShip:
In script SaveShipSB4:
Error in code at line 258:
if l_type == Tesla then
at position 17: Cannot compare arguments.
Don't worry chaps, they couldn't hit an elephant at this dist
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- Anna
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Re: Shipmaking Q&A
Then the person who made the ship fucked up and put his sprites in the wrong directory. "Fraxy Sprites" is the correct folder name that Kaelis specified when he posted the sections, and that's the name of the folder in the .rar I packaged.but a ship I tried to download seems to want the folder to be just called "fraxy"
I have no idea what's going on with that Tesla error. One of the clever code-monkeys will have to take a look at that, 'cause I got nothin'.
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- Son Tzu
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Re: Shipmaking Q&A
Well, just spent an hour or so looking and can't find what I'm after, so I'll ask my question. Can you change the sprite for the demeter drone? The SM ed2 tab will change the sprite for the weapon (drone launcher), and the bullet (what the drone shoots at targets), but not the drone itself. Which doesn't look right if you're using sw or shn type sections.
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