Something to generate floor 'n' shield images and all that!

[wolfboyft]

I'm in the wrong spot, aren't I.

Anyway, what we really need is something that can generate a shield and floor image using the EXACT rules of in-game player ships, like if you take a look at the floor image around airlock doors.

Simply import a ship, and the perfect floor image for your rooms and doors is created, and if you choose the style, then the perfect shield image for your ship's hull size is created.

Also, can anyone tell me what I would use to edit the hardcoding in a basic enemy ship file to apply a shield image? I use superliminal.

Thank you.

[Metzelmax]

gimp

[wolfboyft]

gimp

[UltraMantis]

No, seriously, it is the right answer. Just do it.

I'm not sure how much i'd respect and care for floor n shield images and all that if it were effortless to make. Floor plans are tedious to make but having templates helps. In the end a mod is a personal creation and represents the thought process and design of it's creator. Push-button garbage is completely uninteresting and has no chance of any creative result. We have seen some very unusual and original floors, cloaks and shields, automation doesn't allow for that.

At worst a floor plan image will take a few hours to make including all the little annoyances, though normally it should be done in about 30 or so minutes, depending how far along you are with the ship design and how likely you are to change things. If the result is really good it's worth it putting even more effort into it.

No disrespect to you mate, just do it.

[wolfboyft]

No, seriously, it is the right answer. Just do it.

I'm not sure how much i'd respect and care for floor n shield images and all that if it were effortless to make. Floor plans are tedious to make but having templates helps. In the end a mod is a personal creation and represents the thought process and design of it's creator. Push-button garbage is completely uninteresting and has no chance of any creative result. We have seen some very unusual and original floors, cloaks and shields, automation doesn't allow for that.

At worst a floor plan image will take a few hours to make including all the little annoyances, though normally it should be done in about 30 or so minutes, depending how far along you are with the ship design and how likely you are to change things. If the result is really good it's worth it putting even more effort into it.

No disrespect to you mate, just do it.

NO, I obey the vanilla rules.

[R4V3-0N]

If you want to be so vanilla then do it the same way the devs do it.

A) go to an art program right now and make your floor image

B) do what they did for enemies, they got none.

If you want to be so robotic in your proses then you should make the program, not trying to be insult you,
but shields is way to easy and there is no firm rules for shields, on some ships it clicks through the hull image, on some ships it barely touches the room itself, some ships they got huge wide area, some ships got there shields wider / longer then needed. etc

[UltraMantis]

Ah but defense drones are less effective the larger the shield ellipse is. So a larger shield is a way of slightly hurting the ship and nerfing it.