[Tool] Superluminal 2.2.1 - FTL Ship Editor

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Lecic
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Re: [Tool] Superluminal 2.1.2b - FTL Ship Editor

Postby Lecic » Tue Nov 08, 2016 10:24 pm

I've been having some problems with one of my ships showing up exclusively as a black box. I posted it on the ftl subreddit and got some help (https://www.reddit.com/r/ftlgame/commen ... w_up_as_a/) but it wasn't a real fix. Can anyone here help? (Link contains images and the FTL file)
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Re: [Tool] Superluminal 2.1.2b - FTL Ship Editor

Postby meklozz » Tue Nov 08, 2016 10:54 pm

Lecic wrote:I've been having some problems with one of my ships showing up exclusively as a black box. I posted it on the ftl subreddit and got some help (https://www.reddit.com/r/ftlgame/commen ... w_up_as_a/) but it wasn't a real fix. Can anyone here help? (Link contains images and the FTL file)

Your images need to be in 32-bit format (in GIMP, Image > Mode > RGB to force it to save as such). Shields and floor are already, which is why they show up.
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Re: [Tool] Superluminal 2.1.2b - FTL Ship Editor

Postby BBTRekhyt » Tue Nov 29, 2016 7:57 am

Hello!

I had been working on a big mod project in Superluminal 1 for about 6 months before complete lack of free time pulled me away from it for about 2 years. T_T

I wanted to try to pick it back up and decided to try out Superluminal 2, which is really slick. Only issue I'm having with it right now is that it seems to rotate all my glow images! Since I don't have PS on this machine, I'd really rather not have to go into the .pngs, rotate them, then somehow clear the white bg. Is there a way to rotate the glows that I'm not seeing? :O

Thanks!
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Re: [Tool] Superluminal 2.1.2b - FTL Ship Editor

Postby Jaded Wrath » Tue Nov 29, 2016 8:44 am

BBTRekhyt wrote:Hello!

I had been working on a big mod project in Superluminal 1 for about 6 months before complete lack of free time pulled me away from it for about 2 years. T_T

I wanted to try to pick it back up and decided to try out Superluminal 2, which is really slick. Only issue I'm having with it right now is that it seems to rotate all my glow images! Since I don't have PS on this machine, I'd really rather not have to go into the .pngs, rotate them, then somehow clear the white bg. Is there a way to rotate the glows that I'm not seeing? :O

Thanks!


I have a similar problem but with flak projectiles
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Re: [Tool] Superluminal 2.1.2b - FTL Ship Editor

Postby BBTRekhyt » Tue Nov 29, 2016 10:25 am

Jaded Wrath wrote:
BBTRekhyt wrote:Hello!

I had been working on a big mod project in Superluminal 1 for about 6 months before complete lack of free time pulled me away from it for about 2 years. T_T

I wanted to try to pick it back up and decided to try out Superluminal 2, which is really slick. Only issue I'm having with it right now is that it seems to rotate all my glow images! Since I don't have PS on this machine, I'd really rather not have to go into the .pngs, rotate them, then somehow clear the white bg. Is there a way to rotate the glows that I'm not seeing? :O

Thanks!


I have a similar problem but with flak projectiles


Okay cool, I'm glad it's not just me. XD After playing around with it a bit more, I'm pretty sure the only thing to do is just turn the whole damn thing sideways in photoshop, unless paint has a way to transparent the bg.
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Re: [Tool] Superluminal 2.1.2b - FTL Ship Editor

Postby kartoFlane » Tue Nov 29, 2016 3:13 pm

@BBTRekhyt
If you mean glow images for crew stations, the images for those always need to face up (north) in order to show up correctly in the game.
You can turn the stations to face different directions using the Station Placement Tool (shortcut F by default), and shift-clicking on the room the station is placed in. The purple rectangle indicates the real direction the crew will face when manning that system (so if your glow image indicates a different direction, you know that the glow image is messed up).
For fine adjustments of the glow image (so that it lines up with the computer in the room graphic), you'll need to use the Manipulation Tool (Q), and drag the glow itself (it's a selectable element). You can also use arrow keys to nudge it by 1 pixel.

Unless you mean something else completely...

@Jaded Wrath
That's weird, since if I recall correctly, the editor doesn't even touch projectile graphics -- it merely copies the files as-is. So it's more likely that the error is somewhere in the weapon blueprint. Or that the game spawns all flak projectiles with a randomized rotation (or inherited from the weapon mount).
Superluminal2 - a ship editor for FTL
BBTRekhyt
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Re: [Tool] Superluminal 2.1.2b - FTL Ship Editor

Postby BBTRekhyt » Tue Nov 29, 2016 5:45 pm

kartoFlane wrote:@BBTRekhyt
If you mean glow images for crew stations, the images for those always need to face up (north) in order to show up correctly in the game.
You can turn the stations to face different directions using the Station Placement Tool (shortcut F by default), and shift-clicking on the room the station is placed in. The purple rectangle indicates the real direction the crew will face when manning that system (so if your glow image indicates a different direction, you know that the glow image is messed up).
For fine adjustments of the glow image (so that it lines up with the computer in the room graphic), you'll need to use the Manipulation Tool (Q), and drag the glow itself (it's a selectable element). You can also use arrow keys to nudge it by 1 pixel.

Unless you mean something else completely...

@Jaded Wrath
That's weird, since if I recall correctly, the editor doesn't even touch projectile graphics -- it merely copies the files as-is. So it's more likely that the error is somewhere in the weapon blueprint. Or that the game spawns all flak projectiles with a randomized rotation (or inherited from the weapon mount).


Hmm. I didn't realize that was the case. They didn't need to with SL1, because I had this particular ship functioning correctly in-game. The main reason I had to start over was that I changed computers, so they lost their image pathing. XD

I had made all custom room and glow images for this mod, so I had made the glows to overlay with the consoles in the same orientation. It wouldn't have occurred to me to not have them oriented in the same direction. O_o If they have to face north though, I guess I'll have to go back and edit every single glow. Thanks!
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Re: [Tool] Superluminal 2.1.2b - FTL Ship Editor

Postby Jaded Wrath » Wed Nov 30, 2016 6:08 am

kartoFlane wrote:@BBTRekhyt@Jaded Wrath
That's weird, since if I recall correctly, the editor doesn't even touch projectile graphics -- it merely copies the files as-is. So it's more likely that the error is somewhere in the weapon blueprint. Or that the game spawns all flak projectiles with a randomized rotation (or inherited from the weapon mount).

Yeah the game rotates all flak projectiles 90 deg on spawn, I can't remember which direction though.
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Re: [Tool] Superluminal 2.1.2b - FTL Ship Editor

Postby crimsonfluf » Sun Dec 18, 2016 6:28 pm

Hi guys, hope y'all are still active.

So I have what's probably a super basic problem, but since I'm extremely new to mods I have no idea where I'm going sideways. So hopefully someone can help me out.
I have two new ship mods saved as .ftl on my desktop, one replaces the PLAYER_SHIP_HARD and the second is set to replace the PLAYER_SHIP_HARD2.

Now I can mod these separately into the game without problem with slipstream, and they will replace the desired ship. But as soon as I try and mod both into the game, one ship will load fine, while the other will be completely messed up. Different hull image (taken from the other, properly loaded ship), different room layouts (not taken from the other ship, seemingly random).

I have no idea what's going on.

So I find this to be a problem too if I try and load them into superluminal2. I can open mod management and load one of the mods and then find it without fail in it's respective slot (either under PLAYER_SHIP_HARD or PLAYER_SHIP_HARD2). When I load them separately everything is hunky dory.
But if I try and mod management both mods together, then only one of them will load correctly while the other is completely bunked. But I do find them in their respective slots.

I thought maybe I need to load one of the mods into the game file's database, and then make a ship mod to load after... I tried that, but still no dice.
I also thought that maybe it has something to do with the the save filing system asking for what mod to couple with the save file? (include mods from...) But I don't really know what that does, so I never used it.



TL/DR
What do I need to do to get two ship mods into the game at the same time? I have two .ftl files in my mods folder, but can only load one at a time correctly. Any help would be immensely helpful. Thanks!
If this problem has been addressed before, I apologize. I read the first 25 pages of this thread without either understanding the answer, or simply not seeing it.
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Re: [Tool] Superluminal 2.1.2b - FTL Ship Editor

Postby meklozz » Sun Dec 18, 2016 6:46 pm

The same place you set the ship to be replaced, there should be a layout filename and an image namespace, try setting them to something unique for each ship.