Change ship appearance - first ideaas
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Change ship appearance - first ideaas
I was thinking about how complicated would it be to change ship appearance...
What kind of problems could we expect?
It should be around the same size, allow for upgrades and whatnot, as a start. what else do you think?
What kind of problems could we expect?
It should be around the same size, allow for upgrades and whatnot, as a start. what else do you think?
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Yes. That would be a fine Skunk replacement.ishmaeltheforsaken wrote:The CE art has one concept that places the cockpit in the center with fins extending forward on either side. It looks really cool and I'd love to see someone try and make it and put it in the game.
Don't get me wrong, I think the Skunk looks fine as is, but that concept was great.
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*-*ishmaeltheforsaken wrote:The CE art has one concept that places the cockpit in the center with fins extending forward on either side. It looks really cool and I'd love to see someone try and make it and put it in the game.
Don't get me wrong, I think the Skunk looks fine as is, but that concept was great.
If someone manages to do this, it'll be a really great mod.
Hopefully a skilled modeler sees this.
http://i.imgur.com/1avo0Lx.png
Seems like the side fins would block the side view from the cockpit.
But given currently immovable PoV that's not a problem anyway.
Seems like the side fins would block the side view from the cockpit.
But given currently immovable PoV that's not a problem anyway.
maybe it CAN be done..Halconnen wrote:http://i.imgur.com/1avo0Lx.png
Seems like the side fins would block the side view from the cockpit.
But given currently immovable PoV that's not a problem anyway.
Halconnen wrote:http://i.imgur.com/1avo0Lx.png
Seems like the side fins would block the side view from the cockpit.
But given currently immovable PoV that's not a problem anyway.
Yeah that's one bad ass ship to be sure. Wonder why they didn't go with it, or if they plan to include in the future through some story element. Anyway, would be nice to see some options, that's for sure.
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Agreed; the front wings aren't needed at all for that design to kick ass.kamikazi1231 wrote:I think the front wings are a little large. But something smaller that has functional parts on it like missile launchers could work. Even without the front wings I like the look of that concept art. Just replace the front wings with missiles or drone bays.
killerog wrote:At the current moment doing any 3d stuff is impossible unless someone has worked out all the file formats. We have to wait for that or ego to help us which i cant see being anytime soon.
well, i already did some model modification.. nothing with the models of the Parts themselves, just exchanging a buy port with a sell port, but it seems the Object parts are linked to each other via xmls, see for example the assets/structures/build_trees/struct_bt_alb_fuelstation.xml
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Ich mache keine S&M-Auftragsarbeiten, aber wenn es fragen gibt wie man etwas umsetzen kann helfe ich gerne weiter
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Ich mache keine S&M-Auftragsarbeiten, aber wenn es fragen gibt wie man etwas umsetzen kann helfe ich gerne weiter
I wont do Script&Mod Request work, but if there are questions how to do something i will GLaDly help
that alone shows how moddable this game is.UniTrader wrote:killerog wrote:At the current moment doing any 3d stuff is impossible unless someone has worked out all the file formats. We have to wait for that or ego to help us which i cant see being anytime soon.
well, i already did some model modification.. nothing with the models of the Parts themselves, just exchanging a buy port with a sell port, but it seems the Object parts are linked to each other via xmls, see for example the assets/structures/build_trees/struct_bt_alb_fuelstation.xml
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No, it just shows that parts can be exchanged...Dark_Ansem wrote:that alone shows how moddable this game is.
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Re: Change ship appearance - first ideaas
Before changing the ship look, you should first be able to see it through an external cam which the game DOESN'T have... So first is to ADD external camera....Dark_Ansem wrote:I was thinking about how complicated would it be to change ship appearance...
What kind of problems could we expect?
It should be around the same size, allow for upgrades and whatnot, as a start. what else do you think?
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Have you been in a drone yet?tn_prvteye wrote:Yeah, the only real aesthetic problem I have with the game is The Skunk...I hate the way it looks. And it's sitting right there every time I dock. So, maybe you'd just have to change THAT model instead. Does the game even render an external model of the Skunk in space?