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Modding, Mission Design, and Coding => The Modding Workshop => Topic started by: Akalabeth Angel on December 11, 2003, 03:37:14 pm

Title: Making an Invisible Ship?
Post by: Akalabeth Angel on December 11, 2003, 03:37:14 pm
Hey, I wanted to make a ship completely invisible in the game (FS2 vanilla). How would I accomplish this if at all? Is there a certain colour in the maps that would be transparent?
Title: Making an Invisible Ship?
Post by: Hippo on December 11, 2003, 03:44:01 pm
0, 255, 0 i belive... though i don't know if fs vanillia supports it though...
Title: Making an Invisible Ship?
Post by: karajorma on December 11, 2003, 03:44:08 pm
Paint it with a texture called invisible.bmp and everything will be invisible. :D

(The small i may be important. I seem to remember it not working when I tried using Invisible.bmp)

If there's only a couple of these ships appearing at a time texturing it normally and then using the texture replacing options in FRED2 might be a better option cause then you could have visible ships of the same class too :D
Title: Making an Invisible Ship?
Post by: Akalabeth Angel on December 11, 2003, 06:31:09 pm
Okay, so I make a bmp that only has colour 0,255,0 and name it invisible.bmp and use it to texture the whole ship? I'm not sure if that smilie of yours means you're making a joke or not :)
Title: Making an Invisible Ship?
Post by: Flipside on December 11, 2003, 06:38:02 pm
No, it's two seperate solutions. Either use a pure green texture map, or simply use invisible.bmp as the name of the texture of your ship, but don't make one, FS2 will render it invisible (?) automatically ;)
Title: Making an Invisible Ship?
Post by: karajorma on December 11, 2003, 06:44:00 pm
As flipside says you have two choices. A pure green texture with any name you choose or texture the ship with a map called invisible.bmp but DO NOT add an invisible.pcx file to your FS2 folder like you would with any other custom texture.