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Title: Ship shield icons.
Post by: Commander Zane on January 21, 2007, 02:08:57 pm

Will there be a point where the Loki, Zeus, and Seraphim's shield icons are fixed? Considering that they look like a drunken moron randomly scribbled them together. :rolleyes:

Title: Re: Ship shield icons.
Post by: Turey on January 21, 2007, 02:10:56 pm

What's wrong with them?

Title: Re: Ship shield icons.
Post by: Commander Zane on January 21, 2007, 02:19:06 pm

Taken from the HTL Zeus thread.

Quote from: Vasudan Admiral on January 20, 2007, 08:18:30 pm

(http://webzoom.freewebs.com/twisted-infinities-va/HTL%2DZeus/ZeusCockpitView.jpg)

See the Zeus' shield image? the ship looks like it's dissolving.

Title: Re: Ship shield icons.
Post by: peterc10 on January 23, 2007, 11:07:17 am

open ships.tbl in note pad and in flags of those ships add "generate icon"

Title: Re: Ship shield icons.
Post by: Commander Zane on January 23, 2007, 04:31:49 pm

Could you show me an example of how it should look?

Title: Re: Ship shield icons.
Post by: peterc10 on January 24, 2007, 12:25:41 pm

heres one example

$Flags: ( "player_ship" "bomber" "generate icon" "in tech database" "in tech database multi" )

Title: Re: Ship shield icons.
Post by: haloboy100 on January 24, 2007, 06:08:07 pm

on a unrealeted note since this is possibly solved...

whered you get the 3D cockpit from? is there yet ANOTHER feature of scp that i'm missing out? (first installed the game wrong so i missed EVERYTHING, then forgot about other fetures of scp (3D radar), now this)

Title: Re: Ship shield icons.
Post by: Commander Zane on January 24, 2007, 07:47:07 pm

You have to do something in the ships.tbl to do the cockpit thing. I have absoultely no clue how to make it work and I'm just not going to bother attempting to make it work.

Title: Re: Ship shield icons.
Post by: Herra Tohtori on January 24, 2007, 07:56:19 pm

Three conditions there be for cockpit view:

1. The ship must have a cockpit modelled in it (with one notable exception to rule being GVF Serapis, which looks kinda cool even without actual cockpit modelled into it).

2. The viewpoint must be located so in the model that the cockpit bars and stuff doesn not obscure the forward view and make, you know, playing impossible.

3. The ship table must have a flag "show ship" in table entry. This is easiest to do with modular cockpits-shp.tbm file.


The best ships with cockpit are IMO the Hercules, Herc II, Ares, Perseus (? don't remember how that one looks currently), Ursa (after moving the viewpoint to forward cockpit), Trashman's Athena, this Zeus (excellent work by the way) and I'm assuming that once the Valkyrie model gets done it will be all right. I haven't checked how the Apollo looks like with cockpit view. If I remember correctly, the black opaque HUD panel obstructed the view in it, but since this new cockpit map seems to have proper transparent HUD screen it may be worth a try...

Medusa kinda works too, if you don't mind having somewhat obstructed views, but Pegasos and Erinyes have way too obstructive views forward. AT least the last time I cheked them out.

Title: Re: Ship shield icons.
Post by: haloboy100 on January 24, 2007, 08:07:59 pm

actually the whole cockpit thing i'm just gonna forget about..i remember the cockpit from XWA (particularily the y-wing) that was a hell of a lot annoying.