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Modding, Mission Design, and Coding => The FRED Workshop => Topic started by: Govenator on August 05, 2014, 03:14:57 pm

Title: Question about ship name on side of ship
Post by: Govenator on August 05, 2014, 03:14:57 pm

Does anyone know how to put the name of the ship on the side of the ship?  For example in FS1 ST the GTD Krios is written on the side of the Orion destroyer.

Can you please tell me as I cannot find any info out there on this and have been looking for a while.   :confused:

Thanks!

Title: Re: Question about ship name on side of ship
Post by: Parias on August 05, 2014, 03:29:58 pm

Freespace Wiki to the rescue!

I believe this article (http://www.hard-light.net/wiki/index.php/Texture_Replacement) should help get you started (and links to an additional tutorial specific to the Orion).

To be clear though, are you asking how to make and implement a completely new name plate, or just make an existing name plate (i.e. Krios) appear for a particular ship?

Title: Re: Question about ship name on side of ship
Post by: Govenator on August 05, 2014, 03:48:40 pm

I was trying to implement a completely new name plate.  I have see a lot of different ones so I assumed it was not that difficult (for people who know what they are doing). 

Thanks for the article I'll take a look at it now :)

Title: Re: Question about ship name on side of ship
Post by: Govenator on August 07, 2014, 07:59:40 pm

Ok so I have made my nameplates and I'm ready to put them on the ships.  Every time I try to replace the stock "capital01-01" with my new nameplate fred says "FRED was unable to find 1 file: orion   continue anyways? yes or no".  I click yes and Fred freezes.  Ive tried doing searches on my computer for where the stock ship textures are and I cannot find them.  Any ideas on where to place my nameplates?  Or am I missing some steps?

Title: Re: Question about ship name on side of ship
Post by: niffiwan on August 07, 2014, 08:49:53 pm

Did you put your new nameplate file into data/maps? 

Also, the stock nameplates are inside VP files, you'll need to open them and maybe extract them in order to view/search them.

Title: Re: Question about ship name on side of ship
Post by: procdrone on August 08, 2014, 09:09:37 am

If you are using 3.7.2 RC3, I am aware that texture changing can be buggy, and Fred can CTD. Good to use older versions to put the nameplates in.

Moreso, your nameplate file has to be in your data->maps folder, the nameplate file has to be of specific format, .png, .jpg, .dds, those of which I remember at this point.

Title: Re: Question about ship name on side of ship
Post by: The E on August 08, 2014, 10:04:36 am

Quote from: TheHound on August 08, 2014, 09:09:37 am

If you are using 3.7.2 RC3, I am aware that texture changing can be buggy, and Fred can CTD. Good to use older versions to put the nameplates in.

Moreso, your nameplate file has to be in your data->maps folder, the nameplate file has to be of specific format, .png, .jpg, .dds, those of which I remember at this point.

It has to be png, tga, or dds. Never use JPEG for textures.

Title: Re: Question about ship name on side of ship
Post by: procdrone on August 08, 2014, 12:45:36 pm

Yea, forgot to mention. JPEG, or JPG, even if the game handles it, it is really poor choice, no alpha channel, bad format. You do want your nameplates to be transparent after all (Just the Ships name, not the Ship's name and ALL the white/black background with it.)

Title: Re: Question about ship name on side of ship
Post by: Govenator on August 08, 2014, 06:12:20 pm

I have tried putting them in my data/maps folder but FRED still says the same thing.  Also I did it with the png format and it still didn't work.  The FRED I'm using is 3.7.1.  I guess I'll try an older one and see what happens