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Title: Name plates for Battlestars (Insignia)
Post by: IPAndrews on August 09, 2002, 03:12:02 am

I want to give my Colonial Battlestars authentic name plates (Galactica, Pegasus, etc...). Each Battlestar has two name plates. One on the outer side of each hanger. Naturally the name plates have to run in different directions for each side of the ship. Otherwise the name plate one side would read backwards :).

Can I achieve this using Freespace 2 insignia? Is it achievable (through PCS I guess) without resorting to hex editting? I could always create a different .pof for each Battlestar of course, but it's not as elegant a solution as having one model with a changable name.

Title: Name plates for Battlestars (Insignia)
Post by: 15thRampage on August 09, 2002, 07:04:17 am

U doing a battleStar Galactyca Mod???? WOW man u rock

---EDIT---

BTW there are some fighter model shipo of BS galactica in the Starlancer page

http://www.lancersreactor.com i think it if on the in the edtiting seccion custums, maybe this link lead you to there

http://www.lancersreactor.com/t/download/sloverview.asp

Title: Name plates for Battlestars (Insignia)
Post by: KARMA on August 09, 2002, 07:49:15 am

cool site, i knew about its existence but i've never seen their mod pages...
uhm... there aren't a lot of models but what is there seems very well done...
lets see if i can get something for the sw mod:)

edit:
about the insigna question (never gave a look at that) isn't possible to add more than one insigna?

Title: Name plates for Battlestars (Insignia)
Post by: aldo_14 on August 09, 2002, 02:11:33 pm

I don't think so, unfortunately..... insignia only works for fighters or bombers i think, and you can only assign one squad logo per mission, unortunately.... with sourcecode, you could probably do something neat, but not possible with the release code AFAIK.

Title: Name plates for Battlestars (Insignia)
Post by: Killfrenzy on August 10, 2002, 03:38:05 pm

So what about Bastion and Galatea?

Title: Name plates for Battlestars (Insignia)
Post by: LAW ENFORCER on August 10, 2002, 03:40:16 pm

Insignia on all ships (by choice) is quite high up on my list for code in me TC. Not that that has any relavence at all here. SO why did I post? I have absolutly no idea.

Title: Name plates for Battlestars (Insignia)
Post by: aldo_14 on August 10, 2002, 03:44:33 pm

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Originally posted by Killfrenzy
So what about Bastion and Galatea?

Different pofs & tbl entries - which is obviously not very space efficient in terms of a mod.

Title: Name plates for Battlestars (Insignia)
Post by: Killfrenzy on August 10, 2002, 04:05:10 pm

Oh?

How do you include them in a mission?

Title: Name plates for Battlestars (Insignia)
Post by: Black Wolf on August 11, 2002, 05:32:01 am

Take out the no fred tag, then put it back once you've placed them I guess. Or you could type the name in manually - that might work.

Title: Name plates for Battlestars (Insignia)
Post by: IceFire on August 11, 2002, 08:53:41 am

I really want this to be a FRED type feature.

Under a modified ship editor, if the capital ship has a specified nameplate area then you may choose between and a texture map in the /data/maps directory (or accompanying VP file).

Title: Name plates for Battlestars (Insignia)
Post by: Anaz on August 11, 2002, 10:51:13 am

I want to be able to put different insignias on ships.