[brandx0]

No, these are just things I cooked up for fun.  The actual campaign will be new user friendly

[Turambar]

Random question, will we need knowledge of the EU to understand the SWC plot?

any needed backstory, we will probably provide.

[Turey]

I could have sworn that templated ships did count against the limit, I thought it was clarified as such at one point.

This is not specifically directed at you chief, but I'd like to put to rest the misconception over the feature once and for all:
The templates themselves do not take up entries in the Ships array. Each and every ship, whether it uses a template or not, uses an entry in the Ships array. A templated ship is indistinguishable from a normal ship after the table loading is complete. This is intentional.
Sincerely,
The guy who wrote the damn feature.

This means that if you decide to make an X-Wing template, and then have a separate ship using this template for each paint job, then it'll use up quite a few spots in the Ships array. This would be much better to do through the texture replacement feature, as that's what it was designed for.

EDIT: Just in case it was unclear, Chief was right, GalEmp was wrong.

[brandx0]

Thanks for the clarification Turey.

[maje]

Those look really impressive and far more realistic than the strange blurred out normal maps that I had on the Headhunter.  Btw, if we are doing custom paint jobs, does anyone know what the color scheme for the six Headhunters the Rogues flew during the Invasion of Coruscant?  I figured I may well make those when I get around to it.

[brandx0]

A couple of them are mentioned, I think the one Corran flew was black and gold.

[chief1983]

maje, I don't normally speak for Brand, but he'll _probably_ be ok making the normal maps for the Z-95.  If you just leave most of the detail that's needed to go in them off of the model.  You said you restarted the headhunter right?

[brandx0]

I don't mind doing it if you'd like me to

[Colonol Dekker]

I know this may sound bizarre but would you be able to supply a blank x-wing template with the demo? I think it would be kinda fun to "pimp my starfighter"

[chief1983]

Maybe we should do that with all the starfighters...heh.

[brandx0]

Hehe, maybe

[Colonol Dekker]

Squee!
I'm gonna try to make an Outrider on the side. What scale are you using in case it meets your standards? (Textures may be lacking initially)

[chief1983]

1 FS Meter == 1 real Meter, so whatever size the Wookiee says it should be.  21 meters long.  (Not sure which dimension is 'length' in this case)

[Colonol Dekker]

FreeSpace Z = length = Truespace X i think. I need to double check actually.
Sorry about the tangent.

[chief1983]

I meant, the Wookiee says it's 21 or 22 m long, I don't know what dimension of the ship is supposed to be that distance, as the ship is wider than it is 'long'.  So 21 m is either real length, or the biggest dimension, not sure.

[brandx0]

thats from front to back.  the falcon is 26m from front to back and the ships share the same circular center section

[Titan]

for the Z-95s, only 3 of their color schemes were mentioned: blue and red, green and red, and black and gold.

[Topgun]

hey I got an idea. we should make the player ship use a different texture file then the other ships.
that way we can change our ship without effecting the other ones. we can keep these textures in data\maps so people con find it without using vp view.

then we can all have custom star-fighters! 

[Snail]

I'd just use invisible.pcx and toggle "no_collide_invisible". Then I'd be invincible.

[Titan]

hmmm, that'd be fun, but how do you do that? make it so the ship automatically is retextured to maps/filename, by default it's the normal X-wing map, then on your site you can have different skins, and you just replace the default with the new one. in theory, the players X would change to the new color scheme.

and snail, that is brilliant. cheating without cheating. but cheating eventually gets boring.