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Elvish Pillager
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Modding, looking for ways to steal other ships' graphics
« on: February 25, 2007, 08:17:10 pm »

Frequently while writing my mod, I have had the idea of (or had the idea suggested to me of) giving one ship weapons from another ship, e.g. "Let's take the Supox Blade, but give it Fusion Blasts like the Ur-Quan Dreadnought!" (or whatever.)

In the code, graphics seem tied to the particular ship. It's relatively simple to use the opponent's graphics for your weapons, but I'm looking for a way to use graphics from an arbitrary ship that isn't necessarily in the arena, and hopefully without using any egregious hacks either.

Would people who know the code better care to lend ideas on how this can or can't be done?


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Re: Modding, looking for ways to steal other ships' graphics
« Reply #1 on: February 25, 2007, 09:28:07 pm »

UQM doesn't use the .png format.

Also, each ship only has a limited number of frames (unless I'm wrong?) so, supposing I wanted to make a ship that used a lot of different graphics, I still wouldn't be able to.


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Re: Modding, looking for ways to steal other ships' graphics
« Reply #2 on: February 25, 2007, 10:11:05 pm »

Quote from: Elvish Pillager on February 25, 2007, 09:28:07 pm

UQM doesn't use the .png format.

Oh yes it does. For example content/urquan/urquan.big.*.png contains the maximum zoom images for the Kzer-Za fusion blasts and content/urquan/urquan.big the corresponding transparency, size and hotspot information (the content package is a big ZIP file, if you haven't noticed).

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Also, each ship only has a limited number of frames (unless I'm wrong?) so, supposing I wanted to make a ship that used a lot of different graphics, I still wouldn't be able to.

Changing the amount of frames for a graphical object could be difficult. As long as you're just swapping non-animated objects around, you shouldn't have any problems, though.


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Re: Modding, looking for ways to steal other ships' graphics
« Reply #3 on: February 25, 2007, 10:21:36 pm »

Quote from: Novus on February 25, 2007, 10:11:05 pm

Quote from: Elvish Pillager on February 25, 2007, 09:28:07 pm

UQM doesn't use the .png format.

Huh, okay. It's still not a simple matter of replacing them...

I'm looking more for a solution in the code, here. From what I know, that seems more practical.


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Re: Modding, looking for ways to steal other ships' graphics
« Reply #4 on: February 26, 2007, 11:37:48 pm »

Thanks to a good deal of help from fOSSil on #uqm-arena, my problems are now solved. Grin


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