Customisable planet skin

Post by **Mit** » Wed Mar 09, 2005 9:07 pm

In the next version (0.44.0) i'll be taking advantage of devi's lovely new http downloader stuff to have all the planet textures (i.e. the ones seen in space) unique and stored in a central repository on gameislands.net. (do i hear the distant sound of hedge muttering 'ohh... finally...'? :] )

Soo.. if you've got a particular texture you'd like to use for your planet, link it here or drop it to me on email. If you want to try out your texture first, try overwriting Data\Space\biplaneworld.jpg and seeing what it looks like on biplaneworld.

leigon · Post by **leigon** » Thu Mar 10, 2005 12:35 pm

its like you read my mind or something

wait a min are you storking me

lol j/k thanks for this mod mate

Post by **Mit** » Wed May 25, 2005 7:16 pm

bump for the new world owners...

Post by **Mit** » Wed May 25, 2005 8:32 pm

if you've got a particular texture you'd like to use for your planet, link it here or drop it to me on email.

:]
Pink? ptshhhh!

zaroba · Post by **zaroba** » Wed May 25, 2005 9:51 pm

it would be nice if the world could be set to send it from the hosting pc.
then if the world gets a reset and changes alot, the texture could also be changed to reflect the new design.

or just have it possible for world owners to upload the pics

StaticExtasy · Post by **StaticExtasy** » Wed May 25, 2005 10:09 pm

zaroba wrote:it would be nice if the world could be set to send it from the hosting pc.
then if the world gets a reset and changes alot, the texture could also be changed to reflect the new design.

or just have it possible for world owners to upload the pics

Yea that'd be nice, I was just thinking that when i read the topic the first time.

GK8000 · Post by **GK8000** » Wed Jul 27, 2005 4:31 am

(uber bumpage) I got a planet skin for drellis posted at toum.t35.com/drellis.jpg

Post by **Mit** » Wed Jul 27, 2005 12:19 pm

404, gk

GK8000 · Post by **GK8000** » Wed Jul 27, 2005 6:55 pm

all right then, dropped it to your e-mail (paint/free hosting problems

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flametard · Post by **flametard** » Sat Oct 06, 2007 8:01 pm

hi, my planet texture is almost ready. what is the maximum size you will allow it to be?

Damon · Post by **Damon** » Thu Nov 01, 2007 2:39 am

I was just fooling around with some graphics stuff I have. I followed the directions above (putting it in as biplaneworld.jpg), both in the Data/Space and Data/Space/Planets folder, and neither would work to show over the usual biplaneworld skin.

I figure it's got something to do with the system being reconfigured a bit in later patches/releases. I'm going to try a few things, see what happens.. but anyway, the question... what would be the best way to test a new skin without having to load a whole world? Basically, want to overwrite one to test new graphics (hopefully for use with unknown planets or somesuch), with what I can do.

Damon · Post by **Damon** » Thu Nov 01, 2007 6:23 am

Okay, figured out the problem and now doing some tinkering, trying different sizes and such. Some things are coming out a bit pixelated, but I like some of the things I can do. Now I'm just curious... is there some way to have other "stock" images for the Unknown planets? Being a trader, it'd be nice to have ones that don't all look like the moon.

Is it possible to have a few (like, several) different skins for the unknown worlds? I could do a few without much trouble and they won't be really huge for people to have to load. Thoughts?

Gavinbaisk · Post by **Gavinbaisk** » Thu Nov 01, 2007 11:27 pm

Not at the moment for different looks of unknown planets so far, at least that's what i can tell. Although i can imagine that defining planet's to be textured due to what they are (i.e. lifeless, private military etc) would be possible with a little editting of the game. But you would still be getting repeats of the same planet if you had 2 of the same planets.

Damon · Post by **Damon** » Thu Nov 01, 2007 11:34 pm

Even if there were only two different types, it gives some variety. There are planets with rings, even unnamed ones. There's not a whole lot else to do when you're on those long cargo hauls to a planet besides think up stuff.

VDZ · Post by **VDZ** » Fri Nov 02, 2007 6:45 pm

You could post this idea in the feature requests forum.

Post by **Fooli** » Fri Nov 02, 2007 6:56 pm

It's all good, but the ability to have your own planet skin (if it's of a reasonable quality and not too silly [cough, Drellis] is one of the benefits of registering a world. Unknowns are supposed to look boring :)
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flametard · Post by **flametard** » Fri Nov 09, 2007 3:52 am

OK! after a 3rd try ive come up with the planet skin i can feel good about uploading (hope you didnt get to the other one i deleted off here the other day, it was pretty aweful)

Ive decided to fall into line with a 1024x512 image.
Please upload it onto planet Xebec whenever you can.

http://img149.imageshack.us/img149/3969/xebecaf8.jpg

thank you

Mishka · Post by **Mishka** » Fri Nov 09, 2007 3:22 pm

do i hear the distant sound of hedge muttering 'ohh... finally...'? :]

Oh... finally!!!