Woudn't it be nice if we had like a space garage similar to a space station that could change the skins of our ships? Or even a space station itself. I would like to give a new skin to my cobra, for example, flames or emblems ( I would write SR rules on mine hehe)
Someway so that our ships were unique?? I dont think changing the skin is so dificult. Even a whole guild could use one skin like a flag.
What do you think?
Woudn't it be nice?
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shorty38201
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It's already possible to add decals to ships. Mit's written the code, and I've done the models... I'm not sure if it's in the current install, though.
The idea is, you'll have little customisable symbols on the wings etc. They're not great (that's my fault, although in my defence I had no idea we'd be able to add decals when I was building the ships). And a couple of models won't have decals to start with - in particular, the pirate ship, because I didn't build it and it isn't mapped properly (I'm working on an update for that).
So yeh... it won't be total customisation, but you'll at least have some way of personalising your ships for guilds, player alliances etc... soon I think. I'm seeing mit later today, I'll see if he can tell me what the plan is to launch this stuff.
Changing the colour in that kind of dynamic way would be great, wouldn't it? But we can't do that yet. I seem to recall a drunken conversation I had with mit about whether the decal functionality could be expanded that way... so you had a bitmap with your logo on it, and then maybe a couple of strips of colour that were blended with bits of your ship. That would need a fair amount of coding work and it'd require me to rebuild all the models, so don't hold yer breath.
More likely would be the ability to choose ship skins when you buy them, but again... that ain't written yet (it's a common request on worlds too). All in good* time.... It'd make the ship texturing process longer too.
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The idea is, you'll have little customisable symbols on the wings etc. They're not great (that's my fault, although in my defence I had no idea we'd be able to add decals when I was building the ships). And a couple of models won't have decals to start with - in particular, the pirate ship, because I didn't build it and it isn't mapped properly (I'm working on an update for that).
So yeh... it won't be total customisation, but you'll at least have some way of personalising your ships for guilds, player alliances etc... soon I think. I'm seeing mit later today, I'll see if he can tell me what the plan is to launch this stuff.
Changing the colour in that kind of dynamic way would be great, wouldn't it? But we can't do that yet. I seem to recall a drunken conversation I had with mit about whether the decal functionality could be expanded that way... so you had a bitmap with your logo on it, and then maybe a couple of strips of colour that were blended with bits of your ship. That would need a fair amount of coding work and it'd require me to rebuild all the models, so don't hold yer breath.
More likely would be the ability to choose ship skins when you buy them, but again... that ain't written yet (it's a common request on worlds too). All in good* time.... It'd make the ship texturing process longer too.
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* between ten minutes and ten years
i remember when i first started playing, you could type .settexture or whatever to change the texture of vehicle 1. which was the tractor at the time. and the change wasn't just client side, everybody else would see it.
i'm pretty sure i asked why it was removed loooong ago and i'm pretty sure there was a reason. but, why not reimpliment it? it'd be nice if it were possible for all vehicles on worlds and in space.
for worlds, maybe world owners could just select multiple textures to use with the one model. theres already a garage type of building, maybe it could be programmed with menu options such as Repair Vehicle and Repaint Vehicle (to change its texture)
i'm pretty sure i asked why it was removed loooong ago and i'm pretty sure there was a reason. but, why not reimpliment it? it'd be nice if it were possible for all vehicles on worlds and in space.
for worlds, maybe world owners could just select multiple textures to use with the one model. theres already a garage type of building, maybe it could be programmed with menu options such as Repair Vehicle and Repaint Vehicle (to change its texture)