Need a little help with my ship set

Matrix Games Forums

Forums Register Login Photo Gallery Member List Search Calendars FAQ

My Profile Inbox Address Book My Subscription My Forums Log Out

Need a little help with my ship set

View related threads: (in this forum | in all forums)

Logged in as: Guest

Users viewing this topic: none

Printable Version

All Forums >> [New Releases from Matrix Games] >> Distant Worlds 1 Series >> Design and Modding >> Need a little help with my ship set

Page: [1]

Message

<< Older Topic Newer Topic >>

Need a little help with my ship set - 4/6/2010 9:02:33 PM

Bestor

Posts: 18
Joined: 3/29/2010
Status: offline

Hi folks, Im currently having a problem scaling my ships for the set im making, I have tryed making the png's bigger and smaller but the images in game dont change as you can see in the picture below there a 3 ships.

The plan is to make the ship in the center atleased twice the size as the two battleships, or make the battleships twice as small, but all atempts to scale the images have failed, im usung gimp to edit them btw, can anyone surgest how i can re scale them?

cheers

Attachment (1)

Post #: 1

RE: Need a little help with my ship set - 4/6/2010 9:38:29 PM

BigWolfChris

Posts: 634
Joined: 3/31/2010
Status: offline

It might be hardcoded for to be a fixed size regardless of the image files dimensions

That kinda sucks actually

_____________________________

AMD Ryzen 7 2700X 8 Core @3.7GHz
2x16 GB Vengeance LPX 2666MHz RAM
MSI RTX 2070 Armor 8G
SSD Drive

(in reply to Bestor)

Post #: 2

RE: Need a little help with my ship set - 4/6/2010 10:04:14 PM

Deto

Posts: 105
Joined: 2/15/2010
Status: offline

Would it help if you left more 'empty' space around the sides of the image? :) Or is the game too clever to look at the actual drawn pixels and not just the image itself, hmm

(in reply to BigWolfChris)

Post #: 3

RE: Need a little help with my ship set - 4/6/2010 10:07:29 PM

hadberz

Posts: 1629
Joined: 5/11/2000
From: Moncks Corner, SC
Status: offline

The size of ships graphic depends on how many components the ship has installed. So just add more components and the ship graphic will be bigger.

Just to be clear the graphic size itself doesn't matter.

< Message edited by hadberz -- 4/6/2010 10:08:12 PM >

(in reply to Deto)

Post #: 4

RE: Need a little help with my ship set - 4/7/2010 2:06:09 AM

richieelias

Posts: 52
Joined: 3/26/2010
Status: offline

Havent done it myself, but making the ship itself smaller inside the 200x200 png file should work (as in the ship takes up 100x100 pixels inside a 200x200 png). I'll try it out in a bit and let you know if it worked.

edit: nope, the game ignores empty space inside the png's, resizing and centering everything so that it fits the same area.

I was able to 'force it' by placing a single black pixel in the upper left and lower right corners though.

< Message edited by richieelias -- 4/7/2010 2:22:36 AM >

(in reply to hadberz)

Post #: 5

RE: Need a little help with my ship set - 4/7/2010 2:14:49 AM

Igard

Posts: 2282
Joined: 3/29/2010
From: Scotland
Status: offline

Might just result in a more pixelated image. ie. it zooms into the smaller png but still making the ship the same size.

This is going to be a problem with star wars mods. Empire ships need to be bigger.

(in reply to richieelias)

Post #: 6

RE: Need a little help with my ship set - 4/7/2010 2:30:19 AM

richieelias

Posts: 52
Joined: 3/26/2010
Status: offline

And a little update - apparently forcing it just did some very strange things inside the game... somehow the ship is still the same size but the triangle is now huge.... Dont understand how or why it would do that. Looks like the graphics engine is a little too smart for its own good.

(in reply to Igard)

Post #: 7

RE: Need a little help with my ship set - 4/7/2010 4:07:02 AM

hadberz

Posts: 1629
Joined: 5/11/2000
From: Moncks Corner, SC
Status: offline

Here is a example of what I said above. Both Star Trek ships are the same graphic file.

Attachment (1)

(in reply to richieelias)

Post #: 8

RE: Need a little help with my ship set - 4/7/2010 4:09:06 AM

hadberz

Posts: 1629
Joined: 5/11/2000
From: Moncks Corner, SC
Status: offline

Here is the design. Both ships are escorts. The smaller ship has only 1 of each required component. the larger ship is maxed out with components. Notice the size, that is what determines how large the ship will be in game.

Attachment (1)

(in reply to hadberz)

Post #: 9

RE: Need a little help with my ship set - 4/7/2010 4:16:17 AM

D.W.O.H

Posts: 49
Joined: 4/5/2010
Status: offline

that star trek ship is awesome!!

Are these ships downloadable or is their a dl area here for the files guys come up with?

_____________________________

Democratic Worlds Of Humanity.

(in reply to hadberz)

Post #: 10

RE: Need a little help with my ship set - 4/7/2010 12:13:40 PM

richieelias

Posts: 52
Joined: 3/26/2010
Status: offline

Yes I know it gets smaller with less components. I was trying to artificially get something even smaller, say, fighter sized.

It's just very strange that putting dots in or near the edges didnt work.

Actually, the dot trick did work for the ship designer and resulted in a teensie ship there, but was still regular sized (with a gigantor triangle) in the rest of the game.

(in reply to D.W.O.H)

Post #: 11

RE: Need a little help with my ship set - 4/7/2010 5:24:54 PM

hadberz

Posts: 1629
Joined: 5/11/2000
From: Moncks Corner, SC
Status: offline

I got ya, yeah it's hardcoded.

@ D.W.O.H

Here is my test set, I didn't draw crap, just cut and pasted

Some of the ships still need work,

Attachment (1)

(in reply to richieelias)

Post #: 12

RE: Need a little help with my ship set - 4/7/2010 6:47:49 PM

Bestor

Posts: 18
Joined: 3/29/2010
Status: offline

Hey guys thanks for the help here, i had tryed to force it and i got the same mega triange problem too, its a shame the ships get bigger with more mods on them, kinda silly mechanic tbh,

I hope they fix that and allow bigger than 200 x 200 images in the future cause that mothership in the pic at the top should be 3 to 4 times bigger than those battleships. nm ill leave it for now and try again later if the fix it, cheers for all the help though guys.

(in reply to hadberz)

Post #: 13