Questions here: an inquiry thread! [Updated Sep 15th, 2014]

[stylesrj]

I was just wondering of that's something that can be modded into the game. I'm happy to work out how to do it; but I'd like some kind of indication that it's possible before I sink a whole lot of time learning about how modding works in FTL.

Nope, unfortunately it's hardcoded.

[karadoc]

I was just wondering of that's something that can be modded into the game. I'm happy to work out how to do it; but I'd like some kind of indication that it's possible before I sink a whole lot of time learning about how modding works in FTL.

Nope, unfortunately it's hardcoded.

That's not surprising, but slightly disappointing. I thought it was a decent idea.

Thanks for the super-fast reply.

[R4V3-0N]

Hmmm, well. What you posted here was nice... But the effect you did is quite the same as simply doing colour select = black (the lines) then cut, paste on new layer, and colour the lines grey (or well, in the 'simple' cloaking image, blue).

It looks like an interesting tactic though

[NarnKar]

Black color select does not work so well on black ships.

[R4V3-0N]

Black color select does not work so well on black ships.

Lower the threshold a bit

[4DaDiamonds]

I was wondering, is there a way to add those cool engine effects to the engines of custom ships? I think I heard back-along that they were hard-coded but I'm not sure...

Also, what's the easiest way to create a floor image and miniship image with the glow effect from scratch, AND then be able to do this with it? (Not looking for advice on the second part, just how to prepare it)

- 4DaDiamonds

[stylesrj]

I was wondering, is there a way to add those cool engine effects to the engines of custom ships? I think I heard back-along that they were hard-coded but I'm not sure...

The effects are hard-coded but you can change the image. So changes will affect the Kestrel and Osprey

[NarnKar]

How are the low oxygen stripes coded?

[kartoFlane]

They're drawn a layer below the interior image of the room, IIRC. Each room (1x2, 2x1, 2x2) uses the appropriate image in img/effects/low_o2_stripes_#x#.png; rooms of other sizes (this includes 1x1 and, pre-AE, 0x0) use default image, which I think is 1x2.

Not sure if there's much more to it...

[NarnKar]

They're drawn a layer below the interior image of the room, IIRC. Each room (1x2, 2x1, 2x2) uses the appropriate image in img/effects/low_o2_stripes_#x#.png; rooms of other sizes (this includes 1x1 and, pre-AE, 0x0) use default image, which I think is 1x2.

Not sure if there's much more to it...

Ah. That's frustrating.

See, a while ago, I actually made alternate images for room sizes up to 9 square tiles (if I recall, AE added a 9-tile size limit to rooms). I added them to the game and tested them with a custom ship, and the rooms still used the default art.

Here's the mod I tried to use to add new o2 art. Here's the ship I used to test it.

And here's how it ended up looking.



Yeah, not great, is it.