Yeah, i was about to link that but i'm slow af. Also check out
glows in GIMP. The color used originally is
#FFAABA, and i think a good width would be in the 20-30 pixels range but it depends mostly on your ship. Try multiple values, and be sure to add a dark background to check how the glow would actually look in space!
Updating ship graphics is not possible as far as i know, but you *could* maybe come up with an artillery weapon that, when bought from a store, could "add" parts to your ship; keeping in mind that whenever you jump to a new beacon those parts would disappear.
like in this example, the animated parts are not included in the hull image and they disappear while jumping.
Chrono Vortex wrote:As for updating ship graphics mid-fight, the only way I can think to do that is making the entire ship a weapon animation.
What is this wizardry!? :0 Like, you mean a transparent hull image or is there a way to use an animation as the hull??