Ship base not loading Help!

[tuckerbud27]

I am using Superluminal ship editor to create a ship replacing the Kestral. Everything works except the base image, which is just transparent. Here are the images of all the contents of my .ftl file. http://imgur.com/a/0Mlg5#0 Here is the picture of my ship in Superluminal. http://imgur.com/RBgpAOc

[kartoFlane]

Everything looks correct, however it's generally better to just post the .ftl file itself, so that people can take a look and see what's wrong for themselves. Much easier than trying to deduce something from screenshots.

Do you mean that the hull image is not appearing in-game? If that's the case, it might be due to image's format -- FTL only understands 32-bit PNG, IIRC.

[tuckerbud27]

Well, I got the ship to appear ingame, but I honestly have no idea how. I am currently trying to get the gibs to appear. Here's the .ftl file http://www.filedropper.com/firefly

[English Narwhal]

I'll take a look at it.

[English Narwhal]

When the ship explodes, the gibs fail to appear... I'm not sure what's causing it, exactly, but I'll keep at it.

[tuckerbud27]

Thanks. I'm not having much luck...

[RAD-82]

image's format -- FTL only understands 32-bit PNG, IIRC.

This is indeed the problem with the gibs. Those images need converted to 16 million colors.

The transparent floor needs to be the same size as the ship: 677x444. As it is currently 711x437, the game will stretch it to match the base, and for some reason, this causes some people to get a black box.

The cloak needs an extra 10 pixels on each side, so it should be 697x464.

[tuckerbud27]

I re-sized my floor image and everything is working but the gibs. What exactly is 16 million colors and how do I convert my gibs to it?

[RAD-82]

Depends on the program you use to edit the images. Some have menu options that let you increase the color, others might let you "Save as..." with an option to save as a 24- or 32-bit .png file, which should increase the colors. 16 million colors is 24-bit, but you need transparency, which makes it 32-bit, I think?

(I might be talking nonsense, but I understand myself... maybe.)

[English Narwhal]

If the gibs are updated for size, I think I could make them 32 bit.