http://pastebin.com/UdCAucRL

Notice how there's two sets of male and female names, the second set after
<!-- Kickstarter name list start -->

Probably. It's in the 'extra' set of human names, which I assume are ones for kickstarter backers.

So, pretty major question - How streamlined would you like this to be? Should it spit out just the xml for the ship, or automatically replace whatever ship you edited in the blueprints.xml file? Or even repack it back into the data.dat? Or just export a file to be loaded into that mod manager? Or, a...

Started work on the XML loading

All the weapon data etc is loaded from the XML, so if you're added a bunch of custom weapons, no problem, they'll show up (I might add a weapon editor too at some point, dunno, would people want this?)

If it helps, the ship editor I'm working on should support full xml loading / saving But it'll be a while before that comes out

Yeah, I'll add hostile ship support aswell, although I'm not even sure if the format of them is any different? (Haven't looked at them too much yet, seems pretty much the same?)

I'm writing mine in .NET, but using SFML for graphics, which is cross-platform. It should run fine under mac/linux, but you will need to run it under Mono

Aw dammit, I made sure to check around that nobody else was making one before I started :p

http://i.imgur.com/r1Fyf.png Coming along slowly, it loads in the .txt files too now, aswell as base and floor pngs, and reads the offset for them from the xml (Doesn't parse the rest of the XML yet though, due to it being a pain, FTL devs, if you're reading this, please fix your gib tags :) <gib1>...

http://i.imgur.com/cLzAI.png What is it? It's a program for editing FTL ships, of course! The aim is for it to be an all-in-one tool for creating, and editing existing ships. So far, it will generate the blueprint xml file, and the layout txt file. It's not done yet though! What do I need to run it...