[SHIP][INDEV] Dark Knight Engi B-Type Cruiser

[Gunman698]

My first ever ship upload. At the moment, it crashes the game when you select the b type engi ship.

NOTES:
- Name Requests (I kinda suck at naming)
- Solving crash when selecting ship
- Making sure weapon coords are correct. (Help, please?)
- .ftl file causes GMM to crash with "Not a zip file" error comming up or something similar...

To all of you who have a keen eye, yes I did just get some AI ships and gibs and glue them together for the ship design.

The ship is designed mostly for ion and drone damage, hence why it is an engi ship. It has 4 crew (2 Human, 2 Engi), all subsystems level 1 and basic systems.

WARNING: The ship is not currently working, as it causes a crash when you select it, but it will be available for download if any fellow modders want to contribute and help me solve the problem.

Download link: http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?a19i3bm3o1d8irs
Contains all the necessary files for mod usage. If someone could check through the files and tell me what's wrong that would be very nice of them and I will be sure to give them some credit

[Zanoko]

Is your Python out of date? I feel like the errors modman are giving me are from a Python problem. But I'm not sure.

Also, what Ship Creator do you use?

[Gunman698]

I use Python version 2.7.3 (Upgrading to 3.3.0 now) and FTLEdit by Darkfrost. I'm going to try re-drawing the ship in FTLEdit and see if that helps.

[Zanoko]

Try Base-ing it first. Might I suggest going through this tut:

http://toothycat.net/~hologram/FTL/Ship ... orial.html

It helped me a lot. It explains FTLEdit very well.

[Gunman698]

I used that tutorial already, and I agree, it works and is a very good one.

I fixed the GMM error, file just needed a cleanup manually.

Update on what's happened :
Both crashes fixed.
New bug (YAY!) : The ship picture isn't in the right position in-game. Probably because of the extra space in the png file I ignored.
Just need to edit the crew and we have the first working iteration!

[Gunman698]

Slight problem, probably due to my ignorance.

The shield step in the modding tutorial by alextfish says you need to set the numbers of elipse in the myship.txt file to half the width and height of the shield image. The problem i have is i only have 2 numbers to half and 4 number inputs. Help, please?

[Zanoko]

I usually center the shield image and set the other two points to -0 and it works for me. I tihnk those are to dictate the offset of the elipse though.

[speedoflight]

Slight problem, probably due to my ignorance.

The shield step in the modding tutorial by alextfish says you need to set the numbers of elipse in the myship.txt file to half the width and height of the shield image. The problem i have is i only have 2 numbers to half and 4 number inputs. Help, please?

U should have something like this in the myship.txt file ->

ELLIPSE
290
260
37
4

So, in this case the original shield image should be 580x520

37 is the x offset and 4 the y offset. (meaning the pixels the shield is moved horizontally or vertically)

But, u should use any ship editor, like superluminal, its a lot easier. Since the editor creates the files and u only need to slighty modify em if u need to adjust any value.

[UltraMantis]

Is the mod working or is it in development? Mods in beta state should be posted in the Mod Development forum, esp. if you need help finishing the mod. It's misleading to post it in the Working Mods forum, when it's not working.

[boa13]

Moved from Working Mods to Mod Development.