[Ship] Need some help with my custom ship

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EngineerSparkles
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[Ship] Need some help with my custom ship

Post by EngineerSparkles »

I have done most things like putting it together and filling in rooms and doors and all that in superluminal and i can save it and re open it fine, but when i go to turn it into a dot .ftl it doesn't work and replace the kestrel A i was wondering if anyone here could take a look at it, fix it and tell me what i did wrong so i can avoid it in future

This is a link to the superluminal file http://www.mediafire.com/download/3uyhm ... ve_one.shp

and this is a zip folder with the basic skin, cloak and mini ship picture, just extract it to get the stuff
http://www.mediafire.com/?961oz1636jlc234

Here is the ship as a ftl -
http://www.mediafire.com/?w4p95wibtpaj85c

thank you a lot for your time

Edit: Thanks a lot bro, i cant believe i missed that bit out i even saw that diagram, feel so stupid now
Last edited by EngineerSparkles on Thu Jul 25, 2013 8:04 am, edited 2 times in total.
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kartoFlane
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Re: [Ship] Need some help with my custom ship

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Instead of the .shp file, please upload the .ftl file that you are trying to load with GMM.
As a general rule of thumb, .shp files are not intended to be transferred between PCs, and even though it is possible, it's much easier to just use the .ftl file.

Edit:
Ah, yes, it is as I thought: if you open the .ftl file with a zip archiver utility, it should show you its contents. It'll show a folder named PLAYER_SHIP_HARD, and inside it the data and img folders.

This is a wrong structure for ftl file - what you should see once you open the .ftl file, are the data and img folders, not the PLAYER_SHIP_HARD folder.

Doubt if it'll be of any help, but some time ago I wrote up a short explanation of the .ftl file structure.
Superluminal2 - a ship editor for FTL
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