[REQUEST] The Flying Fortress ship

[Nommykins]

You don't need to export the ship as .ftl - if you don't check the box in the export window, the editor will save your ship in "uncompiled" form, allowing you to freely post-edit it. The folder is named after the ship your mod replaces - say if you were replacing the Kestrel, the folder will be called PLAYER_SHIP_HARD

Big thanks to you, my friend. Alright, I have everything ready- Do I need to give you the whole folder or a specific file?

[Nommykins]

Bump (Due to lack of responses for 5 days)

[kartoFlane]

Oh, sorry. Well, now that you have the "uncompiled" ship, you have to pack it into an .ftl file, which is easy (ftl is just a zip with some specifically named folders inside)

So, go to the directory where you have your ship - you'll probably have only two folders there, named data and img. Your zip should contain those two folders, and they have to be top-level files, ie:

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myship.zip
  /data
  /img

and NOT:

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myship.zip
  /myship
    /data
    /img

If you have some archiving software installed (WinRar etc), you should be able to just select the data and img folders, right click on them and in the context menu select Add selected files to a new archive, or something like that. Make sure that the archive type is going to be zip (this is important).
Then, once the zip archive is created, rename it from .zip to .ftl and voila, your mod is ready to be distributed!

[Nommykins]

Thank you, and now it's time I get some help. I need to make a miniship, cloaking image, a floor and possibly a better shield. If anyone would like to help, tell me, download this file, and work. I'm not very good at images. Sadfaice.
http://www.mediafire.com/?jvtpkd5c9xw0f5p

[kartoFlane]

Well, as with everything - if you never try, you'll never get better :) And there won't always be someone around to help you out - I'd recommend starting out by getting Gimp or Photoshop and just playing around, getting to know the tools. When I was starting, I used to create a lot of forum signatures, or simple photo manipulations, or graphical projects that I had in mind...
Once you're familiar enough with the program, creating a ship image is fairly straightforward and easy, if a bit time-consuming