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Re: [TOOL]FTLEdit: FTL Ship editor [v0.88] (Please test!)
Posted: Fri Oct 05, 2012 9:53 pm
by Darkfrost
The editor can be anywhere, but you seem to be missing some of the files from the zip that it comes in
Re: [TOOL]FTLEdit: FTL Ship editor [v0.87] (Please test!)
Posted: Fri Oct 05, 2012 11:17 pm
by bobirov
suron wrote:How do you set up the beam the Fed Cruiser uses onto another ship? or is this even possible yet? if not, do you plan on putting this in?
If you look in the blueprints.xml file for the Federation Ship you'll see that the artillery is added via a <artillery power="1" room="6"/> tag. You can add this (in an empty room) and presumably add the arty beam to your ships. I haven't tried yet myself.
suron wrote:On a couple ships I edited (and ended up having to delete) sometimes the "manned" station on the bridge is in the wrong spot (mostly noticable on a 2-room left->right room..it'll be on the left most tile instead of the right one) Is there a way to fix this? and as above, if not are you adding a function to set where the interaction is?
For my custom Kestrel I just replaced the pilot declaration from FTLEdit with the one from the original ship:
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<pilot power="1" room="0" start="true" img="room_pilot">
<slot>
<direction>right</direction>
<number>0</number>
</slot>
</pilot>
The number there I believe is the square within the room to place the seat and I think it goes like this:
0 1
2 3
The same <slot> tag can be used for the medbay and others as well I believe.
suron wrote:Last Kestrel I edited the "shield" was smaller than the ship itself for some reason..any ideas why?
I'm having this same problem and was wondering if anyone knows how to work around it? I've added <shieldImage> and <cloakimage> tags to the blueprint and also tried swapping around the img and layout in the <shipBluePrint> declaration, neither seemed to work. And yes, I re-packed after making the changes.
Its not a major issue but it winds up leaving the cockpit and maybe a few other rooms outside of the protection of the shield.
P.S.
Thanks much for this program, it is was finally motivated me to get ftldat and start playing around tweaking my own ships. I felt this functionality was lacking in the game and it adds to replayability if you can play with your own ship designs.
Re: [TOOL]FTLEdit: FTL Ship editor [v0.88] (Please test!)
Posted: Fri Oct 05, 2012 11:40 pm
by winterpwner
Darkfrost wrote:The editor can be anywhere, but you seem to be missing some of the files from the zip that it comes in
Hm... Can you post the latest version with the complete files? I downloaded the most recent one and it doesn't seem to like 64 bit windows 7. (i.e the CMD line that extracts the data.dat and resources.dat closes immediately.)
Re: [TOOL]FTLEdit: FTL Ship editor [v0.87] (Please test!)
Posted: Fri Oct 05, 2012 11:43 pm
by bobirov
bobirov wrote:
suron wrote:Last Kestrel I edited the "shield" was smaller than the ship itself for some reason..any ideas why?
I'm having this same problem and was wondering if anyone knows how to work around it? I've added <shieldImage> and <cloakimage> tags to the blueprint and also tried swapping around the img and layout in the <shipBluePrint> declaration, neither seemed to work. And yes, I re-packed after making the changes.
Its not a major issue but it winds up leaving the cockpit and maybe a few other rooms outside of the protection of the shield.
I think I figured it out, I believe this is what was produced by FTLEdit for the shield tag:
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<shields power="2" room="5" start="true" img="room_pilot" />
When I changed the img="room_pilot" to img="room_shields" I think it fixed this particular issue.
YMMV
Re: [TOOL]FTLEdit: FTL Ship editor [v0.87] (Please test!)
Posted: Fri Oct 05, 2012 11:49 pm
by Darkfrost
bobirov wrote:
I think I figured it out, I believe this is what was produced by FTLEdit for the shield tag:
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<shields power="2" room="5" start="true" img="room_pilot" />
When I changed the img="room_pilot" to img="room_shields" I think it fixed this particular issue.
YMMV
Doh! Thanks, that'll be fixed in the next release
The shield size, I believe is set by the
ELLIPSE
200
200
0
0
part at the top of the layout txt file (Width, height, x offset, y offset I assume?). No way to change this inside the editor yet, but I'll add it at some point
Re: [TOOL]FTLEdit: FTL Ship editor [v0.87] (Please test!)
Posted: Fri Oct 05, 2012 11:50 pm
by Whale Cancer
bobirov wrote:bobirov wrote:
suron wrote:Last Kestrel I edited the "shield" was smaller than the ship itself for some reason..any ideas why?
I'm having this same problem and was wondering if anyone knows how to work around it? I've added <shieldImage> and <cloakimage> tags to the blueprint and also tried swapping around the img and layout in the <shipBluePrint> declaration, neither seemed to work. And yes, I re-packed after making the changes.
Its not a major issue but it winds up leaving the cockpit and maybe a few other rooms outside of the protection of the shield.
I think I figured it out, I believe this is what was produced by FTLEdit for the shield tag:
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<shields power="2" room="5" start="true" img="room_pilot" />
When I changed the img="room_pilot" to img="room_shields" I think it fixed this particular issue.
YMMV
I believe suron is referring to the shield image and not the shield system (i.e. room) image.
I don't know what this editor is doing (i'm doing ships by hand until a fully functional editor comes out), but the size of the shield is contained in kestral.txt
First line is 1/2 width, second is 1/2 height, third is x offset, fourth is y offset.
Edit: Ah, beaten by seconds by DarkFrost.
Re: [TOOL]FTLEdit: FTL Ship editor [v0.88] (Please test!)
Posted: Sat Oct 06, 2012 4:22 pm
by Cooly568
Stupid question, how do you rotate doors.
Re: [TOOL]FTLEdit: FTL Ship editor [v0.88] (Please test!)
Posted: Sat Oct 06, 2012 11:25 pm
by Darkfrost
Space bar!
Re: [TOOL]FTLEdit: FTL Ship editor [v0.88] (Please test!)
Posted: Sun Oct 07, 2012 6:33 am
by leveluptime
I apologize in advance for my lack of knowledge in this field of modding.
I am not exactly the most intelligent man in the world, but when I grasp the concept of something, I don't let go too easily. xP
Anyways.
I've tried editing the Stealth Cruiser Type B (DA-SR 12), but can't seem to replace my ship in-game, nor can I replace the one located at the screen where you select your ship.
I've honestly no clue how to work this out.
I found my game files in C:\Program Files\Steam\steamapps\common\FTL Faster Than Light\resources
I've tried saving things(such as .ftl, .xml, .txt) to there, the folder I made for this editor (extracted), and the game folder (My Documents>My Games>FasterThanLight).
I'm almost certain the game folder is incorrect, as there are only two .sav files there.
Please help me out?
I can provide any other information if necessary.
Cheers!
Re: [TOOL]FTLEdit: FTL Ship editor [v0.88] (Please test!)
Posted: Sun Oct 07, 2012 7:53 pm
by Darkfrost
Haven't heard any bug reports in a while, which is good
So it should be pretty stable now, I'll start adding some of the missing features