More Detailed Fleet Battles
Posted: Sun Mar 02, 2014 2:34 am
So I was just wondering if anyone has ever done anything like this before...
I quickly added some shield bubbles to the Background Fleet ships after being inspired by agigabyte's signature. Check out his mods here.
The ships themselves are based on the ones from FTL Remastered, although I did edit them a good bit and recolor them to match the vanilla FTL color scheme more.
http://i.imgur.com/O7khCtT.png
http://i.imgur.com/9qluFpu.png
It seems possible to make larger ship templates so theoretically one could add tiny details like lasers and missiles to these and they would appear in the background. Only problem is they would be stagnant. And times where there is not a battle going on the ships would all still be firing weapons for no reason.
It would be awesome if missiles could travel from one ship to another and explode, maybe causing a fire which then spreads across the ship which then gets put out. But that is impossible.
Also it would be cool if we could add other fleets for other factions like Mantis, Zoltan, and Engi, but unfortunately that is also impossible. Unless you put them in the Background yourself and made sure there are no planets or anything overlapping them that is. Wait, can you make a pre-made fleet or fleet battle a "planet" and call it that way? I don't know much about this.
But anyway, what do you guys think about the shields? Too much? Would it be a good idea, if we could, to add details like lasers firing and missiles?, and beam even maybe? Or would it not be so good because they would be stagnant?
I quickly added some shield bubbles to the Background Fleet ships after being inspired by agigabyte's signature. Check out his mods here.
The ships themselves are based on the ones from FTL Remastered, although I did edit them a good bit and recolor them to match the vanilla FTL color scheme more.
http://i.imgur.com/O7khCtT.png
http://i.imgur.com/9qluFpu.png
It seems possible to make larger ship templates so theoretically one could add tiny details like lasers and missiles to these and they would appear in the background. Only problem is they would be stagnant. And times where there is not a battle going on the ships would all still be firing weapons for no reason.
It would be awesome if missiles could travel from one ship to another and explode, maybe causing a fire which then spreads across the ship which then gets put out. But that is impossible.
Also it would be cool if we could add other fleets for other factions like Mantis, Zoltan, and Engi, but unfortunately that is also impossible. Unless you put them in the Background yourself and made sure there are no planets or anything overlapping them that is. Wait, can you make a pre-made fleet or fleet battle a "planet" and call it that way? I don't know much about this.But anyway, what do you guys think about the shields? Too much? Would it be a good idea, if we could, to add details like lasers firing and missiles?, and beam even maybe? Or would it not be so good because they would be stagnant?