(02-19-2015, 02:14 AM)Big_B Wrote: I hope you are also going to make BD bridges
Yes of course but they will be part of the "House Unlawful factions" pack (lr-m/bd/hessians/sairs/casts....) Tbh I was thinking about the Dragon Cruiser yesterday so I came up with the idea that it will feature similarities with naval forces bridge with different symbols (like red dragons not yellow) but there is still time to get enlightenment on them.
My idea about the "unlawful" bridge is that it will use different object placement from what you've seen in House Military ones. I don't want them to be exactly the same.
Yup, they will be included in either in the "Civilian/Traders" pack or "Ulawful factions" (depending on which pack will need more bridges). What troubles me is that BHG are changing their models from time to time. If what they have now is what will remain would be great.
Yup, they will be included in either in the "Civilian/Traders" pack or "Ulawful factions" (depending on which pack will need more bridges). What troubles me is that BHG are changing their models from time to time. If what they have now is what will remain would be great.
There are no plans to change the current BHG/APM ships (though personally I'd like to see a new Orca model)
I was working on the Trader's cockpit but on very slow rates due to exams. Here is the nearly ready "Civilian" cockpit, featuring the "Train" as visible part (but not colored yellow yet). I've used civilian colors for the interior painting and House specific "news/mission logs" for the monitors ( these are found in each House bars). All other cockpits will be using different colors and monitor images.
- Like you will notice - the bridge and the visible part are both been moved on the right side. This is representing your "seat" on the left part of the cockpit and also giving a better view. I think this would be better for versatility sake in comparison with the military bridges which are all "centered" and wide.
- Also the size of the monitors and the interface around (even the keyboard below the monitors) are giving the feeling this cockpit is for a smaller ship - while in the military bridges they were quite smaller to represent a sizable vessel.
The slight issue with those would be the answer on the question "Which transports are going to get such cockpit?". I gave a lot of thought about that and I came to the conclusion all transports with small models would have no problem to remain with their freighter cockpits (like from 800 - 3200 cargo ). While all transports with above 3500 are bigger and should feature a bigger cockpit, similar to a bridge. *Exceptions are the Transport (gull line) and the Train (civilian line) which are cheaper and very suitable for such cockpit. Also new players that start trading will be happy to see these until they get to the "real" transports.
I've made a list of all trading vessels that will get such bridges:
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Civilians 7 ships: (civilian colors)
-Firefly, Heavy Tanker, Transport (Large Transport), Train (Advanced Train, Large Train)
*Gulls using same cockpit / *Trains using same cockpit
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Liners 2 ships: (liners colors)
-Prison/Luxury Liners (same cockpit with different monitors)
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Generic 2 ships: (border world colors)
-Border Worlds Transport, Zoner Whale
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Unlawful 4 ships: (LR/M ship textures)
-Pirate Transport, Pirate Train, Salvager, Pilgrim Liner
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Liberty 2 ships: (lib cockpit colors)
-Heavy Transport, Super Transport
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Bretonia 3 ships: (bret cockpit colors)
-Heavy Transport, Train, Bret Liner
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Kusari 2 ships: (ku cockpit colors)
-Heavy Transport, Train
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Rheinland 3 ships: (rh cockpit colors)
-Heavy Transport, Train, ALG Transport
================ Possible additions - Kujira(civilian)
- Corsair Train
- Shishapangma (IMG)
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Total: 25
All cockpit templates for these ships are ready. What remains is to prepare the ship visible parts and pack them up. If you have ideas about other transports that should get such bridge feel free to share them here.
@Big_B, Well its not that Geisha don't deserve a nice bridge - its about how many people are going to see it. It might be useful for some RP but aside from that I don't think people are using it on the same level as they would use the Firefly (3500 cargo and better overall ship). Maybe on a later stage (once the important ones are done) special ship cases like Geisha may get something better than a standard trading cockpit, right?
Between, I might need some assistance in terms of inspiration. People from [TBH], Crimson Cross, LR/M etc, could you share here any pictures of suitable bridges for "pirate" groups? I am not planing on doing imports but would be great to see your ideas. (BHG could also drop some ideas)
Post 1 updated with download link for the first 2 packs. You can take them from here. If you encounter any issues - drop feedback here to help me to fix them.
Unlawful bridges are almost ready as well so the next pack might be available after a week.
It seems the modifications in the new shiparch are taken as cheating. Get the shiparch.ini from uninstall folder in the rar and use it. Tested and working. Will contact Alley to ask her for more info.
The new ini files for these ships were not originally added in disco and its protection is detecting them. With the "old" shiparch all is working fine because I've modified the path to the new cockpits without adding new ones. Sadly the ships below will not have "new" cockpits for now:
council gb/cr/bs (they will see "GRN" colors)
liberty battle transport
liberty train
liberty carrier
rheinland battle transport
slave liner
luxury liner
bretonia carrier
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