Changing the colors of the ship?

[Trihne]

I like to put garish colors on my things in games. Can I do that in this game? It's not that important, I just like that customisation.

[Megiddo (Bear)]

I'm wondering the same thing. If nothing else, it'd be nice to paint my ship to match one of the faction colors that we see ingame. Seeing green Scarabs flying around makes me want to make mine green too! XD

[Mouse Lover]

Hope they add color costumisation later on.
The Hellion looks like a flying chicken nugget.

[Laz3456]

'The Hellion looks like a flying chicken nugget' spot on sir! LOL

[Ifret]

Originally posted by Banana Eater (• ε •):

Hope they add color costumisation later on.
The Hellion looks like a flying chicken nugget.

LOL! Wondered why I was craving some McDonald's

[mcqueen]

Originally posted by Ifret:

Originally posted by Banana Eater (• ε •):

Hope they add color costumisation later on.
The Hellion looks like a flying chicken nugget.

LOL! Wondered why I was craving some McDonald's

Being someone who has had a "look inside" the dat files, what are the possibilities of doing custom paint jobs? Or have you got that far?

[Ifret]

Haven't gotten that far but I'll look at some of the ship files real quick to see what's there.

[mcqueen]

Originally posted by Ifret:

Haven't gotten that far but I'll look at some of the ship files real quick to see what's there.

Great! Thanks!

[Ifret]

I haven't done much modding of these types of files (graphics or models)
but I located some. \MEDIA\SHIPS\HUMAN_CORVETTE\ seems to be an area of reference for the starter ship (Rasputin, Hammerhead) it contains .mdl and dds files. I don't have a program for either of these currently. However if you could figure out which dds files to replace it should be easy to create or edit the files and keep file names as the mods overwrite the original files when repacked.

[mcqueen]

Originally posted by Ifret:

I haven't done much modding of these types of files (graphics or models)
but I located some. \MEDIA\SHIPS\HUMAN_CORVETTE\ seems to be an area of reference for the starter ship (Rasputin, Hammerhead) it contains .mdl and dds files. I don't have a program for either of these currently. However if you could figure out which dds files to replace it should be easy to create or edit the files and keep file names as the mods overwrite the original files when repacked.

Ahh. Ok. The .mdl files are likly the 3-D models and the .dds files would be the texture files.It should be a matter of using a paint program to convert the .dds (I think .dds is a file comprssion format) to .bmp or .jpeg (whatever works) then "repainting", convert back to .dds etc. One would be able to tell more by having a look at the texture files in a paint program. May not be as easy as it sounds though.... I may have to try the unpacking process to have a look for myself. Uggg..me no computer savvy. lol

Ps...Thanks again for looking at it. :)

[Ifret]

I am working on a better guide right now but feel free to try out whats posted and I'll be around a few hours if you have questions (if you are using windows). Good luck, I would like to see some hot sauce on my chicken nugget!

[mcqueen]

Originally posted by Ifret:

I am working on a better guide right now but feel free to try out whats posted and I'll be around a few hours if you have questions. Good luck, I would like to see some hot sauce on my chicken nugget!

Well I have GimpShop and it has a plugin for .dds files.....I have some experience with aircraft "skinning" in other games. I'm not an "artiste" by any means...but I can do basic stuff. ;) Still working on my morning pot of coffee. I may look into it later this evening.

[Ifret]

I can't wait to see what you can do :)

[mcqueen]

Originally posted by Ifret:

I can't wait to see what you can do :)

I've read through your guide a couple of times. Might as well be in Chinese to me. LOL Not YOUR fault, like I said, me no computer savvy. All I can do is just follow directions and not try to think about what all those strange word/symbols mean. I don't know if I'm ready for this or not...give me a day or so. Me and my big mouth... lol ;)

[Fulcrum52]

I noticed some ships have different paintjobs that you can buy. Like sometimes the blackgate is being sold with blue stripes while other times with red stripes in the shipyard.

[mcqueen]

One of the drawbacks to retexturing can be the new textures appear on all models of the same type. So you might be able to repaint your ship but others will have the same paint job. Depends on the game and if the player ship is treated as "unique". I'm guessing not ... for textures anyway. Loadouts are a different matter as they are "attachments" to various hardpoints on the 3-D modle. I could be wrong though. :)