ship sizes

[King Missile]

hi guys,

i was thinking about making my own ship design and use it while playing the game. But i was wondering whether or not it is possible to make a ship bigger than it is now and still be able to play the game...

Does anyone have any experience with this or can someone tell me how i can do it??

Thanks--

[The Unliked One...]

hi guys,

i was thinking about making my own ship design and use it while playing the game. But i was wondering whether or not it is possible to make a ship bigger than it is now and still be able to play the game...

Does anyone have any experience with this or can someone tell me how i can do it??

Thanks--

You can make the ships bigger by increasing the image size but the physical size wont change unless you change the settings in the server.

[King Missile]

So you mean that on screen the ship would be bigger but part of the ship would be able to go through walls??

So if i want to do this how do i increase the shipsize??
And what kind of program can i use to do this?

[Crossfirez]

Yea, that's how it works. :wub:

If you mean the ships physical size, that would be cheating.

[Snipe!]

i dont understand how prodemevol works haha. isnt that changing the size of the ships, or what?

[stark]

i dont understand how prodemevol works haha. isnt that changing the size of the ships, or what?

Yes, but that is in the ship settings, which is on the server side. Just like the weasle is only 1x1 tile in the pubs.

If your making it for his own zone or arena or whatever, it be in the settings (.ini file, if I recall correctly). If you're re-doing the ships for the hell of it and so it looks different, you would edit the image file in your continuum folder... But, like stated above, it wouldn't change any actual ship size, and would look kind of like how decoys look when they bump into walls, where you can see how part of their ship kinda like goes through the wall when it hits it... And no one would see any changes in game but you.

[The Unliked One...]

And you would need the .cfg file to change ship sizes

[stark]

Yes... my bad, .CFG... .INI are server files... Anyways, if you want to change them for yourself, you just need to edit the image files in the continum/graphics folder. They're BM2 files, but can be opened with any image-editing program (MSPaint, Photoshop). To increase the actual ship size (though I don't know why you'd want to), you could just make the image size bigger. If you're keeping the same ships and everything and just want them bigger, just use like photoshop and increase image size by % to keep it proportionate.

[King Missile]

Thanks for your replies so far. It's very helpful.

One more thing.
When flying over another ship you can still clearly see the other ship but when you hit a wall you hit the wall as if your ship is in an invisible square and it is the square that hits the wall and not the ship itself.
So how is it possible that you can see through this "square" and still see stuff that's underneath??
And is it possible to make the ship bigger while still keeping this property that stuff underneath can be seen?

Thanks again--

[stark]

Transparency... I believe black is the color for that with the ships, but I could be wrong

[King Missile]

ok, so then I think i will give it a try.
Thanks so far for the help!

[King Missile]

OK, I tried opening the file with powerpoint but it doesn't recognize it.

I would have tried MS-paint as well but for some reason it is not on my computer.

Any suggestions??

[stark]

can be opened with any image-editing program

try start, run, and just type in mspaint and hit enter.... maybe it's just not on your start menu.... If not, just go to like download.com or something and search for something

[Maverick]

Powerpoint doesn't work as it's not an image editing software.

You need Paint (try doing Start / Run / 'mspaint' / OK), Photoshop (costs $), GIMP (free) or any other image editing software.

[King Missile]

OK, thanks.

and then how can i save the file i modified as a bm2 file??

edit: sorry, did i say powerpoint... Of course i meant Photoshop. So I was not able to open the file with photoshop...