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Embercloud

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Custom flags in 0.9
« on: July 25, 2018, 03:05:56 AM »
This question can probably only be answered by Alex but I’m leaving it here for theorycrafting/flag ideas.

Will there be a way for us to give the player faction it’s own flag without significant modding involved?
Are there required dimensions of the picture involved?
Is it possible to make it so that you only have to drop the flag(s) you want in a folder and the game loads it from there?

Also, I’m extremely hypes for player stations coming around, and I have been since 0.5. It would be great if we could have another blog post soon.
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Re: Custom flags in 0.9
« Reply #1 on: July 25, 2018, 09:46:32 AM »
It ought to be fairly simple - draw a regular and a square version of the flag, put them in a folder, and adjust the player.faction file to point to these as being one of the options.

The flags are 410x256 and 256x256, though as far as I can see, it'd work with other dimensions as well, as long as the proportions were the same.

Quote from: Embercloud on July 25, 2018, 03:05:56 AM
It would be great if we could have another blog post soon.

Yeah, a bit of a quandary there, since I don't want to spoil the stuff I'm currently working through by talking about it. Will have to think of something!
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Re: Custom flags in 0.9
« Reply #2 on: July 25, 2018, 11:42:07 AM »
Quote from: Alex on July 25, 2018, 09:46:32 AM
It ought to be fairly simple - draw a regular and a square version of the flag, put them in a folder, and adjust the player.faction file to point to these as being one of the options.

The flags are 410x256 and 256x256, though as far as I can see, it'd work with other dimensions as well, as long as the proportions were the same.

Quote from: Embercloud on July 25, 2018, 03:05:56 AM
It would be great if we could have another blog post soon.

Yeah, a bit of a quandary there, since I don't want to spoil the stuff I'm currently working through by talking about it. Will have to think of something!
Could always drop some patch notes instead... >.>
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Re: Custom flags in 0.9
« Reply #3 on: July 25, 2018, 12:42:19 PM »
Quote from: Midnight Kitsune on July 25, 2018, 11:42:07 AM
Could always drop some patch notes instead... >.>

Bit of the same issue, REDACTED this and REDACTED that... :)
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Re: Custom flags in 0.9
« Reply #4 on: July 26, 2018, 03:07:06 AM »
BTW
Any chance that we get faction emblems on ships(separate from paint job).
Kind of that any faction would have their emblems and any ship would have a space on him where these emblems would appear.
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Re: Custom flags in 0.9
« Reply #5 on: July 26, 2018, 09:39:28 AM »
The short answer is no :) We did look at it at some point, but it's pretty clunky in terms of every ship having to have space for that, especially given that we've got a lot of ships to work with. Plus I don't think it'd look all that great.
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Re: Custom flags in 0.9
« Reply #6 on: July 27, 2018, 03:21:29 PM »
Quote from: Alex on July 25, 2018, 12:42:19 PM
Quote from: Midnight Kitsune on July 25, 2018, 11:42:07 AM
Could always drop some patch notes instead... >.>

Bit of the same issue, REDACTED this and REDACTED that... :)

Well I think that's REDACTED!
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