I'm looking for a little help spriting with Battleships Forever: could some people share which parts packs they import in order to have decent looking segments?
I've downloaded this build: http://www.wyrdysm.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=5764
which has tons of custom segments, but there are so many and 95% are the 2-d line drawings that are completely useless for Starfarer. Or is there an easy way of filling those in with a matte color?
Thanks!
Just my little bits of advice
There's a little file in your Battleships Forever folders called "smsprites.ini". This file contains the file directories of every sprite you see in the sidebars (activate sidebars with z). I've been using a modified version of this done by some members of the BSF community a while back -
It's available here.To get the 'look', any sprite folder with "-sw" or "-swnc" in its name should have sprites that work just fine, as Thaago mentioned.
To get all the sprites working, you can either drag-and-drop the images from the sprites' folders into the ShipMaker [note: this does not work on Windows 7, for some reason] or you can use the modified smsprites.ini file. Another thing to note is colour when working with the sprites - it is entirely possible to set custom colours that load on startup for your colour palette (I believe it's right-clicking [or ctrl-clicking] on the sidebar with the colours, then selecting "save colours") but said colours shouldn't be saturated - saturation and the sprites don't mix well.