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Author Topic: Just curious about making ships from already in the game.  (Read 2585 times)

Shield

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Just curious about making ships from already in the game.
« on: May 25, 2012, 09:04:17 AM »

Is there a tutorial on this website that shows you how to what is the term...I think it is called kit bashing or something?

I kind of want to make my own ships but want to use the models in game.
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Re: Just curious about making ships from already in the game.
« Reply #1 on: May 25, 2012, 10:02:05 AM »

Could this possibly be similar to what your looking for?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Wr3O4yPxZg

it's slightly more painting than kitbashing but a tutorial nonetheless
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Re: Just curious about making ships from already in the game.
« Reply #2 on: May 25, 2012, 10:14:00 AM »

If you look in the starfarer directory, and look in the starfarer-core. You should find the ships folder. In therem you can find all the ships in the base game. Open them in photoshop and tear them apart and rebuild them as you like to make new ships. I don't know how to code ships, though. You can use a shipmaker program like the one by Trylobot.
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Re: Just curious about making ships from already in the game.
« Reply #3 on: May 25, 2012, 11:57:15 AM »

frankenspriting, kitbashing, basically using the old sprites to make new ones. There are many different possible ways to do it, so I don't think that any tutorial could adequately cover every possible option.

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Re: Just curious about making ships from already in the game.
« Reply #4 on: May 25, 2012, 04:22:14 PM »

A good way to start off if you're not familiar is picking a group of similar ships (similar color schemes or parts with a similar color scheme) and putting them all in a Pixen file. From there you cut off pieces you think might be useful and re-arrange them accordingly.
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