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[gruntmaster1]

Link in first post seems broken. It is  http://url=https//www.dropbox.com/s/gviiu87xk2z4abd/shadow_ships0.4.2.zip when it should be http://www.dropbox.com/s/gviiu87xk2z4abd/shadow_ships0.4.2.zip

[MShadowy]

Well, I was in a hurry and I somehow become even more incompetent when that's the case.

In any case, I'm hoping to get the alternate paint scheme shoppe set up over the weekend.  I'll probably make it a community mod so anyone can add alternate paint schemes for their factions if they like.  The initial schemes on offer will be for SHI, of course:

Soon to be also in blue, red wing, and mercenary.

Anyway, that is all for now.

[Sabaton]

 The mercenary one is gorgeous! 

[Taverius]

I'll take the Red Wing, please.

The Solidarity is a lovely combat hauler! Now do something like the tarsus, ie a 'Brave Sir Robin ran away, bravely ran away away' style hauler.

[Silver Silence]

Oh, if I had upvotes to throw at you for that mercenary version. I'd love to see more ships mocked up in those mercenary colours. Without the bold blue colours, the ship looks quite grim and foreboding. Looks wilted. Also reminds me heavily of a Weeping Willow in the drab colours.

The Red Wing (yes, that is now a off-shoot of the SHI, for the ~elite~ people ) could maybe do with a smoother fade than the squares which seem to ignore the contours of the ship. Maybe a gradual fade into the reddish colours that follows the hull? I can see a line separating the armour plates. Could make a good boundary line for the fade.

[MShadowy]

The red wing was actually intended for haughty mercenary captains (the idea was somewhat inspired by your jerk wingmate, Solo Wing Pixie, from Ace Combat Zero) but the idea of replacing Elite variants (that do not yet exist) with that paintjob has some merit.  I'm quite glad you like the Mercenary version as well.  I still have some work to do on these ideas, though, I guess.

I also have quite a bit to do in terms of coding, and I'll probably have to ask assistance at some point.  In order for this to work I need a custom station dialogue and one or two custom UI panels (for selecting a ship and then selecting a paint job for that ship); additionally I'd like the thing to recognize external mods and correctly initialize lists of valid ships for getting paintjobs, but that seems likely to be fairly simple given that I've already got a tool on hand for collating lists of ship hulls according to any arbitrary string.

[Silver Silence]

So you take a Charybdis there and trade it and some credits for a fresh coat of paint?

[MShadowy]

Yup.  And/or any other ship supported.

With ShipAPI.setSprite() and ShipAPI.getExactBounds() you can change your ships graphic arbitrarily, but to do so out of combat you need a UI Dialogue specifically for it which is what I'm currently fiddling with.  (Please note I have not yet tested anything as none of the pieces are really in place; this may be a while.)

[Silver Silence]

More than patient enough to wait for you to grind it out, Shadowy.

[theSONY]

We All living in America  

PS: it's just for FUN, nothing serious ;p
& yes i know that weapon are bit off

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[MShadowy]

... patriotic!  Or something?

Well, got a chuckle from me regardless.

[Gotcha!]

It's like an american flag was hanging around in space and you flew right through it. Patriotic? On the contrary!

[Silver Silence]

SHI ships look incredibly weird without SHI weapons.
Most of those weapons look to be misaligned with their mounts and the harpoons on the left don't even appear to be attached to anything.

[Uomoz]

SHI ships look incredibly weird without SHI weapons.
Most of those weapons look to be misaligned with their mounts and the harpoons on the left don't even appear to be attached to anything.

I was up to post something like that.

[CopperCoyote]

We All living in America  

PS: it's just for FUN, nothing serious ;p
& yes i know that weapon are bit off

The only way to make it more patriotic is to give it weapons that screech like a red tailed hawk (because that's whats used instead of bald eagles)