#5

Oh i willā€¦Just as soon as i find out how to put a fixed Hyperspace effect onto a Hyperspace gate then i can change it to a wormhole style effect and figure out how to send the ship into it like docking but not actually docking

#6

Pouk, I have been making various tweaks in my game, and I canā€™t figure out how, or where, to make what are probably very simple ui adjustments.

Basically, in my game the HW1 races have their interceptors in squadrons of 5, like the Hiigarans, and their bombers in squadrons of 3. I just want their corresponding select and build menu icons to reflect this, as in those little squares that represent the amount of ships per squadron to show up beside the big graphic of the ship.

Itā€™s annoying me that i canā€™t figure this out! :joy:

#7

In Homeworld2.big (not HW1Ships.big):
Data\ship\icons\hw1_icon_kus_ships.dds.

These squares are part of the shipā€™s icon picture.

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#8

Ah, so itā€™s not an easy thing to change. Thanks for the info

#10

Okay, so itā€™s probably not exactly what you want, but I think you could make a wormhole of sorts. If you could make an object that will allow any faction to dock with it, you could set the dock path to that objectā€™s origin point but then have the launch path set to a Z value of like +40km or whatever. So the ships would actually dock with the wormhole, but be launched at a distant fixed point. You could then have another wormhole at the exact location of the launch point of the first wormhole, facing back at the original wormhole. That way it would seem like one two-way wormhole (though actually it would be 2 1-way wormholes).

Getting this phenomena to look the part of a wormhole is where you will have to ask someone else for advice, lool.

#11

ok i understandā€¦BUT WOW that hurts my head

#12

@Faction_Red029
Contact Phoenix Interactive. They may be able to answer your questions in regards to this. They changed the hyperspace effect to a ā€œwormholeā€ in their StarGate mod.

#13

Sure you can change the hyperspace effect ā€¦globally, for all hyperspacing of all or selected ships.

#14

hmmā€¦this idea is starting to look a little out of my paygrade

#15

I think you better start texturing first. Make your own ship that you can be proud of. Then do the extraordinary stuff.

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#16

@herbyguitar : My question definitely didnā€™t warrant the creation of a whole new thread though imo. It was just something that I guessed Pouk would know about, and be able to answer it almost immediately, which he did.

#17

Why not just send a PM

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#18

I agree with that; new game features can be pretty sweet, but never underestimate the joy people get out of a custom ship. And also, as far as the whole wormhole idea goes, I think youā€™d be every bit as well off just having the Vaygr style hypergates, if not better off. Your guys are an offshoot of the Hiigaran Navy, so they know their hyperdrive tech, and would probably be well within their ability to imitate the Vaygr application of that tech. If they went and made a wormhole machine instead, that would be sort of like reinventing the wheel - might as well stick to the faster-than-light medium you already understand, ya know?

The bottom line is that the kind of wormhole deal youā€™re going for is totally unprecedented. No one here can really say if it can be done exactly as you hope. But thereā€™s no shame in a conventional hyperspace gate, especially if it still gets the job done, lol.

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#19

I totaly get what your saying bro and i think i will take every ones advice and scrap the hole wormhole idea(see what i did there :smiley: ) and just pintch the vagyerā€™s hyperspace gate for strike craft but make it a little more powerful

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#20

Itā€™s Vaygr mate, no E in there.

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#21

Loloolol, the crusade for proper Vaygr spelling goes ever on.

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#22

As long as I live, I vow Iā€™ll never cease to pursue this noble cause. The crusade lives on as long as there are people defying it!

Haha Iā€™m a grammar police with one word dictionary. :smiley:

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#23

Perhaps, but it is one word that gets misspelled almost as often as the whole normal dictionary combined, so itā€™s still a big job :wink:

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#24

How bout Tiidan? It gets mispelled about as often :smiley:

#25

I hadnā€™t noticed Tiidan getting misspelled that much, and certainly not Kooshanne or Higaraaran (or Benetusy or Tuskan Raiders or the Garlands of Cadish). But Iā€™ll take your word for it!

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