Hey I was wondering?

[Starhawk]

I'm afraid I do not know how to do that :-( I wish I could. Are there any free tutorials or software I can download?

[Suicide Junkie]

Just use MSpaint.

In case the images you download aren't in BMP format, a good viewer/conVersion utility is IrfanView.

[Starhawk]

So what kind of a picture do I need I mean will the pictures listed on the web site I gave you work?

And how do I get that cool topdown veiw? Or does the game it's self automatically do a top down view of the portrait?

Oh and this might sound dumb but how do I actually get them in game? Because right now I only have the demo and am figuring I'll get the full Version on Christmas so I wont be able to test it for awhile :-(.

[ November 21, 2003, 22:28: Message edited by: Starhawk ]

[Ed Kolis]

Basically, take a look at an existing shipset that came from the game - you have to make a directory under Pictures\Races with the name of your race, and then under that you put all the pictures, preceded with the race name, just like with the stock shipsets - so if you wanted to create a shipset called "Zorg" then you'd need to create Zorg_Main.bmp, Zorg_Portrait_Starbase.bmp, Zorg_Mini_FighterSmall.bmp, and all the rest, all in a Zorg directory.

And sorry, the game won't generate the topdown views for you - you have to make them or find them yourself

BTW, IIRC you CAN add your own ships to the demo, you just have to replace the existing ships with your ships (keeping the same race name) instead of creating a new directory for them.

[primitive]

As for how to make the shipsets: Check out the Basic ship set tutorial by Atrocities. Good luck on your project.

[Starhawk]

I have plenty of portrait type shots but the pain in the butt is I can't seem to find any top down shots of any Imperial ships...