Press F9 and drag over your ship, to choose what needed to be screenshoted.Īlso you can use this Change Background feature to load some ships picture to background and use it as silhouette for creating your ship.ĩ) Now go to \Battleships Forever\SMScreenshots\ where your screenshot is saved, and open it for example in Adobe Photoshop.įirst of all rotate whole image 90* CCW and after use "magic wand" tool to select whole white trash pixels, that we dont need. Now its perfectly fine for us and we can screenshot it. Or just just fill some random bmp with white colour. But this pesky grid is no good for us, so go to tools->Change Background, and use earlier created bitmap where White bears In White Antarctica field in White snowfall chase Pale white Antarctica scientists in all White. I recommend you to to use different sprite configs for different ships\ships series to not discontinue its "style". This will save our current sprite config. Now choose one of our first parts and place new part, it will be depth 3 because Depth 1 and 2 are taken by her parenting and mirrored parts.Īnd this way we build our ship little by little. Next part will be 1 and 2 depth after mirroring, but we probably will need some depth storage for possible artistic parts over our "core" so instantly make em 5 and 6 depth. Core of ship is always 0 depth, and will be UNDER every further parts.
So part with Depth of 4 will show over parts with depth 5+ but will be under parts with depth 1 2 3.ĭepth designated by parenting. Depth goes from 1 to N, where N is number of used parts and define order of parts.
It will mirror every unic part, so if your building non symmetric ship, dont use it.Īnd use A and Q keys to define "Depth" of part. To change colour right click over colour. Rest 9 colours will just colour part in to their colour but not change it if you change palettes colour. First three colours will transfer their parameters to a parts which coloured by them even if you change it, so use them to define base colours of your ship. Now choose colour for it from palette to the left. Close Group Arrange window by pressing Esc, and lets start constructing our ship.ħ) Now press Z to open your groups parts scroll window at side of your screen, now as you click part, its instantly goes for constructing, look for a place where you want it and using J I K L and Shift+ J I K L, position it as you want, and click to place it. To move multyple parts between groups, select and just drag and drop them in different group.Ħ) Now drag and drop ,parts from 2-4 groups, that you gonna use in your ship to first group. And to delete the parts that you dont need\dont like, select them\it and press delete. You can multiply select parts in groups, by using Shift+click between two parts, to select everything in between. There is pretty much unlimited storage, but it can become really complicated to orient in them if there is too much parts, as it shows only in rows by 3, and to scroll it up and down you have to use only mouses scroll wheel, which is pain in the ass. After this just drag and drop them from folder to a groups 2-4 in Ship Maker.
So initially drag and drop all not used parts in first group to fourth group, just because they look bogus and we can use it only for getting some silhouette.ĥ) Look closely for sets of parts that you downloaded, and choose which one you like and will use in your ship. But mine work flow goes around arranging needed parts in first group, and using rest three as storage for possibly usefull parts. This will pop up screen like thisĪs you see there is 4 group of parts, to switch between them you have to press ~ and use 1\2\3\4 keys for every group respectfully. So ye, this is mine little guide about how to get Starfarer ship sprite from BF Ship Maker.Īnd unpack it in Custom Sprite directory of BF.ģ) Now startup BF ShipMaker, you will see something like thisĤ) Go to Tools->Group arrange. And after we make our ship we can make screenshot of it and after some redacting get one hella nice ship sprite for Starfarer. So in this editor you actually constructing ship from "spare parts" and colour it as you wish. There is such free indie game as Battleship Forever( ), and this game has one most simple but in same time amazing spaceship battles ever done.īut what is more valuable for us is Ship Maker subprogram, which let us construct ships for this game.Įvery ship in BF is constructed with small PNG parts with their own parameters, such as color or number of HP. Hello, im new here, but i have one thing to propose for modding community here.