Talk:Shipset Tutorials (SEV)

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I'm a bit confused about "There are also organic and crystalline versions of all the hulls, for races that have organic or crystalline technology." Is that to mean that for the crystalline and organic racial traits, (what amounts to) another shipset is used / could be implimented? Or is it just textures? If I were an aspiring shipset designer and I wanted to make my empire complete with all variants, would I have to make 102 models? (18 (base designs) + 16 (optional size variants) + 34 (full organic compliment) + 34 (full crystalline compliment)) Or does it just mean that certain races are predetermined as organic or crystalline have their own versions of the ship hulls? Jarena

I honestly don't know - I just got that information from what Kwok leaked on the Shrapnel forums ;) Ed 02:42, 22 August 2006 (BST)

According to SEnet:

Like SEIV, the SEV vehiclesizes file defines primary and alternate model/texture files for each hull. In addition, it also defines a default, thus allowing for 3 possible file specifications. The file is set up to support the following additional models for ambitious shipset authors:

LightCarrier

HeavyCarrier

Baseship

Small, Medium and Light verisons of: Freighter, Drone, Fighter, Mine, Satellite, Troop, WeaponPlatform

Another thing to note is that the Organic and Crystalline racial traits in SEV provide specialized vehicles hulls. There are calls for specialized models and textures for every one of these vehicles, so a very ambitious shipset author could provide different textures in an "Organic" style for Organic races, for example. Fyron 21:47, 22 August 2006 (BST)