Question

[Commodore Norrington]

thanks guys, you can change RELOAD_TIME_MULTIPLIER from 1.0 into 0. This will let you shoot the cannons with all ships like machine gun.

 

[Hylie Pistof]

TOOL works from anywhere. I leave it in my downloads folder. If you want to modify a ship you will also want GMViewer so you can see the ship and the changes you make to it.

I can never find where the modding tools are around here so put them together in my dropbox here. https://www.dropbox.com/sh/gpalg0tpyyfcivy/AAA7yZj3R7ivwedRKkow4oOIa/Storm engine Utilities?dl=0

 

[Pieter Boelen]

All tools are here: http://piratesahoy.net/build/tools
The most interesting ones are those in the "Modeling+Texturing" folder.

 

[Sergiolas]

Thanks all for the links
I would try to put two forward cannons on the Interceptor and a shallop (or life-boat, landing boat, i don't know the right term) between the 2 masts, like in the original game lugger...Will be this too complicated?

 

[Commodore Norrington]

GMViewer can make changes for ships too?

 

[Hylie Pistof]

I don't think so. About all it can do is convert a file to a different format as I recall.

 

[Pieter Boelen]

GMViewer can make changes for ships too?

No, it is a viewer only. You need the TOOL for "simple" changes:
http://piratesahoy.net/build/tools/Modeling+Texturing/Inez Dias Tool.rar

 

[DavyJack]

Pressing 'P' to pause does not work...

....The actual keyboard "Pause" key is set to do that...

Tried this and the actual "Pause" key doesn't work too.

 

[Pieter Boelen]

AH! Looks like I removed that functionality from the game completely, because it wouldn't work quite right.
And F1/F2 have the same effect anyway. Completely forgot about that.

 

[Sergiolas]

Question: at the shipyard is it possible to improve your ship, the hull for example? How? The shipyard doesn't have a dialogue line for this...

 

[Grey Roger]

As well as the initial dialog for repairing or selling ships, there are a number of tabs at the top of the screen for upgrades, cannons and repainting. You want the upgrades one. Note that upgrades are expensive, some are very expensive, and one is only available at pirate shipyards...

 

[Sergiolas]

Thanks for the tip

 

[Commodore Norrington]

No, it is a viewer only. You need the TOOL for "simple" changes.

What do you mean "simple"?

 

[Hylie Pistof]

TOOL allows you to create, delete, and move locators. Locators position items on the ship like cannons, masts, rigging, even whole sections of the ship. It is simple, but can get very complicated quickly.

 

[Sergiolas]

This tool looks very interesting, and how to put in game the new ship created?

 

[Hylie Pistof]

That can get complicated and it is easier to just replace an existing ship.

 

[Sergiolas]

There aren't tutorial for this? It would be fantastic if i could create my own ship and add it to the game

 

[Hylie Pistof]

Do you want to modify an existing ship or create a new ship? Modifying a ship isn't too hard, but creating a new ship can easily take a year or more.

You might want to spend some time reading here.
http://www.piratesahoy.net/forums/storm-engine-modeling.72/

 

[Sergiolas]

Really all this time to create a new ship? Well i would to create a new ship starting from an existing one...maybe making it a little smaller than he original size, changing masts by adding or removing them, positioning the cannons here or there....

 

[Hylie Pistof]

Resizing a ship and creating new masts requires Maya. You must learn Maya 5 first.