[REQ] Ship icons (gray)

Royale-Adio · 07-27-10, 12:05 AM

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Originally Posted by SteelViking

Well, I just took a glance around, and I think I found the texture files which are used to render those little symbols(I have seen them before, so I pretty much knew where they were). Here is the good news: It looks like it would be very easy to make them all the same shape(so they would not tell what class it was). Here is the bad news: they all appear white in the image files, which means they are being given color by something, either scripting which one of the UI boys could change or it might be hard coded.

Mind you, I did not spend too much time looking into this, if someone were to dig deeper, they may find I am wrong.

Edit: @ Sober, are you sure that the mechanism used in SHIII for those symbols is the same as SH5?

I think they are hard coded too. I took a glance at them also, and I saw exactly what you described. Theres the Shapes folder which contains SHP files that, when opened with text, looks like jibberish. It look like HEX, but I'm no expert so I'm not sure.

THE_MASK · 07-27-10, 12:22 AM

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Originally Posted by Royale-Adio

I think they are hard coded too. I took a glance at them also, and I saw exactly what you described. Theres the Shapes folder which contains SHP files that, when opened with text, looks like jibberish. It look like HEX, but I'm no expert so I'm not sure.

The only shp files i have found are dds files ?

Royale-Adio · 07-27-10, 12:58 AM

I meant in the menu folder.

Vanilla · 07-27-10, 01:42 PM

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Originally Posted by Royale-Adio

I think they are hard coded too. I took a glance at them also, and I saw exactly what you described. Theres the Shapes folder which contains SHP files that, when opened with text, looks like jibberish. It look like HEX, but I'm no expert so I'm not sure.

I looked into the .shp files, that is what I found:
Not sure about the first number, maybe it is a color.

The second number gives you number of dots. I.e. 28 means that there are 28 dots.
The three-numbers rows following are the XYZ coordinates of those dots. Since we are talking about 2d shapes - z is always 0. X and Y are just that - X and Y. So if you take MS Excel or OO Calc and make it to plot XY graph on the coordinates given in the first part of our file - you can roughly see the actual shape coded in the file. Try it for example on the ring.shp file - the name is self-explanatory.

I guess the second part gives you shapes (thickness, maybe color) of the lines between the dots. But I cannot figure out what do the numbers mean.

However even knowing this I just do not undertand how and what to those .shp files are used in the game,

Seeadler · 07-27-10, 02:01 PM

I intend to publish my Shape Viewer in a few days.

I developed this tool in the past for some of my own map mods.
The viewer can display the shapes, export / import to/from OFF so editing of the shapes in others app is also possible.

Vanilla · 07-27-10, 02:03 PM

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Originally Posted by Seeadler

I intend to publish my Shape Viewer in a few days.

I developed this tool in the past for some of my own map mods.
The viewer can display the shapes, export / import to/from OFF so editing of the shapes in others app is also possible.

Wow! Great news! Thank you so much! Now I don't have to spend my whole night looking into those files.

TheDarkWraith · 08-01-10, 08:05 AM

the color is done by a shader and yes the color can be removed and set to just one color

Here all contacts are set to black in color:

Now trying to take the color away from the contact lines......

SteelViking · 08-01-10, 08:55 AM

Nice work TDW. Now you should replace all the different icon .dds files with the same one.

TheDarkWraith · 08-01-10, 09:01 AM

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Originally Posted by SteelViking

Nice work TDW. Now you should replace all the different icon .dds files with the same one.

doesn't work like that. The symbols for the ships are drawn using the .shp files. The coloring for them is done with a pixel shader.

07-27-10, 12:58 AM	#3
Royale-Adio Officer Join Date: Jul 2009 Posts: 238 Downloads: 119 Uploads: 5	I meant in the menu folder. __________________ Lurking In The Dark...

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Seeadler Pacific Aces Dev Team Join Date: Mar 2001 Location: Northern Germany Posts: 1,096 Downloads: 169 Uploads: 0	I intend to publish my Shape Viewer in a few days. I developed this tool in the past for some of my own map mods. The viewer can display the shapes, export / import to/from OFF so editing of the shapes in others app is also possible. __________________ -- Vapor-ware is always easier to sell because there's no limit what it can do!

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SteelViking The Old Man Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: U.S.A.-East Coast Posts: 1,587 Downloads: 86 Uploads: 4	Nice work TDW. Now you should replace all the different icon .dds files with the same one. __________________ He sank 198,650 tons....who you ask?....Erich Topp, that's who!

08-01-10, 08:05 AM	#7
TheDarkWraith Black Magic Join Date: Jun 2007 Posts: 11,962 Downloads: 147 Uploads: 5	the color is done by a shader and yes the color can be removed and set to just one color Here all contacts are set to black in color: Now trying to take the color away from the contact lines......