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I decided to make my own escape pod for EV Nova and I have a question, is the Escape Pod graphic 2-D like a missile, or 3-D like a ship?
Check the data in Shän ID 839. That's the same as the Shďp ID of the escape pod.
The missile and ship graphics are both rendered 3D graphics.
But it can be hard to tell. If you want to make just a little small thing like that in 2-d, feel free.
Okay, thanks.
Can I make 2-D ships in EVN? Like Rapiers and EV fighters and stuff?
@it-000, on Jul 13 2008, 03:44 PM, said in Escape Pod Graphic Questions:
Of course. The 3-D images aren't technically 3-D, instead they're all individual frames of a 3-D model animation. If one wanted, you could make a ship that rotated through all of the letters of the alphabet as you held down the turn key, just using different letters as different frames.
Edit: The caveat, though, is that truly 2-D graphics will probably look out of place compared to the other graphics that Nova uses that simulate three dimensions. For a total conversion, it's not that big of an issue, since everything will come out consistent.
This post has been edited by GutlessWonder : 13 July 2008 - 04:10 PM
Maybe you're confused by the RLËDs, which are no different from PICTs which are encoded differently. (Or so I have heard) Nothing Nova can read is 3D, so, yes, you can use EVC ships in EVN.
@timmytiptoe, on Jul 14 2008, 05:48 AM, said in Escape Pod Graphic Questions:
Maybe you're confused by the RLËDs, which are no different from PICTs which are encoded differently. (Or so I have heard)
rlëD is just a compressed 2D graphic format which stores the same information that the previous Escape Velocity games stored in a pair of PICT resources. As Timmytiptoe says, nothing in any of the Escape Velocity games is 3D; while most of the graphics (even in the original game) were generated from a 3D programme for better realism, they're stored in a 2D format, and you could just as easily replace them with hand-drawn stick figures.