Plugin Manager Help - Ship Creator - Customise Ship

To customise a ship, you first have to load the ships data or xsp file into the ship creator, then select the "Customize Ship" option from.

This will open the customize ship dialog ready for you to make any changes to the ships that you wish.

First of all, you need to set the X3 Directory and the Base Language.

The X3 directory is where the program can find all the games data and language files. Once selected, you then choose which language from the list. The list display all languages of the standard text file for X3.

Once set, you can now make the required changes.

Info:

The info page has various different settings for the ship.

• Owner Race: This is the race that the ship belongs too.
• Ship Variation: This is the different variant for the ship, ie Sentinal, Vanguard, etc. This controls what is added to the ship name and what the ship verbrose says.
• Ship Class: This is the class the ship belongs to, ie M3 Fighter, M2 Destroyor, etc.
• Docking Slots: This controls the number of docking slots available for ships to docked, used for carriers.
• Cargo Space
  • Minimum: This is the minimum cargo space, the size of the cargo bay before any upgrades.
  • Maximum: This is the maximum size of the cargo hold after its fully upgraded, and determins the amount of upgrades available.
  • Cargo Type: This is the maximum cargo size that the ship can hold, ie ST will allow the ship to carry stations.
• Price: This is the price value for the ship, this determins the cost of the ship when you buy it, NOTE: This is the price value, not the actual price that appears in the game.
• Notority Required: This is the amount of Notority that you need to be able to buy the ship from the race who owns the shipyard.
  • Set To Preset: You can use this to set the miminum notority to a set value, the drop down box will display all ranks for the race, select the rank you want and it will fill in the value required.

Performance:

This is for the ships performance, like the speed and manovrability of the ship.

• Speed: This is the speed and acceleration of the ship
  • Minimum: This is the lowest speed of the ship without any tunings, This first value is an interger value that is used by the game, the 2nd is the translated value into m/s so you can tell how fast its ment to be. You can edit either and both will be updated to match.
  • Speed Extensions: This is the number of extensions the ship can install, this determines the maximum speed
  • Maximum: This is the maximum speed the ship can travel when fully upgrades, you cant adjust these values, and are determined from the minimum speed and extensions.
  • Acceleration: This is how fast the ship can accelerate and deccelerate. This first value is the interger value used by the game and the 2nd is the translated value. Line the speed, you can edit both.
• Tuning: This is the ships turning ability, You can set the 3 values for turning, Yaw, Pitch and Roll. To change the values, either move the dial to the correct settings, or click on the + or - button for fine tuning. There 1st value is the translated value that appears in the game, the 2nd is the data value that the game data files uses.
• Rudder Extensions: This is the number of extensions available for tuning.

Weapons:

The Weapons tab has settings for the ships weapon capacity and shields.

• Shields
  • Shield Type: This is the maximum shield type that can be installed
  • Mximum Shield Count: This is the maximum number of shields that can be installed
  • hull Stength: The amount of hull units the ship has
• Reactor Output
  • Reactor Output: This is the size of the reactor the ship has, ie how much power it has
  • Weapons Energy: This is the amount of energy the ship has for weapons, this is depleted when firing.
  • Recharge Rate: This is the recharge rate for the weapon energy, the first value is the translated value, and is in J/s, the 2nd is the Data value, You can edit either, and the other will be updated.
  • Number of Missiles: This is the number of missiles the NPC ships will have

Model:

This includes various settings for the ships model and sounds. IE the different effect values and sound volomns.

Lasers/Weapons:

This allows you to set the lasers that can be mounted on the front of the ship as well as the missiles that are compatable.

Selecting the Lasers or Missiles options changes the display between the available lasers and missiles.

In the List, each item has a check box, Check the weapons or missiles you wish mountable.

The bottom box display the mask for the installable weapons or missiles.

Turrets:

In the turrets tab, you can adjust the different turrets on the ship, changing thier weapons and scenes.

Main Cockpit: The main cockpit is the camera object for the main cockpit. This is the object in the scene file thats used to position the cockpit camera. If you have a scene file, it will list all available model entries and thier index.

Turret List :

The Next list is the available turrets, you can have upto 6 turrets on the ship, each with a different position, Front, Rear, Right, Left, Up and Down.

To add a new turret, click on the "Add Turret". You will then be asked to select the position, only the unsued positions will be displayed as you cant add 2 turrets with the same position. If you already have 5 turrets, it will add the last remaining position straight away without asking.

• #: This is the Turret Number
• Type: This is the cockpit type it uses, either the number of the position for standard cockpits, or the ID of the custom cockpit.
• Position: This is the position of the turret, each turret is a different position.
• Body ID: This is the camera object from the scene file and it positions the camera for each turret.

To change the Body ID for a turret, simply double click on the item in the list, and you will be asked to select a new object, This only works if you have a scene file available in the ship file.

To Remove a turret, highlight it in the list and click on the "Remove Turret" button.

Cockpits:

When you select the turret, you can then adjust the cockpit type for that turret.

Either select Standard or custom Cockpit. Standard allows you to use one of the built in cockpits and you just select it from the List.

Custom Cockpit allows you to customise the cockpit for each turret, either select one of the available cockpits in the list, or click on the New button to add an new entries.

You also need to enter the scene for the cockpit, this is whats displayed as the cockpit when you in that turret.

Finally, you need to select the guns that are compatable with this cockpit, ie what guns that turret can use. All guns on the turret can use the same weapons.

Guns:

The guns tab allows you to edit each gun entry for the turrets.

This first list are the available turrets, and how many guns are on each turret.

Selecting the turret entries will allow you to add and remove guns to that cockpit.

The first entries is the gun positions for the main cockpit, this also determines how many guns you can mount on the front.

The second list display all the available guns on the selected cockpit.

The primary body is the body reference from the main scene file, ie the weapons dummies to position the guns on the ship.

The secondary body is the body reference from the dummy entry for the primary body. IE some gun models could be made up of multiple guns, use the secondary body to select which one it should use. This is only avaialble if the dummy entry exists for the ship.

To add a gun, click on the "Add Gun" button, this will add an empty item to the list, then you need to configure it.

To remove a gun, select the gun to remove and click "Remove Gun".

To edit the gun entry, select the gun from the list, and use either Automatic or Manual Entry.

Automatic Entry:

This reads the dummies and scene files to fine all avaialble positions, and allows you to simply choose the one thats required.

Manual Entry:

This allows you to enter the model and index manually.

Just fill in the boxes and click on the Update to update the entries