Topic: WANTED: Ship Editor for SFC2:OP

[Zeus_Cannon]

Sorry if this has been discussed to death, but I'd like to know if there are any free utilities out there for modifying or making your own custom ships.   I'm not so much interested in custom graphics, as I am more interested in the SSD's.   I've played SFC1 and SFC2:EaW, and did some hacking, but it was a chore to do with a text editor, and it didn't always work as intended...

From the research I've done, I get the impression there is no official rules set for building custom ships or modifying existing ships, but if anyone could direct me to some highly regarded house rules for building/modifying credible ships, I'd appreciate it.  

[Pestalence]

Actually there have been ship editors available for years now.. ever since SFC 1.. the program is called ShipEdit.. I have an installer that will install Shipedit for SFC 1 and EAW, and Shipedit OP both onto your system giving desktop shortcuts...

I recommend that if you are editing orion Pirates shiplist, then you first open it in Shipedit EAW first, then immediately open it in Shipedit OP.. Shipedit EAW has notations available for each box you are editing, giving examples and such where shipedit OP does not have that feature....

For the Full Installer, I need to upload it, just give me until tomorrow and I will make it available.

There are also other places to get it, but those other methods will require 2 downloads and to follow some different steps before it will work correctly.

My Full Installer would be the simpliest to use, but I need to get it uploaded.

Hope that this helps..

P.S. I'll post back here with the URL as soon as it is available..

PPS. The shiplist also opens in Excel.. in notepad, you have to be very careful with tab spacing as deleting just 1 tab spacing will mess up an entire ship.. in Excel, you have the cells to work within, thus helping to prevent messing up the format.. but Shipedit OP and Shipedit EAW are the easiest to use for making a ship by ship edit.
 

[Pestalence]

Shipedit and Shipedit OP installer is available at :

http://www.sfcx.org/downloads/mirrors/Pestalence/Shipedit.exe

Hope that this helps.
 

[DonKarnage]

i got them on my hd ziped, and it seem your url is not working.
you can get them  here:http://www.freewebs.com/eras-of-war/mods.htm    

[Pestalence]

URL is not working due to me uploading to SFCx at the moment.. the link will be live in an hour or so..

this is a singe installer that will install ShipEdit and ShipEdit OP in 1 swipe.. none of the Download, install patch, download again and manually install to get Shipedit Op working.. with my installer it has the complete Shipedit and Shipedit OP installed with desktop shortcuts to both with this one installer.. and it is only 9.08 MB in size.

Hope that this helps.
 

[Pestalence]

Correction.. Link is live as of now.
 

[Zeus_Cannon]

Sorry if this has been discussed to death, but I'd like to know if there are any free utilities out there for modifying or making your own custom ships.   I'm not so much interested in custom graphics, as I am more interested in the SSD's.   I've played SFC1 and SFC2:EaW, and did some hacking, but it was a chore to do with a text editor, and it didn't always work as intended...

From the research I've done, I get the impression there is no official rules set for building custom ships or modifying existing ships, but if anyone could direct me to some highly regarded house rules for building/modifying credible ships, I'd appreciate it.  

[Pestalence]

Actually there have been ship editors available for years now.. ever since SFC 1.. the program is called ShipEdit.. I have an installer that will install Shipedit for SFC 1 and EAW, and Shipedit OP both onto your system giving desktop shortcuts...

I recommend that if you are editing orion Pirates shiplist, then you first open it in Shipedit EAW first, then immediately open it in Shipedit OP.. Shipedit EAW has notations available for each box you are editing, giving examples and such where shipedit OP does not have that feature....

For the Full Installer, I need to upload it, just give me until tomorrow and I will make it available.

There are also other places to get it, but those other methods will require 2 downloads and to follow some different steps before it will work correctly.

My Full Installer would be the simpliest to use, but I need to get it uploaded.

Hope that this helps..

P.S. I'll post back here with the URL as soon as it is available..

PPS. The shiplist also opens in Excel.. in notepad, you have to be very careful with tab spacing as deleting just 1 tab spacing will mess up an entire ship.. in Excel, you have the cells to work within, thus helping to prevent messing up the format.. but Shipedit OP and Shipedit EAW are the easiest to use for making a ship by ship edit.
 

[Pestalence]

Shipedit and Shipedit OP installer is available at :

http://www.sfcx.org/downloads/mirrors/Pestalence/Shipedit.exe

Hope that this helps.
 

[DonKarnage]

i got them on my hd ziped, and it seem your url is not working.
you can get them  here:http://www.freewebs.com/eras-of-war/mods.htm    

[Pestalence]

URL is not working due to me uploading to SFCx at the moment.. the link will be live in an hour or so..

this is a singe installer that will install ShipEdit and ShipEdit OP in 1 swipe.. none of the Download, install patch, download again and manually install to get Shipedit Op working.. with my installer it has the complete Shipedit and Shipedit OP installed with desktop shortcuts to both with this one installer.. and it is only 9.08 MB in size.

Hope that this helps.
 

[Pestalence]

Correction.. Link is live as of now.