N1GH7H4WK

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As I said, I made my new ship but I can't add the icons to the display.
I copied the ship icon to data/icons/ships, but I don't know how to direct the scripts to it
I added the name of the icon in the pointer file and the in file in custom/ships/ship.py, but I had no results. the image is propperly scaled, coloured and masked.
any ideas?

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Have you looked at other ship plugins?
You only need to set the iconName variable to the right icon name. The icons are (if I'm not mistaken) 128x128 alpha blended tga files.

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I did!
How do you think I learned all these (regular) modding abilities? Looking at other people's work!
even with the correct code, it doesn't work.
I saw a definition of something in ShipIcons.py:

Code:

ShipIconDef('Nebula', { 'species': App.SPECIES_NEBULA } ) ShipIconDef('FedShuttle', { 'species': App.SPECIES_SHUTTLE } ) ShipIconDef('Transport', { 'species': App.SPECIES_TRANSPORT } ) ShipIconDef('Defiant', { 'species': 136 } ) ShipIconDef('Intrepid', { 'species': 114 } ) ShipIconDef('USSLennox', { 'species': 128 } ) ShipIconDef('Norway', { 'species': 116 } ) ShipIconDef('Nova', { 'species': 117 } )

as you can see, there are two ways to load an icon.
should I add
ShipIconDef('MyShip', { 'species': *** } ) ?

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What should just work is the following in a normal (as generated by BCMP) plugin:

Code:

iconName = "Your Icon filename in data\Icons\Ships\ without the tga"

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that's what I used.
I changed an standard plugin to adapt it to my ship, so I replaced all exactly as the original.
I'll check the tga again, just to be sure....

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bad tga.
works fine now. thanks

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I had that problem with the Klingon Raptor (recently) and it turned out to be a corrupt plugin py, the one in scripts\custom\ships

As I looked at it everything was correct ,and it pointed to the correct files and everything

but when I deleted the one that was there , used BCMP and made a new one I got my tactical Icon.

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