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mikegene
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Question About Ship Modifying
Where can I learn about modifying an existing ship's speed & afterburner speed?
Any help is appreciated
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mikegene
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Question About Ship Modifying
Where can I learn about modifying an existing ship's speed & afterburner speed?
Any help is appreciated
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karajorma
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I'm not 100% certain but that should be a simple table modification.
Extract a copy of the ships table using VPView (or get a copy from my link). Play about with the speed and acceleration options until you understand what they do.
Or you can wait till someone more used to table mods answers 
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karajorma
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I'm not 100% certain but that should be a simple table modification.
Extract a copy of the ships table using VPView (or get a copy from my link). Play about with the speed and acceleration options until you understand what they do.
Or you can wait till someone more used to table mods answers 
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mikegene
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Is it even possible to change a ship's attributes and still use it in FS' orginal campaign?
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mikegene
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Is it even possible to change a ship's attributes and still use it in FS' orginal campaign?
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Bobboau
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yes,
so long as you don't change the name
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Bobboau
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yes,
so long as you don't change the name
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mikegene
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ok..great Thats good news.
What program do I do it in?
Forgive my ignorance.
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mikegene
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ok..great Thats good news.
What program do I do it in?
Forgive my ignorance.
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aldo_14
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quote: Originally posted by mikegene
ok..great Thats good news.
What program do I do it in?
Forgive my ignorance.
Check the 'modding' section FreespaceWatch site for a better overview, and tutorials, but........
tbl files are standard ASCII text files - you can edit them with notepad, or wordpad , so long as you don't change the format.
The tbl files are - with all the other files - encoded in a VP file. It's like a zip archive, excpet not actually compressed.
You need VPView to view the VP files and extract the files. TBLView can be used to view - but not edit - tbl files, and can parse them - i.e. display a table of pirmary weapons, etc - which is useful.
I forget the exact links, but IIRc they are both at descent-network.com
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aldo_14
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quote: Originally posted by mikegene
ok..great Thats good news.
What program do I do it in?
Forgive my ignorance.
Check the 'modding' section FreespaceWatch site for a better overview, and tutorials, but........
tbl files are standard ASCII text files - you can edit them with notepad, or wordpad , so long as you don't change the format.
The tbl files are - with all the other files - encoded in a VP file. It's like a zip archive, excpet not actually compressed.
You need VPView to view the VP files and extract the files. TBLView can be used to view - but not edit - tbl files, and can parse them - i.e. display a table of pirmary weapons, etc - which is useful.
I forget the exact links, but IIRc they are both at descent-network.com
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karajorma
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Links for VPView + help on how to use it are in the following link
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neimad
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I think I shoud be offended -- no-one ever mention's my VP editor/viewer. 
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I think I shoud be offended -- no-one ever mention's my VP editor/viewer. 
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mikegene
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neimad,
Is there some place that I can download it and give it a try?
Thanks
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mikegene
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neimad,
Is there some place that I can download it and give it a try?
Thanks
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aldo_14
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quote: Originally posted by neimad
I think I shoud be offended -- no-one ever mention's my VP editor/viewer.
You say that, yet you don't even post a link...........
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aldo_14
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quote: Originally posted by neimad
I think I shoud be offended -- no-one ever mention's my VP editor/viewer.
You say that, yet you don't even post a link...........
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Bobboau
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and you must remember the D-net tools are the cornerstone of all FS modding, we're more likely to remember them than yours
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