Okay, I'm new around here and I just got the game [which is pure awesome I might add] so I thought I'd have a try at making my own drop ship and I have been met with a problem that I don’t understand.

I thought you guys might be able to show me what is wrong with my drop ship so I can learn from it and so I'll get it right next time.

I stayed within the design of the Dummy drop ship so that the coding would be the same. I have just added my own graphics for now, as it’s only my first try. I saved everything and loaded it into the game and it came out with this:



I think that one of the problems I have is that the back I have used [pure black] gets made transparent too. I can change that. But how'd I get the engines/door to show?

The files for it are all contained here for anyone who is good enough to look at them for me...

http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?gxzgig4myzi

Thanks in advance,

CombatMedic02

Is it in palette? That's the first thing that I think of when I look at it.

ah, i dont have time to check but i thought the same as ultric.
try copying your sprite, pasting it into any working sprite in CC, and saving that image over your sprite. no idea about the engines, id have to poke around to find out but it looks like they're null sprites at the moment..

You're using pitch black as your outlines. CC doesn't render that colour, so you should change it to something like 25,25,25. You cant see the difference but CC can. I'll look at the coding now.
Edit: wasn't an .rte, fixed that. Also the DropshipHullA.bmp wasn't in palette. Fixed that too. Here are the working files.

Thanks man, knew I had to have missed something. Cheers piipu, I'll make sure I don't make the same mistake again. Might mess around with the sprites a little... not sure if I like the umbrella logos on the engines. Its not bad for my first try I guess.

Thanks again for all of your help,

CombatMedic02

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What do you guys think? Topic Is now open for comments and creative criticism.

Lol ... are you gonna make zombies + swat ?

We kinda have both already. With tons of variations.

I like the look of that dropship. Looks kickass. *thumbs up*

I like it's looks too. But maybe change those engine joints to something else, they look a bit silly at the moment.

I was thinking that too... But It might look better if I darken them down abit or added a few dents...

I am also working on troop re-skins, drop pod re-skins, weapon re-skins and I would like to add turrets but i've heard they can be hard to get right...

It's a black re-sprite. Big whoop.

It's his first mod. He didn't expect it to win any awards.

Well our zombies are too green . ResidentEvil's zombies are *red* .

And coalition isnt swat and ronins too , they are rebels .

A swat mod dammit.

someone made swat stuff like 2 weeks ago, how many swat dudes do you need?
edit the point on the thruster where all the flames come out, it still looks unedited. once you have that done, good luck with gibs seriously, making gibs for dropships is a lot of work. most modders dont bother *glares at darlos* because of the sheer number of sprites you have to make for it to look decent..

You can solve the gibbing problem by having everything explode upon dying. Although I wouldn't do something like that in my mods, being a proper modder and all.