Texturing a Starship Tutorial by Fireball.


Background
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In this tutorial, I teach you how I make the panelling/aztec for a starship and how to do some general texturing.
I figured while making a ship I could document what I did so I could share my techniques with the community.



Whats Required
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- Some sort of graphics program
> Jasc Paint Shop Pro was used for the creationg of this texture
- Some creativity
- Patience
- More Patience



Whats Included
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- A long tutorial that teaches you my method of texturing.
- A texture template for the model I have included.
- SOD's and ODF's for the 2 ships you will work on in the tutorial
> This gives the user the ability to see thier textures ingame!
- Install instructions for putting your ship ingame.



Whats Not Included
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- Wireframes and build buttons are not included
> The reasoning behind this is that a users build button or
wireframe would vary depending on the textures they create.
- Admirals log picture, same reasoning as above.
- Damage and Borg textures as this is once again texture dependant.



Install Instructions
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When installing your ships, the process is pretty simple, it goes as follows:

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1:
Drag and drop the ship contents of the ZIP file directly
into your Armada II directory to add the new files
to your game.


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2:
Go to your ODF folder in the base Armada II directory.
Proceed to the Stations folder.
Open the ODF of a shipyard of your choice
and add the starships to build there

(x representing the build item)

buildItemx = "FZophia"
buildItemy = "FZophiaR"

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3:
Go to the techtree folder in the Armada II directory.
Open tech1.tt
Look under federation ships
and put the following lines:

FZophia.odf 1 fbase.odf
FZophiaR.odf 2 fbase.odf fyard.odf

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Legal
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One may use this tutorial to learn to texture any ship and release said ship without giving any credit.
However, if one would like to release the Zophia or Zophia refit included in this tutorial, credit
MUST be given for the SOD's and ODF's!
This being said, anyone is free to make thier own texture for these ships and release it as long as proper
credit is given! I look forward to seeing what others can come up with.

I am not responsible for any damage this may cause to your system.
If your have problems, are looking for permission to use my mod or would like to alter it and put it in your mod you can contact me at:

furious_fireball_101@yahoo.ca or via Armada2files.com