Included in Build Interface Screenshots for Ships

[Pieter Boelen]

Armada, do we need to replace those Fleut interface textures for Beta 3?

 

[Armada]

Ideally, yes. I'll see if I can do that this weekend.

 

[Pieter Boelen]

Cheers! What other things do you still intend to get done for the proper Beta 3 release?
Just so I've got an idea of what to prepare for....

We've still got time anyway; need to give the full installer some internal testing time before throwing it out to the public.

 

[Armada]

Definitely the final FR_Couronne fix, and next priority after that is giving Willemstad a port model so players can actually see it.
Thankfully, that one uses a location based on Martinique, so I can borrow their port/fort combo model to make things simple.

 

[Pieter Boelen]

Cool! I'll be looking forward to it!

 

[Armada]

Quick question: is the Gold-Bug itself supposed to be a ship? If so, why is its interface image so different?

 

[Pieter Boelen]

It's not a ship, just an image that Jack Rackham wants to have shown in place of the regular ship picture.

 

[Armada]

Ah, so it's just for the Select Storyline interface? That would make sense.

 

[Armada]

One more thing: do we still want the interface pictures to be compressed? If space is no longer an issue, perhaps we could use the extra image quality.

 

[Pieter Boelen]

Ah, so it's just for the Select Storyline interface? That would make sense.

Yep.

One more thing: do we still want the interface pictures to be compressed? If space is no longer an issue, perhaps we could use the extra image quality.

I've been using 16 bit uncompressed for all interface textures. The only stuff I'd be inclined to compress are textures applied to models, because there you really can't tell.
But on interfaces, it tends to be very obvious. So by all means, go for uncompressed.

 

[Armada]

OK, here you go: InterfaceScreenshots_31-08-13.7z
This includes all four files; three updated with the Fleut pictures, and for the last one I moved the Gold-Bug picture behind the image borders and added the newer CursedCrimsonBlood picture (the old one was still in use, for some reason).

 

[Hylie Pistof]

Curses. I never did get to update the fleut of war 34g. Maybe next time.

 

[Pieter Boelen]

Brilliant, thanks again, Armada!

 

[Pieter Boelen]

And another update, courtesy of Hylie's fluyt upgrades.

 

[Armada]

And here is the updated texture file: InterfaceScreenshots_04-09-13.7z

 

[Pieter Boelen]

Wow, that's QUICK!

BTW: It seems to me the images are still appearing a bit pixelated. Perhaps you would consider re-converting them as A8R8G8B8?
It'll make the files larger still, but I think we can afford that for images that are used so much throughout the game.

 

[Armada]

If you say so. I've updated the archive I posted earlier via the link above.

 

[Pieter Boelen]

Even better!

 

[Pieter Boelen]

Four new ones by @Hylie Pistof.

 

[Armada]

I'll wait until we're sure that those textures are being used how we want.

It's been a while since I've changed ye olde ship screenshot files!