Character Portraits?

[Amen Brick]

Inspired by the explorable station threads. Would it be possible to have static graphics of your pilot/mission givers/other people. Maybe flash up if they talk to you in space?

[Disembodied]

There was some (ultimately negative) discussion about providing portraits of characters in-game here -- and it would require an awful lot of artwork to avoid repeating the same images over and over again. A facility for a personal character portrait, maybe appearing on the F5 page, though, would be a nice way for people to personalise their game, though: you could make a small number of sample portraits but have the ability to upload an image of a standard size of your own if you wanted.

Mind you, this would probably require a bit of guddling around in the main program -- i.e. not be OXPable -- so I don't know if it would ever get a terribly high priority on the list!

[ramon]

you could upload your own photo/pic. Or us artist's out there could create say, 10 pairs of eyes, 10 noses etc etc with a few variations on uniforms.

Considering how quickly the uptake on the 'Your Ad here' oxp I think if we set some parameters we'd get plenty of variety over time.

[Selezen]

I think the idea of having your own avatar is a good one, but there isn't really much point to it in a single player game. You know what you look like...

[pagroove]

Yes,

Nice idea. And I also want the option that you can name your ship. Then Captain Hesperus can name his python 'Dubious Profit'.

[Cmdr. Maegil]

I don't care much about the pic, and to rename your ship, changing the ship data manually is easy enough... as long as you know this.

[another_commander]

And I also want the option that you can name your ship. Then Captain Hesperus can name his python 'Dubious Profit'.

This is already doable. Just add this to your python-player entry in shipdata.plist:

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display_name = "Dubious Profit";

And relaunch Oolite with Shift pressed. Voila!

[LittleBear]

Can you do that as a variable? As in:-

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display_name = mission_random_hits_mark_name;

[another_commander]

Can you do that as a variable?

I don't think so. But you can always give it a try and see.

Edit: You want the victim's name appearing as the designation of the ship, if I have understood correctly. I think the best way is to assign a script to the ship whose display name you want changed and do something like this:

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this.shipSpawned = function()
{
    let aString = missionVariables.random_hits_mark_name;
    if (aString) this.ship.shipDisplayName = aString;
}

I'll see if I can get it to work and report back. But it should be doable.

Edit2: Yes it is doable. The above code works just fine.

[Eric Walch]

Can you do that as a variable? As in:-

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display_name = mission_random_hits_mark_name;

Yes. Look in the ship Script of the buoyRepair. There I change the ship name by adding a random number, but you could also use an other string like a mission variable.

[another_commander]

The code snippet I posted earlier has been updated, tested and found to work.

So now you have two examples to look at

[LittleBear]

Cool. I'll add this in for V1.3!

[pagroove]

Thnx guys. Didn't know that it was already possible by editing. I would however to have it built in when you buy a ship.

[Cmdr. Maegil]

That sounds like a job for the Lord of the Shipyards!

[Lestradae]

I would however to have it built in when you buy a ship.

That sounds like a job for the Lord of the Shipyards!

If its doable and someone tells how to do it, it`s going to be in, sounds like a nice add-on.