How does this work?

I apoligize if this question has been asked already, but here goes.

How do you 'connect' a ship resource to a shan? I haven't noticed any fields like 'Ship Shan #:' or anything. I thought maybe the ship resource and the shan would have the same ID number, but then what about different ships with the same shan (such as upgrades)?

Thanks in advance.

Same ID number is the thing.

Other then that i have no clue. You´d better wait for some more experienced to answer.

And btw welcome to the boards.

Sir Pudding, on Dec 11 2004, 10:52 AM, said:

I thought maybe the ship resource and the shan would have the same ID number,

Correct.

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but then what about different ships with the same shan (such as upgrades)?

Duplicate the shän and give the copy the ID of the upgraded ship. Multiple shäns can point to the same rlë_ resources, so having duplicate shäns isn't a big deal in terms of disk space.

You could have found out the answers to both questions by looking at the resources in the EV Nova datafiles carefully.

Thanks for the help. And Weepul, yeah, I probably should have done that. I just remember (I think) in EV and EVO that you put the sprite # in a field, and was thinking it'd be something like that in Nova.

If both shän point to the same base sprites, the second ship also uses the same miscellany (shiyard PICT, target PICT) ship images, saving also this space.