CLASS PICTURES

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CLASS PICTURES

The Vstats command that comes with HSpace 4.0 provides the ability for you to show a picture of the ship class to the player. This is easily accomplished by creating a pics directory in your space directory (configurable in hspace.cnf) that will include your class pictures. For each ship class (0 .. n), you simply create a file called class_#.pic, containing the ASCII art you wish to have displayed. Additionally, you can have the hull and shield strength percentages displayed by using the %h (hull), %f (foreshield), %p (port shield), %a (aft shield), %i (ident number), %n (name), %x (XY heading), %z (Z heading), %v (velocity) and %s (starboard shield) substitutions. For each of these substitions, a 4 character percentage (e.g 100%) will be put in its place. Thus, keep this 4 character requirement in mind when drawing your art. What you see may not be what you get when it is displayed.

You do not need to reboot your game for changes to the artwork to be displayed. It is taken directly from the file when the vstats command is issued.