HowTos

Artwork, Modding, Modeling, etc

• You want to create your own mod for VS? Start here.
• Ship/Unit related
  • Creating a 3D-model of your ship/station/...
    • HowTo:Create Ships - outdated but maybe useful version of the above.
  • Editing the xunit file of a ship
  • Editing the xmesh file of a ship
  • Editing HUDs, placing radars, ...
  • Creating a 3D cockpit for your ship.
  • Texturing your 3D model
    • WIP VegaStrike texturing page by Major
    • Texturing tutorial by Duality
  • Adding an engine glow to your 3D model
  • Adding per-pixel lighting to your 3D model
  • Making autopiloting leave behind star dust
  • Using animated textures on a model
• Adding new weapons to the game
• Creating or editing star systems
• Generating cubicic or spherical backgrounds for star systems
• Making splash screens that display at startup
• Making backgrounds for bases and capships (See also this thread)
• Info related
  • Putting ship and goods descriptions into the game
  • Adding more conversation lines to the game
• Mission/Event related
  • Creating or editing your own missions
  • Creating or editing news events

Installing, Compiling, Programming, etc

(see also FAQ:Installing)

• See also Development
• Using GDB
• VS-CVS (many tips/hints in these HowTos will works for the other OS as well):
  • Checkouting Vegastrike CVS modules with various programs.
  • Compiling from CVS under your favourite Unixlike OS
  • Compiling from CVS under Cygwin
  • Compiling from CVS under Visual C++
• Wings
  • Compiling CVS version of Wings 3d (Linux)
  • Installing Wings 3d and the xmesh plugin

See also

• For related Tools see the Links section.