Elite Ship Pack
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This mod adds the Cobra MkIII, Krait Assault Craft, Ferdelance, Thargoid Warship and Thargon from the Elite series.  They are to be bought at the following locations
Cobra MkIII + Ferdelance 	: Planet Pittsburgh 
Krait Assault Craft	 	: Rochester
Thargiod Warship + Thargon	: Buffalo Base

All ship costs are calculated with FLShip Cost Calculator.

All ships come in original Elite finishes by default but located in each ships directory are batch files to switch textures.  You can buy a ship, save quit, switch textures and reload no probs.  Each ship has atleast one alternative texture.

The main idea of this is to make it easy for people to do their own skins for the ships.  Each ship has been texture mapped to a 2D version of the ship to make it as easy as possible to design your own skin.  The file 'blank.tga' is located in the data\ships\shipname\ directory and shows the blank model with lines to represent the panels of the ship.  All you need to do is edit it (i use paint shop pro) and then save it as an uncompressed .tga file.  Once you have done that, open up shipname.mat with FL UTF (available from http://www.lancersreactor.com) and open up the texture library node.  Now open the xxxxxxxx.tga node.  This will now show the MIP0 node.  Click on this then click on import file and select your new skin.tga file.  Save the .mat file (overwriting the original) and the next time you load FL the ship is magically reskinned with your snazzy texture.

In making this mod i have sponged off alot of peoples hard work ;)  The Borg Sphere tutorial taught me about ships, Zens tutorial showed me how to get the ships properly into the game.  Not to mention the hundreds of posts on TLR i read.  Also i nicked the some textures from an elite website - http://www.siroccostation.com/papermodels.html. 

Also i would like to give alot of respect to all the people making the editing utilities they make life a hell of alot easier.  Utilities i used :
Milkshape
FL .CMP Exporter
FLUTFEdit
BiniQDU
Reshacker
FLED-ids
FL INI Referer

and of course FLMM!
     