I've recently become acquainted with Volutar's MCDEdit and I have been using it to make changes to tilesets as needed for my mod. Most of my changes have been going into the Lightning tileset, which was already pretty tileable from the start. It's nice to be able to build a ship into the shape that you want, rather than having one specific shape that it's made to work in. I've added many things to the Lightning tileset that improve its ability to make unique ship designs.
LIGHTNIA.MCD includes everything that LIGHTNIN.MCD already had, plus:
- 2x2 power source
- 1-tile craft doors for all four directions
- 2-tile craft doors for all four directions
- stairs for all four directions
- north and west ramps (perhaps I will eventually add east and south ramps)
- corner walls which include floor for when the craft sits on the ground
- interior walls with 4 variations (taken from Avenger)
- interior doors with unique artwork
- instrument panels facing all 4 directions
- 3x3 craft weapon mount
- energy lift
Let me know what else you think this MCD should have in it. If you wish to contribute any artistic skills, post your creations here and I can have them added to the MCD. I'll decide what should go in and what shouldn't, but these are my guidelines:
1.) The more content the better.
2.) I want everything to look like it belongs in vanilla X-Com, with the same quality graphics.