I finally got my ass into gear this month and I'm happy to say that the interior decorating system is very nearly complete! I ended up needing to rebuild the entire ship interior from scratch multiple times, but I finally landed on a system/architecture that I'm happy with. I wanted to get it right because the same system will eventually be used for space station interiors.
The customization system can be accessed from the Body Shop terminals on the 2nd level of City stations. The UI, while functional, is deeply embarrassing.
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| Y'all, I ... am NOT GOOD at this |
This is hopefully just a placeholder. I'm planning on giving it a proper beauty pass before release, but you never know, maybe I'll get lazy. Anyway, from here you can change the style and color of the whole ship or of individual areas, so you can have multiple vibes per ship. Business in the cockpit, party in the midship. It's pretty fun to play with!
Bonus Trippy Nonsense
I'm not ready to share final result screenshots quite yet, but here are a couple of short, trippy videos that I made while testing various aspects of the interior customization system. Just for fun:
Coming Up Next
I've only got 2 or 3 days worth of work left on getting the interior customization system feature complete, but then there's a bunch of loose ends like integrating it into the save/load system which will take a bit longer. After that we'll be moving on to exterior customization! I should be able to reuse some elements of the interior system and hopefully learn from my mistakes so if all goes well it should come together fairly quickly.
Notable words used in that last sentence: 'should', 'hopefully', 'if all goes well', then we've got another 'should', and a 'fairly' for good measure. Believing in yourself is for fools.
