FTL-Overdrive-1

Engine rewrite for FTL: Faster Than Light with a focus on moddability.

This project uses Themable Widget Library.

Requires: Java 1.6+

Several batch files are included:

1. _overdrive_build.bat
   • Compiles Overdrive's source and creates overdrive.jar, including everything in the "./resources/" dir.
2. _overdrive_run.bat
   • Runs overdrive.jar.
3. _themer_run.bat
   • Runs the TWL Theme Editor.
4. _themer_ftldat_run.bat
   • Runs the TWL Theme Editor with support for FTL dats. See below.

For reference it is recommended, though not required, that you manually extract FTL's resources somewhere.

A special protocol has been added so TWL Theme URLs can reference images inside FTL dats.

ftldat://resource.dat/img/main_menus/main_base2.png

If you want to use the Theme Editor, compile overdrive.jar first. It contains a launcher that will set up that protocol handler, then start the editor. Go to File-Open Project, and choose "./resources/theme/FTL-OD.xml".

At runtime "./theme/" will be created by extracting a copy from overdrive.jar (if the dir doesn't already exist). If you edit the contents of that folder, you can press F5 in-game to reload the theme without restarting.

To update the theme ("./resources/theme/" or "./theme/" ?) while debugging:

1. Edit the theme.
2. Right click on the project in Eclipse and select Refresh
3. Press F5 in-game.