Hey there, I'm an animator with some skill in scripting and wanted to create my own mod. I don't really know where to start though so I'm looking for any links, tips, or buzzwords I can google. Specifically I'd like to create a panel that displays my hit points, module damage, reload time, and maybe another panel that displays my target's information (whoever I am moused over). I've looked at a LOT of other mods and none of them have the kind of look I want, Deegie's Sights nails it functionally but the aesthetic is bad, and I get a certain satisfaction in using a custom thing I made. So how would one go about learning to create something like this? I dug around Deegie's Sights mod and saw that he hooked a .swf with animations and shapes to a python file. I know how to make the animations in Flash and I can script in AS2 or 3, but once the process moves to Python I get lost. Any veteran modders out there that can point me in the right direction?
