After spending 6 hours banging my head on the desk, I finally converted all the player stats to XML. All the ship equipment is now loaded through XML files. Woot!

Also added some nice graphical touches, like engine trails and smoke.

Ship Info screen also cleaned up!

http://www.philip-radvan.com/paralla...llax_v045.html

Version 0.45
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-HUGE Update; Ship equipment data loaded from XML

-added engine trails to player
-added smoke damage to player

-added smoke damage to enemies
-added shield damage animation to enemies
-added armor damage animation to enemies

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Drag and Drop inventory system is next. This is going to be a tough one