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how do i add dockpoints to ships, to allow a fighter to dock with a capital ship and vice versa.

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Which ship is it. I'll do it for the patch.

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it's the raider carrier, i want to give it mount points for zephyr fighters. I was watching my season 1 dvds recently and i realised, by adding dockpoints, it should be possible to make it launch fighters exactly like it does in the show.

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Here's another one for the FAQ. It would be possible to make it launch a fighter.

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isn't it possible to have multiple objects docked to a single ship?
just make dockpoints, then ingame the mission creator docks the fighters onto it, and makes them undock.

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It won't work.

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Originally posted by Darkmage
it's the raider carrier, i want to give it mount points for zephyr fighters. I was watching my season 1 dvds recently and i realised, by adding dockpoints, it should be possible to make it launch fighters exactly like it does in the show.

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Didn't you wonder why the highly skilled Modders in this team didn't think of doing it themselves?

The simple fact is that FS2 doesn't support multiple docked fighters. There is a workaround I posted a few weeks back which would work in certain situations (namely when the ship is present in the mission from the start and doesn't move until it launches the fighters).

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Has anyone tried to play with the source code? surely it wouldn't be that hard.

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Originally posted by Darkmage
Has anyone tried to play with the source code? surely it wouldn't be that hard.

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Has anyone tried to play with the source code? surely it wouldn't be that hard.

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oh, do tell,
from what I've seen the whole docking system is just hacked together
and if it launches fighters from a rotateing section (don't remember) this still wouldn't do what you want

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I figured I'd just add a 2d lookup table for what was docked with what and some simple check routines. You're right about the rotating section though. That one's death. Forget I said anything

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interesting, hmm... maybe it'd be easier if I just port the whole mod to the vegastrike engine... we can convert everything including hardpoints, glows etc.

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