Can''t Shoot my ship!?

Wed Apr 21, 2004 11:27 am by Derrick

Hey all,
I have just made a new ship for FL, everything is working great up until this point, I am at the stage where all the textures and hardpoints are done and the ship is in the game, buyable etc. Now.. I am testing it with a friend of mine and there is a HUGE problem, the sheild can be shot down like any other ship, but the hull wont budge from guns. Torps, missles mines, etc can hit it, the hull goes down (VERY slowly) but it does. When its shot by a gun the shot goes right through it, the only thing the guns will actually connect with are my mounts, i.e. Weapons, mine launcher etc. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

Wed Apr 21, 2004 11:33 am by Chips

It needs a sur file. For this:

Think about the NEAREST fitting ship from FL that comes close - its fairly easy usually - think freighters, fighters etc - including size. If its massive, then trains, armored transports and bships work well too.

Then, once you have done that, go to the freelancer directory, and into the ships folder (data/ships). IN there choose the nation the ship belongs too, and go into their folder. You will find folders for their ship types, so Defender is liberty_elite or something. Go into the folder of choice, and find the name of the ship file.sur

As in
Br_elite.sur (crusader). now copy the file, and paste it into your MOD SHIPS folder, and then RENAME it to match the CMP name of your ship....but instead of .cmp leave it as .sur..

So if your ships CMP file is Primordialsoup.cmp

Then your new sur file would be............. Primordialsoup.sur

Then you should be fine

Wed Apr 21, 2004 11:37 am by Derrick

Wow, thanx alot, that was MORE than quick. little over 5 mins and already a reply

Anyways, I'll try that out, thanx for the help

Wed Apr 21, 2004 11:38 am by Megistos

Bear in mind that this won't work perfectly unless your ship is exactly the same shape as an existing one - there will be places where shots go through you and places where they 'hit' even though you don't see them connect. But it's better than nothing

"There are 10 kinds of people in this world: those who understand binary and those who don't"

Wed Apr 21, 2004 11:48 am by Derrick

Ok, i'll keep that in mind, try to get it as close as possible. Thanx a lot guys!

Wed Apr 21, 2004 12:09 pm by Derrick

Just tried it out, works awsome. Turns out the eagle is a pretty good fit to my ship

. Thanx again guys, you where a huge help!

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