Docking cap ships.

Sun Sep 11, 2005 10:14 am by vchan

I'm not all that pro at modding freelancer, but I'm wondering if it's possible to create a mod that allows capships like battleship osiris to "dock" in something like another capship (or a base) without needing to go through the docking bay entrance. Something like this would be very effective, because it would not only allow capships to dock anywhere, but it would also increase the realism of capships docking implying the use of a shuttle or teleporation technology to enter the planet or base (I cringe everytime I see my battleship osiris go right through the docking rings of planets).

Sun Sep 11, 2005 10:30 am by -Trail-

yeah its posable, not enrirely sure but i think its possable, i duno if its been done or not.. aye

Sun Sep 11, 2005 11:05 am by Manhattan_Guy

It's definitely possible. Let them use moors. And when you set their HpMount way in front of the ship and adjust the camera as well, you can even dock with them and won't have messed up hangars, because the ship's too big.

Sun Sep 11, 2005 1:06 pm by Mace_166

Yeah, there is a docking fix that was done ages ago. Yoiu just use the "jump" command (from jumpgates) and tell the game engine to jump you to the docking position.

Sun Sep 11, 2005 2:35 pm by Star/|\Seeker

u could just move the dock point on the model using fl hardpoint editor to make it below the battleship or watever, but if u just move dock point tho, it will effect all ships docking, including fighters and stuff, so u could have a fighter docking like 2 km away... this would be wierd so if u add something to the model that looks decent, such as an extended airlock or something so it looks like your fighter is "about" to move into position with it before the screen goes black, but with a battleship of equal size, it would appear to already have connected BEFORE the screen goes black.

also, this could also work if u wanted to make a ship dock inside of a shipyard... but the only problem i would not understand is how to set the path your ship would take after entering autopilot, i mean u dont wanna go ramming the side of a shipyard trying to get in, but you would wannit to actually fly in the open part...

Sun Sep 11, 2005 8:01 pm by cvince

is it possible to provide any links of this being done? I can't seem to find any.

Thanks a lot for the replies btw.

Edited by - cvince on 9/11/2005 9:02:46 PM

Sun Sep 11, 2005 9:03 pm by Argh

Go download the XML Toolkit Mod, 1.2. Among other things, I have fixed many of the docking problems. 1.3 will feature customized CMPs that really fix all of it very nicely

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