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Capital ships mod: help needed

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Post Sun Jun 05, 2005 12:38 pm

Capital ships mod: help needed

The small mod I'm making isn't only about capships, but the majority of problems that arise are related to large ships. I've found answers to many questions on this forum, but not all.

1) I was able to make almost all ships flyable, except for Kusari battleship and Rheinland battleship. Kusari one just cannot launch from planets without sustaining atmosphere damage (only 10-15% of hull remain, and sometimes the ship explodes). Rheinland battleship causes crashes every time when player enters shipdealer that sells it.

2) Every collision, even with a small spacecraft, causes capships to lose direction. Quite illogical. What ship parameter is responsible for collision physics?

3) Rear view camera, how to fix it? For most capships it's deep inside the ship hull, not too good-looking.

I'm new to modding and maybe some of those issues were already discussed here, but search is not working unfortunately. I'll be grateful for any help...

Post Wed Jun 08, 2005 4:05 am

I guess I posted in wrong forum... or there's another reason why there's no reply?

Post Wed Jun 08, 2005 4:41 am

You are probably right about wrong forum.
For 1) I have no idea, never heard of.
For 2) consult these tutorials:
tut 1
tut 2
3) I do not know if you should work the thn-file. thn handles objects and cameras in cutscenes and stations. Tutorial here

Hope it helps. Better qualified answers you get in the General Editing Forum

Post Wed Jun 08, 2005 4:59 am


3) Rear view camera, how to fix it? For most capships it's deep inside the ship hull, not too good-looking.


hey Igiss -i think i got that one from Anton,
in the cockpit.ini for the ship add something like that:
<pre><font size=1 face=Courier>
[RearViewCamera
view_position = 0.000000, 80.000000, 175.000000 </font></pre>

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