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Modding, Mission Design, and Coding => FS2 Open Coding - The Source Code Project (SCP) => Topic started by: diamondgeezer on February 20, 2003, 04:06:14 am

Title: Ye grand DOCKING thread
Post by: diamondgeezer on February 20, 2003, 04:06:14 am: Would it be possible for a player to dock to another object? Either manually lining up the dockpoints and pressing D (or something), or pressing a key to make the AI takeover, once the player has gotten himself near enough the dockee.

What I'm thinking is - if the player was flying a Triton, is it possible to create a system whereby he could pickand drop off cargo crates. Similarly, it might make rearming easier - no more waiting around for the support ship to fanny about, you can just zoom up to it then line up the dock yourself. Well, maybe.

And while we're on the subject, how about allowing a mission writer to force the player's ship to perform AI tasks. Perhaps hitting A could force the player's fighter to fly a series of waypoints, thus simulating an autopilot. That kind of thing. And you could have a hostile influence take control of the player's fighter, making it attack his own side whilst the player is helpless to stop it, perhaps.

Anyway, the can has been opened - I leave you guys to deal with the worms :)
Title: Ye grand DOCKING thread
Post by: Killfrenzy on February 20, 2003, 06:23:49 am: You mean a docking system like in XWA?
Title: Ye grand DOCKING thread
Post by: diamondgeezer on February 20, 2003, 08:31:50 am: Er... I honestly don't know. In my experience, SW games are things that happen to other people.
Title: Ye grand DOCKING thread
Post by: Galemp on February 20, 2003, 10:14:51 am: What makes you think we'd rather be flying a huge freighter than a fighter?

AI taking over the ship controls is a good idea, though: leave it to the mission designer to decide how to use it.

EDIT: Ooh, I have two SA avatars...
Title: Ye grand DOCKING thread
Post by: Zeronet on February 20, 2003, 10:26:20 am: :rolleyes: What makes you think people wouldnt?
Title: Ye grand DOCKING thread
Post by: diamondgeezer on February 20, 2003, 12:19:57 pm: Quote
Originally posted by GalacticEmperor
What makes you think we'd rather be flying a huge freighter than a fighter?

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... leave it to the mission designer to decide how to use it. [/B]

QED
Title: Ye grand DOCKING thread
Post by: Stealth on February 20, 2003, 01:20:37 pm: i personally think Diamond Geezer has a great idea... that would be cool.
Title: Ye grand DOCKING thread
Post by: athropy on February 20, 2003, 03:28:52 pm: Yes, yes..

This has been suggested before and I would really love having that option (letting AI take control of a player-flyable). I would go about tinkering with it myself if I'd know where to start.
Title: Ye grand DOCKING thread
Post by: beatspete on February 20, 2003, 03:29:30 pm: ...could be useful. You could dock with a static ship to rearm, make an intresting feature for a "paintball" or "capture the flag" multiplayer type mission.
Title: Ye grand DOCKING thread
Post by: Anaz on February 20, 2003, 04:40:49 pm: DG, even better is if you can also have a way to use a SEXP to turn off the HUD. Then guess what we have? In-game cutscenes!
Still need a way to teleport the ship around tho...
Title: Ye grand DOCKING thread
Post by: Black Wolf on February 21, 2003, 11:13:05 am: 'This would be pretty cool I think - very useable. And Flying Freighters is one thing that's never been handled well by FS2 - you can barely do it.