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Title: my thoughts on multiple ships docking together
Post by: kasperl on September 06, 2003, 06:29:50 am
i posted this in the TVWP forum, but to get some more comments, i decided to post here too.

the enitre purpose of this is to make modular stations.


what about trying this, make a station out of some completely differenct objects, with instead of real dockpoints, use endings like peaces of a puzzle. i mean the small part, and then the larger sphere. and on the other side, a hollow, inside a largeer spherical one, and a small tube. you set a station together in FRED, putting all the parts inside eachother, and you disable targeting on all but one, and think of someway to have the damage appear as one number on the escort list.


do i make sense here?
like this:

(http://www.swooh.com/peon/kasperl/Image1.jpg)
Title: my thoughts on multiple ships docking together
Post by: kasperl on September 06, 2003, 08:33:53 am
come on, at least tell me that i'm an complete idiot, or that i am not.

don't just ignore me.
Title: my thoughts on multiple ships docking together
Post by: Starks on September 06, 2003, 08:41:42 am
It looks very sexual...
Title: my thoughts on multiple ships docking together
Post by: Turnsky on September 06, 2003, 08:42:57 am
well.. it's an interesting thought...
Title: my thoughts on multiple ships docking together
Post by: Nico on September 06, 2003, 08:52:55 am
would not work for various reasons.
Title: my thoughts on multiple ships docking together
Post by: kasperl on September 06, 2003, 09:17:57 am
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Originally posted by Venom
would not work for various reasons.


such as?
Title: my thoughts on multiple ships docking together
Post by: Unknown Target on September 06, 2003, 09:59:49 am
that looks....strange. Could you have at least done it without the big circle at the end? :D
Title: my thoughts on multiple ships docking together
Post by: kasperl on September 06, 2003, 10:01:23 am
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Originally posted by Unknown Target
that looks....strange. Could you have at least done it without the big circle at the end? :D

the circle is part of what i ment
Title: my thoughts on multiple ships docking together
Post by: kasperl on September 06, 2003, 10:03:44 am
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Originally posted by LLivingLarge
It looks very sexual...


you know, some people see sex in everything. now, does that say something about the image, or the person?
Title: my thoughts on multiple ships docking together
Post by: Hippo on September 06, 2003, 10:11:30 am
both :p

The problem would be, getting it lined up perfectly in fred. And even once it was perfect, a shockwave or kenetic weapon would send the whole model flailing about, and the colisions with the other part would probably destroy them both...
Title: my thoughts on multiple ships docking together
Post by: kasperl on September 06, 2003, 10:15:28 am
ís it possible to make a specific part of a model invulnerable?
Title: my thoughts on multiple ships docking together
Post by: Nico on September 06, 2003, 10:20:01 am
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Originally posted by kasperl


such as?


inaccurate collision models, pofs forced to fly through each other, etc etc.
Title: my thoughts on multiple ships docking together
Post by: Goober5000 on September 06, 2003, 01:06:46 pm
If you had some objects that never moved for the duration of the mission, you could just put them next to each other and nobody would notice.  Like arranging the pieces of the Karnak before GE fused them into one model.
Title: my thoughts on multiple ships docking together
Post by: Galemp on September 06, 2003, 02:00:18 pm
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Originally posted by Goober5000
Like arranging the pieces of the Karnak before GE fused them into one model.


*reminds self to clean that up*
Title: my thoughts on multiple ships docking together
Post by: Max Sterling on September 08, 2003, 03:24:38 pm
Pervert!