Hard Light Productions Forums

Modding, Mission Design, and Coding => FS2 Open Coding - The Source Code Project (SCP) => Topic started by: Sesquipedalian on July 12, 2002, 10:29:06 pm

Title: Multiple-ship docking
Post by: Sesquipedalian on July 12, 2002, 10:29:06 pm

Would it be possible to allow multiple ships to dock together at once?  The limitation of being able to dock a ship with only one other ship at a time can get really annoying.  For example, one can't have a transport dock with a freighter carrying cargo unless the freighter undocks with the cargo first, which can be a real pain and looks silly to the player's eyes.  In fact, I can think of several ways that this fix would open up new mission possibilities, not to mention the basic things like having Ganymedes that could actually host all the five capital ships they are supposed to and Mephistos using all four of their cargo bays.

Title: Multiple-ship docking
Post by: Galemp on July 12, 2002, 10:46:36 pm

I second that! Why can't we have multiple ships docked to a station? Or a cargo hauler with more than one container?

Title: Multiple-ship docking
Post by: athropy on July 13, 2002, 03:23:28 am

And allow player-flyable ships to dock, for example in multiplayer missions with its carrier craft. I really could use this function, if someone can point me a good solution.

Title: Multiple-ship docking
Post by: LtNarol on July 13, 2002, 07:50:03 am

I third that, wanted this for a really long time...

Quote

Originally posted by athropy
And allow player-flyable ships to dock, for example in multiplayer missions with its carrier craft. I really could use this function, if someone can point me a good solution.

my solution: a sexp that hands control of the player's ship to a standard fighter ai, this allows orders to be given to the ai and the player's ship can then dock, enter docking bays, follow waypoints, etc.

Title: Multiple-ship docking
Post by: athropy on July 13, 2002, 01:24:03 pm

Yippee :)

An Auto-pilot for lazy people. This would be great and it doesn't even sound that hard to do.

Title: Multiple-ship docking
Post by: LtNarol on July 13, 2002, 01:35:23 pm

most of my suggestions aren't that far-fetched, however, i dont seem to have too many fans either :p [hint]check the "Requested changes to existing FS2 source" thread[/hint]