Author Topic: Add glide to ships in retail campagin  (Read 1420 times)

0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.

Add glide to ships in retail campagin
Hi all, new here on the forum and to Freespace 2. I'm sure this has been asked before but I can't seem to find a noob friendly answer. I'd like to play through the retail campaign with all playable ships able to glide. I know the AI doesn't glide and I'm not too worried about balancing issues. Though if anyone can point me to an AI that will glide in the retail campagin that would be great.

From what I can gather from the Ships.tbl wiki page http://www.hard-light.net/wiki/index.php/Ships.tbl, I have made a mod with the following file structure in the Freespace2 folder (alongside data* and MediaVPs_2014 folders):

Code: [Select]
GlideShips
├── data
│   └── tables
│       └── gld-shp.tbm
└── mod.ini

mod.ini
Code: [Select]
[launcher]
modname = GlideShip;
[multimod]
primarylist = ;
secondarylist = MediaVPs_2014

gld-shp.tbm
Code: [Select]
#Ship Classes
$Name: GTF Myrmidon
+nocreate
$Glide: YES

$Name: GTF Hercules Mark II
+nocreate
$Glide: YES

$Name: GTF Perseus
+nocreate
$Glide: YES
#End

Is there anything else I should add? I notice that when I disengage glide in any ship I pretty much turn on a dime in the direction I'm facing. Is there a way to add more of a sense of inertia and acceleration?

Thanks!

  

Offline Lepanto

  • 210
  • Believes in Truth
    • Skype
Re: Add glide to ships in retail campagin
Looks solid, though you may want to add the following table line after $Glide: YES:

+Dynamic Glide Cap: YES

The dynamic glide cap means that the maximum glide speed will follow the same rules as normal flight, including the effects of afterburner and power to engines.
"We have now reached the point where every goon with a grievance, every bitter bigot, merely has to place the prefix, 'I know this is not politically correct, but...' in front of the usual string of insults in order to be not just safe from criticism, but actually a card, a lad, even a hero. Conversely, to talk about poverty and inequality, to draw attention to the reality that discrimination and injustice are still facts of life, is to commit the sin of political correctness. Anti-PC has become the latest cover for creeps. It is a godsend for every curmudgeon and crank, from fascists to the merely smug."
Finian O'Toole, The Irish Times, 5 May 1994

Blue Planet: The Battle Captains: Missions starring the Admirals of BP: WiH
Frontlines 2334+2335: T-V War campaign
GVB Ammit: Vasudan strike bomber
Player-Controlled Capship Modding Tutorial