[esarai]

I've noticed that in all of my home-made models with fighterbays, the bays will appear in-game and are targetable as an actual subsystem, but FRED will not let me launch fighters from them.

Any idea what's going on? Or better yet... a solution?

p.s.  These are all two-part fighterbays (you know on the Typhon, Fighterbay 1 and Fighterbay 2, yeah... it's exactly the same). If there is some glitch regarding doing this that I don't know about, please let me know.

[Solatar]

Have you pathed them?

Hopefully somebody who knows how to path fighterbays will come by and help you out.

I think it has something to do with PCS2...

[Droid803]

I pathed the Tennyson's fighterbays and they work fine. I've launched fighters from them, I've told fighters to depart into them.
So, as long as they're pathed right, it'll work.

[esarai]

Sweet...

um... what's pathing? How exactly do you "Path a fighterbay?"

[Droid803]

You set a series of points which fighters will fly along to enter or exit the fighter bay, basically. The radius of each point tells the fighters how far they can disperse. I just looked at other POFs to figure out how to do the paths correctly.

[esarai]

righto... I think I have it: PCS 1 or 2 has the path function, just add a new path named bay01 or whatever, parented to subsystem fighterbay 1, and just build the takeoff path from start to finish, right?

EDIT:

No, that was wrong.... the path must be named with the $ sign.
 and so must the parent subsystem be named (like $bay01 and $fighterbay 1). BUT HOT JIGGIDY DAWG IT'S WORKING!!!!

Thanks.

this is the fastest I have ever gotten a solution to a problem on these forums. I think it took 30 minutes for this to get resolved.

Thanks a lot!