[Amon_Re]

I was wondering, does the GTRF Triton only have a dockingpoint for containers?

I'm toying around with FRED, and i was wondering how i could get another ship to dock with it.

I know i can't dock another Triton on it, so what ship would be able to dock with it?

Cheers,

[diamondgeezer]

It's got a dock on the side of it. If I was in XP I'd whip you up a screen shot. I think there's a line of code which stops certain ships docking to certain ships, freighter-freighter being one of the cases. Experiment - try it with an Elysium. Always perfrorm docking experiments with an Elysium

BTW the SCP has done away with the restrictions in what can be docked - or at least part of them.

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Diamond Geezer... doesn't... CARE!!

[Amon_Re]

Thx Diamond I'll try

Cheers,

[diamondgeezer]

Hey there, I could help but notice you calling me 'Diamond'. Don't do that. 'DG' is fine

[Amon_Re]

Sure DG np

[diamondgeezer]

Cheers

Hey, while I'm here - do you have modelview? You can easily see stuff like docking points... actually, you can see them in FRED as well if you look in the View menu

[Amon_Re]

Yes, i know i can see the dockingpoints in Modelview, but it doesn't show what ships are allowed to dock to it, does it?

Well, the Triton has two dockingpoints, one on the cargobay, and one on the bottom, i'll guess i'll have to experiment abit to find out

Cheers,

[diamondgeezer]

Originally posted by Amon_Re
I was wondering, does the GTRF Triton only have a dockingpoint for containers?

Originally posted by Amon_Re
Yes, i know i can see the dockingpoints in Modelview, but it doesn't show what ships are allowed to dock to it, does it?

You see where I was comming from?

[Amon_Re]

Not really DG

But i'll find out how FS defines them sooner or later I'm examining the ships.tbl atm, and i'll look at them other tbl's too

Cheers,

[diamondgeezer]

You won't find dock points definded  in any table. And in your initial post, it looked like you thought the Triton had only the one docking point, see? Thus, I said you could see the dock points in MV or FRED, and you came at me with a tone I didn't care for. So I got a bit miffed and tried to explain why I told you about Modelview. Easy, no?

[Amon_Re]

Oh i see Didn't want to sound rude tho, my humble apologies if i did.

BTW, hows that S: AAB mod going?

Cheers,

[diamondgeezer]

You're my new favourite newbie

Check these threads:

http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php/topic,14216.0.html
http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php/topic,14182.0.html
http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php/topic,14004.0.html
http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php/topic,14222.0.html

[Amon_Re]

Originally posted by diamondgeezer
You're my new favourite newbie

Weee! I got a fan! Woohoo!

Check these threads:

http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php/topic,14216.0.html
http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php/topic,14182.0.html
http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php/topic,14004.0.html
http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php/topic,14222.0.html [/B]

So... how soon will i find this in downloadable form?

Cheers,

[diamondgeezer]

Ohhh, some time yet. I'm basically having to do everything myself with only little bits of help from other HLPers - luckily the models are 90% stolen from other games and stuff, so I'm just converting them. Though I must admit the model side of things is on the home straight... after that there's just skinning, interface art and the campaign to do

[EDIT]MY AVATAR! IT'S BACK! W00TW00TW00TW00TW00TW00T!!!!!!!!!!111111oneoneone

[Amon_Re]

Are you planning on using the original storyline for the campaign?

Need a betatester?

Cheers,

[diamondgeezer]

Story details are sketchy at best, but the campaign will definitely be set aboard a Royal Navy carrier, with the player either in the Fleet Air Arm or the Royal Marines... no doubt the five-eight will make a cameo or two, and I may just include something special for those die-hard fans who reckon they could take on the ace of aces  

As for beta testers, keep an eye out, but there won't be anything for a good while yet

[Amon_Re]

Ok, i'm stuck here.....

I got a damaged Triton, an Elysium transport, a cargo container.

The cargo container is docked with the Triton on CargoDock 01.

The Elysium jump is later on, initial order is:
Dock with TRiton using Topside docking to Triton's Dock2.

The elysium just sits there, doing jack.

So i added a waypoint near the Triton, have the Elysium fly to it, then dock, still no luck

I've read the walktrough several times already, and there's nothing there that explains why it's not working (in the walkthrough they have a triton docking with a TC-TRI).

Any idea's what's wrong here?

Cheers

[karajorma]

You`re trying to dock two ships at the same time? That's the problem. FS2 won`t let you (I can`t remember if FS2_open will).

Release the TC-tri but don`t move away from it and the elysium will now move in and dock with you while making it look as if the triton and it's cargo are still docked.

Gotta remember to put something in the FRED FAQ about this one cause it comes up all the time.

[Amon_Re]

That'll probably be the problem then.... so just remove the docking with the TAC 1 should solve my probem, gonna try it

I added an event to tell the Triton to undock with the TAC 1 when the Elysium reached it's waypoint, nothing happened

Could this be because of the fact that i killed of it's engines & nav systems?

[EDIT] I tried it with engines & nav on 5% & then it worked, however, it did move away from the TAC 1, wich made it look silly

I asume i'll have to use some messages to make it seem that the other dockingpoint is damaged or something

Cheers,

[Goober5000]

Use jettison-cargo... it makes a freighter undock without going through the undocking motions.

EDIT: FS1? Don't you mean FS2?