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Offline Goober5000

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Originally posted by Trivial Psychic
Will 3.6.6 have a build of FRED that has full support for the simultaneous docking?
Unfortunately no.  You'll be able to edit the initial status in Notepad (once I fix a small problem) but FRED's not going to be working for a while yet.

 

Offline Anaz

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you can actually use the inital docking in FRED, as I figured out while trying to play with the AotD entries (that weren't pretty enough to be considered IMO...so they weren't), you just have to set it in order of the dockpoints. I forgot which order you have to set it in (0 to n or n to 0) but it seems that it doesn't check for multidocking errors if you do it right. It will show up as multidocked in the mission, but you can't move anything after you've multidocked in fred or it doesn't work.
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Hey, how does the hud show this?
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Look at picture #2 in the first post.

 

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Thanks. :)

FYI, after searching through the various multiple docking threads in the past, I came across this tidbit:
http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php/topic,16765.msg321743.html#msg321743

That, in turn, lead me to search the FDL, where I found this:
http://ml.warpcore.org/fdl/199806/msg00220.html
I assume that the mission in question is "Running the Gauntlet".

Rather interesting to see the problems people originally had with it. :)

 

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I'd estimate about 230-300 IME.
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So... now to see what happens with this.
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AMAZING!!!!! Good job!   :nod:
« Last Edit: February 14, 2005, 07:51:42 pm by 1241 »
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well, weve got Bobb's rudimentary implementation of shaders, which will eventually give us the bump-mapping we all want so much (but will unfortunately require ANOTHER set of textures for each ship)
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Offline WMCoolmon

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Amazing....

So whats next?  What can be taken off the cant do list?


A working FRED, hopefully. :p
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Hey, since you're fixing FRED, could you fix that nasty bug with nebulas not showing? It's so tedious to have to load the mission again and again just to set up a few nebulas!
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Offline TrashMan

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True, but they had like, 10 years to do it and no pressure... + knowledge of newer graphipc tricks and stuff..

FS2 looked swell in the time when it came out.
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I won't even begin to pick out the things that are incredibly wrong with that statement... :wtf:
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Offline Trivial Psychic

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Here's another problem that came to mind.  Its actually something that's been there since retail, and I've brought it up on a few occasions in the past, but this new innovation makes this problem more obvious.  It relates to how the mass of ships doesn't get altered even if its docked to something greatly different from its own.  For example, open up FRED and place an Isis docked to a Typhon.  Then load yourself out with a kinetic weapon and shoot at the Isis.  The transport will flip around just like normal, but it'll take the Typhon with it, causing the much larger vessel to be flipped around like a beach ball or propeller.  We need the mass of 2 or more docked objects to be added together.  So if the Isis (for example) has a mass of 1 unit and the Typhon has a mass of 50 units, then when the 2 are docked together, they should each beassigned a mass of 51 units.  Now that we have multi-docking, this problem will become even more obvious.
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