Star Trek Armada II: Fleet Operations

hi would it b possible to make fighters that dock and undock to a mothership (carrier) also would it be possible to make squdrons were a group of ships would act as individual ie move shoot and get hit/destroyed but count as just one selection

they already had a ship with fighters, it acted as a special ability and you couldn't select the fighters themselves.

yep. when playing v3 PR, choose the dominion and pay close attention to the research tree. You'll find the fighter squads researchable next to the Battleship's spec tech.

to answer that question directly: i am not that far with crafts' ai yet to create vessel squadrons comparable to those in homeworld 2 yet, but i may be able to accomplish that in the future.

kool that would be great

with patch 1.2.5 you can now have a ship launch a number of fighters and then merge them with the fusion weapon into a squadron. I've been doing this with the peregrine fighters for my mod set during the dominion war. you build 6 fighters select them all and fuse them and then they get replaced with an sod of all six in formation. they all move as one ship but then again they are all just really good pilots they move in sync with each other...lol

lol yh that wks but it not very realistic (plus u cud just use the 2.5 patch seperation to release the squad .sod instead

yea true now i don't have to worry about individual fighters anymore.

Can you add more than one seperation weapon to the same ship?, so that a carrier could seperate more than one kind of fighter/shuttle

@ dan1025

yes you can, the new replace weapon is just a weapon, so you can add as many as you like, not that you will be able to see the buttons once you get past 13 :shifty:

Is there a way to get more than one fusing weapons to work, because I'm having trouble getting multiple ones to work on one ship. This way a carrier could retrieve certain amounts of fighters if some are destroyed-

What about usiing an animation to simulate the fighters weaving around eachother?

I know the mechanism existed in the original Armada...

I can say it would be a wonderful thing to finally see the return of the Director's Cut.

The problem there is with the MS3D exporter. As most model work is done on that program these days and the exporter will not export animations on the models I'm told. My personal skills aren't yet at that level so I have not tried it. But I did try contacting Assimisoft about it and have gotten no reply :(

could it be possible by doing some thing  like baseName but use sumthing like memberX = "*.odf" (obviously the member list thing wouldd need to b added)

Well as far as the .ms3d exporter goes there is an effort under way to update it and add animation support as well as a few other things that appear to be missing from the exporter. Hopefully this won't take to long and and can add new opptions for the majority of modelers out there.