Shipyard Repairing

posted on June 10th, 2013, 2:33 pm

I have some questions regarding shipyards and the ability to repair. buildHardpoint = "build" and repairHardpoint = "repair" are set up in the stations SOD correct and so it has designated points on the station where each action takes place?

Dan set the stations in his Cardassian full race mod to: buildHardpoint = "build" and repairHardpoint = "build" with repairSide = 4. So this means a ship will repair at the same location as one builds, but the repairside function means it won't be in exactly the same place but lower or to the side or whatever value is designated correct?

Achilles' AOW mod has some Klingon stations with: buildHardpoint = "build" and
repairSide = 0, but he didn't specify a repairHardpoint so does this mean even though he has a repairSide value a ship won't repair because he didn't specify a repairHardpoint?

Lastly, if a station mod has no designated repairHardpoint can we just add it and use location "build" and then set the offset with the repairSide value like Dan did? And that way we don't even need to worry about the SOD?

Thanks in advance

posted on June 10th, 2013, 3:19 pm

RepairHardPoint and BuildHardPoint can be defined to set a modeler's chosen build/repair location - they default to root. Thus, even if not defined, a ship can still repair there, provided the shipyard is a repair facility.

Yes, that's what repairSide does.

I'm not sure what your last question is asking - the name of the hardpoint must correspond of course to a real build hardpoint.

posted on June 11th, 2013, 5:36 pm

If you do not explicitly state a repair or build hardpoint, it defaults to the centre of the model (0x, 0y, 0z)

To define whether something can repair, there is a separate code line. You can also define whether a station can be used for decommissioning. Hence for my outposts in KA2, I use;

repairFacility = 1
decommissionFacility = 0

So a ship can dock for repairs, but if I order it to decommission it goes back to a shipyard.