Attack patterns

posted on January 26th, 2011, 4:36 am

Ok I am considering moving some of my long term mod work over to FO and hav noted that all the Attack patterns are gone from the menuver commands. As my work is phyics heavy I realy need those commands for use in combat. There is no use having ships that look cool moving and fighting if you can't make them move when they fight.

With that in mind I have 2 questions

1)      Can the original patterns be restored?
2)      Can you program new ones yet?

posted on January 26th, 2011, 5:56 pm

In short... yes and no respectively.

posted on January 26th, 2011, 9:24 pm

There are also some new commands that you can use to keep units constantly moving a believe - a la fighters . Doesn't change the base premise though 

posted on January 27th, 2011, 1:48 am

Please explain

posted on January 27th, 2011, 9:46 am

if you are speaking about formations, yep they are in and they were modable from the first days of armada2

posted on January 27th, 2011, 2:36 pm

There are also some new commands that you can use to keep units constantly moving a believe - a la fighters

Which ones, how do they work?

if you are speaking about formations, yep they are in and they were modable from the first days of armada2

Yes how do I mod them and put back the ones you all took out?

posted on January 28th, 2011, 4:37 am

If you give vessels the fighter classlabel they will constantly move if I recall correctly

posted on January 29th, 2011, 2:58 am

Move how? Can it be adjusted?

posted on January 29th, 2011, 5:50 am

I'm afraid I don't understand your questions  . Why don't you take a look at the fighters in Fleet Ops . fed_avalonF is one of them 

posted on January 29th, 2011, 7:09 am

He means the circle, cloverleaf and up/down attack patterns...not the formations...

posted on January 29th, 2011, 7:56 am

A glips of understanding dawns. Yes thats part of it how do I put them back in game.

posted on January 29th, 2011, 10:04 am

If you give vessels the fighter classlabel they will constantly move if I recall correctly

Would that have any other effect on the ship itself? Like commands, and such. Or does it only effect the movement?

posted on January 30th, 2011, 12:36 am

If you give vessels the fighter classlabel they will constantly move if I recall correctly

Actually, unless the new class label does that, if you set either 0 or negative(I don't remember which) backwardsacceleration on a ships physics file, they will not stop, but instead circle around the desired place.

posted on January 30th, 2011, 5:49 am

Yea but then you have triuble getng them into repair bays and stuff

posted on January 30th, 2011, 6:02 am

Yeah, I dunno.  You could make a replaceweapon that was a combat mode or something that, among other possible things, switched the physics to ones that wouldn't stop, but could switch back for repairs.