starfighters

posted on February 10th, 2011, 7:08 pm

Interesting approach to do fighter squads. Once you have a prototype running, I'm sure Dominus will want to interview you for a modding-guide page
The whole fighter feature is more or less a modding community feature *cough - sigma - cough* not much fighter action in StarTrek, sadly.. well.. yet!

Yup indeed

If you have the time Starfox1701, I'd definitely appreciate if if you could note down what you did as you went along - I'm sure other people will want to design something similarly in the future, and it is always handy to have another tutorial 

posted on February 10th, 2011, 7:24 pm

If I can get it to work anywhere close I'm going to release it.

posted on February 14th, 2011, 7:33 pm

Just had a thought you know this setup would work for a real MVAM Prometheus too

posted on February 14th, 2011, 7:37 pm

Shhh!!   :lol:  I"ll be honest, that is where my idea origionally came from.  The only problem is that I couldn't figure out what to do if one of the sections were destroyed.   it works much better for a squad of fighters.

posted on February 14th, 2011, 8:29 pm

You have to program your yards to be able to make replacement sections.

posted on February 14th, 2011, 8:32 pm

Yeah, but then the reintegration wouldn't work properly. 

posted on February 15th, 2011, 4:43 am

Very nice idea Adm_Z, at a later date when I start working on my own BSG project again I may hound you for some help in that regard.

posted on February 15th, 2011, 6:00 am

Yeah, but then the reintegration wouldn't work properly

Are you sure? in staock a Galaxy will reintergrat with any set of saucer and battle section. They don't have to be from the same ship just both Galaxy parts.

posted on February 15th, 2011, 9:01 am

that would make for some awkward joinings, where random crews unsep lol.

What if 2 captains ended up on the same ship?

posted on February 15th, 2011, 12:30 pm

What if Riker was left in command of the other ship!

posted on February 15th, 2011, 2:15 pm

Are you sure? in staock a Galaxy will reintergrat with any set of saucer and battle section. They don't have to be from the same ship just both Galaxy parts.

Well in that case, you would have to be able to control the other half's and you would end up with exactly what we have in stock FO.  It already uses a replace weapon to seperate the ships which are all selectable.

My original idea was for them to be on a timer which would automatically revert back to the un-seperated form after a minute or so. If one of the sections were destroyed, it would still revert back, even without the other part. This is also why you couldn't build the other parts.  the timer would no longer work properly if some of the parts were created at different times.

I suppose you could try to make the replaceweapon require both sections to work, but I don't think that autoreplace weapons will obey the techtree.  That is kinda the point.

posted on February 16th, 2011, 2:24 am

Well my thought was you replace the whole ship too the saucer that auto spwans the other 2 sections which are coded like selectable fighters for reintagration but since they work like fighters they stay close to the saucer and auto attack itas targets like in the show