Questions about Asteroids and Mining

TheDvDMan

To save some place and don’t make too much threads, I’ll ask few questions in one thread:

1. How to make asteroids (in a field) moveable? (without making big asteroids as dynamich asteroids).

2. Tell me if I’m wrong: To make big asteroids destructable, I just need to add “destructable = true”?

3. Is there any way to make an Asteroid Miner use the animation while mining an asteroid?
I saw in SWWT mod that they made a mining laser. So I’m asking if its possible to make a mining function to be able to use only from close distance to the asteroid that the animation will look real.

So if you got an answer, please write it like this:
1.Answer
2.Answer
3.Answer

Skotty

To 2.
http://the-starport.net/freelancer/forum/viewtopic.php?post_id=31340#forumpost31340

To 1.
Make them like dynamic asteroids and use the link above.

To 3.
I think it was made via FL Hook. Not able via normal .ini way.

FriendlyFire

The mining laser is a standard gun with a special WeaponModDB entry to multiply the damage dealt to asteroids (which are just immobile NPCs with special shields).

No Hook involved.

Why485

FriendlyFire wrote:
The mining laser is a standard gun with a special WeaponModDB entry to multiply the damage dealt to asteroids (which are just immobile NPCs with special shields).

No Hook involved.

I tried Shattered Worlds recently and noticed this. I thought it was a pretty clever solution to mining.

TheDvDMan

Why485 wrote:
I tried Shattered Worlds recently and noticed this. I thought it was a pretty clever solution to mining.

I think so too, but I want to stick to the origin. Maby a weapon may trigger the animation, and it will shoot only from close distance…

But what about the other questions? about moveable asteroids?

Why485

Skotty and FriendlyFire have already pretty much answered the question. On the animation front, the only people I’m aware of that reliably trigger animations are the FW:TOW team. I don’t think there is a non-hooked method of triggering animations. I think maybe the Procyon server has it also. I remember hearing about it, but I’m not sure if they actually do.