Spining Bases

Yes, you can make pretty much everything spin. Just add, “spin = 0, 0.050000, 0” (or whatever value you want), to the entry in the system ini.

I would be hesitant to add it to bases however. You’d have one hell of a time getting docking sequences to work.

i tried once, only solution i came up with was a “Ship Dematerilizer”

and i spent a shitload of time making ships not bump the base make it spin all crazy

That’ll work. Another thing you might try is changing the solar arch entry if you dont want to use the mooring fixture. Make a docking sphere a “jump”

yeh thats what the ship dematerilizer does

btw any solution making the hangar doors FOLLOW the spin?

It isnt really the hangar thats the issue, :-[ it is the cutscene that is problem child. In the cutscene players have no control and can not guide or correct ship path… so the ship gets bounced around endlessly unless they get lucky.

now well, ive tried that but it still looks ugly

yeh but u mean REALLY REALLY ugly ;D

If you setup your base to mount the hangar on a hardpoint, it will spin with the base. As noted below, this opens up problems of docking though. One possible remedy is to set it up so the model itself is animated to spin, then add an invisible docking model (1 triangle, hidden inside the center of the model) which remains stationary. Hardpoint that section of the model with your HpDock-blah’s, and increase the docking sphere size to extend beyond the model so ships wont actually enter the dock, but the door animation can still play. Keep in mind, there IS a limit how far out your docking hp’s can be spaced out - if I recall it is 1k? or 2k? experiment To test, I mounted flashing lights on each docking hardpoint to see where things go wrong, you’ll know if your ship keeps turning back around … and around … and around to link up with the initial dock point.

Building on to this… is it possible to have the child bases rotate correctly with the parent? Trying to do a wagon wheel kind of thing.