Planet Orbits

A quick look through the tutorials section with the search command orbits you to this thread

http://the-starport.net/freelancer/forum/viewtopic.php?topic_id=284&forum=26

sensible for planetoids. imagine you have to land on a moving planet… too difficult and time consuming…

you really cant do that. Just not how FL works. All of the methods have drawbacks, all of them cause the planets in question to be non dockable on their own. You could theoretically parent the planet to a dock bouy that’s stationary, but then the bouy is stationary, and can be no where near the planet. You could theoretically make the dock range for objects really REALLY big, so you could select the planet (and thereby selecting the bouy, if done correctly) and dock from anywhere, but that just looks sloppy.

DVDMan - it wouldn’t be original either, it’s already been tried and what can be done is done.

Go do something useful - write us a SUR Exporter that works instead!

It’s what I was saying in another moan - kidz trying to do what can’t be done (and thinking it’s original too! - I ask you!)!

9000 Gigs of RAM and 90 TFlops….!

you could however, make moons orbiting the stationar planets. just in terms of beauty. however, only stationary objects would be dockable easily.

Yeh - or you’d needto kill us all!

Heheheh…

Well good luck anyway, not trying to discourage you , just having a laff!