Newbie Q:

Sky-Blazer wrote:
so i would not have to even leave a hole

I could make a sur section from a section of say a wing
from my model and it would treat it as no material until it cleared the mirror so to speak.

Basicaly (sp?) correct. The Hypothetical wing could be completely .sur-ed and the weapon’s discharged substance wouldn’t care. In fact, as I am aware, when making the .sur file in the first place, there is no material assigned to the surfaces of it at all. Can someone else plz confirm that?

Edit: Let me clarify a statement from my previous post.

Once the fired object is on the outside (Mirror side of anology) of your sur, you will take damage.

That statement should have read “Until the fired object is on the outside (Mirror side of anology) of your sur, you will not take damage.”

Fus

You lost me. you want to do what base related?

Fus

The sur on the ship you are firing is ignored. This is because FL knows what weapons fire belongs to who and it simply does a check to make sure you dont shoot your own ship. It’s the exact same thing i did in my game engine since simply rotating the guns around would hit my own ship.

In other words, you can stick the guns dead center of your ship and it will come out without hitting you.

Sky-Blazer wrote:
also of all the downloads i seem to have i dont have Exporter 0.2. and have been unable to find it searching i tried exporting the starflier again based on reply i and as far as groups go the starflier has more than 18 i tried exporting by the number of groups Named and it tell me they dont match thought i would try

so i was hoping to get the sugested exporter and try it

i can import like a greedy fiend but it dont do me any good to import if i cant export

I can fix that. Here is my Exporter 0.2 and my Importer 2.7.

Fus

Concerning the base question, I think I have an idea what your trying to, but since I’m at work as of this post, I will have to elaborate when I get home.

Fus

Trader,
I will now elaborate on my suspicion. It comes to me that you are interested in putting your dockable battleship base basicly (for lack of a better anology) in a snow globe shell. This “globe” sphere would have no .sur file, so you could fly thru it and dock with the afore (sp?) mentioned battleship. Am I on the right track?

Fus

Sky-Blazer wrote:
I actually do want the base ship to take a sold form but YES in just one area on both sides of the ship

lwould also like to be able to initiate a dock command there as well that would take you directly to equipment dealer i dont know if its possible to have multiple docking features in one object but i thought to fly around inside like you can in the nomad lair but possibly dock within to like say a ship dealer Ect…

but i dont want it to look like there’s a hole there.

That’s the tricky bit. Setting the default room at a particular base is easy, that’s a .ini file setting, which is beyond the scope of my knowledge. Others here can give you the information on that detail better than I.
Docking at a specified HP to get a specific room I also don’t know about, I think that you are stuck with one docking HP sequence, and then the ini tells the game the default screen you end up at after the cinematics. (sp?)

Fus