Mini-tutorial for adding a fighter bay hardpoint to the NebulonB

[MajorPayne]

Okay so this was requested and after a little fiddling I've managed to get the Nebulon B to have its own fighter bay. Now I dont' think I missed anything out so if I did it would be appreciated if the details could be filled in, but here a baby tutorial on my method:

 

Add this to Hardpoints.xml

 

 

 

      HARD_POINT_FIGHTER_BAY

      Yes

      Yes

      HP_F-L_BONE           

      HP_F-L_COLL

      TEXT_FIGHTER_BAY_HARDPOINT

      100.0

      Large_Explosion_Space_Empire  

      Unit_Hardpoint_Bay_Death

 

 

and above this line:

 

 

Information: changed attachement_Bone and Collision_Mesh to HP_F-L_BONE and HP_F-L_COLL which is also the location of the front laser point on the NebulonB (taken from the weapon hardpoint further up the file).

 

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Now add the following lines to Spaceunitsfrigates.xml:

 

Under line:

 

8

 

place this:

 

A_Wing_Squadron, 2

5

      A_Wing_Squadron, 2

 

Information: This will give the ship two squadrons of Awings (although you should be able to change it to any of the fighters with the correct line).

 

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In the line with in it add in SPAWN_SQUADRON so it looks like:

 

SPAWN_SQUADRON, ABILITY_COUNTDOWN, SIMPLE_SPACE_LOCOMOTOR, TARGETING, REVEAL, HIDE_WHEN_FOGGED, UNIT_AI, ASTEROID_FIELD_DAMAGE, DAMAGE_TRACKING, ION_STUN_EFFECT, NEBULA

 

Information: This, AFAIK forces the ship to create fighters.

 

Under add HP_NebulonB_Fighter_Bay to the line so the game recognises the hardpoint is needed.

 

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If thats everything you should find that you'll need to zoom in a bit to check. The ship should have two hardpoints at its front left point. I'm not sure what'll happen if one is destroyed. Presumably both will be but then I don't think theres any seperate spawn location for the nebulonB. Conclusion - Until the tools are released this might be the only work around!!

[MajorPayne]

An update. Okay so all went well up the the point of the hangar hardpoint being destroyed. In short at the moment it can't be which makes the ship indestructable (not being to blow up the hardpoint is problematic so some more experimentation is required).

[AdmarilRyan]

I got around that by changing one of the laser hardpoints into a hanger bay so now it works perfectly, however, the ship is obveiously weaker in terms of firepower. Still a few Awings more than make up for that I think.

[MajorPayne]

Got it working perfectly. I found that by changing the:

 

      HP_F-L_COLL

 

to:

 

      SPAWN_00

 

The hardpoint can not be destroyed.

[Bodin]

I don't think this was needed. It was in my Full Version Tutorial.

[Mandalore]

This has all ready been done by rebel555 already. Thanks for posting it tho, some people may have missed that tutorial. Edited March 20, 2006 by Mandalore

[Mikan Cyclone]

While it is a good idea to address this again, it would help if people looked in the tools an tutorials topic before they post questions to this stuff.

 

Nice tutorial, by the way.

[MajorPayne]

Sorry guys. Just got over excited when I managed to figure something out on my own (for a change).

[Bodin]

There's nothing to be sorry about.

[rebel5555]

You did do a good job on this tutorial. There is nothing to be sorry about I'm the same way ;D