[MOD]External TP/TS docking (update 07/12/08) for 1.3

[TSM]

gets excited Egosoft your smiley's suck there is no excited one

Can't wait for this Fud!

[fud]

I'm hoping to get the last few tested so I can upload it, so people can give it a shot.

What I'm curious about most, is if it'll work with an existing game.

I have a hunch it won't, due to what I've seen. But, there may be a way around it.

[Saint-Ashley]

Well with X3R all that was required was to 'respawn' the ship for it to recognize it had the docking added. It was only because an existing model wouldnt have the docking ports themselves.

So their should be a simple solution, A) cheat and respawn your ship B) buy a new one C) reverse engineer your old one and procude a new one.

[fud]

OP updated with download link and instructions.

Let me know if you have any issues or ideas to refine it. It's not perfect, but all ships were tested and worked (thus why it took so damn long).

[TSM]

gonna give it a whirl I hope you added a TS/TP/TM dock to cerebus or i am going to cry!

[Malakie]

Nice thanks! Looking forward to updating my Cerberus.

BTW will this work on added ships? Or did you have to mod ships by hand for this? I added 171 new ships and just wondering if this take those into account by size or if they will not change.

[fud]

It will only affect the 30 or so scenes I edited.

[TSM]

I got my game save to continue by being out of sector that had any changed ships in it.

However Fud I found 2 small bugs:

• if you change to the externally docked ship it does not undock and leaves you in limbo. (no biggy really undock then teleport or eject and enter will suffice I think)
• M6 Heavy Centaur clips body of ship its docked to also no biggy!

But both I perosnally can live with nice work Fud

**Edit** Can this be ran as a false patch?

[fud]

I'm using it as a false patch.

As for the limbo thing, I tested by ordering ships to dock to them.

I didn't try too many while actually being in the ship.


Like I said, it's probably not perfect.

[Puruco]

Just reporting fud. I dont think that work with saved game, at least not with mine. Try to dock a mystral in a Mammoth, the ts manouver into position and then stop. I wil try tonite again desinstalling and installing again. Let you know.

[fud]

Puruco, that's what it does. I'm assuming the mammoth was alraedy owned by you in game?

If so, you can try going to an unpopulated sector and saving with salvage insurance, reinstall the mod, load, and try again.

That's the issue I was having with existing games as well. The unknown sector save thing fixed it for me.

Anytime you change a scene file of a ship that already exists, there can be problems like this.

[Puruco]

Yes i did what you said in the instructions, go to unknown sector with no shops, save, quit game, install mod as false patch. If it work for you have to work for me... Yes i own already the tl and the ts. Have to be something i did wrong, doing all again tonite and let you know.

Ty fud...

[TSM]

Just reporting fud. I dont think that work with saved game, at least not with mine. Try to dock a mystral in a Mammoth, the ts manouver into position and then stop. I wil try tonite again desinstalling and installing again. Let you know.

Confirmed also doing this on my saved game.

[fud]

That's what I was saying. It may need a new start, and it's appearing to be that way.

You could try to destroy/sell your existing TLs/etc, and spawn a new one, to see if the issue is still there.

When the ship that's ordered to dock sits there and does nothing (or does circles) forever, it means the model has changed and the game didn't recognize it.

It's trying to dock to the old scene of the ship.

[TSM]

Fud if your name wasn't so odd I would name our expecetant child after you

All works now I can even enter external ship and undock with it