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

fud · Post by **fud** » Fri, 14. Nov 08, 15:44

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 · Post by **Puruco** » Fri, 14. Nov 08, 16:32

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 · Post by **TSM** » Fri, 14. Nov 08, 19:28

Puruco wrote: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 · Post by **fud** » Fri, 14. Nov 08, 19:55

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 · Post by **TSM** » Fri, 14. Nov 08, 20:24

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

wraith303 · Post by **wraith303** » Sat, 15. Nov 08, 02:18

I can't get more than one ship to dock in my Boreas. I can get either 1 fighter or 1 TS (I haven't tried TP or M6), but not 2 fighters, and not 1 fighter and 1 TS. The info screen for the Boreas says it has 1 docked out of 2 spots.

Otherwise, everything seems to be working great! Thanks for the mod!

fud · Post by **fud** » Sat, 15. Nov 08, 03:02

Thanks for the heads up.

I see what I did. The Boreas only has 1 clamp. I must have edited Tships to read 2 slots...

I looked in the scene, it's just got the one TS/etc dock.

It was one of the last ships I did too...

wraith303 · Post by **wraith303** » Mon, 17. Nov 08, 08:22

fud wrote:Thanks for the heads up.

I see what I did. The Boreas only has 1 clamp. I must have edited Tships to read 2 slots...

I looked in the scene, it's just got the one TS/etc dock.

It was one of the last ships I did too...

Any chance of getting this fixed? ::Wink-Wink-Nudge-Nudge::

fud · Post by **fud** » Mon, 17. Nov 08, 13:06

Changing Tships is easy enough.

wraith303 · Post by **wraith303** » Mon, 17. Nov 08, 23:24

fud wrote:Changing Tships is easy enough.

That's not quite what I had in mind...

I thought that M2s were getting 1 TS slot and 1 fighter slot.

If you don't have the time to do this, or just don't want to, it's not a big deal - I can live with just having a Springblossom docked.

Either way, thanks for the mod!

fud · Post by **fud** » Mon, 17. Nov 08, 23:35

I suppose it IS a beta (of sorts).

I can add a fighter clamp to the Boreas.

TSM · Post by **TSM** » Mon, 17. Nov 08, 23:55

fud wrote:I suppose it IS a beta (of sorts).

I can add a fighter clamp to the Boreas.

I made Borea's in my T-Ships back to 1 dock

BorisRink · Post by **BorisRink** » Tue, 18. Nov 08, 10:43

i have a problem with this mod!

when i choose the mod in the start option, the game wont start and crashes....
without the mod it runs proberly...
i´m wondering that no other players here have the same problem like me!
play with the current version.....

sorry for my bad english ^^

fud · Post by **fud** » Tue, 18. Nov 08, 14:12

Strange. There's really no reason it should matter where it's at.

Are you trying to run the mod on an existing game, when you're in sector with any of the edited ships?

BorisRink · Post by **BorisRink** » Wed, 19. Nov 08, 09:53

no i jumped in the unknown sektor with my vidar, the used the insurance, closed the game, installed the mod, and then the game crashes when i choose the mod. the game wont start then.. without hte mod everything is ok!

fud · Post by **fud** » Wed, 19. Nov 08, 14:21

The unknown sector thing isn't really a guarantee.

I had some issues with existing games and it worked for me. That may not always be the case.

BorisRink · Post by **BorisRink** » Wed, 19. Nov 08, 16:23

i think there is no problem with the save game, because the game wont start at all! i wait until the next version

thx so far

fud · Post by **fud** » Wed, 19. Nov 08, 16:24

Strange.

What other mods/etc do you have installed?

It should most definitely work on a new game.

habeebafett · Post by **habeebafett** » Fri, 21. Nov 08, 01:41

hmmm appears I cannot dock a springblossom to a panter.... am I haveing a brain fart or is it a genuine problem >?

fud · Post by **fud** » Fri, 21. Nov 08, 03:21

The M6 docking was an unintended side effect. Originally, the standard extern_TS_dock was only for TS and TP ships. I modified it so it could dock TM as well. Doing so, it also allowed M6 and M8s to dock.

I put the docking body in the scene files before I changed the part in dummies. As a result, the placement of the body in the scenes is probably too close (distance) for the bigger/taller ships, M6s especially.

I probably should have left it the way it was, so that only TP/TS ships could dock.

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