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Title: FLeet formation
Post by: CAPT joseph white on July 07, 2009, 09:13:20 PM

Hello i was wondering if there is a way to get the ships to fly in formation when i have them in a fleet? in my BC Game?

Title: Re: FLeet formation
Post by: DJ Curtis on July 07, 2009, 09:44:01 PM

I don't believe there is.  But it would make for a neat mod if it could somehow be scripted out.

Title: Re: FLeet formation
Post by: FekLeyr Targ on July 08, 2009, 03:17:18 AM

There was a project like this: Kobayashi Maru Armada. But sadly, the guy who worked on it lost his files.

Title: Re: FLeet formation
Post by: MLeo on July 08, 2009, 07:02:18 PM

It can be faked through AttachObject, and done properly by AI and a variation on "Boids" (or Flocking).
While the second is hard, the first can produce "reasonable" results, but can break (the illusion) pretty easily.

Title: Re: FLeet formation
Post by: warp9engage on July 12, 2009, 07:42:06 AM

There is a mod that does a similar job. It's called Fleet Orders and one of it's features is that it will allow you to order a ship, or fleet of ships, to follow you. It's not perfect but sometimes ships will fly quite nicely in formation behind you  :).