The Shipyard at the End of the Ooniverse. Modeller's bit.

[chomann]

Okay I am now Officially starting work on a Firefly Serenity. ANYONE who has any comments or suggestions please let me know. Originally the serenity has no weapons so there will be a shift in roles there. As of right now Im planning on making her around 80x40x140 in size, with ample cargo size, I also do NOT want to create an UBER ship so to keep the theme of firefly the cargo should be the major factor. With some capabilities to defend. Althouth I am not totally against making a medium fighter/cargo transport... but any suggestions for cargo size, weapon specs, speeds or anything can help I want to build a ship for the community, and myself. not make the next Uber ship...(an adder can be a uber ship with a little bit of text editing... and im agains all forms of modding my save file) so giveme some input.. thanks

i do plan on making 2 versions 1 for 1.7 and one for 1.65...anyone know how to place some rotational action of the tail end of ship like the engines on the firefly?

[DaddyHoggy]

With regards to Cargo capacity - the Serenity had a pretty huge cargo bay but it didn't look particularly optimised for mass storage! In fact the fullest it ever got was when it was full of cows = so she can certainly hold a few hundred milling cattle!

[ClymAngus]

With regards to Cargo capacity - the Serenity had a pretty huge cargo bay but it didn't look particularly optimised for mass storage! In fact the fullest it ever got was when it was full of cows = so she can certainly hold a few hundred milling cattle!

so cow weighs a shy under half a ton (apparently) so 300 cows would be 150-160 tons? That's a pretty good storage weight, enough to clean out a couple of commodities and have room spare for a bit of deep space pick me up.

[drew]

Okay I am now Officially starting work on a Firefly Serenity.

Yes!

Cheers,

Drew.

[chomann]

so far ive been working on the modeling and tweaking and many pages of note taking... so far it looks as though the serenity will hold about 150 tc with the extra cargo extension adding (i'm thinking) around 15-25 tc. As for the weapons issue. I have some votes to limit the laser to the mining laser and not allowing the military laser to be equipped, let me know how you guys feel about that one. I also have a mention that the serenity should be limited to 2 missiles, with the added missiles pack this may be too few missles, but then again the serenity is made for scavaging and running. That being said it should be VERY fast. since transports run at about 80 and themark 3 is at around 360 (thats .36 lm), once again i turn to the population for max speed suggestions... as of now the ship comes in at about 40 meters tall, 80 meters side to side, and 140 meters long. it can go bigger but the height must remain lower than 64, and anything tooo close gets hard to dock...i also need to keep proportions.

[DaddyHoggy]

Happy with the dimensions - happy with the TC - happy with the lasers - max beam front - mining elsewhere - fine - only two missiles - hmmm - 3 for luck I think. As for speed - yes - should be fast - 0.45 kinda fast. Will she have the option to have Injectors - mil shielding, mil energy unit?

[chomann]

Happy with the dimensions - happy with the TC - happy with the lasers - max beam front - mining elsewhere - fine - only two missiles - hmmm - 3 for luck I think. As for speed - yes - should be fast - 0.45 kinda fast. Will she have the option to have Injectors - mil shielding, mil energy unit?

for defenses since the original serenity scavanged i believe that all defenses should be capaable but weapons no... also how many energy banks shoudl she have...the firefly is notoriously fast, and i assume proably has more "energy" with its rear engine!

[DaddyHoggy]

OK - should have at least a turret weapon since the crew managed to modify the ship to do this in the film...

[chomann]

a turret... would this be added as a subentry? and turrets are able in the 1.65 version right? i want to make the oxp work in both versions..1.65 and 1.7..and yea the mining laser can be anywhere you want it front, rear, side whatever... but overall there will be no military laser option as for the turret... you think it should be ai scripted or player controlled...liek a front weapon...i really havent worked with turrets at all yet... tell me all you knwo about them...please

[LittleBear]

Turrets work in 1.65 and 1.72. However, the rub is that in 1.65 a turret on a player ship is just for show. Only NPCs can actually fire their turrets in 1.65.

So if you make a model with turrets in 1.65 only NPC versions of the craft will actually use them (boo!). On 1.72 if the player gets himself a ship with turrets then the turrets will lock onto hostiles and attack them.

An OXP ship with turrets will work on both 1.65 and 1.72, but the player will only gain a benefit if he is playing on 1.72.

[chomann]

aha thanks again LB...all the more reason for the two different versions

[Thargoid]

I'm trying to put together a little station with a shipyard at the same tech level as the system it's currently in. I've put in what I think are the needed keys in the shipdata.plist, but no shipyard happens if I dock with it and then F3-F3. Can someone cast a knowing eye over the shipdata entry below and tell me which particularly simple idiot error I'm making please?

Tried to spawn it in the Leesti system at the moment (tech 11). The coriolis has a nice shipyard, my little station doesn't... It's based on a rock hermit as reference...

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{
	"pf_testStation" =
	{
		name = "Test Station";
		roles = "pf_testStation station(0)";
		ai_type = "stationAI.plist";
		cargo_type = "CARGO_NOT_CARGO";
		energy_recharge_rate = 100;
		forward_weapon_type = "WEAPON_NONE";
		frangible = no;
		has_ecm = yes;
		has_escape_pod = no;
		has_scoop = no;
		hasShipyard = 1;
		isCarrier = 1;
		equipment_price_factor = 0.8;
		has_npc_traffic = 0;
		max_energy = 25000;
		max_flight_pitch = 8;
		max_flight_roll = 8;
		max_flight_speed = 0;
		model = "new-rock.dat";
		port_radius = 500;
		requires_docking_clearance = no;
		smooth = yes;
		subentities = ( "hermit-docking-slit 0 0 0 1 0 0 0" );
		thrust = 100;
		weapon_energy = 0;
		materials =
		{
			"asteroid.png" =
			{
				shininess = 2;
				specular = (0.1, 0.1, 0.1, 1.0);
			};
		};
	}
}

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[another_commander]

This is a bug that was resolved after the 1.72 release, in SVN revision 1856 (hasShipyard was not working). Will be OK for next release.

[Thargoid]

Thanks, that would explain it. It's been driving me mad trying to work out why it wasn't working (the shipyard in the main station is fine.

Still that means the OXP can be released

[Eric Walch]

I've put in what I think are the needed keys in the shipdata.plist, but no shipyard happens if I dock with it and then F3-F3.

Now you mention it: In buoyRepair it was also not working but I forgot about it as I had other things to do. Thinking about it: I can not remember a non main station with a shipyard. Maybe it is not working at all? A main station does not use this key as it is not defined for a normal station. And when looking in the station.m code I get the impression that hasShipyard can be a fuzzy boolean or an array with conditions. But I am not sure if this hasShipyard boolean is ever checked.
EDIT: My reply crossed that of A_C. Still my question: Is it only a boolean or can I use also an array of conditions?