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I'm making progress, but another question ...

When I add ships with the addShipsAtPrecisely.... they appear in the right place, but they end up pointing in random directions.

I'm trying to create what looks like a 'parking lot' and need the ships to all be aligned in the same direction - is there a way of doing this?

Cheers,

Drew.

drew wrote:

When I add ships with the addShipsAtPrecisely.... they appear in the right place, but they end up pointing in random directions.

| see three ways to solve this.

1) With AI: Let them search for the systemStation, just a station or the witchpoint. All these are fount beyond scanner range. Then do a "setTargetToDestination", followed by a "faceDestination".

2) With a JS world script: Copy the orientation of one object and give it to all others. With such a script you could even rearrange the ships into a fixed pattern.

3) With a JS ship script. Let it orientate itself in a fixed with a startup script.

There is actually a fourth way, which is the legacy way: use the spawnShip-method.

Although on the other hand it isn't a way, because this method never worked correctly.