ModEnc Wrote:If DockingOffset= points to outside the Foundation=, the aircraft will be produced on that offset as usual, but they'll refuse to land there after flying.

Nikademis Wrote:Having the docking points outside of the foundation I have found that this has no affect on the planes not returning to base

• Passengers cannot step into AircraftTypes while they're docked, because there's a building below them. (That's why non-Ares custom paradrops usually use AircraftTypes that can land everywhere.)
  
• AircraftTypes can have passengers.
  
• AircraftTypes can be made to land outside the foundation of a building.
  
• In older versions, AircaftTypes could be re-assigned to a different Airport - this would work either in those versions, or if that gets restored in Ares.
  

• You code up a Transit Station, using 3x3Refinery as the Foundation, placing DockingOffset0 directly in the empty cell.
  
• You code up a transport AircraftType that docks with the Transit Station.
  
• Since the Transport is not sitting on the actual building, troops can enter.
  
• Since we can re-assign the Transport to a different Transit Station, we now have a transporting AircraftType that can only land on specific pre-designated locations/airports on the map.
  

• Create a Teleportation Station; use 3x3Refinery as Foundation, place a wormhole graphic over the empty part of the foundation, despite it not actually belonging to your building. Make the DockingOffset lie on the empty part of the foundation. Make it come with an invisible, but not immune, Transporter (FreeUnit - not immune because it will be a VehicleType, and thus not AirportBound).
  
• Create a tile that looks like a teleportation platform and is part of either TerrainType Weeds or Ice.
  
• Create a secondary building, with Prerequisite=Teleportation Station, ToTile=YourTile.
  
• Limit your Transporter's movement:
  Should be as simple as MovementRestrictedTo=Weeds/Ice;
  If, for some reason, that does not work, set it to a SpeedType which has 0% on everything but the TerrainType you chose for YourTile.
  Theoretically, it should work with both normal teleportation as well as Chrono Miner's hybrid teleportation - but: If you choose normal transportation, the Transporter could jump to any Teleportation Platform on the map, regardless of whether it's next to a Teleportation Station or not. By using the Miner's hybrid engine, it would try to move by wheel if you clicked anywhere else but on another Station, and stop moving at the end of the Platform. Hence, hybrid should be preferred.
  
• Make sure the unit(type)s you want to allow to enter the wormhole can move on Weeds/Ice.

1. You build the Teleportation Station.
   
2. You build the Teleportation Platform(s).
   
3. You repeat 1 & 2 at a different place
   
4. You can now enter the "wormhole" at one place, select the wormhole, select a different wormhole on a different Teleportation Station, and exit there.
   

• If, for some reason, passengers cannot enter AircraftTypes on an airport because of something in the docking system, not because of the building below them, the system will fail. (Except for the super awesome hybrid alternative.)
  
• If Nikademis is wrong, and DockingOffsets cannot be placed outside the foundation, the system will fail; this limit would have to be killed through exe-hacking or YRPP.
  
• This will not work out of the box in YR 1.001; this ability would have to be re-enabled through exe-hacking or YRPP.
  
• The alternative uses use invisible and potentially immune aircraft; frankly, those are a pain in the ass to hunt down and kill. If the modder sticks to the idea and doesn't allow landing elsewhere, this is no problem during transit - but I'm not sure if they properly get killed while they're docked. The reason being, usually while they're docked, if the airport explodes, you're blowing up a building below them - it's sort of normal they blow up as well. With this system, they would technically be next to the building. Since the AircraftType would not be flying, it is possibly AirportBound would not fire. So, in an extreme scenario, you would be left with an invisible, unkillable enemy unit on the map. While the unit itself could have (should have) Insignificant and/or DontScore set, if there are still units inside the transporter, the attacker would be pretty much screwed. An un-immune transporter could be found and killed, but unless the attacker finds a way to trigger the transporter to lift off, the defender is pretty much unkillable.
  
• The super-awesome alternative assumes the Transporter's target TerrainType is taken at the location of the DockingOffset; if it is taken at 0x0 or elsewhere below the building, the ground below the building will have to be covered with Transportation Platform tiles as well.
  

Renegade Wrote:Passengers cannot step into AircraftTypes while they're docked, because there's a building below them.

(06.01.2009, 21:51:15)DCoder Wrote: (Nitpick: YRPP is the wrong place to extend functionality, Ares is where that should happen. Same way as writing new magic functions into the DirectX SDK headers doesn't magically make the d3d.dll implement them.)

Don't mind the pips, terrain, changed HVA on the harrier, and slaves