Request to add craft parked height override (Hangar Hook)

[ual002]

I've been playing around with adding a hangar to DTM's Gozanti Cruiser. It works pretty well other than the animation rising the ship into the cruiser a bit at launch (If we can ever modify the animation that would be awesome).

However, I have centered the TIE fighter so that it sits perfectly under the clamps, but every other TIEs parked height is spaced further down from the cruiser.

If I can suggest a change to the flightmodel.ini section that overrides ride height for a specific craft for just that mother ship's hangar.

Example:

In Gozanti_FullHangar.ini

Add a section "[ParkedHeightOverride]"

So I could add

";ModelIndex_006_TieInterceptor
6, 0, 0, 0x7FFFFFFF, 16600, 0"

Where

Format is : model index, position X, position Y, position Z, heading XY, heading Z

Then I could change "0x7FFFFFFF" to say "25" and that would raise the player's TIE Interceptor in that specific hangar by 25 without affecting the ride height of other fighters you might choose.

[JeremyAnsel]

Hello,
I've updated the hangars hook.

To invert the hangar floor, set "IsHangarFloorInverted = 1" in "HangarObjects". When set to 0, the floor is below the player craft. When set to 1, the floor is above the player craft.

The launch and re-enter hangar animations are modified.

Does this help?

[ual002]

Sorry I missed this, it still may not fully address one of the issues though. If you invert the hangar floor, how is the distance from the floor function used in sfoilheight calculated? Is the distance from the hangar floor going to be off on each craft? Meaning will everything still be calculated correctly? The distance from the TIE racks or gozanti might be right for say the TIE fighter, but may be different for the other types of TIEs. I need to get the update installed to test it I guess before I can make any specific observations or requests. I'll get back to you.

[JeremyAnsel]

For now, the hook use the value of ClosedSFoilsElevation for both normal and inverted hangar.

[ual002]

Ok, that's what I'm looking at, but if I change it for the TIE fighter.ini, specifically for the inverted hangar, it also affects the non inverted hangars.

So the real question is, do you now have a system where each fighter's INI has a ClosedSFoilsElevation and an "INVERTEDClosedSFoilsElevation" OR do we define in the hangar.ini an alternate height for all possible ships that would be in the inverted hangar.

Second issue would be removing the shadow or having a setting that specifically defines the z placement of the shadow.

[ual002]

After some further thought and testing, I think any hangar that would use inverted launch animations should probably have specific heights defined in the hangar.ini for each possible ship that would use the hangar over a global invertedclosedsfoilheight setting.

The reason being that I think there would be far too much variation in the parked height between all the different types of inverted hangars and their functionality.

The following are some examples of hangar variation that would make it difficult to set a global invertedclosedsfoilheight for the fighter.ini

Ceiling tie clamps where the anchor point would probably be the wing struts would be different from the gozanti where the anchor point would be the top of the cockpit vs a hangar where a ship is sitting on a magcon field and drops down out of a hangar floor where the anchor point would be the bottom most part of the fighter.

Then when you look at regular hangar types with normal floor launch animations, globally the anchor point is always the bottom of the ship.

I hope this makes sense.

[JeremyAnsel]

Hello,
I've added a ClosedSFoilsElevationInverted setting to the [Size] section.

If the hangar floor is inverted, the ClosedSFoilsElevationInverted setting is used, else the ClosedSFoilsElevation setting is used.
When the ClosedSFoilsElevationInverted setting is not defined, the ClosedSFoilsElevation setting is used.