A question about odfs and sods.

posted on July 2nd, 2009, 9:18 pm

Im wondering if there is somekind of command I could put into an odf that would rotate a station. Basicly what Im looking for is to be able to rotate stations 180 degress...for example turn shipyards 180 so that they face the oposite way. Does a command such as this exist?

posted on July 2nd, 2009, 9:42 pm

Not that I can think of I'm afraid.

What would be the point of it though anyway? Can't you just rotate the models in whatever program before exporting them?

posted on July 2nd, 2009, 9:54 pm

Actually...You could give it engines, and a physics file, so it could rotate on a 2D plain, and set its Combat speed to 0, so it wouldn't turn to face its enemy.  It would stop when you told it to build.  It could be done.  You could even make them move verry slowly, instead of just rotating.

posted on July 2nd, 2009, 11:02 pm

Trust me. It's very hard to make this. However, i figured it out so here ya go! It requires a bit more work though to get it working with a station so just tell me if you need help with that.

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posted on July 2nd, 2009, 11:15 pm

I don't know if that is exactally what he needs tho RCIX.  It seems that he wants to position the station, so that he can consirve space, not so it can track its enemy.

posted on July 2nd, 2009, 11:35 pm

No no no..thats not what I mean. Im looking for a shortcut to re-orientate sods via odf commands radther than having to go into a modeling program to change "which way the front is facing" I know there is the scalesod command Im just wondering if there are any other commands that can be included in odfs to influence sods. Allthough I can use that physics file for an upcoming project of mine. Though now I have spent 4 hours teaching myself to make buttons and the actual making buttons so Im just a lil burnt out from modding right now so I need a short break lol.

posted on July 2nd, 2009, 11:45 pm

Oh... in that case, i don't know. 

posted on July 3rd, 2009, 1:02 am

Interestingly enough I found via the map editor I can do what I desire in terms of orientation....I never knew I could turn a starbase upside down with it lol.

posted on July 3rd, 2009, 1:10 am

Hehe, yup, you can turn anything around and orient it... and take really nice pictures that way