Carrier related "take off from ground" option

[Tom P]

We can place static objects on the carrier by linking them to the carrier. Why not have this option for players? This would be a cool option for those that fly small squadron missions if a mission maker can place hot start aircraft anywhere on the Carrier deck.
For example: The mission starts, an AI E-2 is on cat 2 ready to launch while you spawn in a hornet staged behind cat 2's blast shield waiting to be ground guided to the cat after the E-2 is launched. Even if having AI placed anywhere like the above example would be really cool emersion and simulate that busy carrier deck.

Plus players spawning have a good chance to spawn on top of or inside other players due to the spawn locations. IF you have AI start from the ramps that's another nightmare, and if that mission server is running SLMOD the player just got kicked/banned....

[Northstar98]

+9999999999999999

The funny thing is if you beach a carrier with a portion of its deck overhanging land, an aircraft starting from ground will spawn up on deck, so it might just be the restrcition preventing aircraft from spawning in the water causing this issue.

If that restriction was done away with or made optional (which, all that would mean is mission editors would need to spawn aircraft in sensible places), we would be able to test this properly.

Edited November 19, 2023 by Northstar98

[joey45]

for client/player probably yes but the AI follow waypoints (on deck) set in the lua file. Unless they do a go to closest waypoint to go the cat. 

[Tom P]

On 11/19/2023 at 6:33 AM, joey45 said:

for client/player probably yes but the AI follow waypoints (on deck) set in the lua file. Unless they do a go to closest waypoint to go the cat. 

yeah I love adding more lua files for basic stuff...

[Tom P]

Bump