Building ships with pre-docked ships in their holds

[Nathanius]

Hello!

My idea is to have a ship launch with ships already docked in/on it. It would be an essential aspect of allowing a Star Trek style Multi Vector Assault Mode to occur in the Homeworld 2 engine I beleive.

This is what I know:

1. You can have one ship dock with another and not vanish by having the dock path set as a latch path
2. Giving the docking part of the ship a unique dock family would mean only that ship part could dock
3. In the Path To Victory mod the Keeper Reaver has power pods that dock to it and stay there, something similar could be used to re-dock a detached saucer section per say

But the question remains, is it possible to have a ship launch with things docked to or in it? How?

Would adding something like Shiphold = "Fed_Galaxy_Saucer", to the Galaxy's entry in the build.lua file work?

[mololu]

Possible via scripting I can't get into details due to time but it's a simple matter in theory.

In practice, it might be a bit more fiddly when it comes to taking it apart and putting the ship back together.

[Nathanius]

Ahh! Mololu! Thank you for the idea from your Reaver and power pods! I've enjoyed your mod immensely

Is there a central scripting literature somewhere here? Or someone who devotes their time to such things?

[Stargazer]

Aye!

Scripting Tutorial
Karos Graveyard Function Reference
Our "Research Output Panel" uses this

[Edit]
You're right Nathan! Sorry! Now the link should work

[Nathanius]

That scripting tutorial link didn't work

[Dim@]

Just look at my sig

[Nathanius]

Muchos Gracias!

I say this before the wall-of-text headache that's sure to come :P

-- EDIT --

Well, the explosion damage script was pleasantly user friendly, I'm going to investigate twisting things to my will now so I can make MVAM

Don't wait up though...