Is it possible to turn a light frigate into a carrier without editing meshes ?

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Hello,

I'm trying to create a mod and I would like to have more than 1 carrier type per race. I tried to edit a light frigate to make a carrier out of it (remove weapon and add squadrons informations).

I ended up with an error message telling me something is missing in the light frigate mesh. I heard that there's a fighter bay on carrier meshes.

Is it possible to turn a frigate into a carrier without editing the meshes ? And secondary question: what frigate/cruiser meshes have a fighter bay (except carriers) ?

Thanks in advance :)

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Reply #1 from Sins Forums Top
What you should probably do is add a dummy point onto the mesh where you want the fighter bay to appear and name the dummy point 'Hanger'.

See what that does.
Reply #2 from Stardock Forums Top
I have not played with meshes yet, can this dummy point be added without exporting the mesh to 3ds ?
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Reply #3 from Sins Forums Top
Sure, if you really really know your coordinates or have an existing point to base it on.

It won't look good, but it'll work.
Reply #4 from Stardock Forums Top
I could replace the gun hardpoints by a hangar...

Do you have any clue on how it could be done (informative post, tutorial...) ?
Reply #5 from Sins Forums Top
Just renaming the point itself should do it.
Reply #6 from Stardock Forums Top
I Thank both of you for your help.
I still have one more question: since I'm at work I cannot look into my Sins files, so could you tell me in whitch file these hardpoints are listed an named... in data, models ?

Thank you
Reply #7 from Sins Forums Top
Its in the mesh itself, you can edit the 1.04 mesh data with a text editor as its not in the binary format.
Reply #8 from Stardock Forums Top
Thank you BigBangTheory I think I'll try all that this evening :)