Helicopter suggestions for improvement(?)

lucaspiller · Post by **lucaspiller** » 09 Jun 2005 07:19

Oooh! That is nice.

At the moment I am having a bit of problems with the movement code, currently the aircraft will just get stuck somewhere instead of going to a depot - if I can't figure it out, I know someone who can though.

Born Acorn · Post by **Born Acorn** » 09 Jun 2005 10:05

well I have the sprites needed here

lucaspiller · Post by **lucaspiller** » 09 Jun 2005 10:36

Alrighty, this is what I have done so far. (See piccy)

The movement data for the 2x2 airport sort of works, the 3x3 airport hasn't had anything done to it yet though, also I need to add your new sprites Born Acorn. I doubt I will get anything done until tommorow night because I have an exam this afternoon and tommorow morning...

EDIT: 800th post

latinoloco · Post by **latinoloco** » 09 Jun 2005 10:42

Niiiiice. mad helipads. its good having two sizes. like upgrading airports.

nice work lucaspiller and born acorn

ElectricA4 · Post by **ElectricA4** » 09 Jun 2005 11:35

I think both of them would be good for the game.
Good work!

MeusH · Post by **MeusH** » 09 Jun 2005 16:13

Wow, that's great! I'm just wondering how did you manage to build more than 2 airports per town...

lucaspiller · Post by **lucaspiller** » 09 Jun 2005 16:27

The magic of the forward slash.

lucaspiller · Post by **lucaspiller** » 09 Jun 2005 20:30

Another taster image.

The movement data isn't working correctly, but just a quick 3 min hack together to look good.

bobingabout · Post by **bobingabout** » 09 Jun 2005 21:37

looking good

MeusH · Post by **MeusH** » 10 Jun 2005 17:15

lucaspiller wrote:The magic of the forward slash.

Please tell me

Anyway, this is great!
I hope this will be submitted both to the Integrated Nightly, then to the trunk (when? oh dear darth papa, when?)

Invisble · Post by **Invisble** » 11 Jun 2005 16:04

Looking very good and very impressive at the moment.

However I do have some questions and idea's to play around with.

First the questions.

1). Will these heliports become avialable at differant times much like the small/City/Metropolitan and Interantion Airports do at the moment?

2). Will there be an intermediate heliport with just 2 helipads and a depot in?

And now some idea's

1). How about the possibility of adding new heliports to the larger sized heliports as and when needed (i.e having a heliport with 3 which is busy, then adding in a 4 landing slot to improve passanger waiting times and then if needed the ability to add in a 5th heliport if required?).

2). You have 2 free "spots" on the large 3 pad heliport, with which you can easily fill to create a 5 port heliport (see Image).

And I think that is about it, for the time being.

ElectricA4 · Post by **ElectricA4** » 11 Jun 2005 16:52

I not sure whats being planned but I would suspect the 2x2 heliport would be availible at the same time as the regular heliport (1963: three years after the city airport) simply because you need it for the depot. The larger 3x3 heliport could be introduced later, say, 1983 which is three years after the metropolitin airport.

I agree with you on being able to link 1x1 heliports to other heliports, but I'm not sure if people agree.

Born Acorn · Post by **Born Acorn** » 11 Jun 2005 19:09

The Helicopters will laod and unload on the pads. People will walk or take the bus to the terminal, like they do at real Heliports. The gap between the pads and the building is for Helis to go to the Hangar. There is to be a building between the hngar and the Terminal - the tower.

Seven Force · Post by **Seven Force** » 11 Jun 2005 20:30

MeusH wrote:
lucaspiller wrote:The magic of the forward slash.
Please tell me

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Anyway, the new heliports look great! Release a compiled version so we can try it out when the programming is done for the other heliports.

MeusH · Post by **MeusH** » 11 Jun 2005 22:35

ahhh lol so you removed "if airport_count > 2... do not make next airport"?

Born Acorn · Post by **Born Acorn** » 04 Jul 2005 07:46

any progess happening on this? Ive been away for two weeks so somebody fill me in.

White Rabbit · Post by **White Rabbit** » 04 Jul 2005 11:11

Yum.

I also think that a whole new 'class' of stations should be created. Normally, towns won't allow you to have more than 3 airports in it, but heliports are regarded as airports, which is really lame. You should be able to have at least 3 airports and 3 separate heliports, and you should be able to link heliports with airports, rather than get the 'airports too close together' error message. What do you think?

lucaspiller · Post by **lucaspiller** » 04 Jul 2005 22:12

Not really, DarkVater has been really busy, so has only had a chance to give me a few comments and not actually try and fix it up. I think Celestar has an idea of how to the airport stuff works so I might bug him.

CobraA1 · Post by **CobraA1** » 05 Jul 2005 04:04

Cool

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My aircraft queueing patch includes queueing for helicopters - once this stuff is done, it would be nice to get feedback to see how well my patch works with the new heliports, or if it needs adjustments.

Born Acorn · Post by **Born Acorn** » 05 Jul 2005 14:16

Celestar is making that new mega-airport, isn't he?

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