Flagships

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Hello,

Im thinking of maybe making flagships for each race.. they'd be built like a superweapon and be at the end of the military tech tree. Unfortuneately I do not know much modding and was wondering, is there any custom ship models? Im not sure if SoaSE has a text based system or a program based system. But what I want to do is make giant ships that would take up about 4 or 5 capital ship slots and a whole lot of fleet cap (they would reeaaaallllyyy be massive), have them built like a building via construction frigates, and give them a custom model (be it strapped together from existing models or whatever). I dont know of the feasibility for this and I mostly just want to know if you can make custom ships and units simply like you could in Warcraft 3.
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Reply #1 from Sins Forums Top
You can't make them as easily as in WC3, unless you modify existing ones. Mainly, you'd have to make the model.

The stats and such editing is all simple text, no actual coding involved, but you also can't make a ship be built like a building. It has to come out of a shipyard. Most of what you want is workable though, provided you make/somehow get an appropriately sized model :P
Reply #2 from Sins Forums Top
You can also spawn ships via an ability, so theoretically you could "simulate" the shipbuilding process by integrating it into an ability with long execution times.

As for the ships themselves, as Annatar said you have to make the models and textures yourself.
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Reply #3 from Sins Forums Top
Hrm, I don't think there's a way to spawn a capital ship with an ability though? I haven't looked through them in a while but I only seem to remember a create frigate hook.
Reply #4 from Sins Forums Top
See my thread on the Olympus class. One ability is called "flagship" Also these ships fit it, and I can always use more help...

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Reply #5 from Sins Forums Top
as Volt said, we already streted to work on that, so if you want to help, you are welcome to it.