Shuttle pathing

soroji

I'm just curious about this. Did they ever add the ability to assign a shuttle to a path or just fly around randomly on a ground mission? Or is this still done with a bunch of triggers like it was back in the day?

johnnysnowball

There is now an ESD animated shuttle. There are 2 with the same name. Place the second one down on the list. It will create a white blob on your overhead map. Shuttles will fly in a wide orbit and right over your pin in the direction of the pin arrow at the height you have specified. This is looped, but can be triggered to appear/disappear. The time between shuttles passing can be a good few seconds though.

ussjohnbrown

Can this be reskinned?

johnnysnowball

Nope. They are random ESD shuttles and workbees.

soroji

Well that will come in handy. Thanks!

johnnysnowball

No worries. Hope that asset works out well enough for you. It's kind of like The Fifth Element, if you place them at various heights all heading in cross-paths.

markhawkman

Also, if you want a single orbit I think you can duplicate the shuttle by placing the asset in the same location and rotating it. Thus giving you a single orbit with several objects in it.

soroji

Thanks for the tip! I've been away from the foundry for a while, but I'm getting the itch to get back to it. Especially since we have all of the new toys since I did my first submission.