Problems docking in Attack Carriers with shields up

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Reported by Tigereye on 5 Jan 2010 09:38 UTC Relevant topic

When a player-piloted carrier has shields mounted, friendly ships have problems docking in it.

Tkela writes: There is code buried in the hit test code to indicate when an object should use its actual convex hull shape or the elliptical shape of the shields. Stations are, by default, set to use their convex hull for people on their own side and the shield ellipse for all others when the shield is up (see the calls to SetUseTrueShapeSelf()).

This flag is not set for ships (did the original carrier drones have shields)?

This may be fixable by:

• Calling pht->SetUseTrueShapeSelf(pside) for ships with the carrier ability (same place as the SetUseTrueShapeOther() call in shipigc.cpp).
• Modifying the code in hittest.cpp that uses m_pvUseTrueShapeSelf so that htsA is set using the similar logic as htsB.

Orginally, htsA was always the moving object and wouldn't need to be modified on the fly. Carriers with shields change that.

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Modified by fuzzylunkin1 on 5 Jan 2010 09:40 UTC

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Modified by fuzzylunkin1 on 5 Jan 2010 12:33 UTC

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Modified by fuzzylunkin1 on 8 Jan 2010 18:29 UTC