cruisealt and buildings

[Guessmyname]

Could cruisealt (or whatever it is that controls how high up aircraft fly) be made to work with buildings, so that we space-modders can have airial structures?

[Eaglebird]

Why not just make the base of a build far below a plant or whatever, rather than right beneath it?

[FolCan]

would units still be able to move under the building? if its up in the air

[Eaglebird]

would units still be able to move under the building? if its up in the air

Assuming it's a space game I figure they wouldn't need to.

[Theotherguy]

something tells me it would screw with pathfinding

[knorke]

Nanoblobs has "floating factories."
Pathfinding was ok, but I think you had to click on the groundplate to select them or something..

[Neddie]

I now want a flying Amphibious complex that drops submarines through the air into the water.

[Pxtl]

would units still be able to move under the building? if its up in the air

Well, you could alter the yardmap to make parts of the building passable to units, but I don't know what sideffects it would have to have a building that was 100% passable.

[Guessmyname]

If it's in the air, then can't collision detection just work like aircraft?

[Caydr]

Not likely. If you get talking to the devs they'll make your head spin with all the complexity...

[Sean Mirrsen]

The only "complex" part of making a unit produce units like a factory would, is that any orders the factory takes are passed down to the units, it dosn't execute them itself. So it would be impossible to tell a mobile factory to move, or attack, or anything. As well, the TA-ish structure of the game, with the groundplates, yardmaps, etc, would make it troublesome if the factory, for example, would turn when a unit was exiting it.