Another question...

[PaladinX]

Just from glancing over the modding 101 page it doesn't appear possible, but I thought I'd ask anyway... Is there any way to restrict a component to a type other than the normal vehicle type values? For instance if I wanted to restrict a weapon to only heavy troops, not light troops, or only specific ship hulls... Can that be done?

-Paladin

[Taera]

sadly there is no way to do so.

[capnq]

The only way I can think of to do that is to make the component too large to fit on the smaller Versions. I don't think you can restrict things to only the smaller sizes of a vehicle type.

[TerranC]

Maybe:

Make a component that is ridiculously large

Create a special mount that will decrease the size of the component, just for your hull

and bingo?

[Phoenix-D]

The mount system works; also if you're doing it for troops you can do what PvK did in the Proportions mod: give the light troop weapons the engine ability, and set the heavy troop to engines allowed = 0. The engine ability won't actually do anything for the troop, but the heavy troop won't be able to use that component.

Phoenix-D

[Taera]

interesting ways around. still i'd love to see the ability in the game.

[Fyron]

Terran C's method is the best way to do it, because you can specify components for as many sizes of vehicles as you want, not just 2 types like with fake engines. I need to update the mounts section of the tutorial.

[PaladinX]

Ah, thanks for the workarounds guys, the mount system will be perfect, seeing as you can attach both minimum and maximum ship sizes to mount types, and of course tech requirements so I can make custom mount sets for each racial tech paradigm.

Thanks!

-Paladin