Trade Lanes

[tansytansey]

Nighthawk definitely wins this thread...

... but on a more serious note, if you can get that to work without flying sideways through them, it would be awesome....

Also, to those who suggest Bretonian lanes go in reverse, (drive on left)
This is at least 1030-ish years into the future from roughly the present (IRL) based on the intro narration.
Space needs to be unified a little bit, otherwise people will cause accidents in Bretonia...
And... Spaceships are symmetrical, theres no steering wheel position left and right to tell which lane to be in...
And all the lanes are manufactured by Ageira Technologies and Deep Space Engineering
They all function the same way...

Even if we could get the ships to not fly sideways, it is still a lot of work. The angle the tradelanes' face is controlled by a line in the ini file that looks like this
rotation = 0, 0, 0
they're the x, y and z axis though I'm not sure which is which in freelancer. But if you imagine this is the tradelane: 8 making the first number will make it look like this '_' as in, facing upwards. second will make it look like this | and third like this 'oo'
That's assuming you changed the numbers to 90.
But that number is not relative to the tradelane, but rather to the map. The tradelane from Manhatten -> WP can be done simply by changing the last 0 to 90
But the lane from WP->Norfolk is facing in a different direction, and changing the same number to 90 had this result:


Because in the ini files there is no distinction between tradelanes, there is no way of knowing which entries belong to which tradelanes except through trial and error. It would be a long and difficult process.

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