Help needed with HL Airship Plugin

[JewelShisen]

I'm needing somebody that can teach me some C# as well as upkeep the plugins for Hooligan Labs mods until such time as I can do it myself.

That said I am wondering how hard it would be, or if it is even possible, to code a plugin to 'fake' a single part to have two lift sources.

[Mihara]

It should be possible to have two perfectly real lift sources. From a cursory glance at the source of HL Airships, it adds force to things by this.part.Rigidbody.AddForceAtPosition(buoyantForce, part.rigidbody.worldCenterOfMass, ForceMode.Force);

I.e. it applies force to the part itself at it's local center of mass. According to Unity documentation, position doesn't even have to be within the surface of the rigidbody, it just will look unrealistic if it isn't. There's nothing saying you can't apply force more than once either.

Add a transform to the model, figure out how much force and where do you need, and part.Rigidbody.AddForceAtPosition(buoyantForce, thattransform.position, ForceMode.Force); ?

[JewelShisen]

It should be possible to have two perfectly real lift sources. From a cursory glance at the source of HL Airships, it adds force to things by this.part.Rigidbody.AddForceAtPosition(buoyantForce, part.rigidbody.worldCenterOfMass, ForceMode.Force);

I.e. it applies force to the part itself at it's local center of mass. According to Unity documentation, position doesn't even have to be within the surface of the rigidbody, it just will look unrealistic if it isn't. There's nothing saying you can't apply force more than once either.

Add a transform to the model, figure out how much force and where do you need, and part.Rigidbody.AddForceAtPosition(buoyantForce, thattransform.position, ForceMode.Force); ?

I will certainly have ro take a shot at that and see if i can't pull it off.