I LIKE THAT MOD!!!

they slide a bit too much and keep crashing into and damaging the carrier. if its possible to adjust that it would be great

Happy to see there's still great modders for this game,
keep 'r going Luz!

looks like someone managed to get vehicle transportation on this mod https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3444531335 i have not tried it yet but maybe youd be able to reverse engineer how they did it?

shame alright it was an idea that was worth a look into sadly non fruitful,

sadly it's almost impossible - docking is hardcoded in such a way that the carrier is basically the only vehicle that can do it (aside from the drydock).
The docking system is hardcoded and nigh-untouchable aside from the bay positions as far as I know.
There's a very limited subset of moddable options available to us, doing anything further would require DLL injections/memory editing in order to apply the mod, which instantly means it doesn't work with the workshop, and likely wouldn't work for multiplayer, only singleplayer

have you got a way to look into how the carrier docks its vehicles to its hull maybe you could have a look at that if possible and somewhat reverse engineer the code and make it so you can do the same thing to other vehicles

oh okay thank you!

Further to below:

Update 1.0.2

-Tweaked physics colliders for better vehicle-flight deck interaction.
-Added physics bounds to all four edges of the flight deck - this should help prevent vehicles sliding off the deck during movement, whilst not getting in the way of vehicles attempting to land on the flight deck.

@Jacobzzzz it depends - we modders don't have any way to "attach" vehicles to other vehicles, so when anything sits on the pad, it may or not move depending on how fast/sudden the ship moves. I'm thinking about some ways I might be able to keep vehicles on the deck with some physics trickery, likely will patch in something in the next couple days (think invisible wall to keep things from falling off the pad).

Using the airlift command won't work (or at least would be super tricky) as Petrels won't recognise any part of the new Needlefish as a landing spot, so it'll just dump it down wherever the marker is - again not something we modders can mess around with.

I'm kinda newish to this game so maybe i don't get it; if I airdrop or land on the helipad will the vehicle stick or can they still fall off? Do I need to airlift the vehicles off or can I just run them off manually?
Sorry if it's obvious I just don't know :(

In all honesty I haven't tested it yet, I assume the only one it would not work with is Needlefish Mk2, for obvious reasons, but I'm not sure how it would interact with the others. I will test soon.

@Rye thank you!

Which ones? If you're talking about revolution, it should already be as far as I can tell: if there's a compatibility issue, I can take a look and see if there's something I can do from my end, but I'd need to know what mods might cause the issue (of course there's not a lot I can do if another mod modifies the needlefish as the XML file involved is core to how this mod works)

Would there be a way to make this mod compatible with Bredroll's mods?

very neat mod. the models look awesome

all good. thanks a bunch

I've updated the description to be more descriptive of the mod, apologies for any confusion about the mod's purpose

@Rye
it effectively expands the size of the needlefish, and adds a large helipad to the back of the ship. The helipad has physics, so you can land helicopters or airlift ground vehicles onto it. The ship is also a little heavier and slower, in order to make it look more "realistic" as it moves around.

Apologies for any confusion about the purpose of the mod!

i understand the mod was literally released yesterday and it's in beta but could you elaborate on what the mod does?

I'm afraid not - the modding community has tried at length to find a way, but even changing the weapons on the ships isn't possible at the moment

Is it possible to add the ability to produce swordfish as the player?

Mod should be compatible with most other mods, unless those mod modify the needlefish or swordfish.