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Which AI ships in AI have hard surfaces?

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Other than the carriers and various navy ships, of course -- are any of the regular FSX AI boats able to support another object, like a people object or stretcher, etc, on deck? I am trying to place a stretcher on the deck of a trawler and just not having any luck there.

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I think the yacht and one of the cruise ships have hardened helipads... Not sure about the others, though.
 
Is there a way to attach an invisible hard deck surface as an effect, inside the mission, without actually going into the model in GMAX or whatever.?
 
If the object is static just add a helipad to fit the pad of the ship. You might get some crashes though due to FSX' stupid crash detection.
If the ship is moving it has to have a platform within the MDL.
 
Thanks Thorsten,

I like my AI to be moving. I'll just have to keep looking for a workaround solution.

If anybody is familiar with the USS Patuxent replenishment ship that available for download over at fsshipyard.org, I have had no problem adding all manner of crates, generators, boxes, whatever on the aft deck of that object. I suppose that one has hard decks built in from the beginning.

How hard it would it be to go back and modify some of these existing models?

Ripcord
 
There's no way of editing MDLs. If there was you'd have a lot of edited PMDG and other models out there. ;)
 
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