which version? FL version?
for what purpose?

as i have not seen that sur i can only guess but usually my guesses are quiete exact
so here it is
the sur might have been currupt all the time (even on the ship)
when you test surs on ships those ships usually have equipment mounted
equipment has its own surs... therefore if a gunshot its something like a gun... a shield or anything else the ship takes damage even if the ship sur does not work correctly
thats why i initially started to test surs on solar objects and after creating a few hundred surs i can say for sure that this method is working fine

i also can not imagine a single explaination why the sur of a solar object should work different from a ship sur... they are based on the same "code"

extentionally to that explaination i need to say that i consider DA surs ineffective
they contain details which are unneccessary for hit detection as the projectiles of guns and their hits are 5-10m big in FL so 1m big details or details in similar size dont make any sense to me
the more complex a sur is the more serverload is created on a server because a part of the hit detection (guns) is only calculated serverside and the more polygons a sur does have the more FL needs to calculate

needless to say that the current sur exporters also create surs with MUCH unneccessary information
just create a sur based on one single box and export it and you will notice that the file size is bigger than some of the original DA surs which contain more complex objects

we are still far away from creating real good surs... but from my own experience with the different methods i can only say that simple surs work best.... expecially if you have a mod with many new ships
and the method testing those surs always worked for me... and if i noticed that a sur on a solar object didnt work correctly then i knew that i made something wrong with creating that sur

Meanwhile added:
Crossfire -> www.crossfire.swat-portal.com (mod/server)
BlasterUniverse -> www.blasteruniverse.swat-portal.com (mod/server)
BloodGuard -> www.bg.swat-portal.com (clan)


and ive spread the word a bit

well ive a basic idea of how it does work.... i cant go into details as i never did it before and dont have the time to do tests atm

but from what i see the animations are pretty simple
via UTF you can definy which objects should interact
parent = root
child = component
for every wing you have 2 nodes which describe their starting state and the end state
so in the end you need to create a ship with 2 components and 4 animation nodes

animations are being run in a simple way by setting different coodinates describing which "path" the animation should go

to draw a simple picture of how it does/might work:
take 2 needles... stick them in a piece of wood... connect them with a cord... and now take one needle and stick it into a different place on the wood
et voila an animation -> the cord was your moving component (wing)

hope you get the picture... thats how animations work
simple, effective, not that much time consuming, a bit primitive (imho)

Not a bad idea.
(wouldnt it be better to use the right side to display information about how sites can be added? -> just a thought)

bar already add:
SWAT Portal -> www.swat-portal.com (general)

bar will be added this evening:
Crossfire -> www.crossfire.swat-portal.com (mod/server)
BlasterUniverse -> www.blasteruniverse.swat-portal.com (mod/server)
BloodGuard -> www.bg.swat-portal.com (clan)

ive created more than 200 single component surs and tested them all (without problem)
i just want to share a method of testing surs effectivly for those which dont know it already

make the ship a solar object and place it into a system directly infront of a gate
jump through the gate and back (so the game gets saved)
now you can simply replace the object and its sur with other ones and shoot at the parts of the ships
the good is that you dont have moving objects like on npcs or other player ships
and you always spawn infront of your test object
that way you effectivly can test 30-40 ships per hour and make sure that your custom surs are working

dont touch me
if any1 of you tries to get a link out of my body ill freak out ^^