So, i'm making a small faction mod and i'm making a custom dropship.
Problem is, my dropship doesn't have sliding hatches like the vanilla ones, its has a hatch at the bottom that is supposed to work like regular rocket hatches, except I can't get it to work.

I did all the animation and tried to change framecount and all sorts of variables (Like HatchDoorSwingRange) but nothing seemed to work preperly.
How the hell do I make it open like a rocket?

Halp plox.

Edit:

FFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUCKKKKKKKK!

Wrong section!
Move plox.

I have never tried doing such a thing and I bet Data never intended for that to be done.
Its not possible partner, nope.

Feck.
Well... Now I have to redesign the dropship... Damnit.

No no no no no.
Not so hasty, Mr.... Pasty..?

You should post it, see if anyone can work it out.
I don't know what the hell you're talking about.

I want it to open like this

That.....kind of looks wrong in a way.
Anyhow, why not code it like the train? See how it hovors? And Mail's train opens doors like a rocket.

I checked it out, it works fine but it doesn't have an opening snimation.
That is the problem here, the hull opens but there is no animation.

Arghhh!! D:<

Dropships don't have opening animations as far as I can see. The sprite just moves.
Make the door move behind the actor.

I tried, I can't seem to make it slide up and down, it just rotates.
I tried setting HatchDoorSwingRange from Matrix to Vector but it just crashed...

I'm not too experienced with crafts, but what if you made 2 doors with sprite offsets very far away, but attached to the craft in the door area and just use a really low hatch door swing range so it looks like it's just moving up?

It might not look as good as your animation, but it could work.

I'll try that, although it may be tricky to get the offsets right.

Have you tried all the SpriteAnimMode settings?
Particularly 5 and 6?

I don't know how SpriteAnimDuration would work with that though, since there's also hatchdelay.

I know dropships can animate, I remember someone gave one a cheesy light display.

I'll try that aswell.
Thanks for the tips.

you could actually probably use a rocket and rotate some lua'd emitters next to it.. but that would be quite a bit of work XD

If there's lua involved, there is bound to be fail.