[Wanderer]

Well it defines the turret fov as in degrees in total on both sides. So setting it to 300 allows turret to rotate 150 degs to left and 150 degs to right.

EDIT: I was in coastal artillery.. we had guns with real turrets (fov 360 degs )

[Vertigo 7]

MK 86 5" ftw!

I started as a CIWS tech to begin with... R2-D2 with a hard on... 20mm rotating Gatling gun 5400 rounds/minute... love that system...

then i upgraded to a Tomahawk tech... i set Baghdad on fire =p

[Vertigo 7]

yay i found a bug!

i mean... doh i found i bug 

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$Subsystem: Turret04a, 5.0, 3.0
$Default PBanks: ( "Heavy Ion Cannon" "Heavy Ion Cannon" )
$Maximum Barrel Elevation: 80
$Turret Base FOV: 320
$Flags: ( "use multiple guns" "fire on target" "reset when idle" )
$animation: triggered
$type: initial
+relative_angle: 270,180,0

this is an aft facing top side turret that should onry shoots at stuff behind the ship. Firstly, base FOV breaks it and lets it shoots at stuff thats infront of the ship. Secondly, when it resets, the turret barrels go to 0 instead of 180 (the base turns to 180 but the barrels move to 0... looks like a transformer  ). The fire on target works wonderfully well. I likes that a lot. I think the reset thing should be tweaked a bit tho... I'm not to particularly fond of it reseting between shots. IMO it should only reset when theres not a target in range or in FOV. I do like the reseting tho.


Edit: i'm also guessing that 1.6.9 doesnt support wide screen either, eh?

Edit agains:

i changed the turret angles to 90,180,0 and that fixed the transformer thing... but they are still shooting things infront of the ship

[Wanderer]

Sorta expected this one... First of all animation code has precious little to do with turret uvec and fvec. So if you have top deck turret its front points forward and guns by default straight up. To get the turret to shoot target exclusively behind the ship you would need to to set the actual fvec to point straight behind (and uvec straight up as well as these have to be defined together). The animation code thing is something i need to test to figure out what is going wrong with it. First thing that comes to mind is that the first value is way too high (usually from 0 to 90) http://www.hard-light.net/wiki/index.php/Animation_Code

Also the code allows for the animation code to force the barrels beyond the actual 'targeting limits'

As for the delay before reseting.. i could make that something that can be set via tables as well as the speed (as a multiplier) of the reset action.

[Vertigo 7]

yeah i started looking at the anim code. it never gave me any issues before cuz 90 and 270 are the same deviation, just different directions to get to it. When i first made the table i was looking at it as a circle, not a total if that makes any sense. but anyways, thats fix0red... so the fvec and uvec, i know they go in the pof, is there a particular syntax i needa use?

edit:
almost forgot... i like the delay on the reset idea... tabled entries sounds good to me =D

[Wanderer]

hmm... There seems to be the list of the optional entries that can be placed to the properties field... i could pull the list from the code but not today (too tired)..
http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php/topic,54757.msg1119019.html#msg1119019

[Vertigo 7]

ok i just wanna make sure im doing this right...

if i set a fvec of 0,0,1 for a top side turret, then by default the turret faces forward. if i set a fvec of 0,0,-1 then by default it faces aft, correct?

It looks like i need to table tweek to make this work right... if i use 0,0,1 for a top side aft turret, it still shoots at stuff in front of the ship but 0,0,-1 makes the turret barrels face at 0 with my base at 180, ergo transformers! so actually if im using 0,0,-1 then my relative angle should be 90,0,0 for my aft turrets and should allow the fov to work like its sposed ta?

Edit:

I don't think this is gonna work =/ setting fvec of 0,0,-1 for a top side aft facing turret does turn the turret base to face aft but the barrels stay in place so it looks all weird. they do turn like they are sposed to with the base FOV and fire in the proper direction but the barrels are folded over from the back side of the turret base instead of the front 

[Wanderer]

Hmm..  yeah.. forgot to mention that.  That if i understood your problem correctly. Basically the fvec and uvec are not resetting the turrets facing. They are redefining what game considers to be turrets front and up side. So you need to make the turret model (in some modeling proggie, i think pcs2 can't do that - yet anyhow) face the direction you want to get the fvec to point to.

[Vertigo 7]

yeah, i decided id try to flip the turrets around in TS. worked like a charm =D

[Topgun]

I noticed that the radar tends to stretch the images. why? to what?
I can't tell if it stretches them to a square or to a power of two. is this what is supposed to happen?

[Wanderer]

Well.. i tested in using square dds textures (as compressed dds files generally are). Didn't even thought there would be any other still in use

I'll take a look at it though, 2D or 3D or both?

[Topgun]

well, most of my tests are with 3d. so I would need to check if it has the same problem in 2d.
if you want I can go test now and come back in 15 min?

[Topgun]

3d only. I have attached two .dds's, one stretches, the other, does not.

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[Cobra]

Where can I get the radar icons? Can't seem to find them in your last build's thread.

[Topgun]

I am working on those. they still aren't done. If you want to can help me with testing .

[Cobra]

Sure why not?

[Topgun]

ok, well, we need to wait until the stretching bug is fixed first to start testing.
if you want to help with making the radar blips, then you could start by extracting the last frames (the brighter ones) of the briefing anis of the vasudan ships (don't extract the ones from the "fade icons"). I already have the Terran ones done.
EDIT: tis goes for anyone who wants to help. oh, and don't do the fighters or the bombers.

[Cobra]

Erh, I don't even know how they're supposed to be done, besides save them in DXT5.

[Topgun]

just extract the last frame from briefing anis that are in sparky.vp.

[chief1983]

Didn't someone already make a pack that did the same thing?