[FUBAR-BDHR]

Exactly fvec is forward vector.  Now think about it.  Where do the barrels elevate from?  Their forward facing positon.  So no matter which way it turns the fvec determines which direction elevation happens. So if you had a multi-part turret with 0 base rotation and an elevation of 90 the barrels could only move between uvec and fvec.    

[FUBAR-BDHR]

That code snippet looks horribly brittle. And the correct rotation axes would have been Y for the base and X for the barrels.

That sounds about right on uvec/fvecs.

Can't be x for the barrels as they would rotate sideways instead of up/down like b5 does. 

[Droid803]

I forgot to set rotate/rotation axis for turrets once and they still worked so I just stopped doing it.
Saves soooooo much time.

As long as people know that they don't have to there's no need to force-disable it.

[Spicious]

Having the X axis is its rotation axis means its relative x coordinates are unchanged by the rotation. Top/bottom mounted, forward/backward facing turrets require this.

[Droid803]

Uh...no?
Unless it does it automatically (in which case I don't need to bother with it anyway), seeing as I haven't been setting it since, and all mah multiparts still work.

[Spicious]

Not required to be set in the POF file, but the axis about which they actually rotate.

[Droid803]

So its done automatically.

[FUBAR-BDHR]

Something I've been wishing existed for quite some time but keep forgetting about.  The ability to render just 1 debris piece instead of all.  Also a toggle for -destroyed rendering.  Both of these would be great in the ship lab as well.  Right now the only way to see the -destroyed versions is to do a test mission.  The only way to see individual debris pieces is to blow up ships and hope the piece you want to see survives and you can target it. 

[Colonol Dekker]

Some sort of ability to drag files from the windows explorer/or OS equivalent onto the info/hierarchy tree. For example drag a .dae onto lod3 section or over a lod0 turret?

[Zacam]

Here's a big one: When double-clicking a numerical field, it will highlight select the whole value.

If the value is preceded by a '-' though, the '-' is not part of the selection, so when you copy to paste it somewhere else, it's dropped.

Being able to copy the '-' would be nice.

[Quanto]

The biggest improvement I can think of would be the ability to rescale objects in PCS2, be they turrets, or even detail0. Saves a lot of trouble if you find out you got your scales wrong ingame and have to reimport from Max.

[Colonol Dekker]

Ooh ooh! Yes that! Orientation adjustment too :3 ?

[The E]

Uhh.

You guys HAVE tried the latest builds, haven't you?

Because that function was implemented already.

[Colonol Dekker]

I'm aware of the import-scale settings. Is there a new scale button i've missed

[The E]

Yes. In the right toolbar, top row, Button marked "Transform".

[Spicious]

Alternatively hold down Alt and use the mouse.

Disclaimer: my current build may or may not be saving collision data correctly.

[Colonol Dekker]

Spicious, your link is dead for me

(the sig one)

[Spicious]

It's working fine for me. Try this.

[Nuke]

how about an lod distance calculator/debugger? it would take the model rotate it randomly and zoom in and out automatically. showing only the textured model and changing lods based on a set of detail distances input by the user in real time. the idea would be to make it very easy to come up with an optimal set of lod distances to use in the table.

[FUBAR-BDHR]

That sounds like something more for the ship lab as you are going to get different rendering in PCS2 then in game.