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Modding, Mission Design, and Coding => The Modding Workshop => Topic started by: TacOne on February 09, 2009, 02:34:51 am

Title: Missile tracking question
Post by: TacOne on February 09, 2009, 02:34:51 am

"Simply" put: What determines whether a missile follows a lag-pursuit or a lead-pursuit course to its target?

Title: Re: Missile tracking question
Post by: Dilmah G on February 09, 2009, 02:37:49 am

Many factors

- The firing ships position to the target
- Countermeasures
- EMPs
- The Missile, for example, the Hornet really needs to be somewhere close to your targets 'Six o'clock' position.

Title: Re: Missile tracking question
Post by: TacOne on February 09, 2009, 02:43:26 am

I don't think so, it seems to be more like

- Heat seekers are lag-pursuit
- Aspect seekers are lead-pursuit
-- Unless they are swarm, then they are lag-pursuit again.

Not sure about corkscrew or heat seeking corkscrews.

Any definate answers on this?

Title: Re: Missile tracking question
Post by: Dilmah G on February 09, 2009, 02:46:16 am

Quote from: TacOne on February 09, 2009, 02:43:26 am

I don't think so, it seems to be more like

- Heat seekers are lag-pursuit
- Aspect seekers are lead-pursuit
-- Unless they are swarm, then they are lag-pursuit again.

Not sure about corkscrew or heat seeking corkscrews.

Any definate answers on this?

Ohh right, seems I misunderstood your question

Yeah you pretty much hit that nail right on the head there. For further clarification, the wiki has the types listed, you can find it here: http://www.hard-light.net/wiki/

Title: Re: Missile tracking question
Post by: TacOne on February 09, 2009, 02:49:46 am

What exactly did you mean for me to find in the wiki?

Title: Re: Missile tracking question
Post by: Dilmah G on February 09, 2009, 02:53:09 am

Quote from: TacOne on February 09, 2009, 02:49:46 am

What exactly did you mean for me to find in the wiki?

If you search the type of missile in the wiki (GTM-4 Hornet), the wiki lists wether it's lag pursuit etc etc

Title: Re: Missile tracking question
Post by: TacOne on February 09, 2009, 02:57:58 am

Ah, but I don't need a list of missiles.
My question was more based in the hope that there would be a way to hack together a heat-seeking lead-pursuit missile. It's annoying that making a good heat-seeking dogfight missile is practically impossible because of the lag-pursuit.

Title: Re: Missile tracking question
Post by: phreak on February 10, 2009, 06:13:00 pm

I was thinking about making this customizable for 3.6.11

Title: Re: Missile tracking question
Post by: TacOne on February 11, 2009, 12:48:54 am

That'd be great. It has my vote for being done.