[Rga_Noris]

Although I have yet to think of a good use for this, I was wondering if "turreting a turret is possible", or if it's been tried. The idea is that you would have a normal two part turret, with a base and arm. On the base of the turret, you would have a normal, single part turret parented to it. Could the single part turret work, moving with the base of the multi parter? I realize that the turret would likely not move to aim the single part turret.

[FUBAR-BDHR]

Pretty sure this isn't possible for 2 reasons.  First targeting gets thrown off for any subsystems on a subobject except for multi part turrets.  Second turrets on a rotating subobject (such as the turret base) aren't really supported.  Can't remember the exact explanation but I believe it was something along the lines that the FOV and target select is based from the original position not the rotated position. 

[el_magnifico]

Is a turreted turret possible?

Holy recursiveness, Batman!

[FUBAR-BDHR]

Actually it's not as crazy as it sounds.  I tried many times to get a single part working on another single part or subobject.  Never tried a multipart/singlepart combo though. 

[Droid803]

You can put turrets on destroyable subobjects like the extra turrets on the NTF Boadaciea right?
Movement...now that's an entirely different story altogether.

[FUBAR-BDHR]

Turrets on subobjects do not target correctly.  The Boadaciea has no such turrets.  Each is off of detail0 or in it's case rcorvetta. 

[Dragon]

Indeed, you can shot off a subobject and turrets will remain.

[Getter Robo G]

Wow, for a moment I thought someone bumped Trashman's old thread from 2+ years ago.

He did a variation of turret on a turret (somewhat successfully).

I think it was use a normal multi-part turret and then add FIXED single part turrets.

Not sure, you'd have to research it yourself.

 

[TrashMan]

Nah, it was a missile turret on a gun turret, but it's not actually another turret - just a different set of fire points and a different loadout.

Or to put it simple - a turret with 4 fire points, 2 with guns, 2 with missiles.

[Getter Robo G]

Thanks for the clarification, I couldn't remember...

[Thaeris]

Actually, something like this would be really cool for some far-out stuff, like a WWII mod, of all things. In truth, there were several ships I've seen that would have an AA turret placed atop a large main gun battery. Now, if the rotational axis of the turret was directly beneath where the AA turret was, you could just have a turret cleverly placed atop the other one, essentially floating in space (but not appearing as such). However, as that sort of thing probably wouldn't work so perfectly in real life, a proper solution would be great.

[TrashMan]

Actually that would work. Esentailly two disinct turret, and the upper one is actually placed "on the hull", but floating above it.
As long as there's a destroyed model for the big turret the smaller turrets sits upon, it should work without problems.

[Dragon]

The bottom turret would have to be much larger and have barrels set up to make sure that two turrets won't intersect.
It should be possible to do though.

[Aardwolf]

Aw, and here I was thinking somebody was making a 40k mod...

[IronBeer]

Actually that would work. Esentailly two disinct turret, and the upper one is actually placed "on the hull", but floating above it.
As long as there's a destroyed model for the big turret the smaller turrets sits upon, it should work without problems.

Yo dawg, I heard you like guns. So I put guns on your guns so you can shoot while you shoot.

[BengalTiger]

Turrets were actually mounted on turrets, dawg...:

[Aardwolf]

Well, it makes sense, if the turret is so big that placing a smaller turret next to it would either limit the big one's rotation, or wouldn't be able to cover a region on the other side of the big one.