[BlasterNT]

I am making a ball and socket type turret, where the rotating part is enclosed by a shell, and can rotate on both the x and y axis.  Is this possible to do with a single-part?

[Droid803]

No.

Make it a multipart with one invisible part

[headdie]

all you need is a cube, dosnt need to be textured for the turret base and surround it with the ball as a subobject of the base like you would the barrels of a conventional multipart

[Trivial Psychic]

I'm not sure if this is still an issue, but back when I was active with TBP, I encountered a problem with an early iteration of the Drakh Mothership whose turrets were made with a really small base portion.  It made damaging the turret nearly impossible, as the hits would only be registered if they struck the base.

[Droid803]

Don't make it small. Make it invisible.

[BlasterNT]

How do I do that?  Right now, I just don't have a texture assigned to it.  It's not a big deal anyways, because the cube can comfortable fit in the "arm" of the turret and still have an effective hit area. 

[Droid803]

That would work.
You could either assign no texture, or assign a texture called "invisible" to it.

[BlasterNT]

Oh, okay, great. 

Argh, but having further problems of actually making the turrets work...  These turrets are on a fighter (that won't be piloted by the player, although i'm piloting them myself to test them, and they are on the front of the fighter, so their "rest" position in PCS 2 is with barrels sticking forward.  I have the properties set up like the turret on an Ursa or Medusa, both in the POF, and in the tables, but the turrets just won't _shoot_.  There's an option to select the weapons for them in FRED, so I know they're being treated like turrets, but they never pivot around and track or anything, they just sit there.  Is there anything I'm missing?

[Droid803]

if they don't point straight up or straight down you need to give it fvec and uvec.

cue the millionth and first time i explain this

Read this: http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php?topic=76047.msg1533728#msg1533728

barrels sticking forward use

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$uvec:0,0,1
$fvec:0,1,0


[BlasterNT]

Ah, okay, thanks very much.  I read in a very old post that only bombers can use turrets as well, is that still the case?

[Commander Zane]

--Steve-O-- has fighters used in BP with turrets. The Wraith / Uriel and the Banshee / Izra'il.
There's also the Tylisos from Ancient-Shivan War.

Wow I wasn't ninja'd for a change?

[The E]

Any ship can carry turrets.