[diamondgeezer]

Subobjects which rotate when the primary weapon is fired, please. I.e., a minigun. Come on coders, you know you want  to. There's a bannana in it for you if you implement it

[Goober5000]

I might be able to try this, but I'll need a model that has a rotating submodel incorporated already.  I.e., make the model so that the gun barrel rotates all the time, and then I'll try coding it so that it only spins when it's fired.

[Solatar]

for a test, maybe you could make the Fenris' radar dish shoot something? Then after it works, I'm sure SOMEBODY will make a model.

[Goober5000]

But you need the firing points and everything specified in the POF.  And if DG wants this feature, he probably already has a model in mind.

[phreak]

to "link" the submodel to the firepoint should be something like this

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$special=firepoint //this is a firepoint
$rotate=0.1          //does a rotation in .1 seconds
$name=gun1_1    //rotate if gun 1 slot 1 is firing


[Goober5000]

More or less, but I'll have to check it to see.

[Hippo]

now, im not up on all the new sexps... but...

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+when
+and
|>key-pressed
|>>Ctrl
|
|>is-ship-type
|>>Alpha 1
|>>>ship with a submodel on the gunpoints
|
+then
|>rotate-sub-object
|>>object to be rotated


[Unknown Target]

while you're at it, put in the ability to have some freaking animations

[mikhael]

Originally posted by Unknown Target
while you're at it, put in the ability to have some freaking animations

Just give me a POF version of the IWar2 avatar setup and I'll be happy.

Objects that rotate on command, glow-points, glow-polys, glow-channels, animation-channels, free animations, real additive transparency, and specular mapping all at once in a fairly easy to handle format. *sigh*

[karajorma]

Originally posted by Hippo
now, im not up on all the new sexps... but...

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+when
+and
|>key-pressed
|>>Ctrl
|
|>is-ship-type
|>>Alpha 1
|>>>ship with a submodel on the gunpoints
|
+then
|>rotate-sub-object
|>>object to be rotated
[/B]

Nice try Hippo but

1) There's no way to stop it rotating easily.

2) It only works for Alpha 1. Do you really want to have to write one of those for every ship with rotating weapons?

[Lightspeed]

3)  not everyone presses ctrl when firing primaries

4) doing everything sexp-oriented makes things look crappy on older missions

[karajorma]

Originally posted by Lightspeed
3)  not everyone presses ctrl when firing primaries

That one doesn't matter cause FS2 intelligently remaps any combinations that have the same original key.

It's quite clever that way and means that joystick and mouse buttons will work as will any keyboard key that you replace ctrl with.

[Galemp]

Goober, if you want a test model, I do have the Ursa II with exactly the sort of setup you're looking for. I haven't released it yet since nobody wants to do the textures, , but it is fully POFed.

[diamondgeezer]

Goober has been equipped with a highly experimental SA-43 variant. But you didn't hear me say that.