[wistler]

How do i make AAAf sentry guns? Is it a simple case of changing the ship.tbl?

[TrashMan]

Yes. Whatever weapon you put in the sentry guns turrret will be the default one.

You can also change that in-mission (FRED), rather than make a new ship type.

[FUBAR-BDHR]

Which gun and what weapon do you want on it.  It might be as simple as changing the turret type in FRED or using a change weapon sexp (can't remember the exact name of it right now). 

[Polpolion]

IIRC a ship requires the flag "cruiser" or above to use beams.

[Droid803]

Nonsense!
Bombers with beam turrets use them just fine. See SB Yali and SB Vidhyachal...

[Excalibur]

Just label a sentry gun "cruiser" in the tables if FRED2ing doesn't work.

[Droid803]

But you should beam-protect them then, since beam-freed capital ships will fire capital beams at them...

[wistler]

thanks guys, got it working good 

I keep on tripping myself up by not changing both the mediavp ship.tbl and the one FRED uses , must remember... 

[Snail]

Nonsense!

Well all beams in FS2 have "Big ship" attached to them so bombers can't use them. Once you take away that flag (I think) it all works fine.

[Akalabeth Angel]

   So if the Yali or somesuch bomber has a beam on a turret what could the player do with that gun anyway? Turret weapons typically fire whenever they damn well please. If I was flying a beam bomber I'd want to fire my beam not watch it fire whenever it feels like it.

[Droid803]

Heh...well, I hacked the POF in PCS2 so that the beams are primary banks.
Its fun to fly then (the beam weapon itself is obviously modified so you can't spam it).