[General Battuta]

dear everyone,

why do i suck so much?

also why does this sentry gun not shoot  

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$Name:                          GTSG Alastor Bravo
$Short name: TSGun3
$Species:                       Terran
+Tech Description:
XSTR("The Bravo variant Alastor area defense system uses twin missile lanchers drawing from an ammunition storage derived from the Hygeia support ship.", -1)
$end_multi_text
$POF file:                      Platform2T-01.pof
$Detail distance: (0, 250, 500)
$Show damage: NO
$Density:                       1
$Damp:                          0.2
$Rotdamp:                       0.2
$Max Velocity: 0.0, 0.0, 0.0
$Rotation time: 20.0, 20.0, 20.0
$Rear Velocity: 0.0
$Forward accel: 0.0
$Forward decel: 0.0
$Slide accel: 0.0
$Slide decel: 0.0
$Expl inner rad: 0.0
$Expl outer rad: 0.0
$Expl damage: 0.0
$Expl blast: 0.0
$Expl Propagates: NO ;; If set to Yes, then when the ship dies, the explosion propagates through it.
$Shockwave Speed: 0.0 ;; speed shockwave expands at, 0 means no shockwave
$Default PBanks: ()
$Default SBanks: ()
$SBank Capacity: ()
$Shields:                       0
$Power Output: 0.0
$Max Oclk Speed: 0.0
$Max Weapon Eng: 0.0
$Hitpoints:                     250
$Armor Type: Light Armor 100
$Flags:                         ("sentrygun" "in tech database")
$AI Class:                      Captain
$Afterburner: NO
$Countermeasures: 0
$Scan time:                     2000
$EngineSnd: -1   ;; Engine sound of ship
$Closeup_pos: 0.0, 0.5, -14
$Closeup_zoom: 0.85
$Score: 9
$Subsystem:                     turret01a, 20, 1.0
$Default SBanks:        ( "Trebuchet" )
$SBank Capacity:        ( 5000 )
$Subsystem:                     turret02a, 20, 1.0
$Default SBanks:        ( "Trebuchet" )
$SBank Capacity:        ( 5000 )

[Solatar]

I just tried it; and it works for me. I copied the table entry exactly, except that I replaced the Trebuchet with Phoenix V missiles (so I could throw it in my active MOD folder easier).

It fired upon me as expected. Maybe the problem is with the Treb somehow?

[Qent]

Yeah, it works with Harpoons. I thought maybe the AI profile in BP2 wasn't being applied to turrets, but then I tried loading Trebs on an Ares and that didn't work either. Huh.

[Fury]

Trebuchet has "huge" flag, hence turrets won't fire it on small ships. Smart secondary weapon selection does not apply to turrets.

[Droid803]

Does the "bomber+" flag also prevent it from firing at anything but bombers? (since smart selection doesn't apply?)

[General Battuta]

But I had a good-secondary-time.  Is that not gonna do the trick?

[Droid803]

Don't think that applies to turrets, only regular gunbanks.
Don't quote me on that though.

[Hades]

Don't think that applies to turrets, only regular gunbanks.
Don't quote me on that though.

Quoted for posterity.
>_>

[Qent]

Does the "bomber+" flag also prevent it from firing at anything but bombers? (since smart selection doesn't apply?)

It fires fine at capships. Not sure if that's what you meant.

[Droid803]

oh ok.

[Shivan Hunter]

have you modified the Platform2T-01 so it can actually carry secondaries? IIRC turrets have to have a secondary bank defined in the POF as well to fire missiles, unless that's changed.

Does it fire at anything at all? As in, put a bunch of hostile ships near it and see if it fires at any of them. You may have to make a version of the Treb that fires at small ships (without the "huge" flag).

[Hades]

have you modified the Platform2T-01 so it can actually carry secondaries? IIRC turrets have to have a secondary bank defined in the POF as well to fire missiles, unless that's changed.

Does it fire at anything at all? As in, put a bunch of hostile ships near it and see if it fires at any of them. You may have to make a version of the Treb that fires at small ships (without the "huge" flag).

It doesn't matter if the turret in the pof is defined as a primary or secondary turret, just what you put in the table matters.

[Fury]

But I had a good-secondary-time.  Is that not gonna do the trick?

No, you need to create a copy of the weapon without "huge" and "bomber+" flags. Also, you don't need to set SBank capacity on turrets as they have unlimited ammo.

You may also want to ask Darius or someone else to put a shield mesh on sentries, they really should have shields by the time BP takes place.

[General Battuta]

I guess I was just weirded out by the fact that fighter-launched Trebs are working fine. We'll need to make a Trebuchet#Turret or something.

[mjn.mixael]

 

Turrets with trebs?!

 

[General Battuta]

Turrets with trebs?!

 

Of COURSE those big launchers on the Atreus have selectable loadouts!

[Droid803]

Those tiny sentry guns lobbing trebs looks pretty silly though

[General Battuta]

Those tiny sentry guns lobbing trebs looks pretty silly though

pffff don't worry about it it's all cool, i'm putting cargo containers next to them to be ammo boxes, and little spacesuits to fly around reloading them!

[General Battuta]

Actually, being srs here for a second, they look like they've got about as much room for ammo and **** as an Ares.   

[Droid803]

Hm...possibly.
But an Ares runs out of trebs fairly fast while turreted weapons have AMMO! UNLIMITED AMMO!!!!!