Registered: Jul 2001
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Now here's a screwball idea

I was just thinking about how we _might_ get a side-mounted multipart turret to actually work right. The general concept is to reverse the hierarchy i.e. the barrels will be the parent object, base is the subobject. I don't know if it'll work, or if it's been tried before, but since I have no modeling program to experiment with, maybe someone would like to try this idea out? Probably it'd be best to work with an already existing model, like the nova, since it already has the side turrets in place. Supposedly (and I'm about to demonstrate my complete lack of knowledge on modeling) you would have to reorder the turret's hierarchy so as said before, base is subobject to barrels, and...what do you do...glue lights onto the firing points(?). I don't know; if someone does try this, will you at least explain what you did, and try to explain why it doesn't (or did) work?

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And while we're on the subject of FS2 editing, a quick question on the sounds.tbl. Are the beam shot sound effects hard-coded? I'm trying to get a beam to use a different sound effect, but no matter what I change it to it refuses to use anything but the default sound effect (number 125). Also, I tried to set it to use a different warmup sound that was also a different value than the original gun, but on some it behaves normally, and other times the sound effect doesn't even play.

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contact bs about the sounds, as for turret setup ip and others are testing idea, on a model by model basis

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no I don't think it will work

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I think the turret rotations are hardcoded, based on the turret subobjetcs (not the actual model hierarchy).... sometime can tell me whether this is right / wrong, though.

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you're right

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