Registered: May 2001
Location: Miami,Fl, USA
Posts: 49

Is there a tutorial out there for making capships, I'm having problems with the turret objects.

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Registered: Feb 2001
Location: Lisbon, Portugal
Posts: 1218

hmm let me gess... they firing 90 off their suposed to and the barrels rotate wrongly in relation to its base.

1-get the barrels to be centered at (0,x,0) referential ,x is any variable you want it to be (height) in truespace.

2- the barrels must be pointing up not to front or back

3-when seting up the POF make sure associated submodel is the base and rotationa submodel is the barrels.

4-when sting up further in POF make sure the base rotates at Z axis and the barrels at X axis, further more fill in prorperties for the base only with this text:

$special=subsystem
$fov=180
$name=GunTurret

You can use Model view32 or Kazans tools for this

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Registered: Feb 2001
Location: Sheffield UK
Posts: 1913

ah the ex one who wants to add an unoffical thunderbolt from the great wars mod.... i have spies everywhere !

i really should bookmark this thread

http://www.volitionwatch.com/vwbb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=2755

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Registered: May 2001
Location: Miami,Fl, USA
Posts: 49

I was wondering if you guys would find out, I hope you don't mind.

Thanks for the link, I am begining to understand how the hierarchy works on capships. That will help with my next project........

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Registered: Feb 2001
Location: Lisbon, Portugal
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what next project?

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Registered: May 2001
Location: Miami,Fl, USA
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I have the hierarcy working good, and the model in fs2 fine. My only problem now is that the turrets don´t fire. They are there and destroyable, but will not fire. Is there a specific way to make turrets?

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Registered: Feb 2001
Location: Lisbon, Portugal
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LOL dont evade my question... I meant what ships are you going to convert (dont want to know the authors ).

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Registered: May 2001
Location: Miami,Fl, USA
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Well I have the sentri, thunderbolt, frazi, and skyserpent done.
I am working on capships; sunhawk, vorchan, and battlecrab. I will release them to the public assuming I can get the turrets to work. Now if someone could help me with that........

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Registered: Apr 2001
Location: Finland
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Originally posted by TheEXone
Well I have the sentri, thunderbolt, frazi, and skyserpent done.
I am working on capships; sunhawk, vorchan, and battlecrab. I will release them to the public assuming I can get the turrets to work. Now if someone could help me with that........

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Registered: May 2001
Location: Miami,Fl, USA
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Well the point of me doing this was to give myself and others more stuff to play with before the next release. Besides the ships I have will probably be of less quality than what TBP can produce considering that thier models are built for freespace2, and mine are conversions.

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Originally posted by TheEXone
Well the point of me doing this was to give myself and others more stuff to play with before the next release. Besides the ships I have will probably be of less quality than what TBP can produce considering that thier models are built for freespace2, and mine are conversions.

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