How does Turn Rate work?

[Kabel]

Hi!
My question might seem a bit stupid, cause Turn Rate seems so simple and obvius. But I wonder what the values actually means. Is it how many seconds it takes for the unit to turn around?

The highest value is 3.00 and the lowest is 0.10.
If two units have the value 3 and 1.5, they seem to turn around equal fast.
What value is the best value to give to a unit that shall be swift and fast?
What value is best to give to a unit that shall be slow and clumsy?

 

[sadvisor]

turn rate doesn`t seem to represent the time it takes for the unit to turn around, because i wanted to make a unit that cannot rotate by setting this value to 0 for that unit and it still turned around.

 

[ap0calypse]

I've tested it and it does make a difference, when you try to face them to the left (both at the same height) and make them run to a point on the right, the one with the highest turn rate will be the first one to arrive.

The most agile herounit shoukd get a 3, since it is only a slight change between 1 and 3, but the clumsy unitqs should get about 0.4 or something.

I don't know how it works exactly, maybe that it's the amounts of degrees it turns or something, although a unit with Turn Rate = 0.4 would take a very long time to get to 180° then. (It could also be put in radiants / gradients)
Though the value 0 does not work (neither do negative values), it just turns at a slow rate then.

 

[Xecutor_ShamanX]

You'll notice the difference if you change the value somewhere between 0.09 to 0.01.

 

[Dr Super Good]

Some other property also controls turn rate behaviour. Specifically it can enable an acceleration component to it. I just forget what it was called of the top of my head...

 

[Remixer]

Some other property also controls turn rate behaviour. Specifically it can enable an acceleration component to it. I just forget what it was called of the top of my head...

Maybe you mean the propulsion window field.

 

[SebioL]

As Xecutor_ShamanX pointed out, you will only notice this difference when you are interested in "drastic" reductions in spin speed, with levels of 0.1 or even 0.01 (yes, using Shift, you can have rotates even lower than 0.1). But otherwise, if you put values above 3, you won't notice such a noticeable difference in the increase in speed, the unit won't spin as absurdly faster as you might want.
As well as using collision reduction and unit speed as alternative techniques to circumvent pathing issues in handling many units moving simultaneously, I also find it interesting to use the Turn rate to smaller values especially on units that are very fast, helping to slightly break the effects of many collisions between them.

 

[Pyrogasm]

@Dr Super Good wrote a whole thread about turn rate and how it works. I don’t remember where I stumbled upon it but it’s here on the site somewhere recently.

 

[Xecutor_ShamanX]

As Xecutor_ShamanX pointed out, you will only notice this difference when you are interested in "drastic" reductions in spin speed, with levels of 0.1 or even 0.01 (yes, using Shift, you can have rotates even lower than 0.1). But otherwise, if you put values above 3, you won't notice such a noticeable difference in the increase in speed, the unit won't spin as absurdly faster as you might want.
As well as using collision reduction and unit speed as alternative techniques to circumvent pathing issues in handling many units moving simultaneously, I also find it interesting to use the Turn rate to smaller values especially on units that are very fast, helping to slightly break the effects of many collisions between them.

Yes, and if you set the Art - Propulsion Window to 180 or something around that number, you can have this gliding circular movement when changing directions. Looks better when applied to flying units using models with wide wings like planes or birds like Phoenix.