Rotating turret.

[Time-to-die]

I was wondering what kind of animation or bone name you need to make turret on a tower that faces whatever its shooting at? Like the cannon tower. I opened it up in the model viewing program but could just see the turret pointing in 4 dirrections.

 

[Devine]

Bonename: Bone_Turret.

 

[Time-to-die]

Alrighty I will try that out! Thanks.


Mmmkay, well I added the bone and connected the turret to it. But what else do I need to do? The turret does not do anything.

 

[Bloody_Turds]

you name the bone Bone_Turret, and the bone should automatically face the attacking unit..., if your into heavy triggering you can also use the head lock trigger, to lock a bodypart, or with jass, any bone

 

[Time-to-die]

Huh, that is odd. Cause that is how I got it setup. Got the turret connected to Bone_Turret Then that bone is connected to the main bone. Should it just be floating on its own or what?

 

[Bloody_Turds]

it should be fine, if its connected to another bone (i think), are you sure the geoset is attached to the right bone?
go into the bone, click edit, animations, translations, then add then add this:

0: {100,0,0}
then play any animation, if the piece of the model didnt move, your not attached to the right bone, (asuming you dont have other anims on the bone, inwhich case you should know what im pointing at...)

 

[Time-to-die]

Ahh, well I disconnected the bone from the main bone, and then made keyframes for it on all the animations. And it seems to be working now, thanks for the aid!

 

[Bloody_Turds]

no prob ^^