Turrets

[davylink]

I want to do some tanks for my mod, but I need that the tanks have turrets moving by itself for targeting. I have seen something about bone_turret, but I don't know how it works.
Can anybody help me?
Thank you

 

[abriko]

have you read pdf file in art tools ? Start by that.

 

[noir]

Hmmm.
This is a good idea

 

[davylink]

I have read about turrets in the pdf documentation of the warcraft 3 art tools, but I haven't undesrstood it very well. Do you know how can it be done?
I've tried to create a model with the bone_turret, but it doesn't do anything in the game.
Thank you!

 

[abriko]

what are you doing exactly when you say "to create a model with the bone_turret" ?

 

[Pike]

I thought that only buildings used that bone to rotate like the Ancient Protector does.

 

[davylink]

A model like a tank or a defensive turret. The base should be stopped when attacking and only the turret spins to the target.

 

[Mecheon]

You can't have a base face one direction and have a turret face what is being attacked with a unit. Incoded Warcraft thing forces the unit to always face the enemy, but not buildings

 

[abriko]

lol you can... just look at my avatar... it has bone_turret and it works. Stop say bullshits plz.

 

[Mecheon]

Acthala, Siege Mode Siege Tanks are buildings by my definition of Warcraft things

Unit: Footman, Steam Tank, Firelord, Zergling
Building: Cannon Tower, Siege Mode Siege Tank, Barracks

I said UNITS, as in things you can move around without having to transform them into something else. Normal mode siege tanks can have a bone_turret, I'll give you that, but their base will still rotate to face the enemy thanks to Warcraft coding

Unless you're changed said coding, which has nothing at all to do with this topic

 

[abriko]

did you test it ?

 

[abriko]

I don't tell about change coding.. just create a unit... put a bone_turret..import it, that's it.

 

[Mecheon]

So, Abriko, to test this I made a Cannon Tower, the most obvious source of a bone-turret thing I could find, replace a Rifleman

I must admit it was interesting to see the cannons turn on their own to face the target, however the bases were not happy with being left standing still so they also felt it nessesary to turn, albiet at not the same time as there cannons

 

[abriko]

yes.. of course..you have to put 0 on mouvment speed base if not the unit walk to her target.. of course.