High arcing artillery

[Dianoga4]

Hey guys, I've been trying to get an artillery gun tower I made shoot a high arc like the archers do but so far I've had no luck. I tried copying the artillteryclass from the archer to my turret and still it shoots like a normal mortar. Also I want it to be able to shoot at me when I'm hiding behind something. Right now if I hide behind something it will stop shooting unlike the archer that keeps shooting.

Dia

[Dianoga4]

Instead of starting a new thread, I thought I would add another question to this one.

I'm doing a recycler variant type mod. Is it possible to change the scrap objects (the drops of biometal that are left on the ground) to another shape that I made? Also I know there was a tutorial that showed how to change the color of the biometal pools but I think that was when you were creating a custom map. I'm not really interested in creating any maps for my mod right now but was wondering if I could still change the color. I can't seem to find that tutorial anymore either.

Thanks, any info is much appreciated.

Dia

[General BlackDragon]

try these in 1.3?


GunTowerProcessCheckCantHit = false // true: retarget if intended victim can't be hit (only if GunTowerProcess is in use)

MinWeaponPitch = 0.5 // For turretcraft/turrettank (i.e. GunTower/GunSpire/turret)


Taken from ibmtow, the mortar tower. I know that one behaves like you want.

Also, in 1.3, add this to your odfs:

scrapClass1 = "odfname"
scrapClass2 = "odfname"
scrapClass3 = "odfname"

[bigbadbogie]

Hey guys, I've been trying to get an artillery gun tower I made shoot a high arc like the archers do but so far I've had no luck. I tried copying the artillteryclass from the archer to my turret and still it shoots like a normal mortar. Also I want it to be able to shoot at me when I'm hiding behind something. Right now if I hide behind something it will stop shooting unlike the archer that keeps shooting.

Dia

Post up the ODF contents...

[Dianoga4]

Yea sorry, it is in 1.3 pb4. I tried both of those and nothing seemed to change unless I was putting them in the wrong spot.

Are those scrapClass entries so you can have multiple sizes of "chunks"? I'll give that a shot next.

Here is the ODF for the turret. I mostly just copied the gun tower. I couldn't find that mortar tower you were talking about GBD. I even tried the same weapon that the archers use and no difference. I tried the Artillery class like the archer has as well and it didn't change anything.

[GameObjectClass]
geometryName = "ibgcomet.xsi"
geometryScale = .01
classLabel = "turret"
collisionRadius = 10.0
scrapCost = 50
scrapValue = 3
maxHealth = 5000
maxAmmo = 10000 // 0 is *not* treated as infinite ammo!
unitName = "Comet Turret"
aiName = "GunTowerFriend"
aiName2 = "GunTowerEnemy"
heatSignature = 2.0
imageSignature = 1.0
radarSignature = 1.0
isAssault = 1

armorClass = H

requireCount = 1
requireName1 = "ibcbun"
requireText1 = "Build Relay Bunk"

provideCount = 1
provideName1 = "ibgtow"


weaponMask = 00011
weaponHard1 = "hp_mortar_1"
weaponName1 = "gsartill"
weaponAssault1 = 0




lightHard1 = "hp_light"
lightName1 = "spotwhite"

turretCount = 4
turretName1 = "turret_y"
turretName2 = "turret_X"
turretName3 = "hp_light"
turretName4 = "hp_eyepoint"

[BuildingClass]
soundAmbient = "igtow01.wav"

[CraftClass]
rangeScan = 300
periodScan = 0.0
velocJam = 0.0
weaponPitch = 1.5
steerFactor = 0.5
engageRange = 200

[TurretCraftClass]
omegaTurret = 2.0
detectRange = 250

[bigbadbogie]

Try the following:

change:

aiName = "GunTowerFriend"
aiName2 = "GunTowerEnemy"

to:

aiName = "AttachOffensive"
aiName2 = "AttachOffensive"

and add this under [CraftClass]:

attackTask = "ArtlAttack"
subAttackTask = "ArtlSubAttack"

[Dianoga4]

Wow that did it man, thanks a ton!

And I got the scrap thing working good, thanks again!

Dia

[Dianoga4]

I guess I have one more small question about this, how do you determine how high the shots go in the air? I thought it might've been weapon pitch but it didn't change anything. Thanks!

Dia

[Zero Angel]

Increase the shotSpeed on the ordnance you're firing

[Dianoga4]

Thanks alot! That's what I was looking for.

Dia

[BNG Da BZ Fool]

I'm not sure, but believe there's an example for an artillery type tower in the G66 mod. As I recall it worked very nicely at keeping enemies away from your own base with serveral of them deployed on the perimeters.

[Dianoga4]

Well thanks to these guys help I got it working pretty decently. It will take some tweaking to balance it out but that was to be expected.

Thought I would post a picture up of a couple of the turrets I have working pretty well so far. The red one is the artillery one called a Comet Turret. The variety of colors is because of the game I am basing my mod off of (Project Visitor). In that game there is 4 separate corporations with there own colors.

Dia

[anomaly]

Did you make those textures yourself? If so, they're well made and fit the model perfectly.

[Avatar]

Yes, with the exception of the "hello kitty" on the yellow one they're beautiful... 

-Av-

[Dianoga4]

I can't take the credit for those ones, but I had planned on re-texturing those because those are the actualy art files from the other game I help out with. I've done alot of re-texturing for the other game plus made a few models for it so I have some artwork of my own finished already which I will be adding. The hello kitty logo is the corp logo for one corporation

Dia