resetting a mg's angle after rotation

[wacko]

I think your problem is that you are not resetting the guns "pitch" and "roll", so it uses the old values. The old values can be read by printing the gun's "angles" when it is not in use. If you print the platform's "angles", The pitch and roll (first and last numbers) should be 0 all the time. The center number of "angles" is the yaw (left, right).

Sorry, don't get it Isn't 'pitch' the angle determining whether it looks up or down and 'roll' umm for a plane when it's wings go up or down.
I do print the $mg.angle and additionally $mg.angles, like I did above, no value of angles is equal to angle. Have u tried the example map?

@Fungus, the yawcenter is in fact the only thing I CAN update properly, dunno why...

@Lizardkid, as angle[1] depend not just on the rotation but also on where I dropped the mg (which would give an offset) and as angles[0] depends on whether I hold the mg or where I aim to...

omg my brains start smokin... would u give it a try?

[wacko]

no help here...
this makes a whole map idea die, too bad
tnx to those who tried, nevertheless

[jv_map]

Don't give up so soon m8 who said you have to use the buggy TurretGuns in mohaa? You could also just use a script_model or so and script it to aim with the player and fire when he's holding fire... just another option you might want to try

[wacko]

sure, i'll try that. But it sounds like a huge task for a scripting noob like I am. Is there any map/script where I could study something similar? Doing it 'from scratch' seems impossible for me

[Rookie One.pl]

How about bdbodger's 88s?

[wacko]

How about bdbodger's 88s?

if u were talking about his flakfire.scr, I'd be too stupid to adapt it

@jv, could u give me a little piece of a script i could play with? pleeease

[Rookie One.pl]

Yeah, that's what I meant. Basically, what you need to do that is to trace what the player's looking at and fire while (local.player.fireheld).

<EDIT>Here's the piece of code I use in my artillery support mod (a bit altered from Bjarne's scout mod) - self is the player here:

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local.fwd_vec = angles_toforward self.viewangles
			local.start = self gettagposition "Bip01 Head"
			local.hit_location = trace (local.start + local.fwd_vec * 64) (local.start + local.fwd_vec * level.ffe_sight_max) 0

</EDIT>

[wacko]

Thanks. I can see that this is somehow doing what I'd need, but I'm far from understanding how it does

...what you need to do that is to trace what the player's looking at...

huh??? is this what ur piece of code does? and then, how can i make the script_model turn to that errrm location? and would a simple script_model with model:statweapons/mg42_gun.tik know about commands like startfiring? and so on...hundreds of questions... oooh, m8, this is way too much for my little brains

[lizardkid]

$turret.angle = $player.angle

i think that would work. (how many times have i said this?)

oooh, m8, this is way too much for my little brains

nah, your little brains are too much for it, and they're getting bored because they're so underexerted

[wacko]

$turret.angle = $player.angle

what for should I use the whole vector stuff, then? if it was that simple

nah, your little brains are too much for it, and they're getting bored because they're so underexerted

nice of u to say so, but in this case

[Rookie One.pl]

That wouldn't work as it would only change the $turret.angles[1] value. And that's right, script_model doesn't know the startfiring command.

Come to think of it, I reckon it would be easier to sort it out the way you tried at first...

[wacko]

Come to think of it, I reckon it would be easier to sort it out the way you tried at first...

As u might have heard behind my wailing, I miserably failed in doing so. But if u gave it a try, this would be more than welcome

[Rookie One.pl]

I sorted it out. Well, kind of. If you do it like this:

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prep:
$mg glue $bipod
$bipod bind $platform
$platform rotateY 5
end

The only problem is that it snaps into an upright position... But I guess that's better than having it fly everywhere around?

BTW I noticed that the MG seems to try to "reach" the platform in rotation, I mean, the more time you hold the MG the faster it will rotate when it snaps to the position. Kind of weird.

<EDIT>It's better to have a while loop setting the yawCenter of the MG because the player might slowly start slipping off the platform. </EDIT>

[wacko]

wahooooo it's working perfectly, even in the map where I actually need it
imagining how much time i wasted because of binding instead of glueing that bastard makes me sick, but hey what the heck, it's working
thank you so much, m8. u'll get a plate of honor next to that mg in my crappy map
the problems u mentioned are no problems at all. upright position is perfect and the 'platform' isn't much rotating so that's fine, too.

hey, i'm feeling so much better now, u can't imagine

[Rookie One.pl]

Wow... Well, always glad to help.