Rear Gun Weapon- Problems

[labmonkey]

OK, firstly Rapidshare is down, so can anyone recommend another good free host?

Now, on to the mod. I've made weapon designed to fire from the rear of a ship, at pursuing targets. I used the following code:

maxFireArc= "250"
minFireArc= "110"
directional= "true"

However, without a target, it shoots forward. Is there currently any way to block it from firing outside its arc?

[FAD]

Would help to see the complete layout of the code.

Anyway, have you tried using;

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<Configuration aimTolerance="X">
  <Shot posAngle="+X" posRadius="X" angle="X"/>
  <Shot posAngle="-X" posRadius="X" angle="X"/>
</Configuration>
(X being numbers that you provide to get your results)

[Yugi]

I think there should be a tag for directions... something like

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Direction=   "forward/left/right/rear"

Though I suppose forward would be the default and wouldn't be needed.
Maybe it could be

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Direction=   "10/20/30...180...270...350(or -10)"

, as in degrees.

[evilbob]

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<Configuration aimTolerance="X">
  <Shot posAngle="+X" posRadius="X" angle="X"/>
  <Shot posAngle="-X" posRadius="X" angle="X"/>
</Configuration>

could I get an explanation of each part of that code? I'm planning to make a mod using this...

[FAD]

evilbob, take a look at marr's Afterburner mod. He used that code in it. I've never used it before but the afterburner fires from the aft of the ship.

[evilbob]

where can I find this mod? I'm too lazy to look...

[FAD]

The link for the zip is here: http://neurohack.com/transcendence/foru ... .php?t=240

Although I didn't test to see if it was still a functional DL. That mod is also located at Thom's mod site and that one is DL'able.

[dvlenk6]

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<Configuration aimTolerance="X">
  <Shot posAngle="+X" posRadius="X" angle="X"/>
  <Shot posAngle="-X" posRadius="X" angle="X"/>
</Configuration>

could I get an explanation of each part of that code? I'm planning to make a mod using this...

posAngle and posRadius are where the shot originates from:
posAngle - The nose of the ship is 0. 360 degrees clockwise for the angle.
posRadius - The linear distance (in pixels) from the center of the ship mask.
Don't know about 'angle'.

[evilbob]

thanks very muchly, Dvlenk.