Weapon firing options

[PKodon]

In a discussion on the IRC channel, we came up with a few queries and suggestions for firing/aiming options for weapons.

Blitz, Anakey, and myself have been playing with modifying dual weapons to make it so they don't just fire in parallel, causing one shot to miss smaller targets.

What we were able to do, with the <Configuration> tag, was make them converge.

Also, dual-turrets with multi-targeting seem to track parallel if there is only one target, or if pointed directly ahead.

So, what we propose is that a max and min angle parameter be added to the configuration tag block for the definition of the angle within which each weapon of a multi-gun weapon may track a target, so that both (or all three/four/etd) track the same target within that angle.

Or, to quote Blitz from the IRC channel:

I'd like it if in defining the configuration, you can define the minfirearc and maxfirearc for each shot so that each shot has a seperate area of coverage within which it can track an enemy.

[PKodon]

Okay, sorry, found that there already is a minFirearc and maxFirearc, found it in the Marauder Launcher Platform code.

PK

[Blitz]

Okay, sorry, found that there already is a minFirearc and maxFirearc, found it in the Marauder Launcher Platform code.

PK

That's for a particular device.
I was talking about minFirearc and maxFirearc for each shot defined in the configuration of a weapon.

For eg.

Instead of

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                        <Configuration aimTolerance="0">
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                                <Shot posAngle="90" posRadius="12" angle="350"/>
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                                <Shot posAngle="270" posRadius="12" angle="10"/>
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                        </Configuration>

I want to be able to use

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                        <Configuration aimTolerance="0">
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                                <Shot posAngle="90" posRadius="12" minFirearc="350" maxFirearc="0"/>
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                                <Shot posAngle="270" posRadius="12" minFirearc="0" maxFirearc="10"/>
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                        </Configuration>