Rotation limit for gun mounts

Sat Apr 05, 2003 3:40 pm by CW

I was trying to add a new gun mount today, everything worked fine except for the rotation limit. It seems that the Max and Min values do not affect a gun mount at all, and I was not able to make it turn more than 20 degrees or so each side. Any clue?

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Edited by - CW on 05-04-2003 16:41:29

Sat Apr 05, 2003 5:44 pm by Daekar

Well they do actually have something to do with it. If you remember from math class, angles can be expressed in radians - and the angles for the Min/Max are determined in radians. For example, you want your gun to turn 180 left and 180 right, you would put Min = -3.1415, Max = 3.1415. You'll probably notice that the value for pi ~ 3.1415... so if you want to turn your gun full 360 degrees, use approx. +/- 6.2831 for your values. Here's a list of values:
30deg = pi/6 = 0.5236
45deg = pi/4 = 0.7854
60deg = pi/3 = 1.0472
90deg = pi/2 = 1.5708
and on and on forever.... but anyway, you should be able to infer some values from that.

Sat Apr 05, 2003 5:56 pm by CW

I knew all that already. I'm the author who wrote that tutorial on adding gun hardpoints. The problem is, the gun mounts somehow just aren't affected by the Max and Min values. I didn't test this out until today because I fully expected them to work just like the turrets and torpedo launchers... whoops!

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