1. Just make no entry for the hardpoint in the shiparch.ini
Take the Ragnarok for an example.

thank you that's just what I needed to know

crymson,

It is possible to lock a weapons rotation.. but not its ability to elevate.. so far as I know no-one has solved this as its not accessible with UTF..

EDIT: Btw..If anyone has solved this could they tell the rest of us.. please

Harrier

Edited by - harrier on 3/9/2006 4:35:39 PM

pretty simple:

open the cmp in hardcmp

delete hpfire-point(s) from barrel and add it/them to the root/object where hpconnect is ... that will limit the freedom of elevation to zero degres ...

sure it would be better to limit it by given min/max values like the rotation but havent anything found about it yet ...

depending on turretmodel and position on the ship it could help to set the hardpointdirection -45° on the y-axis that will limit the elevation to 45° downwards and 45° upwards

Edited by - Holzbein on 11/24/2006 1:16:28 AM

I've been able to make a custom turret and set it's "limits" through the cmp editor.
I usually keep the "fire" point close to the center mass of the weapon itself..although that is realtively of little consequence.
I have placed HpMount and HpConnect on exactly the same spot on the turret base. The "Fire point" still rotates as it should and will rotate at the limits you specify.
To make a non rotatable weapon...make sure its Hp/Revolute/HpWeapon01
or Hp/Revolute/HpTurret01..you can then set it's limit of rotation.
For some odd reason..setting a "fixed" hardpoint allows a weapon to rotate freely like a turret on practically all axees. The exceptions are Mines and countermeasures since they're fixed points anyway and they will not rotate.

Dev to the rescue!

"When making a custom weapon model is it possbile to make a weapon that is revolute but has no ability to elevate?"

Yes it is. Min/max barrel elevation is controlled in the cmpnd.cons.rev of the turret. In the process of creating a custom turret you'll be copying in one of these anyway, so just change it beforehand and you'll be set. Read a tutorial on custom turret creation, it will be explained there for sure.

Anyway, the cons.rev of a turret is 208 bytes, and the last eight bytes of that are what determine the minimum and maximum elevation of the barrel. The values are four-byte single-precision floating point and are in radians (minimum first, then maximum). For example, if I set the last eight bytes to D8 0F 49 BF D8 0F 49 3F, this means I set the minimum elevation to -0.785398 radians (-45 degrees) and the maximum elevation to 0.785398 radians (45 degrees). Commonly vanilla Freelancer weapons have a minimum elevation of 0 degrees (00 00 00 00), but don't be deceived; you can still put a non-zero value there and it will work just fine.

A final note, I have found that elevations beyond 90 degrees tend to confuse the game; ordinarily it will try to rotate the turret to face a target that is behind its vertical axis, so it may get confused and not aim where it technically should be able to. You can still do it, you just might not get the behavior you intended.