Doom3world

Has anyone tried to make player controlled turrets? I searched & only found questions/info about the machineguns ones.

I talking about turrets like in UT2K4, Half Life/HL2, etc. I have a few ideas, but if someone already tried I could start where they ended, or at least know what won't work.

There's no GUI involved in this type of turret right?

I have no knowledge of any attempts at this, but it sounds relatively simple. Some of the code you need is already in the SDK (for vehicles):

You'd probably have to just have a key to activate the turret, which would bind the player to the turret, and align the viewangles of the player with the view of the turret, and make his fire affect the turret while bound to it.

no gui... i don't know anything on how gui's work.

I don't want to mod the SDK if I can help it. I don't have any version of MS C++...

But I was hoping someone tried this before, I guess not.

I was actuatly thinking of something simular to what you sugested snoop... I was thinking of having it so that when the player walks on a designated area (or in something) it "Activates" the turret. Then the turrent is always aligned with the player's view angles (I could never get objects to bind to players. IF you know how, please post). Basicly, every game frame it would make the turret angle = the player view angle (hack, I know).

the firing thing was what I was having trouble getting a rough idea on how to do. I could
a) make the turret a weapon & when you activate the turret that weapon is put in to your invintory & all others are removed.
b) make the player interact with it somehow. I could put a check in the script that says when you click "fire" it launches a projecticle.

having thr turret bound to the player would be probley the easiest way: I could make it a func_Static & just have that bind to the player when the player "enters" the turret & unbound when you leave (hit a button?)

this is a start...

just unzip to your base/maps folder:

http://www.sterlingshield.net/home/stev ... t_test.zip

anyone have an idea on how to make a non-weapon script check "WEAPON_ATTACK"? Doesn't seem to work.

I might end up just makging a new weapon that you (somehow) get when you go into the turrt & it removes when you leave.

if ( $player.getButtons() == 17 ){ will tell you if youve pressed fire or not, i pressume this is what your after.

yes it is, htanks.

Do all the actions in the game have a number associated with them?

Not sure , try
and just go through all you buttons see what you get, 16 is default ?( nothing pressed i think ).

Other than that for actor stuff you can do
where # is 1 or 2 torso,legs respectively. Check ANIM_ defines for other channels. Only trouble with this for you want is that if you were to check for Torso_Fire being sent back off of this you'll see it return every time you check whilst the animation is playing.
Quick usage example