Broadsides

posted on July 14th, 2008, 8:19 pm

My experiments with the "fireArc" command leads me to belive that the way described in the BBOM is not exactly the way it actually works.

It seems that once the fireArc is restricted 0 degrees is always the direction of travel no matter which way the hardpoint faces.

Any way to restrict fire to a broadside would be a very useful feature.

Rod

posted on July 15th, 2008, 12:25 am

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Have you already tried using other values, like 1, and confirmed that its firing in the desired direction?

[rodglas]

posted on July 15th, 2008, 2:50 am

Last edited by rodglas on July 15th, 2008, 2:52 am, edited 1 time in total.

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Have you already tried using other values, like 1, and confirmed that its firing in the desired direction?

I've been working this for 4 days and I can assure you nothing has changed my results.

This what I've discovered

1.  Regadless of the hp orientation the FireArc Command centres on the direction of travel (DoT)
2. 1=100 degrees 3.6=360 degrees
3. fireArc = 1.8 (180 degrees) limits fire to 180 degree arc or 90degree sweep on either side of the centreline (that is DoT) Based on hp location (not orientaion)
4. There is no way to restict fire to the aft arc only.

I've tried small numbers, large numbers, converting to radians, rotating the hardpoint heirarchy to match the broadside, using different figures for the "restrictFireArc" commandline.

Results have all been consistant.  Therein lay the problem and why I've come here.

Rod

posted on July 15th, 2008, 7:27 am

yep, thats what i thought.
another problem should be that armada vessels will always try to face their target (at least while not being in an formation) and cannons will only fire at the current target, so a broadside weapon wouldn't be of much use either way

but we will have a look at it

posted on July 15th, 2008, 10:14 am

Thank you.

posted on July 15th, 2008, 11:49 am

i know jack about modding but is there a formular that you can stick in to make it say betwee 0.45 and 1.35 for example?

posted on July 17th, 2008, 10:04 pm

Nice idea but not that I know of.

Rod