Passenger spinning

An old thing that drives me up walls to no end.
My suggestion is to fix that.

You know where you get a guy in like the 2nd seat of an apc and when you move the turret the guy spins making it hard for him to hit anything.
This applying to any vech with a turret seat.

Is this somthing that can be fixed?
If so.

Candles
pls

 

You spin because you're inside the turret, which is also spinning.

It may be a scripted thing. I know you can do some interesting things in the chassis scripts.

 

I'll look into it when I have the chance. It actually could be a fairly easy fix, if I can just have the rotation of the turret not update the angles of the player.

 

What about that thing where people put a mg turret on top of the tank and the mg keeps facing the direction it was before.

I know there is some kind of rotary stand thats its own thing inside tanks that keeps turret gunners the same direction reguardless where the turret is facing.

Imagine a gren in every vechicle turret.

 

I don't recall exactly but I think it's either declared in the scripts or in the .qc when you compile the model. But basically, the player has to be tied to something, which means instead you tie him to the actual body of the tank, rather than the turret. That's the way I always imagined it being instead (you might still turn with the body of the tank but that turns a lot less than the turret), but I remember someone telling me it wouldn't work out like that. I don't really see why not but I kinda took it at face value that that was the case.

 

It's really of question of if there's a way to parent the player to the vehicle so that the player's position is updated, but not his angles. Eschewing that, something like taking the player's final angles and then subtracting the rotation of the turret could also work.

 

I thought we had it changed at one point, but the lovely thing that was happening with that is the turret would move and the gren would fire at the lid and explode themselves :p

 

Heh, I remember that. I preferred it that way, though.

 

The worst thing is to throw a sticky grenade.

 

That's right, there was the bug that if you fumbled your nade on the lid, and then transferred into the vehicle to avoid getting exploded, the nade would damage the vehicle instead, lol.

Ah, Empires ove:

 

So... why is the tank lid solid? Does it protect you from enemy fire from behind?

 

It does.

 

Yes. Not like that comes into play often but hey. IIRC it may even be rocketproof, as in it doesnt count towards vehicle damage. ( I remember someone calling shenanigans about that one, never seen it myself).

 

Wouldn't parenting the player to the tank body only work if the axis of the rotation of the turrets was dead central to the turret seat?

I would imagine if the turret seat was offset to the axis of rotation then changing the parenting would cause the player to not line up with the turret seat when it rotates.
I can't think of any vehicles where this is the case though.

 

That was a problem, and I think it occured in the BE Medium, though I could be wrong. It only needs to be very slightly out for it to cause a problem though.

 

Is parenting to other objects in the code always on all 3 transformations at once? What I mean is this: Can't you just simply apply the translation to the player model and view, but keep the rotation as is?

 

No I mean, can't you just take the translation from the turret seat, but disable it taking the rotation? It is already happening as is, just not separate. Look at the turrets on tanks in BF 3 and 4. On the tanks where the turret is not attached in the center, your view in the turret basically moves around on a circle when the tank turret turn, but it's own rotation is not affected.
Same thing goes with Empires tanks last time I looked.