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Posted: **Fri Jan 19, 2018 5:34 pm**

So I'm making a turret outside a capital ship and for some reason when I'm aiming directly ahead it's sticking almost straight up?
Screenie:

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Fragme's Tutorial is too vague without the images, and there aren't any other detailed tutorials on modeling turrets.
Here is how it looks in XSI:

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The hierarchy:

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And then here's the odf:

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[code][GameObjectClass]

ClassLabel              = "armedbuilding"

GeometryName            = "for_ship_left_turret.msh"

[Properties]

Pilottype               = "remote"

BUILDINGSECTION         = "BODY"

MapTexture              = "turret_icon"

IconTexture             = "HUD_all_lascannon_icon"

MapScale                = "0.0"

HealthTexture           = "HUD_kam_turret_icon"

GeometryName            = "for_ship_left_turret"

ExplosionName           = "all_bldg_moncal_roundturret_exp"

DestroyedGeometryName   = "all_bldg_moncal_roundturret_chunk1"

MaxHealth               = "2500.0"

RespawnTime				= "120"

BUILDINGSECTION         = "TURRET1"

Pilottype               = "remote"

TurretNodeName          = "turret_body"

PitchLimits             = "-180 180"

YawLimits               = "-5 90"

TrackCenter   = "3.0 -54.0 343.0" //x y z

PitchTurnFactor         = "0.0"

//FirstPerson           = "com\comviewf;com_1st_cockpit_viewfinder"

ThirdPersonFOV          = "65"

WeaponName              = "all_weap_moncal_roundturret"

WeaponAmmo              = "0"

MaxTurnSpeed            = "90.8"

MaxPitchSpeed           = "90.8"

PitchRate               = "90.0"

TurnRate                = "90.5"

PCMaxPitchSpeed         = "90.0"

PCMaxTurnSpeed          = "90.0"    

TURRETSECTION           = "TURRET1"

AimerNodeName           = "hp_aimer"

AimerPitchLimits         = "-5 75"

AimerYawLimits           = "-5 75"

BarrelNodeName          = "barrel_body"

BarrelRecoil            = "0.5"

FirePointName           = "hp_fire"

//Sound

TurretYawSound         = "turret_whir_yaw_lp"

TurretYawSoundPitch    = "0.7"

TurretPitchSound       = "turret_whir_pitch_lp"

TurretPitchSoundPitch  = "0.7"

TurretAmbientSound     = ""

TurretActivateSound    = "vehicle_equip"

TurretDeactivateSound  = "vehicle_equip"

TurretStartSound       = ""

TurretStopSound        = ""

FoleyFXGroup           = "metal_foley"

[/code]

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Posted: **Fri Jan 19, 2018 7:09 pm**

Calrissian97 wrote:Fragme's Tutorial is too vague without the images, and there aren't any other detailed tutorials on modeling turrets.

Not really needed since you can now import any of the shipped examples directly into XSI with ZETools and inspect or play around with them.
Your hierarchy looks ok, but I think your yaw and pitch values should be swapped.

Refer to this for setting up your turret ODF values:
viewtopic.php?p=459956#p459956

Posted: **Fri Jan 19, 2018 11:29 pm**

Thanks Ace! I couldn't fix it, so I just used aimers only like described in the tut by Darth Duck. Works great! A shame I couldn't figure out what was wrong with the turret node, but I'm going to call it solved.

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