[Thinimus]

So I'm still playing with my uber unit, (massive flying juggernaut of death about the size of a command center ), and I need confirmations on what can be done.

I want to have some weapons on it that can only aim and fire in directions other than straight.

I'm thinking I'll have to put some structures on it to accomplish this, but for a better idea of what I need, here's a couple of the weapons that I'm talking about:

I want to have several machine gun weapons mounted on it, but some I want to mount some on the side and have them basically firing sideways at flanking units.

I also want to have a missle weapon that fires only at a fixed odd angle (backwards and facing down some) but be able pick a target regardless of it's position so long as it is in range.

Finally, I want to have a missle weapon that shoots a burst in a wide spread pattern, like within a 120 degree cone.

I can code pretty well, but I haven't done these yet so ideas are welcome and greatly appreciated.

If any of this can be done, I'll be a happy camper.

[Ambershee]

I tried doing this before, but to no success; It seems you're limited to a single Overlord contain module per unit for starters.

[NukeWinter]

hehe, yea, but there's a trick, haven't tried it yet, but it involves the OCL that makes the portable structure, use the ocl to spawn multiple objects, as long as the spawn points are generic, it should look fine, but you may get random order of spawns each time, not sure.

[Ambershee]

As well as random facings for each object if you don't specify direction, otherwise all objects have it.

And if you have different objects, random objects appearing on them too

[Thinimus]

I just had a thought: Can I do something similair to the battleship? It has two turret and set at a fixed default position, so I'm thinking something can be done along those lines. (There have been mods with the ship moving as well.)

Anyway, just hoping.

[CommieDog]

The two-turreted Battleship is fairly easy: just look at the AltTurret code for AmericaVehicleBattleship in \Object\AmericaMiscUnit.ini. I suppose you could combine the AltTurret with an OverlordContain turret object for a grand total of three turrets, but the third one will not be coordinated with the other two.

[Ambershee]

Yeah, I think that's the best you'll get - but then do they have to be coordinated all the time ?

[Thinimus]

Nope. It's all about total death and destruction! :drunk: