"Turret View"

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Kraiz
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"Turret View"

Post by Kraiz »

Sweet, short, and to the point:

It's possible to have turrets in the game, but is there a way that I can enter a 3rd person view that allows me to pan round my ship to aim these turretss? I know I can use the side, rear, front, etc. viewmodes, but is there no 3rd person style rotating camera that uses the ship as the axis of this rotation?

I ask this for the sake of modding rather than gameplay, as I'd love to design some Freelancer-style fighter turrets (Mostly powerful spinal-mounted turrets that the player can aim with the mouse cursor in it's firing arc, but the game features the turret view as I described above, making it pretty easy to utilize the turrets.)
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Re: "Turret View"

Post by loki1950 »

Welcome aboard Kraiz it is possible :) It's just that the current AI routines that take over the piloting of your ship are still rather primitive so your liable to have your ship shot out from under you :roll: I forget the command that the view-point shift was bound to but you of the regulars should chime in :wink: It's not a 3rd person view you are in the turret their is a turret AI and IT's quite good at keeping boggies off your 6 :mrgreen: Have a look at the key-bindings page(hit Esc while in game) if their then ckeck the key-bindings section of vegastrike.config have fun.

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Re: "Turret View"

Post by TBeholder »

Here. TurretControl switches cockpit to turrets, you can even toggle views as usual. Normally it's best left to turret AI, though.
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