Make beamlasers follow the piece they are shot from?

[Forboding Angel]

Other than an emit sfx (Which I would prefer not to have to resort to), I can't figure out any way to make a beamlaser mounted on a fast moving tank follow the barrel rotation.

Anyone know any way other than using an invisible weapon (for aiming purposes) and an emit?

[Peet]

Sweepfire.

[Forboding Angel]

- Added weapon tdf command SweepFire, if 1 (default 0) it will make the weapon continue firing while it aims for a new target. Only works on continous beamlasers currently.

Beamtime on mine is 2 (forgot to mention that), what the above is talking about is 0.1 reloadtimes.

Lasers have a lot of issues in this area.

[Saktoth]

Sweepfire is atrociously buggy.

[Forboding Angel]

Sadly, it's the truth

[KDR_11k]

Other than an emit sfx (Which I would prefer not to have to resort to), I can't figure out any way to make a beamlaser mounted on a fast moving tank follow the barrel rotation.

Anyone know any way other than using an invisible weapon (for aiming purposes) and an emit?

How many ways do you need to implement a simple and rare behaviour like that?

[Saktoth]

Could just fix the first implimentation.

[Forboding Angel]

Could just fix the first implimentation.

qft

[KDR_11k]

Could just fix the first implimentation.

How so? When you want to align a weapon to a piece and that weapon does not need a target (like a missile), why can't you use emit-sfx?

[Forboding Angel]

Because the piece doesn't always aim perfectly with lasers... Tolerance anyone?

Are you arguing that this retarded behavior is a "feature"?

Oh I can use an emit sfx, and then I get to deal witht he fact that half the time the aiming of the weapon is not perfect, especially if the unit is moving, whereas tolerance would allow for fudge factor without any real noticeable differences.

[KDR_11k]

If you don't want to aim with the piece, why do you say you do? You can use beamburst to make the laser fire a burst of beams that are all aimed towards the target (instead of aimed with the piece).

[Forboding Angel]

So... In your opinion this is proper spring beamlaser behavior...

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That's what happens when you move the unit.

I want it to work correctly, not rely on me implementing bullshit hacky workarounds for what should be default behavior.

[KDR_11k]

Beam lasers use a fixed beam normally, you can use a burst to make the shots aimed at the target instead.

[Forboding Angel]

WHich causes them to blink rapidly and look like crap. Not to mention that it screws with damage as well.

[KDR_11k]

It doesn't blink if you make the burst fast enough (regular BLs fire every frame anyway so no performance loss), if you don't want to do that use beamttl. Just adjust damage so the burst does the damage the beam did previously.

[Forboding Angel]

Have you actually tried this?

THere is still blinkage.

[KDR_11k]

Yes I have. I get some flickering if the unit moves, seems like the beam is rendered with a different brightness depending on its length. A largebeamlaser won't have that issue though.

[Nemo]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLjBgvISWnw

is this the behavior you're looking for, forb?

[Forboding Angel]

@nemo, HELL YES O_O

Hao does I?

[Hoi]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLjBgvISWnw

is this the behavior your're looking for, forb?

w00t melee weapons! (3th person lightsaber fighting in IW ftw )