PickAnotherTarget

[Argh]

I'd like a COB value that triggers a very specific response. PickAnotherTarget, if TRUE, would cause the Unit to have to pick a new target before calling AimWeapon() again.

Uses:

1. We could use this as a workaround for minimum-range weapons. I.E.:

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bPitch = Pitch
IF(0 - bPitch > <15>)
{
PickAnotherTarget = TRUE;
return (0);
}

Would cause a weapon to have to pick another target if the one it was aiming at now required a Pitch higher than 15 degrees.

2. We could have weapons that randomly cycle through targets every time they fired (handy for anti-aircraft weapons, among other things).

3. We could write custom aiming code that controlled behaviors in certain ways, and "un-jam" them when they finally jammed up due to invalid instructions. TA had something like this, specifically for the Annihilator weapon, but it really didn't work for other weapons.

[Warlord Zsinj]

Don't think we can get proper ATAT's working in Spring until we get this tag...

[Snipawolf]

A good suggestion, I have already thought up ways to use it...

[KDR_11k]

Make it pick the target with the next lower or higher ID so it will really cycle through all nearby targets without needing a "memory" of what it has already targeted.

[MadRat]

I thought the noautoaim=1 setting did pretty much this already.

[KDR_11k]

No, not at all.