RELEASED Improved Turrets v1.0.0.2

BloodyRain2k submitted a new mod:

Improved Turrets - No firing before aiming, more energy, no breakage on taking down

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I found a rocket launcher that uses only 40 energy and it would not work in the BASE version of the turret in game for [Upbeat Giraffe]
They only fire shotguns, pistols, assault rifles, machine pistols, and plasma guns.

Have you gotten your turrets to fire grenades and rockets now.

 

BloodyRain2k updated Improved Turrets with a new update entry:

different firing arcs

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BloodyRain2k updated Improved Turrets with a new update entry:

Stable Release Update

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Ohh That would be awesome. Rocket turrest galore!

 

BloodyRain2k updated Improved Turrets with a new update entry:

Firing arcs fix

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Seems pretty good, but I'd like to make a few suggestions for improvements/additional functionality.

• Add wiring into the turrets for a targeting mechanism, so you can manually target the turret.
• Add wiring into the turret for a manual switch to force them to fire when you want them to.
• Add in a wired "Target" to the wiring station that, when linked to the turret, forces the turret to aim directly at that
• When the turret is wired to the previously mentioned target, its aim is fixed to the spot of the target...and its firing distance is set to the distance between the turret and the target, so that it fires that full distance. When it's not wired to it, it functions like a normal turret with the default 50 range you've set.
• If it's not possible to switch between the two modes mentioned above, you could simply add a new recipe that combines the turret with a targetting mechanism to give you a "Focused Turret" or something like that that does work this way, so that you can keep both modes.

Nice work on the auto-aiming and whatnot, though.

 

This is something regarding turrets that i would like to see aswell:

Make Turrets not shoot NPCs. Since NPCs have the habit of wondering off far from their spawned locations, they end up getting into the Turret's targeting sight and killed by them which makes it impossible to make cities of your own and have turrets keeping them secure. Maybe even get projectiles shot by turrets to pass through NPCs leaving them unharmed aswell (With the exception of explosive weapons).

 

Is something up with turret energy in latest update or is it just problem on my side? also... is infinite energy on turrets good idea? i think i would like that as an option.

 

Turrets broke with the last update. Guessing it's the LUA, once I updated that they don't stop working when shooting at a monster now.

 

BloodyRain2k updated Improved Turrets with a new update entry:

update for SG U1

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Hello! I love this mod. I have a request and an observation.

I learned that modded guns (i'm currently using) don't work with turrets by default Starbound behavior, would it be simple or complex to make modded guns work with the turrets? My observation is that placing a modded gun causes turrets to not function at all, you must break, replace and load a vanilla gun in them in order from them to function again. I know this is linked to the fact that modded guns don't natively work with turrets. Would this be possible?

 

BloodyRain2k updated Improved Turrets with a new update entry:

Pleased Giraffe Stable update

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Hey Dude, just pulled this outta my log:

[22:28:04.088] Error: Could not apply patch from backend: Folder <../giraffe_storage/mods\improved_turrets\.>. Caused by: (JsonPatchException) Could not apply patch to base. (JsonPatchException) Could not apply operation to base. (TraversalException) No such key 'breakDropOptions' in pathApply("/breakDropOptions/0")

I dunno Ricky...

 

Am i missing something here? I can not find the turrets in any store or crafting table of any tier. please tell me where to find them.

 

Yeah, I'm getting the same message in my logs (it doesn't cause a crash at least, but...yeah).

I still stand by my suggestions in post #7 btw. =D

 

I tried fixing it by replacing the whole "path" for "breakDropOptions" with the new values.

I even tried just outright removing the path, since if it's going to be dropping itself anyway, there's probably no need for a breakDropOptions field in the file in the first place, right?

Anyway, both of them kicked back errors saying something about it couldn't properly create it. It keeps acting like "breakDropOptions" doesn't even exist, and I'm not really sure why...since it's clearly there in the file...

It says it "cannot find breakDropOptions to remove it", basically...when I try to remove the value altogether.

 

BloodyRain2k
could you update this with the ability to to define the turrets rotation speed and the range of when it starts firing
this way we can have turret that aim correctly but also don't need to be exactly on point line to fire

 

BloodyRain2k updated Improved Turrets with a new update entry:

GG update

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cool
finally got rid of the npc targeting yay

if that included patch readds itemDrop sliding i want to bear your children .. my pixel farm has been broken for months

edit: omgyes
as promised, i will now bear your children... :