I can get tanks, for example a BMP, to fire its machine guns, but me and most other people can't get the main gun of a tank to fire. Can someone be a saint and post a script or something to get this working?

ok im quite sure that the tank in singleplayer only give the illusion of firing
theres scripting set up so that the tank rotates and theres an fx of it shooting and an fx of the explosion where it should hit pre-placed in the map.

i might need someone else to confirm all this but im quite sure thats how it works

Of coruse you can
get the turret to fire. have a look at my old topics. i got it figured out :)

tomv8 writes...

Could you make a tutorial in the tuts section??

I actually got a M1A1 to target and destroy a BMP with its main gun, but the BMP is directly in front of it and the script (below) clearly tells it to fire upon it at a given area.

#include common_scripts\utility;

#include maps\_utility;


main()
{	
	maps\_m1a1::main( "vehicle_m1a1_abrams" );
	maps\_bmp::main( "vehicle_bmp_woodland" );
 	maps\_load::main();

	thread sequence_one();
	thread vehicle_setup();

}

vehicle_setup()
{
	wait 3;	

	level.abrams = getEnt( "abrams", "targetname" );
	level.abrams setVehWeapon( "m1a1_turret" );

	level.bmp = getEnt( "bmptarget", "targetname" );
	level.bmp setVehWeapon( "bmp_turret" );

	thread sequence_one();
}

sequence_one()
{
	while( 1 )
	{
		wait 0.05;

		node = ( 0, 704, 36 );

		distance = distance2d( level.abrams.origin, node ); 

		if( distance < 50 && level.bmp.health > 0)
		{
			//wait 2;

			level.abrams setTurretTargetEnt( level.bmp );

			wait 3;

			level.abrams fireWeapon();

			wait 200;

			level.bmp DoDamage( level.bmp.health + 9999, level.bmp.origin );
		}
		else if( distance < 50 && level.bmp.health == 0)

		break;
	}
}

I was looking at Blackout in Radiant, and the BM21s are firing at script_origins that linked in a certain order. I was thinking that if you link script_origins and the vehicle it would rotate it's turret and fire. Can someone confirm and if possible, post a script showing how to get a tank to target a certain area and fire?

edited on Jun. 8, 2010 06:55 am by sgt_roebuck

vehiclename setturrettargetent(yourscriptorigin, yourscriptorigin.origin);

vehiclename fireTurret();

Note: Might be fireWeapon in cod4

techno2sl writes...

Can you post an example GSC using this function... I tried using but I'm pretty sure I misused it severly, I got so many errors.