Swij's - 3D tracking turret

[Swij]

== 3D Tracking Turret ==

The same tutorial in a better version

Okay, in this tutorial i will teach you how to make a 3D tracking turret.
This turret will be able to aim Up/Down and Left/right, it can be set to track
anything from RPG's to vehicles.

1) First create a wire wheel on the ground.
Model: Oil drum
Torque: 8000
Friction: 10

2) Create another wheel on the side of the oil drum wheel
Model: Car wheel
torque: 1000
Friction: 2

3) Spawn a Beacon sensor on the bottom of one of the polygons on the wheel
and spawn a wire Turret just above the Beacon sensor. settings:
output X,Y,Z

4) Spawn a target finder on the ground, you can insert any settings you want.



5) Link the beacon sensor to the target finder by right clicking on the beacon sensor
with the beacon sensor tool and then left clicking on the target finder.

6) Choose your physical properties tool (under the "Tools" tab)
Set the material to ice and uncheck the gravity box

7) Apply physical properties to all of the parts on the turret

8) Now create 2 arithmetic - sign gates on the ground, Do not put any gate or
target finder on the turret because that will make it spass and not working correctly

9) Create 2 Comparison - is in range exclusive gates on the ground

10) Name one of the sign gates to First with the namer tool and name the other one to second.
do the same thing with the two in range gates.

11) Create a Logic - And (all) gate on the ground

12) Create a Constant value with 2 values
value 1 to 90
value 2 to -90

13) Now for the wiring, Wire the first sign gate's '''A''' to the beacon sensors '''X''' input.

14) Wire the Second sign gate's '''A''' to the beacon sensors '''Y''' input.

15) Wire the Oil drum wheel's output '''Go''' to the first sign gate

16) Wire the Car wheel's output '''Go" to the second sign gate

17) Wire the first in range gate's '''MIN''' to constant value of -90 and
wire the '''MAX''' to constant value of 90

18) Do the same thing to the second in range gate

19) Wire the first in range gate's '''value''' to the beacon sensor '''X''' input

20) Wire the second in range gate's '''value''' to the beacon sensors '''Y''' input

21) Wire the And (all) gate's '''A''' to the target finder's '''entitie'''
and the '''B''' to the first in range gate.
and the '''C''' to the second in range gate.

22) Wire your turret's '''Fire''' to the and (all) gate.

23) now your ready and your turret should find the closest target and shoot at it.





Modifications

If you would like to aim the turret with your mouse instead of it aiming by itself you could:

1) Create a airboat seat.

2) Apply the same physical properties as before

3) Easy weld it to the side of the car wheel so it you can see where the turret aims

4) Create a advanced pod controller on the ground and link it to the seat by right clicking on the pod controller and then right clicking on the seat

5) Remove the target finder

6) Take the Beacon sensor tool and link the beacon sensor to the pod controller

7) Wire the pod controller's crosshair output to the pod controller's active input

8) Now wire the turrets fire output to the pod controller's mouse1 input

9) Now you can aim the turret with your mouse and shoot with your left mouse button

If you got any questions about the turret just PM me or add me on steam,
My steam name is Swij and my hotmail is Swij@hotmail.com

Garrysmod.com - Garrysmod.com Tutorial

Youtube.com -

Youtube movie about how it will look

Youtube movie about how it will look

Credits:

Swij - Creating and writing this Tutorial

Borafor - Giving me some idea.

Jolt - being the perfect victim.

[Jat Goodwin]

Very nice Tutorial. Simple to understand and very clear.

[Swij]

Originally Posted by Jat Goodwin

Very nice Tutorial. Simple to understand and very clear.

Thank you, it's my first so i do not realy know how to write tutorials but i managed to write good tutorial on my first attempt

[4n0nym0u5]

21) Wire the And (all) gate's '''A''' to the target finder's '''entitiy 1'''

when i try to do this wiremod says "error outputs normal and inputs ENTITY"
what should i do?

[l3ulletje]

He made a little error there. Wire it to the "1" output and it should work.

@Swij: I hope you don't mind that I edit it out.

[4n0nym0u5]

actually, the turret now is just spinning around wildly whenever i unfreeze it

[Swij]

Originally Posted by 4n0nym0u5

actually, the turret now is just spinning around wildly whenever i unfreeze it

I know what causes that bug now, its the beacon sensor. the settings should be set to output X,Y,Z . Forgot to mention that.

[Lapsus]

It's rare for me to see a wheel-based turret that works so smoothly, I'm impressed.
Also, nice and readable tutorial, and a wiring diagram too! Awesome :3

It's been too long since I've played gmod, I can't comment more on it without building it, I'll reply again later once I've built it and tested it again.

[Rombishead]

i have built this one before but i have seen somone make this with delta chips on it and it dosent move up and down as it targets?does anyone know how to achive such perfection?

[Edyscape]

i made it , i spawned a zombie the zombie became red and further nothing happened
i dont understand why this happened please help me.

Edit : SOLVED