make tank turrets point at certain ways?

[paecmaker 23]

I am trying to make an old battlefield in the editor and wonder if you can make empty tanks point their turrets other ways than forward?

[tom3kb 15]

Add a crew for empty tank: use commands assignascommander/gunner etc. Then use setdir for commander or gunner? To point turret in some direction or on some object. In the end delete crew from tank: command deletevehicle. Should work.

[paecmaker 23]

thanks, do you know the code for it? or where to search for the codes?

[tom3kb 15]

All codes (assignas, deletevehicle, setdir, dowatch etc) you can find on Bi wiki or here (search function). I suggest to check Bi wiki there you can find all commands sometimes with short examples for Ofp,arma1 and arma 2 :)

[PELHAM 10]

This should be easily done with the animate command eg:

nameTank animate ["mainTurret", 0.25];

But I have tried every animation source I can think of and cant get it to work.

This works:

nul = [unitName, tankName, "markerName"] execVM "turretdir.sqf";

eg: nul = [man1, tank1, "mkr1"] execVM "turretdir.sqf";

private ["_unit","_tank","_mkr","_mkrpos"];
_unit = _this select 0;
_tank = _this select 1;
_mkr = _this select 2;

_unit moveInGunner _tank;
_mkrpos = getMarkerPos _mkr;
_unit doWatch _mkrpos;
sleep 3;
unassignVehicle _unit;
_unit setPos _mkrpos;
deleteVehicle _unit;
_tank engineOn false;

Edited April 10, 2012 by PELHAM
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