Auto Turrets

Quote from "Ladm. Jonathan Drake"

Is it possible to make turrets fully automatic (CPU-controlled auto aiming and firing) like tin Darkstar One?

Nope thats not possible with standard FL.
Maybe some FLhook developer can think of a way how, but still don't think it will ever be implemented as its not right when playing online and a turret keeps shooting on every selected target.

so in extreme detail, what is the auto turrent used for then?

I tried messing around with auto turrets for awhile. Never got it to work. But its been in the back of my mind whenever I mod.

Perhaps just a good control method to fly and shoot at once?

ohh, auto turrets, this is a very good mean! somebody can create an auto turrets mod?

As far as i can figure, autoturret was supposed to be available for players once, the key you press to switch to and from turret view seems originally (after peeking in the exe and dlls) to have been meant to switch from one turret to another, and allow the turrets you weren't manning to auto fire

They seem to have ditched that at some point, along with a turret cam cockpit mesh

I THINK it's still used tho for something in NPC pilot job blocks, there are statements in there refering to autoturret fire enabled and how long the fire bursts are and how often the bursts are fired. As a rule if the ship has turrets, and the ship will be flown by npcs, set the autoturret entry in the weapon definition to TRUE

yes autoturrets ony remained for NPCs
original idea of FL was to have an autopilot function that automatically follows the opponents while just doing the shooting job and having turrets doing their job alone
first version i have seen in action still had this gameplay in action but... furtunatly it was changed

Which version was that? Or better: When was that?

that was about 1 year prior the release