Is There A Way

[Karle94]

Is it possible to modify the ai destroyers to fire torpedoes?

[Nicolai]

I dont think so, I dont believe the dev's put in such a feature

happy hunting:salute:

[DarkFish]

nope, it's not possible. A lot of modders, including me, have tried to add such feature but so far all attempts failed. Standard problem is that the torpedoes fire north. With a lot of tweaking I found a way to work around that problem once. Torps fired, headed straight for the target but on impact.... nothing, the torp went straight through the target as if it weren't there:damn:


all those poor non-Dutchmen that must be wondering what your sig says, Nicolai... And I ain`t gonna tell them:arrgh!:

[Madox58]

When the torp is launched in the direction you want?
It's attached to the launching unit in a way
that disables it's own sim and zone stuff.

It keeps enuff to move and that's about it.
:damn:

[Rockin Robbins]

And if privateer can't do it, it's likely going to remain just something wished for.:salute:

[DarkFish]

I'm terribly sorry to prove you wrong, RR, but it seems I've just solved this problem:D
I've made a small vid showing an AI elco PT boat attacking a stationary Japanese merchant with 3 torpedoes:


http://i525.photobucket.com/albums/cc333/DF_3852/th_torpavs.jpg (http://s525.photobucket.com/albums/cc333/DF_3852/?action=view&current=torpavs.flv)


Known bugs/issues:
- All torpedoes are launched straight to the target and thus are only effective against stationary/slow moving targets.
- The torpedo 3d model sometimes rotates into another direction, as you can see in the vid from 0:09 to 0:17. This does not effect its heading.
- the torpedoes occasionally dive too deep/too shallow.

only problem is, the torpedo launcher has to be manually added to all torpedo-carrying ships, and I'm probably not going to do that.

and before anyone's gonna ask, no, the merchant is not to the north of the elco.

[Nicolai]

@DarkFish
that's really awesome, I never would have thought that something like that was posible.:doh:

by the way, I dont think my sig will be as interesting when everyone knows what it says :yeah::arrgh!:

Nikolai

[DarkFish]

I never would have thought that something like that was posible.:doh:neither did I lol
But this thread made me think a bit more about it and I found a solution.

by the way, I dont think my sig will be as interesting when everyone knows what it says :yeah::arrgh!::yep: :up: