Star Citizen: Bugsmashers - Turret Control

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1. 00:00:06

   [Music] I'm mark Hammond this is bug smashers hey everyone we are here in my fancy Dancy test level and we have a cutlass who has some awesome weapons on it and so we start shooting you can see all the

2. 00:00:56

   fun stuff but unfortunately this guy is actually shooting the top turret weapons which is not supposed to happen I am moving around out of the Sun making it a little bit hard to see there we go right into the sunlight blindness guy's face okay he's living around a bit there we go so the way that these designers have set this guy up was in the front let me shoot these weapons there's four guns in the top are two two on the top two on the bottom four that the cope of that piece pilot one of those days for those weapons the pilot is only supposed to be able to shoot the turret itself is supposed to be a secluded little section that only the guy in the turret is

3. 00:01:42

   supposed to shoot unfortunately the way that everything has managed is that the pilot is able to just go you know what screw your rules I'm doing everything I've turned on this little debug and on the bottom the fourth and fifth weapons as you can see are being controlled by me the guy sitting in the pilot's seat with a priority of 10 however the way that the XML is set it up is on the turret those weapons are supposed to be exclusive for the turret that means only he and only he alone give to control those well obviously the pilots like you not screw you I'm taking control of you got any problem too bad so what's happening well simple well fun simple we have here the control manager code and basically we have the top level vehicle and then it's kind of like a

4. 00:02:31

   treat the control manager will have a list of controllers we'll have in this case we have weapon controllers so the pilot will have his own and controller and the chert will have its own weapon controller and then underneath that is the weapons the idea is you control the weapon controller and it has control the subset of weapons so if you're interacting with the UI you tell the weapon control what to do and the weapon controller tells the guns to do stuff you damage the weapon controller you can't control guns funds gameplay and when this thing the control Manor it's supposed to build this web of networks to figure out if I sit here where am I supposed to have control and then if I leave who would take control of it afterwards and we do this with a graph and on this graph this is where we create our links so as we

5. 00:03:21

   create our little trees this establishes those links and when you sit down it figures out where the control paths should go unfortunately when you sit down so we have the pilot and he's on this section he's gonna look everywhere to see if he could link to stuff and he's figuring out oh I can link to these guns on the turret because well I am told to look into any weapon and have the priority of 10 just the way it is the turret is going well I should link to these but I have it exclusive so I'm gonna say exclusive however in the order of operations the seat comes first and it tries to make a link and it makes links to stuff but it and everything's

6. 00:04:10

   good the turret comes in then makes its exclusive links but now we have two things linking and the weapon when you sit down in the seat he goes oh there's no one taking control of it I have party 10 I'm gonna do it then you go sit down the turret and I'll take it away but it shouldn't even be doing that so what we should do here is in this bit of code when we want to sit down we check to see what can control this node so if we are the weapon we look at all the links that are established to us and we see who's and why could control us and what we want to do is if we have we have this exclusive link on the turret we don't want to allow this a pathway to continue so we're gonna find this exclusive link and if it

7. 00:04:59

   exists what we want to do is prevent the guy over here from accessing it now we still need that link because when he's sitting down he may want to observe that turret but he shouldn't be able to control it so we still need a link to everything so that we could see on our screen oh that gun is overheating or that gun is you know and taking too much power I'm able to turn it off but we shouldn't be able to control it so let's hit recode and see what happens alright so now we're recode we're still in the broken shipment so we're gonna spawn ourselves into a new ship so we're a new ship let's go find the priorities of this guy all right where to go there it

8. 00:05:53

   is so as you can see now we don't have priority over the turrets because well we shouldn't the turret has the exclusive priority so we're at turn off the debug move our camera around a bit and you'll see that I'm actively shooting the four guns in the front but I no longer have control of the turn so now if you want to be able to shoot those you got to go tell your good buddy to go run to the back to shoot now this is totally up to the designers how they want to set up the ships you may have some ships that well the Turk can control because that's the functionality or this particular turret can't this is the beauty the priority system and then even extending into the future we be able to allow you guys to dictate who gets control of what within a limited

9. 00:06:41

   scope but for now we need to make sure that the control flow follows the rules so that in the future everything will work as intended let's hope you guys enjoy them so we fixed this little bug just like how we took care of the hard drive that anymore we had a little bug where you sit in the seat take control of the turrets not cool have some fun with it made sure we fixed the priorities everything was good to go and then now pilot takes control of his stuff and the gunner takes control of his everyone's happy everyone has their own stuff and good to go hope you guys enjoyed until next time thank you for watching so if you want to keep up with the latest and greatest in star citizen and squadron 42 development please follow us on our social media channels see you soon