Any way to makes Custom Turrets not shoot your own ship?

[Rextron]

So I have been testing the new custom turrets and i got a ship that i have been adding to it the turrets sometimes shoot the stuff i around them that is apart of the ship. So for these to work and not have that happen do you need to add restriction to prevent it or is there a mod or setting to turn off subgrid weapon damage to the main grid? the main reason is i want to use them as anti fighter turrets and point defence systems so having them be put into snug spots that they don't get a clear view from is where i mainly put them as they are so small for the most part. Any help with this would be great.

[Dan2D3D]

Hi, I think that option is in the world advanced settings or in the Options button from main menu, verify both and you will find.

[Rextron]

I have looked through the Options and I am not sure if it is a setting that I am miss understanding or just something else as the only setting in the advanced world setting that relate to this that I can find are Friendly Missile Damage and Sub-grid Damage (Which I have both disabled). So could you tell me what setting I am looking for?

[herrschaftg35]

There is no setting that will prevent it from happening. Disabling the damage for all grids or subgrids are your only options which is basically cheating. Best to move the turrets to where they are not likely to shoot each other or the parts of your ship.

[Rextron]

Originally posted by herrschaftg35:

There is no setting that will prevent it from happening. Disabling the damage for all grids or subgrids are your only options which is basically cheating. Best to move the turrets to where they are not likely to shoot each other or the parts of your ship.

Yeah that's what i thought dam. There isn't much point in using the ball turrets on ship compared to a normal turret then. They would just get shot off by the ship they are on and if you have to space them as to not have the ship intersect with its firing arc. Doesn't make them useless just you need to make the ship around them not as a small anti fighter turret to put onto any ship like i wanted to.

[Dan2D3D]

You may create a world with ships ready to test and send all your testing to the ones working on the game asking them to fix this to your liking, well if you want to have a chance they change that.
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[Dan2D3D]

I will add :
I never had problem with that, maybe because my warships are not made like yours and why it is important to share a save with your creations in ready for them to try.

[Ronin Planetary Industries]

Have you tried setting limits on the range of your hinges and rotors? They are still hinges and rotors. I haven't seen any of the new MOD API info... but maybe there's a way to choke the firing of the gun during certain position combinations that point the turret at bits of your own ship.

[Karmaterrorᵁᴷ]

Does the controller comply with set hinge/rotor limits? Wouldnt that be the way to go so you restrict them from being able to even aim at your ship?

[Rextron]

Originally posted by Ronin Planetary Industries (RPI):

Have you tried setting limits on the range of your hinges and rotors? They are still hinges and rotors. I haven't seen any of the new MOD API info... but maybe there's a way to choke the firing of the gun during certain position combinations that point the turret at bits of your own ship.

See the problem is not so much that they shoot my ship and that my ship shoots the rotor turrets off its self. And rotor limits would prevent the whole anti fighter purpose of the turrets. The idea of this was more asking if there is a mod as or they added sub-grid being treated the same as the main grid with regard to the turret AI.

[Rextron]

Originally posted by Dan2D3D:

I will add :
I never had problem with that, maybe because my warships are not made like yours and why it is important to share a save with your creations in ready for them to try.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2745740775

This is the ship I am talking about. It does have a mod but it is the shield mod and the ship is fine without it nothing changes.

Thanks for everyone trying to help so far.

[Dan2D3D]

Got it!

I will try later cause busy atm and I will feedback here.


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[Karmaterrorᵁᴷ]

Could sensors work to some degree, like having a 50m sensor on the front that stops firing if it detects a friendly grid, maybe by powering down the guns or something. Then when it detects no grid powers them up again.... not sure if powering guns on/off messes with the scripting though.

That wouldnt help with the vanilla turrets but maybe if all turrets were player made then it could work as a safety system :)

[MARRA92]

U might want to limit hinges max angle

[Dan2D3D]

Testing done = AI turrets using the controller block will shoot everthing in their way even friendly.

I pasted in an old Fire Raptor I made that was big enough to hide your ship with a few SPRT Drones and your AI turrets were shooting through my ship to destroy the enemy Drones :
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2746679240

Conclusion :
You may report as a bug if not already in so create the Portal Bug Report of or a vote Feedback (Petition) so all can vote on it.

[Rextron]

Originally posted by Karmaterrorᵁᴷ:

Could sensors work to some degree, like having a 50m sensor on the front that stops firing if it detects a friendly grid, maybe by powering down the guns or something. Then when it detects no grid powers them up again.... not sure if powering guns on/off messes with the scripting though.

That wouldnt help with the vanilla turrets but maybe if all turrets were player made then it could work as a safety system :)

The sensor idea works great thanks. wouldn't solve normal turret shooting subgrid ones but it lets me try and only use subgrid turrets on the ship and see it it works. thanks