Npc cap ships question.

[Alucard]

My npc capital ships work great, everything is fine except for one thing. I’ve noticed when the engage other npcs (fighters mainly), when within a certain distanist they won’t fire at the ships(the fighters shoot but the caps don’t). Any ideas?

[VNM51]

Turrets position, turrets axis limit in HardCMP? They might can’t track the hostile ships within a certain distance.
Do you have vanila turrets or custom turrets?
Shoot a capship with distruptor then fly randomly in 3D and check if the turrets track and shoot at you or not within that distance where the npcs can’t be detected/tracked.

[Alucard]

Using vannila turrets, hard cmp’ed for 360 rotation and yes they track. Just when npcs are within say 200m to 400m, no fire from any turret.

[VNM51]

Between 200 and 400 m is quite close, I’m not sure vanila caps also could fire in that range. Well, to rule it out check vanila caps in that range.
You wrote they have z = ±360° rotation that’s ok but which weapon axis has value of 1.00000? Usually “y” axis has.[d] What are the values of the orientation (x,y,z)?[/d]

I suggest to take a screenie of the turret’s cmp and upload to have a look at the values.