Hey,
Been making some simple tanks for my game using milkshape. I dont do any bone animation but I DO add 3 bones to the model, one for the base, one for the turret and one which has no vertices assigned which goes at the tip of the turret which I can use for positioning newly fired shells etc.
In game the turret always points at the mouse cursor (its top down 3d) and to do this I rotate the turret limb using the angle between the tank and the mouse. Now as everyone knows for left/right rotation you rotate on the Y axis.. except not for my tanks X_X The first one i made ages ago which is nothing more than two cubes really wanted the turret rotated on the Z axis else it rolled and whatnot. Now i just made a new more detailed tank and exported it and the first thing i noticed was it was instantly rotating the turret on the wrong axis.. this one wants to be turned on the X axis!
Does anyone know why it does this? I cant hard code different rotating for different tanks! The only possiable reason I can come up with is somehow the bones have their own orientation and i've somehow knocked them off. Which is weird because for this new tank i started with the original tank as a template and started extruding etc and all I did was add the extra bone for where to position bullets.
Im so confused ;/
