[article] Making a destroyable active tank turret (realistic).

This is a discussion topic for the article "Making a destroyable active tank turret (realistic)." by Andrei which can be found here

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Making an active tank turret that can be destroyed with explosive weapons.

proper tank-like set-up yay. viva la realism
if only they did something like this in the game-seriously destroying a tank with a shotgun and SMG? lets all have a luagh

Render mode: texture would probably be better than additive, but otherwise great tut. At last, tanks are no longer destroyable with two shots from a crossbow!

Neat idea and a clear, concise tutorial

A rendermode of "Solid" and amount 0 is what you should use to make something invisible. Regardless of the textures used on the entity, those settings will make it disappear (and not even be drawn by the engine).

"Additive" and "Texture" are special rendermodes that depend on using particular types of textures.

Er...I'm an idiot, but I get two problems.
1. The gibmodel 'metalplate_green' won't load.
2. The turret rotates not around its centre but around a central point which is at the end of the barrel, if you see what I mean.
Help?

I still don't know how they made the tanks in the original game, but this one's better.
Sulkdodds, 1) Just leave gibmodel blank, it's not really neccessary.
2) Put an origin brush in the centre of the turret. Make it part of the turret entity. It's a block with the "origin" texture on all sides in case you don't know.