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Oriza - a boomerang weapon concept
Wundsalz:
Probably like any other weapon - don't worry about the math and try to get an intuitive feeling for it. On longer ranges it should be possible to pick up the weapons behavior fairly quickly - just aim a bit more to the left/right than with a weapon that shoots conventional projectiles to compensate for the projectiles arc. The closer the enemy gets the harder aiming will be with the weapon as the trajectories get more and more bulged while the projectile travel time increases the closer the target gets.
Overall the correct estimation of the distance to the target is more important than with conventional weapons. At the same time it's more forgiving when it comes to getting the targets positioning along the other axes right.
SirNotlag:
OK! let me rephrase the question! HOW DOES THE PROJECTILE MOVE THROUGH SPACE?? It has boomerang in the title so does it act like a boomerang and arc left or right eventually looping back, would it be fired like some sci-fi diskus that shoots out straight but eventually doubles back on its movement and returns to the launcher as if pulled by magnets, does it launch some projectile that alters its course so it travels 90 degrees from its first track and goes screaming off left or right till it hits its target or reaches max range, or does it auto calculate everything and tries to have the projectile pass through where the gunner is aiming before doubling back.
NEXT QUESTION! how would you implement any form of control over the course of the projectiles travel depending on how it would work. the diskus and auto calculating would be easy with no real difference from firing other guns, BUT control of the boomerang arc or change of course examples would require something more as now you have to be able to have some form of control of whether its arcing left or right at the very least. Would rather than turning the weapon youd be adjusting its arcs instead? Or maybe simply based on the last direction you turned the gun determines its arc left or right?
You must be some kind of mathematician cause your practically speaking another language and I have no idea how to put what your saying into any practical purpose.
Milevan Faent:
--- Quote from: SirNotlag on June 09, 2014, 12:17:13 am ---OK! let me rephrase the question! HOW DOES THE PROJECTILE MOVE THROUGH SPACE?? It has boomerang in the title so does it act like a boomerang and arc left or right eventually looping back, would it be fired like some sci-fi diskus that shoots out straight but eventually doubles back on its movement and returns to the launcher as if pulled by magnets, does it launch some projectile that alters its course so it travels 90 degrees from its first track and goes screaming off left or right till it hits its target or reaches max range, or does it auto calculate everything and tries to have the projectile pass through where the gunner is aiming before doubling back.
NEXT QUESTION! how would you implement any form of control over the course of the projectiles travel depending on how it would work. the diskus and auto calculating would be easy with no real difference from firing other guns, BUT control of the boomerang arc or change of course examples would require something more as now you have to be able to have some form of control of whether its arcing left or right at the very least. Would rather than turning the weapon youd be adjusting its arcs instead? Or maybe simply based on the last direction you turned the gun determines its arc left or right?
You must be some kind of mathematician cause your practically speaking another language and I have no idea how to put what your saying into any practical purpose.
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I'm not 100% sure, but I'm pretty sure the ANGLE the gun is pointed at determines how the projectile flies. Pointing the gun to the left will make the boomerang arc to the right, while the reverse is true for the other side. It also seems like you CAN'T fire it straight forward. It literally has to be fired at an angle, which would thus determine which direction the arc flies.
Wundsalz:
I still want this!
DJ Logicalia:
First time reading this.
Do want
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