PrimaryFireFLH
The offset from an object's center that its first weapon fires from.
- Applies to
- AircraftTypeBuildingTypeInfantryTypeUnitType
- File
art.ini- Section
[<Image ID>]Image ID: Image= value; ObjectType ID when omitted- Value
- point (x,y,z)
- When omitted
0,0,0
The value is three whole numbers, X,Y,Z, each in leptons — 256 leptons to a cell. They are measured in the turret’s frame and turned with it, so the offset stays fixed relative to the gun rather than to the map: X runs forward along the direction the turret faces, Y runs out to the turret’s left, and Z runs upward. A vehicle or infantryman with no turret uses the direction its body faces. A turretless building aims the offset at whatever it is currently firing on, and an aircraft always uses its turret facing whether or not it carries a turret.
[MYTANK] ; the Image ID of a UnitTypePrimaryFireFLH=100,0,60 ; a bit under half a cell forward, 60 leptons upThe offset locates two different points. The mounting — where the projectile is created and where the firing solution is measured from — is this offset with TurretOffset added to X. A building measures it from its own center, while a vehicle or aircraft measures it through the same transform its artwork is drawn with, so ground slope and body tilt move the mounting even though they do not move the muzzle. The muzzle — where the fire animation, laser beam, sonic wave, and attached particle systems appear — starts from that same point, adds PBarrelThickness to Z, pitches with the barrel, and then runs PBarrelLength out along the pitched barrel. Only the muzzle rides up as the barrel elevates.
Y is negated on every second shot of a Burst weapon, so a non-zero lateral offset gives a burst weapon a pair of mountings either side of the centerline rather than one.