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Honktown wrote: ↑

Wed Mar 18, 2020 5:59 pm

It looks like it should return at what the turret is currently shooting (if called with nothing), but can be called with a different LuaEntity to make it change target.

DemonSF wrote: ↑

Thu Mar 19, 2020 4:22 pm

Honktown wrote: ↑

Wed Mar 18, 2020 5:59 pm

It looks like it should return at what the turret is currently shooting (if called with nothing), but can be called with a different LuaEntity to make it change target.

well he turns to LuaEntity. But how can I ask him to shoot at the target I want, and ignore everything else? I give him food shooting_target = "tank" and he ignores the recipe, shoots everything that is the enemy

local targets = turret.surface.find_entities_filtered{
                type = "car",
                name = "tank",
                position = turret.position,
                radius = turret.prototype.turret_range
            }
for _, t in pairs(targets) do
	if t.valid and t.force ~= turret.force then
		turret.shooting_target = t 
		break
	end
end

Pi-C wrote: ↑

Thu Mar 19, 2020 5:12 pm

DemonSF wrote: ↑

Thu Mar 19, 2020 4:22 pm

Honktown wrote: ↑

Wed Mar 18, 2020 5:59 pm

It looks like it should return at what the turret is currently shooting (if called with nothing), but can be called with a different LuaEntity to make it change target.

well he turns to LuaEntity. But how can I ask him to shoot at the target I want, and ignore everything else? I give him food shooting_target = "tank" and he ignores the recipe, shoots everything that is the enemy

The target has to be a specific entity that has to be in range of the turret. Something like this would work:

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local targets = turret.surface.find_entities_filtered{
                type = "car",
                name = "tank",
                position = turret.position,
                radius = turret.prototype.turret_range
            }
for _, t in pairs(targets) do
	if t.valid and t.force ~= turret.force then
		turret.shooting_target = t 
		break
	end
end

I think it's not possible to order a turret to shoot only at certain entity types, so after the turret has killed the target, it will automatically look for a new target, which may be any entity belonging to an enemy force.