Can guns be attached to elevators, rudders?

[VF3Thunderboy]

Can guns be attached to elevators, rudders?

[Gnoopey]

Can guns be attached to elevators, rudders?
yes of course - but you would want to be perhaps a little bit more specific, would you not?

[VF3Thunderboy]

So if you move the rudder up, the gun will shoot upward, etc???Have you actually dont this?

[FelixFFDS]

I don't know about your airplane's physics, but in mine, the rudder controls yaw - left-right movement - and my elevators control pitch (up/down movement)


Attaching guns to control surfaces is "generally" not a good idea since you can't aim them guns properly...

Perhaps you can let us know:

What modelling program you're using,

What are you trying to accomplish?

[Gnoopey]

... are we only 'joking' in here ... NO, of course not!

As Felix has mentioned ... answer his questions, then we might be able to help much better.

BTW - the current SFM builds (soon to be released) have animated turrets / guns (just for the visual effect in FS9) - guns rotate up/downright with a wingfold animation to a 'serviced positon' - turrets 'yaw' coupled with a stock rudder animation - again, this is just for the visual effect - and the fwd lower turret rotates - with an undercarriage animation (c_gear) - its guns to a 12 o'clock position when the gear is retracted - see some pics below

BTW2 - the only M$ sim where you can really make 'good use' of gun movements, is CFS3!

[Piglet]

That's also how many of us do moving aircrew heads, and I did the nose cannon on my MI-24 Hind like this. Tagged it as a control surface.

[VF3Thunderboy]

...Right, ok, so is it possible to have an up down movement with a second elevator? and side to side with a second rudder?...:)

[gramps]

Yep, you can make the guns move tagging em as an extra rudder an elevator.


Just add a _1 to the end of the name " r_elevator_1" you can keep addin to it "_2, _3"

[VF3Thunderboy]

Friggin wiggin...!:) :icon29:

[FelixFFDS]

Just remember - and this is for clarification purposes (i.e. restating the obious) - your "guns" will move in concert with the rudder/elevator, not independently.