dgm5555 wrote:Well there was grapeshot and cannister shot, so yes cannons *can* shoot multiple balls (though I presumed the stack didn't refer to those). However in my defence I've never seen a cannon you could load with 99 balls, so an entirely unknown (perhaps just to me) "semi-automatic cannon" has been modelled - check out the magazine on that baby!!! So from real-world experience it would be reasonable to think that the cannon would be using balls from a stack (though admittedly these would usually be placed next to the cannon for firing or in the hold for storage rather than actually 'attached' to the cannon :-p
this is because minetest, does not support multiple textures to a single node, so a "singlenode" cannon would look realy ugly.
dgm5555 wrote:PS On that note (just for my curiosity) why did you create your cannon as a kind of turret and in two parts - I've never seen anything similar for a 'full-sized' cannon (as opposed to a more modern turret gun, or one of the smaller portable cannon that were developed), and would have thought the recoil would knock it over if it was built. Not that I particularly mind, it just seems a bit strange to have to dig a hole in the ground or the deck to sink the frame (not a carriage as no wheels) of the cannon into (to maintain a more realistic low centre of gravity), then have to attach the cannon barrel separately.
thats also a reason, that i used the 2 parts cannon
dgm5555 wrote:PPS I guess this ruins my next non-reality suggestion for a fireworks version - I'd really like to be able to trigger my ship to fire all cannons at once (as you've allowed with mesecons), but instead of cannon balls it fires an exploding ball with fireworks (like an average fireworks rocket). [Actually don't worry, someones allready done fireworks, so I'll probably just modify the fireworks mod viewtopic.php?id=3473to to have a display around my ship]
XD /me likes that idea
maybe that could be an easteregg in the next version.
dgm5555 wrote:PPPS, where do I find the optional bucket and fire mods, and what are they used for?
the buket and the fire mod are included in minetest_game. the bucket is need to create salt wich is used for gunpowder, and the fire is need for the burning balls
i dont know, maybe in another game there is missing the bucket or fire so its in dependencies