You are helping me understand this game unbelievably much. I never understood how microcontrollers worked but the way you explained it cleared up a ton more for me.

To everyone here who is currently having problems with getting it to work. This tutorial is brilliant and it shows a lot of stuff to get it all working. But there has been some small updates to the game which has changed some basics of the process. Not massively but I have written some points to anyone trying to learn and wants to Debug. I've spent the past 3 days over numerous hours hitting basically every snag and here is the things that can go wrong. It doesn't move or do anything. - Check your pivots and pitches directions. In Particular the pitch needs to both rotate in the same direction else they'll cancel each other out. - For the Pitch make sure that you are utilizing separate input sources on your microcontroller from the two inputs. - Ensure that you have the correct radar channels going into the microcontroller, 2 is Pivot and 3 it pitch ( Could be inverse but they need to be separate) The build falls apart when I spawn it in. - MERGE THAT SHIT TOGETHER, top right there is a button to merge. - Half of your pivot needs to be merged to the blocks they are meant to be moving. - I keep changing and rebuilding but its the same result. - Look if you are actively changing your micro, easiest way to change micro is to select and go onto the micro and press the top left. - This lets you actively change the micro whilst its on the vehicle. - You can actually make a autosave micro and not spawn it in by accident. Its really slow at detecting me - Change your radars configuration in the panel on selection for it. - Have static, make sure your range is around 1000-2000m. Any longer and it will take ages to detect and feedback. - Make sure the direction is front facing for the Radar. - Radars parameters have changed slightly, change the scaling to try and get 1000M still. - DONT CHANGE ANYTHING ELSE YET Its being Shy?? - He mentions to inverse the derivative and then scale it. - If it is doing it whilst being inversed, making it a positive derivative. - If it still does it, the problem is in your pivots. He mentions this in all the video but its very quick 3 seconds and move on. All these points can stop the entirety of the build working. Not saying he hasn't covered them, but there is a lot of points of error and I can get that it causes some frustration for people. Just wanted to help :)

Such an amazing video, always excited to watch when I get a notification. For target lead you would somehow have to translate Thales basic proportionality theorem into logic gates and that sounds like pain.

The turret just constantly sways back and forth, it shoot and works, but its inaccurate because of the swaying, it doesn't look like what its doing in your video

I spent yesterday building one of these but i cashed like 20 times doing so, alreast now i can be lazy

me before stormworks: it cant be that complicated you just put block and connect things me after stormworks: *p a i n*

I got this game the other day and I didn't realize that it had so much logic. This game is really in depth and advanced The game play and all of that definitely makes up for the lack of graphics overall. Really good game though I love it.

Thanks Mr N Jersey, I really needed this because every time I try to face off with another ship I get absolutely shredded

This isn't a bad setup. The only issue I found is if the turret locks onto a target it stays locked, even if that target is inside the minimum range. Should maybe do a little demo on how to get your turret to "forget" invalid targets and search for a valid one.

I almost never comment on your vids, but this was a nice surprise. Seeing as how the AI choppers and jets love to strafe my dingy little gunboat, and I'm always too late (and too clumsy of a AAA setup) to off them, this should hopefully free me up to drive or shoot at the AI with a "helping hand." Also can you please find out and show any way to disable/clean up the out of control AI vehicles that immediately decelerate the game speed within minutes of playing?

When I spawn it in, the turret acts like it's shy or something, I've done the -x thing and changed the pivots so it's the right way. But when I got to a certain side of it. It just looks away from me and then if I move around it, it also keeps moving away. But only in one direction

One thing I think that's missing from the new radar that the old one had was the input for facing. Thinking back to an old DOS game called AT-Robots (you program little 2d bots to pew pew each other) the best way, I learned from examples, to scan was to have a wide arc, then flip it around in pies instead of the traditional and slower "sweeping a few degrees" method. Once a target was found, you'd use the "target offset" within your scan arc to geometrically reduce and keep your arc on target into a very narrow band, then blast them. Conversely, if you lost/had no target, you doubled your scan arc each tick until you found a target, and then repeated the above process. I wonder if there was a way to change the FOV with an input on the old one (I think there was) because then you could apply my mentioned theory above. Hmm....

I would love a way to hand feed the drum mags. Go to the block, press q/e and you have a coiled ammo belt in your hands to reload drums by hand I’m a big fan of frantically repairing and reloading guns mid combat xD

"Let's choose the rotary autocannon because its fun and big and shoots a lot of bullets" h u m o r .

I like that when ever he's talking about guns his slogan is "because why not"

I have made an unstoppable monster thanks to this video.

Another great video from NJ as expected. But I actually have some tips for you guys. Of course this is just a simple tutorial showing you how you can set up your own Radar tracking gun and he cant mention everything. I've learned some things throughout my testing and building. I personaly think there are better ways of tracking. Let me explain: With this system you wont be able to track down targets when you or the move a certain speed (you will track behind them or infront of them). To fix this problem you can use a PID controller. For my turret I used these values: P=1 I=0.001 D=0. Of course these values can change for you build and are not the perfect ones. The setpoint of the PID is just 0 or for example 0.001 if you want it to be angled slightly above the target to compensate bullet drop. You can also multiply it by the distance of the target to auto adjust the height depending on the distance the target is away from you. Take a function block for example: if the range is x then just put x*0.0001 in. Connect that to the PID setpoint of the pitch for the turret. I could write a lot longer about this stuff but I this is just a comment and not a video after all. Just do a little testing with the PIDs and you get the hang of it.

Thank you,lord njersey!

Is there a way to make an IFF system, so it doesnt fire on your own creations, eg im driving a RIB up to my destroyer, but im in the firing zone of the gun. maybe using radio?

Can you make a video about the new missile radar? That would be cool!

I gotta wonder if someone is going to create some sort of CWIS control system like AEGIS to track and identify targets for point defense

This is great and amazingly simple tutorial NJ. However I would like to know how you can add active firing arcs on the weapon, because if the radar detects a target beyond 50m, that is located for example between the gun and your actual vehicle's body (like a ship's superstructure or funnel), it will fire through your creation to get to the target! Also would be nice to know how to make the weapon not fire at the fish... :D

Can I suggest instead of just multiplying by a constant to use the distance calculation of the radar, so it is more precise and slow at long ranges but quicker at shorter ranges.

What if you used the radios or something to make a sort of IFF instead of basing it off of range from you? TBH I don't know a whole lot about creating logic in this game and I haven't actually used the radios so I don't know if its possible but like you could make it check to see if its a on a friendly channel or something then decide if its a target it can shoot at or not

I bought this dlc and am not disappointed, tho can you please do an ecu tutorial on how to make one for modular engines and transmissions? That would be amazing

"im going to be using the rotary autocannon, because why not. its fun, its big, and it shoots a lot of bullets" you forgot one, it also goes BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRT

Wow thank you for doing this I had already made one but it was with the old radars seen I had heard that new radars don’t really work and now I’m going to do it with the new radars

Can you do a video showing the advances of radar tracking guns as well as tracking only enemy AI?

now you just need to code a friend or foe id system to work alongside this.

I'm a pretty smart guy but Without these videos it would take me 3 x as long to figure this stuff out thanks again!!! Great content

I've just been trying to build this but my rotational pivot isn't moving onto target but the radar thinks it has, so my gun just unloads into the bleeding floor ten feet away from me

I'm curious to know if they changed how these function. It seems like they used to lock onto the closest target. But it now it seems like they cycle between all 8 even though the 1st channel is the only target connected. Have I misunderstood the composite functionality? Has something changed?

My game crashes when i config the radar?

Your MG tutorial was very helpful, thank you for your Stormworks egemacation.

Hy guys have anyone the same problem like me that the game crashes after changing some at the radars? Nice vid NJ :-)

Just what i needed, AI just always beaming their aim is too good haha

for some reason my gun just stays pointing down no matter what, when i put it to negative it just does the same thing but backwards

Did things like in this video but the turret wont move so probably some update has appeared

Please can you make a tutorial of this but have it a bit more complex with a lead calculation?

Thanks for tutorials

Whenever I max out the radars FOV it just crashes my game, RIP

0:36 that was terrifying

Me wanting to make a C-RAM after seeing the thumbnail and title: yes yeS yES YES

For some reason the range gets limited to 100m for no apparent reason. I have tried everything in my knowledge to fix it but still won't work. Anyone got some advice?

My game keeps crashing when i press the arrow next to the remove button

it doesn't work for me?? have they like changed this in an update, but amazing video even if it doesn't work for me!!!!

Hm is there a way to create a friend enemy detector? Maybe own vehicles could send a signal that identifies them, any vehicle that doesn't will be targeted.

Followed tutorial to the letter. Notwithstanding the endless crashing to desktop whenever I try to configure the radar, my gun mount tracks randomly to the left and the wiggles about and pitches the barrel backwards. Doesn't even try to detect me. Brilliant.

It's a shame that they didn't add a temperature node to the autocannons

Hey could you please make an updated video like this?

can you make an updated one ?

could you do a tutorial on leading targets?

very cool, would recommend building!

Hey, is there some sort of issue with radars at the moment. I used this video and even copied step by step the way you made your gun but mine simply will not work it is very intermittent if it will track me or not and even though the range was 600 odd meters it could find me within 6 but go further than that the radar looses me. Is anyone else having issues with radars at the moment?

Can you please upldoad it to the workshop when you do this stuff please

How would one make one of these aim slightly higher than what the radar detects? The velocity pivots don’t allow you to just simply add a little bit onto the detected angle.

Also one with lead guidance will be cool(that is not like 8x8) because the only microcontroller that i was able to find had some stuff that was not needed and made it more complicated

I wanna see one of these. But with missles

Great informative video

Hey NJ! Love your videos! So, I followed this one about as close to the letter as you can, and I'm running into an unusual problem.. my radar seems to have trouble tracking me at range. I have to step practically point blank in order for it to actually see me. I checked the settings in the radar itself and both POVs are set to max and effective range is still 640 meters. But if I walk in front of it, it won't actually shoot me until I'm about a meter or two in front of it. Any idea why that might be happening? It seems like a radar update but I can't find any info on it. As a side note, it seems to lose track of when I walk out of view and shoot boxes that are further away. Perhaps human characters aren't as detectable anymore?

Are you doing one for missile?

I know you said that it works best with velocity pivots but will it also work with robotic pivots and if it won't is there a way to make it stop before it hits your own boat? like I saw the part where you said you can make it not track if it's too close but if it detects a target and starts shooting it but then the target goes behind your boat how do you stop it from hitting your boat?

now we just need logic for an IFF system

Instructions unclear, made a fully automated Artillery system capable of firing accurately at targets at max view distance. Surprisingly easy... just had to add math from range > gun pitch. And building a automated loading mechanism is just as much fun. Some more tuning and i need to build a boat for the gun lmao. EDIT: I just can't lmfao, one of my friends decided to be a cheeky bastard and spawned a Megalodon, and one of my turrets obliterated it!

did you ever upload this mc to workshop?

To make sure it dont shoot friendly craft, you could simply do speed, if an object is going over say 60 knots, shoot at it, then you cant shoot at missles that may close to under 50. That's how modern radar figures out the difference between a stealth aircraft with radar cross section of bird, from a real bird, cause the real bird aint gonna travel at 600 knots.

Oh a Phalanx CIWS :D

Just a bit tweaking of the anti-air ai system to track me but. What i didn't notice that your video of the gun phalanx or the rotary cannon of your video tutorial that doesn't produce much recoil than in reality the gun produces so much recoil

Now i can finish my CIWS creation

Loved the video @MrNJersey! Could you do a video about how to make (or rather how you would make) a Radar System like the Air and Surface Search Radars used in the Second World War? Or maybe even how to make a Torpedo, Depth Charge or Bombs in Stormworks!

my gun is locking onto random stuff in my hanger.... crates, barrels, kittens... any idea why ?

Ok, just one question: how do you get the turret to fire with conviction?

Keeps crashing the game when trying to add the settings like you do with the radar

Can you make a tutorial on this but with a leading system? me and some of my friends would love to know how to make one!!

Yeah your radar turret is really cool and powerfull but the problem is if there is a plane and you wanna shoot with the radar the radar is targeting the plane but not the ammo

Mama

Could you please do a vid on how to do an auto reload system for this gun

I thought I was a genius when i made microcontroller that opens a door.

Imagine this combo Ap+auto tracking+lead+rotary cannon with inf ammo Every creation hit with this gun PEACE😂

Now they’re just needs to be a targeting blacklist so it doesn’t try to shoot you

Now I just gotta wait for a tutorial on the new radars. Because I literally have no clue how radar works in stormworks.

I need help it does not move up or down it just shoots in my direction. Someone help me😥😥

I wanna mount this on my bomber

When i turn my key, the radar doesnt spin around, can i have some help, it has electricity and logic input

How do I make it so that it stops firing once it stops detecting a target and/or they have been terminated?

Notification squad is here. Also I'm second!

my gun only starts tracking when im 5 meters from it

Waiting for someone to create an IFF(Identify Friend or Foe) module, if someone hasn't already

So I ended up building these for one of my ships but for some reason they prioritize player targets and it seems like its ignoring any AI targets. I also wasnt able to get the autocannon version to fire despite it tracking a target for about 5 seconds and then it seems like it loses the target on radar and the gun starts slowly dropping the barrell. Any suggestions on what I can do to fix either of those issues?

I remade this, but it overshoots and overcorrects. It is very wobbly and unstable and I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong.

How would I make it engage only air targets?

So i followed this video, but my guns (have two twin barrel versions, one one each side of the ship), just snap straight down and kill themselves. I've done the same logic as here minus the distance to target, and time since detected. Any suggestions on how to correct this?

You're a god.

Followed every step and the only thing works is the tilt

I need help. The radar doesnt lock on me until im at its level, and when i go under it, the turret resets

A year old but followed this tutorial to the letter.. But my build wont track or fire. Any hope for an updated version of this? :D

could you make a video that goes more in depth on how to use a radar?

Could be useful AA

I have done exactly what jersey has done, but my "update" button isn't working?? help

Do guided ordinance next :)