Alright, so I'm disappointed with the current way homing missiles work. They always overshoot the target and look funny in flight, especially when overshooting the target.
I rewrote the basic Coalition homing missile script to do away with purely emission-controlled thrust and instead put in Lua-controlled accelerations based on the position of the missile in relation to the target actor. This woks pretty well, but as a measure to keep the missile from overshooting the target, it slows down almost to a standstill when the actor is four times the velocity minus 10 ((self.Vel.X * 4) + 10) pixels away. This works, but looks very strange. There must be a better, nicer way to keep the missile accelerating throughout the entire burn whilst retaining accuracy.
Here's my code so far (I must have made an error somewhere, when the missile loses it's target it begins accelerating full ahead positive on both axes).
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Can anyone improve it, or suggest a better way to do it?
EDIT: I think I've made it plenty perfect to my liking. Grif reminded me of trig functions, so I used the same calculation as in the old method to get the angle of the target, then used the x and y components to add acceleration to the missile.
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turnspeed and maxspeed should be fairly self-explanitory. The values currently present cuase this effect:
