Starlight borked?

My starlight in this game would not shoot targets on the ground: http://zero-k.info/Battles/Detail/985889

Instead it shot upwards into the air. I tried the following to no avail:

Powered off and on
Partially recycled and rebuilt the starlight
Leveled the terrain around it
Alternated between close and far targets
Targeted at ground, visible units and radar signatures

Is this a known bug?

This is from a mod. Have you observed the behavior in ZK stable/test? In all likelihood it may be something mod side.

Anarchid may know. They are relatively recent models and both his, so it could be to do with workflow.

quote: i have no idea why it happens but in the mod certain units, specifically gauss and starlight, have this strange tendency to go sideways when they level up. I dont know why exactly but if I were to make a guess it probably has to do with piece scaling.

IIRC Spring makes collada models rotate correctly by:
- Creating a virtual Scene piece that contains every other piece of the model as its children
- Rotating that Scene piece 90 degrees along X-axis to get Z to point upwards.

If your matrix stuff changes the transform of the Scene piece and resets its rotation to 0,0,0, you'll have the model rotate to 90 degrees off.

quote: One thing I notice when I open up the chisel model in Blender is that transforms aren't applied. Could that be causing it?

It doesn't cause issues with the animation of the thing before the gadget messes with it, so it shouldn't.

I am doubtful the scaling gadget does not touch rotations if it results in changed rotations.

It's definitely the mod. It only happens when the chisel levels up.

After further tests it looks like this is indeed caused by the mod. Excluding the starlight (and maybe the gauss) from scaling in size when it ranks up should be a suitable work-a-round.