Hey jack, I was playing Battlefield 2 and the way they do their turret controls in that game is great. The turret behaves like a FPS camera, but to make it feel more like a turret they just change the sensitivity. Basically, if your in a large vehicle, like a tank, the mouse sensitivity is low and you have to sweep the mouse multiple times to do a full rotation. Where as if you are in a machine gun nest a simple half-sweep with the mouse will get you a full 180 rotation. It allows the user to be very precise, which players want, but it also allows you to keep the user feeling like they are in a tank, which is what you want. Not sure if your end game is going to have light, medium and heavy tanks, but it might be somthing you would want to keep in mind - it works really well. Also, Battlezone had some great tank controls, its an old one but its great. Just some ideas :]
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