The missiles fail to hit the target. about dogfight-sandbox-hg2

[KevinGrey]

Additionally, I would like to provide further information. The provided link contains a video recording made by me, where it can be observed that the missiles, which fail to hit the target, continuously circle around the aircraft without ceasing.
https://streamable.com/1bs7sa

[astrofra]

Hi Kevin!
Thanks for taking the time to record this video (you might upload it on the conversation thread, btw).
From what I see, it looks like one of the missiles will hit the target (the first one ?), then the two other will indeed circle around (that even wouldn't be possible in real life, it shows the limitation of the missile guidance code).

Do you share this diagnostic ?

[ErkMkd]

In your video, the planes are falling, they are not flying. Missiles are intended for aerial targets moving at a significant speed. If their target moves too slowly, the direction change speed of the missiles is too low: they turn around without being able to reach it.

[ErkMkd]

You can change the angular frictions of Sidewinders missiles here for example: https://github.com/harfang3d/dogfight-sandbox-hg2/blob/main/source/missile_Sidewinder.py#L21