Challenger 2 Sights

[Scutter]

Gents, I have been playing the game since inception, I am not very good but I enjoy every moment, it the fun part that matters..I love every update...
I was just wondering if its possible to do some work on the graticule for Challenger 2, will it be the same as on the present machine with the aiming mark and the acquisition circle???

I know your resources are limited and I value every update you do as the rest of the community but I was also wondering if by some twist of fate you would ever be dabbling in the world of TI(Thermal Image).

I was a tank soldier for 9 years regular(British Army) and served on all vehicles Chieftain, Challenger1 . I am in the Territorial Army now and get the chance to play on Challenger 2 part time, and I never lost the thrill to just do it!!!!!

I have even suggested to some big wigs if the get the Challenger 2 simulators that are currently in use and use your model(PR), it would be one cool realistic simulator, alas due to lack of funds in the British Army and other excuses this fell on deaf ears.

Thanks for taking the time to look at this request and thanks lads in the community for allowing me the chance especially at my age to get involved..

Kindest Regards

Scutter

P.S: I have read through and searched through the forum, please excuse me if I have posted this and it has already being asked for...

[charliegrs]

i too would definitly love to see some thermal sights for the tanks. maybe the night vision that was in the special forces expansion can be tweaked somehow to look like thermal vision?

[Guerra norte]

I am currently hunting for every damn optical photomask needed in this game ATM

Haven't been able to find anything on the Challenger yet..
but check out THIS thread! If you got anything to contribute please post it.

[Exel]

Having working thermal sights would be immensely cool, but there really is no way to have them work realistically in BF2. Adding a green filter over the graphics wont do the job of a TI. I haven't played SF so I don't know what their night vision was like, but I assume it was some kind of a image intensifier (at best). Something like that might be doable, but its feasibility is another question - image intensifiers would be of no value in daylight maps.

[Guerra norte]

Stupid question: Could you skin stuff that has a high heat signatures with an invisible texture that only shows up when viewed through thermal sights?

[General_J0k3r]

Exel']Having working thermal sights would be immensely cool, but there really is no way to have them work realistically in BF2. Adding a green filter over the graphics wont do the job of a TI. I haven't played SF so I don't know what their night vision was like, but I assume it was some kind of a image intensifier (at best). Something like that might be doable, but its feasibility is another question - image intensifiers would be of no value in daylight maps.

those f***ing bot proggers can do show textures through all statics. maybe a concept of this kind would work? dunno how it works though

[Exel]

Here's a pic for reference, shot through Leopard 2 TI sights.



I don't think there is any way to make the terrain and targets look like that in BF2. Or if there is, it would require so much work that it certainly isn't something for .6 release.

[Guerra norte]

Exel']Here's a pic for reference, shot through Leopard 2 TI sights.

[IMG]http://leopard2.kapsi.fi/gallery/albums ... CF1868.JPG[/IMG

Is that real life or SBP PE? Must be RL since the terrain looks too high poly

[Exel]

It's real life...

[-=ToD=-KNIFE]

Hehe The Challenger must be almighty and RPG Proof, if it had that then no Insurgent could shoot at it, mind you itd bounce off

[[uBp]Irish]

tanks still die to quickly to RPG fire.... but that's going Offtopic.

what if you just took the cobra gunner's chaingun sites, and then that now becomes the view that the tank turret gunner would see. still has zoom, and targets kinda.. "show up" better it would seem. If i'm not mistaken is this the CITV that the commander/driver will be getting in the upcoming Tank Changes?

[Scutter]

I am currently a Crewman on Challenger 2 and I use the Thermal sights in training simulators and on the real beast in day time also to search when visibility is bad and for long range targets. I find it a great acquisition tool and it
makes my kill times quicker.
You are right that for some people it would not be good in a daylight map, but the concept is great and the Leopard picture is similar and cool.

By the way could be a long term update the Thermal, however the sights on Challenger 2 are they doable, the acquisition circle in low and high magnification????

by the way I must say I am 40 years old and I love every minute I play reality mod, and I would like to congratulate the team on such a good mod over the years, and even though I like POE2 and its a great action game, reality only ever does it for me, the detail the sounds everything, maybe one day the team will develop and bring to the market their own branded game, I am sure it would be a best seller, PS When you starting work on BF2142 I am sure you would make it so good

thanks for the time chaps

[JKRMAUI]

I recall at some point seeing a screen shot of some retard that ranked up and

"took a screen to show off but the idiot did it with the Hacks still on" One of the

things in the Screen showed enemies glowing Green, like "as in thermal body

heat glowing effect bright" So I think it would be possible to implement Inferred

sights for Choppers tanks......or what have you. Just saying