APC and Tank driver camera view.

Guerra · Post by **Guerra** » 2007-08-09 19:50

I absolutely love the new changes to tanks and APCs, especially the tank's new driver scope. However, I am disapointed to find out that the APCs were not treated the same. One major problem is running over people trying to get kits behind the APC, or just hopping out at random. Would be nice to see all the way behind. In reality, APCs have 360 view of the battlefield, and it would be nice to see this reflected in the game, so they would get the exact same scope as the tank, for spotting and better driving.

Now this is just a maybe, but most APCs these days have thermal cameras, so they can pickup body heat from friendly and enemy troops alike, would this be possible with the engine or am I just hoping for something that will never happen?

and finally, and I know I'm just trying to stuff ideas all in to one post, so forgive me, but what about some ground to ground missile launchers? Some mortar kits? Some form of indirect fire support would be excellent, besides commander controlled artillery. (Would be kinda neat if commander could build artillery, eh?)

What do you guys think? Mostly I just want the 360 zoomable camera for APC driver, the rest is negotiable.

Post by **bosco_** » 2007-08-09 19:58

Player controlled mortars are coming.

Guerra · Post by **Guerra** » 2007-08-09 20:00

Excellent, but what about those APC driver cameras? I could be wrong, but it doesn't seem particularly difficult.

GR34 · Post by **GR34** » 2007-08-09 22:45

Oh we should put fast ropes on the apcs! OMG FAST ROPES

But seriously:
If you run over people all the time then just use the right mouse button for the back up beep thing! I hope when we get stryykers that we get a little TV to watch stuff out of like In Arma that view is so cool yet really hard to drive with!

Post by **fuzzhead** » 2007-08-10 00:31

like GR34 said: whenevr you backup, make sure you put your beeper on, otherwise its your fault

APC Driver camera - will be 360 and zoomable in v0.7, it was always planned but didnt make it into v0.6 due to time restraints.

Thermal Sites - some experimentation has been attempted, dont get your hopes up though

Mortars - hopefully v0.7

charliegrs · Post by **charliegrs** » 2007-08-10 00:46

couldnt the devs use the same thermal sight thats used on the attack choppers?

GR34 · Post by **GR34** » 2007-08-10 03:48

charliegrs wrote:couldnt the devs use the same thermal sight thats used on the attack choppers?

I am pretty sure thats just black and white not thermal!

Post by **eggman** » 2007-08-10 06:35

Guerra wrote:Excellent, but what about those APC driver cameras? I could be wrong, but it doesn't seem particularly difficult.

Great! Lemme know when yer done.

Post by **dbzao** » 2007-08-10 13:17

like when somebody complained about the tanks not having the ironsight view on the .50 cals: "it's already done in the jeeps, just copy and paste on the tanks"

Guerra · Post by **Guerra** » 2007-08-10 20:41

if I'm wrong, then I'm wrong.

I just don't personally see how that's difficult.

But hey, if you wanna teach me how to work on this stuff, I'd help willingly, I love this mod.

Post by **eggman** » 2007-08-11 06:25

Guerra wrote:if I'm wrong, then I'm wrong.

I just don't personally see how that's difficult.

But hey, if you wanna teach me how to work on this stuff, I'd help willingly, I love this mod.

open notepad
start editing
test it out in game
:goto open notepad

Then to really know what modding is like add a job, a family and a mortgage into the mix.