Smart bombs + laser

=GGZ= Spliffeh1984 · Post by **=GGZ= Spliffeh1984** » 2007-10-17 13:41

Hy everyone, I did a quick search over the forum but haven't found anything similar.
Is it possible to equip each fighter plane, not the attack plane, with 2 smart bombs? JDAM's or something that need laser designation?
The officer kit already has the SOCAM viewer, so just add laser to it. Easier to implement are TV-missiles since they are already in the game. But bombs would have such a cooler effect.
Wherever the officer looks at through his SOCAM gives the plane a target on the HUD. Maybe u can make it visible through each plane HUD. A bit like in transformers movie

where they put the green laser on scorponok and the A-10's come in and unleash their GAU-avengers ^^

Hardtman · Post by **Hardtman** » 2007-10-17 13:51

You obviously haven't searched thoroughly enough.

This has been brought up quite often, and is worked on by the devs.

As far as I know, the problem is that the engine has no way of telling where exactly you are looking, so they are trying it with the SOFLAM shooting an invisibe object which can be locked onto by A-10 and Frogfoots.

Edit: Darn it, my grammar sucks more than usual atm, I hope you'll understand that I am in no shape to fix it due to illness

=GGZ= Spliffeh1984 · Post by **=GGZ= Spliffeh1984** » 2007-10-17 14:01

Oh I'm sorry... I didn't really know what keywords to search for. How bout spawning an invisible flare?

A bit like in the same way a commander spawns assets right? As far as I understand they drop invisible from the sky as well

Waaah_Wah · Post by **Waaah_Wah** » 2007-10-17 14:11

Rhino explained why this doesnt work, but im not sure i understood... If you can shoot bullets one should think that the engine can figure out where your looking

But obviously Rhino knows a little more about this than i do.

Post by **Rhino** » 2007-10-17 14:16

use the search function of the forum before posting. Locked.