[Suggestion/Question] Vehicular zooming

[McBumLuv]

I remember being astounded by the new way the GLDT, TOWs, and AA emplacements all zoomed in when 0.85 came out. I still love them. I started to wonder why all vehicles with zoom didn't have it. I remember bringing it up on either IRC or mumble once, and a DEV saying it's because of realism.

Now, to get to my suggestion, can all vehicles get the new zoom animation? Aside from being ultra-1337, it also helps to get your bearings when going from 1, to 10, to 50 times zoom.

My question is: Why wasn't it done for 0.85 (ran out of time to code it maybe)? Because of realism? Or if the suggestion is denied, why won't it be done?

[Jaymz]

Realism, for example

Variable Magnification in smooth transition

An M14 DMR goes from 3-9x smoothly because IRL you twist a knob that smoothly adjusts it.

Variable Magnification in fixed steps

The gunner's day optics on an Abrams has three fixed options,

×10 (narrow field of view)
×3 (wide field of view)
×1 with 18° field of view (close-in surveillance).

[McBumLuv]

Yes, of course it was Jaymz to disprove me

But then why doesn't the Abrams have only up to 10x view? And I'm sure other MBTs might have smooth transitions, right?

[Arnoldio]

Since McLuv started about vehicle zooming, can the mouse sensitivity be changed when zoomed in because on 10x zoom it moves too rapidly.