UFO:Alien Invasion
Technical support => Feature Requests => Topic started by: Marsu on May 01, 2008, 09:23:25 pm
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Flares or Flashlights(preferably weapon-mounted) would be great.
Working IR- or Nightvision-Goggles would also be nice.
Hopefully there is some way to get the engine to do this ???
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I believe that flares are on the TODO http://ufoai.ninex.info/wiki/index.php/TODO/2.3 (http://ufoai.ninex.info/wiki/index.php/TODO/2.3). Dunno about the rest.
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woops, you are right, flares are already in the todo. My bad, please excuse the overenthusiastic newbie :)
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I would like to see weapon mounted tactical lights, however I admit it needs some redesign and much extra work. Weapon mod slots, ouch.
I'd appreciate a flashlight also. (I lacked in previous XCOMs also)
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Lord Valdez,
this has been discussed before. The weapon-mounted lights may require serious changes to the game engine - movable, directional light source, cone of ling (ling? wtf is ling? i meant "light") that tracks with the way soldier turns, plus you need a way to turn it on and off. I will let the devs answer as to how hard that is to code. Maybe the engine has some like that already.
Another vote "con" was due to tactical issues: while a barrel-mounted light is OK for clearing houses, for moving in relatively open area at night it is a nightmare - blinds the user to things outside the cone and givesa away position. Would be great for enemy snipers, I imagine.
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Sorry, I am a newbie :)
It's a pity that engine doesn't support directional lighting, because the next thing I would have asked for is strong headlights for HWP-s.
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Oh, no prob. Still has the purely in-game tactical problem of making the light source WAY to visible and a great target at night.