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New feature: Scope modes[message #303024]

Sun, 08 April 2012 17:55

Flugente

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Registered:April 2009
Location: Germany

Scope modes

I implemented another minor feature. Basically it allows the player to manually switch between the different scopes and sights on a weapon. This option can be toggled in the .ini (USE_SCOPE_MODES)

The idea is that a gun can have multiple optical sights (iron sights, reflex sights, scopes). Atm, boni of all those are added at the same time, and the actual magnification used is determined by range and some other stuff.

I changed that. Now you can toggle between your different scopes by pressing '.' in tactical mode (I moved the cheat option that formerly occupied that key to CTRL-'y'). For all necessary calculations (including sight range, aim levels, AP cost and of course cth) only the currently used scope/sight is used.

For testing reasosn, I gave Lynx an M14 with an Acog and a reflex sight. He now has a 4.0x scope, a 2.0x reflex sight (I tweaked that for testing purposes) and 1.0x iron sights (the basic M14).

If you allow a graphical display, it looks like this:

Acog (notice the increased sight range compared to the other two pictures):

Reflex Sight (notice the lower APs needed compared to the other pictures):

Iron Sights:

If you enlarge the pics, you can actually see stuff.... how do you do that in a post?

This atm only works for your mercs, the enemy and militia are not affected.

While the overall use of this might be small, those who struggle with scopes with a magnification factor too high on NCTH might benefit from this.

Edited stuff:
As I found out, different mods made new attachment classes, while still using the -tag. For this reason, I can't use that to determine wether an attachment is of a specific class.

I have therefore (after previously doing otherwise, and having a lenghty discussion with JMich and depressives Brot on IRC) decided to leave the -tag alone. I have, however, created a new UINT32-tag in items.xml, which is called .

This tag now specifies the behaviour of an attachemnt, wether it is a scope, a laser, a grenade, a detonator etc. It is in principle the AC_#### bitmask in Item Types.h. This is a bitmask, so it is now also possible to create an attachment that is both scope and laser (or whatever weird stuff you can think off). The flags are:

// redesigned by Flugente on 12-04-10
// Chrisl: Define attachment classes
#define AC_BIPOD		0x00000001	//1
#define AC_SUPPRESSOR           0x00000002	//2
#define AC_LASER		0x00000004	//4
#define AC_SIGHT		0x00000008	//8
#define AC_SCOPE		0x00000010	//16
#define AC_STOCK		0x00000020	//32
#define AC_MAGWELL   	        0x00000040	//64
#define AC_INTERNAL		0x00000080	//128
#define AC_EXTERNAL		0x00000100	//256
#define AC_UNDERBARREL	        0x00000200	//512
#define AC_GRENADE		0x00000400	//1024
#define AC_ROCKET		0x00000800	//2048
#define AC_FOREGRIP		0x00001000	//4096
#define AC_HELMET               0x00002000	//8192
#define AC_VEST 		0x00004000	//16384
#define AC_PANTS		0x00008000	//32768
#define AC_DETONATOR            0x00010000	//65536
#define AC_BATTERY              0x00020000	//131072
#define AC_EXTENDER		0x00040000	//262144
#define AC_SLING		0x00080000	//524288
#define AC_REMOTEDET            0x00100000	//1048576
#define AC_DEFUSE		0x00200000	//2097152
#define AC_IRONSIGHT	        0x00400000	//4194304
#define AC_FEEDER		0x00800000	//8388608
#define AC_MODPOUCH		0x01000000	//16777216
#define AC_RIFLEGRENADE	        0x02000000	//33554432
#define AC_BAYONET		0x04000000	//67108864
#define AC_MISC16		0x08000000	//134217728
#define AC_MISC17		0x10000000	//268435456
#define AC_MISC18		0x20000000	//536870912
#define AC_MISC19		0x40000000	//1073741824
#define AC_MISC20		0x80000000	//2147483648

So, for example, the grippod will have 4097, because it is both bipod and grippod.

This will also allow us to remove some of the existing flags, like . However, take note that this is stuff is currently not used anywhere in the code, except for
1) grenades and rockets
2) scopes and sights (by this very feature)

Hopefully, this will get used more extensively in the future.

I already added the necessary tags to all attachments in Items.xml. :sign: ANY MODDER USING THIS CODE WILL HAVE TO DO THE SAME TO (ATLEAST) ALL HIS SCOPES, SIGHTS, GRENADES and ROCKETS, or those won't work a intended.

I also made a little addition to overheating weapons, severe overheating now temporarily lowers a gun's accuracy.

I also made another new feature, which I will describe in another thread.

If nobody has any objections (or brilliant ideas that I should include), I will submit this to RoWa this evening.

Edit2: As of r6084, when using scope modes, the magnification factor adjusts just like without this feature. While I find it odd, not doing so is highly incompatible to NCTH.

Also, the enemy now properly uses this.

[Updated on: Fri, 17 May 2013 22:11] by Moderator