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Categorize HelmetCam as night-vision gear or glasses #142

Closed nsgundy closed 9 years ago

nsgundy commented 9 years ago

From the BI forums:

what do you think of cotegorizing it as a facewear item or a night vision item?

The trouble with categorizing the helmet cam item as any of these is that it will be automatically swapped with whatever was in that slot before, whenever the selection is done with a right-click from the inventory. Of course the user can then manually move the helmet cam back to the general inventory and re-add the item that previously occupied that slot. Categorizing it as night vision might be a good middle-ground since at the moment the helmet cam is near-useless at night and a lot of people seem to elect to not wearing night-vision gear during daytime operations. On the other hand I am not sure if the inherited night-vision capability can be disabled (you don't want someone with just a helmet-cam to be able to press "n" and get night-vision just as if he had proper night-vision gear). Something to look into.

nsgundy commented 9 years ago

Tried to create an Arsenal selectable NVG item without the actual NVG capabilities, but wasn't able to.

Ended up changing to glasses.

BryanBoru commented 9 years ago

Having the HelmetCam no longer replace equipped items was something most of my unit was begging for. I am having a hard time seeing how making them categorized as NVGs (or glasses) is a good thing if they end up replacing your current items when you take one from Arsenal. Can they not be categorized as just an Item? Similar to how the mine detector is neither a magazine or a slotted item? I lack specific knowledge on configs for Items in particular so I am ignorant to the answer.

nsgundy commented 9 years ago

Hi @BryanBoru, thanks for joining the discussion. To my knowledge (and granted, that's quite limited), there is no "just item" category that will show up in Arsenal. Mine detectors and medi-packs are for example specific item categories that will show up in Arsenal, but also have a function attached to them. So if the HelmetCam item was categorized as a mine detector, you would get warnings about mines in your proximity as well. I would gladly be proven wrong here.

BryanBoru commented 9 years ago

thanks for the reply @nsgundy Yeah I had looked into some of the configs and found the same issues you replied with. Only other possibility is going the route AGM went it their items, but then the arsenal VAS etc will require special configs to slot the cam into items. Probably more trouble than its worth. In the end, I'd rather it recognized as glasses, as I wouldnt be too frustrated with ending up out in the field without glasses compared to the other slotted items like radios and such.

nsgundy commented 9 years ago

Thanks @BryanBoru, I will leave it as glasses for the next update then to see how the community reacts to the change.