#Television Everon - TVE

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placid folio
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"TVE" 'Television Everon - Pro vás, pro Everon' (For You, for Everon) is the idea to make a professional Branch for the Civillian Faction as Journalists.
The Mod should contain a few Entities and Assets which resemble the professional work environment of News gathering / Broadcast Teams and freelancers in the same timeframe as Arma Reforger is set, around 1989.
Mainly a Camcorder based on the SONY BVP-300 series, a 2KW Light on a tripod for setting up a scene (interviews),
a Helmet and a vest with PRESS written on it, and one or two vehicles with the 'TVE' Logo on them.
Right now it is sadly more of a concept than a working mod, as I have hit some sort of Wall in my abilities to make
progress in creating the assets and functions.

So I use the Showroom as a call for Help.
If anyone here likes the idea and wants to assist I would be more than greatful.
I am not intending to get much credit as ideas are cheap and plenty, but having the ability to play in my beloved
Arma universe as a civilian with a purpose would be great.
Also I think this is good time and place, to underline the importance of a free press and media coverage of conflicts.

I am in my late 50s now and have worked as a cameraman since the 90s for several news stations and film productions.
So I gathered some sort of knowldge how stuff has worked then and to a degree now.
Since 14 years I did mostly 3D animations for TV productions and others, so I have a bit of knowlede in building the models and the 2KW light is almost finished.

Since Operation Flashpoint I loved the Arma series, and it would make me proud to be part of a new Aspect of that game.

My Discord-Fu is not too great, so please excuse me, if I am posting something in a wrong format or Channel.
I am very open to corrections.

So in short: Welcome all to Television Everon, hope You like it, and please if someone could help, dm me and join the adventure. 🙂

"TVE" 'Television Everon - Pro vás, pro Everon'
https://discord.gg/JUQEFSfq8u

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rigid hemlock
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This is going to be awesome if you get it off of the ground

placid folio
rigid hemlock
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Once this mod releases then it'll be great for my group. We're a PMC and they seem to have a warcrime problem so this should hopefully keep that down

hardy olive
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this is gonna be great for machinimas, watching this with the best of luck to you

placid folio
tranquil quarry
flat gazelle
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Great idea!

proud smelt
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I would love this

flat gazelle
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I imagine you already had the idea, but making the camera a weapon with a variable zoom scope means people can screen capture when aiming and have it simulate a lens. 🙂

Could also make it reload just purely for a roleplay tape changing purpose.

I noticed you're an animator so Im sure you have that all covered but Im happy to lend a hand when time permits! Ive done a fair bit of animating for Reforger now!

placid folio
# flat gazelle I imagine you already had the idea, but making the camera a weapon with a variab...

Yes, exactly this. Also there is a rough image for the viewfinder (rightclick viewmode). I can invite You to the TVE channel if You like, where I have posted a couple of ideas I already had. Although You just posted quite some of them 😉 The Viewfinder image back then was terrible. It has all the interlaced lines in it and it was also black and white, with very low detail. For finding the focus, there was a edge enhancement finction, that kind of helped. But for gaming purposes ther should be the option to disable the Viewfinder, maybe with the aiming switch in the vanilla game, where You can either look through the scope or the iron sights of a weapon. (Control rightclick until the last update)

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flat gazelle
placid folio
gloomy totem
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I absolutely love it, we need more unconventional ideas like this in the modding scene. the animated intro captures the zeitgeist perfectly, you should team up with someone doing cinematics in reforger and make a longer version, with actual ingame news-like footage using your mod. trailers for other mods in this convention would be also interesting.

I'm busy with my own projects, but give me a shout should you need help or advice with scripting in enfusion.

placid folio
gloomy totem
placid folio
quartz nimbus
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well done mate i salute you fantastic vision/idea from many months ago to here today may it continue to grow and evolve even further as Enfusion moves forward 👏 👊 👍

placid folio
small ginkgo
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@forest heath journalism mod!

forest heath
crisp mortar
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Very much looking forward to this. 🍻

placid folio
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Creating the fine mesh of the camcorder right now. Cheers all!

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Well actually its the Low Res Mesh... 😉

placid folio
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Short update of the moddeling progress. More info on the channel. Cheers all🤙

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untold bluff
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Any discord server for this mod?

sleek timber
placid folio
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Most of the Main Body shapes are done. Still lot of work ahead, but it starts to look like an 1989 Camcorder. Cheers all and have a good night.

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tranquil quarry
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Beautiful

placid folio
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Three new parts of the Camera body are done modelling. The microphone, the handle and the shoulder pad. Hope You like it, thanks and cheers all😃 🤙
(edited one stupid typo)

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small ginkgo
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The shoulder plate is called a VCT plate. Broadcast tripods and pedestals use VCT locking system, should you want to model the whole plate or the camera on the tripod as a prop

placid folio
# small ginkgo The shoulder plate is called a VCT plate. Broadcast tripods and pedestals use VC...

Hey Nucleus. Sorry, kind of missed Your post. Discord is not my strong side. Thanks for the Terminology info. That helps when naming all the objects. Having the camera also as prop is a nice idea. For the start I keep finishing the modelling of the camcorder. But as soon as the core stuff in this mod is working, I really like to make also a tripod. Especially because I still have an old ENG tripod from my active time at home, that I can use as reference. 👍

small ginkgo
# placid folio

Ooooh Sachtler!

Good tripods, Vinten is good for studio setups

placid folio
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@small ginkgo Yes. It is pretty old but still works fine. I did a Lidar scan from it, that I might use for moddeling. I might upload the OBJ file here later.

humble trench
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This is going to be awesome paired with my SCP horror server lol

placid folio
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Whoever wants to know more of the progress and ideas, that go into this project ,feel free to join the "TVE"-Channel. Invitation is up here on the first posting of this thread. Have a good time all and See You. 👋 😃

latent sail
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I wonder if we would be able to take whatever is being filmed and have it beam to the TVs on some of the maps I play on.

placid folio
# latent sail I wonder if we would be able to take whatever is being filmed and have it beam t...

Hi spookyfckr, That would be really cool, but I guess that is far out of my reach. If it is even possible. I am not shure if the engine is capable of that, but some research into that topic should be worthwhile. But to be honest my aproach to this project is babystep by babystep and if I knew about the complexity of modding when I started, I might not have dared to. But am am still happy to work on it, please don't get me wrong. But still, cool Idea and I am always happy to hear from others what stuff they come up with in this context. 👍

latent sail
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I get you, it's taken me a few days just to script some simple particle effects

placid folio
faint wyvern
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yo hows the mod goin? it seems super promising, if you have an invite i'd love to see the server

proud smelt