nvg

[north ibex]

Nice, can you please explain, how you applied effect to camera?

[static solar]

big interest in this too, I didn't see a way to write shaders

[north ibex]

it is hdr that used for scopes

he probably used the way i explained few days earlier

im just wondering how he applied it to camera

probably same way like filters on armavision

[lusty zephyr]

I coded it, but I'm not at my pc, the gist of it is that you can load up to 20 materials into a camera stack

[ComponentEditorProps(category: "BEAR/Components", description: "Enables Night Vision", color: "0 0 255 255")]
class BEAR_NightVisionComponentClass: ScriptComponentClass
{
};

/// This component enables it's object to be a light. Simply call SetLightEnabled(true/false);
class BEAR_NightVisionComponent: ScriptComponent
{
    [Attribute("1", UIWidgets.ComboBox, "Description", "", ParamEnumArray.FromEnum(PostProcessEffectType) )]
    PostProcessEffectType ppType;
    
    private bool _isOn;
    
    // We need the OnPostInit and EOnInit for the EOnFrame to be called.
    protected override void OnPostInit(IEntity owner)
    {
        super.OnPostInit(owner);
        SetEventMask(owner, EntityEvent.INIT);
    }
    protected override void EOnInit(IEntity owner)
    {
        GetGame().GetInputManager().AddActionListener("NightVision", EActionTrigger.DOWN, KeybindPressed);
    }
    
    private void KeybindPressed()
    {
        BaseWorld world = GetGame().GetWorld();
        int camId = world.GetCurrentCameraId();
        
        _isOn = !_isOn;
        Print(_isOn);
        
        if(_isOn) world.SetCameraPostProcessEffect(camId, 19, ppType, "{B36B9019D49FC083}Assets/NightVision.emat");
        else world.SetCameraPostProcessEffect(camId, 19, PostProcessEffectType.None, "");
    }
}

[north ibex]

yea, i know that is possible to stack more then 1 effect using custom script

just asking how to apply it on player camera

oh

thanks!

[lusty zephyr]

That's the basic idea. We're working on a framework kinda mod that will make it super easy to put it into your mod as a dependency, just like my laser pointer! :)

That way, you will just have to open your Night Vision goggles prefab and add our component that you load as a dependency!

[north ibex]

nice

[static solar]

any clue how to implement it with an actual wearable? would that be for example a helmet type item with a NV toggle?

[lusty zephyr]

@slender jacinth is working on that like a champ afaik

There's a few challenges like

• how do you move the nvg's down physically
• How does the component notice that
• How do you network this correctly
• How do you attach a nvg to a helmet, so that it is removeable like an attachment on a gun
• How do you network all of this correctly

[lusty zephyr]

@cedar arrow That's an idea greg also had, but there's some challenges

[static solar]

network doesnt matter outside of the item itself since all the fx can be local

but im not sure this approach will work with AI

[slender jacinth]

network matters for anim and script actions

[sour lagoon]

That's awesome... we also need one of these https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_0s06ORTkY

[slender jacinth]

after nvg of course thermal vision lol

[north ibex]

dont think it is prossible in reforger

at least "true" thermal

where you get temperature of objects

[slender jacinth]

Don’t know

[lusty zephyr]

not yet, but if I were to get my hands on full shader coding and shader parameter setting via scripting, I could code it

[north ibex]

where you will get temperature value for objects?

by collider type?

sounds like easiest way for me

metal -> cold
plastic -> neutral
body->hot

[lusty zephyr]

You read the metallic, smoothness and such of the material. Then you also make custom heatmap textures for specific stuff like vehicles

[north ibex]

new heatmap can work for new assets

but not for existing ones

[lusty zephyr]

But I'm not sure, I've never done this. xD

[north ibex]

also, reading metallness smoothness etc sounds like very unoptimised way

adding heat value to colliders sounds like easiest and optimised way

BUT

im not sure if you can read colliders from shader

[lusty zephyr]

you'd pass them into the shader via scripting

[north ibex]

then it will work