Feasability study gasmaks, wp, smoke, spotlights

[OxPecker]

OK, I have no addonmaking skills, so I will put up these ideas and you tell me if they are possible with the tools at hand -

1. Gas masks/oxygen masks (for jet pilots, NBC teams etc.), that can be put on and taken off either via an animation or by the same means as NV goggles. If it can be done like NV goggles, you could evern superimpose a new perspective on the player as though he were looking out through the mask (like an optics view).

2. White Phosphorous (willie peter) grenades. A grenade that explodes creating a cloud of white smoke (instant, not like the gradual release from smoke grandes) but also causes shrapnel/incendiary damage.

3. Smoke launchers on vehicles. I believe AKM74 has done this with his BMD, so does this mean all new usermade vehicle with smoke launchers could now have them? How about adding them to exisiting vehicles by scripts?

4. Aimable searchlights (someone else posted this one, can remember who, so I'm not intentionally ripping you off). Like a floodlight or searchlight you could aim, as a static object or maybe on a vehicle. by aim I mean in 3 dimensions, not just swing around like an M2 mg.

[mattmayhem]

Whille Pete would be awesome, Im not sure if it is possible and if it is it would probably just be a script, I don't think we can make new explosions?

[OxPecker]

Maybe just a combination of the existing explosion and camcreate a smoke cloud of about the right size?

[chaztheducky]

the thing that relly cought my eye was the gas mask\o2 masks. those would be awseme

[Melkor]

Gas masks....I'll give it a try

[Kegetys]

What good would a gasmask do when there is no gas?

[Melkor]

It wouldn't be too hard, I could modify that burnfire addon to make smoke instead of fire

[jacobaby]

I am planning to do a WP (white Phosphour) grenade/artillery shell script, or at least look into it.

For those that dont know WP sticks to objects and burns through them. Maybe difficult to simulate properly, but as WP is such a major part of arty and personal kit I think It should be attempted.

If anybody from the Falklands mod is listening, the commandos used WP grenades decisively in their push to Goose Green, especially against the machine gun posts on Darwin Hill, and in the final assault, where the arty was a major factor in demoralising the Argies in Stanley.

I already have a simple script for improving explosions (see my post "Does my bomb look big in this") and I have found a few new tricks which may prove helpful with WP.
Let me know if you are interested, maybe we can work something out.

TJ

[Gollum1]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Kegetys @ Jan. 31 2003,07:54)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">What good would a gasmask do when there is no gas? [/QUOTE]<span id='postcolor'>
Exactly.

[vektorboson]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Kegetys @ Jan. 31 2003,06:54)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">What good would a gasmask do when there is no gas? [/QUOTE]<span id='postcolor'>
Let&#39;s make some gas