Detect if a unit is using NVG

[Florklin 10]

The original night vision is crystal clear, and i want it a bit... dirtier. I achieved this with a subtle filmgrain and radialblur effect. The problem is that i don´t know how to disable the effect when you don´t wear the nvg, and it looks horrible when you see the world like through an old TV. I know how to detect if the player has nvg or not, but not if he´s using it.

Please, excuse my ignorance, i´ve searched, i´ve read a lot of threads... but i´m stuck.

I´d appreciate any help.

[st_dux 26]

Unfortunately, I don't believe there is a way to do this outside of VBS2.

[CarlGustaffa 4]

You can try the new command currentVisionMode (not on biki). Not sure what it does and unable to test right now.

Ref: http://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Master85's_Sandbox#New_Commands

[cobra4v320 27]

The new command returns true or false

[Florklin 10]

Maybe i can force the player to wear nvg with a loop, but that´s a nasty trick.

[CarlGustaffa 4]

So ppEffectDestroy doesn't work? I've only dealt with constantly adjusting the effect using ppEffectAdjust though.

[Florklin 10]

ppEffectDestroy works fine, but i don´t know how to detect if the nvg are on or off to create or destroy the effect.

[CarlGustaffa 4]

The new currentVisionMode does not give me true or false, but the, well, vision mode. Try this in a true trigger:

nul = [] spawn {while {true} do {sleep 0.3; hint str currentVisionMode player}}

Maybe the command is updated with the betas? I don't know.

[cobra4v320 27]

Maybe I was looking at it wrong it returned the values of 0 and 1 when wearing the nvg's.

[CarlGustaffa 4]

It gave me 1 when nvg was activated, 0 on normal vision (and I expect 2 on TI if I had that).

[kylania 568]

It gave me 1 when nvg was activated, 0 on normal vision (and I expect 2 on TI if I had that).

It does indeed. 0 = normal, 1 = NVG and 2 = TI (WH or BH). Works as a vehicle gunner as well.