Adding IR optics camera / laser designator to LittleBird

[adanteh 58]

Hello everyone, I was wondering if it's possible to add a optics / camera like the one of the Strider Commander turret to random vehicles? In this case I want to add an IR Camera to a littlebird. I'm guessing its impossible to just take the turret of the strider and put it on the littlebird, but is there any way to create something similar?

I currently added a camera to where you can put the IR cam, And used the PiP function to display it on the screen of the littlebird.

this animate ["AddScreen1", 1]; 
this animate ["AddHoldingFrame", 1]; 
this animate ["AddFLIR", 1];

I was wondering if it's possible when you're looking at the screen as co-pilot and right click you get the camera view instead and you're able to move the camera around like you normally would. Adding a laser designator to it would be the best.

[adanteh 58]

Anyone? I did manage to at least include a simple camera (Created event handlers for WASD and attached those to the animationPhase of the FLIR). I then attached the camera to the FLIR, but that's far from optimal. I can control the camera just fine when I'm standing still, but as soon as I start flying the view starts drifting. I'm guessing there's something with attachTo that doesn't really work well. I can't figure out how to use modelToWorld and so properly either to create a decent target based on where the FLIR is looking and then set the target for the camera to that point.

Anyway, I feel like I'm doing something that makes absolutely no sense with this, so if anyone has recommendations on how to make a decent IR camera for the co-pilot seat I'd love to know.

[Tajin 349]

An easy solution would be to attach an invisible proxy-object to the chopper and use that as camera-target.

If you need some example code to look at, check out how I did it for my helmetcam:

http://www.armaholic.com/page.php?id=19614 (it's a bit outdated, I haven't gotten around updating it yet)

In that case the camera is attached to the head of a soldier but the basic mechanics should be the same.

Using proxies makes it alot easier to rotate the camera.

_proxy = "Sign_Sphere10cm_F" createVehicleLocal position player;

hideObject _proxy;

^-- Attach that to your chopper, position it and use it as camtarget.