Has anyone made or started making a FOW mod?
Like this sorta.
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this would be awesome, I know data's putting in a fog of war thingy in B24 but it won't be like this.

Of course in the game the darker part would be black.
I'm going to try to make an actor that has this, not lua though.

You might have some trouble if you're trying to do it entirely in .ini. Also, seeing as the actors are all interlinked, wouldn't it make sense to have shared line of sight?

What?

What i'll do is make an actor's head with a Big 'Black part' that is hitsMOs = 0 and getshitbyMOs = 0.
It Will LaG.

So it's more a set of blinkers than a field of view. Fair enough.

if you don't do it in lua you'll be able to see through walls..

It'll still hit terrain.

You will have to make it an attached emitter, emitting the big black thing.
A screen effect will work better, I think.

I figured the big black thing was an attachable, at which point it wouldn't lag but would be just blinkers, but whatever if you want to prove me wrong go and do it but I don't think you're going to be able to is all.

Pretty sure fog of war is planned for the next build, or at least I remember murmurings to that effect in the past.

You are a brain in a jar, and commanding cloned super-soldiers remotely.
How much harder is it to add really good scanning to that? I can understand not seeing into terrain very far, but anything in the open could be detected with what I like to call "future technology." Presumably this technology is less complicated than interstellar travel, cheap and abundant fuel, and computation in excess of a human mind in a jar no larger than a brain.
Not to mention super weapons and spontaneous creation of material, or limitless ammunition.

The tech needed to mesh together multiple vision sources exists, and is not magic. The technology to scan through even pretty dense material exists too.
That said, your mockup looks really nice.

Well. There's a whole variety of ways things could go. I mean, you can pretty easily canonically explain either direction - sure, satellites and mobilized sensor packages could easily blanket terrain, but in a futuristic war in space with multiple parties as depicted in CC, you could easily explain that, say, Tradestar wants to retain their monopoly on space travel, and shoots down other satellites. Or there's jammers to counter the active scanners you could embed in each clone/robot. Who knows.

It also opens up the fun possibility of buying scanner modules and the like. Gameplay > Realism etc.

No tested, and, it worked.

Okey dokey. All the best to you then.

Update, woot woot, I did the thingy, and made an actor with FOW, it lags badly and looks like **** but it works, yay.

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