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MS_IFF_Strobe

This is my Multispectral (MS) IFF strobe - it strobes in Thermal (MWIR - Medium Wave IR) and Nightvision (NIR - Near IR). My intent is to emulate real-life multispectral strobes such as the offerings from Steiner and Wilcox Industries.

The strobe shows up in inventory as a grenade with the name of "MS IFF Strobe".

This addon no longer requires ACE3. The strobe can be thrown or used with the ACE Attach system.

This strobe will last for 5 hours before the battery dies.

This also modifies the vanilla IR strobes (IR Grenade) to be lighter and last 5 hours instead of 5 minutes.

The effects are built into the configuration files of the model so they *should* have better performance than script based solutions.

If you'd like to use any part of this mod for your own work please contact me on Steam or the BIs forums - I'd love for a better coder to make this better (hint hint ACE Team).

You MAY use this addon as part of an addon package. You MAY also pull out the .pbo files and include them in your own addon.


PLEASE: if you rate this item negatively, leave a comment so I know what to fix.



For comments/requests/questions please follow the link below to the BIS forum.

BIS Forum: https://forums.bohemia.net/forums/topic/219911-thermal-lwirmultispectral-iff-strobe/
GitHub: https://github.com/FatLurch/MSS_IFF

Please Rate! Thanks

KNOWN ISSUES:
-The Thermal effect doesn't seem to "stick" to the strobes if they're moving fast
-The thermal flash shape is a bit ugly - I plan on trying to come up with a nice round circular flash
-The effect of the -2 strobe lags behind moving objects. This strobe is best for marking static items
-ARMA2 trees seem to be able to knock the strobe off - Fixed

TO DO:
-Reduce weight of strobe - Done
-Remove ACE as a requirement while maintaining compatibility - Done
-Create new item instead of overwriting vanilla IR grenade - Done
-Add Multiple flash patterns - Done
-Update NIR strobe pattern to match the MWIR pattern - This appears to be an engine limit
-Configuration screen for strobes? I'd love some help on this - On hold until I find a way to make the NIR flash match the MWIR

Credits:
-Bohemia Interactive Studios for the vanilla ARMA 3 content
-The ACE3 team for their awesome work
-super-truite and his awesome Particle Editor addon
-SzwedzikPL for sharing his script-based solution on ACE3 GitHub