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Laser pointer beam is invisible if object view distance lower 526 meters and player direct laser to the air
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Description

If player has an object view distance less than 526m the beam from laser pointer will be invisible if aim to the air
Other players will see your laser (most likely while have a longer object view distance)

checked on stable and prof/dev

If you aim at the land, sea, or an any object the laser will appear

↓ 526 meters of object view distance


↓ 525 m

Details

Severity
Minor
Resolution
Open
Reproducibility
Always
Operating System
Windows 11 x64
Operating System Version
22H2
Category
Other
Steps To Reproduce
  1. create a night mission, add player with laser poiter on weapon and NVG
  2. start mission
  3. look weapon to the air
  4. enable IR laser and NVG
  5. exec setObjectViewDistance [526,50]

→ make sure that you can see beam

  1. exec setObjectViewDistance [525,50]

→ you can not see the beam

Event Timeline

TRAGER created this task.Jun 1 2023, 12:18 PM
honger added a subscriber: honger.Jun 1 2023, 12:44 PM
TRAGER updated the task description. (Show Details)Jan 24 2024, 8:39 AM
dedmen added a subscriber: dedmen.Jan 24 2024, 5:22 PM

That is because view distance is based on the center of the object. And the beams center is in its center, so far away.
Though max beam length is 1000m, so it really should be 500m.

Just up your view distance please 🤗