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Thermal will not pass glass
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Description

When I played KotH and reached level 10, I can took a designator with a thermal mode (green). Looked from a building trough a undamaged window. I only saw a green color. I had WTF moment, then I breaked the glass pane and looked again, now working.

Details

Legacy ID
3706442669
Severity
None
Resolution
No Bug
Reproducibility
Always
Category
Gameplay
Steps To Reproduce
  1. Join a KotH server
  2. Take the designator
  3. Switch to termal
  4. Go into a building
  5. Look trough a ungamaged window
  6. See
  7. Break the window
  8. Look again

Event Timeline

Bohemia edited Steps To Reproduce. (Show Details)Jun 20 2014, 9:56 AM
Bohemia edited Additional Information. (Show Details)
Bohemia set Category to Gameplay.
Bohemia set Reproducibility to Always.
Bohemia set Severity to None.
Bohemia set Resolution to No Bug.
Bohemia set Legacy ID to 3706442669.May 7 2016, 6:47 PM

This is intentional. Thermal optics cannot see through glass in real life. This is because glass is an insulator (and therefore why all the heat in your house doesn't instantly go rushing out through the glass pane). Because the heat is masked, the optic will not pick anything up (or if anything, extremely faint shapes if viewing though very thin panes of glass).

As the_Demongod says above, you cannot see with thermal sight through glass in real life either. Closing as no bug.