Deployable Cameras

0.2.0

TABLET
- The feed now shows on the tablet's screen in your hands; full screen is still a setting. Right mouse button brings the tablet up close, Alt looks around.
- New tablet: level (landscape), smaller (8-inch rugged, 0.6 kg), held properly with your weapon in the other hand, matte screen, plain military back.
- Its screen is dark when put away and lights up in your hands; other players see a camera picture on it.
- In a vehicle the tablet key opens the feed full screen. Going prone, the tablet and its feed come back by themselves.
- Picking up a tablet puts it in your inventory; it no longer opens by itself.

CAMERA
- New model: a dusty glass dome on a moulded mount with a microphone grille. Lighter to draw.
- Shot, the dome shatters and shows the mechanism inside; the wreck cannot be picked up and is cleaned up after two minutes.
- The status LED and the infrared light are gone; night vision brightens the picture by automatic gain alone.
- Taking a camera from the ground in your hands no longer drops your hand grenade: it goes into your backpack or vest.

FEED
- Settings in the feed (O) and in a new tab Settings > Cameras: picture quality, frame rate, view distance (250 to 2000 m), show the feed, look speed, inverted look, key legend. The quality key Q is gone.
- Defaults: high quality, 24 fps, 1000 m. The tablet always shows the sharpest picture.
- Full screen, the game runs at the feed's frame rate and your own limit comes back when you close it. The fps counter stays readable.
- Soldiers and vehicles around a camera are shown complete up to your view distance (at most 750 m, was 350 m), up to 64 at a time.
- You see your own head when a camera films you. The key legend shows only the main keys.
- Voice at the camera (experimental, off by default): hear players talking near the camera.

MISSION MAKERS
- A settings component for the game mode, cameras that hang in the world from the start, and shared tablet networks.

FIXES
- Error when a tablet was deleted while its feed was open (Game Master); missing font in the settings panel; frame rate limit that could stay after a crash; a shot camera that could be taken from the inventory; "Link to my camera tablet" that could unlink a camera; a late reply that closed a feed just opened; closing the feed switched on controls that something else had switched off.
- Better inventory and arsenal pictures of camera and tablet.

0.1.4

- Fixed: placed cameras disappeared after about five minutes.
- Film grain now stays visible on high and ultra picture quality (it was too fine to see at full resolution).
- The red status LED is smaller and only visible from close by.
- Description: cameras work on vehicles, plus a list of distances.

0.1.3

- A camera far away from you now shows a sharp picture: no more blotchy leaves and flickering trees.
- Picture quality setting (Q in the feed): low, medium, high, ultra. Low is the default.
- Lighter on the frame rate while a feed is open.
- While a feed is open you hear the surroundings of the camera.

0.1.2

- New screenshots

0.1.1

- Much lighter on the frame rate while a feed is open.
- The tablet is now held in front of the chest with the screen towards the face, instead of next to the head.

0.1.0