Vehicle Cover

[ididi9 (DayZ) 53]

Vehicles are too hard to hide, maybe some Ghillie Suit type camouflage for cars to put over them would help hide them.

[rossums 2190]

Vehicles are easy enough to hide, the trees are the problem.

The trees will most likely be fixed in standalone so choppers can't see through them - other than that they are easy as hell to hide.

[hazzathealmighty 51]

Vehicles are easy enough to hide, the trees are the problem.

The trees will most likely be fixed in standalone so choppers can't see through them - other than that they are easy as hell to hide.

I remember flying around in a little bird on Panthera the other day, spotting a bunch of camps in heavily forested areas, just way to easy to spot.

[St. Jimmy 1631]

I remember flying around in a little bird on Panthera the other day, spotting a bunch of camps in heavily forested areas, just way to easy to spot.

This could be avoided a bit at least in Chernarus if server could force everyone's AA on low and ATOC on all. Go and see in the editor how big difference that do (or maybe I'll put couple screenshots in a few minutes). The bad thing about this is that it eats little bit your gfx card.

///Ok here we go.

Here you can see graphics options for AA disabled so ATOC doesn't work then either.

Watching front

Under low altitude

Under high altitude

Here you can see graphics options for AA low and ATOC on all trees and grass.

Wathing front

Under low altitude

Under high altitude

Sorry that there isn't any object drawn under me but I tested before how high altitude some wreck was drawn and it was about 500m-600m when not zoomed in.

Edited December 27, 2012 by St. Jimmy

[Very Ape 748]

When parked in a wooded area you should have the option to scroll down and select "hide vehicle", which would have your survivor place a few pine branches and such on top of the vehicle, partially camouflaging it. It'd be very quick, and only give a slight bonus, but would save that much more trouble from helicopter crews and footmen alike.

[rossums 2190]

I remember flying around in a little bird on Panthera the other day, spotting a bunch of camps in heavily forested areas, just way to easy to spot.

If you read what I posted, the trees are the problem.

There is a bug with the tree rendering when you are in the air, they are too easy to see through and sometimes don't even render at all - this will be fixed in the standalone.

That is the only reason it's so easy to see from the sky, the trees don't properly appear.

They will have to force a certain global render distance and make sure all the trees are properly rendered too.

[Ratsmon 131]

It easy to hide your cars in towns but let's face it, nobody wants to camp where zombies and bandits run around, so yeah a vehicle camo would apply pretty nice in my opinion.

[Bearded McGee 121]

Ah, I thought you meant using vehicle as cover during a firefight...

Well, if they had not the absolute propensity to blow up after a few makarov rounds, it would be nice.

About your topic, I'd welcome some sort of overhead netting.

Terrain in Arma 2/DayZ is really lacking though. Deep valleys, cliffsides, plateaus, ravines and windings are never implemented anywhere.

Panthera and Taviana have some too-steep hills but still, everything follow a smooth terrain line. Too bubbly, not blocky enough.

it makes hiding material harder.

[enforcer1975 1111]

Problem is the LOD at distances...i can run though the forest just fine and nobody can see me provided he is also in the forest and quite close. If however the person is at least 100m outside he can see a brown surface with some idiot running between the trees pretending to be invisible...same with the vehicles, even a green brownish vehicle or a camo tent that is supposed to conceal something sticks out like a sore thumb...and of course thanks to most servers running on noob mode you can see those funny dots on the edge of your screen which totally NOT give away things you wouldn't have seen at all... These dots only disappear on expert servers btw...at least with one of the settings in expert mode which you will never find in the other setup unless you copy paste it yourself.

Edited December 27, 2012 by Enforcer

[babydoc (DayZ) 96]

When parked in a wooded area you should have the option to scroll down and select "hide vehicle", which would have your survivor place a few pine branches and such on top of the vehicle, partially camouflaging it. It'd be very quick, and only give a slight bonus, but would save that much more trouble from helicopter crews and footmen alike.

I like this idea very much.

[ididi9 (DayZ) 53]

There could be different ones, Like a Desert Camo Cover, Woodland, etc