|
Senior Member
Lone Wolf Staff
Join Date: May 2005
Posts: 13,217
June 5th, 2013, 02:54 PM
|
We've just gotten our answer:
Quote:
-- Can a camera or microphone that is installed as a modification of something else, like in a sensor package or a gunsight, have modifications of its own?
The Sensor capacity of a camera is listed as 1-6/[1]. We read this as 1-6 OR [1], meaning that the installed camera has no capacity of its own. A handheld camera, on the other hand, has a capacity of 1-6 (capacity = rating), but cannot be installed in other things. On the other side of this, Arsenal pg. 105, in the Vehicle Sensors section, seems to be implying that the cameras installed in the sensor packages on a vehicle can be modified:
"Likewise, cameras and microphones may come equipped with additional video or audio enhancements (see pp. 323-324, SR 4)."
What seems odd about adding modifications to something that is itself a modification is that it seems to allow you to exceed the space in a sensor package. An RFID sensor, with a capacity of 1, can take either a camera, thermographic vision enhancement, or flare compensation, but if the thermographic and flare compensation are installed into a rating 2 camera, now all three of those enhancements can fit inside the same sensor package.
On the other hand, for a microdrone that only has a micro sensor package, the capacity 1 of that package would only let you install one type of sensor - visual, audio, etc., though it seems that in order to be useful, a microdrone designed for reconnaissance would need at least visual sensors for its autopilot to reach the target, and then audio sensors to record what happens there. Without the option to install the audio in the camera, the drone can't fit all the sensors it needs into the normal sensor package for that size of drone.
Any help or guidance you can provide related to the above would be much appreciated.
JMH: That indeed is a puzzle! But the phrasing of the Arsenal text makes it sound like yes, you can get additional sensor slots by installing things that have sensors already installed on them, so that's the interpretation I'm going to have to go with.
|
I'll get this implemented soon.
|
#11
|
|
#12
Linear Mode
