People request compatibility a lot and it absolutely makes sense. I'd like to support everything but of course I also have to remain reasonable about it. There's so many mods and there's a lot of requests - then also adding more and more to the base mod will just keep increasing the size of it, size of the memory and calculations used to determine important pieces of it, etc. - and then there's also the concern of constant updates and server administrators hating me for it. And, not to mention the fact that it also takes me time to sort these things out.

I might be making the compatibility mods its own separate mod on the workshop just to keep things cleaner - let me know what you think about it!

Regardless, if my mod doesn't support the NVGs/attachments you'd like to use, you're not doomed just yet! Here are your options:


That's easy. When you create a mission in the mission editor, just go to its folder wherever it's saved and create a file called initPlayerLocal.sqf - it runs for every player locally at the game start (more or less) so it's a perfect place for us to extend the config.
There are variables that store important information in arrays. For weapon attachments it's BettIR_compatibleAttachments and BettIR_compatibleAttachmentsOffsets. The former is an array of the classnames of weapon attachments that are compatible with BettIR. The latter contains the offsets (where the lightsource should be relative to the weapon proxy) for these attachments. The rule of the game is to make sure that both these arrays are the same length. If you don't know what the offset should be, don't stress; it's an approximate position, and you can probably just copy one of the existing values in that array anyways.
The above applies for the NVG's too - there are variables called BettIR_compatibleNVGs and BettIR_compatibleNVGsOffsets which do the same thing.

So your initPlayerLocal.sqf could look like this:


If you put it in a mission, all your players should be able to use your custom mod items with BettIR just like anything else.

This is obviously just an easy and temporary solution, in case you'd like to have it available ASAP


You can either encourage your modmaker to make their items compatible with BettIR or make the compatibility mod on your own. The config is awfully simple, there's more information in the mod description. Just bear in mind that the compatibility API will change at some point soon to accommodate a lot more detail, realism and precision in the mod. That will come later though and I'll try to do my best to notify all modmakers about the big change when it comes.