#arma3_model | ARMA | Page 10

amber swift Apr 1, 2023, 9:22 AM

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oh i see, how do i make the smoke come out of the muzzle, right now its coming out of a random point in the middle of the vehicle, i dont understand why

marsh canyon Apr 1, 2023, 10:01 AM

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It is defined in both mem point and config

amber swift Apr 1, 2023, 10:07 AM

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are the default memory points usti hlavne and konec hlavne or is there another for the smoke?

marsh canyon Apr 1, 2023, 10:10 AM

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Can't remember Czech rn, but you can check them in the Samples

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Also middle of the vehicle you mean is the default pos (aka 0,0,0) of it, because it is defined nowhere

amber swift Apr 1, 2023, 10:15 AM

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oh ok, so theres probably a missing mem point or no reference in config

marsh canyon Apr 1, 2023, 10:15 AM

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That's the typical reason

amber swift Apr 1, 2023, 10:16 AM

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in the config, is it this line that creates the smoke animations : selectionFireAnim =

marsh canyon Apr 1, 2023, 10:17 AM

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Can't tell rn but you can check this?
https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/CfgWeapons_Config_Reference
Or CfgVehicles equivalent article

CfgWeapons Config Reference

amber swift Apr 1, 2023, 10:18 AM

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ok thanks

white jay Apr 1, 2023, 12:18 PM

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Some one has a tip for this part because a dont know how to duplicate then and put into the base

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kind nacelle Apr 1, 2023, 12:34 PM

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white jay Some one has a tip for this part because a dont know how to duplicate then and p...

white jay Apr 1, 2023, 12:36 PM

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I dont really understand

kind nacelle Apr 1, 2023, 12:36 PM

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work on the main shape first

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also i think i misunderstood your problem

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so i would just add a loopcut down the middle first

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copy and separate that

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convert to curve

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normalise the curve handles

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then do the ribbing as an array and use a curve modifier to array it along the grip

white jay Apr 1, 2023, 12:38 PM

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kind nacelle also i think i misunderstood your problem

im ssry. What i mean is how can i do this thing and duplicate then in the base of the grip

kind nacelle Apr 1, 2023, 12:39 PM

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kind nacelle so i would just add a loopcut down the middle first

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white jay Apr 1, 2023, 12:39 PM

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what is a loopcut

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haaha

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im new at this. Sorry in advance

kind nacelle Apr 1, 2023, 12:46 PM

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id start with some more tutorials then

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also this is stuff you can just google "blender loopcut"

white jay Apr 1, 2023, 12:46 PM

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ok, thanks for the help

warm blade Apr 1, 2023, 1:13 PM

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@white jay https://youtu.be/FLnvwgoH8RA

YouTube

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i think this could help

white jay Apr 1, 2023, 1:22 PM

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warm blade <@456226577798135808> https://youtu.be/FLnvwgoH8RA

thank you

last spindle Oct 29, 2015, 6:14 AM

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Replying to the first new message and ignoring the many that followed, some CG porn .......
http://i.imgur.com/AlT5137.png

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Took about 10minutes............. and obv in Unity5

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This is 10 minutes to convert and import the Revit model..............many many hours spent creating the Revit Model :p

white jay Oct 29, 2015, 6:21 AM

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nice

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what is the building going to be?

last spindle Oct 29, 2015, 6:24 AM

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it is just a sample not something i could release, developing tools to quickly convert Revit exported models to Max files with Substance based PBR materials

white jay Oct 29, 2015, 6:26 AM

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i havent done graphics in years. im a coder myself, nice to see what the comunity is making though

hollow fulcrum Oct 29, 2015, 6:38 AM

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@last spindle 👍 nice building there. you should chop that up and put it in RV. :D

last spindle Oct 29, 2015, 6:40 AM

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hmmmm 300,000 atm lots of chopping

hollow fulcrum Oct 29, 2015, 6:43 AM

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oof, yeah that might be felt in an urban environment.

last spindle Oct 29, 2015, 6:44 AM

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it could be made to be like 100k easily, just have to remove all the slab penetrations and above ceiling crap, and then probably reduced to 30k if everything except the exterior was removed

hollow fulcrum Oct 29, 2015, 6:45 AM

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that would work.

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always wanted to do a small map with a large shopping mall or something. just for CQB foo.

last spindle Oct 29, 2015, 6:46 AM

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hmmmmm, it is actually a Primary School :p but interior could be modified to make what ever you want i guess

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but im going to stick to my Artillery Assets for the moment, not starting something that big with so much other big things in the works

hollow fulcrum Oct 29, 2015, 6:47 AM

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lol

last spindle Oct 29, 2015, 6:52 AM

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This is the next on my list https://www.orbitalatk.com/defense-systems/missile-products/epiafs/docs/EPIAFS Data Sheet Approved for Public Release (PAO 340-14) Jul 2014.pdf

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Hand Held Portable Induction Fuze Setter

hollow fulcrum Oct 29, 2015, 6:53 AM

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ha, nice!

last spindle Oct 29, 2015, 6:54 AM

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need the Platform Integration Kit (PIK) aswell so you can set the GPS fuze on the guided rounds, would be nice to have a custom ropeX between the two, but dont think that is possible????

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i think you mentioned once that it might be possible to have custom models for ropes? or was i dreaming?

hollow fulcrum Oct 29, 2015, 6:55 AM

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ermm.. you can actually model another rope.. but you are still limited to the technical details..

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might be easier to draw lines.. not sure.

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i have a thicker rope model for a fast roping rig i was building. that was a couple versions back. but i doubt anything has changed.

last spindle Oct 29, 2015, 6:57 AM

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how do you use it with createRope though?

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ropeCreate.... i mean

hollow fulcrum Oct 29, 2015, 6:58 AM

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not sure actually, i was just straight replacing the default rope model while tinkering.

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so it worked just fine.

last spindle Oct 29, 2015, 6:58 AM

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yeah so, if you did sling loading though, then you would get the massive rope for that aswell

shy kernel Apr 1, 2023, 9:49 PM

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i have an issue exporting a model into .p3d

muted tapir Apr 1, 2023, 9:50 PM

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what's the issue?

shy kernel Apr 1, 2023, 9:51 PM

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for some reason when i try to export it its like 0 kb

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last spindle Oct 29, 2015, 6:59 AM

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i don't think you can define a custom rope, it would be super nice if you could for lots of things

muted tapir Apr 1, 2023, 9:51 PM

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do you have faces with more than 4 corners?

shy kernel Apr 1, 2023, 9:52 PM

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this is the model im trying to export

muted tapir Apr 1, 2023, 9:53 PM

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can you show the wireframe?

shy kernel Apr 1, 2023, 9:53 PM

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where? im not really an expert in blender so sorry

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beginner

muted tapir Apr 1, 2023, 9:54 PM

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shy kernel Apr 1, 2023, 9:55 PM

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muted tapir Apr 1, 2023, 9:56 PM

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did you enable the arma properties?

stuck oyster Apr 1, 2023, 9:56 PM

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you have not set it with arma object properties

muted tapir Apr 1, 2023, 9:57 PM

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shy kernel Apr 1, 2023, 9:57 PM

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stuck oyster you have not set it with arma object properties

thanks

stuck oyster Apr 1, 2023, 9:57 PM

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without this the exporter does not know it something you want to export

hollow fulcrum Oct 29, 2015, 6:59 AM

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we could do a lot with the ropes if we could define more and had control over the properties for sure..

shy kernel Apr 1, 2023, 10:00 PM

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thanks guys it worked, but one issue

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its like this

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on the object builder

muted tapir Apr 1, 2023, 10:00 PM

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did you apply transforms before exporting?

shy kernel Apr 1, 2023, 10:02 PM

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i only enabled the arma object properties before exporting

hollow fulcrum Oct 29, 2015, 7:00 AM

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could even sub that for a ball joint honestly. wouldn't be perfect, but it would be pretty damn good.

muted tapir Apr 1, 2023, 10:02 PM

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do ctrl+a
all transforms

shy kernel Apr 1, 2023, 10:03 PM

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ok thanks let me test it out now

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worked! thank you so much guys

last spindle Oct 29, 2015, 7:00 AM

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yes, obv, just have a rope that has no elasticity and massive breaking strength

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but this would be even better.... for that https://resources.bisimulations.com/wiki/createJointExt

hollow fulcrum Oct 29, 2015, 7:02 AM

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yeah a physx ball joint would be great....

ripe fiber Oct 29, 2015, 7:03 AM

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Yet another thing VBS has?

hollow fulcrum Oct 29, 2015, 7:03 AM

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that is effectively all it is.. VBS has had that for a long time.

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it's stupid simple to do a great number of things with those connectors.

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technically 'joints'...

shy kernel Apr 1, 2023, 11:47 PM

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how can i import the model into game? as like a suppressor for example

inland pawn Apr 2, 2023, 12:06 AM

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shy kernel how can i import the model into game? as like a suppressor for example

https://youtu.be/M7B3v3PXxtc

YouTube

Thomas

ArmA Toolbox Tutorial Part 1: Install and p3d conversion

Download ArmA toolbox here: https://github.com/AlwarrenSidh/ArmAToolbox

▶ Play video

shy kernel Apr 2, 2023, 12:10 AM

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saw

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he wasnt specific when he got to the object builder part

inland pawn Apr 2, 2023, 12:11 AM

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shy kernel he wasnt specific when he got to the object builder part

He? That’s literally me

shy kernel Apr 2, 2023, 12:11 AM

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?

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u made that tutorial? nice

inland pawn Apr 2, 2023, 12:12 AM

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Yes, as a quick thing for people getting into custom p3ds

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But, what do you mean specific?

shy kernel Apr 2, 2023, 12:12 AM

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i mean like

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how do i test it out in game

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sorry if you dont understand

inland pawn Apr 2, 2023, 12:12 AM

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Oh, that’ll be in part 2

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Whenever I make that

shy kernel Apr 2, 2023, 12:12 AM

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ok thanks

inland pawn Apr 2, 2023, 12:13 AM

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But, you’ll want to use the samples

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That’s your best bet

muted tapir Apr 2, 2023, 12:13 AM

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@shy kernel do you know how to build a mod?

shy kernel Apr 2, 2023, 12:13 AM

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no im just getting started

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new

inland pawn Apr 2, 2023, 12:14 AM

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Ah, 100% fresh

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I see

shy kernel Apr 2, 2023, 12:14 AM

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lol yes

muted tapir Apr 2, 2023, 12:15 AM

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make a folder, put a file named config.cpp into it

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into that file write a cfgPatches https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/CfgPatches

CfgPatches

shy kernel Apr 2, 2023, 12:17 AM

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thanks

muted tapir Apr 2, 2023, 12:19 AM

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if you just wanna see your model ingame that's all you need, you can just dump the p3d next to that file and build the mod

shy kernel Apr 2, 2023, 12:20 AM

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thanks

muted tapir Apr 2, 2023, 12:21 AM

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then once you've built and loaded the mod you can spawn your model with https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/createSimpleObject

createSimpleObject

shy kernel Apr 2, 2023, 12:31 AM

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muted tapir make a folder, put a file named `config.cpp` into it

should it look like this?

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muted tapir Apr 2, 2023, 12:32 AM

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change line 14 to requiredAddons[] = {};

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other than that its fine for now

shy kernel Apr 2, 2023, 12:33 AM

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done

muted tapir Apr 2, 2023, 12:33 AM

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now open the addon builder

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set the source directory to the folder that stuff is inside of

shy kernel Apr 2, 2023, 12:34 AM

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then pack?

muted tapir Apr 2, 2023, 12:34 AM

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no

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make a folder where you want your mod to go in

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inside that make a folder addons

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set that as the destination

shy kernel Apr 2, 2023, 12:35 AM

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ok

muted tapir Apr 2, 2023, 12:35 AM

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klick options

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check if list of files to copy contains *.p3d

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set path to project folder to the same path as your source directory

shy kernel Apr 2, 2023, 12:36 AM

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ok

muted tapir Apr 2, 2023, 12:37 AM

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if that's done pack

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do you know how to add a local mod to arma?

shy kernel Apr 2, 2023, 12:37 AM

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i dont think so

muted tapir Apr 2, 2023, 12:38 AM

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in the launcher press this

shy kernel Apr 2, 2023, 12:39 AM

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thanks

muted tapir Apr 2, 2023, 12:39 AM

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here select the folder above the one named addons

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once you've launced arma you should see it in the bottom row of the main menu as a loaded mod

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@shy kernel how is it going?

shy kernel Apr 2, 2023, 12:55 AM

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i have 1 issue

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it says this

muted tapir Apr 2, 2023, 12:55 AM

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huh

shy kernel Apr 2, 2023, 12:55 AM

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its supposed to be like this right

muted tapir Apr 2, 2023, 12:56 AM

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put the addons folder into a seperate folder

shy kernel Apr 2, 2023, 12:56 AM

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oh ok

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wait

muted tapir Apr 2, 2023, 12:56 AM

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is there a .pbo file in the addons folder?

shy kernel Apr 2, 2023, 12:58 AM

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no its empty

muted tapir Apr 2, 2023, 12:59 AM

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in that case, build your mod again.
remember to set the correct destination folder

shy kernel Apr 2, 2023, 12:59 AM

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ok

muted tapir Apr 2, 2023, 1:02 AM

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does it say build successful when you pack the mod?

shy kernel Apr 2, 2023, 1:12 AM

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muted tapir put the addons folder into a seperate folder

i make another folder then put the addons folder into it?

muted tapir Apr 2, 2023, 1:12 AM

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yes

shy kernel Apr 2, 2023, 1:19 AM

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do i have to put something in the destination directory or leave it empty?

muted tapir Apr 2, 2023, 1:20 AM

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the folder named addons goes in there

shy kernel Apr 2, 2023, 1:20 AM

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oh ok

muted tapir Apr 2, 2023, 1:20 AM

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if you're still having trouble now send me ascreenshot of the addon builder with the options page open

shy kernel Apr 2, 2023, 1:20 AM

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shy kernel Apr 2, 2023, 1:21 AM

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muted tapir if you're still having trouble now send me ascreenshot of the addon builder with...

k wait

shy kernel Apr 2, 2023, 1:22 AM

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muted tapir if you're still having trouble now send me ascreenshot of the addon builder with...

i have a question

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i leave the temp folder as it is right

muted tapir Apr 2, 2023, 1:23 AM

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yes

shy kernel Apr 2, 2023, 1:25 AM

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muted tapir if you're still having trouble now send me ascreenshot of the addon builder with...

ill send it to the dms if you are ok with it

muted tapir Apr 2, 2023, 1:25 AM

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sure

wraith tendon Oct 29, 2015, 8:29 AM

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lalalalalala don`t wanna hear whats possible in VBS lalalalalalalala

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Its so depressing :(

muted tapir Apr 2, 2023, 2:02 PM

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can a Paths LOD be animated using single vertex animation?

stuck oyster Apr 2, 2023, 2:15 PM

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muted tapir can a Paths LOD be animated using single vertex animation?

have not tried it myself and dont remember anyone else reporting on that so 50/50 maybe

muted tapir Apr 2, 2023, 2:15 PM

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thanks

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i'll report if it works if i end up trying it

stuck oyster Apr 2, 2023, 2:18 PM

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I have some ideas where I could use that myself too but just have not had a chance to try it out

muted tapir Apr 2, 2023, 5:32 PM

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is it possible to make an object that has 2 textures blending into each other?
but without manually blending them, like assigning 2 textures and one half ends up in the first texture and the second half in a different texture with the border being a smooth transition like this:

pallid island Apr 2, 2023, 5:41 PM

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Sounds like https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Multimaterial

muted tapir Apr 2, 2023, 5:42 PM

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that looks like it would do what i want

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thanks

stuck oyster Apr 2, 2023, 5:49 PM

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multimaterial is for that yeh

alpine matrix Apr 2, 2023, 10:13 PM

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anyone have any idea how i'd fix this first person shadow issue?

stuck oyster Apr 2, 2023, 10:18 PM

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alpine matrix anyone have any idea how i'd fix this first person shadow issue?

make proper shadowlod

alpine matrix Apr 2, 2023, 10:19 PM

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i've only got ShadowVolume LODS at a basic level, theyre not even made around the uniform

stuck oyster Apr 2, 2023, 10:20 PM

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shadow volume lods?

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basic level?

alpine matrix Apr 2, 2023, 10:20 PM

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Yes lmfao

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Simply made

stuck oyster Apr 2, 2023, 10:22 PM

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character should not have 1000 and 1010

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0 and 10 should be enough

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and you can copy those from the sample character

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if you are unsure on making them

alpine matrix Apr 2, 2023, 10:24 PM

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ah, i see. Thank you my friend.

amber swift Apr 3, 2023, 1:01 PM

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guys how can i fix wheels floating above ground in a vehicle? I've checked wheel circumference value, memory points, land contact nothing seems to fix it

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oh i have also checked geometry lod

stuck oyster Apr 3, 2023, 1:13 PM

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have you tried the physX settings?

amber swift Apr 3, 2023, 2:25 PM

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its fixed, it was the max droop value

amber swift Apr 3, 2023, 3:50 PM

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i have another problem now, the thing cant go offroad, it just becomes too slow and in some areas like sand it just stops

warm blade Apr 3, 2023, 4:15 PM

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@amber swift trying playing with terrainCoef

amber swift Apr 3, 2023, 4:26 PM

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yes! that fixed it.Thanks man

stuck oyster Apr 3, 2023, 5:04 PM

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@white jay you may stay but Id also like to hear a genuine "sorry"

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also any even remotely forbidden smelling stuff and youre out.

white jay Apr 3, 2023, 5:04 PM

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i’m sorry

stuck oyster Apr 3, 2023, 5:05 PM

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Alrighto. We make stuff here dont take stuff.
Pinned messages on #arma3_terrain have links to tutorials

desert notch Apr 3, 2023, 5:54 PM

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hey I have a quick question. what is the significance of proxy index? is index just some arbitrary number?
or do different indices do special things and stuff?

stuck oyster Apr 3, 2023, 6:00 PM

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for example gunner and cargo proxy index connects that proxy to config index

desert notch Apr 3, 2023, 6:02 PM

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yep but can I just set it to anything? (in both config and model)

stuck oyster Apr 3, 2023, 6:02 PM

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well if they match in both config and model they should work

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buut there is no data on if the engine expects them to be in sequential order

desert notch Apr 3, 2023, 6:04 PM

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yeah I didn't think so either. thanks!

amber swift Apr 3, 2023, 6:14 PM

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any tips on making a turn out animation for the driver? i cant get it to work, there's very little information on the web.

stuck oyster Apr 3, 2023, 6:17 PM

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how much do you know about animating?

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and what does not work mean in this case 😅

amber swift Apr 3, 2023, 6:19 PM

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well i managed to make the other ones work, like the cargo ramp. In my mind it should work the same right? its just rotation or the hatch selection followed by translation on y of the driver proxy

stuck oyster Apr 3, 2023, 6:20 PM

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well that can work yes though it will still keep the driver in same pose

amber swift Apr 3, 2023, 6:20 PM

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should i use UserActions for this or is there another way?

stuck oyster Apr 3, 2023, 6:22 PM

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turnout is a engine feature so you would use the turnout source for the animations

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but also there are some config parameters that enable/disable the turnout feature

amber swift Apr 3, 2023, 6:28 PM

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what should i do to enable it?

stuck oyster Apr 3, 2023, 6:29 PM

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dont remember off the top of my head. related config parameters have turnout or turnin in them if I remmeber right

charred bolt Apr 3, 2023, 9:05 PM

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amber swift what should i do to enable it?

driverInAction = ```
```class Turrets 
{
   class MyTurret: NewTurret
   {
      ...
      gunnerAction = 
      gunnerInAction =
      ...
   };
};```

still folio Oct 29, 2015, 12:03 PM

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JCOVE then?

white jay Apr 4, 2023, 12:24 PM

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so if i have my model and textures how do i get that into game?

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blender model

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is there a video for that

spice narwhal Apr 4, 2023, 12:44 PM

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how do i export just my selection for the UV

white jay Apr 4, 2023, 1:29 PM

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is arma 3 tools for blender illegal @stuck oyster?

stuck oyster Apr 4, 2023, 1:32 PM

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no if you mean the arma toolbox addon

white jay Apr 4, 2023, 1:34 PM

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yeah

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so i exported my model to p3d

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but it says ' Unale to load file. Load error. '

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when i put it in OB

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its used to be an fbx file

marsh canyon Apr 4, 2023, 1:35 PM

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It is because you try to load binarized p3d

white jay Apr 4, 2023, 1:35 PM

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its not binarized tho

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i dont think it is

marsh canyon Apr 4, 2023, 1:35 PM

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Why you think so?

white jay Apr 4, 2023, 1:35 PM

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because i made it a p3d on my own

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i put it in blender

stuck oyster Apr 4, 2023, 1:36 PM

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you have not se the objcet(s) with arma properties

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so exporter dont know what to export

white jay Apr 4, 2023, 1:36 PM

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how do i do that

stuck oyster Apr 4, 2023, 1:37 PM

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find the arma3 tool tab and click arma properties checkbox

white jay Apr 4, 2023, 1:38 PM

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this?

Desktop_Screenshot_2023.04.04_-_09.37.44.59.png

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i found it

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it is next to the x/y/z compass

stuck oyster Apr 4, 2023, 1:42 PM

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white jay it is next to the x/y/z compass

yes those are the toolbar tabs

stuck oyster Apr 4, 2023, 1:42 PM

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white jay this?

also in this view you will need to set up th o2script.exe path

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you can use this channels search history for more info

white jay Apr 4, 2023, 1:49 PM

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yeah idk what i did wron

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i did the o2script path

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i checked off arma 3 object properties

white jay Apr 4, 2023, 2:13 PM

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any fixes?

stuck oyster Apr 4, 2023, 2:22 PM

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delete the old file first

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and you may need to close and reopen blender

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failed exeport usually locks the p3d file so further exports wont write

white jay Apr 4, 2023, 2:27 PM

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so delete the .FBX model once i export it as a .P3D?

stuck oyster Apr 4, 2023, 2:27 PM

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the fbx and p3d are not related in any way

white jay Apr 4, 2023, 2:28 PM

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wait so what am i deleting once i make my model a P3D?

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hold up

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gimme a second

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might have fixed

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@stuck oyster Could this be the reason why it's not working?

Desktop_Screenshot_2023.04.04_-_10.33.22.12_2.png

stuck oyster Apr 4, 2023, 2:37 PM

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yes

white jay Apr 4, 2023, 2:38 PM

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do i reinstall armatoolbox

stuck oyster Apr 4, 2023, 2:38 PM

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it says your model has n-gons which Arma cant use

white jay Apr 4, 2023, 2:38 PM

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what are n gons

stuck oyster Apr 4, 2023, 2:38 PM

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so you need to triangulate it

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you can google it up.

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the modeling basics stuff is up to you to learn on your own

white jay Apr 4, 2023, 2:38 PM

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ok i see

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i cant find the properties panel

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wtf

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do i select keep normals?

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for traingulate?

white oak Apr 4, 2023, 2:47 PM

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select all faces in edit mode and hit ctrl+T

white jay Apr 4, 2023, 3:04 PM

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i did

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now it won't export at all

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no errors tho

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i think

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Desktop_Screenshot_2023.04.04_-_11.03.25.87.png

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the p3d is red tho

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so

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i fixed it

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how do i path it properly to my vest in OB

stuck oyster Apr 4, 2023, 3:34 PM

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wheres the vest from

white jay Apr 4, 2023, 3:52 PM

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nvm

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i got it to work

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my friend helped me

stuck oyster Apr 4, 2023, 4:12 PM

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@fluid copper problem?

fluid copper Apr 4, 2023, 4:14 PM

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No I think the events with this person are funny

stuck oyster Apr 4, 2023, 4:14 PM

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Im not particularly happy.

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@white jay honestly I gave you a chance yesterday

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dont go pulling any crap now

fluid copper Apr 4, 2023, 4:14 PM

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I don't blame you, I was going to ask them to open the vertex selections tab earlier when I saw the image

stuck oyster Apr 4, 2023, 4:33 PM

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also that BIS CORE Folder makes me thing dude has pirated VBS

white jay Apr 4, 2023, 5:00 PM

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idk what vbs is

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what's BIS CORE supposed to be?

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i opened it and it has arma3.cfg

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and my BI profiel

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Desktop_Screenshot_2023.04.04_-_13.01.52.59.png

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Desktop_Screenshot_2023.04.04_-_13.01.50.48.png

white jay Apr 4, 2023, 5:03 PM

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fluid copper I don't blame you, I was going to ask them to open the vertex selections tab ear...

where would vertex selections be

white jay Apr 4, 2023, 5:03 PM

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stuck oyster dont go pulling any crap now

i am not doing anything

fluid copper Apr 4, 2023, 5:08 PM

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white jay where would vertex selections be

white jay Apr 4, 2023, 6:00 PM

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ok

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what does that do?

fluid copper Apr 4, 2023, 6:29 PM

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I was just curious if there are any values in it, like Spine1, 2, 3, etc

plucky patrol Apr 4, 2023, 6:31 PM

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Hi all I am trying to apply a damage texture to a surface, I have defined the fire geometry, hit points lods , I have the animation made , applied a texture in OB for the surface a default rvmat for glass for that surface and defined in config.cpp the class damage with that 3 rvmats and class hitPoints as it is explained in documentation. But the material texture of the glass does not change. It only change with a dark texture but the cracks from rvmats does not appear. Any Ideeas ?

white jay Apr 4, 2023, 6:42 PM

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fluid copper I was just curious if there are any values in it, like Spine1, 2, 3, etc

i have 0 clie

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i’ll take a look when i’m home

still trail Oct 29, 2015, 1:52 PM

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VBS kinda sucks from a performance and graphics perspective.

stuck oyster Apr 4, 2023, 6:48 PM

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you'll have to start learning modeling from the basics so you understand the tools, terminology and methods

primal sail Apr 4, 2023, 7:02 PM

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hi, i'm trying to learn how to create mods, where i can start to learn about it?

stuck oyster Apr 4, 2023, 7:06 PM

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primal sail hi, i'm trying to learn how to create mods, where i can start to learn about it?

what kind of mods do you want to make?

primal sail Apr 4, 2023, 7:13 PM

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i want to create a mod that add the cryptids from cod ghost (a 4 legged alien species). i know it's to much for a person that just started so now i'm trying to add a dog made of blocks so i can try to code it

stuck oyster Apr 4, 2023, 7:24 PM

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primal sail i want to create a mod that add the cryptids from cod ghost (a 4 legged alien sp...

youll need to start simpler. custom characters are one of the most complex (and undocumented things) which practically requires you to learn everything there is

inland pawn Apr 4, 2023, 9:36 PM

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primal sail i want to create a mod that add the cryptids from cod ghost (a 4 legged alien sp...

Animation and skeletons are one of the hardest things to do

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Not the best starting point

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Start with a crate

primal sail Apr 5, 2023, 12:16 AM

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inland pawn Animation and skeletons are one of the hardest things to do

i'm not going to add animations to start with it because i know it's a thing for it's own. I'm trying to export a model i create from blender to arma 3 to make it a custom character that is a box. at least i want to know where i can start with creating a box or something basic

inland pawn Apr 5, 2023, 12:19 AM

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primal sail i'm not going to add animations to start with it because i know it's a thing for...

Look into making a storage crate or something

peak isle Apr 5, 2023, 1:02 AM

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howdy gents what would be causing this?

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https://i.imgur.com/CW2Wspj.png

Imgur

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like what is wrong? sum of weights? i dont even know what that is lol

inland pawn Apr 5, 2023, 1:35 AM

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That’s a warning, you can usually ignore those. Unless it’s causing an issue to where the asset doesn’t work as intended

charred bolt Apr 5, 2023, 2:15 AM

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peak isle like what is wrong? sum of weights? i dont even know what that is lol

You have some mesh that is in more than one named selection, that are also bones in the skeleton.

In this case, either:

remove one of the named selections which is assigned incorrectly.
Example: the trigger is in trigger and also incorrectly in otochlaven, so remove it from otochlaven
if you intend for the part to be animated with weighting (that is, it moves in relation to two bones), then the sum of the weights on each vertex should equal 100%.
Example: cloth mesh attached to a recoiling barrel and also top optical sight, needs to "stretch" as they move
for each vertex, barrel_recoil % + sight % = 100%
The % value tells that vertex how much to move in relation to the bone specified, with 0 being no movement and 100 being "follow the bone exactly".

In my opinion, you should not ignore these warnings, but fix them, otherwise you are likely to experience unexpected animation behaviour.

white jay Oct 29, 2015, 2:48 PM

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Out of interest, those who use Quixel which export profile preset do you prefer for textures? (E.G Unity, PBR, UE4 etc)

hollow fulcrum Oct 29, 2015, 3:10 PM

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☕ PBR (GGX Spec) generally.. but thats very much a personal preference thing. Metalness workflows are still the preferred route for most studios right now.

hoary knoll Apr 5, 2023, 12:54 PM

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what do you guys use to create simplified lods for range?

amber swift Apr 5, 2023, 12:57 PM

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the quick way to do that would be to use a decimate modifier if you are using blender. Other programs probably have smt similar, im just not familiarised with them.

amber swift Apr 5, 2023, 6:08 PM

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guys how can i make a set of objects an option in the vehicle garage?

desert notch Apr 5, 2023, 6:16 PM

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amber swift guys how can i make a set of objects an option in the vehicle garage?

They're either animation sources or texture sources

amber swift Apr 5, 2023, 7:20 PM

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ive already made the hide animations for the components but i dont know how do i define them as options in the virtual garage

charred bolt Apr 5, 2023, 7:27 PM

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amber swift ive already made the hide animations for the components but i dont know how do i...

Add displayName = "My Animation"; to the animationSource sub-class.

amber swift Apr 5, 2023, 7:45 PM

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charred bolt Add `displayName = "My Animation";` to the animationSource sub-class.

that worked, thanks!

dry thicket Apr 5, 2023, 11:23 PM

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Anyone know why the follower is randomly sticking out of the side of the mag? Its is lined up in OB but is way off to side in game.

peak isle Apr 6, 2023, 12:39 AM

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charred bolt You have some mesh that is in more than one named selection, that are also bones...

Thank you for this I’ll look into it, I was to tried to respond when you sent it but I’ll let you know if it works thank you

woeful viper Oct 29, 2015, 5:02 PM

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oh well... seems like my pen tablet finally bit the bullet. Hope it was just temporary, but apparently not. Served me well for 6 years, RIP

inland pawn Apr 6, 2023, 3:11 AM

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dry thicket Anyone know why the follower is randomly sticking out of the side of the mag? It...

Are you using the origin for measuring?

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Or some other point

wraith tendon Oct 29, 2015, 5:07 PM

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Wich one?

hollow fulcrum Oct 29, 2015, 5:07 PM

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🙅

woeful viper Oct 29, 2015, 5:09 PM

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wacom bamboo, so nothing too expensive :)

hot hornet Apr 6, 2023, 3:40 AM

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hoary knoll what do you guys use to create simplified lods for range?

Decimation in blender

wraith tendon Oct 29, 2015, 5:11 PM

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At least :D

dry thicket Apr 6, 2023, 4:09 AM

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inland pawn Are you using the origin for measuring?

Was able to fix thanks

ArmA_3_Screenshot_2023.04.06_-_00.03.42.15.png

hollow fulcrum Oct 29, 2015, 5:14 PM

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@woeful viper well, 6yrs is a pretty good life. Mine never seem to last that long. I blame ArmA.

white jay Oct 29, 2015, 5:14 PM

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@hollow fulcrum I like Metalness for renders and such but ARMA not so much

woeful viper Oct 29, 2015, 5:15 PM

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yeah 6 years is pretty good

hollow fulcrum Oct 29, 2015, 5:18 PM

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@white jay aye, it's a real issue for sure. but pretty much regardless of how you do it, you have to tweak things for RV. (i keep a lib of mats just for RV these days..)

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maybe they'll update the shaders in Apex............

woeful viper Oct 29, 2015, 5:21 PM

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for RV it doesnt really matter what you use, because you have to use custom materials eitherway (at least if you wanna keep things consistant with vanilla and without elaborative fumbling with rvmat values)

hollow fulcrum Oct 29, 2015, 5:22 PM

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speaking more directly about the lack of intuitive use of common tools, due to lack of specular color.

woeful viper Oct 29, 2015, 5:26 PM

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i somehow doubt that they will introduce new standard shaders to RV now ... i would assume that past the expansion A3 will be at the end of it's lifecycle

hollow fulcrum Oct 29, 2015, 5:27 PM

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yerp. that is what the current scheme seems to be.

white jay Oct 29, 2015, 5:28 PM

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Maybe for ARMA 4 but not A3 I imagine

hollow fulcrum Oct 29, 2015, 5:29 PM

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A4 will be at least 3-4yrs out i think, if ever. At least last I heard the 'plan' is to do a massive overhaul on the engine. in an attempt to make it marketable. i could see a DLC or two in there perhaps as they progress. also would not be surprised if that didn't happen.

celest arch Oct 29, 2015, 5:32 PM

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Hello gentlemen, I'm venturing into my first weapon attachment after buildings and structures

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made the model, config inherits from the 9mm silencer muzzle_snds_L

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do I need anything else eg on the handgun config to "link" the attachment to the weapon?

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because right now, I can't attach it

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(noob alert, of course)

woeful viper Oct 29, 2015, 5:34 PM

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yes that sounds likely hatchet. Some smaller content DLC for a little bit of intermediary cash injection. Unless they have another smaller title in the pipes (like carrier command or ToM)

white jay Oct 29, 2015, 5:35 PM

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@celest arch are you by chance using ASDJ joint rails?

hollow fulcrum Oct 29, 2015, 5:35 PM

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@celest arch i have things relative, but not on that machine. there are a couple pieces needed. let me see if i can grab one of the silencer configs off the big rig.

celest arch Oct 29, 2015, 5:35 PM

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@white jay nope

kind lion Oct 29, 2015, 5:35 PM

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does anyone have any idea why this happens? http://bugs.cup-arma3.org/view.php?id=82

celest arch Oct 29, 2015, 5:35 PM

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thanks @hollow fulcrum

hollow fulcrum Oct 29, 2015, 5:35 PM

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and also, i dont remember if we put our Muzzle stuff in ASDG_JR or not. we do have things for this.

kind lion Oct 29, 2015, 5:35 PM

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it doesn't seem to have anything out of the ordinary from any regular vehicle we make

hollow fulcrum Oct 29, 2015, 5:35 PM

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which is proper.

celest arch Oct 29, 2015, 5:35 PM

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at the end of the a3 pistol config I see this: class hgun_P07_snds_F: hgun_P07_F
{
author = "$STR_A3_Bohemia_Interactive";
_generalMacro = "hgun_P07_snds_F";
class LinkedItems
{
class LinkedItemsMuzzle
{
slot = "MuzzleSlot";
item = "muzzle_snds_L";
};
};
};

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maybe thats the missing bit

wraith tendon Oct 29, 2015, 5:35 PM

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@kind lion Model centered?

woeful viper Oct 29, 2015, 5:35 PM

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you need to define attacheable elements in the weapon config, so that it knows which are compatible

hollow fulcrum Oct 29, 2015, 5:36 PM

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^^

celest arch Oct 29, 2015, 5:36 PM

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alright so if I define that in the attachment config, with the relative inheritances? should work?

kind lion Oct 29, 2015, 5:36 PM

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@wraith tendon i never do that yet other vehicles blow up and sit on the ground just fine, is that required?

woeful viper Oct 29, 2015, 5:36 PM

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linked items is just that stuff that comes already attached when you spawn it

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no, you need to define the attachements the weapon can use in the specific weapon config of the gun

celest arch Oct 29, 2015, 5:36 PM

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ah ok

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class WeaponSlotsInfo: WeaponSlotsInfo
{
mass = 20;
class CowsSlot{};
class MuzzleSlot: MuzzleSlot
{
linkProxy = "\A3\data_f\proxies\weapon_slots\MUZZLE";
compatibleItems[] = {"muzzle_snds_L"};
iconPosition[] = {0.24,0.35};
iconScale = 0.2;
};
};

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?

wraith tendon Oct 29, 2015, 5:37 PM

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@kind lion Since the models will be simply exchanged, they should be on the same level (I didn't ment the namedProperty thingy there!!)

kind lion Oct 29, 2015, 5:38 PM

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there is no wreck model, it's the same one with destruct rvmat and a bunch of stuff hidden

wraith tendon Oct 29, 2015, 5:38 PM

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Ah, missunderstood then.

woeful viper Oct 29, 2015, 5:40 PM

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yes compatibleItems[] is it

celest arch Oct 29, 2015, 5:41 PM

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so if I got it right, if I want to assign some custom attachments to vanilla a3 handguns, I need to make additional configs for them?

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or use asdg right?

kind lion Oct 29, 2015, 5:44 PM

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probably you also need to add proxies to the handgun model, i don't think all models are compatible with certain types of attachments

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something that you can't do if it's vanilla stuff...

hollow fulcrum Oct 29, 2015, 5:45 PM

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yeah i can't access my other box atm, so i'm useless currently. really not sure if we put the Muzzle stuff in JR or not..

celest arch Oct 29, 2015, 5:45 PM

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hgun_P07_F should have the proxies I need

hollow fulcrum Oct 29, 2015, 5:45 PM

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it is the same concept/issue though.

celest arch Oct 29, 2015, 5:45 PM

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what if

woeful viper Oct 29, 2015, 5:45 PM

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does anyone know of a proper config dump script, that dumps everything of one class including inherited stuff?

celest arch Oct 29, 2015, 5:45 PM

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give me one sec and I'll show you my idea, so you can laugh at it :P

hollow fulcrum Oct 29, 2015, 5:45 PM

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http://www.armaholic.com/page.php?id=27291

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that will answer things for you at least.. sry, not very pro at the moment.

celest arch Oct 29, 2015, 5:47 PM

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http://pastebin.com/d0n2HTX4

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bad idea?

amber swift Apr 6, 2023, 9:57 AM

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charred bolt Add `displayName = "My Animation";` to the animationSource sub-class.

well it seems it only works to a degree, the option is there but when i select it nothing happens. Is it related to the values in the model.cfg?

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class camonet_hide
{
type="Hide";
selection="camonet";
sourceAddress="clamp";
source="camonet_hide";
minValue = -1;
maxValue = 0;
hideValue = "0.2";
};

celest arch Oct 29, 2015, 5:49 PM

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typo aside

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no not good

inland pawn Apr 6, 2023, 10:37 AM

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amber swift class camonet_hide { type="Hide"; se...

Let me get you my code that confirmed works

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One moment

inland pawn Apr 6, 2023, 10:38 AM

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amber swift class camonet_hide { type="Hide"; se...


class showcamonethull
            {
                type="hide";
                source="showcamonethull";
                selection="attach_net_hull";
                sourceAddress="clamp";
                minPhase=0;
                maxPhase=1;
                minValue=0;
                maxValue=1;
                memory=0;
                hideValue=0;
                unHideValue=1;
            };```

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Then source= correlates to an animation source with the same name

amber swift Apr 6, 2023, 10:39 AM

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thanks a lot, i will try it out

amber swift Apr 6, 2023, 10:54 AM

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damn, it worked, thanks again

celest arch Oct 29, 2015, 5:53 PM

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no wait it works

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http://pastebin.com/uBBKcwhV

hollow fulcrum Oct 29, 2015, 5:54 PM

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yeah that will work. the compatibility with other mods is more what we address in JR/Muzzles.

celest arch Oct 29, 2015, 5:55 PM

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well thanks for helping

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I got my first attachment in!!

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now I need to model the actual model, not a cylinder :P

white jay Oct 29, 2015, 5:55 PM

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That's usually the important part lol

wraith tendon Oct 29, 2015, 5:56 PM

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^^

celest arch Oct 29, 2015, 5:56 PM

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it's done already, just need to p3d it

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do you remember the walking dead flashlight makeshift suppressor? that

wraith tendon Oct 29, 2015, 5:57 PM

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" the walking dead flashlight makeshift suppressor" dat word :D

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I wan't that in the Description :D

celest arch Oct 29, 2015, 5:57 PM

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:D

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guess one can adapt also a flEshlight if needed :D

wraith tendon Oct 29, 2015, 5:58 PM

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XXDD

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Naughty Schultz

celest arch Oct 29, 2015, 6:00 PM

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http://i.stack.imgur.com/HVNki.jpg

wraith tendon Oct 29, 2015, 6:00 PM

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http://www.wearysloth.com/Gallery/ActorsB/tve917-19661021-156.jpg

celest arch Oct 29, 2015, 6:00 PM

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thats me!

woeful viper Oct 29, 2015, 6:00 PM

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that looks more like a soundamplifier to me...

white jay Oct 29, 2015, 6:00 PM

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^^

past mesa Oct 29, 2015, 6:01 PM

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Any idea why my textures are flat? for example the grey in this image is supposed to be concrete. http://snag.gy/aO9r7.jpg

wraith tendon Oct 29, 2015, 6:01 PM

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wwwhhooaattt! Yoou a sayin dat murican hallywoott is lying to uuss an is unriieeelll

white jay Oct 29, 2015, 6:01 PM

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@past mesa do you have an RVmat?

hollow fulcrum Oct 29, 2015, 6:01 PM

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@past mesa going to assume lack of proper textures.

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ie.. you need a normal map tied into the .rvmat i gave you yesterday. check the wiki for relative 'stage' info.

white jay Oct 29, 2015, 6:03 PM

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Yeh looks like a lack of Normal Map in the RVMat

past mesa Oct 29, 2015, 6:03 PM

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thanks guys will look into that, it was working previously though

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@hollow fulcrum thanks again for the help yesterday

hollow fulcrum Oct 29, 2015, 6:04 PM

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np

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do you have a .rvmat tied to this model?

past mesa Oct 29, 2015, 6:07 PM

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initially no and the texture appeared fine.

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I dont have a normal map for the texture so thats probably my issue

hollow fulcrum Oct 29, 2015, 6:08 PM

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indeed, that would account for things.

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if you need a normal map generated for your diffuse, there are many options out there.

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i might have CB on this machine, you can send me diffuse and i can send you a normal back quick. (as im just sitting here twiddling my thumbs anyway..)

white jay Oct 29, 2015, 6:12 PM

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Heck there's even concrete textures out there that come with Normals and Specs

past mesa Oct 29, 2015, 6:14 PM

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@hollow fulcrum im using the same textures in the model I sent you yesterday

hollow fulcrum Oct 29, 2015, 6:15 PM

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ah, k. i'll send you the missing pieces and a corrected .rvmat*. ;)

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then it will all make sense.

past mesa Oct 29, 2015, 6:15 PM

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Ah great thanks man

tulip gyro Apr 6, 2023, 5:13 PM

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how do I go about making a lamp object?

stuck oyster Apr 6, 2023, 5:16 PM

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tulip gyro how do I go about making a lamp object?

there is a sample lamp post you could use as reference in the samples

tulip gyro Apr 6, 2023, 5:17 PM

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Thanks!

amber swift Apr 6, 2023, 5:29 PM

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how do tank tracks work in arma? they look like an animated texture. how can i make some for my custom vehicle?

stuck oyster Apr 6, 2023, 5:39 PM

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amber swift how do tank tracks work in arma? they look like an animated texture. how can i m...

you can find example in the arma 3 samples on how the tracks are modeled and uvmapped

amber swift Apr 6, 2023, 5:43 PM

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i cant find it, is it in the test_tank_01 folder?

stuck oyster Apr 6, 2023, 5:51 PM

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amber swift i cant find it, is it in the test_tank_01 folder?

yes

amber swift Apr 6, 2023, 5:52 PM

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is it the p3d that contains that information?

stuck oyster Apr 6, 2023, 5:52 PM

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yes that is the arma 3d model format

amber swift Apr 6, 2023, 5:53 PM

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oh ok i though there would be like an texture example, thanks

stuck oyster Apr 6, 2023, 6:02 PM

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amber swift oh ok i though there would be like an texture example, thanks

you can unpack textures from the games pbos for refrence

white jay Apr 6, 2023, 6:12 PM

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can someone maybe send me a dm with help to get all i need to have to start doing models and animations

stuck oyster Apr 6, 2023, 7:17 PM

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white jay can someone maybe send me a dm with help to get all i need to have to start doin...

www.blender.org

white jay Apr 6, 2023, 7:17 PM

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thats all i need?

stuck oyster Apr 6, 2023, 7:18 PM

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no, but its what you need to first focus on

white jay Apr 6, 2023, 7:18 PM

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what i need more tell me

stuck oyster Apr 6, 2023, 7:18 PM

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"All" would be going to school for this stuff or spending the necessary time to learn everything needed

stuck oyster Apr 6, 2023, 7:19 PM

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white jay what i need more tell me

get the program, start doing tutorials on youtube

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spend next few months practising and learning how modeling is done and how animating is done

inland pawn Apr 6, 2023, 7:38 PM

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amber swift oh ok i though there would be like an texture example, thanks

You texture the tracks normally and then name the left track PasOffsetL and the right track PasOffsetP

amber swift Apr 6, 2023, 7:44 PM

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Oh is it that simple, nice! Im going to try it out

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Thanks

inland pawn Apr 6, 2023, 7:46 PM

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It’s a shrimple as that

amber swift Apr 6, 2023, 7:49 PM

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Cool, thanks for the help!

lusty wharf Apr 6, 2023, 11:45 PM

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Hey,
got some problems with my Modding bridges.
can spawn 'em on my Mission but if i drive on 'em with any Vehicle it's like driving on ice.
Is there any way to chance the Surface on my Object?

stuck oyster Apr 6, 2023, 11:46 PM

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lusty wharf Hey, got some problems with my Modding bridges. can spawn 'em on my Mission but ...

yes by adding a roadway lod and giving it appropriate surface type

lusty wharf Apr 6, 2023, 11:48 PM

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so i have to make a "roadway" lod and put my drive on strip in it. i get it but how to set the Surface than? only in config.cpp or by model.cfg?

stuck oyster Apr 6, 2023, 11:49 PM

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they are textures from P:\A3\data_F\Surfaces\

lusty wharf Apr 6, 2023, 11:52 PM

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so only mapping the flat in "roadway" lod with a texture from P:\A3\data_F\Surfaces\ to get a better driving on my bridge ? Oo

final kayak Apr 7, 2023, 12:02 AM

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I'm having a bit of difficulty with getting a skinned mesh to be animated along with the rest of the clothing.
I think I've set it up correctly in blender, but the gloves just aren't being animated.
Any advice?

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The config looks like this if it helps.

{
    class TNC_GEAR
    {
        units[] = {};
        weapons[] = {"TNC_NVG_NitrileGloves_Blue"};
        requiredVersion = 0.1;
        requiredAddons[] = {"simc_uaf_67","simc_uaf_69"};
    };
};
class CfgWeapons
{
    class NVGoggles;
    class TNC_NVG_NitrileGloves_Blue: NVGoggles
    {
        scope = 2;
        author = "Tyen";
        displayName = "Nitrile Gloves (Blue)";
        descriptionShort = "Glove, Nitrile";
        model = "\TNC\tnc_gear\data\nitrile_gloves.p3d";
        picture = "\simc_uaf_67\icons\nomex_ca";
        modelOptics = "\A3\Weapons_F\empty";
        visionMode[] = {"Normal","Normal"};
        class ItemInfo
        {
            type = 616;
            hmdType = 0;
            uniformModel = "\TNC\tnc_gear\data\nitrile_gloves.p3d";
            modelOff = "\TNC\tnc_gear\data\nitrile_gloves.p3d";
            mass = 5;
        };
    };
};```

hot hornet Apr 7, 2023, 12:04 AM

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final kayak I'm having a bit of difficulty with getting a skinned mesh to be animated along ...

Can you show us your model.cfg ?

final kayak Apr 7, 2023, 12:05 AM

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I think that's where I've gone wrong. I don't have one 🙃

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I think you've put me back on the right path!

lusty wharf Apr 7, 2023, 12:19 AM

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stuck oyster they are textures from P:\A3\data_F\Surfaces\

thx mate got it ❤️

final kayak Apr 7, 2023, 12:20 AM

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hot hornet Can you show us your model.cfg ?

Here's the model.cfg I've set up just now.

I've also adjusted the folder structure so it's now like the attached screenshot. I'm using Aegis' git repo as an example of how to set it up.

📎 model.cfg

final kayak Apr 7, 2023, 12:49 AM

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Turns out the model config class needs to use the name of the p3d, rather than the class name of the object 🙃

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Why they're offset, I do not yet know.

marsh canyon Apr 7, 2023, 12:51 AM

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ArmaToolbox doesn't take the object placement usually but only mesh's

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Make sure to select the object and Ctrl+A to apply all transformations

final kayak Apr 7, 2023, 12:53 AM

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I've been sure to apply the transforms in Blender before exporting. Is that what you mean?

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It lines up nicely with the armarig sample

marsh canyon Apr 7, 2023, 12:54 AM

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Ayup

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...Wait a min

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Is that technically a NVG?

final kayak Apr 7, 2023, 12:56 AM

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Also a Glasses option. It's a cosmetic option.

marsh canyon Apr 7, 2023, 12:57 AM

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Then probably the origin pos of the model is different than uniform itself

pallid island Apr 7, 2023, 12:57 AM

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head origin? 🤣

marsh canyon Apr 7, 2023, 12:57 AM

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Ye

final kayak Apr 7, 2023, 1:05 AM

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When comparing it to the official sample NVG and opensource Aegis example I can see that all of their origins are set to be at the world origin. Perhaps my weight transfer didn't work as I expected it to.

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Looks fine in blender.

final kayak Apr 7, 2023, 1:29 AM

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It seems to be worse than just being offset. The fingers are getting stretched in odd ways.

I've cleaned up the vertex groups and deleted unused weights but it's had no effect. I'm at a bit of a loss.

final kayak Apr 7, 2023, 1:58 AM

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Turns out I needed to add a named property to a geometry model as per this documentation.
https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Arma_3:_Modding_Characters
Geometry LOD has to be present, even if it is empty, and has to have "autocenter = 0" set in Named Properties window.

Arma 3: Modding Characters

marsh canyon Apr 7, 2023, 2:02 AM

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Ah, completely forgot that

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Nice 👍

delicate holly Apr 7, 2023, 1:02 PM

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Hello! Could someone help me figure out how to let bullets pass through a glass firegeometry?

In essence, I have a window with only a visLOD and Firegeo
I only need firegeo to add a glass material for the corresponding sound effect, but I would like to have bullet penetration.
At the moment there is no bullet penetration. Grenades can pass through as there is no physX lod (not an issue)

I'm not sure what defines whether a bullet can penetrate or not

https://streamable.com/kn5jed

Streamable

Glass no penetration

▶ Play video

pallid island Apr 7, 2023, 1:09 PM

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firegeo's assigned rvmat

delicate holly Apr 7, 2023, 1:10 PM

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got it, so that means I'd have to duplicate and tweak the glass rvmat then

pallid island Apr 7, 2023, 1:11 PM

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iirc, penetrability/thickness are the needed rvmat properties, lemme check

delicate holly Apr 7, 2023, 1:11 PM

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thanks, I appreciate it salute

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seems like it's tied to the bisurf file

pallid island Apr 7, 2023, 1:13 PM

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correction, in A3 it seems to be defined in linked .bisurf, bulletPenetrability and whatever else notlikemeow

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and Thickness

delicate holly Apr 7, 2023, 1:13 PM

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yeah I looked into that file

Density=2800;
rough=0;
dust=0;
bulletPenetrability=69;
soundEnviron="Empty";
isWater="false";
friction=0.1;
restitution=0.1;
impact="hitGlass";
soundHit="Glass";
deflection=0.30000001;

pallid island Apr 7, 2023, 1:14 PM

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unit of bulletPenetrability is millimeters of penetration you get with bullet that has 1000 m/s velocity and caliber=1; in CfgAmmo entry

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and unit of Thickness seems to be a millimeter blobdoggoshruggoogly

delicate holly Apr 7, 2023, 1:15 PM

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oddly there is no thickness in this bisurf

pallid island Apr 7, 2023, 1:16 PM

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it takes firegeo's thickness then

delicate holly Apr 7, 2023, 1:16 PM

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pallid island unit of `bulletPenetrability` is millimeters of penetration you get with bullet ...

so in this case higher values are what I need, I assume

pallid island Apr 7, 2023, 1:17 PM

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Thickness in bisurf is there to override the real model thickness for thin "panel" material (https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Arma_3:_Damage_Description#Fire_Geometry_Placement recommend using it for components thinner than 10mm). As in: have like 20mm thick model and Thickness=5; in bisurf on 5mm panel to avoid simulation problems or something. blobdoggoshruggoogly

delicate holly Apr 7, 2023, 1:18 PM

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gotcha, thanks for pasting the correct code syntax too

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so that means I'd have to make a local version of the bisurf and rvmat in my project folder with the tweaks, or is it not that simple?

pallid island Apr 7, 2023, 1:19 PM

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yes, you can do that

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iirc you can even make them mission-local for .p3d directly spawned with createSimpleObject without defining a class

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although what you have on the video doesn't look nearly thick enough to stop the bullet 🤔 Are there any overlapping firegeos? Or is glass component thicker than, ~50mm of glass penetration MX should have for sure at this range?

delicate holly Apr 7, 2023, 1:25 PM

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I can get you the numbers in a sec

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it's a 7.8cm thick window

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essentially a giant rectangular cuboid acting as a single window

pallid island Apr 7, 2023, 1:29 PM

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78 mm is way bigger than MX can penetrate, it has caliber=1;, initSpeed of 800 or 820 (too lazy to check), so it should penetrate like 55-56 mm thick glass (bulletPenetrability=69;) geometry at point blank. So both reducing the geo thickness and making a custom bisurf with Thickness under 50 would work.

delicate holly Apr 7, 2023, 1:32 PM

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delicate holly so that means I'd have to make a local version of the bisurf and rvmat in my pro...

So I tried making a local copy of both adapted the rvmat's filepath so it picks up the bisurf, and assigned it to the corresponding firegeo. The mod built without issue, and when loaded ingame, it gives me a default dirt effect on hit, but there are no error messages

delicate holly Apr 7, 2023, 1:32 PM

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pallid island 78 mm is way bigger than MX can penetrate, it has `caliber=1;`, `initSpeed` of 8...

will try that, a super thin firegeo might just be what I need

pallid island Apr 7, 2023, 1:33 PM

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if you're building with Bohemia's Addon Builder you may need to change its settings to include rvmat and bisurf files.

delicate holly Apr 7, 2023, 1:34 PM

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well that's quite a pickle

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because I see no such option 😆

pallid island Apr 7, 2023, 1:35 PM

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delicate holly Apr 7, 2023, 1:35 PM

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ahhh I read you

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yep, the material effects work now

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however, the bullet pen is nil, despite having added the thickness override in the bisurf

pallid island Apr 7, 2023, 1:39 PM

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meowsweats

delicate holly Apr 7, 2023, 1:40 PM

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https://streamable.com/8d0jtt

Streamable

no pen :(

▶ Play video

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I'll try updating the firegeo with thinner meshes to see if that changes anything

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well slap me silly because that worked

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https://streamable.com/49uekf

Streamable

yes pen :)

▶ Play video

delicate holly Apr 7, 2023, 1:48 PM

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pallid island 78 mm is way bigger than MX can penetrate, it has `caliber=1;`, `initSpeed` of 8...

thank you for that, it's the solution I needed all I along. You're a lifesaver meowheart

celest arch Oct 29, 2015, 8:53 PM

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one more question guys, in my silencer, what should I assign the named selection "zasleh2" to?

woeful viper Oct 29, 2015, 8:56 PM

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thats the muzzle flash proxy for the silenced shot

celest arch Oct 29, 2015, 8:56 PM

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ah the proxy itself?

wet goblet Apr 7, 2023, 10:06 PM

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hello everyone, I recently have been learning how to get models into the game. I finally was able to get my p3d exported and have gotten to the object builder portion. Does anyone have a recommended guide for that? The model i am trying to get into the game is a weapon, not a uniform

old gulch Apr 7, 2023, 10:36 PM

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If you're working in Blender, you don't really need to use Object Builder.

wet goblet Apr 7, 2023, 10:38 PM

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so the model I got was somebodies who gave it free to the public, he gave simple directions to us on how to import it into arma. I did the LOD stuff and the shadow stuff in blender. I am unsure what I have to do next though.

celest arch Oct 29, 2015, 9:28 PM

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works fine

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http://i.imgur.com/2MI1QMX.jpg

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bit un-ergonomic :D

stuck oyster Apr 7, 2023, 10:59 PM

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there are few good tutorials on youtube about that. And a lot of answered questions on BI forums

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and the sample mods on Steam arma 3 samples

wet goblet Apr 7, 2023, 11:02 PM

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stuck oyster there are few good tutorials on youtube about that. And a lot of answered questi...

any videos that you recommend? I appreciate your response

stuck oyster Apr 7, 2023, 11:02 PM

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ones from El Tyranos and Sokolonko have been good

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no tutorial ever goes through all the things you can do but should get you in the right direction

hollow fulcrum Oct 29, 2015, 9:30 PM

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geezus man, did you move the island next to the sun? haha, looks functional enough to me though. 👍

stuck oyster Apr 7, 2023, 11:05 PM

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but since somebody gave you models. Id recommend double and then triple checking those models are actually something you can use, as in made by the person giving them out. Bought models rarely have such license that they can be just give out for free since that would eat all business from the orginal maker and ripped models from other games are also always no no.

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You are always responsible for what you put into the game and share

celest arch Oct 29, 2015, 9:30 PM

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:P

wet goblet Apr 7, 2023, 11:06 PM

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i gotcha thank you

celest arch Oct 29, 2015, 9:30 PM

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http://i.imgur.com/zOh7OiL.jpg

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http://i.imgur.com/5fPwojT.jpg

hollow fulcrum Oct 29, 2015, 9:32 PM

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what to do while role-playing ... obviously carve scary faces into flashlights. ;)

celest arch Oct 29, 2015, 9:33 PM

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forgot to set ultra settings on textures

icy dirge Oct 29, 2015, 9:33 PM

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Anybody know why i cant throw grenades in my custom building lol

hollow fulcrum Oct 29, 2015, 9:33 PM

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physx lod.

celest arch Oct 29, 2015, 9:33 PM

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http://i.imgur.com/mwkHhAe.jpg

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with Ultra

hollow fulcrum Oct 29, 2015, 9:33 PM

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if it is not there or does not represent the geometry properly, nades will fail.

slate epoch Oct 29, 2015, 9:33 PM

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what?

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maglite supressor?

celest arch Oct 29, 2015, 9:34 PM

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yup

icy dirge Oct 29, 2015, 9:34 PM

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@hollow fulcrum gonna check if i can fix it

hollow fulcrum Oct 29, 2015, 9:35 PM

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@icy dirge if your geoLOD is valid, just copy it over, tris it, make components if needed. probably mostly solved.

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copy over to geoPhysxLOD..

icy dirge Oct 29, 2015, 9:35 PM

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Copy that. Thanks

jaunty rune Oct 29, 2015, 10:28 PM

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@last spindle when you finish the tool could you hook me up? been wanting to do somemore thing sin revit and import them to max

fading sequoia Apr 8, 2023, 11:01 PM

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What software does everyone use to make ArmA 3 clothes?

urban geode Apr 9, 2023, 12:16 AM

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Blender and Substance painter

last spindle Oct 30, 2015, 12:11 AM

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You can open revit files directly in 3DSMax, the issues are the textures, what I'm doing is creating a max script that will read the revit texture ID and replace it with a sbsar and do a few other things to make a PBR ready visualisation. You can the link .max files directly into unity5 or autodesks new game engine

hot hornet Apr 9, 2023, 5:51 AM

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fading sequoia What software does everyone use to make ArmA 3 clothes?

My workflow: marvelous designer for the garments > zbrush for the details > blender for the low poly models and UVs and Substance Painter for the textures

woeful viper Oct 30, 2015, 12:41 AM

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autodesk does a game engine now?

quick terrace Oct 30, 2015, 12:43 AM

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yeah

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not impressed so far

urban geode Apr 9, 2023, 7:43 AM

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What am I doing wrong here? My textures for my model aren't showing up. How do I fix that? I thought it's an rvmat issue. But idk how because it calls them there

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forgot to add the hiddenselections in item info but that still didn't fix it

bright echo Apr 9, 2023, 7:45 AM

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I vaguely recall hiddenselctions not working on NVGs, but I heard that got fixed

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I never tested it myself tho

urban geode Apr 9, 2023, 7:46 AM

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How do people get their models working then?

bright echo Apr 9, 2023, 7:46 AM

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oh are the textures just flat out not working or just the hiddenselection ones?

urban geode Apr 9, 2023, 7:46 AM

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They flat out aren't working

bright echo Apr 9, 2023, 7:46 AM

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well that's somehting else entirely then sorry

urban geode Apr 9, 2023, 7:47 AM

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You think it's the rvmat?

hollow fulcrum Oct 30, 2015, 12:51 AM

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no? lol

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i could have sworn it was going to be a unity/unreal killer. /endSarcasm

urban geode Apr 9, 2023, 9:24 AM

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Figured it out it was the rvmat

warm blade Apr 9, 2023, 10:26 AM

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I cant kill the driver inside of my vehicle, I noticed i don't have damagehide on any of the driver or cargo seats could that be the issue?

bright echo Apr 9, 2023, 10:27 AM

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does the proxy exist in firegeo

warm blade Apr 9, 2023, 10:27 AM

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no

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thank you haha

bright echo Apr 9, 2023, 10:27 AM

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thatd be why

warm blade Apr 9, 2023, 10:27 AM

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cheers mate

bright echo Apr 9, 2023, 10:27 AM

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np

jaunty rune Oct 30, 2015, 1:07 AM

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thought it was just to make making tools easier

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and i am awear that you can import revit into max

fallen solar Apr 9, 2023, 4:00 PM

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hello, i'm trying to learn (basic) vehicle modelling. I'm mostly interested in how to properly setup subdivision and bevel modifiers, does anyone know of a decent guide for this? 🙂

stuck oyster Apr 9, 2023, 6:11 PM

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fallen solar hello, i'm trying to learn (basic) vehicle modelling. I'm mostly interested in h...

Since you are new to blender I'd recommend also joining one of the blender community discords so you can tap onto the general blenderer populace knowledge more directly

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For any tutorials on tools best way to find them is to use just the tool or technique name +tutorial/guide in your Google search so you dont try to search something too specific

warm blade Apr 10, 2023, 1:41 AM

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any idea whats going on here, its only on the boot and bonnet of my model? ive tried moving faces to top, ive tried changing the colour of the texture, ive tried deleting all my proxies, ive checked the faces, and im lost to what else it could be

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its the blue/lightish bit thats bothering me, not the black bits

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also its part of the same selection as the bonnet, and also has the rvmat/texture as the bonnet

neon harness Apr 10, 2023, 2:14 PM

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What should I look at if my cannon keep flipping after it fires even though it has mass in the 10 digits?

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Make the mass in the 20 digits.

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Or is it an issue with something else. (Shell colliding with geometry because the first shell you fire doesn't actually spawn or something)

muted tapir Apr 10, 2023, 3:22 PM

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is it possible to switch out the materials of hiddenselections in the config?

charred bolt Apr 10, 2023, 3:37 PM

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neon harness What should I look at if my cannon keep flipping after it fires even though it h...

Have a look at the muzzleImpulseFactor[] for the weapon's magazine.
https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/CfgMagazines_Config_Reference#muzzleImpulseFactor.5B.5D.3D.7B1.0.2C1.0.7D

CfgMagazines Config Reference

charred bolt Apr 10, 2023, 3:38 PM

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muted tapir is it possible to switch out the materials of hiddenselections in the config?

Yes, hiddenSelectionsMaterials[] =

muted tapir Apr 10, 2023, 3:42 PM

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charred bolt Yes, `hiddenSelectionsMaterials[] = `

thanks, i assumed it would be that but i couldn't find any reference to it on the wiki

last spindle Oct 30, 2015, 4:36 AM

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It has PBR so it is ahead of RV4 there, it ain't going to compete with unity or unreal first but eventually assume it might

muted tapir Apr 11, 2023, 3:14 AM

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are there any wiki pages or tutorials or anything other than the LOD wiki and the house sample that could help me gain a better understanding of how Paths LODs and AI pathfinding works?

muted tapir Apr 11, 2023, 3:38 AM

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do objects that are a flat surface require a path lod?

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i've found that the ai are capable of navigating on a flat surface without one present, but they refuse to get on the surface unless i teleport them

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same thing goes for getting off the surface

stuck oyster Apr 11, 2023, 4:10 AM

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muted tapir do objects that are a flat surface require a path lod?

yes all surfaces require path lod for reliable navigation. AI can walk off a surface just fine without it but they take shortest route "out of the object"

muted tapir Apr 11, 2023, 4:10 AM

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i see

stuck oyster Apr 11, 2023, 4:10 AM

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and no there are no tutorials really about that specifically

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but it is rather simple

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there are 2 kinds of points

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IN and POS

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IN points are entry/exit points and POS points are building positions AI can path to on the object

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the mesh between these points must be over a roadway and a valid geometry to work right

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and the path needs to connect to terrain mesh

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(so fully floating platforms wont work without faked path connection to ground by some way)

muted tapir Apr 11, 2023, 4:12 AM

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does the roadway and geo lod need to belong to the same object?

stuck oyster Apr 11, 2023, 4:13 AM

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for path to be valid in all cases, yes

muted tapir Apr 11, 2023, 4:13 AM

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i see

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how good is the ai at going from one object to another without touching terrain inbetween?

stuck oyster Apr 11, 2023, 4:19 AM

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it should work

muted tapir Apr 11, 2023, 4:19 AM

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do you think giving all the concrete-colored objects a path lod is a viable way of making ai capable of pathfinding over them

stuck oyster Apr 11, 2023, 4:20 AM

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is this a single object?

muted tapir Apr 11, 2023, 4:20 AM

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every triangle is an individual object

stuck oyster Apr 11, 2023, 4:20 AM

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aaa

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this is the adaptive ground cover thing

muted tapir Apr 11, 2023, 4:21 AM

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it's the geo lod part of them

stuck oyster Apr 11, 2023, 4:21 AM

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it might work

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or you could have separate path lod objects that are visually invisble that you build a bit simpler paths out of

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if you had path on every pieces the pathing might become too complex

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this is a little bit unknown waters

muted tapir Apr 11, 2023, 4:23 AM

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stuck oyster or you could have separate path lod objects that are visually invisble that you ...

then they'd have to have their own geo and roadway lods, right?

stuck oyster Apr 11, 2023, 4:23 AM

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no they would have their own simple geoblock and roadway too

muted tapir Apr 11, 2023, 4:23 AM

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that's what i meant

stuck oyster Apr 11, 2023, 4:23 AM

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a yes sorry 😵‍💫

muted tapir Apr 11, 2023, 4:23 AM

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np

stuck oyster Apr 11, 2023, 4:24 AM

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read that as wouldnt have

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and possible couple of memorypoints you can use to clulate its position and direction so sinks just little bit into your ground cover

muted tapir Apr 11, 2023, 4:26 AM

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looks good

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i assume the ai will manage transfer between seperate blocks as long as the IN funnels overlap?

stuck oyster Apr 11, 2023, 4:27 AM

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yes

muted tapir Apr 11, 2023, 4:27 AM

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that's great

stuck oyster Apr 11, 2023, 4:27 AM

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you will want a few different heights of the in funnels on both ends so it works at different elewations and angles

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but not too many

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the in points also needs to stay above ground

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and a in-point adjaced edge needs to go through ground

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at least as far as I've observed it

muted tapir Apr 11, 2023, 4:29 AM

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stuck oyster the in points also needs to stay above ground

makes sense

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didnt mean that as a reply to that message, sorry

stuck oyster Apr 11, 2023, 4:29 AM

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is gud

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was still lurking anyway 😄

muted tapir Apr 11, 2023, 4:30 AM

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so if i have one of those path blocks without contact to the terrain, how would i make it have ground contact so that it works?

stuck oyster Apr 11, 2023, 4:55 AM

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have another piece

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chaining them together should work

muted tapir Apr 11, 2023, 4:57 AM

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That's good

stuck oyster Apr 11, 2023, 4:57 AM

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muted tapir Apr 11, 2023, 4:58 AM

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I guess using setObjecttScale to scale an object with a path lod down to 1/50 of its original size would break the funnels, right?

muted tapir Apr 11, 2023, 4:59 AM

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stuck oyster

If that works most of my concerns are gone

stuck oyster Apr 11, 2023, 4:59 AM

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in theory it should

muted tapir Apr 11, 2023, 5:01 AM

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Imma have to go to sleep now.
Thank you very much for your help!

urban geode Apr 11, 2023, 5:42 AM

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Just wanted to get your guys opinions on my first full model uniform/armor

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I haven't weight painted it fully, having some trouble.

last spindle Oct 30, 2015, 5:35 AM

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@hollow fulcrum I thought fk it, lets make that building work in ARMA :p starting to clean it up, down to 190k

muted tapir Apr 11, 2023, 1:59 PM

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Imo it looks nice. It's the armor clones wear during training, right?

urban geode Apr 11, 2023, 2:01 PM

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Yup!

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Surprised that someone knows

muted tapir Apr 11, 2023, 2:02 PM

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That giant visor is quite recognizable

muted tapir Apr 11, 2023, 2:04 PM

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stuck oyster

Would there be any problems if the surface under the path was an edge instead of a plane?

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Kinda like this?

stuck oyster Apr 11, 2023, 2:08 PM

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no problem

muted tapir Apr 11, 2023, 2:08 PM

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Great

last spindle Oct 30, 2015, 6:31 AM

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http://images.akamai.steamusercontent.com/ugc/400052635009222070/6DD83DCE38763D2FE362EB2C3FA8A8781E881C9E/

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why is my pallet floating? All the usual culpruits seem to be OK

quartz prism Apr 11, 2023, 11:08 PM

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Hi does anyone have an idea how I can manipulate the order of the road decales? I want that the one road is always on top:
https://i.imgur.com/TvseZgo.jpeg

Imgur

limpid obsidian Apr 12, 2023, 3:48 AM

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I am currently making my first uniform model and I have a question about the hands. Do I have to texture the hands or will arma color them in since I believe the game changes the hand color depending on the solider?

inland pawn Apr 12, 2023, 3:58 AM

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limpid obsidian I am currently making my first uniform model and I have a question about the han...

You’ll need to either model gloves with it. Or no gloves

stuck oyster Apr 12, 2023, 5:38 AM

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limpid obsidian I am currently making my first uniform model and I have a question about the han...

if they are not covered you will want to copy the hands from the sample character so you get the uv mapping and weighting and identity selections correctly

stuck oyster Apr 12, 2023, 5:39 AM

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quartz prism Hi does anyone have an idea how I can manipulate the order of the road decales? ...

decal objects?

errant pumice Apr 12, 2023, 8:10 AM

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Has anyone made a cable car for A3 and why not? 🙂

tribal finch Apr 12, 2023, 12:26 PM

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yeah I think ATS trains has some if I'm not wrong ^

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Not sure if this is the right place but having some trouble with missile setup, can't find any documentation on it.
A: when firing, a second missile spawns that flies( as it should ) but the original missile still stays on the rails
B: I'm not sure how to define the particle effect position on the model, what do I name the proxy and I guess this is more config related but how would I point the config to that helper

carmine minnow Apr 12, 2023, 12:44 PM

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errant pumice Has anyone made a cable car for A3 and why not? 🙂

Don’t know if anyone has done it, but now i am going to bother @white oak to have him make one. Sorry, not sorry Ken. Thanks for the brilliant idea

white oak Apr 12, 2023, 12:52 PM

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😦

stuck oyster Apr 12, 2023, 1:27 PM

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errant pumice Has anyone made a cable car for A3 and why not? 🙂

Difficulties on making them move and have collision due to object size limits.

livid canyon Apr 12, 2023, 1:39 PM

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Is there a way to find what model position a vertex will be after autocenter takes place?

white oak Apr 12, 2023, 1:51 PM

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stuck oyster Difficulties on making them move and have collision due to object size limits.

I think they'd be quite nice map objects
but having moving ones would indeed be too much work for something that would see very limited usage

A3Life people would be the main users I'm guessing

stuck oyster Apr 12, 2023, 1:57 PM

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livid canyon Is there a way to find what model position a vertex will be after autocenter tak...

Live or while editing/making the thing?

livid canyon Apr 12, 2023, 1:58 PM

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While editing. trying to find snap points for cup terrains stuff based on A2 samples models xD

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like these points.
Here's my super-scuffed method for live-finding simple 90-degree intersections. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6ZfttEUaN4

livid canyon Apr 12, 2023, 2:50 PM

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Turns out it was pretty easy to bring them in game.

stuck oyster Apr 12, 2023, 2:54 PM

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livid canyon Turns out it was pretty easy to bring them in game.

👍 praise_the_sun

quartz prism Apr 12, 2023, 3:18 PM

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stuck oyster decal objects?

Its just a normal object that is placed via xCam and is always attached to the ground

stuck oyster Apr 12, 2023, 3:18 PM

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so a decal object..

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but no you cant do anything about that in game at least

quartz prism Apr 12, 2023, 3:19 PM

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and in the p3d?

stuck oyster Apr 12, 2023, 3:19 PM

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if its a class land_decal the not in there either if I remember right

quick terrace Oct 30, 2015, 8:51 AM

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@last spindle - instead of making a game engine no one will use, they should have done PBR RT viewports for both max and maya

quartz prism Apr 12, 2023, 5:12 PM

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So they are alway randomly ordered?

last spindle Oct 30, 2015, 9:05 AM

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Its not like they diverted resources from developing Max and Maya to make a game engine, they acquired a company that already had a game engine and adapted it into a autodesk product

quick terrace Oct 30, 2015, 9:21 AM

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i am also aware of that, i phrase the above wrong - they should also focus on the things that are going to be industry standards - from shaders (GGX support is not there in any autodesk software natively) to proper Real Time viewports.

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PBR is industry standard today, and most game engines and render engines will be alligning by the end of 2016

tulip gyro Apr 13, 2023, 1:14 PM

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How do I properly implement insignia support on uniforms?

marsh canyon Apr 13, 2023, 1:15 PM

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https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Arma_3:_Unit_Insignia
Basically this

Arma 3: Unit Insignia

tulip gyro Apr 13, 2023, 1:16 PM

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I've tried adding an "insignia" selection thinking that It'd act the same way as an HL selection

tulip gyro Apr 13, 2023, 1:16 PM

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marsh canyon https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Arma_3:_Unit_Insignia Basically this

yeah

marsh canyon Apr 13, 2023, 1:18 PM

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An insignia selection is just done with the same way with vehicle retextures

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Not with how the skin part (hl)

tulip gyro Apr 13, 2023, 1:19 PM

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According to the wiki page you've linked I should just make it a transparent material and I should be good to go?

marsh canyon Apr 13, 2023, 1:20 PM

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And it should have the proper weights (apparently) and basically it's done

tulip gyro Apr 13, 2023, 1:22 PM

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Thanks!

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okay it doesn't seem to work

tribal rain Apr 13, 2023, 3:01 PM

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question for yall

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so ive got a model im trying to make and im pretty sure the vertices are off

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but i dont know which vertices im meant to assign them too?

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this i for a little fun goof mod im doing

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thats how its meant to be

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supposed to be for a dark elf fantasy mod im doing but i cannot for the life of me figure out why its not working as it should.

So what id like is for the collar to sit around the neck and not freak out just sit there nicely. right now when the player moves the collar derps.

and the cuffs to go around the wrists

stuck oyster Apr 13, 2023, 3:10 PM

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your sample character you are using as reference is too high up

tribal rain Apr 13, 2023, 3:10 PM

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stuck oyster your sample character you are using as reference is too high up

good shout

stuck oyster Apr 13, 2023, 3:11 PM

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tribal rain Apr 13, 2023, 3:12 PM

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stuck oyster

yeah you were right

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i tested it by chucking in a helmet i know that works

stuck oyster Apr 13, 2023, 3:13 PM

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it is possible to export p3d without applying the transforms though so you could export the uniform from anywhere in blender world space as long as the uniform objects origin corresponds to the sample character objects origin (as long as that has not been altered from its original position)

tribal rain Apr 13, 2023, 3:13 PM

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and low and behold it was way off

stuck oyster Apr 13, 2023, 3:14 PM

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these all would export correctly since the object origins are in right position and the mesh in object space is right

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as long as the transforms are not applied

tribal rain Apr 13, 2023, 3:15 PM

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stuck oyster it is possible to export p3d without applying the transforms though so you could...

next question though,

Are these vert groups right?

stuck oyster Apr 13, 2023, 3:15 PM

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yes

tribal rain Apr 13, 2023, 3:16 PM

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alright bet ill give it a go

worthy kite Apr 13, 2023, 3:50 PM

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Anyone have any resources/tutorials for absolute beginners? I'm looking to get into model making and have found a few tutorials but it seems people have different ways of doing things or different software they like.

stuck oyster Apr 13, 2023, 4:03 PM

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worthy kite Anyone have any resources/tutorials for absolute beginners? I'm looking to get ...

there are multiple ways of doing things yes. As an "absolute beginner" you will want to choose a program (Blender for example is widely used and free) and start by doing basic non arma related tutorials on it to start learning how modeling works and then move onwards to texturing and such related things

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there is nothing that will show you everything at one sitting and you will likely spend at least a few weeks learning basic workflow stuff

worthy kite Apr 13, 2023, 4:20 PM

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stuck oyster there are multiple ways of doing things yes. As an "absolute beginner" you will ...

Thank you I downloaded blender as that seemed to he the one that was used most. Any tutorials you would recommend to start with?

stuck oyster Apr 13, 2023, 4:21 PM

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for such recommendations Id suggest joining the Blender community discord. Im not really up to speed on which ones are best today. Been quite a few years since I've started

muted tapir Apr 13, 2023, 4:30 PM

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worthy kite Thank you I downloaded blender as that seemed to he the one that was used most. ...

the donut tutorial is nice https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLjEaoINr3zgFX8ZsChQVQsuDSjEqdWMAD
i don't think you really need anything past part 9 for doing models for arma

YouTube

Blender Beginner Donut Tutorial

Learn the fundamentals of Blender while making your very own donut. You'll learn the UI, modelling, sculpting, texturing, shading, geometry nodes, lighting, ...

worthy kite Apr 13, 2023, 4:32 PM

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muted tapir the donut tutorial is nice https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLjEaoINr3zgFX8...

Thank you

stuck oyster Apr 13, 2023, 4:32 PM

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it is good to understand the tools in depth though

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the more you know the more easier it is to do things

tulip gyro Apr 13, 2023, 8:49 PM

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Hello, I've encountered a lighting issue in object builder

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are there any fixes to it?

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it's not caused by ambient occlusion or normal maps

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I've checked

stuck oyster Apr 13, 2023, 9:04 PM

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youll want to put sharp edge there

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that is shading from smooth edge as it tries to shade the surface round

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@tulip gyro

tulip gyro Apr 13, 2023, 9:05 PM

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Thanks!

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it worked

umbral shuttle Apr 14, 2023, 10:16 AM

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when a weapon is not selected ,like say my primary weapon on my back, will the fire geo still be active. My idea is to make a riot shield and when its on back it would still protect the back

muted tapir Apr 14, 2023, 12:55 PM

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will putting the points on the uv outside of the texture make the texture loop in arma the same way it does in blender?

stuck oyster Apr 14, 2023, 3:00 PM

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muted tapir will putting the points on the uv outside of the texture make the texture loop i...

Yes

terse elm Oct 30, 2015, 1:32 PM

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Its Friday........get ur WIP's out for the channel!!!!!

celest arch Oct 30, 2015, 1:32 PM

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:)

terse elm Oct 30, 2015, 1:32 PM

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heres mine http://i.imgur.com/PPGFbiZ.png

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new Tyre for my ford raptor

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come on folks dont be shy :-P

umbral shuttle Apr 14, 2023, 6:19 PM

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so the autocenter property, https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Arma_3:_Named_Properties
having autocenter to 1 would move the model so its object center is at (0,0,0)?

Arma 3: Named Properties

muted tapir Apr 14, 2023, 7:08 PM

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umbral shuttle so the autocenter property, https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Arma_3:_Named_Pr...

that's indeed what it does iirc

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can a vertex be part of multiple hiddenSelections?

stuck oyster Apr 14, 2023, 7:50 PM

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muted tapir can a vertex be part of multiple hiddenSelections?

vertex should be able to be part of multiple selections yes

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its the face that has the texture

muted tapir Apr 14, 2023, 7:50 PM

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great

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https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Model_Config
maybe there should be a hint on this page stating which characters are legal in classnames

Model Config

stuck oyster Apr 14, 2023, 8:22 PM

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muted tapir https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Model_Config maybe there should be a hint on...

typically in computer stuff letters and numbers are safe.

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special characters are for special use only

muted tapir Apr 14, 2023, 8:25 PM

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- in my filenames broke my model.cfg which i was not expecting

stuck oyster Apr 14, 2023, 8:26 PM

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😅

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I dont think Ive ever even tried that

muted tapir Apr 14, 2023, 8:35 PM

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it happens when you try to add coordinates with decimals into your model names and realize . and , won't work

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otherwise i wouldn't have tried that either

quick terrace Oct 30, 2015, 2:04 PM

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http://i.imgur.com/Et20f5F.png?1

stuck oyster Apr 14, 2023, 8:53 PM

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😅

north sundial Oct 30, 2015, 2:06 PM

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Ooohhh pretty, what is it?

wraith tendon Oct 30, 2015, 2:07 PM

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I bet, its a Sandwichmaker.

ember heart Oct 30, 2015, 2:07 PM

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lol close

wraith tendon Oct 30, 2015, 2:08 PM

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:)

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(something like a blaster?)

north sundial Oct 30, 2015, 2:09 PM

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baby cannon?

wraith tendon Oct 30, 2015, 2:09 PM

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uuhhh, firing little crying babys at your enemys! Yeaahhh!

north sundial Oct 30, 2015, 2:10 PM

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Well not only the babies, they come with extra "Chemical weapons" http://s3.amazonaws.com/theoatmeal-img/comics/kids/kids.png

wraith tendon Oct 30, 2015, 2:10 PM

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yyeeeaaaahhhhh

quick terrace Oct 30, 2015, 2:12 PM

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good grief lads...let's see if this makes more sense...http://i.imgur.com/iRbYqkg.png?1

wraith tendon Oct 30, 2015, 2:12 PM

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Its a lamp!

rotund ocean Oct 30, 2015, 2:13 PM

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a potato smasher?

wraith tendon Oct 30, 2015, 2:13 PM

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Or a cordless Screwdriver

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*Drill

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Anyone else an idea?

rotund ocean Oct 30, 2015, 2:15 PM

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pepper mill?

bold flare Oct 30, 2015, 2:16 PM

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A Magazine with something on top

north sundial Oct 30, 2015, 2:16 PM

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One of those electic bolt screwer things that they use in F1? :D

wraith tendon Oct 30, 2015, 2:16 PM

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ha! I got it!

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Its a hammer! Front View!

quick terrace Oct 30, 2015, 2:18 PM

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:D

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http://i.imgur.com/iVK3vNa.png?1

ember heart Oct 30, 2015, 2:19 PM

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the force is weak with these ones :P

quick terrace Oct 30, 2015, 2:19 PM

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it is...

tired bramble Oct 30, 2015, 2:19 PM

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IT'S A SHOVEL

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That side view confirms it.

rotund ocean Oct 30, 2015, 2:19 PM

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a funny looking bat

wraith tendon Oct 30, 2015, 2:19 PM

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Strange looking hammer oO

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@quick terrace

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XD

quick terrace Oct 30, 2015, 2:20 PM

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@north sundial - don't wanna know what you do with you butt and free time thank you

wraith tendon Oct 30, 2015, 2:20 PM

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Okay: That thing reminds me on the SD Version of the AK

north sundial Oct 30, 2015, 2:20 PM

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Haha

wraith tendon Oct 30, 2015, 2:20 PM

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(from OFP i believe)

tired bramble Oct 30, 2015, 2:20 PM

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AS VAL

wraith tendon Oct 30, 2015, 2:21 PM

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Correct

tired bramble Oct 30, 2015, 2:21 PM

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SHOVAL

quick terrace Oct 30, 2015, 2:21 PM

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@north sundial not everything that is pink fits a butt lad...

wraith tendon Oct 30, 2015, 2:21 PM

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Answering for Kenny: "Challenge accepted"

quick terrace Oct 30, 2015, 2:21 PM

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because otherwise...https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/04/c7/59/04c759642ff34614dd013ca7cdabeb79.jpg

wraith tendon Oct 30, 2015, 2:21 PM

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XD

north sundial Oct 30, 2015, 2:21 PM

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Just be brave!

tired bramble Oct 30, 2015, 2:22 PM

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Well, considering those things usually have those little nutsacks attached to the back.

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It's clearly made to be put in ones butt.

north sundial Oct 30, 2015, 2:22 PM

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The pickup truck? :P

quick terrace Oct 30, 2015, 2:22 PM

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other experience worth sharing @tired bramble ?

wraith tendon Oct 30, 2015, 2:22 PM

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http://a57.foxnews.com/global.fncstatic.com/static/managed/img/U.S./876/493/blurredcar.gif?ve=1&tl=1

north sundial Oct 30, 2015, 2:22 PM

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Omg haha

tired bramble Oct 30, 2015, 2:23 PM

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@quick terrace Yes, when I click on pictures, and drag them around, the camera doesn't move.

quick terrace Oct 30, 2015, 2:24 PM

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:) damn hoax

past canopy Oct 30, 2015, 2:37 PM

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really cool ak47 @quick terrace ;)

quick terrace Oct 30, 2015, 2:38 PM

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good christ lads, not even funny anymore :P

wraith tendon Oct 30, 2015, 2:38 PM

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XXDD

past canopy Oct 30, 2015, 2:38 PM

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DId you post videos about making that HP?

quick terrace Oct 30, 2015, 2:39 PM

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you mean on RHS twitch? nope

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might do it after i get the LP done for the bakes

past canopy Oct 30, 2015, 2:39 PM

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twitch, youtube whichever

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k

quick terrace Oct 30, 2015, 2:40 PM

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neah, i model when i have some spare time, at the office or at home

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when at office it would be weird to talk to my monitor, when at home, i usually have a chat with the misses while i model...so yeah

white oak Apr 15, 2023, 4:24 PM

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Somehow I managed to lose all the windows and doors on the building

stuck oyster Apr 15, 2023, 4:29 PM

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blobcatsweats

white oak Apr 15, 2023, 4:30 PM

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Blender doesn't export them
nor does it throw an error
odd

stuck oyster Apr 15, 2023, 4:31 PM

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Are they separate objects?

white oak Apr 15, 2023, 4:32 PM

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Yup
They are marked them as arma objects however
Other buildings that I made with the same obj structure exports correctly
might just merge them, see what happens

plush trail Apr 15, 2023, 4:39 PM

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hello I'm starting my first attempt with model making and utilizing. I'm using a model of a sepecat jaguar with CC with attribution from sketchfab. So far I have painted it and seperated flaps, breaks , guns, fins, canopy, landing gear (each) and their panels (each)

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do I need to do rigging before even thinking of going to the object maker?

stuck oyster Apr 15, 2023, 4:51 PM

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plush trail do I need to do rigging before even thinking of going to the object maker?

well rigging does not really transfer, but can be very helpful in setting up the vertex groups that you want to animate and for creating the memorypoint axis pairs. There isnt really anything you really need to do in OB expect try out the animations in buldozer

plush trail Apr 15, 2023, 4:52 PM

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oh

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Also the plane has the guns like this

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it's the marked area

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is there a way to put the flashes in front of each barrel

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I'll make it fire two shots each time you pull the trigger to simulate them firing. I'm decent at coding but modelling is new to me

lean furnace Apr 15, 2023, 4:58 PM

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Where can if find a Paid Arma mod tutorial ?

plush trail Apr 15, 2023, 4:58 PM

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for what?

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there are videos for tanks, guns, and helicopters on youtube for the modelling

lean furnace Apr 15, 2023, 5:04 PM

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Yeah true, but not many Videos are out there, I need hands-on tutorials and intimacy with the Craft.

plush trail Apr 15, 2023, 5:21 PM

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stuck oyster well rigging does not really transfer, but can be very helpful in setting up the...

So the animations are made in OB, buldozer or blender?

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I can try to make vertexes

stuck oyster Apr 15, 2023, 5:47 PM

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plush trail So the animations are made in OB, buldozer or blender?

model.cfg by procedural code

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but the modeling the necessary components is best done in blender

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what you should do is go back a step and make something simple like a box with a lid

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and then get that lid animated

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what you got now is very very very complex to practice with

plush trail Apr 15, 2023, 6:03 PM

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oh ok

stuck oyster Apr 15, 2023, 6:04 PM

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you can find model.cfg explained on the wiki and the sample models also contain example model.cfg

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but it is better to start from simple so you learn how to write it

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instead of copy pasting

plush trail Apr 15, 2023, 6:05 PM

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I see

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I'll do that. I started with a plane cause the first modelling guide I saw was about the RB-22 chopper

stuck oyster Apr 15, 2023, 6:08 PM

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guides unfortunately are all little bit incomplete and dont start from the very basics. so there can be a lot of confusion in watching them

celest arch Oct 30, 2015, 4:16 PM

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quick question: do we still have the 99 components limit in the geolod?

plush trail Apr 15, 2023, 6:47 PM

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yea

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The model I used is CC with attribution ,is that ok? As long as I attribute the original maker in sketchfab. I will pull the text sketchfab gave me

stuck oyster Apr 15, 2023, 6:49 PM

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sounds like it could be ok.

plush trail Apr 15, 2023, 6:50 PM

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yea as long as the man that made the model didn't steal it from somewhere we shall be fine I think

hollow fulcrum Oct 30, 2015, 4:17 PM

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what? no..

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☕ @quick terrace guns lookin good brother ;)

celest arch Oct 30, 2015, 4:18 PM

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no? k

hollow fulcrum Oct 30, 2015, 4:20 PM

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@last spindle haha, you can not resist! (i bet it would ok at pretty high counts if the numbers are inside)

celest arch Oct 30, 2015, 4:20 PM

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I think im a bit over it (in the 120ish range) for this: http://i.imgur.com/9iB5OLk.png could also split it up

hollow fulcrum Oct 30, 2015, 4:21 PM

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you people and ortho views.. meh.. if it's needed it's needed. you could also proxy it out if concerned. /shrug

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when you start getting into the hundreds of components, like the Mk.V (400 odd), then you can actually start to see performance issues.

quick terrace Oct 30, 2015, 4:23 PM

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@hollow fulcrum cheers lad, only added internsls and cut seams since last tome you've seen it

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reg ortho view-i never get how you can use it...

hollow fulcrum Oct 30, 2015, 4:24 PM

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i use it only when clipping becomes annoying honestly.. but thats just me. :D

quick terrace Oct 30, 2015, 4:26 PM

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i use cm or mm for most stuff for game and work

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for this very reason

hollow fulcrum Oct 30, 2015, 4:27 PM

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mm, bar the larger stuff. and yeah cm.. suprises me how often i run across people who lack knowledge of things like, zooming with ctrl+alt+middle** mouse... (learn to use the viewing tools!)

quick terrace Oct 30, 2015, 4:27 PM

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if my typing is shit, it's my mobile, my dyslexia isnt that bad

hollow fulcrum Oct 30, 2015, 4:27 PM

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hahaha

quick terrace Oct 30, 2015, 4:28 PM

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alt both buttons

hollow fulcrum Oct 30, 2015, 4:29 PM

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yeah, i was about to correct that. (mine is not default)

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:)

humble wraith Apr 15, 2023, 8:55 PM

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So getting into mod making and just wanted to share one of my first projects. This is going to be the Cerbrus dogs from Resident Evil. I'm really excited about it! animations are the only things that are really going to be a pain in the butt, but it'll be well worth it! I'm working on texturing right now, gotta make sure the ribs and stuff show. Lol.

stuck oyster Apr 15, 2023, 9:03 PM

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👍

quick terrace Oct 30, 2015, 4:30 PM

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neither is mine, my custom keys + scripts (pro viewport) are one of the most safeguarded files

hollow fulcrum Oct 30, 2015, 4:30 PM

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^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

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anywho, catch you later. i'm going to allow @woeful tartan to distract me today with some Elite|Dangerous sidelining. (assuming i can hide from work successfully..)

wraith tendon Oct 30, 2015, 4:32 PM

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waits

hollow fulcrum Oct 30, 2015, 4:32 PM

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-.-

wraith tendon Oct 30, 2015, 4:33 PM

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^^

celest arch Oct 30, 2015, 4:35 PM

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REPENT! http://i.imgur.com/1IrzJGW.jpg

wraith tendon Oct 30, 2015, 4:55 PM

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The is
End Now

woeful viper Oct 30, 2015, 5:08 PM

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pink blood? somebody played with red food color again?

wise coral Oct 30, 2015, 5:44 PM

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your monitor is color blind

white oak Apr 16, 2023, 10:53 AM

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Are there any blender plugins to open paa files?

stiff dagger Apr 16, 2023, 11:07 AM

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Can use texview and save it as a .tga if that helps.

white oak Apr 16, 2023, 11:14 AM

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stiff dagger Can use texview and save it as a .tga if that helps.

well yes
but I'm more looking for a quality of life plugin
so I can just open the paa file while UV mapping rather than having 2 copies of every texture and go digging for them

delicate holly Apr 16, 2023, 12:30 PM

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Does anyone know if it is possible to perform a batch rename for vertex selections within object builder?

stuck oyster Apr 16, 2023, 2:27 PM

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white oak Are there any blender plugins to open paa files?

Nope

stuck oyster Apr 16, 2023, 2:28 PM

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delicate holly Does anyone know if it is possible to perform a batch rename for vertex selectio...

There isn't any inbuilt rename tool but there are addons that have such advanced search and renaming functions

delicate holly Apr 16, 2023, 2:51 PM

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thanks for confirming that o7

lean furnace Apr 16, 2023, 5:01 PM

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Is there a Quick way to retopology this mesh for Arma 3 ?

past mesa Oct 30, 2015, 6:30 PM

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lol

stuck oyster Apr 16, 2023, 6:01 PM

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lean furnace Is there a Quick way to retopology this mesh for Arma 3 ?

No.

lean furnace Apr 16, 2023, 6:14 PM

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Is their retopology Plugin for Software like blender ?

stuck oyster Apr 16, 2023, 6:15 PM

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Sure. The best ones just cost.

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But you asked for quick way to do it for Arma. Which there isn't even with plugins since the retopo model would need some adjustment manually anyway.

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To make it fit the Arma man's joints and weighting.

north sundial Oct 30, 2015, 6:41 PM

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Maybe make the blood abit more brown shultz because it would be dry

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Looks awesome though :)

white jay Apr 16, 2023, 7:04 PM

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hey so if I downloaded a mod and the door animations don't work am I allowed to fix it myself?

fluid copper Apr 16, 2023, 7:07 PM

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white jay hey so if I downloaded a mod and the door animations don't work am I allowed to ...

Part of the door anims stuff is in the model.cfg file, in order to create a new one for the building model you would have to have an unbinarized version of the model, which likely isnt included in the mods pbo. You could check the config file and see if theres something that can be fixed in that, or contact the developer to see if they can help. Worth looking at the license as well, since most prohibit the re-publishing of the mod to the workshop

white jay Apr 16, 2023, 7:09 PM

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ok i just looked at the config and found this for the door stuff, i don't plan on republishing i just wanted to fix it so i can do CQB with it on SP

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this is what the door animations say in the config

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i have to send it as a text doc

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📎 New_Text_Document_2.txt

fluid copper Apr 16, 2023, 7:12 PM

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I'm not knowledgeable enough in anims to tell if there is an error in that, you could see if anyone in #arma3_config or #arma3_animation can assist

white jay Apr 16, 2023, 7:15 PM

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thank you

limpid obsidian Apr 16, 2023, 10:08 PM

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How would one go about adding a pistol proxy in blender to a vest so the weapon will show while holstered?

inland pawn Apr 16, 2023, 10:35 PM

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limpid obsidian How would one go about adding a pistol proxy in blender to a vest so the weapon ...

Add the proxy in the p3d. If you own it

wind niche Apr 17, 2023, 1:59 AM

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Hey, I'm learning Blender to make a simple weapon model for arma, I'm wondering if I can use Blender modifiers for my arma models or not?

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I'm trying to add a bevel modifier for a hilt I'm making, and a boolean modifier for a cutout

stuck oyster Apr 17, 2023, 2:13 AM

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wind niche Hey, I'm learning Blender to make a simple weapon model for arma, I'm wondering ...

you can use all the tools you can find. the end product you export will just have all of those applied to make them "real"

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but you will want to be careful not to make things too highpoly.

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Id recommend looking into highpoly-lowpoly texture baking workflow

wind niche Apr 17, 2023, 2:17 AM

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Oh it's not very high poly, just around 250 vertices for the weapon I'm making, but I plan to make a very dumbed down version without bevels and things for far away LOD's

stuck oyster Apr 17, 2023, 2:17 AM

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👍

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modifiers can just sometimes "get out of hand"

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but like said, you can use any modeling techniques/tools you want

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the process between 0 and ready model dont export

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only the end result

wind niche Apr 17, 2023, 2:18 AM

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Alright cool, thanks for answering so quickly

urban geode Apr 17, 2023, 2:45 AM

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Any reason this could be happening?

woeful viper Oct 30, 2015, 7:28 PM

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yes, completely dried blood kinda looks like ironrust colorwise

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(even smells like iron... at least my does xD)

stuck oyster Apr 17, 2023, 2:52 AM

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urban geode Any reason this could be happening?

Yes you have assigned material to proxies which break them

urban geode Apr 17, 2023, 2:54 AM

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How do I fix that?

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Just remove the rvmat and textures from them in object builder?

stuck oyster Apr 17, 2023, 2:58 AM

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That could work

urban geode Apr 17, 2023, 2:59 AM

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It didn't

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😦

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It just made the triangles be textureless

muted tapir Apr 17, 2023, 9:25 AM

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what does this hidden selection maker actually do?

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if i change the parameter in there, it changes for all materials

stuck oyster Apr 17, 2023, 9:37 AM

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You can make hiddenselections vertex groups manually

safe walrus Apr 17, 2023, 10:32 AM

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Hello, what file type does a tank model need to be in order to work in arma 3? (for example an imported 3d model that I want to use for artwork)

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Would .obj work?

marsh canyon Apr 17, 2023, 10:41 AM

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You just want a prop?

celest arch Oct 30, 2015, 8:42 PM

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who said it's going to be dry :D

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you have no idea what the proxies will be :D

inland pawn Apr 17, 2023, 6:27 PM

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safe walrus Hello, what file type does a tank model need to be in order to work in arma 3? (...

P3D

safe walrus Apr 17, 2023, 6:27 PM

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marsh canyon You just want a prop?

yes

white oak Apr 17, 2023, 6:28 PM

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Doors, how do they work
seriously though, do I need to make an animation rtm, or do I just reference a memory point

stuck oyster Apr 17, 2023, 7:45 PM

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white oak Doors, how do they work seriously though, do I need to make an animation rtm, or...

what doors?

white oak Apr 17, 2023, 7:47 PM

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building doors
trying to get them to open
but making a mistake with the memory vertices I'm guessing
can't see it on the interaction menu

stuck oyster Apr 17, 2023, 7:49 PM

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have you checked the sample house model?

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it has working doors setup

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selections in p3d, memorypoints, model,cfg, configcpp

white oak Apr 17, 2023, 7:51 PM

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Yup trying to replicate that
door is in a vertex group in LOD1
Interaction and Axis vertices are also grouped in Memory LOD
more or less copied over the modelcfg and configcpp to the letter (with the needed changes)

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Do I have to copy functions aswell or can I use the ingame functions?

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Even removed the interaction conditions to make sure they display first
still nothing

stuck oyster Apr 17, 2023, 7:54 PM

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do you have the geometry lods?

white oak Apr 17, 2023, 7:54 PM

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not yet