arma3_model

[cloud zealot]

it could be my computer fault, i need to change it, i'm experiencing some periodical weird lags in every game since 2 months.

I'll try to pack with addon builder just to see

[stuck oyster]

do you test it with vanilla arma?

or dev build?

[cloud zealot]

with vanilla arma

I think i'll open a thread on the feedback tracker, could be useful for bohemia

[south badge]

Ah sorry, but is this "InterpolateTo" the correct place where I need to link the "dead" version of a player´s pose (for vehicle crew)?

[charred bolt]

Yes

[south badge]

Cheers. I am looking at this for the first time, is there anything else I need to keep in mind? Looking at other assets it does not seem like I need anything in particular except for a "dead" rtm.

[stuck oyster]

for basic functionality, connection to dead state is enough

for expanded features you could have turn in/out states

and the FFV animation set for using weapons on that seat

[south badge]

Hmmm, I tried it with using a random vanilla one, but he does not seem to like it. True, I used a "living" vanilla .rtm, but, does it matter? Do I need to only use dead rtms in this interpolation?

I guess so, because it works with a dead vanilla rtm

[stuck oyster]

yes those connect also to the dead state

[south badge]

Okay I see, thanks a lot 🙂

[green vortex]

its not texture issue

[unkempt token]

Did you sort the glass textured faces by alpha in object builder?

[green vortex]

as in?

[unkempt token]

Select all faces with textures that are transparent and then sort alpha

does it still happen after?

[green vortex]

Uhh it doesnt load

Its most liekly gonna crash it froze

[stuck oyster]

your solid part texture is saved with alpha channel and contains transparency so the engine things its see through even when its not

transparent things need to be separated to their own texture

and solids to another

and the textures need to follow the correct suffix naming rules before converting to paa

[green vortex]

aight tysm, they ended up fixing it

[stuck oyster]

well would be cooler if it wasnt ripped model. feels like I've wasted my time on that

[green vortex]

yeah it let me down as well, I've already let them know, we just applied the custom texture to it. We will try to find an alternative

no wonder why those vehicles look good but the driving is sooo shitty

[stuck oyster]

shitty driving is the fault of the one who put them in game... not the model 😛

[green vortex]

yeee I know I know

friend had to tweak the damn vehicles because they flip over and all that

so the guys who ripped it into the game must be only good at ripping lmao

[stuck oyster]

often that is the case

[green vortex]

I thought piracy and content stealing in Arma had reached a limit but it keeps getting worse

They now have a "premium" thing on their website where you subscribe and get more vehicles, prolly ripped as well

And they have what seems to be a BE whitelisted extension that checks on a blacklist so they can willingly ban people from using the vehicles on their servers, I think that un-whitelisting the extension can shut down the whole thing

[south badge]

I mean, certain people have the audacity to rip models out of WT and then put a disclaimer in their mod forbidding people repacking their mod, effectively trying to ban others from stealing content they themselves stole

[green vortex]

😂

I hope it stops

Because thats some heavy shit, it gets people off the game, everything feels like it hasnt been given enough love not to steal assets

[south badge]

I disagree. Take one look at the comment sections of these crappy, low-effort ripped mods, and 90 percent of people are praising it and asking for more.

And you are actually the bad guy for calling it out

[cobalt pawn]

@bold flare or any other dev.
Is there a hard height limit for character fire geometry hit detection?
I am trying to fix an issue i have with the the scaled up optre spartan model. For the top part of the head, there is no hit detection.
I made an example with the arma samples character and head models using the OFP2_ManSkeleton, I just made the head longer in the visual and fire geometry lods, I also increased the boundingsphere to 2 in the animation config. I tried that to see if was a problem with the scaled up skeleton. But i am still having the same issue.
You can see the problem i am having in the video below.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkNndK_d0SU

[bold flare]

The normal collision is like 60m

[cobalt pawn]

hmm, must be something else stopping the fire geometry from working above a certain height then, or something else.

[stuck oyster]

Like I've mentioned before, characters don't seem to have more than 2m radius sphere, no matter what the configs are set to

Boundingsphere config does not seem to affect it anymore.

I'm fairly sure it did work at some point before but can't say when it stopped

Attaching invisible hitpoint objects to transfer damage is a bandaid solution buut not quite the best one.

[marble wind]

im attempting to retexture a asset in blender but everytime i put in a image texture on the model it either wraps weirdly (repeats many times and doesnt actually wrap around the model correctly) or simply doesnt show up

ive heard its a RVMAT or UV mapping issue but i dont know how i could fix that

[sour bough]

... Retexture? Is it your model?

[marble wind]

no its a model imported to roblox that i want to retexture

but its from arma 3 and has arma 3 textures

[sour bough]

fascinating
You shouldn't do that.

@stuck oyster ?

Oh there he is lol

[stuck oyster]

Big no no

[sour bough]

That one minute response time tho

[stuck oyster]

We have 0 tolerance on model theft

[copper scarab]

[marble wind]

well i didnt steal it i found it on the roblox toolbox

[stuck oyster]

Radar went off.

[marble wind]

i wont retexture it then i'll just delete it

[sour bough]

I mean, someone stole it.

[stuck oyster]

👍

[sour bough]

Do I have any model things to talk about

Ummmmmm uhhhhhhhh models and uv's, am I right?

[stuck oyster]

Retexturing is done by painting new texture over existing texture file or template in image editing software like paint, gimp, photoshop

[sour bough]

Or in substance if you have (legitimate and with permission from the creator) access to the model

[stuck oyster]

Too rare to mention xD

[sour bough]

hey it's not rare for me I just ask and they usually say yeah sure gopher it

It's the asking first that people forget

[copper scarab]

people ask?

[south badge]

People texture models in other stuff than substance?

[south badge]

What model is it even, I am curious

[sour bough]

Actually yeah, link it to someone BI. They can report it and get it taken down

Or Uhh send to infringements

[cloud zealot]

Problem solved, actually it was a config error, i was using the paa as hiddenSelectionMaterial instead of the rvmat

[stuck oyster]

Ah

[stuck oyster]

Something for @sturdy parcel to validate perhaps.

That hiddenselection textures have valid .paa or procedural texture line and hiddenselectionMaterials has path to Rvmat file.

[cloud zealot]

Yep, pboproject checks if the file exists but not if it is a valid file

[sturdy parcel]

it does check the validity of rvmats (binarised or plain) but not paa.

[cloud zealot]

then how could it validate a paa as a rvmat ?

[stuck oyster]

What I meant is that if it could also check that someone don't put pathTo paa file where it needs to be rvmat file

It's probably pretty rare case though 😅

[sturdy parcel]

aaaaaaaaaah

[umbral shuttle]

Should I remove weapon attachment proxies on the last few res lods for a weapon?

[marsh canyon]

Terms of "should", your call

If you don't feel it is needed, go ahead

[umbral shuttle]

understandable, ill try it out see if any problems lol

[marsh canyon]

Visual LOD does really nothing to do with gameplay

[charred bolt]

Except flag proxies on vehicles which have to be in the last res LOD to work.

[blazing fox]

anyone know a mod of a public bus ?

[charred bolt]

Not the right place to ask, but 3CB Factions have the "Ikarus" bus, ported in from Arma 2 iirc.

[blazing fox]

ok thanks ill check it and i will ask in a differnt place next time

[stuck oyster]

#arma3_questions is best place to start asking from. For next time

[leaden quartz]

is there anywhere i can get free to use blender model templates for a building i want to create

similar to this building

[dawn vessel]

So I'm trying to setup a hitbox that you can be in the gunner seat off, this part works great, but the third person focuses on the feet of the character rather than their torso, so the third person camera just gets stuck right on the floor and all you can see is your feet, any idea of how to remedy this? I'm brand new to modelling, but I have scripting experience, I've tried to use camCreate and attachTo, but I don't like that method as the player "gitters" from that camera view
https://pastebin.com/uLjz910D

attached is my current p3d and my CfgVehicles for the hitbox

I think all I need to do is setup the memoryPoint in the model, but I'm unsure how you really do this?

[stuck oyster]

Bit unlikely. Buildings are complex to make properly for game use.

[mortal pelican]

anyone else get this issue when trying to install ArmAToolBox?

[pallid island]

make sure you download it from releases page, not the dump of the entire repo

[mortal pelican]

i love you

[pallid island]

been there, stubled on that

[mortal pelican]

can you not do things like this becayse it makes it not convex?

like a simple doorway...

also does anyone know how to check what u had previously set master scale to?

[pallid island]

Yes, punching a hole through the box makes it non-convex

[mortal pelican]

ah, better make geometry before windows...

[mortal pelican]

do you happen to know how to check master scale too?

[mortal pelican]

The fact that you can have convec shapes with roadways but not geometry is dissapointing

[stuck oyster]

Master scale?

[mortal pelican]

When u import fbx into object builder it lest you set a master scale

[stuck oyster]

It's not P3d related. So no it's not anywhere after that

Preferably you make your model straight into right metric scale units

[mortal pelican]

Yeah

I didn’t was the problem

[stuck oyster]

So you don't need to mess with any import scaling

[mortal pelican]

Still learning so was trying to make up for my mistakes

[stuck oyster]

If you make a mistake like that it warrants starting over

[mortal pelican]

Anyway here is the end result for now

https://imgur.com/a/bq1RbMz

[mortal pelican]

This was before I was setting textures in blender

[stuck oyster]

Your source should always be the one you fix.

[mortal pelican]

It would have been a nightmare at the time to go and redo all the texture paths on object builder

[stuck oyster]

Also if you use blende you should use arma toolbox to export P3d

[mortal pelican]

I got it after

[stuck oyster]

Ypu don't really need to do much anything in object builder when using the toolbox addon and exporting to p3d

[mortal pelican]

I know this now

I didn’t at the time

[stuck oyster]

You can make all lods in blender

Also do you use multimaterial on the building?

[mortal pelican]

Wym multimaterial

Not familiar with the term

[stuck oyster]

It's a shader type preferred with buildings

[mortal pelican]

Nope

Still lots to learn

[stuck oyster]

I'd recommend looking it up.

[mortal pelican]

Can do

[stuck oyster]

Indeed it can be a lot.
It's decent looking start though.

[mortal pelican]

It’s a big process to learn of of this with all the different programs learning blender alone was a headache

[stuck oyster]

People go to school s for this. You are basically doing game art

It can take a minute to learn 😅

[mortal pelican]

It’s a hobby for me and I like helping the server group I work with so will keep learning and improving

Will also be much more valuable in arma 4 and reforger

[south badge]

Just scale it up in blender, no?

[marsh canyon]

Older ArmaToolBox does not care about object transform

Latest ones, on the other hand, does

[mortal pelican]

The issue was I wasn’t using arma toolbox so I have to apply the file path to all the parts in object builder and I had made a change in blender to the model so I needed to re import to object builder and wanted to scale the same

It was an issue I made for myself

And an avoidable one

[north sundial]

Is it the armour in the config file or the geometry mass in the model that defines how easy something using destrType = "DestructWall"; is to knock over?

Looks like its mass

[bold flare]

Where might a model have large proxies, large enough that they are relevant for AI checking if an object behind it is visible or not.
Player vest/backpack/gun are too small to matter.
Aircraft pylon weapons are small too.
What object has proxies that are large enough to matter?

[stuck oyster]

some buildings might have parts proxied on them

less in Arma3 perhaps

[pallid island]

inb4 huge rockets proxied onto small-ish ground launcher

weapons/backpacks can matter if they're proxied onto a weaponHolder

[umbral shuttle]

what impact does the mass in geo lod do for a weapon?

[desert notch]

Technically the wreck lod is a proxy so that's one way 😅
Anyway, one of the Livonia buildings (I don't remember the class) has several lathes as proxies

They're very big and important

iirc the name was like "workshop" or something

Anyway, you can't assume that proxies are small. They can be of any size and used in any place. You can have a house and use furniture and other reusable models as proxies.
Imo if you're trying to optimize proxies the only way is baking them in when you load the model

[desert notch]

I'm pretty sure it has no effect on weapons.
The mass does affect projectiles tho

[umbral shuttle]

cool I will put funny numbers then

420 kg firearm

[rapid tree]

Hello can someone tell me what needs to be done for Vehicle in Vehicle to work ?

• I made the memory points in Memory Lod
• I put in the config section for it
  but i cant put in vehicles yet, is there something im missing ?

[charred bolt]

https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Arma_3:_Vehicle_in_Vehicle_Transport

[rapid tree]

i did it exactly like that

[charred bolt]

If you did it exactly like that, and the vehicle you're trying to load is not too big, then it will work.
If it's not working, you didn't do it exactly like that.

[rapid tree]

i defined the limits, exits and added the config and thats exactly what the wiki entry said.

[south badge]

I have a small pickle:

1. I sit in the driver seat, no problem.
2. I switch to the gunner seat, no problem, I see the options to reload different magazines into the weapon.
3. I switch back to the driver seat, but I still see the options to reload different magazines.

It doesn´t do anything if I click them, and they also don´t appear when switching to a passenger seat from the gunner seat, it is only the driver seat that is odd.

I can´t figure out why.

Also when I am in the driver seat it still displays the weapon in the top right corner

[bright echo]

its a vanilla bug

when you move to the gunner seat you become effective commander of the vehicle - when you move back to driver you retain the ability to 'order' the gunner to switch ammo type, even if said gunner doesn't exist

[south badge]

It is what it is

[charred bolt]

Yeah, I spent ages on that one at some point too. Also when you can't change seats it's because another AI in your group is Commander and won't let you move.

[twilit seal]

GM uses proxies for a lot of their vehicle wheels

[south badge]

Ah, is it possible (or even allowed) to modify vanilla turretInfoTypes? I´d like to change the location of some of the elements / delete some other ones.

(I am too stupid to make my own)

[stuck oyster]

through config yes. model, no

[south badge]

Is there perhaps some resource I could look at with instructions on how to work with these?

I don´t even know what to google for

[stuck oyster]

😅

[south badge]

[stuck oyster]

I dont think there is much about them

[south badge]

I should have known

[stuck oyster]

the config side of things is not overly complex

but it is a bit daunting to begin with it Id suppose

[south badge]

It is what it is, I´ll play around with it

[stuck oyster]

I recall I started exploring it by making a copy of existing infotype class and just simply removing parts from it to see which one did what

[rich bluff]

I attempted to make my own custom flag proxy this week, and while it was quite the effort, I will say that the conversations in these above messages helped immensely. I wanted to point out a few things in case anyone else in the future should go searching through the Discord like I did for reference on how to accomplish this task.

First, I think the major things that weren't well documented on this task are the P3D, CfgModels, and CfgNonAiVehicles requirements.

P3D
In order to make a custom flag carrier model with a custom flag model, the flag model should be it's own p3d. The model, if you don't modify CfgCloth (as I will mention later), must be no more than 9 column vertices and 5 row vertices (otherwise you get a very strange visual artifacting that I will again explain below). The p3d then has to have a vertex selection defining the flag. While I haven't tested that all names work, it appears vanilla A3 uses "cloth" or "latka". Once that is set up, export your model and name it what you like (NOT Flag.p3d or Flag_F.p3d). The name will be important for the CfgNonAiVehicles class.

CfgModels
I personally used the following for my model.cfg, basing it on what I found in the Arma 2 sample files #arma3_model message linked by da12thMonkey. You must have the selection defined in both sections and vertexSelections. If you define sections alone, your flag will likely take a texture using setFlagTexture, but will not animate. You must have vertexSelections defined in your CfgModels model.cfg class in order for the animations to apply.

class CfgModels
{
    class Flag;
    class TCP_Flag: Flag
    {
        sections[] =
        {
            "latka"
        };
        vertexSelections[] = 
        {
            "latka"
        };
    };
};

CfgNonAiVehicles
Your CfgNonAiVehicles classname must be the P3D name prefixed by "Proxy". For example, my P3D is TCP_Flag, as seen in the model.cfg excerpt above. My CfgNonAiVehicles classname is then ProxyTCP_Flag. You can inherit directly from a pre-existing ProxyFlag class, and in my case I used ProxyFlag_F. It is not recommended that you reuse Flag or Flag_F as your P3D name, as you will then be forced to overwrite the vanilla class in CfgNonAiVehicles, and will likely have issues getting your new flag to function correctly, if at all.

class CfgNonAiVehicles
{
    class ProxyFlag_F;
    class ProxyTCP_Flag: ProxyFlag_F
    {
        model = QPATHTOF(TCP_Flag.p3d);

        selectionFabric = "latka"; // Only neccessary if you don't use latka, as the ProxyFlag_F class already has this defined.
    };
};

CfgCloth
While I'm sure it is likely not recommended to do so because of the increased affect on performance, in order to have a flag model with a higher vertex density, you must change the CfgCloth colPoints and rowPoints properties. Please be aware that this seems to change the way simulation works for ALL flag classes. My custom model is 9 column vertices by 17 row vertices (because of it's considerable size difference), so I changed the Flag CfgCloth config to read as follows:

class CfgCloth
{
    class Flag
    {
        colPoints = 17;
        rowPoints = 9;
    };
};

Here is an image of what the flag looks like when you do not set CfgCloth properties but you do have a higher vertice count on the flags.

Here is an image of the custom flag carrier next to the base game flag carrier

[stuck oyster]

thanks for writing it out!

[rich bluff]

Was thrilled when I figured it out, and I'm sure there have been plenty of others who have wanted to do the same thing. Happy to contribute to the documentation 🙂

[stuck oyster]

there is some cool possibilities with the flag and cloth sim as it dont have to be regular flag shaped.

it is definitely a bit unexplored area in mods

[rich bluff]

Perhaps now it will be less daunting 😁

I did not determine if it was possible to do anything further in CfgCloth like creating custom cloth options, but I imagine it's more for modifying the existing ones easily. I figure, given the windsock (seemingly identical to flag) simulation, you can do quite a bit.

[stuck oyster]

It could be that since there are already 2 classes in there, there could be any number of them

[rich bluff]

(I am testing it as we speak 😅 )

[stuck oyster]

windsock has couple of different values in it

[stuck oyster]

Splendid 😄

[rich bluff]

I created a CfgCloth class (TCP_Flag), and pointed my CfgNonAiVehcles class to it using simulation.

Unfortunately, after spawning one or two of the now changed flag classes, I was met with a CTD 😅

Though it seems I botched the inheritance. Let me try that again...

Well, no CTD this time. I assume it would actually very likely work for non-flag applications, but due to flags seemingly missing something for setFlagTexture to work, it likely wouldn't be useful in my specific use-case.

I must also say that the increased flag resolution points make the flow feel much smoother 😄

[stuck oyster]

sweeeet

[charred bolt]

Superb investigation and write-up. Thanks for taking the time to share.

[digital moss]

I've been importing A2AO source file, runways (etc), and have encountered an odd issue, I believe I have done everything correctly, but am not overly versed with object builder.

When placing more than 1 runway asset, I get a flicker effect as if the LODs are fighting, often they cancel each others visibility out.
https://gyazo.com/fa341435a7a849f457d0ebea655bed61
Any ideas?

My inheritance was "House_f", instead of "Static".
Changing to "Static" works.

[stuck oyster]

What shader type does their rvmat have?

did you set them up to be land_decal type or are they still the done via the old surface snapping vertex property

[digital moss]

with my limited knowledge, imma say the 2nd one. (I havent used the decal flag)

[digital moss]

https://pastebin.com/vtBmCUUX

[stuck oyster]

the A3 runway decals have different type of rvmat on them, try that one

[pallid island]

inb4 model being 80 meters long with origin on the side (not center) adds some bounding box shenanigans on top

[digital moss]

Nope. same issue persists :/

[digital moss]

wdym?

[stuck oyster]

looks like its not even set up as decal

and its class road

so if you want it to work as decal youll need to set it as class land_decal inte named properties

and use same rvmat type as the vanilla decals

it is also not centered

which can cause issues with large models

it the might be occluding each other there

you can try canBeOccluded = 0 named property

[digital moss]

How it came from the source material

[stuck oyster]

the original models contain various never fixed mistakes

[digital moss]

Type being the PixelShaderID="NormalMapDetailSpecularMap"; ?

[digital moss]

the taxiway_long p3d (which was the file I meant to send, as that was in the video )
Is (still) and was (during the video) centered in objectbuilder

• Still using a3 runway RVMAT
• Geometry namedProperties is set to: class land & canBeOccluded 0
• The taxiway (the asset being used as seen in video), is centered.
  = Issue still persists

[cursive bone]

Hey! I'm working on helping someone with getting a model ingame but I'm getting a weird issue about a Geo layer being convex when it absolutely is not

[lone robin]

Geometry lod is supposed to be convex

[cursive bone]

Ah sorry, I misspoke

It "absolutely was convex"

[lone robin]

OB is rarely ever wrong when it comes to identifying non-convex. You could try to do Structure>Topology>component convex hull and then CTRL A, then Triangulate Convex.
That might not be word for word correct but it’s along the lines of that

[south badge]

Maybe some of the faces aren´t perfectly planar

[cursive bone]

This is in the Blender addon called Arma 3 Object Builder, not in Object Builder itself

[stuck oyster]

since the name is a bit confusing it is always best to also mention that you are in blender and using the addond

what was the problem?

[cursive bone]

I know, my bad

[cursive bone]

We got it fixed now! Idk what exactly the solution was but it's all sorted now

[stuck oyster]

👍

[cursive bone]

I'm a config guy so modeling whatsuch is way over my head 🤣

Thanks anyhow!

[mortal pelican]

hey do you guys know if there is any way to search for a single file path on your entire objects and only show things with that path on it?

example i have used clean concrete as a texture and i want to replace it on every face in my project

so i want to replace every instance of say the churche plaster and there are a bunch of different places that it isu used in my object

or a way to replace the path in this menu?

[ruby lion]

pboProject.exe
ModelInfo.MemSphere is not a float

any ideas how to fix that ? I updated pbo project via all in one tools

P:\temp\A3s_Zomb\Z_Body.hpp :excluded
Z_Bodys\Z-Body_Gas_02\A3s_Body_Z_Gas_Fatboy_02.p3d:validating...
ModelInfo.MemSphere is not a float

P:\temp\A3s_Zomb\Z_Bodys\Z-Body_Gas_02\A3s_Body_Z_Gas_Fatboy_02.p3d DeP3d:Error
p3d error Error

P:\temp\A3s_Zomb: DePbo:Pbo: p3d error
pbo_Make failed```

Maybe because I need to be subscriber for depbo ?

[stuck oyster]

free tools should work but make sure you got the latest one

[mortal pelican]

things having to be convex shapes for geometry is going to be the end of me, such a silly requirement. BI trolling not fixing that 12 after years .....

[stuck oyster]

It's quite common for collision calculations

To keep them simpler.

[charred bolt]

A little further reading about why convex shapes are best for collision detection, rather than just an arbitrary "trolling"
https://www.toptal.com/game/video-game-physics-part-ii-collision-detection-for-solid-objects

[prisma mulch]

What sort of limitations are there for very large landscape objects.
I'm aware of 2 at the moment

• Collisions don't work well after 50m from origin (not super worried as its supposed to be a background thing so people won't to getting close to it)
• Visual vanishes unless it is viewed from close enough to the centre of the object (bit more of an issue)

Its a tower ~2km tall and 250m wide for more context.
Do I just need to break it into much smaller chunks and if so any idea what size?

[stuck oyster]

those are the limits yes

the size youll have to experiment with

theres not enough data to make any rules or recommendations on such things

[prisma mulch]

Fair enough, I'll have a test with some different sizes of boxes and see where stuff starts to break down

[stuck oyster]

well the 50x50 footprint is a must

if you go over that, you are likely to get people clipping into the walls

height can be larger

but the larger the object, the larger its simulation footprint is

[prisma mulch]

In this case the idea was it would be unreachable so no geometry lod or collision

[stuck oyster]

also you probably wont get AI pathing to work at high heights

[rapid tree]

If i get it right you want to select all the parts that uses that texture in the model ?

Turn ressources on and on the left part you see the texture then right click and select in Object

[stuck oyster]

mass texture and material replace tool in the top menus

[mortal pelican]

I figured this part out you can filter by just texture file path

[mortal pelican]

It’s an outdated requirement and there are many engines that allow non convex shapes now. Unreal, unity, godot,source, and a bunch others allow non convex physical geometry… arma is just not up to date on this imo

[stuck oyster]

allowing it and it being good idea are two different things 😄

also Arma3 is over 10 years old game

stuff like geometry calculations are not changed after they are designed

[mortal pelican]

Yeah, just interesting that roadway allows it but geometry doesn’t

Can’t think of a reason why same idea of roadway couldn’t be used on geometry

[stuck oyster]

roadway does not exist as it is in model

on terrain objects at least

it gets merged with the geometry if I remember right

best to not waste time on such matters anyway, they wont change. got to work with what we have

[mortal pelican]

True but I might complain about it a bit

[stuck oyster]

please dont

is cringe

😛

[mortal pelican]

Ok man

Haven’t looked into it much but does reforger do the same thing?

[stuck oyster]

no it has few different options for different purposes

[rapid tree]

I actually wondered about how modern engines calculate this i thought they would cast collisions but thats off

[mortal pelican]

Not sure how it’s calculated but I have used unity’s static mesh editor.

[stuck oyster]

different methods work for different things.

in an large scope multiplayer environment simpler shapes may be better

[mortal pelican]

It also works better for full on game development companies as they can add their assets to their initial download. I’m making objects for a server that doesn’t use mods. So I really have to worry about total file size. Having 4 boxes for a wall vs 1 means increased size

Idk if I explained that correctly

[nimble stag]

Are there any guides on actuality implementing custom head models modeled off the head/bust sample?

[marsh canyon]

So config wise?

[digital moss]

#arma3_model message
Anymore ideas to try?

[ruby lion]

yea it worked, thanks !

[lone robin]

Any tree/foliage makers in here have a best approach to creating the billboard texture for trees in blender. I’m a little lost in the sauce trying to get this to look correct

[analog garden]

orthographic camera render with neutral lighting

not necessarily for arma but that’s a start for billboard textures for most games

[south badge]

Question:

I am making a static AA gun that uses one set of rotary wheels controlled by one gunner´s hands to move the weapon horizontally, while the other gunner on the other side uses his hands to control the wheels that change the weapon´s elevation.

Now I obviously know that I can´t have two gunners somehow share control of the same turret, but can I, in any way, at least bind the other gunner´s (just a passenger really) hands to the wheels?

I basically need another set of gunnerLeftHandAnimName and gunnerRightHandAnimName, except for a cargo slot.

Is that possible somehow?

[charred bolt]

Each turret has the option to set that gunners hand IK's to animation source(s), so yes it should be possible.

[south badge]

Hmmm, but I only have one turret 🤔

This kind thing, single-barrel. Would I need to make some sort of a dummy turret for the 2nd gunner or something?

[charred bolt]

If you only have 1 turret, you only have 1 gunner. Yes, make a 2nd turret with a passive gunner who just has his hands IK'd to controls.

[south badge]

[charred bolt]

It'll be a lot of fun for the player, not being able to move... apart from their hands, which someone else will be moving. 😉

[woeful viper]

accuracy vs gameplay... i always find it hard to justify having an extra person (bot or not) eating compute ressources just to be there. On the other hand it's how it works IRL... just wish we had better performance

[south badge]

Ah it will not be mandatory to be there

Just so that in case someone sits there it looks okay

[astral cairn]

What're the requirements for a player getting into a drivers seat? So far, I have a proxy, and memory points to be able to get in but I still can't

Also AI can drive and sit there, but not me

[charred bolt]

That's it more or less. Hard to mess up a driver position!
Proxy must be Driver or Pilot type, index 1. Simulation type set correctly.
Check with driver not in an AI group and no AI present.

[astral cairn]

Okie doki, I'll have to take a look. I've been using the proxies provided in an example, would this be ill adviced? Should I be adding my own?

[charred bolt]

Should be fine to use them

[stuck oyster]

with the crew proxies the name of the proxy is what matters

[astral cairn]

Ok, I should've gathered that lol, that's me being a dum dum

[charred bolt]

Show us a screen shot with the named selections in view from Object Builder

[astral cairn]

Okie doki, 1 sec

[astral cairn]

I feel like I've been a very dum dum and used the name as the file path

[charred bolt]

That looks fine.
Maybe also post your config - you can put a link to the code in pastebin

[astral cairn]

Will do, what's the simulation you mentioned about?

That's not something I've come across in docs before

https://pastebin.com/xE5WGZK7

[charred bolt]

What are the two memory points called in the Memory LOD for the driver to get in with?

[astral cairn]

pos driver

pos driver dir

[charred bolt]

yep, that's correct... dir nearest the door?

Can you describe the problem in-game in a little more detail? What exactly isn't working?

[astral cairn]

Yup, dir closest to the door

So, when I spawn in with / without ai in the vehicle, once I get out I cannot find the option to get in as a driver anywhere around the vehicle

Not can I change seat from within the vehicled

I can provide a short video if need be

[charred bolt]

The two should be unrelated...

[astral cairn]

I'm not sure haha, it's confusing, though

[charred bolt]

Are you setting a getInRadius = xxx; in your config?

[astral cairn]

errrrrrrrrrrrr

I'm doubtful, I'll have to check

[charred bolt]

As a test, try inheriting in your config from a more complete BI tank, rather than the base Tank_F, such as B_MBT_01_cannon_F.

[astral cairn]

How would I go about doing that, I cannot find it within the samples, is it something I'll have to dig for in the game files?

[charred bolt]

Where you have written class Test_Tank_01_base: Tank_F { change to
class Test_Tank_01_base: B_MBT_01_cannon_F {, but you'll also need to add the inheritance chain

[astral cairn]

Ah, that makes sense

[livid canyon]

It'd be interesting to have a sim version with train and elevation split between 2 players xD

[astral cairn]

Much appreciated, it took me a while to do but it works 🙂

[charred bolt]

Well done! The early base classes nearer the top of the inheritance are often missing key config parameters which don't get set until later child classes, so it's sometimes easiest to inherit from a class nearer the final form.

[astral cairn]

Yeah, that makes sense. It's a good step for progress

Also, thank you for the help, you've made my life 10x easier

[mortal pelican]

anyone know if it is possible to spawn in doors from houses and such with code?

[rapid tree]

You have to define the MemorypointGetinDriver in the config, check if its missing but its 100% this

[astral cairn]

Yes, that is the likely solution. I ended up inheriting from an existing tank then changing some parameters

Although, as per I've managed to break something else lmao

[rapid tree]

Believe me if you dont break something Arma will from time to time especially with Animations

[astral cairn]

Yeah

It's probably my doing, though, unfortunately

[charred bolt]

That was checked early on
#arma3_model message
They are defined in config in the parent class he inherits and he confirmed the correctly named memory points were in the memory LOD.

[astral cairn]

https://medal.tv/games/arma-3/clips/jHFfbXcxikjK6Wft-?invite=cr-MSxlY3osNTk4NzEyMTIs

Questions numero dos, what's happened here for the suspension to become a space program?

I've only skim read through the docs, but will dig deeper tomorrow if it's a complex question

[charred bolt]

Do a search on tank physx - there are about 1000 things you need to get right for that not to happen

both in p3d and config

[astral cairn]

Roger that, sounds like a tomorrow me problem

Thank you though, I'll have a read through the equations and fun stuff needed

[charred bolt]

I'll give you some pointers:
p3d memory points - wheel axis, wheel bounds
config - class Wheels {}

[astral cairn]

Roger Roger, I'll play about with them soon

[cloud zealot]

Do you guys think a dress like this one can work ingame ?

i have some doubt for the part in between the body and the arms

[marsh canyon]

Work? Of course it will
Does it look fine? That's the question

[cloud zealot]

just tested it on armarig and it doesn't animates very well

i wanted to make a catholic priest dress but its no suitable for A3 body animations

[marsh canyon]

Of course not

[desert notch]

Well if you create your own skeleton and animations for it it should work but that's too much effort I guess

[stuck oyster]

Yeah cloth thing like that needs extra bones to deform properly.

[cloud zealot]

hmm but i would need to make new animations as well for walk and everything otherwise these additional bones wouldn't be animated

[stuck oyster]

yes a full set of animations that work only with robe like this

possible but maybe not worth it

[cloud zealot]

exactly

[prisma mulch]

Going back to this, for appearance and shadows the main issues were object render distance and shadow render distance which I had set very low for some reason. Though it was strange that the center of the model seemed to be the point the distance was measured from rather than the origin.

Geometry lods started to become very inconsistent at around 80x80m ~40m from the origin no big surprises there really.

[stuck oyster]

max 50x50 meter footprint is safest

also the engine recenters models by default

unless you disable the "autocenter"

which is done by a named property by that name

theres wiki pages where you can check out info on the named properties

[prisma mulch]

Not familiar with those but I'll have a look

[prisma mulch]

Yeah I was able to walk right through 80x80, vehicles would be pinged around and explode. Gunshots and missiles varied in terms of exploding or clipping.

[stuck oyster]

ye thats expected

[prisma mulch]

Disabling autocenter sorted out the issue with render distance at ground level so thanks for that.

[gilded bane]

Takbir!

[astral cairn]

Hello again, what'd be the reasons for a model to sink up to the middle of the tyres?

[charred bolt]

Presumably you mean on land, and not "sink", as when in water?

Some general info: #arma3_model message
More: #arma3_model message

[icy dirge]

What do you guys think? http://imgur.com/U5uqIBi 😄

[visual thicket]

Oh mah GURD looks awesome xD

bobrossKappaR

[rapid tree]

Dampers

[astral cairn]

That makes sense, I've just realized I edited thd names of the dampers I use

Or the podkolo on my tracks I use as dampers

[storm elk]

Bit of a weird one, but does anyone know if it's possible to get repeatable RNG going in a .p3d's model.cfg?

E.g. Every time I fire a gun a new value is randomly picked from an array.
It would allow for randomized recoil anims

[charred bolt]

'ammoRandom' animation source

[stuck oyster]

👆 You'll need to use it with another animation(s) as additive to your recoil animation

[storm elk]

Ok... I'll have to take a look on the weekend
I was overthinking it and trying to figure out if I needed an event handler or something lol
Thanks!

[rapid tree]

Did it work ?

[astral cairn]

Sort of, yes. Moving onto the next problem

[rapid tree]

What is it ?

[astral cairn]

Suspension values need tweaking and I need to figure out why is spawn, but then glitches above the ground

[rapid tree]

Check land contact

[astral cairn]

It's there, has 6 points

[stuck oyster]

Might be physx wheel defining memorypoints have naming error/typo

So they become larger than intended

[placid aspen]

Hi everyone, I'm new to arma modding and model creation as a whole. I hope through this community to learn everything I need to start putting out some great vehicles and assest that I think Arma is still missing.

I think i'll be using blender, which I'll start learning with, but does anyone have a good web series to point me to that will help understand the process of making a vehicle mod for arma 3 ?

[charred bolt]

Blender tutorials are easily found on youtube.
As for Arma modding, start with something extremely simple, like a box or giant donut. Once you have that in game you will have learnt a little about 3d modelling, uv mapping, texturing and some Arma coding, plus how to set up the Arma tools.
Arma vehicles are difficult and time consuming - expect your first one to take 6-12 months to make to any level of quality, so don't start with this.

[stuck oyster]

and when you look for tutorials, forget arma for a while and just concentrate on the basics

the arma specific things will open up more easily once you know more about modeling, texturing etc in general

[placid aspen]

these are great starting points to not get ahead of myself

thanks lads

i'll deffo keep you posted

[quaint horizon]

That is some sadist shit right there! 😃

[fervent depot]

Hello, I am really struggling and I desperately need some help

I cannot open my .p3d ingame at all. It always says that it cannot open the object.
When I use buldozer this is what shows up. A bunch of messed up shadows. I think my rvmat file is messed up but I have no idea what to check first. I've been spending the last 2 hours messing with the settings trying to see what works and I don't think I am any closer to figuring it out.

I've messed around with the path so much that I think I am going crazy, it must be some issue with the rvmat file because I have changed around the .pbo file a million times over it feels like and I still can't get it to load in the game.
Any ideas?

[charred bolt]

Are you using a p:\ drive?
When you open the p3d in Object Builder, and look at the Resource Library window, do you see green and blue marks against the textures and materials, indicating they are found on those paths?

[fervent depot]

Oh. I should be loading the entire file into the P drive? Okay I will be doing that thank you.

[charred bolt]

Do your mod development on a p: drive, yes.
p:\your_tag\asset_name\asset.p3d
p:\your_tag\asset_name\config.cpp
p:\your_tag\asset_name\model.cfg
p:\your_tag\asset_name\data\texture_co.paa
p:\your_tag\asset_name\data\material.rvmat

[fervent depot]

What is "your_tag" as in my mod name?

A thing pops up next to it saying Not mapped but the rvmat being used as well as the _co are both showing up just fine

I have all of those yet it still doesn't work

[fervent depot]

Tried changing the .rvmat file and it is still doing this.
When I load it in as well it now just says that the texture files are missing and it seems to omit the first letter of the file path.

[charred bolt]

Usually a 2, 3 or 4 letter tag which uniquely identifies your mod from anyone elses and prevents file and class conflicts.
So you might use "sind" and all your mods will be in p:\sind\asset1 asset2 etc
and your classes that you create will be called sind_gun1, sind_vehicle1 etc

[fervent depot]

Thank you for your answer.

[charred bolt]

Using notepad or better yet, Notepad ++

[charred bolt]

This is how the paths should look in Object Builder - they are relative to p:, in the example shown "vn" is the tag and primary folder in p:, so in your case will be
sind\asset_name\data\texture_co.paa
where of course you change asset_name and texture to match whatever it is you're making

[fervent depot]

Thank you so much, I got it to work like that for a bit then broke it and managed to fix it.

I think there are still some issues with it, but I am not sure what the root is. Helmet seems to be loading into the game now, the shadows are still there. Think it might just be an .paa file issue there. But now it is inside the crotch, even though I am pretty sure my model.cfg is correct.

Sorry I don't know how to compress this.

{
   class Default
   {
       sectionsInherit="";
       sections[] = {};
       skeletonName = "";
   };
   class ArmaMan : Default
   {
       htMin = 60;          // Minimum half-cooling time (in seconds)
       htMax = 1800;        // Maximum half-cooling time (in seconds)
       afMax = 30;          // Maximum temperature in case the model is alive (in celsius)
       mfMax = 0;           // Maximum temperature when the model is moving (in celsius)
       mFact = 1;           // Metabolism factor - number from interval <0, 1> (0 - metabolism has no influence, 1 - metabolism has full influence (no other temperature source will be considered)).
       tBody = 37;  // Metabolism temperature of the model (in celsius)
 
       sections[] =
       {
           "osobnost","Head_Injury","Body_Injury","l_leg_injury","l_arm_injury","r_arm_injury","r_leg_injury","injury_body", "injury_legs", "injury_hands",
           "clan","clan_sign","Camo","CamoB","Camo1","Camo2","personality","hl", "injury_head"
       };
       skeletonName = "OFP2_ManSkeleton";
   };
   class sind_basichelmettest10 : ArmaMan {};
};

Including a much larger body of text above defining the skeleton.

[charred bolt]

Do you have a property in the Geometry LOD of autocenter 0?

[fervent depot]

Yes, I am pretty sure I am not misspelling it.

[charred bolt]

Also the class name in the model.cfg must exactly match the p3d name

[fervent depot]

Match it but without .p3d, yes?

[charred bolt]

So your model file should be in the same folder as the model.cfg file and be called sind_basichelmettest10.p3d

[fervent depot]

Yeah it does match exactly and is in that folder.

The head thing, I forgot the name of it apologies, should that be in the Geometry section too? I don't have it currently set up like that.

[charred bolt]

Your model looks something like this? position, named selection

[fervent depot]

No, huh. How do I do that? I didn't see that in the tutorial I followed.

[charred bolt]

You don't need anything in the Geometry LOD for headgear.

[fervent depot]

I figure this is a fix that I need to go back to blender to fix.

[charred bolt]

Check out the Arma 3 Samples, Test_Character_01, A3_headgear_example.p3d

[fervent depot]

Yeah, that is significantly further above the ground.

Thank you so much @charred bolt, I would've probably been stuck on an endless loop doing this if it weren't for you. Thank you so so so much.

[frank flame]

.

[stuck oyster]

we have 0 tolerance for ripping models/ip theft

so simple answer is, you dont

[frank flame]

even if just need to open it to paint in substance painter, rather than having torchure with UVs?(just clarifying)

[stuck oyster]

even so

[frank flame]

Well, thx for answer

[zenith bronze]

having a bit of a weird issue with my driver proxy for a tank. The proxies in the right position but everytime i go in first person in game im to the left and up from the proxy. It is parented as I have tested moving it and seeing if it updates which it does but im at a loss at the moment

[stuck oyster]

you are possibly using action (actions use animations) that is not centered to the proxy

[zenith bronze]

ah I see. Ima try and figure out how to change its animation.

[charred bolt]

Check what driverAction and driverInAction config parameters you have set. They set the animation used and can be offset from the proxy in unusual situations.

[zenith bronze]

yep just noticed it
driverAction = "GetInMedium";

the seats on this one are center so must be using the same ones from the t-72

[charred bolt]

That's a getInAction animation, not a driverAction, so is definitely wrong

[zenith bronze]

just left it blank gonna check it now

[charred bolt]

Try these two

driverInAction = "Driver_MBT_01_cannon_F_in";```

[zenith bronze]

testing now, it defo fixed the positioning when blank

yep fixed it Thank you very much ❤️ . Now I just gotta get the custom animations working and should be mostly done

[charred bolt]

congrats 🙂

[stuck oyster]

blank would mean the character is glued on the proxy in T pose

[zenith quartz]

Hi everyone! I'd need some help configurating a turret with double cannons. Anyone can help me?

[zenith bronze]

indeed its very silly to look at. For now I will use the MBT anims

[lyric field]

Is there any way to visualise topology inside of arma 3? I'd understand draw3d just not to get the points to reference

[marsh canyon]

diag_drawMode

[pallid island]

diag_drawMode "Wire"; specifically. And only works in diag exe

[lyric field]

Thanks

[light bobcat]

How do I export things out of arma

Like 3d models and stuff

[marsh canyon]

You don't

[karmic blade]

Question, it has been a long while since I put any models into the game. I remember in the beggining, I would attach texture to a model in object builder, but later I remember started doing it in blender and it worked, especially if multi textures are needed for one model.

Now its been a while and I dont really remember what I was doing before.
I uploaded a model, and put location of textures under material, am I doing it right ish?

Here is a picture: https://i.ibb.co/yBGZR6vz/Capture.png

[lone robin]

What addon are you using for blender ?

[karmic blade]

Addon? I have the one that adds Arma 3 tools tab. I did successfully put model into the game, it just had no texture

[lone robin]

If you have the object in blender marked as an arma 3 object, near the bottom of the material tab it will have slots that you copy and paste the texture and rvmat paths to

[karmic blade]

Arma 3 Toolbox Material Settings? YES I remember now
And I put in
\Mypboname\data\cooltexture.paa ?

I mean in that format? or is it / instead of \

[lone robin]

The first format you put

[karmic blade]

Awesome

[astral cairn]

https://medal.tv/games/requested/clips/jKn3LM1HIv-kpc0_k?invite=cr-MSw2aDIsNTk4NzEyMTIs

I've made an attempt to stop the wheel from sinking below the floor, but they seems to now only sink at the bottom

I'd assume it was the weight but that'd evenly distributed accross the 4 corners of the vehicle

The name selections are good, it throws no warnings in the diagnostic mode of arma

What else should I be looking for?

Also another question, is the sprungmass accross the wheels in contact with the floor or all of them regardless?

[stuck oyster]

springmass should be about the mass of vehicle divided by amount of supporting wheels

and then tweaked from there to achive the feel you like

[astral cairn]

Roger that, is it within reason to make the sprungmass larger than needed, to prevent glitchyness or does it need to be exact?

[stuck oyster]

larger would make them more stiff

[astral cairn]

I've realised in retrospect that'd sort of a dumb question

But, thank you for the answers it no longer sinks into the ground 🙂

Much appreciated

[stuck oyster]

👍

the basic division should make out quite stable base setup

from there it can be adjusted to be whatever you like it to be

or whatever might be realistic for your vehicle

[astral cairn]

Yes, that makes sense to me. It'll be quite nice to dial that in now it works xD

[stuck oyster]

small adjustments can already make a lot of difference there 👍

[cobalt pawn]

I believe i found a fix for anyone that wants to fix the subskeleton index out of range error when packing there addons. It works for me.

If you have a bone under skeletonBones in model.cfg that is not on your res lod, you will the get the following error.

21:41:10: Warnings in p:\optre_fc_vehicles\banshee\banshee.p3d:1

For example, if you have zasleh2 in your skeletonBones, but not in your res lod. you will get the above error. The same for your other resolution lods as well. So either remove it if its not doing anything or add to your res lod.

        {                             
            "zasleh","",
            "zasleh2","",
            "tail_left","",
            "tail_right","",
            "tail_top","",
            "tail_bottom",""
        };```

[charred bolt]

Interesting find.
However, it's very common to use "dummy" bones, which don't have a physical representation in a res LOD, as a parent to a group of other bones that do have res LOD selections. For example wheel_1_1 in the A3 Samples, Test_Car_01.
So I don't believe that the "should not be happening" message is actually correct and it can be safely ignored, remaining as an annoying spurious report in the binlog.

[south badge]

I have a question that I can´t really answer myself. I have a static wheeled emplacement (picture for reference) that I´d like to be able to be moved / pushed around by players once deployed, and for now I do not meant to achieve it via "ACE dragging", which is basically the "if all else fails" option.

How am I actually supposed to configure this? Is this supposed to be some sort of a CarX simulated vehicle with a driver slot? Though I can´t really imagine how I´d even go about making a driver proxy for pushing that would actually look good in-game.

I´d wager the "driver" slot could be unlocked once the weapon is "deployed", and locked when the weapon is switched into the "towing" mode in order to allow for it to be towed by vehicles.

Is this somehow possible, or is it too much to bother with? I haven´t really seen it executed anywhere, especially not in the base game

[stuck oyster]

there isnt such feature in game so no, there isnt any simple way to achieve it

[south badge]

Why does Arma hate statics so much

[stuck oyster]

its not static if you can move it 😅

theres no "pushableX" sim type

that would be quite useful

car could maybe work

[south badge]

Hmmm, I will try with carX once I get it in game, but the "driver" proxy will problably look awful

[stuck oyster]

the movement can theoretically be disabled when deployed by lifting the wheels off ground

no wheel contact, no movement

Driver can also be made look like he walks by bit of clever left/Right leg IK stuff that normally work the pedals

but it needs some extra work

from what you might call a "regular" static weapon

[south badge]

Thanks for the ideas, I will see what I can do

good ol´ reliable ACE drag is always there )))

[bright echo]

we have towing/pushing in spearhead but its completely scripted essentially

one trick RHS has for their towing is they use helicopterX sim

because helicopterx wheels don't ever 'brake'

probably not needed now as theres a script command to disable wheels brakes iirc

[stuck oyster]

yeah for towing things the wheel brake disable is great addition

just if we could get the physX joints too xD

[tulip portal]

is there an available sample or tutioral on how to make my own gunneropticsmodel p3d

[stuck oyster]

not in vanilla samples.

[tulip portal]

well any idea how i turn this texture i have into one

[stuck oyster]

it was discussed somewhere in here not long ago so you might find some tips from the chat history

[zenith quartz]

nvm, done

[karmic blade]

Question, which properties make an object solid? Like to be able to walk over it?

I thought it was Geometry, but I literally havent done model stuff in a long ass time. I am trying to import just some invisible objects

[stuck oyster]

geometry for collision, roadway for walking on surface

[karmic blade]

Ohhh I see, so when I added only geometry, that means cars can hit it, but soldiers cant walk on it right?

[stuck oyster]

soldiers will collide with it

but cant walk on it

2 different things

[dawn vessel]

How do I change where the third person camera looks on my custom vehicle? Currently it just looks at [0,0,0] of the model

[stuck oyster]

config parameter extCameraPosition

[dawn vessel]

That just changes where the camera offset not what it’s orbiting around right?

At least my testing suggested this

My issue is it’s currently staring at the wheels, not the Center of the vehicle

[stuck oyster]

is it a normal vehicle?

[dawn vessel]

Define a normal vehicle? It’s a custom model if that’s the question

[stuck oyster]

car

tank

plane

of normal size and functionality

[dawn vessel]

It’s a static weapon, but its size is under the limits

[stuck oyster]

so its big?

[dawn vessel]

2m tall under 1m wide

[stuck oyster]

so probably not what can be called normal

does it have a turret?

or what crew position you 3rd person from?

[dawn vessel]

It’s a passenger turret yeah

Like the back of the apex jeep from base game

[stuck oyster]

then you might have weird passenger gunner animation for it

[dawn vessel]

Does that affect the camera? Cause it seems it’s just staring at the floor

Surely it’s just a memory point for where to look

[stuck oyster]

no

I dont think there is anything that controls it like that

but also cant say I can think of what would cause that either

the 3rd person view should look where the proxy/turret looks at

maybe something wrong in how you set up the turret

[dawn vessel]

I’ll be real that’s likely

I was just putting stuff together to get the desired outcome

But I have no idea how to import/configure custom vehicles

[stuck oyster]

It will need practice

and making something "unconventional" is even more difficult

[dawn vessel]

I just need it for a tech I’m working on

Initially I avoided vehicles all together for that reason, but to solve some problems I needed to use a vehicle

[stuck oyster]

I would perhaps start from first setting up everything and only using normal cargo positions

and once all that works tackling the person turret

[dawn vessel]

The turret works, it’s literally just the third person camera issue

[charred bolt]

extCameraPosition[] = {0.5, 2.0, -10};

[dawn vessel]

again doesn’t that just control where the camera offset not what it’s looking at

[charred bolt]

You surely tried it?

[dawn vessel]

I’ve tried extCamPos before ye that’s what I found, but when I’m on next I’ll try it

[south badge]

I´d like to add a few firing effects / zaslehs etc to a weapon. Is there any way in which I can "browse / preview" the ones present in the base game?

[thick light]

Hey guys, I'm trying to create a mod where I turn the PBS-1 suppressor in the Aegis mod into its own stand alone mod.

I've never modded before, could someone guide me through how to do that? I'm in the Creative Lounge voicechat

[stuck oyster]

are aegis models open source licensed in way you can use them separately?

otherwise you will need to use aegis as dependency

[thick light]

Some of the Aegis some is open source, some of it is not. Lemme find out

Yes, it is open source. It's included in their repository 🙂

I've downloaded the .p3d but idk what to do next, or if there are other steps to complete first as well

[pallid nexus]

You also need all of the textures (paa files), the rvmat, and a working config for it
Might need to set the texture paths as well, not certain about that
You can mostly use the config from Aegis, but will need to update the classnames to avoid conflicts (use your own tag for prefixing)

[tacit karma]

has anyone ever experienced this "bug" before?
https://gfycat.com/PoliticalUnacceptableGannet

[foggy finch]

only after too many beers

[woeful viper]

wobly head syndrome? maybe it's the hit animation or the weightpainting of the face that has more then it should have?

[reef gate]

What’s the best way to make ‘destroyed’ buildings

There’s gotta be a better way than using the contraption

[stuck oyster]

there is no easy way really

such thing can be taken into consideration when building the model

like cutting damage parts ready as you make the thing etc

but no automation or tool will make you realistic destruction without effort

[reef gate]

i tried this way but i'm not really a fan

[stuck oyster]

yep like I said, no easy way

[stuck oyster]

think about how the building is structurally

and how different materials would break

[reef gate]

it just becomes a weird jigsaw mess

[stuck oyster]

yep

a building does not break up that way

especially not with materials like what yours is made of

[prisma mulch]

For a building like that I'd expect to see mostly just the foundations remaining.

[muted lintel]

foundation + rubble, maybe some semi-intact solar panels sticking out inbetween some wall pieces

[reef gate]

i'm guessing i've just gotta hand model it

[muted lintel]

I'd suggest looking up some destroyed warehouse references and hand model it, yeah its really the only way to get a good looking destroyed model

[reef gate]

i tried so hard to make cell fracture work

but it never looks right

[stuck oyster]

things dont really break tha tway

[lone robin]

358,539 Tris is A LOT

[wind belfry]

does anybody have a idea is there somekind of spec ops mod in arma 3 or is there one being in development?

[reef gate]

it is

[south badge]

Are you trying to blow up a building or someone´s PC?

[stuck oyster]

it can be both

[foggy finch]

@wind belfry try here --> https://discordapp.com/channels/105462288051380224/105784487148802048

[wispy orchid]

does anyone know what might be wrong in model or config when the proxy bombs show on a plane all the time?

[karmic blade]

I am curious. I made a ramp 3d model, set it to 1.0, Geometry and Roadway. For some reason soldiers can walk on it, but vehicles just drive though it. And if I fly into it, it goes though, but than aircraft gets damaged

[stuck oyster]

roadway mesh needs to be little bit above geometry mesh

and geoemtry lod requirements can be found in the pinnes messages

[short marsh]

I'm having an issue with an A2 port. The gear animation works fine, A3 recognizes the animations in Buldozer. However in game, I try to retract the gear, and no worky. I don't know if it's a config question or a model issue though, becuase if it's a config issue, then I will move it there.

The gear is for a helicopter, not a plane too

[stuck oyster]

helos by default have the retracting gear disabled

[short marsh]

Yeah I put that in the config, and it still doesn't do anything

[stuck oyster]

as = 1?

[short marsh]

Yeah

It shows it on the status window, but the gear does nothing

I mean it says

It' retracting but nothing moves

[stuck oyster]

maybe typo in the model.cfg animation source?

[short marsh]

Maybe, but it works in Buldozer so I don't know

[stuck oyster]

buldozer just reads the source name and uses that

it does not know what eventually powers that source

[short marsh]

Okay

[stuck oyster]

it could be AHGJPAISEWRBJH

and it would work in dozer

[short marsh]

Haha

Gotcha

So how do I power the gear so it retracts?

I checked RHS real quick and it didn't need it.

For animationsources

So it's not a config thing I suppose

[stuck oyster]

what source do you use for it in modelcfg?

[short marsh]

Huh?

[stuck oyster]

it has a engine defiend source name that it needs to use

[short marsh]

Hold on let me open it

[stuck oyster]

in the modelcfg animation class

you have source= XXX

this needs to be the engines animation source for the gear

it might be just "gear"

[short marsh]

right, hold on let me look

[stuck oyster]

but im just guessing off the top of my head

[short marsh]

Source is gear for all of them

[stuck oyster]

that should do the trick then

[short marsh]

"gear"

Yeah but I pack it and no worky if it's supposed to do it

[stuck oyster]

vanilla helos got these it seems

[short marsh]

Yeah I have that and UpTime

[stuck oyster]

as far as I can remember these should do it

[short marsh]

Yeah I copied from the Ghost Hawk on how to put that in for the config. I have it set to three seconds, does that matter?

[stuck oyster]

should not

its just slower movement

[short marsh]

Okay, yeah it's a bit more convoluted than the Ghost Hawk. If that's supposed to make it work, then it's not working

I may have to look at the Test_Plane_01 though, maybe it's something else than gear

It's Gear, but I don't think that makes a difference, though some are rotation though.

Yeah I mean I think it's good, but I would think with all of that it wouldn't be too hard. So I don't know what to look for either

[stuck oyster]

try "gear"

[short marsh]

Okay I will

[stuck oyster]

how do you pack the pbo?

[short marsh]

Addon Builder

Stable version

[stuck oyster]

that wont check stuff so things can sneak in

[short marsh]

Okay

So what do I use?

[stuck oyster]

well I've used mikeros pboProject for years. its far more demanding with errors

[short marsh]

Okay, I was thinking you'd plug that. It's in the Tools channel or is it on his website?

Yeh I found it, WIndoze won't allow me to run the exe

[stuck oyster]

mikerso bytex store has the all in one installer

thats the easiest way to get it

[short marsh]

Never mind, I got it installed

[stuck oyster]

👍

the windows message is of no concern in this case

[short marsh]

Yeah didn't realize I had to download two other programs to get it to work. Is there a way for it to not require a config to be in there? Seems kinda stupid it won't pack if there's no config in there

Anyway I'll muck with it and see if I can't get it to work for me.

Thanks

[ruby rune]

I have a multi-faceted question here. So I have a model that I am trying to import into Arma 3. I was able to import it just fine into the game however, I dont know how to add a function to allow it to be retextured. Confusion

[stuck oyster]

no config is essentiala part of pbo

at least you need a config with cfgPatches in it

[stuck oyster]

hidden selections pin in pinned messages

[charred bolt]

Usually it will have hiddenSelections set up that you can apply retextures to using hiddenSelectionTextures in config

[ruby rune]

hidden selections is enabled in the config but I believe it requires "camo" in the model so that it is not just the diffuse texture. I dont know my way around blender or object builder so I believe that is the step i am on

[charred bolt]

Are you making the model in Blender?

[ruby rune]

it was made in blender first yes.

[charred bolt]

As you mention "import", can you confirm that you have permission from the IP holder (usually creator) to edit and publish this model please before we continue helping?

[stuck oyster]

good point

[ruby rune]

yeah, i made the model in blender. I am the IP holder. Im talking import from blender to Arma 3 lol

or port, would that be a better word to use? LMAO

[stuck oyster]

import is fine

[charred bolt]

So you'll want to add some named selections to the parts of your model that should be retextured. Usually called camo, camo1 etc per texture set.

[stuck oyster]

porting is what rippers call their stuff when they try to put in shaddy stuff 😅

[ruby rune]

LMAO understood. I'm new to making models so i dont know the street lingo around here

[ruby rune]

is this done in blender or in object builder?

[charred bolt]

Either

[stuck oyster]

Id recommend working in the source model

so blender

[charred bolt]

If you were to do it only in OB, then everytime you reexported a model improvement from blender, you'd need to redo that. So it makes sense to put everything you can in the source model in blender

[ruby rune]

so its as simple as naming the selections? Thats far easier than I thought. I also thought i could only do it in Object Builder so that may have been my source of confusion

[charred bolt]

Having added those named selections, you also need to put them in the sections[] array in model.cfg and write some code in config.cpp to enable the hiddenSelection function

What kind of object is it? Car, uniform, house, donut?

[stuck oyster]

in blender the equivalent is vertex groups

[ruby rune]

thats already done. The config itself is complete. I was just having trouble putting textures onto the model and because i want to make multiple variants without having to make a new model for every single one. Its just a static model so i believe the whole thing can just be named camo and call it a day.

[charred bolt]

If you only have 1 texture, a single camo will be fine

[ruby rune]

It's just a single static ammo crate

[ruby rune]

THIS^ I think this is what I needed to know. I am relatively new to blender and I dont know what directly correlates to Object Builder. Which I also am just dipping my toes into as well

[ruby rune]

if I have multiple textures that i want use but just want to use the same model, do I need to have more than one "camo" group to accomodate for each texture or can I just use the one "camo" and then make several edits/retextures?

[stuck oyster]

whole single camo selection/vertex group gets replaced with new one

so if you dont need to change different parts to various diffenent textures yhen you need only one selection

like in uniform you might have pants on one texture, shirt on other

you would then have camo1 for shirt and camo2 for pants

[ruby rune]

oh i understand now

thank you for the clarification

hopefully enfusion is better/easier to deal with than A3 😭

[stuck oyster]

in some things maybe yes

but modeling work is still quite complex subject

there are a lot of similarities

in all games really

[restive pond]

does blender's auto smooth feature not work well with arma's engine? Seems like i get normal/shading artifacts in bulldozer that don't appear in blender or substance painter

[unkempt token]

hit F5 in object builder and then preview in buldozer

To automate and not have to recalculate normals manually, just point your Blender Toolbox to your arma 3 tool installations' O2script.exe

C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Arma 3 Tools\ObjectBuilder\O2Script.exe

[restive pond]

I've already have the o2Script path.

Hit F5 in object builder and unfortunately the problem still persists

[south badge]

Which version of Blender are you on?

I am on 3.6.10 and have never had any issues with this. I always auto-smooth 180 degrees, clear custom split normals and use sharp edges to handle shading.

[restive pond]

I'm on 4.0

[south badge]

I think there were some shading changes in the new Blender version that made me go back to the older one

But I guess you´d need to wait for someone who is also on 4.0 then, since I can´t really provide any help

[restive pond]

i decided to manually mark sharp the ones with weird shading

[stuck oyster]

It has always been 1:1 for me.

[restive pond]

I should probably stop overusing bevel modifiers

[charred bolt]

You're exporting as triangles only? With quads OB will do it's own thing.

[fervent depot]

Any idea why the texture isnt loading at certain distances?

[marsh canyon]

Texture is not set in some LOD

[fervent depot]

Ah, I thought I had already checked that. Thanks.

[terse kettle]

Hey all, i have just started on making a building for arma 3 and I was wondering if having the walls, floor, ceiling, etc be different objects in blender matters or not. I already know about LODs and how they need to be different objects.

[marsh canyon]

No. If you export them into one LOD, it's one LOD

[terse kettle]

Ok thanks mate

[stuck oyster]

Can't be done.

As discussed in the #arma3_tools

[jaunty rune]

what is the reccomned poly count for a vehicle?

[rotund snow]

15k

vertices need to be taken into account

[obtuse rain]

What kind of vehicle?

[rotund snow]

a large "heli"

[umbral shuttle]

hello I am playing around with making bullet tracers, when far away they become black (using spledid viewer cause its easier to take photos) and when u get close they have the full color ( have like 3 cylinders each with 50% opacity)
is there something I am perhaps missing?

[pallid island]

"far away" as in "after 1 second of travel" or something? There is tracerEndTime=1; property in CfgAmmo entries, maybe that's somehow related

[umbral shuttle]

yeah about after a second, the velocity is 1600m/s, I havetracerEndTime = 10;

[stuck oyster]

Could be texture mipmapping messing it up

That's also pretty complex model for it compared to the vanilla trancer.

[umbral shuttle]

wat is this mipmapping 😄

[stuck oyster]

Texture drawing at lower resolution at distance

[umbral shuttle]

Anything I can do to change something about it to see if it is the problem?

[charred bolt]

The usual experiments

• replace your weapon and ammo with a vanilla version to check it's not a game engine limitation
• replace the ammo in your custom weapon with vanilla tracer ammo, to identify if a problem with your ammo config
• if it looks like your ammo is at fault, experiment with tracerEndTime, muzzle velocities, single resolution LOD, remove hidden selections, view distance

[umbral shuttle]

will try after good nites sleep 🫡

[obtuse rain]

20-25k is typical for large BIS heli's

(Not including proxies)

And you definitely want a full set of LOD's (~6) to get that into ~1000 poly's because there isn't a lot of occluding something that's in the air even if it's 5Km away. 😉

[fallen compass]

On the bulldozer can you see the animation of when a gun fires or how could I see that?

[fluid grove]

Try initphase = 180

[stuck oyster]

The phase don't go that far.

Since this is not exactly a legit mod though it's not something we can support here.

[sturdy finch]

I'm working on implementing a silencer, it's all working fine as the model shows in game and functions but I can't seem to get the texture to work, the model is just white in game

It has the "camo" vertex group in both lods and the texture is defined in the config cpp so I think it may be a model cfg problem but I'm not entirely sure

[stuck oyster]

Have you assigned the texture on the model itself?

Camo/hiddenselections are meant for config based variant creation.

[sturdy finch]

I didn't know this was a thing, how would I go about it?

[gilded bane]

So does anyone know what the Binarize textures check box means on AB ?

[south badge]

Uhm, how can I use the reloadMagazine source to force a selection starting in the "0" position to move to position "1" at the half-point, and then reset back to "0"?

I need a lever to rotate a certain amount of degrees and then rotate back the same amount within the span of the "reloadMagazine" time interval.

[stuck oyster]

First movement from 0 to 0.5 value, second movement from 0.5 to 1.0 b
Value

@south badge

[south badge]

hmmmmmmmmm

cheers, I will take a look into it

ah so I need two distinct classes of animation defined

[fallen compass]

In which section are the animations of a weapon added? For example, the slide is pulled back.

[stuck oyster]

Model. Cfg

You can look at the sample weapon for reference

[fallen compass]

yes

[stuck oyster]

It has model. Cfg that works in object builder buldozer preview

[fallen compass]

Should I do this too?

[fallen compass]

How can I assign these example bones to the weapon's magazine?

Or does it already apply when naming them?

[stuck oyster]

Those selections correspond with bones defined in the model. Cfg

[fallen compass]

ok but in the blender to pass it to the object builder and see it in the bulldozer

At least I grab the example weapon, but when I export it again and try it on the bulldozer it doesn't want to load the animations

The model cfg is the same example but it doesn't work when I export it myself and analyze it on the bulldozer.

any ideas?
@stuck oyster

[livid portal]

@fallen compass Are you animating entirely through model.cfg or are you also using a custom rtm? If so you gotta call it somewhere not through model.cfg

[fallen compass]

I'm using weapon 3 example.

[livid portal]

Solely arma 3 example doesn't work, you'd need a config.cpp to inherit the weapon moves etc also

[fallen compass]

@livid portal So what I'm doing is using the example model and importing the skeleton model cfg

[livid portal]

Wrong person 😅

[fallen compass]

xd

[fallen compass]

the example also has config cpp
ç

The thing is that on the bulldozer with the model imported into the object builder it directly lets me see the animations of the loader, etc.

[livid portal]

But are you using it for yours? Same directory for your model, also in model.cfg you gotta name it exactly how you p3d is

[fallen compass]

but when I export it from blender it stops working

[fallen compass]

I am using everything from the example

Because I'm testing where the animations of the weapon's own slide, magazine, etc. come from.

[livid portal]

Yeah, sorry my brain isn't braining currently lol You gotta name your weapons parts in blender (vertex group and assign parts) how they are in the model.cfg or if you are using an example weapon for references. Your model.cfg most be named after your p3d (will give an example shortly) and also make sure you have the config.cpp with your p3d directory

[fallen compass]

Shouldn't that be ready? I say because since it is an example, imagine that it is good

[livid portal]

You still need to insert your own edits

Another note, you gotta have it in your P: drive (at least never works for me if not)

[fallen compass]

okok

[livid portal]

Here for reference on p3d and model.cfg

class YourP3DWeaponName: in that one (it inherits from some Test_WeaponBase though, but don't need to worry about that)

[fallen compass]

ahh ok

So do I need to create the cfg model along with the config so that it can be seen well on the bulldozer?

Does it apply in real time? ha ha

[livid portal]

Yes and no, you gotta relaunch the bulldozer for it to take effect

Sometimes even switch LOD (memory and then back to LOD1)

[fallen compass]

ok

[livid portal]

I just fell over this, useful if you get stuck again https://forums.bohemia.net/forums/topic/229179-arma3-modding-guides-tutorials-compilation/

[woeful viper]

amphibious tanks now possible on DEV #fuckyes

[fallen compass]

Is there a template for a config.cpp for a gun? or do I have to make it from scratch?

[stuck oyster]

the arma3 samples has an example.

but youll need to understand what each part does

[fallen compass]

but a rifle

[fallen compass]

Of course that and how could I structure it all together?

[stuck oyster]

same way but changing parts you want to change

I recommend trying to make as simple config as possible first

then add more features

if you just copy paste you wont understand how the parts work together

[fallen compass]

How would a simple one be, with proxy and recharge?

[real crow]

Does anyone know if it is possible to animate the zeroing on statics? Would the animation source for it being the same as in rifles?

[stuck oyster]

not possible though the engine zeroing feature

it does not animate vehicle parts

[real crow]

ok, so engine limitation, nuffin we can do then

i will just have them rotated in the model itself

[stuck oyster]

yeah

[smoky lava]

Gentlemen, what could be the cause of this lighting bug? In one case the player is illuminated (1) in the other case is not (2). From funny - in the first case used close topo from ob(3), in the second case (4) geometry accurately I closed myself in the 3d program. How did this happen?))

I did the same thing for the other house. The situation was the same

suspect there's something wrong with the geometry that's been moved to the left side. Maybe the arma can't handle that?

[stuck oyster]

do you use shadow lod or visualEx generated shadow?

[smoky lava]

shadow lod

[stuck oyster]

have you assigned hiddenselections on the shadow lod mesh?

do you use hiddenselection in the building?

what named properties you use in geometry lod?

[smoky lava]

1. no
2. no, there's only code for breaking glass and ruins
3. (1) auto close, (2) hand close

[stuck oyster]

autoclose is pretty bad

it adds stuff you dont really want in there

sometimes it can work on simple shapes

but for if you have things like open edges that will become messed up

geometry lod handles collision though

not shadows

[smoky lava]

preferedShadowVolume & sbsource - remove?

[stuck oyster]

yes remove those

[smoky lava]

removed these properties and now there are no shadows on the player)

[stuck oyster]

What does your shadowlod look like?

[smoky lava]

Right now I was only testing on one model. Enabling these properties fixed the shadows on the player...

or should I use visualEx in future?

[fallen parrot]

Guys. Skeletons for Arma 3 are saved as p3d or it has an another type of files?

[stuck oyster]

its not saved anywhere exactly

[stuck oyster]

visualEx can be used instead of shadowlod sure

but most likely your shadowlod was just not correcly made

[stuck oyster]

if you explain what you try to do that will likely get more useful answer

[fallen parrot]

If we take a TIOW mode, there are space marines or dreadnoughts who are actually an infantry but they have its own skeleton. By example if we give an armor to guardian it will be broken (no animations, wrong position, etc), but if we give to space marine, all will be alright

So in my opinion they have a special skeleton, which has compatibility with some armor (and weapon by the way)

[smoky lava]

the only thing that could be wrong is this object
The exterior walls, interior walls and floor are a whole object

visualEx works fine if res lods have non-closed geometry?

[fallen parrot]

Found it. Yes, there are used also p3d

[stuck oyster]

skeleton shape is part of it yes

skeletons are not stored in p3d though

the main thing is that due to the different shape such characters have a new animation set made to fit that shape via a new skeleton

unfortunately this has been simplified in common chat to just "new skeleton"

which is not entirely accurate but then again people who dont know about this stuff cant tell the difference

the animation trasnformations are stored in the RTM animation files

[fallen parrot]

Achso. Ok, I got it.

[stuck oyster]

which then make the unit move according to the animations

[fallen parrot]

What is it then?

[stuck oyster]

its for physx ragdoll mainly

its not really skeleton

just points where joints are

but also you cant access that

since ripping is forbidden

and you would get banned for that

[fallen parrot]

Actually I just want to make combatibility among TIOW, Black Carapace and Terminators Mode

Because now it is literally broken, if u try to mix it

[stuck oyster]

you probably cant

[fallen parrot]

As far as I know there are lots of mods which refer to something other

By example those refer to TIOW

[stuck oyster]

sure but you cant mix the models/animation sets

[fallen parrot]

I don't need to mix it. I need to understand how it works in general

[stuck oyster]

each different shaped character has its own animationmoveset that it uses

such character shape uniform can not be used on another shaped character

is the basic gist of it

so if you spawn a normal armaman

it can not use terminator armor or space marine armor

and so on

[fallen parrot]

Yeah, but in general I don't need it in my project because I want to refer to those 3 mods and make:
A) Compatibility with Black Carapace. So that mod add a HUD for space marine armor, but not for terminator
B) A little bit more weapon for terminator armor

I dont want to tell lots of plans, because I dont want promise something, but there are actually a lot of plans to make more compatibilities

[stuck oyster]

Then you should not really need to touch the animations side at all.

as long as you dont mess up the existing class structure

which may be delicate

[fallen parrot]

I came actually from Space Station 14 and C#, where lots of things are inheritated. So I thought, that space marine model is inheritated by a normal man and there are used speed- and health-modifiers, animations, models, etc

[stuck oyster]

its quite different from that

they are in essence separate things that are both playable characters

[smoky lava]

I checked visualex works for non-closed geometry. Then I have the following question

res lods: 6.5k, 3k, 1.5k, 800, 250.
where to set lodnoshadow=1?

I read the discord and it seems that visualex is better in performance... What should I do if I want the best optimization?

[stuck oyster]

I dont think lodnoshadow matters with visualEx shadow type

[smoky lava]

I'm looking now at a model from bis there visualex
25k with lodnoshadow=1
7k no properties
3k no properties
60 no properties

[lone robin]

As per BIs website they state to put lodnoshadow in all resolution LODs.
Whether or not it really matters I do put it in all res LODs just to be safe

[smoky lava]

but they didn't do it themselves... Which begs the question)

[stuck oyster]

There are many different configurations in BI models

dont overthink it

[smoky lava]

Okay. Thank you 🫡

[tawdry vale]

Anybody free for a vc? I need help importing a model I made into the game but idk anything about object builder

[stuck oyster]

there are few tutorials from elTyranos, Sokolonko and Battlestad that can be useful.

[tawdry vale]

I appreciate it

[alpine matrix]

anyone have a ref for hiding railcovers/anything when you put a laser/light on?

i have the stuff in my model.cfg for it

but i suspect the selection being used elsewear may prevent the railcovers from hiding

[cursive sleet]

it was possible before too, on the regular build

[orchid fern]

@cursive sleet Seriously? Since when? Ocean-floor-exploring AAV's were still a thing last time I checked (1-2 months ago?)

[cursive sleet]

dont remember but i tested driving the AAV in the water and BMP a few months ago

[orchid fern]

I think there's a few mods that hacked together something along the lines of the "paddel" mod, but I'm not sure anybody got actual PhsyX tankx-behaving-like-ship behaviour

[leaden quartz]

hi i want to try creating a beret in blender 4.8 but have no clue how to use it and no responses to my creators recruiting post, if anyone has a tutorial video that explains the keys there using to do stuff as well, as most just tell you what there doing but without saying what key binds they used to do it

[pallid nexus]

I'd like to see what new Blender 4.8 has, but it'll be a while

For starting with blender, I think this might be a decent course/tutorial for what you want https://cgcookie.com/courses/blender-basics-an-introduction-to-blender-4-x
I think I did most of an earlier version of this one
The manual is very useful, just choose the version for the blender version you are using https://docs.blender.org/manual/en/latest/
Mostly, practice and learn to model and texture (and learn how to do UV maps, it will make your life much easier)
Arma 3 has some more stuff you need to learn, mostly Arma materials (rvmat) and how to export models to p3d format

As to the videos where they don't show the keybinds, that's probably because most of them have used blender for long enough that the keybinds are second nature, and many are not really for a complete beginner
Most important keybinds, if you haven't already found them, are the mouse binds. Middle mouse to rotate view, left mouse to select or use tool, and right mouse for context menu

[leaden quartz]

thankyou much appreciated

[marsh canyon]

Your bone hierarchy is not correct

[visual thicket]

Saw some concept art for RUST had an Idea and made this xD http://imgur.com/a/QtlRt

[real crow]

hey folks, is it possible to have two hammers on my double barrel shotgun being animated for each shot, one at the time, instead of having them rotating both together at the same time?

i thought about revolving as anim source, and then maybe using something like the one used for hiding ammo at each shot, like "(2/2)-0.00001" and "(1/2)-0.00001"

[real crow]

but then i am not sure where i should put these

because this is a rotation animation and not a hide/unhide one

[stuck oyster]

you can use ammo as source

any source works with any animation type just fine

[real crow]

alright, nothing else to add? just ammo as source?

or should i just change min and max value? Like, using respectively 0 and 1 for one hammer and then 1 and 2 for the other?

[stuck oyster]

1 is for max ammo

0.5 would be half the ammo

and so on

[real crow]

ok

[stone hatch]

Hey all! I'm getting an error when I try and pack a mod using pboProject. It's showing "missing file A3\characters_f\Heads\bysta.p3d" I checked, and that's the model that is referenced in the head proxy. I've tried redownloading the ARMA samlples and Mikero tools with no luck. I'm going to keep at it, but any help would be appreciated!

[marsh canyon]

Which file is claiming that file is missing?

[charred bolt]

You're not alone, it's a common problem. From memory, those files are in the Contact DLC, and so not everyone has them when extracting the game files.

[marsh canyon]

(Is it really?)

Arma 3 Samples has one, so you can place it into the correct folder manually, tho

[stuck oyster]

the bysta.p3d proxy was moved to template_rtm folder in the arma3 files

@stone hatch if you open the a3 folder and do file search for bysta.p3d you can find it and repath it in your character p3d

[stone hatch]

Awesome! Thanks all for the help, I'm trying it right now!

It worked! You guys are some kind of wizards

[stuck oyster]

https://tenor.com/view/magical-magic-gif-13543499

[jovial osprey]

Does anyone know why my game freezes when importing the tank, follownig this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgymTnhZqWs&t=487s

[south badge]

Unbinarized?

[charred bolt]

Game crashes can be tricky to troubleshoot, but they can occur, particularly with tank development.
Some things that I know of to cause crashes are trying to use more than 9 physx wheels per side, and the use of reflectors in certain configurations on turrets.
To help further you might need to make your files available for us to inspect, or a minimum of screenshots of the p3d (LOD0, Geo LOD, Geo Phys, Mem LOD) and config.cpp, model.cfg.
Also are you using a p drive development environment and what tools to pack the pbo?

[jovial osprey]

YES

[jovial osprey]

I think i sat up the p drive, since thisi s my first drive i dont know much about it. i just dragged in the model i had and did what he said to do in the video

[stuck oyster]

you need to do porper workflow

pbos need to be binarized

[jovial osprey]

whats a pbo

[stuck oyster]

:L

[jovial osprey]

its my first time im telling you

[stuck oyster]

youre trying to do something too complex then. start simpler

[jovial osprey]

im just trying to set up a cool western anti air for me and my friends nothing special

[stuck oyster]

you cant

basically you dont yet know enough and thats very complex process

its infact very special

so youll have to tune back a lot

to the very basics

of setting up P drive

how to do config

[jovial osprey]

i did set up p drive

[stuck oyster]

how to pack a pbo

[jovial osprey]

correctly

[stuck oyster]

also the model can not be from some other game

[jovial osprey]

Its just some 3d model4 i found online

[stuck oyster]

its probably from some other game