#arma3_model | ARMA | Page 87

white jay Feb 27, 2017, 11:45 AM

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making progress ...

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make sure not both rot axis are in the same selection

fervent steppe Feb 27, 2017, 12:42 PM

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@white jay lets see the model config (and main config if you have gotten that far)

white jay Feb 27, 2017, 12:50 PM

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thanks @fervent steppe but it looks like I have managed to get it back to how it was yesterday. Now I'm trying to add another door. I'm sure I'd let you know if I run into a problem with that! 😄 Thanks again.

fervent steppe Feb 27, 2017, 12:51 PM

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Hehe

white jay Feb 27, 2017, 1:31 PM

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two doors now working 😄 But they are very quiet. There must be away to add sound?

cinder pivot Feb 27, 2017, 2:01 PM

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Same line that plays the anim you can play a sound

white jay Feb 27, 2017, 2:09 PM

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ic, thanks @cinder pivot

fervent steppe Feb 27, 2017, 2:28 PM

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Yea take a look at how bis does it. You can do it that way and use stock bis sounds.

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I've done it other ways too which is to add a bit of code at the end of the statement = but that's extra work. It's easier to use the one bis already use

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Does anyone know off hand....does bis still use scripts for door animations with tanoa?

white jay Feb 27, 2017, 2:45 PM

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is there a good example of sound? I had a look at the CUP building but nothing like I'm thinking of.

halcyon wren Feb 27, 2017, 2:46 PM

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https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/animateDoor

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Doors have changed from A2 to A3, but the data setup is the same.

white jay Feb 27, 2017, 2:51 PM

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thanks. Are there any example models for A3 around? I see the steam ones are no longer available.

cinder pivot Feb 27, 2017, 2:53 PM

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why wouldn't they be?

halcyon wren Feb 27, 2017, 2:56 PM

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"Arma 3 Samples" from the Tools tab in the steam library shows them to me.

white jay Feb 27, 2017, 3:00 PM

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Ah, there they are. Thanks 😄

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i think BI even uses a newer method:
https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/animateSource

halcyon wren Feb 27, 2017, 3:04 PM

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Oh yes, animateSource is very awesome. 😄

white jay Feb 27, 2017, 3:09 PM

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@fervent steppe i think they use functions now, but i'm in the office so i can't check their configs

bleak tangle Feb 27, 2017, 3:45 PM

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animateDoor isn't used for buildings. animateSource could be used, but last time I checked BI only uses it for this object https://youtu.be/VP7Taj9UBLw

fervent steppe Feb 27, 2017, 4:07 PM

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I'll have to look at one of their configs.

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I still have animate then a sqf with the bones...but if there's a more efficient way...

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Like this :
statement = ([this, 'Door_8','Door_8_Handle','Door_8_Handle_2','Door_9','Door_9_Handle','Door_9_Handle_2'] execVM "\Jbad_Structures\scripts\Doors_open.sqf");

cinder pivot Feb 27, 2017, 4:10 PM

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statement = "([this, 'Door_1_rot'] call BIS_fnc_DoorNoHandleOpen)"; is what I have used

vale berry Feb 27, 2017, 4:20 PM

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http://i.imgur.com/IklmQfe.png progress 😉

halcyon wren Feb 27, 2017, 4:49 PM

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Oh right, yes. animateDoor is for vehicle doors. Animate source replaced all those variants reliably.

hollow fulcrum Feb 27, 2017, 4:52 PM

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@vale berry glad someone is making progress lol. keep at it!

sudden radish Feb 27, 2017, 5:02 PM

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Is there a way to hide the headgear in the viewmodel LOD?

hollow fulcrum Feb 27, 2017, 5:05 PM

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ermmm.. not exactly sure what you're asking there. you mean to hide it from view in a scenario, while it's equipped?

sudden radish Feb 27, 2017, 5:07 PM

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hide it from the player when in first person mode

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is that posssible?

quick terrace Feb 27, 2017, 5:20 PM

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yeah don't have it in viewpilot lod

sudden radish Feb 27, 2017, 5:20 PM

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So deleting "proxy: headgear" should fix it?

bleak tangle Feb 27, 2017, 5:21 PM

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If you have an empty View - Pilot LOD in the headgear model, then there will be no headgear shown when in first person

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If you were making a character model I suppose you could delete the headgear proxy from that model's View - Pilot LOD

quick terrace Feb 27, 2017, 5:23 PM

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^^

bleak tangle Feb 27, 2017, 5:24 PM

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@fervent steppe You will love animateSource, here is a small example I did with stodola_open http://pastebin.com/kqMYcCYy

sudden radish Feb 27, 2017, 5:31 PM

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@bleak tangle Didn't solve the issue, strangely... my model doesnt have a headgear proxy in it's viewmodel LOD but it still shows when you are viewing in first person

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http://i.imgur.com/7NInW9R.jpg

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view from first person

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http://i.imgur.com/JN2cYmy.png

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third person view

bleak tangle Feb 27, 2017, 5:53 PM

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Have you tried leaving the View - Pilot LOD of the headgear blank?

echo rain Feb 27, 2017, 6:07 PM

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just keep the pilot lod empty

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shit

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nvm. scroll mess up

sudden radish Feb 27, 2017, 6:08 PM

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I'll give it a try

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Didn't work for some reason :/

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issue persists with showing the cap

echo rain Feb 27, 2017, 6:18 PM

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hm. sounds like you did something wrong with packing or something. or maybe a proxy in that lod? pilot is what is rendered in 1st person, period

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from what i remember anyways ;D

sudden radish Feb 27, 2017, 6:18 PM

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http://prntscr.com/ee3452

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thats an example

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selected "view-pilot" and then the proxy for the headgear

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which results in nothing selected => its empty?

quick terrace Feb 27, 2017, 6:24 PM

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right click named selection delete empty to make sure

sudden radish Feb 27, 2017, 6:24 PM

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its gone, confirms that it's empty right?

quick terrace Feb 27, 2017, 6:25 PM

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yes

sudden radish Feb 27, 2017, 6:32 PM

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so, is there anything else that might cause the issue?

quick terrace Feb 27, 2017, 6:34 PM

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what issue?

sudden radish Feb 27, 2017, 6:35 PM

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headgear blocks vision in first person -> want to remove the headgear from showing when in first person

bleak tangle Feb 27, 2017, 6:37 PM

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Have you tired leaving the View - Pilot LOD for the headgear model blank? I'm positive that works, but I'm now unsure about removing the proxy from the character model

sudden radish Feb 27, 2017, 6:39 PM

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I have tried that, no success so far :/ or i'm doing it wrong..

cinder pivot Feb 27, 2017, 6:52 PM

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I think the issue is having a headgear proxy in a character uniform at all

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I dont think you can do uniforms like that, it has to be a separate item/headgear piece

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And you can link items? Or is that just linking weapons + attachments

sudden radish Feb 27, 2017, 6:53 PM

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it's a seperate headgear piece, it's not connected with the uniform

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it's just in the same modpack

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seperate PBO's

bleak tangle Feb 27, 2017, 7:14 PM

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I'm just trying to confirm that you were editing the headgear model because you showed us the uniform model in your picture. What are you packing the PBO with?

cinder pivot Feb 27, 2017, 7:16 PM

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You kept saying proxy for headgear, thats what I was thinking it was the model/uniform you are messing with

fervent steppe Feb 27, 2017, 7:18 PM

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Hey @bleak tangle what is the difference between how you have your animation set up to how I have it?
I want to know if it's worth changing everything hehe

sudden radish Feb 27, 2017, 7:34 PM

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@bleak tangle packing it with the standard arma tools packer. I'll try Mikeo's packer now as you mentioned it

wraith tendon Feb 27, 2017, 7:39 PM

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Better Choice

sudden radish Feb 27, 2017, 7:39 PM

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is it that much better?

wraith tendon Feb 27, 2017, 7:39 PM

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10000%

sudden radish Feb 27, 2017, 7:40 PM

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how so? not that I doubt the skills put in there.

wraith tendon Feb 27, 2017, 7:40 PM

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Error Feedback (e.g.: In wich Line is a ; too much) is one of the best things in it

sudden radish Feb 27, 2017, 7:41 PM

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Oh yeah, good point

wraith tendon Feb 27, 2017, 7:43 PM

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prep your anus for alot of ErrorMessages, after trying to pack your Addon with Mikeros Tools 😄 Accept it, fix it, learn from it, be happy that you have a working Addon after that.
P.S. don't forget to feed/praise the goats.

cinder pivot Feb 27, 2017, 7:53 PM

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Like @wraith tendon said, gotta get over the initial hump of using it the first time, it solved an issue where I had an error that broke my animation sources but threw no errors in rpt until I had fully binarized and fixed the stuff with pboproject. The problem was before the sources but it snowballed and broke it

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Very helpful

bleak tangle Feb 27, 2017, 8:02 PM

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Along with what they've said about pboProject finding errors, Addon Builder has a tendency to break things in situations where you've done nothing wrong. For instance, this issue here could be that Addon Builder is still packing the PBO with the old version of the model, maybe having it clear the temp directory would resolve that issue, but pboProject gives you the peace of mind that in 99% of cases, the error is on your end.

sudden radish Feb 27, 2017, 8:03 PM

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Fixed the error

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thanks a lot Penny! ❤

bleak tangle Feb 27, 2017, 8:09 PM

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@fervent steppe Well each of those sources in my example are composed of two sliding doors (labeled A and B), so in the config you only need to use one animateSource to move both sliding doors, rather than animate on door A and door B.

I quickly messed with the model.cfg for your hangar, and what I think you'd want to do is group the two sets of double doors and handles into two sources, and then have all of the rolling doors into the same source, so you'd have three animation sources total. So instead of that long statement you posted earlier, it would just be one animateSource for one "set" of doors and their handles.

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I can't recall if you were doing anything fancy in that script though, like sleeps.

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@sudden radish what was the fix?

fervent steppe Feb 27, 2017, 8:12 PM

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Yea that was so the door would animate correctly so it looks like it's rolling up

sudden radish Feb 27, 2017, 8:13 PM

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mikero's compiler, seemed to have fixed it somehow

fervent steppe Feb 27, 2017, 8:14 PM

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I'll have to play around with it tho.

bleak tangle Feb 27, 2017, 8:52 PM

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Well I think the statement you posted was just for one set of double doors and their handles. I'll mess with the config later and let you know

fervent steppe Feb 27, 2017, 9:16 PM

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Yea I think that was

cinder pivot Feb 27, 2017, 9:18 PM

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so you can use animation source to open multiple things at once?

wraith tendon Feb 27, 2017, 9:29 PM

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Yep

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Like:
Object moves in Anim 0->0.5 5m on the X Axis, from 0.5 -> 1 5m on the Y Axis, from 1 -> 2 10m Z Axis. Everything called in 1 AnimSource "Testinger"
Called in a Script like: _this animateSource ["Testinger",2]; (moves 5m on X, then 5m on Y and when it did that -> 10m on Z)

cinder pivot Feb 27, 2017, 9:34 PM

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cool

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gonna store that in the ole brain, got uses for it

fervent steppe Feb 27, 2017, 10:19 PM

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And this is a new addition with tanoa right?

wraith tendon Feb 27, 2017, 10:20 PM

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since animateSource was added

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https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/animateSource
1.58

animateSource

bleak tangle Feb 27, 2017, 10:39 PM

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https://dev.arma3.com/post/sitrep-00146

R&D Designer Killzone Kid is one of the people coordinating these changes, with great support from our engineers, such as Senior Programmers Jan Mareček and BXBX. Recent examples were the additions of useful Event Handlers: GetInMan, GetOutMan, SeatSwitchedMan and of course Reloaded. As for script commands, you might like animateSource and animationSourcePhase. These are counterparts to the existing animate and animationPhase, but they will let model config animators control animations in one consistent way (it's not recommended to mix these command sets). Let's imagine we have several animations that make up the mechanical movements of a weapon firing. Before you might have had to trigger these, step-by-step, via script. The new commands could be used to trigger all of them with a single command call, reducing the multiplayer traffic footprint.

fervent steppe Feb 27, 2017, 10:42 PM

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Ah. Nice.

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Guess I'll have to swap all the animation sources now

wraith tendon Feb 27, 2017, 10:45 PM

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You should. Makes Animations in Models wayyyy more easier and comfortable

fervent steppe Feb 27, 2017, 11:00 PM

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Cool. I will. Now I must shake my fist as bis for adding yet more work for me to do 💪

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Unless.....you do it for me @wraith tendon and I can just say I did it and take all the credit 😂

wraith tendon Feb 27, 2017, 11:02 PM

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So you wanna become a Lifer?

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😄

fervent steppe Feb 27, 2017, 11:05 PM

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Hahahhahaha

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Touche

wraith tendon Feb 27, 2017, 11:05 PM

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=}

fervent steppe Feb 27, 2017, 11:05 PM

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Lol

fervent steppe Feb 27, 2017, 11:55 PM

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@wraith tendon I've been meaning to ask you is that profile pic actually you?

wraith tendon Feb 27, 2017, 11:59 PM

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Yep @fervent steppe

fervent steppe Feb 28, 2017, 12:04 AM

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Haha. It cracks me up every time I see it because you look like my cousin in law 😂

wraith tendon Feb 28, 2017, 12:05 AM

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Maybe i am 😄

fervent steppe Feb 28, 2017, 12:05 AM

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Haha "brothers don't shake hands...bothers gotta hug"

lavish mountain Feb 28, 2017, 12:05 AM

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Isnt that remi malec in that pic from Mr.Robit?

wraith tendon Feb 28, 2017, 12:05 AM

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lulz, yeah Milk.
Okay, enough spamming. Back to Modeling stuff in here =}

fervent steppe Feb 28, 2017, 12:06 AM

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👍

cinder pivot Feb 28, 2017, 4:19 AM

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Anyone know if you can run an animation on a backpack while someone is wearing it?

wraith tendon Feb 28, 2017, 4:45 AM

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hmm

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don't think so. Or lets say: I can't think of a way, to address the Obj Backpack of a player.

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Maybe some animations with the source "time" in it

cinder pivot Feb 28, 2017, 4:47 AM

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Backpacks are always objects though

wraith tendon Feb 28, 2017, 4:47 AM

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Try to target the Backpack on a player.

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It will always return Obj = player

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and backpack player = Only Typename

cinder pivot Feb 28, 2017, 4:48 AM

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unitBackpack returns the object

wraith tendon Feb 28, 2017, 4:48 AM

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Correct.
Then: Test it out 😄

cinder pivot Feb 28, 2017, 4:48 AM

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Im at work 😦

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I have hopes and dreams though

wraith tendon Feb 28, 2017, 4:49 AM

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sucks to be you then 😄

cinder pivot Feb 28, 2017, 4:49 AM

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Lol

wraith tendon Feb 28, 2017, 4:49 AM

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(going in 15min myself, soo... hmpf -.-)

cinder pivot Feb 28, 2017, 4:49 AM

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Im off in 15 mins

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Soo

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Who is laughing now

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😄

wraith tendon Feb 28, 2017, 4:50 AM

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i just need to work for an hour 😄

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Answer: ME

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😄

cinder pivot Feb 28, 2017, 4:51 AM

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Wut

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Hacks

wraith tendon Feb 28, 2017, 4:53 AM

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Its called: "Fasching"

cinder pivot Feb 28, 2017, 4:55 AM

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Fun? 😮

wraith tendon Feb 28, 2017, 5:19 AM

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no

coarse roost Feb 28, 2017, 5:47 AM

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Hello, Can someone help me or do you have any idea what the wheels are? Thanks. https://www.twitch.tv/videos/125271356 http://prntscr.com/ee8mez

coarse roost Feb 28, 2017, 9:39 AM

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In model.cfg all "class Wheel_X_X_Damper" with unknown value in axis = ""; http://prnt.sc/ee8mez

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Correction:
http://prntscr.com/eec8e7

shell magnet Feb 28, 2017, 11:51 AM

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Hey guys, i have a problem with my OB. I can't see my proxy cargo and driver when I try to see my model with Buldozer, anyone can help me please ?

fervent steppe Feb 28, 2017, 1:06 PM

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https://forums.bistudio.com/topic/202488-addon-safe-encript-binarize/

Where's the head banging the wall emoticon when you need it

white jay Feb 28, 2017, 1:10 PM

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SOMEONE GET THAT MAN A BINARIZER/ENCRIPTER SOFTWARE NOW

fervent steppe Feb 28, 2017, 1:11 PM

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Actually I read that totally wrong. I thought he wanted to unbin someone's work haha

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Ooops

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Either way...wonder what he's got to hide

halcyon wren Feb 28, 2017, 2:20 PM

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Why not legitimate hard labour he has put into the models and artwork and wants to keep out the bottom-feeding asset-rippers? 😄

fervent steppe Feb 28, 2017, 3:09 PM

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Hahahaha. I'll bet you 20$ 😂😂😂

pseudo elbow Feb 28, 2017, 4:04 PM

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Is there a way to make selections list control bigger? (Wider or taller)

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In O2\PB

cobalt halo Feb 28, 2017, 4:07 PM

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@pseudo elbow like this? http://i.imgur.com/V6FEBvQ.png

pseudo elbow Feb 28, 2017, 4:08 PM

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Yes

cobalt halo Feb 28, 2017, 4:09 PM

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click on the border and move it somewhere then drag to resize and reposition

pseudo elbow Feb 28, 2017, 4:10 PM

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Oooh, you have to undock it first for this to work

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I had it docked to right side and all my attempts to resize it failed

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Thanks!

cobalt halo Feb 28, 2017, 4:11 PM

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yeah 👍🏻

oblique vapor Feb 28, 2017, 4:12 PM

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A bit of model porn: https://trello-attachments.s3.amazonaws.com/58404991ce643084662773a9/58b0d6326463578ccd842c04/4dd18cae53bde3a470c9a2578aa5d3a1/eed67bebfcdd3639356bd574cc71ed4e.png

pseudo elbow Feb 28, 2017, 4:12 PM

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I read old OFP development article and noticed that their model editor had tall lists so I realized there must be a way to resize it after all

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http://www.gamasutra.com/features/20011219/spanel_05.jpg

halcyon wren Feb 28, 2017, 4:15 PM

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Yes. Just drag the window out, resize it by grabbing the edges

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Then you can plop it back into the sidebar or leave it floating. I usually have them floating about on the second screen

shell magnet Feb 28, 2017, 6:52 PM

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Hey guys, i have a problem with my OB. I can't see my proxy cargo and driver when I try to see my model with Buldozer, anyone can help me please ?

bleak tangle Feb 28, 2017, 6:56 PM

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Do you have your P drive setup correctly? If you navigate to P:\the\path\to\the\proxy.p3d is the model there?

shell magnet Feb 28, 2017, 7:01 PM

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@bleak tangle Yep

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@bleak tangle My OB is installed since 1 year and I just have this problem since 3 days..

fervent steppe Feb 28, 2017, 7:28 PM

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Just thinking...is there an option to show/hide proxies? I forget

hollow fulcrum Feb 28, 2017, 7:29 PM

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that option does exist.

median bough Feb 28, 2017, 7:32 PM

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proxies should show up in buldozer even without using the show proxy option in OB

hollow fulcrum Feb 28, 2017, 7:33 PM

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that is also correct. unless there is something wrong in the proxy definition or there is something wrong with the proxy model itself.

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usually a definition/pathing issue.

median bough Feb 28, 2017, 7:34 PM

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iirc it is also important to choose the right LOD to preview in buldozer. if you use a LOD that has no proxies then they won't be displayed

hollow fulcrum Feb 28, 2017, 7:35 PM

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indeed

fervent steppe Feb 28, 2017, 7:52 PM

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Like when I forget I'm in the memory lod wondering why my model isn't loading 😂

shell magnet Feb 28, 2017, 7:56 PM

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I use the right LOD

pseudo elbow Feb 28, 2017, 7:56 PM

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Maybe his proxy is part of selection that hides it?

shell magnet Feb 28, 2017, 7:56 PM

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But it doesn't work

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I use data_f proxies

pseudo elbow Feb 28, 2017, 7:57 PM

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Try without model.cfg

shell magnet Feb 28, 2017, 7:57 PM

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for cargo and driver

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I didn't use it

pseudo elbow Feb 28, 2017, 8:01 PM

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Create copy of model with slightly different name, open it in buldozer and see if proxies are there

shell magnet Feb 28, 2017, 8:01 PM

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https://gyazo.com/88ee7ec32e86009dd2b36465f768e25b

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https://gyazo.com/92a8c091d5e8472eaabff06f43428321

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I have this problem with all my vehicles

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since 3 days

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In don't know why

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Can I open a proxy if it's binarized ?

median bough Feb 28, 2017, 8:06 PM

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no

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not the model

shell magnet Feb 28, 2017, 8:06 PM

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Cause my proxy cargo are binarized..

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Maybe that's why I can't see them right ?

median bough Feb 28, 2017, 8:07 PM

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no. a proxy model is displayed, but you can not open the proxy model itself

shell magnet Feb 28, 2017, 8:07 PM

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Then I really don't know how to fix my problem :/

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@median bough My Unbinarized proxy model work fine but cargo and driver doesn't work

median bough Feb 28, 2017, 8:11 PM

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unbinarized models can be open in buldozer, that's right. but binarized models from BI can not

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or do you mean display the proxies?

shell magnet Feb 28, 2017, 8:12 PM

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I just want to place my driver and cargo proxy in my car

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With the hand on the drivewheel lol

median bough Feb 28, 2017, 8:12 PM

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@STL Rekiem 🏍️#4963
do you have a3 onpacked on your P drive?

shell magnet Feb 28, 2017, 8:12 PM

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Unpacked ?

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https://gyazo.com/ad9cbac61306b637508fbbe7148777bb

median bough Feb 28, 2017, 8:13 PM

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yes, do you have a folder named a3 on your p drive?

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strange...

shell magnet Feb 28, 2017, 8:13 PM

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Yep

median bough Feb 28, 2017, 8:22 PM

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since your last install of your tools is a year old you might want to consider doing a fresh reinstall

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i do it like every 2-3 month

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and after every major update

shell magnet Feb 28, 2017, 8:25 PM

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Yeah I think i'll do that :/

pseudo elbow Feb 28, 2017, 8:46 PM

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Also check buldozer RPT

median bough Feb 28, 2017, 11:42 PM

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how can i reduce faces / polys on a model in OB for LOD 2, 3, 4, and so on?

wraith tendon Feb 28, 2017, 11:45 PM

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Delete by hand (there are tools for outside Tools, but afaik nothing for OB)

median bough Feb 28, 2017, 11:45 PM

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ok, in blender?

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any idea?

wraith tendon Feb 28, 2017, 11:47 PM

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For example, yeah.

median bough Feb 28, 2017, 11:47 PM

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and how to?

wraith tendon Feb 28, 2017, 11:48 PM

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Wasn't there an LOD Tool implemented?

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Otherwise: Google. (i don't have Blender, so i can't tell you the exact names)

median bough Feb 28, 2017, 11:49 PM

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i have something in mind with modifiers..........

bleak tangle Feb 28, 2017, 11:50 PM

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Yeah with Blender you will want to use decimate or limited dissolve.

median bough Feb 28, 2017, 11:50 PM

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o_O

white jay Feb 28, 2017, 11:50 PM

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there is merge points in OB which can be used to make res lods, but it's usually suboptimal

wraith tendon Feb 28, 2017, 11:51 PM

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Nah, you better ignore those Merge Thingys. They tend to fk up the whole model. (when used a too big radius)

cinder pivot Feb 28, 2017, 11:58 PM

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@median bough https://www.simplygon.com/games/pricing/

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Designed for students, researchers & hobbyists to get started

wraith tendon Feb 28, 2017, 11:58 PM

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Yeah, thats what i head in mind.

cinder pivot Feb 28, 2017, 11:59 PM

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it is love

median bough Feb 28, 2017, 11:59 PM

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nope... for the 1-2 models i edit in one year?

umbral plume Mar 1, 2017, 12:32 AM

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you can do lods in the game render of blender on the "type of active data to display and edit" with the icon of a orange square.

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must be in the blender game to use the tool.

eager folio Mar 1, 2017, 12:47 AM

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What i do wrong, if i can walk through my Object? I have a Geometry and Geometry Phys layer, on all Layers i was use "Find Components" and all Components are Convex and Triangulated. But i can walk through. But Fire Geometry works fine.

hollow fulcrum Mar 1, 2017, 12:50 AM

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lack of mass (alt+m for the window, if not on screen)

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@sancron#4725

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https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/LOD#Geometry

fervent steppe Mar 1, 2017, 1:34 AM

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anyone know what the addition of class SimpleObject does in the main config

stark dagger Mar 1, 2017, 1:43 AM

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Just started porting character uniforms from TKOH to A3, but I'm running into a little issue with my a3_character_template.fbx. When I import as FBX into OB, it's nothing more than keyframes. Is this correct? The porting guide I'm following says to use the hands and head from the a3 template, but there is nothing there.

fervent steppe Mar 1, 2017, 2:05 AM

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i noticed BIS moved away from using execVm "path to script" in thier statements to animate and started using call functions...is that supposed to be faster?

bleak tangle Mar 1, 2017, 2:06 AM

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Are you sure they were ever using execVM? It's not the best method performance wise. Every time someone would open a door it would have to load and execute that file, as opposed to calling the function which is already saved in a variable.

fervent steppe Mar 1, 2017, 2:07 AM

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yea initally they were and its still in their sample model too lol

bleak tangle Mar 1, 2017, 2:07 AM

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Interesting, I guess they were just being lazy for the sample

fervent steppe Mar 1, 2017, 2:08 AM

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ether way tho making them functions is faster?

bleak tangle Mar 1, 2017, 2:09 AM

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Yes

fervent steppe Mar 1, 2017, 2:10 AM

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cool beans..ive been converting all my stuff..any chance you know what that class SimpleObject is for?

bleak tangle Mar 1, 2017, 2:15 AM

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Yeah I did that as well when I was integrating all of the JBAD stuff into CUP.

I don't think the class SimpleObject is needed, but they have it anyway. It's used by a BIS function (https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/BIS_fnc_simpleObjectData) to make simple object usage easier. Even without those config entries you should still be able to create a working simple object from your model. They also have a function called BIS_fnc_diagMacrosSimpleObject that should in theory be able to create macros in the style they use in their configs

fervent steppe Mar 1, 2017, 3:32 AM

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interesting

dark temple Mar 1, 2017, 7:17 AM

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What's the max polys (well, recommended) for a car?

hollow fulcrum Mar 1, 2017, 7:22 AM

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ermmm.. depends on how much detail there is ... 9-20k? LODs can break it up a fair bit. so maybe more.

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maybe a lot less

wraith tendon Mar 1, 2017, 7:23 AM

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"As much as needed, as low as possible" 😄

hollow fulcrum Mar 1, 2017, 7:23 AM

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^^

wraith tendon Mar 1, 2017, 7:23 AM

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e.g.: Does your headlight rly need 5000 Polys/Faces? 😛

hollow fulcrum Mar 1, 2017, 7:23 AM

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😄

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Tripod foo:
https://gyazo.com/fe871039faa82e61258a206e0e621958

wraith tendon Mar 1, 2017, 7:33 AM

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nice grilling stand

hollow fulcrum Mar 1, 2017, 7:34 AM

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ty, it's for the big steaks

wraith tendon Mar 1, 2017, 7:35 AM

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hungry

hollow fulcrum Mar 1, 2017, 7:35 AM

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food is good

fervent steppe Mar 1, 2017, 11:51 AM

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Lol

terse elm Mar 1, 2017, 12:38 PM

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nice tripod hatchet

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just finishing up this bad boy http://i.imgur.com/eNGpYs6.jpg

oblique vapor Mar 1, 2017, 12:48 PM

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Hey guys, is it possible to hide / turn on//off a reflector inside an object ? Like I have a spotlight with a reflector, and I want to make it blink at a certain time via script, is that possible ?

white jay Mar 1, 2017, 12:50 PM

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so, I have a named selection in OB. I set it a texture (E) but it doesn't show up in game. This is for a window. If I shoot the window I get the damaged texture but no destroyed texture! Something I'm missing?

tacit karma Mar 1, 2017, 12:58 PM

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@terse elm the composite and foam are spot on.

terse elm Mar 1, 2017, 12:59 PM

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still needs a little tidying up on the foam but its almost there i think!

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i also have to add my AO bakes i did last night

tacit karma Mar 1, 2017, 1:06 PM

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yeah its going to make a big diff

terse elm Mar 1, 2017, 1:09 PM

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@tacit karma u about later tonight? id like to pick ur brain over MR AO bakes in max

tacit karma Mar 1, 2017, 1:10 PM

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uh, I am not baking my AO with MR

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still using scanline

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but sure, im there

bright kraken Mar 1, 2017, 1:23 PM

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@terse elm Looking good!

quick terrace Mar 1, 2017, 1:25 PM

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@terse elm ping me then mr ao bakes are second to none to vray bakes (wchich takes into account normal map as well)

terse elm Mar 1, 2017, 1:38 PM

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yeah iv had a go and got my normal map in there too, just need some guidance with the settings, as Im not getting the results i want

tacit karma Mar 1, 2017, 1:45 PM

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I'm baking AO and Normal at the same time with scanline

terse elm Mar 1, 2017, 2:13 PM

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im commbining the AO output from Toolbag with a bake from max as iv done some post baking editing to my normal map

white jay Mar 1, 2017, 2:55 PM

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why do buildings sink into the ground? Sometimes but not always?

quick terrace Mar 1, 2017, 2:58 PM

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sink into ground how?

white jay Mar 1, 2017, 3:00 PM

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yeap, it some times happens that building are sunk into the ground. Not always. I've been working on the windows of a house today. Been running it in ARMA a number of time but this time the build was sunk in the ground.

quick terrace Mar 1, 2017, 3:02 PM

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i asked how, you rephrase the above...well done

white jay Mar 1, 2017, 3:05 PM

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😄

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I have no idea how. I want to know why and how to fix it.

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is the building placed in the editor or in TB?

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looks ok in buldozer

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in TB

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buldozer should represent 1:1 what you get ingame

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can you link a example pic on how its sunken?

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this is what it looks like in buldozer: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B62cVQheKk95R3VJR3JndTZtZUk

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and then this in ARMA: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B62cVQheKk95Rko3aURTNFY5WDg

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ok two things, your buldozer view is very weird, it looks like there is water in bd

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second thing, you most likely didn't load the addon containing the building

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you can see the barn on the right in buldozer then see the roof of the barn in ARMA.

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ok so that looks like a problem with your heightmap and buldozer

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never seen anything like that

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as i said before your buldozer view looks extremly strange

quick terrace Mar 1, 2017, 3:19 PM

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in short, the model of houses never actually "sink"

white jay Mar 1, 2017, 3:21 PM

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yes, the models are in the same absolute height as they are in buldozer, but the heightmap is not

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at least thats what i see

hollow fulcrum Mar 1, 2017, 3:24 PM

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@oblique vapor yes and no. depends on the vehicle class i think.

oblique vapor Mar 1, 2017, 3:28 PM

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Are you talking about the CfgNonAIVehicles class "StreetLamp" ?

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Because the thing is, it's a spotlight controlled by a player, like the big ones in military bases. So it's like a vehicle, with a reflector emitting the light, and I would like to make that blink / interact with the light emitter via script

polar fiber Mar 1, 2017, 3:34 PM

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need to hide the memory points by animation AFAIK

hollow fulcrum Mar 1, 2017, 3:39 PM

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^^ this is the process.

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and we're talking about reflectors as you asked.

oblique vapor Mar 1, 2017, 3:44 PM

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Hmm

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Is there a special procedure / thing to do to interact with / animate / hide memory points ?

hollow fulcrum Mar 1, 2017, 3:47 PM

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what do you mean special?

cinder pivot Mar 1, 2017, 3:53 PM

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I don't think memory points move with an animation

white jay Mar 1, 2017, 3:59 PM

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@white jay as you said, there was something funny with buldozer so I rebuilt the terrain and it all looks good now.

polar fiber Mar 1, 2017, 4:00 PM

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memory points move with animation. It's just that some simulations that reference memory points cannot be moved from their init position

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things like eye memory points, wingtip vortices, exhausts etc. are based on their initial position

white jay Mar 1, 2017, 4:05 PM

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👍 glad it worked that easy!

oblique vapor Mar 1, 2017, 4:06 PM

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Alrighty, will try that out. Thanks guys 😄

white jay Mar 1, 2017, 4:07 PM

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😃

cinder pivot Mar 1, 2017, 4:19 PM

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@polar fiber yea that must have been it, thanks for clarification

white jay Mar 1, 2017, 4:32 PM

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textures showing up in buldozer but not in ARMA is a path problem, isn't it?

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could be the infamous P:\

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yeap, but I don't have that

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the path I'm using is a3\structures_f\data\windows\window_set_ca.paa

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what says the rpt?

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for the rvmat aswell?

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Warning: aaw\staden\data\models\test_house_01\test_house_01_f.p3d:1 Error while trying to generate ST for points: 2715, 2712, 2716

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wait

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UV coordinate on point 565 is too big UV(425.945007, -1858.410034) - the UV compression may produce inaccurate results

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did you binarize the model?

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better asked are you packing with pboPro or addonbreaker?

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oh! 😄 addon builder

hollow fulcrum Mar 1, 2017, 4:41 PM

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👀

white jay Mar 1, 2017, 4:41 PM

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try it with pboPro and be happy 😉

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link?

hollow fulcrum Mar 1, 2017, 4:43 PM

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http://google.com

white jay Mar 1, 2017, 4:43 PM

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already tried 😄

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https://dev.withsix.com/projects/mikero-pbodll/files

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thx

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I shall try tomorrow, got to go now

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are you packing your map with addonbreaker aswell?

fervent steppe Mar 1, 2017, 4:44 PM

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🤔

umbral plume Mar 1, 2017, 5:22 PM

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If you have resolution lods that are too close to eachother in complexity will that in turn degrease fps due to constant loading and deloading of lods?

woeful viper Mar 1, 2017, 5:23 PM

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thats why you dont use 100 lods but less than 10

umbral plume Mar 1, 2017, 5:24 PM

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yeah I usually use at most 6, just wondering if it would be best to do like from 400 - 200 instead of 400-350-300-200-100

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for example.

woeful viper Mar 1, 2017, 5:26 PM

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thats a bad example because 400 is already low

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unless its a massused proxy

umbral plume Mar 1, 2017, 5:27 PM

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It's a log model for tree chopper which drops around 20 once you chop down a tree.

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so in theory people could have up to 100+ of these on the screen if they weren't to pick up the item as they went.

woeful viper Mar 1, 2017, 5:28 PM

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general rule of thumb is 50% reduction between each. I use 75% for first 40 for second and every other divide by two

umbral plume Mar 1, 2017, 5:30 PM

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ok thanks.

oblique vapor Mar 1, 2017, 8:39 PM

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Well it appears that the reflector isn't being affected by my script. However, if I type the command in the debug console, it works. lmao pls help

cinder pivot Mar 1, 2017, 8:45 PM

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@twin creek_#1250 what are you trying to do

oblique vapor Mar 1, 2017, 8:49 PM

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Hide and unHide memory points of my light spots

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The script works fine for a hidden selection texture

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But not for the hide animation of the light's memory points

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And when I execute the hide animation command manually via console, it works

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??? ??? ???

cinder pivot Mar 1, 2017, 8:55 PM

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Could be a locality issue

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Lights are local in arma, something like that would have an issue in MP

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It has to have an owner, i.e the player

oblique vapor Mar 1, 2017, 8:56 PM

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Yeah, my script is called via the init eventhandler of my object, and is defined as (_this select 0)

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Tho it's not a created light, it's a "reflector" inside of my model's p3d and config

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It's like a car headlight, y'know

oblique vapor Mar 1, 2017, 9:13 PM

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Will try with this: https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/animateSource

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Still doesn't work, I have no solutions what so ever, pls kill me

cinder pivot Mar 1, 2017, 9:30 PM

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Yes but it works the same way as a car/streetlight etc

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Thats why it works in debug console is because its taking you, the player as the owner and then using you to turn it off or w/e is being done

bleak tangle Mar 1, 2017, 11:45 PM

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@umbral plume also try to avoid having a new set of textures and RVMATs (sections) in each LOD. Generally BI uses the same textures and RVMATs for all the LODs except for the least detailed one, where they'll use a different set of textures and RVMATs.

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Changing between LODs with different topology isn't demanding, but having to load a new set of textures and materials for each LOD is.

umbral plume Mar 1, 2017, 11:48 PM

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ok thanks

white jay Mar 2, 2017, 5:50 AM

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You can ditch the rvmat in the later lods altogether and just have the texture alone, that should be even lighter

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Not for everything tho

cinder pivot Mar 2, 2017, 6:14 AM

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I swear it add selection counts when i duplicate a LOD sometimes

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Same textures everything

white jay Mar 2, 2017, 6:21 AM

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Go to faces > sort

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I think its due diffrent section id in the other file so when you copy it over you have to reindex the sections over all faces via the sort function

white jay Mar 2, 2017, 11:07 AM

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@white jay I'm packing the terrain with pboproject

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Anyone know what they are doing with textures etc concerning breaking glass? I got something to work but it is not behaving as I'd expect. No tutorial around for this?

oblique vapor Mar 2, 2017, 12:00 PM

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Ok, so my problem is that I'm unhiding the end point first then the first memory point of my light, and it fucks everything up. I tried to unhide the first point first, but it's still fucked, I need to properly unhide it at the right time, tho when slowing down time in-game there is a low latency between each command lines. If anyone managed to already did it somehow or have a way to do it, I'll be glad to hear it

stuck oyster Mar 2, 2017, 12:03 PM

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@halcyon wren This felt somehow relevant http://imgur.com/gallery/kH0R4

halcyon wren Mar 2, 2017, 12:10 PM

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The horror! 😄

fervent steppe Mar 2, 2017, 12:32 PM

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Oh dear 😂

oak lintel Mar 2, 2017, 5:08 PM

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anyone have the know how for a hatch and player to open/close and stay out at the car?

nobody can me help in configs...

stuck oyster Mar 2, 2017, 5:15 PM

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not sure if animationsources for hatches work for cars but those are what you are looking for.

hatchDriver    The driver hatch.    Tank
*hatchGunner    The gunner hatch. *Alternatively defined with animationSourceHatch in the turret config.    Tank``` 

From https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Model_Config

Also in and out actions are required, but those may also only work on tanks?

oak lintel Mar 2, 2017, 5:21 PM

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@stuck oyster. I tried with"animationSourceHatch" but when i make it, is my hatch standard open. I place my car and the hatch is open. I dont know why... the source to model.cfg works. But not only with " player is in turret" hmz

stuck oyster Mar 2, 2017, 5:23 PM

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so you have animationSourceHatch = "somesource" and have a class somesource in your vehicles class animationsources ? Also so you have gunnerin and gunnerout actions defined

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the hatches are suppose to open when the passenger turns out of the vehicle

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like commonly in tanks

oak lintel Mar 2, 2017, 5:25 PM

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the hatches is only open. I place my car in editor = is open. No player or unit is in the car

stuck oyster Mar 2, 2017, 5:25 PM

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see my other questions above

oak lintel Mar 2, 2017, 5:27 PM

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My hatch is defined, but my Gunner isnt in model.cfg defined.

I send you my screenshot

polar fiber Mar 2, 2017, 6:29 PM

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Doesn't work fully on cars really. Need to script the hatches opening and closing when the FFV unit turns in/out

stuck oyster Mar 2, 2017, 6:38 PM

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That explains why it does not work then. Thanks @polar fiber You read that @oak lintel?

oak lintel Mar 2, 2017, 6:40 PM

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ahhh ok. thats also the problem. Only open the shit hatch... i neet to check "is player on the gunner seat" with script? And close/open then?

cinder pivot Mar 2, 2017, 6:50 PM

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The offroad used a hatch, as well as the apex 4x4

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They are just invisible but thats how they turn the gunner around

polar fiber Mar 2, 2017, 6:51 PM

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Turn in/out works fine on cars like the offroad. it's stuff like getting hatches to animate and stop you firing when turned in that need to be scripted. They don't work the same as they do on tanks turning in/out

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reyhard had to write some function for it on the RG-33Ls and Tigrs we have

cinder pivot Mar 2, 2017, 6:52 PM

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Ah okay

oblique vapor Mar 2, 2017, 6:55 PM

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When you turn on wireframe: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/32/Sebright_Gold_Doré.jpg

woeful viper Mar 2, 2017, 7:15 PM

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no thats cell shading

halcyon wren Mar 2, 2017, 8:43 PM

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Pff

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that clearly a massive cock

fervent steppe Mar 2, 2017, 11:12 PM

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😂😂

hollow fulcrum Mar 2, 2017, 11:16 PM

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the comment instantly reminded me of this one: (warning graphic @fervent steppe doings)
https://gyazo.com/5374f9722716a1b6e7dcf84ecc563ea3

stuck oyster Mar 2, 2017, 11:19 PM

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Appropriate disclaimer there! @hollow fulcrum

hollow fulcrum Mar 2, 2017, 11:20 PM

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i try to be decent.

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was epically hilarous in realtime context actually. someone got pwnd.

fervent steppe Mar 2, 2017, 11:27 PM

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Omg!!! I forgot about that hatchet!!!! That was hilarious 😂😂😂😂

hollow fulcrum Mar 2, 2017, 11:29 PM

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hahaha i cried that day 😂

fervent steppe Mar 2, 2017, 11:29 PM

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Lol

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I found our conversation lol. It was referred to as "dong island" 😂😂

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Anyway. Back to modeling convo....

hollow fulcrum Mar 2, 2017, 11:33 PM

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indeed.

lavish mountain Mar 2, 2017, 11:34 PM

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Hmm, thats more interesting than an impossible shaped boring door that I am doing right now...

bleak tangle Mar 2, 2017, 11:52 PM

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Please tell me that was your submission to BIS as a repo for the overlap issue

hollow fulcrum Mar 2, 2017, 11:53 PM

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hahaha

fervent steppe Mar 2, 2017, 11:59 PM

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Oh man that would have been good!

oblique vapor Mar 3, 2017, 2:51 AM

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Hey guys, do you know if that is possible to force a reflector to stay lit, even if the car's lights are turned off by the player ? I have a spotlight on top of a car, and when the player turns the lights off, the spotlight is also turned off. Anything for me ?

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I know that some things are hardcoded, tho I don't know about this

hollow fulcrum Mar 3, 2017, 2:58 AM

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that is a limitation (yes, very annoying). attaching/detaching foo is a potential workaround.

wraith tendon Mar 3, 2017, 3:04 AM

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attaching a Model that has a Reflector on it (like a lightbar) to the _Veh,
Then:

_Veh action ["LightOn",_AttachedLightSource];
+
_Veh action ["LightOff",_AttachedLightSource];```

oblique vapor Mar 3, 2017, 3:08 AM

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Why didn't I think about that sooner ? 😂

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Dat workaround tho, thanks 😃

wraith tendon Mar 3, 2017, 3:13 AM

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I once did that, to have a Lightbar ontop of Vehicles, wich can be turned on/off apart from eachother (also: Lightbar was more visible during the day)

oblique vapor Mar 3, 2017, 3:30 AM

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That is indeed a nice trick

rough idol Mar 3, 2017, 5:24 AM

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Isn't it causing issues while vehicle is moving?

wraith tendon Mar 3, 2017, 5:40 AM

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No Problems at all, tbh.
The only thing, that creates problems (delayed movements / stuttering) is with the "lightpoint" thingys
e.g.:

_Light = "#lightpoint" createVehicle [0,0,0];
_Light setLightColor [0,0,10]; 
_Light setLightBrightness 0.5;  
_Light setLightAmbient [0,0,1];
_Light lightAttachObject [_vehicle, [0,0,1]];

-> When Vehicle is moving -> strange movement of the Light.

What i did was basicly just attaching that "Vehicle" with a Reflector/Light configured (nothing else) to the Vehicle, wich can be turned on/off via AddAction from inside the Vehicle (or by pressing a button via Keyhandler (KeyDown EH) by checking attachedObjects).

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@rough idol

rough idol Mar 3, 2017, 6:15 AM

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I see

cinder pivot Mar 3, 2017, 6:30 AM

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I assume you constantly need to change the position or turn the lightpoint on and off

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to make it flash like a cop car or w/e

wraith tendon Mar 3, 2017, 6:33 AM

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with Lightpoint example? Hmm... not rly. just attach a 2nd one and just exchange the Colors in a while loop

cinder pivot Mar 3, 2017, 6:36 AM

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yea

wraith tendon Mar 3, 2017, 6:37 AM

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Still looks shitty, since its not steady (even moving infront of the vehicle, when you are fast enough).
TL;DR:
I would never use it on Vehicles/moving objects.

cinder pivot Mar 3, 2017, 6:39 AM

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I found a better? method that makes the engine do it rather then while loop or constant changing of attachto pos

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idk tbh though

wraith tendon Mar 3, 2017, 6:41 AM

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Also a way to do it. No big diff to the Changing Color thingy (just different commands)

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but.. hmm... maybe more Network Traffic due to a constant attach update instead of a single message about the Pos (this is just guessing)

white jay Mar 3, 2017, 6:47 AM

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I'm having problems getting glass to break correctly. I've posted the problem on the forum: https://forums.bistudio.com/topic/202538-problem-with-getting-glass-to-break/

rough idol Mar 3, 2017, 6:51 AM

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well, I've tried once to use reflector inside turret class (so called searchlight)

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if it's not rotating you can loop turn on & off actions 😛

cinder pivot Mar 3, 2017, 6:52 AM

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do searchlights work in A3?

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like the mounted/turret ones in A2

rough idol Mar 3, 2017, 6:53 AM

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partialy

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they are not moving since ~1.52 patch

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https://feedback.bistudio.com/T118330

cinder pivot Mar 3, 2017, 6:54 AM

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Jun 20 2016

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rip

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doesn't seem like it would be that big of a mess to fix

wraith tendon Mar 3, 2017, 7:02 AM

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@rough idol
That was the result from the example above.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydq56Ac2FTU

Turret... hmm... Oo strange
(stupid preview)

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Maybeeeee:
Reflector not assigned in Turret, but as ordinary "class Reflectors" in the config.cpp. Also -> Selection of the LightSource + Direction inside the p3d assigned to the "turret"-part of the model (Fk, i suck at describing that)

cinder pivot Mar 3, 2017, 7:26 AM

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I get what you are saying.. Its possible? Idk w/o testing

wraith tendon Mar 3, 2017, 7:31 AM

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Hmm, imo it should.

white jay Mar 3, 2017, 11:06 AM

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hey i just made an object in C4D and saved it to 3DS, loaded it into object builder and my groups i named "component01" and so on were renamed to "compo1"...Is this a bug or did i do anything wrong? i'm quite new to this section ;D

tacit karma Mar 3, 2017, 1:01 PM

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3ds can't save long object names

white jay Mar 3, 2017, 1:13 PM

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do you have a proper option?

white jay Mar 3, 2017, 4:07 PM

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so if there is no other way nvm - another question: how do I get the roadway to work for vehicles? i set up geometry and roadway for a bridge but the vehicle always keeps driving against an invisible barrier instead of driving onto the bridge 😩

bleak tangle Mar 3, 2017, 4:09 PM

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As in you can't drive onto the bridge because you keep running into something stopping you?

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That sounds like you have a piece of geometry blocking you

white jay Mar 3, 2017, 4:13 PM

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okay, so basically geometry allows the vehicle to get onto the bridge if i set it up correctly?

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don't take this as 100% as i'm not sure myself right now..
roadway enables players to walk on a object but is ignored by vehicles, they only interact with the geometry lod

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okay, i will try it again then. 🖥 🔨

fervent steppe Mar 3, 2017, 4:45 PM

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Vehicles use the roadway lod to drive on

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If you have a piece of either geo lod or pysix lod blocking the entrance to the bridge that will stop the vehicle from getting on

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Make sure your roadway lod faces are pointing upwards

white jay Mar 3, 2017, 4:47 PM

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you sure? because i remember falling trough a roadway lod with a vehicle but could perfectly fine walk on it as infantry man

fervent steppe Mar 3, 2017, 4:47 PM

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Yea how else would the vehicles be able to drive on bridges?
You think they drive on the geo lod?

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Haha. I'm pretty sure but now your making me doubt myself...only because I had a bunch of rubble that had a roadway lod but not geo lod and the vechicle drove up it not through it

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But now I'm thinking I may have to create a few objects to test lol

white jay Mar 3, 2017, 4:49 PM

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i'm confused as well 😄

cinder pivot Mar 3, 2017, 5:01 PM

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I thought you needed geom+roadway for vehicles

fervent steppe Mar 3, 2017, 5:02 PM

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I'll test tonight and give u an answer hehe

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I'm 99.99 % sure it needs the roadway

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I also built a huge bridge I tested the roadway lod with prior to adding a geo lod

white jay Mar 3, 2017, 5:15 PM

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well i'm back from testing and i set up an geometry lod and a roadway lod as well but it didn't work, everytime my vehicle is falling thru...it's still not working :/

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Do you got mass in the geo lod?

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sure, and named each part "component01" and so on

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and it blocks the player from walking trough the geometry?

oblique vapor Mar 3, 2017, 5:21 PM

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@wraith tendon Won't it work if I do that via proxy ?

white jay Mar 3, 2017, 5:21 PM

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not the player, units can walk on it without problems, but vehicles do not

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yea i mean like blocking the player to walk trough the geometry where he shouldn't be able to

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no there is no blocking, vehicle is neither blocked. but it falls thru just as u mentioned 😄

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then something is wrong with your geometry lod

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do you have closed and convex geometry only?

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yes

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did you validate it in OB?

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no, how do i do that?

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Structure > Topology > find non-closed

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Structure > Convexity > find non-convexities

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there is also a function to automatically name all your components in the geo lod

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Structure > Topology > Find Components

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thanks for this info! i will try that - btw this was another question of mine a few hours ago (how to name the components) 😄

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how many components can be used? more than 99? cause OB lists more than 200 components 🙀

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yea sure

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i think performance is the only limit there

hollow fulcrum Mar 3, 2017, 6:34 PM

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there is actually a limit, but for whatever reason i can't recall what is ... both for bones and animations.

bleak tangle Mar 3, 2017, 6:37 PM

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I've seen objects with 400 named components

hollow fulcrum Mar 3, 2017, 6:40 PM

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i have it written down in my book of arma foo, but im out and about right now. generally speaking, it's plenty high. one is a fair bit lower than the other though. think its the bones, and i want to say 200 something..

bleak tangle Mar 3, 2017, 6:48 PM

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Yeah I definitely think there is a bone limit, but not a named selection limit

halcyon wren Mar 3, 2017, 7:05 PM

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In A2 I hit the limit at around 96 I think. I had animated shutters on my houses and some just wouldn't animate. turns out there was a bone limit.

hollow fulcrum Mar 3, 2017, 7:06 PM

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current bone limit is 256 (an improvement), and i want to say animations is around 500. pretty sure anyway.

stuck oyster Mar 3, 2017, 7:12 PM

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but bone limit is not component/named selection limit. Is there even such a thing?

hollow fulcrum Mar 3, 2017, 7:13 PM

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dunno, i've been speaking about bones/animations, as in configurable (config) limits.

halcyon wren Mar 3, 2017, 7:18 PM

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Yes. Related to CfgSkeletons only.

hollow fulcrum Mar 3, 2017, 7:18 PM

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oh i see, no i wasn't arguing the 'components statement', rather identifying the limits of actual concern. cuz if you're that far into components, that might actually become a thing. was mostly for the new guy. i see the confusion though.

halcyon wren Mar 3, 2017, 7:18 PM

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Named Selections I doubt there is a limit.

white jay Mar 3, 2017, 7:24 PM

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well i just read

Object must be named ComponentXX (where XX is a consecutive number between 01 and 99)

in the biki and thought so, but nvm i loaded it into arma and it worked fine 😃

halcyon wren Mar 3, 2017, 7:28 PM

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nah, it can go to three digits and still work

hollow fulcrum Mar 3, 2017, 7:31 PM

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https://gyazo.com/5cf39df70eacbaac740396fcdbf6d175 works fine.

stuck oyster Mar 3, 2017, 7:41 PM

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besides arent the component names only relevant in the geometry LOD? in view LODs you just need the names selections you are animating or have hidden selections set up right?

hollow fulcrum Mar 3, 2017, 7:41 PM

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that is correct.

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i know of a couple instances where bone limits have been reached with assets in use today. The MkV is one. was mainly do to the IK setup for gunners/pilots, and the seating. which is all legit foo, that added up pretty quickly on top of the lighting/rtt and stuffs.

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that particular asset might even hit the animation limits if i ever get around to finishing the custom FFV. thus far that has been a reasonable excuse for me not to finish that stuff, as it's somewhat tedious and mostly annoying.

rich trail Mar 3, 2017, 7:58 PM

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How does a scope know where to position itself? 😅

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I don't see any mempoint or config line that relates to position.

hollow fulcrum Mar 3, 2017, 8:00 PM

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proxy

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https://gyazo.com/d77e8473b83b6f0cbda234cd7a7fe850

rich trail Mar 3, 2017, 8:09 PM

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Oh, yeah, but there's nothing on the scope itself?

hollow fulcrum Mar 3, 2017, 8:11 PM

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correct. the proxy is a hook to the origin of the optic model.

rich trail Mar 3, 2017, 8:11 PM

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The origin, oh.

hollow fulcrum Mar 3, 2017, 8:11 PM

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0,0,0

rich trail Mar 3, 2017, 8:12 PM

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So should I lower the optic in order to adjust for the rail, or is the proxy usually the one adjusted?

hollow fulcrum Mar 3, 2017, 8:15 PM

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ermm... that is subjective in nature. in an ideal world, the proxy sits on the top of the rail like so:
https://gyazo.com/f05478e4a60a825e900d1f9ea3564763

rich trail Mar 3, 2017, 8:16 PM

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But there's got to be some standard if the scope is to be used on any weapon?

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If proxy position differ from weapon to weapon it'd be a mess, right?

hollow fulcrum Mar 3, 2017, 8:16 PM

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that is correct. see 'in an ideal world'.

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if you have all the stuffs, it makes it pretty easy.

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generally speaking, this is the standard.

rich trail Mar 3, 2017, 8:18 PM

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Well, the scope sample is at 0,0,0, so I guess I'll stick with that.

hollow fulcrum Mar 3, 2017, 8:18 PM

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you talking about the BIS sample models?

rich trail Mar 3, 2017, 8:18 PM

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Yes.

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I know how works now, so I can test it. Thanks.

hollow fulcrum Mar 3, 2017, 8:21 PM

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that would be proper if the proxy is in the right position.

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¯_(ツ)_/¯

polar fiber Mar 3, 2017, 8:36 PM

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the surface of the mount that sits on top of the rail should be approximately at Y=0.006

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By surface I mean the one that forms the tops of the = signs if you consider the picatinny rail slot to look roughly like this <==>

rich trail Mar 3, 2017, 9:38 PM

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OK

fervent steppe Mar 3, 2017, 9:51 PM

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@halcyon wren weird. I animated the glass in the a2 pub at 24 it stopped animating

hollow fulcrum Mar 3, 2017, 9:52 PM

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you mean futher configured windows did not work?

fervent steppe Mar 3, 2017, 9:52 PM

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Yea. After talking with mikero we determined it hit the limit 😂

hollow fulcrum Mar 3, 2017, 9:52 PM

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might be hardcoded for destruction. similar to lights.

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i was not aware of that actually.

fervent steppe Mar 3, 2017, 9:53 PM

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Because when I named the windows not animating to the ones they were it worked but as soon as I added the 25th it stopped

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I liked to push things to the limits 😂

hollow fulcrum Mar 3, 2017, 9:53 PM

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aye, im with ya there 😄

fervent steppe Mar 3, 2017, 9:54 PM

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lol. Now I got that push it to the limit song stuck in my head

hollow fulcrum Mar 3, 2017, 9:54 PM

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thats actually a bit disheartening though, cuz one of the few things i have left todo on the rig is that stuff. although it might work out considering it's multiple buildings techinically. gonna be tight for sure though. 👀

fervent steppe Mar 3, 2017, 9:55 PM

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Well for a3 I have a building that has 60ish some windows and it works fine

hollow fulcrum Mar 3, 2017, 9:55 PM

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ah, well.. that should be plenty.

fervent steppe Mar 3, 2017, 9:55 PM

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So if your doing it for a3 I think ur good

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👍

hollow fulcrum Mar 3, 2017, 9:55 PM

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👍

fervent steppe Mar 3, 2017, 9:57 PM

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👌

hollow fulcrum Mar 3, 2017, 9:58 PM

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now dynamic lights however... sigh..

fervent steppe Mar 3, 2017, 9:58 PM

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Yea...I know 😢

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I hit that limit in the hanger when I added lights to it.

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I got sad and cried for a week

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Iirc when you go over the limit it crashes the game 😂

hollow fulcrum Mar 3, 2017, 9:59 PM

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yerp.. or did anyway. have not* pushed past the limit in a while.

fervent steppe Mar 3, 2017, 10:00 PM

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Initially I couldn't figure out what the heck I was doing wrong

hollow fulcrum Mar 3, 2017, 10:00 PM

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i supppose i can just make more objects and add them in the assembly. but that i dont think will work for maps.

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would like for map makers to be able to utilize these larger structures.

fervent steppe Mar 3, 2017, 10:04 PM

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Yea. Stupid limit

bleak tangle Mar 3, 2017, 11:12 PM

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Yeah one of the A3 barracks buildings has 60+ windows with named selections

wraith tendon Mar 3, 2017, 11:49 PM

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Won't it work if I do that via proxy ?
@oblique vapor No clue, you might wanna test it out. Was just an idea i had.

fervent steppe Mar 4, 2017, 2:33 AM

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mikero subscriber tools website is down until tuesday 7th march

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mike just said this on skype

oblique vapor Mar 4, 2017, 3:12 AM

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y tho

fluid ocean Mar 4, 2017, 7:30 AM

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Maybe a well deserved vacation/maintenance

cinder pivot Mar 4, 2017, 7:57 AM

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Or the goat that runs on a huge hamster wheel to power the site, finally died

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He probably has to find a new one now

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😄

fervent steppe Mar 4, 2017, 1:28 PM

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Haha. I think he was referring to whatever he was talking about with dshca

wraith tendon Mar 4, 2017, 1:31 PM

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eh, i am confused now^^

fervent steppe Mar 4, 2017, 1:54 PM

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Lol. Ok allow me to sum it up

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Fm and Andrew were replying to Sam who was replying to you as if he was replying to me

wraith tendon Mar 4, 2017, 2:02 PM

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<- My state didn't changed 😄

white jay Mar 4, 2017, 2:23 PM

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Do OB or Bulldozer load textures who are called thru "a3..." path?

fervent steppe Mar 4, 2017, 2:32 PM

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@wraith tendon 😂😂

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Buldozer will load textures who's path is anywhere as long as the texture is actually there. Now keep in mind everything arma should start at the p drive. Obviously don't include that in your path tho.

white jay Mar 4, 2017, 4:17 PM

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is there a option to mirror a object with all lods in OB?

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i just know "points -> transform 2d -> mirror", don't know if this helps in anyway

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another question - does Gizmo Mapping increase the actual p3d filesize? i had 1.2mb and now its 52.7mb, but i didn't track my actions 😩

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Oh cool will look into that thanks!

fervent steppe Mar 5, 2017, 1:22 AM

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thank you photoshop actions and batch commands 😂

white jay Mar 5, 2017, 9:17 AM

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How do I do the named selections to make braking glass work? See problem description here: https://forums.bistudio.com/topic/202538-problem-with-getting-glass-to-break/#comment-3159513

wraith tendon Mar 5, 2017, 9:31 AM

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Just a q: But you do know, that you can preview Animations in Bulldozer, or (Middle MB + MW Up/Down)?

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+Thats what i did: I made a small Testmodel for myself, where i add the stuff i have problems with in it. Just that, nothing else. Fiddling around, until it works -> After that its easy Copy&Paste to the MainModel + you have something you can rely on, if you have that Prob again/wanna do it again

white jay Mar 5, 2017, 9:49 AM

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yes, but i have another problem with that. IT can't find a rvmat file but that rvmat file is at the place it can't find it. SO, I check things in ARMA. That works and I'd rather work one problem at a time.

white jay Mar 5, 2017, 11:16 AM

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i would suggest you to look into the rvmat problem you have in bd because it needs 3 - 20 sec to load up and check a anim in there but ~2 min ingame

cinder pivot Mar 5, 2017, 12:05 PM

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That sounds like your folder or path is in the incorrect spot as well

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If your/path/to/a.rvmat is that then you would have to have the folder "your" in the base of your pdrive

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To see textures and rvmats

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Or unpack arma correctly

lavish mountain Mar 5, 2017, 6:12 PM

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Oh I hate couches soo much

cinder pivot Mar 5, 2017, 6:21 PM

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@lavish mountain take a seat and tell me about your troubles

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Haha 😄

lavish mountain Mar 5, 2017, 6:22 PM

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Acymetrical pieces of #### ehm hard things to model for a noob like me...

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Especialy when the couch is designed to fit a certain space exactly

cinder pivot Mar 5, 2017, 6:24 PM

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Cube -> rectangle -> divide pieces then divide again

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Made me an okay ish couch

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With a bit of forming and pinching.. Works wonders

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But then again Im a noob at modeling as well so.. It looked fine to me, maybe not others

velvet fractal Mar 5, 2017, 8:40 PM

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Hi, all. I found a little problem: smeared model in Object Builder and A3. look: http://imgur.com/gallery/5RITm

cinder pivot Mar 5, 2017, 8:49 PM

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Try importing as obj?

bleak tangle Mar 5, 2017, 8:51 PM

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Also, trying applying Location, rotation and scale in Blender (should be Ctrl + A while in Object Mode)

velvet fractal Mar 5, 2017, 10:06 PM

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@cinder pivot @bleak tangle Urha! Thanks. It's work!

cinder pivot Mar 5, 2017, 11:45 PM

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wait wut

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my model with no shadowLOD no named properties

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has shadows..?

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they are fuzzy shadows like the source = visualx; param

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there is a bit of banding though

polar fiber Mar 6, 2017, 12:05 AM

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the game uses the visual LODs to generate shadows if you don't put named properties in them

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always has done

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if you want no shadow you need to add lodNoShadow = 1 to visual LODs and make an empty shadow LOD

cinder pivot Mar 6, 2017, 12:08 AM

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hm, guess I never came across it before or had lodNoShadow

robust lark Mar 6, 2017, 5:02 AM

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Hey, would anyone mind if I ask for (what I believe is) a really simple clutter object request? Just some random piles of clutter snow to give depth to the ground as if snow had stacked up, I'd appreciate if anyone's interested to help out with the request if possible, hope it's not wrong to ask in here

pseudo elbow Mar 6, 2017, 9:15 AM

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Arma 2 Sample Models has snow object, take it from there

robust lark Mar 6, 2017, 9:37 AM

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For clutter? Cause I remember seeing something but it wasn't for clutter

fervent steppe Mar 6, 2017, 11:40 AM

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Anything can be clutter. You can even use houses as clutter if you wanted

late raft Mar 6, 2017, 12:16 PM

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Lolol

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I want to try that now

fervent steppe Mar 6, 2017, 12:27 PM

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Hehe

wraith tendon Mar 6, 2017, 12:36 PM

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Use Playermodels for it 😄

fervent steppe Mar 6, 2017, 12:37 PM

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Bahahhaha

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And set them to half in the ground. That would be hilarious

halcyon wren Mar 6, 2017, 12:53 PM

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They will be half in the ground by default. 😄

eager folio Mar 6, 2017, 1:03 PM

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Ok it's me again, i have a Mass applied to all Components in Geometry and Geometry Phys LOD, but i am even able to Walk through the whole Model ingame. And yes it's Convex. Is there another thing i need to do?

foggy finch Mar 6, 2017, 1:06 PM

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geo phys shouldnt contain mass

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only geometry lod

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geometry components need to be closed, convex and contain mass, if your geo lod meets this then maybe you havent applied enough mass

eager folio Mar 6, 2017, 1:08 PM

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How many mass should be applied? I have a Total Mass of 6.0 and all Components are closed and Convex

foggy finch Mar 6, 2017, 1:08 PM

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is this a structure ?

eager folio Mar 6, 2017, 1:09 PM

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It's a Shooting Target

foggy finch Mar 6, 2017, 1:10 PM

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try adding more mass, 6 seems a little light

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you could always set it to something like 6000 to verify the lod is working correctly and then lower it to more sane values

eager folio Mar 6, 2017, 1:12 PM

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Arma 3 Mass != KG

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right?

foggy finch Mar 6, 2017, 1:17 PM

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iirc anything less than 10 doesnt get collision applied

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@halcyon wren would know more

eager folio Mar 6, 2017, 1:20 PM

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But thanks, i was rise the Total Mass arround 330 and now i can't walk through anymore 😃

foggy finch Mar 6, 2017, 1:21 PM

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😃

fervent steppe Mar 6, 2017, 1:25 PM

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@Mondkalb#6985 oh that's right! 😂😂

wraith tendon Mar 6, 2017, 1:29 PM

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Where is the Pic?! I am waiting...

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*watchingClock*

eager folio Mar 6, 2017, 1:36 PM

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Pic of What?

fervent steppe Mar 6, 2017, 1:44 PM

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Of people half in the ground lol

late raft Mar 6, 2017, 1:45 PM

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Honestly

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Thats all I want atm

wraith tendon Mar 6, 2017, 2:02 PM

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ppl half in the ground? You are a fkn sadist, man!

late raft Mar 6, 2017, 2:11 PM

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tes

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Yes

fervent steppe Mar 6, 2017, 2:58 PM

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Lol

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If you want to zip your files and send them over to me via Dropbox or google I can take a look later tonight....ur clutter still is not working correct?

cinder pivot Mar 6, 2017, 3:11 PM

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Make some skulls as clutter

white jay Mar 6, 2017, 6:09 PM

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http://screenshot.sh/mMEZZUJsDpJ7D Toughts?

woeful viper Mar 6, 2017, 6:28 PM

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yay, another m4...

white jay Mar 6, 2017, 6:31 PM

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no its the C7NLD

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not done but almost

woeful viper Mar 6, 2017, 6:34 PM

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same to me 😛

white jay Mar 6, 2017, 6:35 PM

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lel

late raft Mar 6, 2017, 7:16 PM

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@fervent steppe me? Yuh.

fervent steppe Mar 6, 2017, 7:47 PM

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@late raft yuh 😎

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How come no one makes buildings. All this time on guns we could have some amazing buildings

late raft Mar 6, 2017, 7:48 PM

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I wish I knew how.

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Tbh I looked at object builder and wanted to shoot myself so I alt + F4'd.

quick terrace Mar 6, 2017, 7:57 PM

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@white jay it is faster to write here since you have already send us (RHS) a facebook page

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finish it first and then we might have a second look

white jay Mar 6, 2017, 7:59 PM

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copy @quick terrace

late raft Mar 6, 2017, 7:59 PM

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solid copy

quick terrace Mar 6, 2017, 7:59 PM

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we have no desire to make cad forces

white jay Mar 6, 2017, 7:59 PM

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it is a dutch weapon tho

quick terrace Mar 6, 2017, 7:59 PM

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or dutch

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😃

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but there might be place for it in gref anyways

white jay Mar 6, 2017, 8:00 PM

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oke i will finish it and i will let you know about it

quick terrace Mar 6, 2017, 8:01 PM

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@fervent steppe because that is what i do for a living 😃

fervent steppe Mar 6, 2017, 8:02 PM

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You make buildings for a living?

quick terrace Mar 6, 2017, 8:02 PM

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yeah

fervent steppe Mar 6, 2017, 8:02 PM

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Cool

ebon abyss Mar 6, 2017, 8:02 PM

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M1lkm8n: How come no one makes buildings. All this time on guns we could have some amazing buildings amen, brother.

late raft Mar 6, 2017, 8:02 PM

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Make a guide. 😛

fervent steppe Mar 6, 2017, 8:02 PM

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Rl or modeling?

quick terrace Mar 6, 2017, 8:03 PM

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both

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as i am an architect = and i also do archviz

fervent steppe Mar 6, 2017, 8:03 PM

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Ok that was my next question. Hehe

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Cool

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I see then 😂

late raft Mar 6, 2017, 8:05 PM

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make arma 3 great again

fervent steppe Mar 6, 2017, 8:05 PM

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Lol

lavish mountain Mar 6, 2017, 8:07 PM

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Pfew= Architects... they lack the word Naval in front of them...

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😛

quick terrace Mar 6, 2017, 8:08 PM

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i can do boats, you can't do construction 😃

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legally

lavish mountain Mar 6, 2017, 8:08 PM

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Grrrrrr

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(hes right)

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I can do fem and strength calculation but am not allowed to do them legaly for buildings

late raft Mar 6, 2017, 8:10 PM

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I can calculate the probability of me not understanding this.

white jay Mar 6, 2017, 8:13 PM

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hahah

formal glade Mar 6, 2017, 8:26 PM

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http://imgur.com/a/P3jzx

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moar houses

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actually based on my own house.. trying to make a good workflow for this, to see where you can cut corners and where you cant, now that i somewhat understand what the end result needs to be

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@quick terrace is there any certain way you need to make the uvmaps in 3ds so they export fine to object builder?

late raft Mar 6, 2017, 8:34 PM

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what is that minecraft?

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tbh tho looks good

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is that a basement?

quick terrace Mar 6, 2017, 8:36 PM

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@formal glade i export it as .bitxt

formal glade Mar 6, 2017, 8:37 PM

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yeah that is what I do - havent really used multiple uv sets before in max - but I guess google can help me with that bit

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@late raft yeah it is untextured right now just geometry in max

late raft Mar 6, 2017, 8:38 PM

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Can't wait to see your house

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is creep

robust lark Mar 6, 2017, 8:39 PM

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Is AutoCAD compatible for making models in ArmA?

formal glade Mar 6, 2017, 8:40 PM

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@late raft updated the link with a pic of the real deal 😉

late raft Mar 6, 2017, 8:41 PM

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jesus

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Make a guide pls i wan to make my house real

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i use little engrish now

formal glade Mar 6, 2017, 8:42 PM

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lol 😄

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actually it might be a pretty good topic for a tutorial - but writing one up is pretty time consuming

late raft Mar 6, 2017, 8:42 PM

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No srsly tho, I would be able to make Hawaii-orientated buildings for my terrain.

formal glade Mar 6, 2017, 8:44 PM

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yeah.. after doing one test house I've concluded that the modeling is dead easy but making everything just right takes a bunch of time

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though i spent a lot of time dicking around with the multimat rvmat stuff on my first go

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doing and redoing shit

late raft Mar 6, 2017, 8:55 PM

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So you learned by just randomly clicking on obj. builder?

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or did you read something

white jay Mar 6, 2017, 9:02 PM

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I it weird that i use sketch-up and blender?

late raft Mar 6, 2017, 9:03 PM

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df is sketch up

white jay Mar 6, 2017, 9:03 PM

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Haha

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https://www.sketchup.com

late raft Mar 6, 2017, 9:07 PM

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holy fook

white jay Mar 6, 2017, 9:09 PM

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:D

formal glade Mar 6, 2017, 9:18 PM

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@late raft well nah I've been doing all kinds of 3d modeling stuff for a long while, but this bit is completely new to me

late raft Mar 6, 2017, 9:18 PM

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I need to start learning before I hit college. :L

formal glade Mar 6, 2017, 9:19 PM

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like with all projects there is method to this madness - it's not hard but you need to know what you are doing

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just download 3ds max educational license and get cracking 😃

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today there are so many good software solutions , getting into it is probably easier than ever i guess even if the quality standard is a lot higher.. haha i remember my first 3d model that i did - i was probably like 16 and it was for TESIII morrowind 😄

late raft Mar 6, 2017, 9:21 PM

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makes a game within 1 month, it's a cs:go ripoff

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makes money

quick terrace Mar 6, 2017, 9:45 PM

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don't use sketchup

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@robust lark not really no

devout zodiac Mar 6, 2017, 9:49 PM

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Yo, gotta question about makeing houses invincible, duno if anyone can help me, this is my CfgVehicle config, it works fine when you place it in the editor, however the ones placed in TerrainBuilder do not get the same values: http://pastebin.com/Vk6P9rxV I've read on the fourms you need to keep the classname the same as the name of your .p3d and add land_ but no joy! Any suggestions?

woeful viper Mar 6, 2017, 10:47 PM

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properties defined proper in geoLod?

fervent steppe Mar 7, 2017, 12:49 AM

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just add destrType=0;

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in the config

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and worry no more 😂

wind pewter Mar 7, 2017, 1:09 AM

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I have a feeling it's been asnwered a 1000 times but does anyone have an example of how to raise a missile launhcer when the ATGM is selected? Akin to the Blackfoot.

Or, an example of a user action to raise a launcher, and then be able to lock it from firing when it is lowered?

polar fiber Mar 7, 2017, 1:17 AM

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maxHoldsterValue animation source and holdsterAnimValue = 'VALUE'; in cfgweapons

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there's some new shit for planes and helicopters now though since Dynamic loadouts

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but the above works on ground vehicles

wind pewter Mar 7, 2017, 1:20 AM

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Really what i want to do is give the Bradley the option to lower the TOW out of the way

polar fiber Mar 7, 2017, 1:21 AM

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well the above is how we have that done for the RHS Bradley

wind pewter Mar 7, 2017, 1:24 AM

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Would you have any code I can rob... er.. borrow 😛

polar fiber Mar 7, 2017, 1:26 AM

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well the basics of it is that the TOW weapon used by our Brad has holdsterAnimValue = 1;

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that's in the cfgweapons class

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then in the model.cfg we have an anim like C class LauncherSelected: Rotation { source="maxHoldsterValue"; selection="launcher_actual"; axis="launcher_actual_axis"; memory=1; minValue=0; maxValue=1; angle1="rad 0"; angle0="rad -90"; animPeriod=3; };

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there you see maxValue=1; so the value matches the controller value from the config

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and there are a bunch of other little anims for the covers and things that use the same anim source and value so inherit from that LauncherSelected anim

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e.g. C class LauncherSelected4: LauncherSelected { selection="launcher_cover"; axis="launcher_cover_axis"; angle0="rad 90"; };

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The Stingers pod on the M6 Linebacker is set up the same way, with the stinger launcher also using holdsterAnimValue = 1;

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but if say we had one with a stinger pod on one side of the turret and a TOW pod on the other, we could config the Stinger with holdsterAnimValue = 2; and set all the anims for the stinger pod then use maxValue=2;

wind pewter Mar 7, 2017, 1:34 AM

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And you just name the pods matching selection

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Well , other way around I guess 😛

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Setting up model.cfg things if a head scratcher for me at times heh

polar fiber Mar 7, 2017, 1:36 AM

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It takes some getting used to

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This sort of goes through setting up a multi-part skeleton and animation step-by-step http://www.rkslstudios.info/index.php?/topic/167-week-37-sep-12th-back-in-the-swing-of-things/

wind pewter Mar 7, 2017, 1:48 AM

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Thanks man

white jay Mar 7, 2017, 8:24 AM

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if it's not oen thing then it's another! I'm having ptroblems with textures. I keep getting a flashing black hashing. https://forums.bistudio.com/topic/202624-flashing-blach-hashing/

rich trail Mar 7, 2017, 6:04 PM

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I've made some changes to my model. Is there a way to update it in Object Builder?

oblique vapor Mar 7, 2017, 6:08 PM

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Yo guys, is there a named property for disabling collision ? Like I have some kind of marker object, but I want to disable its collision with everything. So the disableCollisionWith won't apply to my case, I want to keep the geometry LOD for mouse actions, but in the same time disabling its collision with everything else

stuck oyster Mar 7, 2017, 6:23 PM

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@oblique vapor try setting the geometry mass to 0, @rich trail what do you mean exactly?

rich trail Mar 7, 2017, 6:24 PM

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I want to refresh the geometry so that I won't have to import everything from scratch again.

stuck oyster Mar 7, 2017, 6:24 PM

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did you edit the geometry on some outside program?

rich trail Mar 7, 2017, 6:24 PM

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Yes.

stuck oyster Mar 7, 2017, 6:25 PM

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you dont happen to use blender?

rich trail Mar 7, 2017, 6:25 PM

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No, 3DS Max.

stuck oyster Mar 7, 2017, 6:26 PM

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alrgiht then you need to export that geometry mesh as .fbx, open your model .p3d and another empty object builder and import that geometry fbx into the empty one and then copy paste it to the other Object builder window with you model.

oblique vapor Mar 7, 2017, 6:29 PM

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Thanks, will try that

rich trail Mar 7, 2017, 6:30 PM

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But then I get duplicate models. It's the same result as if I import it directly. 😐

oblique vapor Mar 7, 2017, 6:30 PM

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I have another question. I have a computer interface object in-game, and I also made a lightmap with an emissive material. How would I proceed to hide the emissive faces during daytime ? I notice there is a clockHour anim source, but not sure on how to use it

stuck oyster Mar 7, 2017, 6:35 PM

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@rich trail by geometry I assumed you meant only the GEOMETRY LOD but in any case whatever changes you do the only way is to reimport the bits you have edited into the .p3d.

rich trail Mar 7, 2017, 6:36 PM

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K

stuck oyster Mar 7, 2017, 6:37 PM

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@oblique vapor clockHour ticks once every gametime hour and afaik does not fit that well for day/night cycle animations. I've tried it on some emmisive plantlife I've got on our map withtout success. Only way I managed to control day night cycled animations was scripting them.

oblique vapor Mar 7, 2017, 6:38 PM

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So an init eventhandler on the object calling a script that will hide/unhide emissive at certain sunOrMoon values ?

stuck oyster Mar 7, 2017, 6:39 PM

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will you have many of them and will it be a map or scenario object?

oblique vapor Mar 7, 2017, 6:39 PM

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Quite a few of them actually yes. This is an object

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This is a computer terminal with an alpha map and an emissive material

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I basically copy pasted the desired faces and applied the material and the proper texture

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Don't know if it's the right way to do it

stuck oyster Mar 7, 2017, 6:40 PM

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if its computer screen could you not just set it emmisive all the time?

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since screens usually have backlight to light them up

oblique vapor Mar 7, 2017, 6:43 PM

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Well it's not just a computer screen, it's like that end game computer thing asset

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And basically I wanted to fake reflect light on the certain faces of it, plus the screen itself of course

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But yeah, this is starting to piss me off so I might just emit the screen lol

stuck oyster Mar 7, 2017, 7:03 PM

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well I made a script that at mission start collects all the necessary plants into arrays and periodically checks the time taking account diffent day lenghts and whatnot and animates the plants after certain daytimes pass.

polar fiber Mar 7, 2017, 7:06 PM

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can't configure the plant like a streetlight?

stuck oyster Mar 7, 2017, 7:07 PM

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Can the light on/off feature run animations?

polar fiber Mar 7, 2017, 7:08 PM

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can hide selections

stuck oyster Mar 7, 2017, 7:08 PM

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Gotta keep that as a backup option if the daycycle script proves to be too hard

polar fiber Mar 7, 2017, 7:09 PM

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If you look at the class reflector configs, it has a parameter called selection, which corresponds to sections in the model and model.cfg that appear when the light is turned onC class Light_3: Light_1 { position = "Light_3_pos"; direction = "Light_3_dir"; hitpoint = "Light_3_hitpoint"; selection = "Light_3_hide"; };

stuck oyster Mar 7, 2017, 7:10 PM

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https://youtu.be/996mmHloE0M?t=50 Im hoping to keep the change a bit more subtle. the lights go on and off a bit too rapidly.

polar fiber Mar 7, 2017, 7:11 PM

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model.cfg for the sample lamp ```C
class CfgModels
{
class Default
{
sectionsInherit="";
sections[] = {};
skeletonName = "";
};

class Test_lamp_01_F: Default
{
    sections[] =
    {
        "Light_1_hide",
        "Light_2_hide",
        "Light_3_hide"
    };
};

};``` where you can see that selection listed

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I think the script looks nice though with different plants becoming luminescent after each other

stuck oyster Mar 7, 2017, 7:12 PM

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That indeed.

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Probably need to optimize it but in any case as proof of concept it works.

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if only we had some sort ot time eventhandler that could be fed a time when it runs.

polar fiber Mar 7, 2017, 7:18 PM

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Or an animation source based on light

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rather than clockhour

stuck oyster Mar 7, 2017, 7:19 PM

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ohhhhh that would be cool

wispy orchid Mar 7, 2017, 7:20 PM

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question on automation: I would like to copy the Head and Hands hit-point in the model to their new names 'face_hub' and 'arms'. As we have dozens of those models in Unsung, is there a way to use object builder script to achieve that? Anyone got experience and/or a tutorial at hand for that task?

stuck oyster Mar 7, 2017, 7:22 PM

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I think some old VBS document had stuff on O2script but not sure where I found that. Other than that I have not found anything on it.

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however could you just open all the models in their own windows and copy paste the hitpoint LOD from the one you've done to the rest

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assuming the hitpoints are the same on all models

wispy orchid Mar 7, 2017, 7:24 PM

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so delete the existing hitpoint lod and then copy it? Sounds a bit risky

polar fiber Mar 7, 2017, 7:25 PM

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You can merge from other .p3ds

stuck oyster Mar 7, 2017, 7:26 PM

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@wispy orchid whats the risk 😄

wispy orchid Mar 7, 2017, 7:26 PM

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a mod that is broken even more badly than now 😉

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ok, merging might be cool, so I select the two selections, make a new p3d and merge that

polar fiber Mar 7, 2017, 7:28 PM

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Yeah. just make a memory LOD in that .p3d with the new points and I think it merges in to whatever like LODs exist in the target model

wispy orchid Mar 7, 2017, 7:48 PM

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seems to work, thanks!

stuck oyster Mar 7, 2017, 8:09 PM

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👌

pseudo elbow Mar 8, 2017, 6:25 AM

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Do you absolutely have to have all ComponentXX selections in Geometry LOD named incrementally without any skips in numbers?

stuck oyster Mar 8, 2017, 7:05 AM

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I would say no, but they are also easy to sort if you use the find components function in the structure -> topology menu.

wraith tendon Mar 8, 2017, 8:20 AM

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tbh, i never thought about it, since it can be automaticly 😄

tacit karma Mar 8, 2017, 8:56 AM

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@pseudo elbow no, you can call them whatever you like, but they should all be a component

cinder pivot Mar 8, 2017, 2:39 PM

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Anyone know how to make a ladder only accessible after an animation of an object?

stuck oyster Mar 8, 2017, 3:15 PM

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@fervent steppe was working on something like that just recently and I think the concesus was that you cant, except by making the ladder separate and removing/adding it back depending on the animation.

white jay Mar 8, 2017, 3:18 PM

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^ yea i remember the same as result of his testing

fervent steppe Mar 8, 2017, 3:23 PM

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Yea that was the consensus

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Sucks. The other option may be to animate the entire object but it would have to be a separate model

white jay Mar 8, 2017, 3:29 PM

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isn't the action staying no matter what you animate?

cinder pivot Mar 8, 2017, 3:30 PM

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Hmm

white jay Mar 8, 2017, 3:30 PM

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like the mem points are read on init and stay as long as the object is alive but wont animate

cinder pivot Mar 8, 2017, 3:30 PM

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Trying to make a trap door ladder hatch

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Have it animating but thats about it

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Maybe I could fake it and play the anim or something idk

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Or create an invisible ladder

small idol Mar 8, 2017, 4:29 PM

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in blender, how I specify different UVMaps for different vertex groups and link them in model.cfg? I struggle finding clear enough tutorials related to this topic

quick terrace Mar 8, 2017, 4:45 PM

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you seem to be condused about a few things....UVW has no relation to model.cfg

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named selection as in what i can just assume you call vertex groups can be linked for a number of reasons in model.cfg

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be more specific = more specific answer

fervent steppe Mar 8, 2017, 4:53 PM

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@white jay I haven't tested it but I was thinking if that entire model itself moved perhaps it would work. But def not a section inside the model...that won't work

echo rain Mar 8, 2017, 4:54 PM

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my guess is iMiksu wants to have hidden selections. but having to guess sucks. so yea 😄

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are the apex weapons in pbos now? i want to reskin the SPAR so bad

foggy finch Mar 8, 2017, 6:06 PM

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@cinder pivot ladders[]={} ninja your geometry lods, do not obey.

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I submitted a fb tracker issue about that a while ago

rich trail Mar 8, 2017, 6:08 PM

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Anyone knows what causes the alignment fuck-up as seen in this video: https://youtu.be/Jbt4IpDDyuA

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(ignore background noise)

cinder pivot Mar 8, 2017, 6:08 PM

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@foggy finch wut im confuse

foggy finch Mar 8, 2017, 6:09 PM

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when player is on a ladder, they dont obey the rules of geometry/mass/etc

cinder pivot Mar 8, 2017, 6:10 PM

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ah

gray jay Mar 8, 2017, 6:11 PM

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@rich trail that is intentional(realistic). it's caused by the hight difference between bore and sights.

cinder pivot Mar 8, 2017, 6:11 PM

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ya like they can climb through stuff

rich trail Mar 8, 2017, 6:12 PM

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For real? May be I haven't noticed that for all these years until actually modding the stuff...

polar fiber Mar 8, 2017, 6:16 PM

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They should line up at whatever distance you have the zeroing for your optics set to (+/- some spread from the muzzle dispersion)

woeful viper Mar 8, 2017, 7:39 PM

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i dont think zeroing compensates for optic - muzzle offset distance

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its just not really that noticeable on the usual zeroing ranges

bleak tangle Mar 8, 2017, 8:03 PM

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@white jay they should be on dev and RC, but not stable

pseudo elbow Mar 8, 2017, 8:47 PM

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So I left Buldozer running over night, now it is evening and fog in it, I wonder if you can change time of the day in Buldozer to preview how your object looks during night?

foggy finch Mar 8, 2017, 9:19 PM

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there are enviroment settings

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can set time of day iirc

twin urchin Mar 8, 2017, 9:20 PM

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yes via Environment Editor

foggy finch Mar 8, 2017, 9:20 PM

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http://imageshack.com/a/img924/9118/dKUSsu.png

twin urchin Mar 8, 2017, 9:21 PM

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but in late oxygen even in OB , it is bugged

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that you can get a strobe effect

foggy finch Mar 8, 2017, 9:21 PM

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yeah I just figured it was fubar and never use it

twin urchin Mar 8, 2017, 9:21 PM

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but you can workaround it when you just click the right bar of the time - not changing anything else

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meaning instead of clicking draging that square thing , you need to just click on the right space near the right arrow in the time of day

foggy finch Mar 8, 2017, 9:31 PM

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too many rights for me, quicker compiling and loading up into game 😃

fervent steppe Mar 8, 2017, 10:18 PM

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😂

fervent steppe Mar 9, 2017, 12:43 AM

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explosiveshielding =

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doesnt seem to work the way i thought it would or bis says it does in the config

polar fiber Mar 9, 2017, 12:51 AM

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It's a multiplier, so smaller value offers more protection

bleak tangle Mar 9, 2017, 12:52 AM

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I just tried it with 0 and 300 and saw no difference in the damage done to the building

fervent steppe Mar 9, 2017, 12:54 AM

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hmmm

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i thought it worked the other way around

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so that makes sense then

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because i had a section of a building that collapes uunder one round from a m1 with a modifer of 0 but when i change that modifer to 2 it doesnt

bleak tangle Mar 9, 2017, 12:55 AM

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It's defined in different ways in some of the structures. Sometimes it is in the actual CfgVehicles entry for that object, other times it's defined in individual hitpoints

fervent steppe Mar 9, 2017, 12:55 AM

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in fact the whole building is destroyed before that section can even be damaged

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its def annoying lol

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i just am turning it off

bleak tangle Mar 9, 2017, 12:56 AM

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When it's defined in the HitPoints it usually has a higher value (e.g. 60), while if it's just in the CfgVehicles entry it's lower (e.g. 7)

fervent steppe Mar 9, 2017, 12:56 AM

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and adjusting damaged sections with my macro

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individual

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till i get it how i like it

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the other thing i laugh about it how they define their damage value in the sample house

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they have a value of 20 which it a multipler as well

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its just nothing is consistance with the sample vs what they use in game lol

bleak tangle Mar 9, 2017, 1:01 AM

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Yeah I don't understand it, here is a list of where BI has it defined
http://pastebin.com/h6jZYNpE
If it has two indents then it's in an object's HitPoints, but if it's only one indent it's in the CfgVehicles

fervent steppe Mar 9, 2017, 1:02 AM

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weird

bleak tangle Mar 9, 2017, 1:04 AM

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It seems like they standardized all of the vanilla houses with a value of 60

fervent steppe Mar 9, 2017, 1:09 AM

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yea

fervent steppe Mar 9, 2017, 1:44 AM

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does anyone have a quick sqf entry to see the radius of the hitpoints as the rounds hit the structure

cinder pivot Mar 9, 2017, 4:58 AM

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Think my only solution for ladder hatch is invis ladder or script it

white jay Mar 9, 2017, 9:24 AM

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@fervent steppe if you are on dev branch you can load up the diag exe and visualize hitpoints with diag_toggle "HitPoints";

cursive sleet Mar 9, 2017, 10:31 AM

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@quick terrace Soo if i understand this right, arma only care about vertex indeces for performence? or vertex normal direction? Would it be better to do medium polygon modelling then? like they do in star citizen with chamfer and weighted normals

fervent steppe Mar 9, 2017, 10:57 AM

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Ahhh @white jay that's it! I couldn't remember what it was! Thanks 😃

white jay Mar 9, 2017, 10:58 AM

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np ^^ there is also other stuff that could be usefull:
https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Arma_3_Diagnostics_Exe

quick terrace Mar 9, 2017, 11:51 AM

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@cursive sleet - it's not only arma that care aboue vertex indeces, it is DX....and only about is wrong, because performance in arma has little to do with vert/tri count but rather with section count

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in any case, yes, there are a lot of people, myself included that work with weighted normals already

woeful viper Mar 9, 2017, 5:10 PM

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global damage is really inconsistent and dodgy. I would never rely on it

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i've had cases where global damage increased, even though passthrough values for individual hitpoints where 0 and there was no indirect damage on the bullet

halcyon wren Mar 9, 2017, 5:30 PM

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what was your "explosive" value?

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or was it called "explosion". It also does weird BS

fervent steppe Mar 9, 2017, 10:14 PM

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I think it was 60

foggy finch Mar 9, 2017, 11:01 PM

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who created the Altis stadium, with running track and regulation soccer goals? FIFA wants a word, you did it wrong http://imageshack.com/a/img921/1237/RFdnjD.png

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goals fit soccer pitch sizes, unfortunately the area designated as the pitch dont even fit the line markings in side ways 😂

clever solar Mar 9, 2017, 11:07 PM

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WTF BI HOW ARE WE SUPPOSED TO PLAY YOUR NEW SOCCER DLC WITHOUT A PROPERLY MEASURED FIELD?!

polar fiber Mar 9, 2017, 11:08 PM

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I don't think the rugby field on Tanoa is regulation size either. Unless their league consists entirely of teams made up of Pygmies

foggy finch Mar 9, 2017, 11:08 PM

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yeah

clever solar Mar 9, 2017, 11:08 PM

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Not that there would be anything wrong with that

polar fiber Mar 9, 2017, 11:09 PM

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It's 21m long, as opposed to the regulation 100m

clever solar Mar 9, 2017, 11:09 PM

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Ok whose putting in the support ticket?

polar fiber Mar 9, 2017, 11:10 PM

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I doubt there's room for full-sized ones

foggy finch Mar 9, 2017, 11:13 PM

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barely enough room for a3 chinook when you scale it so the goals line up with the 6yd box http://imageshack.com/a/img921/641/ekHQOq.png

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😄

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even if I created it woth the minimum fifa goal/side line lengths it would still not fit, this is haliarious 😄

polar fiber Mar 9, 2017, 11:15 PM

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Is it a 5-a-side pitch?

foggy finch Mar 9, 2017, 11:15 PM

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haha 3 feet and under pitch

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altis FC got no chance in europe if they are playing in the stadium anyways

errant pumice Mar 10, 2017, 1:38 AM

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hey, any tips on how to make a weapon flash (fire)? I dont have any working samples around :/

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nvm, got the samples DLed.

twin urchin Mar 10, 2017, 7:07 AM

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Guys , any idea why i cant change the camera in buldozer when i use latest dev exe?

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changing camera by Num enter

cinder pivot Mar 10, 2017, 7:46 AM

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How does arma work with objects if you only have one resolation LOD ? Does it attempt to scale or anything?

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Or just always render that at full

wraith tendon Mar 10, 2017, 7:51 AM

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full

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since: No other LODs available (sounds like a logic explaination, aye? 😉 )

quick terrace Mar 10, 2017, 1:00 PM

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https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/106016548992356352/289743677054648320/unknown.png
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/106016548992356352/289743731769212928/unknown.png

foggy finch Mar 10, 2017, 1:02 PM

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nice work man

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aside from the metal details, the wooden parts really set it off

quick terrace Mar 10, 2017, 1:06 PM

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what's wrong with the metal pars?

foggy finch Mar 10, 2017, 1:06 PM

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nothing, I just meant aside from the usual high quality work 😃

quick terrace Mar 10, 2017, 1:07 PM

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ahh cheers :p

foggy finch Mar 10, 2017, 1:07 PM

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lol

cinder pivot Mar 10, 2017, 3:04 PM

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@wraith tendon thats what I thought, but had to double check

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Thx

dusky dragon Mar 10, 2017, 5:16 PM

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Little modeller pun: http://i.imgur.com/QKqjMoX.jpg

woeful viper Mar 10, 2017, 6:06 PM

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very nice wood. the uv seam on the grip is very noticeable in the render though

rich trail Mar 10, 2017, 6:10 PM

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I'm perplexed about the complexity of the shadow LOD. The Wiki says "Shadow LOD should be simplified compared to resolution LOD, but can be more detailed then Geometry/Fire Geometry LOD", but that technically means anything from 50 to 30k polys...

white jay Mar 10, 2017, 6:15 PM

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That means nothing in actual numbers... More depending on your object

echo rain Mar 10, 2017, 6:41 PM

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@quick terrace man. AK gets never old. good job. is that for RHS?

rich trail Mar 10, 2017, 6:54 PM

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I created this shadow LOD for a 2,2k poly object: http://i.imgur.com/zQpv8HN.png

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Does that seem reasonable?

hollow fulcrum Mar 10, 2017, 7:15 PM

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looks fine to me. there are a couple different shadowLods, for sure safe on zero. can be much simplier for 10.

polar fiber Mar 10, 2017, 7:25 PM

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I think you could go lower. Shadow LODs honestly work best when they're just the basic silhouette of the object. Those ironsights probably wont make any meaningful detail in the shadow and may even look a bit bad in places because of the convexity

white jay Mar 10, 2017, 8:03 PM

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Guys, why after I binarize with addon builder the glass of the cars show a silver color without any transparency?
any tip?

cinder pivot Mar 10, 2017, 8:25 PM

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Use pboproject

white jay Mar 10, 2017, 8:49 PM

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if i use pboproject it will not binarize

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and it will take too much time for the car to spawn

bleak tangle Mar 10, 2017, 8:51 PM

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What does that mean

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pboProject will binarize it, but it's probably failing to pack because there are errors

polar fiber Mar 10, 2017, 9:10 PM

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it'll fail to pack because you're missing files on your P: drive that the model is referencing, and that's likely why the texture has no transparency because the .p3d needs to reference all alpha textures during binarisation to render the faces properly

rich trail Mar 10, 2017, 9:41 PM

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@hollow fulcrum 10? The 10th shadowVolume res?

polar fiber Mar 10, 2017, 10:12 PM

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Nah, models normally have two shadow LOD numbered 0 and 10

small idol Mar 10, 2017, 10:18 PM

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any troubleshooting tips? I created an fence with geometry, physx geometry, view geometry and specified an data/penetration/wood_plate.rvmat but im still able to shoot through without any wood effects and AI can see me trough

foggy finch Mar 10, 2017, 10:22 PM

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sounds like your missing fire geometry

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which is where your penetration mats go

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also all geo lod components need to be closed and convex

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lod info is avilabale on the biki

small idol Mar 10, 2017, 10:25 PM

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Thanks @foggy finch i do fire geometry lod and check closed components

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btw, do i need to specify the penetration rvmat separately in fire lod?

woeful viper Mar 10, 2017, 10:33 PM

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https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/LOD

white jay Mar 10, 2017, 10:34 PM

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@woeful viper I don't use models from others search 😉

quick terrace Mar 10, 2017, 10:40 PM

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@white jay are you actually gonna spam every other channel with that question of yours?

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without posting a single image of your issue

foggy finch Mar 10, 2017, 11:08 PM

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@small idol yes penetration info is stored in the fire geometry, if you look at the link X3KJ pasted it tells you what goes where regarding the LOD's

white jay Mar 10, 2017, 11:15 PM

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sorry @PoFu

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@quick terrace

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the problem is in the .cpp file. With mikero it give a lot of errors because of the location of the other .paa files that are located in arma 3 mods

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with addon builder the only problem is in the .paa files (the car lost the glass transparency and the quality of the color of the car)

foggy finch Mar 10, 2017, 11:20 PM

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mikero's tools gave you errors because whatever your trying to do is either not setup correctly and/or misconfigured

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it wont let you continue till you fix them

white jay Mar 10, 2017, 11:20 PM

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but without mikero and just pack it with pbomanager the car looks good and works fine

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no errors showing

foggy finch Mar 10, 2017, 11:21 PM

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pbomanager doesnt binarize your content

white jay Mar 10, 2017, 11:21 PM

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i know that

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so the problem could be in the .cpp file or in the .p3d right?

foggy finch Mar 10, 2017, 11:22 PM

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mikeros tools would have told you where the problems lie

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it created log files for the purposes of debugging

white jay Mar 10, 2017, 11:22 PM

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can I post here what mikero gives?

foggy finch Mar 10, 2017, 11:23 PM

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use pastebin and paste the link

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its easier to read imo

white jay Mar 10, 2017, 11:24 PM

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I will

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http://pastebin.com/sYVyV7hS

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@foggy finch there you go

foggy finch Mar 10, 2017, 11:30 PM

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well the 123 missing files is a pretty big give-away

white jay Mar 10, 2017, 11:30 PM

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how to bypass this

foggy finch Mar 10, 2017, 11:31 PM

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there is no bypass, you have to fix

white jay Mar 10, 2017, 11:31 PM

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I will need that all files and put it in .pbo

foggy finch Mar 10, 2017, 11:31 PM

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looks like you dont have your p: drive setup correctly nor the game data extracted to it