#arma3_model | ARMA | Page 123

halcyon wren Sep 19, 2018, 9:20 AM

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Hmm. It might be terrain's lighting config then. Startis LConfig tends to "power up" brighter colors massively.

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Its in one of the HDR params IIRC

strong plaza Sep 19, 2018, 9:20 AM

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let me test on stratis

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or should I test on altis?

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I think it's the same

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but to be sure I will test

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hmm

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looks a bit better on stratis than my custom map

formal vapor Sep 19, 2018, 2:55 PM

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I get the same issue on a uniform I made. Really annoying. Have you tried making the textures darker?

shell magnet Sep 19, 2018, 3:59 PM

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Hi I would like to make a french flag but I don't know how to make the animation like a real flag with the wind

bold flare Sep 19, 2018, 4:03 PM

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You could also use the already existing physx windy thingy flags and just make a retexture

valid gorge Sep 19, 2018, 6:46 PM

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How do I make my hellfires hide when they were fired off of the rack? I'll fire all of them and you can see the proxy missiles fly away and hit their target but when you're out of missiles you can still see them on the rack.

polar fiber Sep 19, 2018, 6:54 PM

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missile model needs simulation = MaverickWeapon; in class cfgnonAIVehicles

valid gorge Sep 19, 2018, 7:15 PM

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@polar fiber just tried that and it didn't hide them

polar fiber Sep 19, 2018, 7:24 PM

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Is the vehicle using dynamic loudouts?

valid gorge Sep 19, 2018, 7:24 PM

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no

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its just a hellfire rack with 4 hellfire missiles on a ported UH60M from A2

polar fiber Sep 19, 2018, 7:24 PM

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then what's the proxy setup in the vehicle model look like?

valid gorge Sep 19, 2018, 7:25 PM

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UH60M\AGM114Hellfire

polar fiber Sep 19, 2018, 7:26 PM

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So you have the hellfire rack modelled in the vehicle, with the Hellfires as proxies?

valid gorge Sep 19, 2018, 7:26 PM

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the rack and the missiles are proxies

polar fiber Sep 19, 2018, 7:26 PM

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the hellfires are a proxy in the vehicle or a proxy in the rack?

valid gorge Sep 19, 2018, 7:27 PM

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both in vehicle

polar fiber Sep 19, 2018, 7:31 PM

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and the nonaivehicles you made was exactly this: class ProxyAGM114Hellfire : ProxyWeapon { model = "\UH60M\AGM114Hellfire"; simulation ="maverickweapon"; };

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classname MUST be called proxyP3DName

valid gorge Sep 19, 2018, 7:32 PM

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actually the class proxy name is wrong

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let me update it and try again i had a typo

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@polar fiber They hide now thanks

steel coyote Sep 19, 2018, 9:57 PM

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Hi - WIP#4 AMF : https://mod.arma3france.fr/2018/09/19/work-in-progress-4-vbl-vbci-and-some-new-friends-joining-the-party/

stuck oyster Sep 19, 2018, 10:05 PM

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looks great @steel coyote thanks for sharing!

steel coyote Sep 19, 2018, 10:05 PM

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Thank you @stuck oyster

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We hope you will be able to play it very soon.

woeful viper Sep 20, 2018, 2:54 AM

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the tire profile looks a bit bonkers...

eternal bloom Sep 20, 2018, 7:24 AM

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is it possible to set mass of the Geometry LOD with Alwarren's Arma ToolBox for Blender ?

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there is this screenshot on his website but it doesn't looks like that anymore in Blender

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http://friedenhq.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/arma-panel1.png

eternal bloom Sep 20, 2018, 3:21 PM

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anwser : it's in the tool shielf when you're in edit mode on your geometry lod

plain lake Sep 20, 2018, 6:09 PM

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Hey does anyone make uniforms and vehicles here? Willing to throw up a few bucks!

white jay Sep 20, 2018, 6:20 PM

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I do

median bough Sep 20, 2018, 6:23 PM

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@plain lake
#creators_recruiting

plain lake Sep 20, 2018, 6:56 PM

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Thanks

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@median bough

drowsy osprey Sep 20, 2018, 11:53 PM

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One message removed from a suspended account.

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One message removed from a suspended account.

stuck oyster Sep 20, 2018, 11:56 PM

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uuu splendid choice of weapon there! dont see many G11s made

fathom dagger Sep 21, 2018, 4:30 AM

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wow

late raft Sep 21, 2018, 10:12 AM

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Looks nice, Bill.

quaint mason Sep 21, 2018, 8:32 PM

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How do you animate a 2D attitude indicator in a cockpit? For example, the one in the top right of the Test Plane's cockpit.

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It's not a ball indicator; it looks much like this: https://is3-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Purple3/v4/17/63/a1/1763a107-3819-9fa4-7f19-c00822d0162d/mzl.brongabs.jpg/246x0w.jpg

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Is it done best via traditional animation in model.cfg or as an MFD in config.cpp?

woeful viper Sep 21, 2018, 8:38 PM

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make a plane with the texture and rotate the plane...

quaint mason Sep 21, 2018, 8:39 PM

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It needs to indicate pitch as well as roll

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What happens at the edges of the plane, say when the pilot performs a loop?

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And how would I stop the plane with the texture from poking out other parts of the model?

woeful viper Sep 21, 2018, 8:41 PM

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What do you mean? it's not 2D if its actually rolling like a sphere

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make it deeper... or make stuff bigger. Or make plane so it doesnt clip. Plenty of options...

quaint mason Sep 21, 2018, 8:42 PM

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Take a look at this instrument: https://www.flyingmag.com/sites/flyingmag.com/files/styles/1000_1x_/public/import/2015/sites/all/files/_images/201509/Electronic-Attitude-Indicator.jpg?itok=qQgOHCoe

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I can't do that with a sphere that rotates inside the mesh

half heath Sep 21, 2018, 8:42 PM

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If you look at A2 stuff or even the A3 samples you'll get a clue as to what their doing

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Pitch axis mem points parented to roll axis mem points.

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Hint: the attitude indicators are usually wildy inaccurate and used mostly for looks

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Mainly because you have a texture on a polygon plane as X3KJ said, however the plane can't be too large because it will clip and look just ugly. The best implementation is the civilian airplane for the Apex DLC. Uses Class MFD

quaint mason Sep 21, 2018, 8:46 PM

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I'm aware of the samples but they're not doing what I'm trying to do. Class MFD looks like the way to go. I'll look at the Apex plane config.cpp

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Thanks @half heath

steel coyote Sep 22, 2018, 12:16 AM

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Bises de France. https://mod.arma3france.fr/2018/09/22/work-in-progress-5-pgm-hecate-ii-vab/

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WIP#5 Arma Mod France

jaunty leaf Sep 22, 2018, 3:56 PM

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how long do people usually take to make a prop asset like a gun?

quick terrace Sep 22, 2018, 3:56 PM

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a gun isn't really a prop, but whatever

jaunty leaf Sep 22, 2018, 3:57 PM

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because I took like two and a half weeks to make this and I feel a lot like I could speed up https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DnFi5LQX0AEMlDu.jpg

quick terrace Sep 22, 2018, 3:57 PM

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it depends on skill level and the amount of proper refs one has

jaunty leaf Sep 22, 2018, 3:57 PM

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mhm

quick terrace Sep 22, 2018, 3:57 PM

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also about the complexity and accuracy of said asset

jaunty leaf Sep 22, 2018, 3:58 PM

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guess I just need to practise a lot more then

quick terrace Sep 22, 2018, 3:58 PM

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i could probably make the above rifle in 3-4 days, including baking and PBR texturing

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depends a lot on the complexity of an asset

jaunty leaf Sep 22, 2018, 4:00 PM

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ye

sacred grail Sep 22, 2018, 4:12 PM

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3-4 days is reasonable for an asset like that. Projects like this are good for practise though. the more you do them the faster and cleaner you get.

agile flint Sep 23, 2018, 3:03 AM

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I've spent over 2000 hours just trying to make 1 tank haha

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Though all the stuff I've learned doing it has helped me over time

quaint mason Sep 23, 2018, 4:39 AM

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In my limited experience so far, the first project you attempt will take at least 10x as long as the second one due to the learning process.

steel coyote Sep 23, 2018, 4:44 AM

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https://mod.arma3france.fr/2018/09/22/work-in-progress-6-vab/ WIP#6 guys.

late raft Sep 23, 2018, 1:12 PM

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The beret looks amazing.

half heath Sep 23, 2018, 4:19 PM

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I've been googling around and can find any proper docs on configuring wrecks for vehicles. Can anyone point me in the right direction?

woeful viper Sep 23, 2018, 6:25 PM

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If you just want a wreck to display when vehicle explodes, make the wreck p3d and put it as proxy inside wreck LOD of the main model

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the config classes for wrecks are afaik only for when placing it manually on the map

sonic valve Sep 24, 2018, 2:13 AM

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Good tutorial on setting up building destruction?

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Not sure were I define the building damage models to show

royal prism Sep 24, 2018, 3:36 AM

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hi guys,

someone know what that means if i pack a mod with pboproject?

pecial LOD contains 2nd UV set.

stuck oyster Sep 24, 2018, 3:40 AM

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one of your non resolution lod has 2nd uv set

royal prism Sep 24, 2018, 3:54 AM

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mhm

stuck oyster Sep 24, 2018, 3:56 AM

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https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/LOD#What.27s_a_LOD.3F

LOD

royal prism Sep 24, 2018, 4:00 AM

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was just wondering what a special lod is

stuck oyster Sep 24, 2018, 4:01 AM

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any other lod than resolution lod

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shadow, geometry etc etc

royal prism Sep 24, 2018, 4:13 AM

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thanks mate

solemn cedar Sep 24, 2018, 11:25 AM

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Hi all, im reskinning the APEX jeep and would like to remove some elements in my mod that can be removed in Eden.
Ive used the script below as a test, one with all hidden and one with none hidden but once tested in game the vehicles are identical.

What am i doing wrong?

Vehicle being used ... C_Offroad_02_unarmed_F

{
"hideLeftDoor",
1,
"hideRightDoor",
1,
"hideRearDoor",
1,
"hideBullbar",
1,
"hideFenders",
1,
"hideHeadSupportFront",
1,
"hideHeadSupportRear",
1,
"hideRollcage",
1,
"hideSpareWheel",
1,
"hideSeatsRear",
1
};

outer condor Sep 24, 2018, 11:39 AM

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not 100% certain about this but above only applies with randomization being active

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best pastebin your whole config to see what you did

solemn cedar Sep 24, 2018, 11:40 AM

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will do

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@outer condor https://pastebin.com/fhUTFULg

outer condor Sep 24, 2018, 12:15 PM

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issues:

requiredAddons[]={}; //missing
class DefaultEventhandlers; // wrong context and obsolete
: Offroad_02_LMG_base_F // inherit from unit class instead - probably reason for it not working

solemn cedar Sep 24, 2018, 12:25 PM

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@outer condor looking at #3 it think you might nailed it (will fix rest) ... what about the vehicle init via the mod, might do the trick to hide desired parts

outer condor Sep 24, 2018, 12:27 PM

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the randomization needs the init EH. if its not set, the above definition does nothing

primal mortar Sep 24, 2018, 3:52 PM

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I looked at the samples with the windows and made it that way but it does not work, if I shoot it comes the sound and the particles and the ball goes through but the disc does not break. Can anybody help me with this ? would be very nice xD

outer condor Sep 24, 2018, 4:14 PM

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@sonic valve did you check the sample building from BI and its config?

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@primal mortar same for you i guess. you need model, model.cfg and config set up accordingly

sonic valve Sep 24, 2018, 4:14 PM

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Yea, does the game just automatically hide the wrecks for me? Or do I need to hit some check box in OB?

outer condor Sep 24, 2018, 4:15 PM

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you need land class definition to map the p3d to a class

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in the class you define the damage/destruction phases/simulation

sonic valve Sep 24, 2018, 4:16 PM

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So basically all done within the config?

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Rather then any special material and such

outer condor Sep 24, 2018, 4:17 PM

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well needs simulation house set in geo lod i think (or a few others like wall, or houseSimulated)

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if you want partial destruction, the model and model.cfg needs to be set up accordingly too

sonic valve Sep 24, 2018, 4:19 PM

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Ah, ok makes a bit more sense. I'm not quiet ready for the partial destruction just yet, just looking to turn things into rubble when they blow up.

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I noticed glass can do partial destruction as well which is awesome.

primal mortar Sep 24, 2018, 4:24 PM

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@outer condor
I have but somehow it does not break.

outer condor Sep 24, 2018, 4:27 PM

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@primal mortar checked binarized log and rpt or better yet debug.log with diag.exe yet?

half heath Sep 25, 2018, 1:21 AM

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OK not sure what I'm missing. I have a wreck lod with a proxy on a vehicle. Yet when the vehicle is destroyed it the wreck proxy doesn't show... I have destrType = DestructWreck; as well

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sigh- nevermind I got it to work. Had some enums in the config that weren't supposed to be there.

valid gorge Sep 25, 2018, 8:50 PM

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So i'm getting my UH60M to fold and it works ingame but the geometry of the tail and elevators isn't folding with the actual parts anybody know how to fix it? So basically the collision of the parts that folded is still there but the parts moved.

half heath Sep 25, 2018, 10:30 PM

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Make sure your Geometry LOD contains your named selections for the stabilator

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In other words, match the named selections of your geometry LOD with the corresponding animated visual parts.

valid gorge Sep 25, 2018, 11:02 PM

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@half heath Is there any examples?

half heath Sep 25, 2018, 11:27 PM

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Yeah the arma 3 samples have lots of examples. It's really quite simple, if you have a named selection of "elevator" in your model. And you use that named selection in your model.cfg to animate the elevator selection, then any geometry with the named selection of "elevator" will move when that animation is called. Thi carries thru to all your LODs (geometry, physx, memory points, shadow)

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So the component in your Geo LOD representing the "elevator" in your model should also have a named selection of "elevator" assigned to it. To do that simply select your geometry and add a new selection.

valid gorge Sep 25, 2018, 11:39 PM

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@half heath So say if component 03 is my tail should i rename that component to "tail"?

half heath Sep 26, 2018, 12:28 AM

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no keep the component name

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add another selection to that component

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there should be two selections that will highlight that geometry, "component XX" and "tail"

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@valid gorge ^

valid gorge Sep 26, 2018, 12:48 AM

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@half heath Thanks I got it working i'm just trying to smooth out the parts hitting each other and making the helicopter bump around

royal prism Sep 26, 2018, 4:20 AM

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someone know how to fix this?

https://img.c0kkie.de/c0kkie_26-09-2018_06-19-38.png

royal prism Sep 26, 2018, 4:38 AM

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buoyancy is in the geometry properties

rough idol Sep 26, 2018, 7:14 AM

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@royal prism do you have autocenter = 1?

royal prism Sep 26, 2018, 5:35 PM

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@rough idol its autocenter = 0

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is 1 needed?

rough idol Sep 26, 2018, 6:05 PM

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yep

royal prism Sep 26, 2018, 6:24 PM

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ok we try

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1 sec

woeful viper Sep 26, 2018, 6:27 PM

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@quaint mason now i get what you are after. In recent patches BIS added the possibility to animate UV's via animation sources. It's quite new, haven't done it myself yet. But this would be perfect for this usecase. @rough idol should be able to point you in the right direction

royal prism Sep 26, 2018, 6:30 PM

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can you tell me for what reversed is? @rough idol

rough idol Sep 26, 2018, 6:31 PM

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tells engine if object direction is reversed

royal prism Sep 26, 2018, 6:32 PM

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mhm

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good or bad to have it enabled? 😄 cuz in the samples it is 1

rough idol Sep 26, 2018, 6:33 PM

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most vehicles are using = 1

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you can set that values also in config

royal prism Sep 26, 2018, 6:33 PM

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k

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also, is there a full list of all property names? havent found a good one

rough idol Sep 26, 2018, 6:34 PM

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@quaint mason alternatively you can use this - class MFD_2 contains something similar

📎 cfgMFD.hpp

royal prism Sep 26, 2018, 6:35 PM

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and i was just wondering cuz autocenter is not in the samples 😄

rough idol Sep 26, 2018, 6:37 PM

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no autocenter in geometry properties is equal to autocenter = 1

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it's by default one

sharp halo Sep 26, 2018, 6:38 PM

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I am having issues regarding shadowVolume. I simply export it to blender, export it back to OB, make sure I dont have any opened faces, edges are sharp, everything is triangulated, there are no textures applied. https://imgur.com/DeIaHIB

woeful viper Sep 26, 2018, 6:38 PM

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you forgot to triangulate most likely

sharp halo Sep 26, 2018, 6:38 PM

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I forgot to say about that, I am doing it too

woeful viper Sep 26, 2018, 6:40 PM

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err... did you triangulate after sharpen or vice versa?

sharp halo Sep 26, 2018, 6:40 PM

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Before

woeful viper Sep 26, 2018, 6:40 PM

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weird...

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99% of such issues are because either triangulation or sharpness

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looks like the wheels specifically, and the protruding thing out of the nose in front of the canopy is where an error is at

sharp halo Sep 26, 2018, 6:41 PM

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I added one edge to the model, I will try now without any edits

royal prism Sep 26, 2018, 6:42 PM

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if we add autocenter = 1 the car is swimming xD @rough idol

woeful viper Sep 26, 2018, 6:43 PM

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arma 3 life car... life boat... all the same to me. Arma thinks so to apparently

valid gorge Sep 26, 2018, 7:42 PM

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Anybody know how I can make my helicopters wheels actually roll when its taxiing in AFM?

half heath Sep 26, 2018, 7:53 PM

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I think it's wheel like any other vehicle

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animation source wheel in model.cfg

charred bolt Sep 26, 2018, 7:59 PM

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@sharp halo It looks like non-closed shadow LOD objects. How did you check they are closed?

sharp halo Sep 26, 2018, 8:00 PM

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@charred bolt yep you are correct, the issue was I tried editing just one object I exported from OB, when I exported everything and edited in Blender it worked flawlessly

charred bolt Sep 26, 2018, 8:00 PM

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great, glad it's solved for you

sharp halo Sep 26, 2018, 8:07 PM

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thanks 😃

rough idol Sep 26, 2018, 10:16 PM

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@royal prism canFloat = 0 in cfg

royal prism Sep 26, 2018, 10:17 PM

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so that in the config then it will not swim?

spiral solstice Sep 26, 2018, 10:40 PM

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What's the typical polycount for objects/animals in arma 3? just trying to get this lizard to spawn in so that I can get a good idea of how the tools work: https://vgy.me/i6kw64.png

woeful viper Sep 26, 2018, 11:06 PM

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typical? the typical animals in A3 are rabbits and sneks... thats about it.

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there is no good answer to that question. I would stay below 3000 for something as small as this, and make good lod

royal prism Sep 26, 2018, 11:38 PM

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still swimming @rough idol

spiral solstice Sep 26, 2018, 11:58 PM

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I managed to texture my model and import it as an obj, but it looks like this for some weird reason. How can I fix this? https://vgy.me/mar5p3.png

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it looks normal in blender and object builder: https://vgy.me/vVWnfY.png

charred bolt Sep 27, 2018, 12:13 AM

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@spiral solstice show a picture of solid face view in Object Builder

spiral solstice Sep 27, 2018, 12:36 AM

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how would I activate it? I think I toggled it: https://vgy.me/II1PAt.png

charred bolt Sep 27, 2018, 12:37 AM

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Switch on Use Direct3D button. Press Numpad 0 Ins to get solid view. Deselect all points.

spiral solstice Sep 27, 2018, 1:04 AM

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It's a strange issue, I still get it:https://vgy.me/F8IN3C.png

charred bolt Sep 27, 2018, 1:08 AM

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It's probably that many of the faces are inverted.

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Select a face and press W to invert it. Also press F5 to recalculate normals.

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Start with the faces of the left leg as that appears to be missing.

spiral solstice Sep 27, 2018, 1:15 AM

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you're right! it works! thank you man!

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https://vgy.me/OpSoX7.png

charred bolt Sep 27, 2018, 1:15 AM

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Nice 😃

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Don't forget to select the whole model and recalculate normals with F5.

spiral solstice Sep 27, 2018, 1:21 AM

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Thanks for helping me out,! Zbrush doesn't export OBJs nor FBX files properly to arma 3, so I had to re-export them in blender and bake them. I'll try writing a nice guide for it because it's a tedious process to know about

charred bolt Sep 27, 2018, 1:22 AM

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I have a similar thing with getting models from Object Builder into Substance Painter via Blender to get an fbx.

spiral solstice Sep 27, 2018, 1:23 AM

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i tried exporting the those files via maya/3dsmax and it didn't work, luckily there was blender :D.

charred bolt Sep 27, 2018, 1:24 AM

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You can add the Arma3 toolbox to Blender so it can import/export p3d files.

spiral solstice Sep 27, 2018, 1:27 AM

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I need to figure out how to use it, I added those add-ons but they didn't seem to work whenever I imported/exported them

charred bolt Sep 27, 2018, 1:28 AM

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Here's the toolbox download. Easy to install. http://www.armaholic.com/page.php?id=20519

spiral solstice Sep 27, 2018, 1:38 AM

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I'm going to restart and reinstall it, thanks for helping me out

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I can't wait to make characters once I'm done with spawning an object in

spiral solstice Sep 27, 2018, 3:29 AM

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Do you know where I can download the latest version of bin PBO?

spiral solstice Sep 27, 2018, 4:10 AM

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managed to get it, trying to export files now

spiral solstice Sep 27, 2018, 4:58 AM

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I packed the mod, but for some weird reason, it's not showing up. been following this tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TboTYArmi2s

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if it helps, here's what the source looks like: https://vgy.me/SgiCrN.png output folder looks like: https://vgy.me/xnm1xL.png and config.cpp: https://vgy.me/D32exG.png

late raft Sep 27, 2018, 3:17 PM

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sorry what

spiral solstice Sep 27, 2018, 3:18 PM

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My bad. I managed to pack my mod in a PBO, but it's not loading my model for some weird reason

late raft Sep 27, 2018, 3:23 PM

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ok

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so when you say not loading my model

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are you saying, it's not showing up in the editor/arsenal/zeus or are you saying you literally can't see the object even though it's placed down

spiral solstice Sep 27, 2018, 3:31 PM

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it's not loading through the editor/arsenal/zeus at all whenever I try to spawn it in my inventory

charred bolt Sep 27, 2018, 3:42 PM

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I don't know much about creating animals for Arma, but is making it a type of weapon magazine the right way to go?

spiral solstice Sep 27, 2018, 4:00 PM

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i made it a magazine because I want to test it out to see if it spawns in my inventory

spiral solstice Sep 27, 2018, 4:32 PM

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It shows that it recognizes that the file exist, but it doesn't seem to spawn in my inventory: sorry if it's confusing: https://vgy.me/hmOFR5.png

stuck oyster Sep 27, 2018, 4:53 PM

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dont make it a magazine

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make it a house/static object if you want to test it

bold flare Sep 27, 2018, 4:54 PM

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addItem add's a weapon. not a magazine

spiral solstice Sep 27, 2018, 5:14 PM

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@stuck oyster I see, which class do I use for it and where can I find a complete documentation of it? I'm sorry for asking too many questions

stuck oyster Sep 27, 2018, 5:16 PM

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well complete documentation might not really excist for anything in Arma. But if you have the tools and dev environment set up right you should have the Arma data unpacked and you can take a look at all the configs in there. Or you could use the Arma3 samples from Steam and use the house config for example

bold flare Sep 27, 2018, 5:16 PM

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why make a house though to test a magazine? ^^

stuck oyster Sep 27, 2018, 5:16 PM

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its not a magazine

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its a lizzard

bold flare Sep 27, 2018, 5:17 PM

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All previous message I can read here talk about a magazine though

stuck oyster Sep 27, 2018, 5:17 PM

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yes using the magazine was a misunderstanding

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it is supposed to become a character/animal

bold flare Sep 27, 2018, 5:19 PM

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class CfgPatches {
    class wolf_mim104 {
        units[] = {"MyHouse"};
        weapons[] = {};
        requiredAddons[] = {"A3_Structures_F_Civ_Lamps"};
        requiredVersion = 0.1;
    };
};

class CfgVehicles {
    // Parent class declarations
    class House_F;
    class MyHouse: House_F {
        _generalMacro = "MyHouse";
        scope                = 2;                                        /// makes the lamp invisible in editor
        scopeCurator        = 2;                                            /// makes the lamp visible in Zeus
        displayName            = "MIM-104 Woodland";                                    /// displayed in Editor
        model                = "z\wolf\addons\MIM104\mim_104.p3d";    /// simple path to model
    };
};

Here is a kinda minimal example to just add a model and have it shown in 3den

stuck oyster Sep 27, 2018, 5:20 PM

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excellent

spiral solstice Sep 27, 2018, 5:23 PM

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thanks! I'll try to see what I can do

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how would I spawn the house via the debug console

bold flare Sep 27, 2018, 5:36 PM

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createVehicle

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https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/createVehicle
"MyHouse" createVehicle (position player)

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but it should show up in 3DEN too if you search for the displayName

spiral solstice Sep 27, 2018, 5:40 PM

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oh man! It works! Thanks for helping me out: https://vgy.me/JrYGu7.png

stuck oyster Sep 27, 2018, 5:46 PM

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👍 👍

spiral solstice Sep 27, 2018, 6:05 PM

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I noticed that the textures are missing, is there a way to link them to each other via config.cpp?

bold flare Sep 27, 2018, 6:07 PM

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with hiddenSelections yes.

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But usually you define them in the model. Select all faces (CTRL+A) and edit textures/materials (CTRL+E)

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If you are getting started I'd recommend defining them in the model first. Before you go to more advanced stuff later on

spiral solstice Sep 27, 2018, 6:19 PM

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it looks like I've mapped them: https://vgy.me/D1r0bs.png

bold flare Sep 27, 2018, 6:19 PM

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no the path is not correct

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needs to be the ingame path

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like the model path in the config.cpp

stuck oyster Sep 27, 2018, 6:39 PM

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use P: drive for your projects

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keeps things simpler

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the textures will also need to follow the right suffix naming policy

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https://forums.bohemia.net/forums/topic/207631-from-blender-to-arma-3-complete-process-tutorial/

Bohemia Interactive Forums

From Blender to ArmA 3 - Complete process tutorial

Hello,

 



As I had many requests, I did this all-in-one tutorial I am sharing today. I hope it will be helpful to you.



All important stages are...

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these are as far as I know the most up to date step by step tutorials

spiral solstice Sep 27, 2018, 6:46 PM

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this is pretty useful! thanks!

stuck oyster Sep 27, 2018, 6:46 PM

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you dont use Blender but the after Blender steps should be pretty much the same

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if you put the samples_F folder from Steam Arma 3 samples on your p: drive you can use the p3ds there ot see how the textures and materials are pathed

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📎 unknown.png

spiral solstice Sep 27, 2018, 6:55 PM

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Just figured out how to mount the P drive. noticed the original house ellipses, do I just write "...\projectName\textures\texturename.paa" when I place it on the P drive?

bold flare Sep 27, 2018, 6:57 PM

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you use the path on the p drive and strip away the P:\
So P:\z\ace\addons\common\file turns into z\ace\addons\common\file

spiral solstice Sep 27, 2018, 7:14 PM

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looks like I got it, it detects the model path correctly but it claims that the textures are missing whenever I export it

stuck oyster Sep 27, 2018, 7:18 PM

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do you have p:\ in the path?

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oh wait Dedmen already said that

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have you set up the P: drive with Mikeros Arma3P or the ArmaTools thingy?

bold flare Sep 27, 2018, 7:20 PM

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you mean you get the error ingame? after exporting as PBO and loading that PBO?

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is the model in the same pbo? same folder same path?

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Do textures maybe need leading \ ?

stuck oyster Sep 27, 2018, 7:20 PM

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and what do you pack it with?

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no

spiral solstice Sep 27, 2018, 7:22 PM

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I packed it with binpbo personal edition

bold flare Sep 27, 2018, 7:22 PM

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Wut

stuck oyster Sep 27, 2018, 7:22 PM

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que?

median bough Sep 27, 2018, 7:22 PM

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what?

bold flare Sep 27, 2018, 7:22 PM

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Isn't that a Arma 1/Arma 2 tool?

stuck oyster Sep 27, 2018, 7:22 PM

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where did you get that?

bold flare Sep 27, 2018, 7:22 PM

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Haven't heard of it for years...

spiral solstice Sep 27, 2018, 7:22 PM

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i got it from here: http://www.armaholic.com/page.php?id=2068

median bough Sep 27, 2018, 7:22 PM

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and... why did you get that?

bold flare Sep 27, 2018, 7:22 PM

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Don't use 5+ year old tools

stuck oyster Sep 27, 2018, 7:22 PM

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uuuh ok so lets begin from the start 😄

bold flare Sep 27, 2018, 7:22 PM

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11 years old.. wow

median bough Sep 27, 2018, 7:22 PM

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😄

stuck oyster Sep 27, 2018, 7:22 PM

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https://pmc.editing.wiki/doku.php?id=arma3:tools

spiral solstice Sep 27, 2018, 7:23 PM

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hot daaaaaaaaamn lol

median bough Sep 27, 2018, 7:23 PM

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ignore the mentioning of "addon builder"

spiral solstice Sep 27, 2018, 7:24 PM

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that clears things up lol, i don't how how it worked with that method o__o

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at least I'm up to date now, thanks for guiding me correctly!

bold flare Sep 27, 2018, 7:25 PM

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I personally just use Mikeros makePbo for my testing. No binarization. no error checking. But it works for me and has very fast turnaround. Release builds of course use armake

spiral solstice Sep 27, 2018, 7:25 PM

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Do you have the link to those? I don't want to download outdated versions again lol

stuck oyster Sep 27, 2018, 7:26 PM

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the link above has link to mikeros tools

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you can use them too for starters. PboProject is the packer that also points out most of deceivable mistakes you can make

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Armake is there as well

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PMC wiki is the most up to date written guide for many aspects of Arma modding

bold flare Sep 27, 2018, 7:28 PM

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wouldn't recommend armake for starters though. As command line stuff is often not that beginner friendly
Someone make a Armake UI 😄

spiral solstice Sep 27, 2018, 7:32 PM

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I have to learn it sooner or later. I'm going to bookmark the pmc wiki

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thanks for helping me out with this

stuck oyster Sep 27, 2018, 7:50 PM

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👌

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no problem, thats what the channel is for

spiral solstice Sep 27, 2018, 8:16 PM

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I tried packing it with Mike's PBO, but it claims that a texture is missing despite it existing in the P:/ drive. Here's a pastebin of the error: https://pastebin.com/Tt1BuecZ

median bough Sep 27, 2018, 8:19 PM

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check your texture path. iirc it should be p:\texture\folder and not \p:\texture\folder

spiral solstice Sep 27, 2018, 8:51 PM

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That's the strange part, I don't have a path nor line like that

median bough Sep 27, 2018, 9:15 PM

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should be in your model

spiral solstice Sep 27, 2018, 9:17 PM

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here's how it looks: https://vgy.me/gmUwUb.png

charred bolt Sep 27, 2018, 9:25 PM

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gecko_co.paa

median bough Sep 27, 2018, 9:26 PM

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go to Tools > Mass Texture & Material renaming...

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check your path's there

charred bolt Sep 27, 2018, 9:26 PM

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does a texture need a material to display? his is blank

median bough Sep 27, 2018, 9:28 PM

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should look smth like this:
https://i.imgur.com/LaQb67e.jpg

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@spiral solstice

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also check your OB settings
Path to textures must be P:\

spiral solstice Sep 27, 2018, 9:45 PM

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It compiled! Thank you man!

median bough Sep 27, 2018, 9:46 PM

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what was it?

spiral solstice Sep 27, 2018, 9:47 PM

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the directory via the toos--> mass texture and material renaming

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I'm writing it down in notepad

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https://vgy.me/IVujah.png

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It finally worked. phew

stuck oyster Sep 27, 2018, 9:55 PM

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Excellent!

sacred grail Sep 27, 2018, 9:55 PM

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0_0

stuck oyster Sep 27, 2018, 9:56 PM

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thats one big ass lizzard

spiral solstice Sep 27, 2018, 9:56 PM

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indeed lol

median bough Sep 27, 2018, 9:57 PM

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you had a full path (p:\path\to\texture) shown in the mass replacing tool, then just path\to\texture, right?

spiral solstice Sep 27, 2018, 9:58 PM

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@median bough Yup! :D.

median bough Sep 27, 2018, 9:58 PM

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happens 😄

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glad it worked out after all

spiral solstice Sep 27, 2018, 9:58 PM

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here's how it looks now: https://vgy.me/ZvtiRJ.png

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Thanks for helping me out. I'm going to try working on a character model next

median bough Sep 27, 2018, 9:59 PM

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red normally means "path not found"
it should be black if you have set up your working environment correctly

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but that's smth for later on

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it works, that counts

spiral solstice Sep 27, 2018, 10:01 PM

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that's the strange part, it was black when I had "\folder\texture.paa" instead of "folder\texture.paa", but it wouldn't compile in mike's pbo until I did the latter

median bough Sep 27, 2018, 10:01 PM

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have you checked your OB settings?

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Path to texture i mean

spiral solstice Sep 27, 2018, 10:02 PM

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The field is empty, do I have to set it up for each project/model?

median bough Sep 27, 2018, 10:03 PM

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iirc you set it once and be done. path to texture must be P:\

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do so, and then check again the mass replacing tool if the path now is black

spiral solstice Sep 27, 2018, 10:04 PM

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thanks again! It's working! ❤ https://vgy.me/uvhQXv.png

median bough Sep 27, 2018, 10:04 PM

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🤘

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now you are also able to show textures on the model while working on it in OB 😉

spiral solstice Sep 27, 2018, 10:05 PM

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That's so awesome!

median bough Sep 27, 2018, 10:06 PM

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in case you haven't checked it out yet, dig through the PMC wiki. one of the biggest collections of tools, tips and tuts for arma modding

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https://pmc.editing.wiki/doku.php

spiral solstice Sep 27, 2018, 10:08 PM

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I'll bookmark it and read it! Seems that it'll be helpful with modeling.

median bough Sep 27, 2018, 10:08 PM

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not just helpful, it's almost the "holy book" for modders 😄

royal prism Sep 28, 2018, 2:58 AM

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someone know how to fix this?

Key frame animation, no 'keyframe' property

its if i have a custom animation in the vehicle

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for driver & passengers

bold flare Sep 28, 2018, 12:01 PM

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Did you look at MBG Killhouses yet?

bold flare Sep 28, 2018, 12:50 PM

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https://www.google.com/search?q=MBG+Killhouses

spiral solstice Sep 28, 2018, 1:36 PM

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@royal prism I would help but I don't know how to do it since I never touched it before. It's easier to get others to help if you provide screenshots and more info. I personally use Sharex to screencap my stuff: https://getsharex.com/downloads/ https://store.steampowered.com/app/400040/ShareX/

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Does anyone have an ARMA 3 style guide and/or decompiled materials of the soldiers? I want to see how it looks before I start with a character so that they wouldn't feel too out of place.

bold flare Sep 28, 2018, 1:44 PM

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what do you mean with "style guide" or "decompiled materials" ?

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I don't think a style guide exists. Besides looking at stuff ingame and thinking yay/nay

spiral solstice Sep 28, 2018, 1:48 PM

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I guess I'll do studies of thems to see how it's like. By materials, I mean the textures(paa) and materials (rvmat) files relating to the characters: https://vgy.me/HvhlAr.png

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I looked through the samples, but I can't find the directory of the files

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Are the rvmat files just displacement or bump maps?

bold flare Sep 28, 2018, 1:52 PM

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neither

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they define which texture/vertex shader to use. And what textures to plug into the shaders input

charred bolt Sep 28, 2018, 2:02 PM

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@spiral solstice
A3 Samples: Test_Character_01
Textures and rvmats: P:\a3\characters_f\common\data\

spiral solstice Sep 28, 2018, 2:05 PM

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@bold flare I see

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@charred bolt It doesn't exist in my directory, but I wonder if it's easier to ask for a copy of "basicbody.rvmat"?

charred bolt Sep 28, 2018, 2:06 PM

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What doesn't exist?

spiral solstice Sep 28, 2018, 2:12 PM

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the a3 folder along with "basicbody.rvmat" file, I think it's because I mounted it recently

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here's how my p drive looks now: https://vgy.me/qUDpnm.png

charred bolt Sep 28, 2018, 2:13 PM

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You need to extract the game data into p:\a3.
You can do this either with BIS Arma tools (Project Drive Management ... Extract Game Data) or with Mikero's tools.

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It's a standard part of creating a modders build environment.

bold flare Sep 28, 2018, 2:14 PM

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Or with DokanPbo where you don't actually need to unpack anything 😉

charred bolt Sep 28, 2018, 2:15 PM

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Never head of dedmen's solution, but I'm sure he's right.

spiral solstice Sep 28, 2018, 2:15 PM

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Thanks! I'll try both solutions

bold flare Sep 28, 2018, 2:16 PM

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https://github.com/Dahlgren/DokanPbo 😉
Just need to get @errant knot to merge my open PR's someday so that you can use it as a fully writeable p-drive instead of readonly

charred bolt Sep 28, 2018, 2:17 PM

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You'll find basicbody.rvmat in P:\a3\characters_f\common\data\

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To expand on the explanation you got earlier - the rvmat tells the game engine what additional texture maps to apply to your lizard - you'll create a normal map (_nohq), a specular map (_smdi) and an ambient occlusion (_as)

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They all enhance the appearance under different lighting conditions.

spiral solstice Sep 28, 2018, 2:25 PM

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@charred bolt That's perfect! Do I have to bake those maps myself or is it applied to them ingame whenever they're called within the shader?

charred bolt Sep 28, 2018, 2:25 PM

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You have to bake them yes.

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Depends on the software you're using to create the textures, but something like Substance Painter can output them (with some post process tweaking).

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More info here: https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Super_shader

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A learning idea: find an A3 sample model. Open it, select the object, look at it's texture (_co) and which rvmat is associated. Open the rvmat in notepad, note which _nohq, _smdi and _as textures are used - find them and have a look.

spiral solstice Sep 28, 2018, 2:30 PM

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I'll try it out and take notes, seems pretty interesting

spiral solstice Sep 29, 2018, 7:07 AM

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I noticed that it pointed to different textures, I'll probably learn more from applying it to a project.

stuck oyster Sep 29, 2018, 3:00 PM

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supershader uses a range of textures for different shading effects

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there are numerous different shaders in Arma engine but superhader is probably the most used

spiral solstice Sep 29, 2018, 8:08 PM

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I see, I'll try to test it out on the lizard by baking those textures in blender.

solemn cedar Sep 29, 2018, 8:11 PM

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Not sure if this is the correct section for this question...?

I've made a police car mod and added an addaction for the sirens but id like to assign it to a customizable key instead of a option in the action menu. How would i go about this or could anyone here point me to the documentation ?

stuck oyster Sep 29, 2018, 8:12 PM

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no documentation for such a precise thing.

solemn cedar Sep 29, 2018, 8:12 PM

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mmm...dammit

stuck oyster Sep 29, 2018, 8:12 PM

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so you use addaction or config useraction?

solemn cedar Sep 29, 2018, 8:13 PM

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soz user action

stuck oyster Sep 29, 2018, 8:13 PM

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alright

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I recall there being something in there that affected keys

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not sure if it was for shortcuts

solemn cedar Sep 29, 2018, 8:14 PM

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hold one im checking something now... seems there is

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        class UserActions
        {

            class Siren_on
            {
                displayName="<t color='#ff0000'>Siren ON</t>";
                position="drivewheel";
                radius=1;
                condition="player IN this && (this getVariable ['shsiren',0]) == 0";
                shortcut="sitDown";
                showWindow=0;
                statement="this setVariable ['shsiren',1,true]";
                onlyForplayer=0;
            };
            class Siren_off
            {
                displayName="<t color='#ff0000'>Siren OFF</t>";
                position="drivewheel";
                radius=1;
                condition="player IN this && (this getVariable ['shsiren',0]) == 1";
                shortcut="sitDown";
                showWindow=0;
                statement="this setVariable ['shsiren',0,true]";
                onlyForplayer=0;
            };
        };```

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short cut

stuck oyster Sep 29, 2018, 8:15 PM

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if not they you might need to add a displayEventhandler and bind a keyDown to it

solemn cedar Sep 29, 2018, 8:15 PM

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ok so that does it = SHORTCUT

stuck oyster Sep 29, 2018, 8:15 PM

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yeah that was what I was thinking

solemn cedar Sep 29, 2018, 8:16 PM

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but thats half way there ....wonder if their is way to be able to customize ingame so it can be assigned to preferred key

stuck oyster Sep 29, 2018, 8:16 PM

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I would say no

solemn cedar Sep 29, 2018, 8:16 PM

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more elegant ... thought so

stuck oyster Sep 29, 2018, 8:16 PM

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unless you can use one of the customkeybinds in useraction

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or what are they called

solemn cedar Sep 29, 2018, 8:16 PM

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yeah thats it

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assign it to one of those keys so players can do with it what they want

stuck oyster Sep 29, 2018, 8:18 PM

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there is a chance that some other mod could use it but then again any key might be in use, so whatever works for you

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the sitdown isnt exactly bad key either

solemn cedar Sep 29, 2018, 8:18 PM

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not for in vehicle

stuck oyster Sep 29, 2018, 8:19 PM

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or you could make it properly interactive and have player look at the button/switch and only be able to activate it then

solemn cedar Sep 29, 2018, 8:21 PM

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thats a cool idea...like that Apache mod!
Unfortunately driving in arma in 1st person can be a bit wonky and then there is that overexposure bug where everything gets really bright in 1st person in car

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thanks for the help...sit shortcut will work fine for now

stuck oyster Sep 29, 2018, 8:21 PM

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im thinking youve done something wrong if such happens

solemn cedar Sep 29, 2018, 8:21 PM

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even with vanilla

stuck oyster Sep 29, 2018, 8:22 PM

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never seen such

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not sure what you mean

solemn cedar Sep 29, 2018, 8:22 PM

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very weird issue...could be graphics setting maby, ill get some guys from my community to try and replicate

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il show you

stuck oyster Sep 29, 2018, 8:22 PM

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take a video too

solemn cedar Sep 29, 2018, 8:27 PM

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ok wait seem like vanilla is fine but mod not so much

Vanilla..Fine -- https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/495171974075514891/495693010168971284/20180929222355_1.jpg
Mod car .. no so much -- https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/495171974075514891/495693037582811136/20180929222515_1.jpg

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but it does darken when hold right mouse

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might have to look to see if tint is messing with it

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Modde car tint --- https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/495171974075514891/495693504698122240/20180929222804_1.jpg

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mmm ... might have to remove the tint
Well that future me's problem, for fuck'it.
Thanks for the advice

spiral solstice Sep 29, 2018, 8:51 PM

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Are arma 3's character skeletons in a T-Pose or A pose?

stuck oyster Sep 29, 2018, 9:05 PM

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you can load up the default character into Blender form the sample models

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or check out Macsers Armarig for IK rigged armature that you can plug your model into

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for nice weighting testing

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@solemn cedar your interior is too dark

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its the HDRI compesating for that

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nothing irl is that black

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hmm also the tint may have something to do with it

solemn cedar Sep 29, 2018, 9:29 PM

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@stuck oyster thanks

hollow fulcrum Sep 29, 2018, 9:56 PM

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@spiral solstice T

stuck oyster Sep 29, 2018, 10:12 PM

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📎 unknown.png

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isnt this more an A stance?

spiral solstice Sep 30, 2018, 5:00 AM

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Added those maps to the lizard: https://vgy.me/OAqtDd.png

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Is there a way of implementing bump mapping? I want apply the details of high poly models onto low poly ones

quaint mason Sep 30, 2018, 5:08 AM

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Yes, but it's called a normal map. Substance Painter is an example of a program that easily enables you to bake the details from a high poly model into the normal map of a low poly model.

spiral solstice Sep 30, 2018, 5:11 AM

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That's pretty awesome! i need to figure how to utilize it in my workflow as it's going to be pretty useful

polar gyro Sep 30, 2018, 10:25 AM

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you can make normal maps with blender quite easly as well

spiral solstice Sep 30, 2018, 5:07 PM

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I like what I'm currently seeing with xnormal

polar fiber Sep 30, 2018, 8:19 PM

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My weekend's modelling project: https://i.imgur.com/2Jafpk2.png

woeful viper Sep 30, 2018, 8:31 PM

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a fancy phone holder for mil. vehicles 😛

fathom dagger Sep 30, 2018, 9:40 PM

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👀 !!!

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is that.. an buttstock for Lima model machine guns?!

quick terrace Sep 30, 2018, 9:54 PM

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it's a prosthetics

fathom dagger Sep 30, 2018, 9:55 PM

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prosthetic that hopefully will also mean a lower weight m240

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either way me like...

white jay Oct 1, 2018, 8:49 AM

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Just got back from vacation I was on for 3 weeks. The entire time I just wanted to build shit. Back at it and I'm almost done with this bastard. https://imgur.com/a/Oqjz49p

silver zenith Oct 1, 2018, 8:52 AM

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oh so I'm not the only one that gives weird names to files

white jay Oct 1, 2018, 8:53 AM

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lol the filename is the address of the building. It an irl structure.

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Although some of my "made up" buildings are usually titled "dwdwdwdwwd".

silver zenith Oct 1, 2018, 9:06 AM

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looks very nice
I sadly suppose its non enterable

white jay Oct 1, 2018, 10:20 AM

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the bottom will be.

silver zenith Oct 1, 2018, 1:45 PM

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good enough

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reminded me of this https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1099020839&searchtext=

quick terrace Oct 1, 2018, 1:49 PM

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question is, why not the entire thing?

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😄

silver zenith Oct 1, 2018, 1:51 PM

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to be honest it wouldn't be really worth the hussle, would be surely cool if he manages to avoid common bugs interiors tend to have (lighting, AI spotting, glitching tru stuff)

quaint mason Oct 2, 2018, 1:48 AM

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Is there a good list anywhere of memory points I want to have in my airplane mod? It's very tough to work off the sample models being that they're in Czech, and there must be a compiled list somewhere...?

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Thinking of stuff like get in/out positions, lights, guns, sensor ball, inventory point, ejection stuff, etc.

spiral solstice Oct 2, 2018, 4:46 AM

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I managed to skin my model, but for some weird reason it's not showing up in the object builder.

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https://vgy.me/P4ko88.png

outer condor Oct 2, 2018, 10:02 AM

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@quaint mason seen this yet? http://wiki.cup-arma3.org/index.php?title=Naming_Standards#Translation_standards

Index.php?title=Naming Standards

stuck oyster Oct 2, 2018, 10:33 AM

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@spiral solstice check your texture paths

white jay Oct 2, 2018, 12:06 PM

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hey guys just joined the discord yesterday i used to make terrains before and @stuck oyster used to help me idk if you can remember me or not my name was Frankoo so i want to start modeling better than terrain making tbh i don't want to make things from zero i just want to do simple stuff like buy it from turbosquid and importing them to arma that's all what i want to do so what is your recommendation guys should i buy a simple model and start learning how to do stuff then go for bigger and where should i start learning how to import this stuff like cars and houses etc..

stuck oyster Oct 2, 2018, 12:28 PM

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well first of all I would be very careful on what you buy on any model selling site as not all of the material is legit and you can end up buying ripped stuff and get into trouble later. BIforums have pretty much all teh basics covered regarding how to get stuff into the game. But just to clarify imo modeling means you make the models yourself, using bought models is something else.

white jay Oct 2, 2018, 12:37 PM

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okay thanks man but there isn't any like pdf tutorial that will show you everything or even something in BIfourms that will show me what i want or even pmc because tbh i don't want to get lost i just need something that i can learn from to do what i want to do

stuck oyster Oct 2, 2018, 12:41 PM

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as I said there are topics for the basics on the BI forums

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look up the modeling page in the editing section and check the pinned messages

white jay Oct 2, 2018, 4:54 PM

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okay thanks man @stuck oyster 😄

spiral solstice Oct 2, 2018, 5:16 PM

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@stuck oyster The files exists but it doesn't seem to display at all: https://vgy.me/d03ntn.png https://vgy.me/Z8soiI.png https://vgy.me/72DIQr.png

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I noticed that when I imported it as an .fbx file after exporting it from 3dsmax, that it was too big for it to be displayed on regular coordinates. I scaled it down, but it doesn't seem to do it permanently whenever I reopen it

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been following this guide: https://pmc.editing.wiki/doku.php?id=arma3:bis-example-character-model&s[]=skinning

stuck oyster Oct 2, 2018, 5:34 PM

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what does the uv layout looklike in the OB UV-editor?

spiral solstice Oct 2, 2018, 5:40 PM

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I exported my uvs from zbrush as opposed to blender like I did last time: https://vgy.me/ORn0G8.png

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i chose it because it's UVs managed to successful bake the textures of my high poly to low

white jay Oct 2, 2018, 6:31 PM

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So I've recently made a model for ARMA3 (it's a building) and need help porting it ingame. Just a link to a video series that would explain it or something would be great (I've looked it up, but the best I could find were retexturing tutorials).

stuck oyster Oct 2, 2018, 6:33 PM

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@spiral solstice looks alright. What resolution are the textures?

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@white jay look up the pinned messages on BI editting - modeling section

spiral solstice Oct 2, 2018, 6:35 PM

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@stuck oyster The textures are 1024x1024

stuck oyster Oct 2, 2018, 6:35 PM

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should work

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are they on your P: drive?

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and did you have P:\ in your OB settings for the texture path?

white jay Oct 2, 2018, 6:37 PM

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Seems to be of some help, thanks.

stuck oyster Oct 2, 2018, 6:38 PM

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El Tyranos should have his tutorial series pinned on top I recall

white jay Oct 2, 2018, 6:39 PM

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On top of what?

stuck oyster Oct 2, 2018, 6:39 PM

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top of the post list

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on the forums

white jay Oct 2, 2018, 6:41 PM

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Oh, ok, thanks

spiral solstice Oct 2, 2018, 6:46 PM

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@stuck oyster I have both, it's a weird issue: https://vgy.me/uqTWig.png

stuck oyster Oct 2, 2018, 6:47 PM

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📎 unknown.png

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@spiral solstice you have none of these checked yes?

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and the problem was buldozer not showing textures yes? 😄

spiral solstice Oct 2, 2018, 6:54 PM

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oh! the issue was that bulldozer wasn't showing the model at all for some weird reason: this issue is weird lol: https://vgy.me/jxlepp.png

stuck oyster Oct 2, 2018, 6:54 PM

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alright all that looks to be in order too

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mm select the whole model and hit W 2 times

spiral solstice Oct 2, 2018, 7:01 PM

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I still get this unfortunately: https://vgy.me/hBqN8O.png

stuck oyster Oct 2, 2018, 7:06 PM

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if you create a cube in there in OB does that show up

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or if you remove the textures does it show up?

spiral solstice Oct 2, 2018, 7:15 PM

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still doesn't show up when I insert the cube or when I remove textures: https://vgy.me/RgEuSz.png https://vgy.me/LDLcDY.png

stuck oyster Oct 2, 2018, 7:17 PM

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if the cube does not show up at all then thats very odd

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startup another OB and make a cube and see if that shows

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just to make sure it works

spiral solstice Oct 2, 2018, 7:20 PM

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yup, it works in another ob: https://vgy.me/Da6Wlb.png

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Does OB have issues with importing fbx files?

stuck oyster Oct 2, 2018, 7:23 PM

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dont really know, I dont use fbx as import format myself.

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oh is the mesh triangulated?

spiral solstice Oct 2, 2018, 7:30 PM

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yup, but I'll try to re-export it again

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https://vgy.me/rYb7OX.png

stuck oyster Oct 2, 2018, 7:34 PM

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id you apply your _CO texture and rvmat to the cube that shows do they work

quaint mason Oct 2, 2018, 7:35 PM

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Would anyone be able to shed some light on these three memory points:

kulomet = machine gun                // in the position of the front of the gun pod
usti hlavne = muzzle pos            // also in the position of the front of the gun pod "must be in sync with weapon effects"```

My aircraft has two machine guns in the wings and I'm unsure how to apply the points

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Not sure how they all relate or what exactly they all do

stuck oyster Oct 2, 2018, 7:36 PM

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pos is the starting point and end is the spot where the bullet comes out

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together they make the direction vector of the weapon

quaint mason Oct 2, 2018, 7:37 PM

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How do I handle having two guns?

stuck oyster Oct 2, 2018, 7:38 PM

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check you how Cheetah turret config is for example

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the twin barrel thing is a bit flaky in Arma

quaint mason Oct 2, 2018, 7:39 PM

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I can open the Cheetah in OB?

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I thought all that was binarized

stuck oyster Oct 2, 2018, 7:41 PM

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no but you can check the config for what points the turret uses

quaint mason Oct 2, 2018, 7:42 PM

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aha! smart. it turns out it seems very simple:

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                    "usti hlavne 2"```

stuck oyster Oct 2, 2018, 7:44 PM

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yes that bit exactly

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so that will make the fired bullets alternate between those 2 points

quaint mason Oct 2, 2018, 7:45 PM

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do I even need kulomet? cheetah doesn't mention it in it's config.cpp

stuck oyster Oct 2, 2018, 7:46 PM

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probably not then. Its usually used for coaxial weapons

quaint mason Oct 2, 2018, 7:47 PM

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ok

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thanks!

spiral solstice Oct 2, 2018, 7:48 PM

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The model finally displays when I export it from blender -___-

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thanks for helping me out with this @stuck oyster . It didn't export my bones properly, but I'll try to figure out a workaround for it

stuck oyster Oct 2, 2018, 8:02 PM

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@spiral solstice you dont need the actual bones exported, only the weighted selections on the mesh

spiral solstice Oct 2, 2018, 8:08 PM

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i need to figure out how to do that, I got the skin

spiral solstice Oct 2, 2018, 8:28 PM

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what version of fbx does arma use? I'm assuming that it's 2014/2015

bleak flame Oct 2, 2018, 8:36 PM

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when I was still using objectBuilder I had the most success with 2006.11

bold flare Oct 2, 2018, 8:36 PM

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Arma doesn't use FBX at all.
But the newest FBX version that object builder can import is 2014/2015

spiral solstice Oct 2, 2018, 8:41 PM

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I see, I'll try to export it in 2006 and 2014/15 respective

spiral solstice Oct 2, 2018, 10:09 PM

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how would you export a skeleton? I noticed it in the sample/template

stuck oyster Oct 2, 2018, 10:10 PM

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you dont need to export it

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just the animations

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the bone positions etc get saved in the .rtm

woeful viper Oct 2, 2018, 11:18 PM

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you need to export the weighted model, weighted to the bones (with skin modifier if you use max, something equivalent for any other tool)

stuck oyster Oct 2, 2018, 11:23 PM

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weighted vertex groups from Blender transfer over nicely with the FHQ Blender toolbox p3d Export

flat flare Oct 2, 2018, 11:30 PM

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Do you guys think it would be possible to put air suspension on a car in arma?

woeful viper Oct 2, 2018, 11:31 PM

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no

flat flare Oct 2, 2018, 11:31 PM

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damn :////

spiral solstice Oct 3, 2018, 2:51 AM

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@stuck oyster I should try out blender, the 3dsmax workflow isn't working consistently for me lol

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It's not really the fault of the software. It worked at some point in the past, it's just that the newer upgrades didn't account for can occur previously

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@woeful viper I exported the model with the skin modifier, but it's entirely blank for some weird reason in bulldozer. Unless if Im doing it wrong.

woeful viper Oct 3, 2018, 2:56 AM

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99.9% chance you are doing something wrong

late raft Oct 3, 2018, 2:57 AM

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Inverse faces?

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reversed

spiral solstice Oct 3, 2018, 2:59 AM

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I'll try again

late raft Oct 3, 2018, 2:59 AM

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what do you mean by blank

stuck oyster Oct 3, 2018, 3:02 AM

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nothing loads

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not even another OB created mesh

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@spiral solstice did you try your texture/material on the OB created cube

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also your diffuse texture does not have the _CO.paa suffix

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and did you have the suffixes on the original files before you converted them to .paa?

spiral solstice Oct 3, 2018, 3:04 AM

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I didn't, I guess I'll try to reconvert them by using texview

stuck oyster Oct 3, 2018, 3:06 AM

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ImageToPaa can batch convert them

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or you mean back to the originals?

spiral solstice Oct 3, 2018, 3:08 AM

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i used the batch converter, but I'm going to do it one by one with TexView like I did with the lizard model

stuck oyster Oct 3, 2018, 3:13 AM

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alright. worth a shot

spiral solstice Oct 3, 2018, 3:14 AM

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by the way, what settings should I tick for an FBX model? I had all of them ticked before, but I'm going to see how it works with just the skinning and mesh: https://vgy.me/hR6pvE.png

stuck oyster Oct 3, 2018, 3:15 AM

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mesh uv and skinning

spiral solstice Oct 3, 2018, 3:16 AM

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hot damn, it worked lol

stuck oyster Oct 3, 2018, 3:16 AM

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though its been a long time since I used fbx import

spiral solstice Oct 3, 2018, 3:16 AM

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im hitting my head against the wall now

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it was something that minor after all

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thanks for helping me out @stuck oyster !

stuck oyster Oct 3, 2018, 3:17 AM

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👌 np

spiral solstice Oct 3, 2018, 3:18 AM

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I think it was blank because I had "Animation" ticked

stuck oyster Oct 3, 2018, 3:18 AM

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possibly

spiral solstice Oct 3, 2018, 3:25 AM

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I tried to export it with Mikero's pboProjects t claims that my texture files are missing despite them being in my folder, I have a feeling that it's another small thing that I'm missing

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here's how it looks: https://vgy.me/uLIWLO.png

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I think it's because of the '' in "\sample_character\textures\model.p3d"

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" \ "

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It finally packed when I addded a preceding " \ " to the textures that I've imported in face properties

stuck oyster Oct 3, 2018, 3:37 AM

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it should not need those but could be some sort of windows admin/user program startup and visbility problem

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meaning the programs (P: drive, OB, Packers)cant properly see and access what each other do

spiral solstice Oct 3, 2018, 3:45 AM

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You're right about it, it successfully exported when I ran it as an admin

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I'm going to test to see if it works

stuck oyster Oct 3, 2018, 3:50 AM

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it is preferred that all the tools run normally without admin mode, but if admin mode is needed for something like TerrainBuilders XP compatiblity mode you will need to run P:drive and the OB and TB as admin

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for example I think running OB or TB from the Steam ArmaTools. may cause user rights errors

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and the armatools launcher should be avoided as much as possible

spiral solstice Oct 3, 2018, 3:57 AM

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I've been luckily opening it from it's own exe

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The model managed to be inserted, but it doesn't seem to display: https://vgy.me/7h4Gd3.png I'll see if deleting the head proxy could work

white jay Oct 3, 2018, 3:47 PM

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Hey, yesterday I asked for help porting a model from blender into ARMA

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I was told to see the tutorial in the forums

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I have an issue though: in order to have multiple UVs, my object is actually divided into 3 objects, and when I put it into Object Viewer, it opens only one (with the LODs already done). The 3 objects are meant to always be together.

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If anyone could help on how to bring a building of 3 objects from blender into ObjectBuilder it'd be great

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(after watching the tutorial, while going through with it)

stuck oyster Oct 3, 2018, 4:02 PM

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with multiple UVs do you mean multiple textues

white jay Oct 3, 2018, 4:03 PM

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It's a building, but one of the details on the door and all the glass panes (all in one) are a different object in the same scene in blender

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Each object has an UV map

stuck oyster Oct 3, 2018, 4:03 PM

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yes and then they will use separate material/texture

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it does not matter if they use same uv space

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as the texture will be different

white jay Oct 3, 2018, 4:03 PM

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Yeah, my issue is how do I export them from Blender to ObjectBuilder? It only reads the first in the list

stuck oyster Oct 3, 2018, 4:04 PM

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you using armaToolbox and export as p3d?

white jay Oct 3, 2018, 4:04 PM

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Yes

stuck oyster Oct 3, 2018, 4:04 PM

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then you assign each material and Arma material and join the objects as 1

white jay Oct 3, 2018, 4:05 PM

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Will each piece mantain their assigned UV and texture?

stuck oyster Oct 3, 2018, 4:05 PM

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📎 unknown.png

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they will maintain the uv yes

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and the texture and rvmat you assign for each blender material here

white jay Oct 3, 2018, 4:05 PM

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Ok, thanks

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I'll try it

white jay Oct 3, 2018, 4:21 PM

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Managed to... but this happens

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nvm can't send pic

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It's essentially purple and green (aka I don't think it's able to read the texture or find them???)

stuck oyster Oct 3, 2018, 4:24 PM

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give me an example of your texture path?

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in OB tools menu theres mass material and texture rename tool

white jay Oct 3, 2018, 4:25 PM

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Should it be all the way or just the paste?

stuck oyster Oct 3, 2018, 4:25 PM

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if a path in it is red its not correct

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a whole path you have used

white jay Oct 3, 2018, 4:25 PM

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church\aquila.rvmat

stuck oyster Oct 3, 2018, 4:25 PM

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should work

white jay Oct 3, 2018, 4:25 PM

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(followed the video)

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Does it need to be in another drive?

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I'm guessing that's why doesn't work

stuck oyster Oct 3, 2018, 4:26 PM

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though it would be adviseable to use proper prefix so your stuff does not get mixed up with other people

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in everything Arma asset related should be P: drive

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not the source files but all the .paa .rvmat .p3d etc etc

white jay Oct 3, 2018, 4:28 PM

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Does ARMA need to read from "p" drive when ingame? Just asking because otherwise I could just ignore the fact I don't see the textures now and hopefully it'll work ingame with just the path I sent?

stuck oyster Oct 3, 2018, 4:30 PM

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no

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P:\ is not read in game

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its a virtual root that simulates the root of the game engines structure

white jay Oct 3, 2018, 4:31 PM

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My apologies, didn't phrase it correctly. I meant if I kept the path I made and don't see it now because I'm not using p drive, does it still work either way?

stuck oyster Oct 3, 2018, 4:31 PM

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so all paths are \something\other\file.paa or folder\thiny.p3d etc

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no

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why are you not using P drive

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you need P drive to properly do anything

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except if you are very very wizardy person and know how to work without it

white jay Oct 3, 2018, 4:32 PM

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Ok, thanks XD

stuck oyster Oct 3, 2018, 4:32 PM

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so

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https://pmc.editing.wiki/doku.php?id=arma3:tools

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back to basics..

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@white jay seriously though why dont you have P drive? You are not the first to not have it in a relatively short time and Im very curious whats up with that?

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because its a very very bad trend

white jay Oct 3, 2018, 4:38 PM

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Well I started by learning how to Blender and how to Substance Painter

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After knowing that for ARMA3 you can do it in Blender

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And sorta only got the rest after those two steps

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Didn't even know it existed before the video you told me to see

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Thanks though, I'll get P Drive

stuck oyster Oct 3, 2018, 4:39 PM

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that explains it

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I was a bit worried that there are more crap insturctions floating around that are totally wrong

white jay Oct 3, 2018, 4:40 PM

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XD

spiral solstice Oct 3, 2018, 5:58 PM

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@white jay You probably already know this, but be sure to activate the P drive by going to arma tools and clicking "mount the project drive"

white jay Oct 3, 2018, 6:06 PM

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Yeah, but thanks anyway

quaint mason Oct 3, 2018, 9:59 PM

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Do the ViewPilot and ViewGunner meshes need the same penetration materials as the 1.000 visual mesh?

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hmmm nevermind I realized where I'm going wrong... 😛

polar fiber Oct 3, 2018, 10:04 PM

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penetration materials go in the geometry or firegeometry (if it needs to be more complex than the geometry), not visual LODs

quaint mason Oct 3, 2018, 11:45 PM

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What LODs for a plane would I want to have the pilot, gunner, and pylonweapon proxies in?

polar fiber Oct 4, 2018, 12:23 AM

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Visual ones (inc. interior View LODs) and Fire Geometry

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pylon proxies in normal Geometry too

quaint mason Oct 4, 2018, 12:36 AM

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Shadow?

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does that count as visual

polar fiber Oct 4, 2018, 12:37 AM

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nah, not needed in there

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it'll show the shadows of the proxy objects anyway

quaint mason Oct 4, 2018, 12:38 AM

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oh cool, thankya

quick terrace Oct 4, 2018, 12:38 AM

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which is fucking retarded from a consistency pov

quaint mason Oct 4, 2018, 12:39 AM

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the entirety of the arma modding process feels like one poorly thought out feature grafted on top of older ones, with no consistency or logical process to any of it 😛

quick terrace Oct 4, 2018, 12:40 AM

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it is systems added on top of older ones indeed

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but one should either add the damn proxies all over the place, or in a single place

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it's neither

rough pivot Oct 4, 2018, 12:40 AM

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Any good vehicle tutorials for arma out there?

quick terrace Oct 4, 2018, 12:40 AM

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define vehicle tutorial

rough pivot Oct 4, 2018, 12:41 AM

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Like object builder

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For vehicles

warm bear Oct 4, 2018, 12:41 AM

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I thought about importing some trees to arma 3... and then i realized how overcomplicated it is

quaint mason Oct 4, 2018, 12:41 AM

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I found these very helpful for understanding the process even though I wound up doing it very differently

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03xvuAWFcvw&t=2473s

rough pivot Oct 4, 2018, 12:41 AM

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Thanks jester

quaint mason Oct 4, 2018, 12:41 AM

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arma modding is not for the faint of heart

quick terrace Oct 4, 2018, 12:42 AM

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https://forums.bohemia.net/forums/topic/207631-from-blender-to-arma-3-complete-process-tutorial/

Bohemia Interactive Forums

From Blender to ArmA 3 - Complete process tutorial

Hello,

 



As I had many requests, I did this all-in-one tutorial I am sharing today. I hope it will be helpful to you.



All important stages are...

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@vernal lynx tuts are nice indeedly

vernal lynx Oct 4, 2018, 12:44 AM

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🙏 😳

quick terrace Oct 4, 2018, 12:50 AM

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🙃

crude grail Oct 4, 2018, 12:56 AM

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Random model question . For the MV-22 IRL the Nacelle rotate around 100-110 degs . Would this be possible in arma and would it even effect the flight model ?

quick terrace Oct 4, 2018, 12:59 AM

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possible, sure, flight model is a bit of an overstatement when it comes to arma 😃

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it should work like vanilla vtol stuff basically

crude grail Oct 4, 2018, 1:09 AM

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I have a buddy that’s a MV-22 pilot , we were talking for a few hours about how it flys , and how the nacelle setting and pitch/power work . Basically the arma 2 one would need to be able to rotate back 10-20 degs from 90 degs . Would the the orientation of the nacelles actually effect anything or would it be an ie - 20 degs and pitch down would act as a speed break or would it have to a config per setting ?

woeful viper Oct 4, 2018, 1:54 AM

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wow... my last PC still had solidworks (cad tool) on it. Clicked deinstall 3 hours ago. It's at 78% progress on the deinstall... and it's just 3GB. If that isn't a giant middle finger of the developer company i dont know what is...

quaint mason Oct 4, 2018, 2:01 AM

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Is there a vertice limit in the ShadowLOD?

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I accidentally tried to pack a .pbo with 32k in the shadowLOD which obviously gave an error and didn't work, but when reduced to 12k it shows no error but I still see no shadows

woeful viper Oct 4, 2018, 2:13 AM

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is the shadow LOD validated?

quaint mason Oct 4, 2018, 2:15 AM

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hmm even at 6500k nothing shows

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what do you mean by validated

charred bolt Oct 4, 2018, 2:31 AM

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Shadow LOD objects need to be closed, triangulated and sharp.
Object Builder > Structure > Topology > Find Non Closed
Object Builder > Structure > Triangulate
Object Builder > Surfaces > Sharp Edge

woeful viper Oct 4, 2018, 2:35 AM

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82% deinstalled...

quaint mason Oct 4, 2018, 2:37 AM

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Hm I thought I had done all of that... I'll check again

woeful viper Oct 4, 2018, 2:48 AM

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make sure your shadowlod doesnt have the lodnoshadow=1 property 😃

quaint mason Oct 4, 2018, 2:59 AM

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Still no shadows after ensuring no open mesh, triangulating and sharpening all the edges. Also does not have the lodnoshadow=1 property 😉

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The pylon weapon proxies do show their shadows

rough pivot Oct 4, 2018, 3:43 AM

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okay, so how does one make lods in blender? the tutorial doesnt cover that.

quaint mason Oct 4, 2018, 3:46 AM

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If you've got the Arma Toolbox for Blender, you create the mesh as required for the LOD and then under the 3D view properties (press N), scroll down, and you'll have the option to tick and configure the "Arma Object" box

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It is set per Blender object.

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For example, make the shadow LOD (why don't mine work ree) and tick "Shadow Volume" in the Arma Toolbox setting. Make the geometry LOD and tick the "Geometry" option. etc.

rough pivot Oct 4, 2018, 3:54 AM

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alright, many thanks

quaint mason Oct 4, 2018, 4:14 AM

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Hmm maybe my problem is texture links to the Shadow LOD

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nope. damn

woeful viper Oct 4, 2018, 9:09 AM

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93% deinstall... they are just taking the piss, aren't they? it's 8h+ hours now this took

polar gyro Oct 4, 2018, 1:49 PM

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Hey guys i'm having a bit of a problem here... I want to open up through Blender a sample uniform/vest and I don't really know how to do it. I've mounted the P drive and installed all the game files. what should I do next? (I got the arma tools plug-in for blender)

royal prism Oct 4, 2018, 3:35 PM

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what exactly i have todo to disable passangers in vehicles`?

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just transportSoldier = 0 ?

stuck oyster Oct 4, 2018, 3:47 PM

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@quaint mason its like 1-2k for shadowlod

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or you can use sbsource = visualex

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it will project the shadow from the visual mesh

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although it will not be as sharp edged

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and its used in geometry lod namep properties

woeful viper Oct 4, 2018, 3:53 PM

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visualex looks crap because it causes visual artifacts on the model. Unacceptable imo...

quaint mason Oct 4, 2018, 6:03 PM

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There's a limit of just 2k for shadow lods? Damn

woeful viper Oct 4, 2018, 6:04 PM

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no definitely not

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shouldnt go over board of course... 5k should be enough for 30k object

quick terrace Oct 4, 2018, 6:32 PM

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ideally it should be at most 3k-4k

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verts ^

woeful viper Oct 4, 2018, 6:34 PM

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i think firewills planes had 20k when i checked... lol
not sure if he changed it after i mentioned it to him

stuck oyster Oct 4, 2018, 6:42 PM

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hmm I recalled some error message from packing that 2k+ shadowlods would be disregarded or something. Might remember wrong though 😄

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then again BI models can have 15k on them

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¯_(ツ)_/¯

woeful viper Oct 4, 2018, 6:43 PM

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iirc that comes when a) unbinarized and/or b) when you have visualLOD without lodnoshadow=0

stuck oyster Oct 4, 2018, 6:43 PM

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could very well be what I remember

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go wild! xD

woeful viper Oct 4, 2018, 6:44 PM

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going mild is better though...

stuck oyster Oct 4, 2018, 6:44 PM

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xD

high stag Oct 4, 2018, 6:48 PM

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how does one disable the turret and gun damage showing up on the top left of the screen with hull, engine, and fuel?

woeful viper Oct 4, 2018, 6:51 PM

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just turret and gun, or do you want the whole thing gone?

high stag Oct 4, 2018, 6:51 PM

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just turret and gun, i still want hull, engine and fuel showing up

woeful viper Oct 4, 2018, 6:52 PM

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i'm not sure if that is possible... maybe in the depths of arma config there is a possibility

quaint mason Oct 4, 2018, 7:06 PM

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@woeful viper can you expand on this?

iirc that comes when a) unbinarized and/or b) when you have visualLOD without lodnoshadow=0

I have a visual LOD with ~32k vertices and a shadow LOD with about 6.5k. I have not set any properties, and I don't see the shadow.

woeful viper Oct 4, 2018, 7:07 PM

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https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Named_Properties#LodNoShadow

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shadowLod should obviously not have this with value 1

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if you validated your shadow lod then i actually dont know why it might not show

quaint mason Oct 4, 2018, 7:09 PM

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Is 0 default (i.e. if I haven't set anything is it treated as 0)? And does whether I binarize when packing affect shadows at all?

woeful viper Oct 4, 2018, 7:10 PM

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if you dont have anything in shadowVolume named properties that is ok

charred bolt Oct 4, 2018, 11:21 PM

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@quaint mason, if you're still having trouble with shadows, can you post a screenshot of object builder with your shadow lod in wireframe view?

woeful viper Oct 4, 2018, 11:26 PM

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24h in... the deinstallation process is at 96%

charred bolt Oct 4, 2018, 11:27 PM

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you know it will get to 99% and fail ? 😉

woeful viper Oct 4, 2018, 11:27 PM

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propably... or just take exponentially longer

quick terrace Oct 4, 2018, 11:27 PM

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what the heck you unistalling?

stuck oyster Oct 4, 2018, 11:27 PM

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cannot uninstall uninstall.exe. reinstalling

woeful viper Oct 4, 2018, 11:27 PM

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solidworks2010

charred bolt Oct 4, 2018, 11:27 PM

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abort retry cancel

woeful viper Oct 4, 2018, 11:28 PM

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its quicker to nuke the entire system and reinstall everything than uninstalling this programm...

quick terrace Oct 4, 2018, 11:29 PM

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you would have reinstalled the OS plus all fucking software like 8-12 times in 24h

woeful viper Oct 4, 2018, 11:30 PM

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maybe not 8-12 times... its still a regular HDD but still...

woeful viper Oct 5, 2018, 1:05 AM

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next time im going to deal with this fantastic uninstaller im going to add some watt-o-meter and send the power bill to the company

quaint mason Oct 5, 2018, 1:31 AM

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@charred bolt https://imgur.com/a/OpCQix5

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thanks for helping!

charred bolt Oct 5, 2018, 1:36 AM

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@quaint mason Try naming it ShadowVolume 0.000

quaint mason Oct 5, 2018, 1:37 AM

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hmm interesting... this is just how it came out of the Arma Toolbox for Blender. I'll try that

charred bolt Oct 5, 2018, 1:39 AM

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Not related to why it doesn't show a shadow, but you don't have any selection names in there, so things like retracting gear won't have moving shadows.

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Double check - you only have 1 Shadow LOD?

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@quaint mason Another thing - number of sections should be 1 in Shadow LOD. Select all the objects and remove textures and materials.

quaint mason Oct 5, 2018, 1:47 AM

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I do have selection names, they're just on the other screen

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What do you mean by number of sections?

charred bolt Oct 5, 2018, 1:48 AM

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At the bottom it says "Sections: 774". This is the number of combinations of texture and material.

quaint mason Oct 5, 2018, 1:49 AM

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Aha, OK. So what I'm trying out now is 1) removing all mat & tex links and 2) renaming the lod to "ShadowVolume 0.000"

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let's see

charred bolt Oct 5, 2018, 1:51 AM

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Yes. To remove textures and materials, Ctrl A to select all, then E to bring up face properties. Make the texture and material boxes blank and OK.

charred bolt Oct 5, 2018, 2:35 AM

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@quaint mason did it work?

quaint mason Oct 5, 2018, 2:38 AM

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Playing around with it. My shadows in Bulldozer are really weird and form triangular shapes that show through the entire model. I'm loading Arma now to see if it persists in-game.

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But, there are shadows in Bulldozer

charred bolt Oct 5, 2018, 2:38 AM

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It sounds like your shadows are not closed.

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Or possibly you have named selections involved in model.cfg animations with incorrectly set-up bones.

quaint mason Oct 5, 2018, 2:41 AM

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Structure > Topology > Find Non-Closed shows nothing

charred bolt Oct 5, 2018, 2:41 AM

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You didn't confirm whether you only had 1 shadow lod?

quaint mason Oct 5, 2018, 2:42 AM

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oh yes, just ShadowVolume 0.000 and ShadowVolume - ViewCargo

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I was planning on adding more once I got the first set working

charred bolt Oct 5, 2018, 2:43 AM

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ok. As a test, after making a copy, remove all named selections from the shadow lod, to ensure they're not being used/broken in animations.

quaint mason Oct 5, 2018, 2:43 AM

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hmm ok good idea

charred bolt Oct 5, 2018, 2:44 AM

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So have you seen a difference by naming it ShadowVolume 0.000 and removing the textures/materials?

quaint mason Oct 5, 2018, 2:45 AM

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Yes, it showed the shadows as long triangles all over the mesh

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They weren't showing at all before, and now they are, but oddly

charred bolt Oct 5, 2018, 2:46 AM

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Ok, it's a step forward. If you are seeing dark triangles on your model, that's possibly because the shadow lod is not smaller than the visible LOD

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The shadow LOD needs to be completely contained inside and not poke through.

quaint mason Oct 5, 2018, 2:46 AM

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I'll take a screenshot once pboProject finishes (it's taking forever) but this looks different from when the shadow lod and res lod are the same size

charred bolt Oct 5, 2018, 2:47 AM

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It's good that you're using pboProject. You can check the binlog to see if there are any bone skeleton errors.

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I can stay for a few more minutes only.

quaint mason Oct 5, 2018, 2:55 AM

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ah well. pboProject has been running this for ten minutes now :/

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OK @charred bolt you've probably had to go but for the record, the shadows are displaying now in-game, and almost correctly: https://imgur.com/a/VUNIUfW

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Those weird things move with the camera, I actually wonder if they're not shadows

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although they also show on the ground... it's a bad trip basically

quaint mason Oct 5, 2018, 3:33 AM

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PboProject is taking 18 minutes to pack this thing and making a 1.6 GB bin log

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I get a million of this error: 20:13:06: Error: super_tucano\super_tucano.p3d: Shadow polygon doesn't have 3 vertices - it has not been considered.

And it ends with this error: 20:16:09: Too detailed shadow lod in super_tucano\super_tucano.p3d (3:4.000000 : 2199) - shadows disabled

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ahaaaa... a tiny piece of the ViewCargo shadow lod wasn't closed... let's fix that and see if that solves it

quaint mason Oct 5, 2018, 4:01 AM

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It's all fixed! 😄 thank you tons @charred bolt

https://imgur.com/a/EIV9q1T

silver zenith Oct 5, 2018, 8:49 AM

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ahw
I expected a giant tucan

ember heart Oct 5, 2018, 8:56 AM

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@quaint mason very nice!

quick terrace Oct 5, 2018, 8:58 AM

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indeed very nice, your model? @quaint mason

charred bolt Oct 5, 2018, 2:26 PM

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If I have a model with 4 visual LOD's and inside the model I call a proxy object that has 5 visual LOD's, how does the dynamic LOD switching work?
Does it go Main 1/Proxy 1 ---> Main 2/Proxy 2 ---> Main 3/Proxy 3 ---> Main 4/Proxy 4 ---> Main 4/Proxy 5 ?
Or is the Proxy LOD switched independently?

quick terrace Oct 5, 2018, 2:34 PM

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together

charred bolt Oct 5, 2018, 2:35 PM

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So do I end up with Main 4/Proxy 5?

woeful viper Oct 5, 2018, 2:36 PM

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you sure pufu? i got the impression the switching is independant - i think i noticed it on a vehicle where only a small piece was proxy and that was switching rapidly to lower LOD, while the large object stayed the same. But by memory is clouded, was a long time ago

quick terrace Oct 5, 2018, 4:05 PM

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if say weapon model has 6 lods (my case) and the suppressor has 3 (lowest lod in or around 400verts), it will change together as far i can remember, can keep lowest while changing the one that still has lower lods

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at least that is how i remember anyways

woeful viper Oct 5, 2018, 4:13 PM

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lod switching is model size dependant, but that may not be linear. So it might be equal on a weapon size level, but on larger stuff (say a chair proxy inside a building) there could be more pronounced differences and non-simultaneous switching. It would make sense at least

rough idol Oct 5, 2018, 4:30 PM

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If I remember correctly it was working differently for weapons & for objects/vehicles

charred bolt Oct 5, 2018, 4:41 PM

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Thanks all. I'm working with vehicles at present. Looks like I'll need to test it to find out.

woeful viper Oct 5, 2018, 5:46 PM

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40h in to the deinstallation process at 97% i give up... clicking on cancel tells me "will cancel as soon as safe stopping point is reached" ... Let's see how many days that will take...

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i can literally see the software engineers behind this going like "uninstall this glorious software you want??? HAHAHA have some uninstall" https://i.imgur.com/puaqa4G.gif

quaint mason Oct 5, 2018, 5:58 PM

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Yes it's my model

fathom dagger Oct 5, 2018, 11:47 PM

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@quaint mason what is that plane anyways?

quick terrace Oct 5, 2018, 11:48 PM

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tucano

polar fiber Oct 5, 2018, 11:51 PM

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Super Tucano

quaint mason Oct 6, 2018, 12:35 AM

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Super Tucano!

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Question about it: I've got the pilot's hand animations connected to the throttle and stick, but they aren't actually on the throttle and stick. They're a little in front of them. What do?

high stag Oct 6, 2018, 12:50 AM

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1 Section without material is in shape with ST coordinates

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what does this error mean?

stuck oyster Oct 6, 2018, 12:51 AM

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I recall it having to do with non unwrapped bits on the model or something like that

high stag Oct 6, 2018, 12:51 AM

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it was in Mikeros binlog

stuck oyster Oct 6, 2018, 12:51 AM

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its not gamebreaking though

high stag Oct 6, 2018, 12:52 AM

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Yeah, I know. I just don't want errors

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makes my mod look bad

stuck oyster Oct 6, 2018, 12:52 AM

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xD

high stag Oct 6, 2018, 12:52 AM

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how would u fix this?

stuck oyster Oct 6, 2018, 12:54 AM

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if it was UV related Id check if theres anything that now unwrapped

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im not 100% sure it was that though

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pretty sure someone had explained it on the forums

high stag Oct 6, 2018, 12:59 AM

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damn ok il try to find itout

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thanks for the help

polar fiber Oct 6, 2018, 1:00 AM

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might mean you have textures applied to some faces in your shadow LOD or Geometry or something

high stag Oct 6, 2018, 1:00 AM

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hmm il check that out

stuck oyster Oct 6, 2018, 1:00 AM

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I think pboProject gives specific error on those

median bough Oct 6, 2018, 1:00 AM

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@quaint mason
i fixed such issues with slightly re-adjusting the pilot proxy possition (in all LODs tho)

quaint mason Oct 6, 2018, 1:01 AM

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how did you adjust it?

median bough Oct 6, 2018, 1:01 AM

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trial and error 😄

quaint mason Oct 6, 2018, 1:01 AM

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oh you just moved the pilot until it fit? that works I guess, but is less than ideal of a solution

stuck oyster Oct 6, 2018, 1:01 AM

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is it custom animation?`

median bough Oct 6, 2018, 1:01 AM

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moving it on the X and Y axis

quaint mason Oct 6, 2018, 1:02 AM

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the aircraft type the default animation was made for doesn't really suit my aircraft

median bough Oct 6, 2018, 1:02 AM

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but if your model/proxy starts to collide with the seat in an ugly way, you need other solutions

quaint mason Oct 6, 2018, 1:03 AM

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there's gotta be a way to just tell arma to put the hands on the right things. I'd have to remodel the whole cockpit in an unrealistic way to get it to fit the default pilot pose

median bough Oct 6, 2018, 1:03 AM

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but trying to move the proxy would be the first thing i'd try, also to fix possible line of sight issues (if you have any)

quaint mason Oct 6, 2018, 1:04 AM

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I don't

median bough Oct 6, 2018, 1:04 AM

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so i guess your proxy fit's the X axis

high stag Oct 6, 2018, 1:04 AM

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and does anyone know of a guide about named properties?

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like which ones to put on which LOD

median bough Oct 6, 2018, 1:05 AM

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try to move it on the Y axis a little. otherwise i think you have to use another anim

charred bolt Oct 6, 2018, 1:07 AM

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@quaint mason, you either use a vanilla animation and move your pilot/seat (or controls) to fit his hand positions, or you create a custom animation (.rtm). The latter is definitely the best way to go, especially when you have such a nice aircraft model.

median bough Oct 6, 2018, 1:09 AM

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It's the best, but i also think the hardest.

quaint mason Oct 6, 2018, 1:09 AM

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I'm open to it, I just haven't done any research into Arma animations yet

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All I need is for the hands to be a few inches in a different place

charred bolt Oct 6, 2018, 1:10 AM

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I guess hard is subjective. I've done so many I find it quite ok. Doing it in Object Builder too.

quaint mason Oct 6, 2018, 1:10 AM

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I was thinking about a custom get in / out animation too where the pilot climbs up on the wing and then hops in, but that's a whole 'nother can of worms isn't it 😛

charred bolt Oct 6, 2018, 1:10 AM

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Worms on top of worms.

quaint mason Oct 6, 2018, 1:11 AM

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Maybe that'll be an update in a few months...

charred bolt Oct 6, 2018, 1:11 AM

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@high stag, what type of model do you have? (vehicle, weapon, building etc)

high stag Oct 6, 2018, 1:11 AM

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Vehicle

charred bolt Oct 6, 2018, 1:11 AM

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ok, for a vehicle...

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you want lodNoShadow = 1 in all the visible lods

high stag Oct 6, 2018, 1:12 AM

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Done.

charred bolt Oct 6, 2018, 1:12 AM

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and that's it really. Nothing else is usually needed, so delete all others

high stag Oct 6, 2018, 1:13 AM

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what about bouyancy

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and class, dammage

charred bolt Oct 6, 2018, 1:13 AM

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does your vehicle float?

high stag Oct 6, 2018, 1:13 AM

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no

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but in diag exe, the game crashes

charred bolt Oct 6, 2018, 1:13 AM

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no buoyancy needed

high stag Oct 6, 2018, 1:13 AM

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whenever i go into water

charred bolt Oct 6, 2018, 1:13 AM

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dammage, no

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that's more likely to be due to a config error in the physx?

high stag Oct 6, 2018, 1:15 AM

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hmm ok il look into it

charred bolt Oct 6, 2018, 1:15 AM

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do you have a Geometry Phys LOD?

high stag Oct 6, 2018, 1:15 AM

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yes

charred bolt Oct 6, 2018, 1:15 AM

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you don't have wheels on it?

high stag Oct 6, 2018, 1:15 AM

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nope

charred bolt Oct 6, 2018, 1:15 AM

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very simple? like 10 or less components?

high stag Oct 6, 2018, 1:16 AM

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1 component

charred bolt Oct 6, 2018, 1:17 AM

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cool. What are you inheriting from? car_f?

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I suppose it might be that diag.exe doesn't like water. Have you tried the vehicle in normal game in water?

stuck oyster Oct 6, 2018, 1:19 AM

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do vanilla vehicles work right with water and diag exe

high stag Oct 6, 2018, 1:22 AM

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il check now

vernal lynx Oct 6, 2018, 1:25 PM

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@high stag
resolution LODs

LodNoShadow = 1
geomtry lod
buoyancy = 1
reversed = 1
and that's all

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source is a3 vehicles

river kite Oct 6, 2018, 2:50 PM

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any idea why my object builder dont load the smoothing groups when i import a fbx 2014/15 ?

quick terrace Oct 6, 2018, 4:42 PM

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how may uv sets does it have ?

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and try fbx 2006

river kite Oct 6, 2018, 5:39 PM

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1 UVSet for each Sections, 5 Sections

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the model was made with maya, tried already obj, 3ds and different fbx versions, when we use obj it looks fine but after restarting OB some smoothing groups got f***ed up. So i thought maybe it works after importing it in 3ds max and export it from there, but still no success ....

woeful viper Oct 6, 2018, 6:04 PM

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have you retriangulated (via \ option ) and also recalculated normals (hit F5) ? askin just in case...

polar fiber Oct 6, 2018, 6:05 PM

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Triangulate before exporting as .fbx, re-triangulate with \ after importing

river kite Oct 6, 2018, 6:12 PM

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will try this now

river kite Oct 6, 2018, 7:03 PM

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still no succes yet, after unchecking lock normals on export my mate has to smooth everything again in maya. We saw this by your post on this thread https://forums.bohemia.net/forums/topic/210102-import-smoothing-group-error/ @polar fiber

polar fiber Oct 6, 2018, 7:05 PM

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Wait, are you going object builder to maya, or maya to object builder?

river kite Oct 6, 2018, 7:06 PM

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maya to OB

polar fiber Oct 6, 2018, 7:11 PM

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Right, well for me using Maya: Select each object in turn and Mesh>>Triangulate (just need to do it once then tap G to repeat as you select each object), select the mesh File>>>Export Selection and use .fbx 2014.

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that works for me 100% of the time

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if it's still not working, I suspect one or more of your objects has extra UV sets

river kite Oct 6, 2018, 7:15 PM

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hm k will look

quaint mason Oct 6, 2018, 8:43 PM

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Question: I'm making a custom animation for my crew. However, they sit on the fighter_03 ejection seat (linked via proxy). How can I visualize the seat in order to make my animation, since I can't import the seat to Blender? The test_plane seat is scaled incorrectly, and I don't know that it's the same angle/shape anyway.

stuck oyster Oct 6, 2018, 8:44 PM

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why cant you import your seat into blender?

quaint mason Oct 6, 2018, 8:44 PM

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It's not my seat, it's the fighter_03 seat

stuck oyster Oct 6, 2018, 8:44 PM

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aaa

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mm well you could build like crude mocup over it in OB

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and use that

quaint mason Oct 6, 2018, 8:45 PM

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How can I see the seat in OB?

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(it's binarized)

stuck oyster Oct 6, 2018, 8:46 PM

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OB view - show Proxy

quaint mason Oct 6, 2018, 8:47 PM

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hm that doesn't do anything

median bough Oct 6, 2018, 8:48 PM

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The seat must be a proxy first ofc

quaint mason Oct 6, 2018, 8:48 PM

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it is, and it shows in Bulldozer

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if nothing else I can screenshot bulldozer, overlay that on the ArmaRig, and pose to that. But that seems like a pretty weird workflow

stuck oyster Oct 6, 2018, 8:53 PM

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did you have the proxy selected?

quaint mason Oct 6, 2018, 8:57 PM

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yes

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and no

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same effect

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holy crap, I just noticed how much the vanilla pilot poses have them slouching to fit them in their too-small ejection seats

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the fighter_03 seat is massively under-scaled

woeful viper Oct 6, 2018, 10:26 PM

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thing is... nobody really notices ^^

quaint mason Oct 6, 2018, 11:18 PM

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Is it possible to use a proxy, but scale it? I can find A3 seats that are too small, and some that are too big, but none are right for a Martin-Baker Mk10 analogue

polar fiber Oct 6, 2018, 11:21 PM

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No. Proxies just attach the the .p3d mesh from one file in to another

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Can't manipulate them beyond that

quaint mason Oct 6, 2018, 11:23 PM

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Damn. Guess I either have to make the crew slouch a lot or make my own seat.

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I should remind myself that I've played Arma for 1900 hrs and never noticed the IND pilots slouch that much into their seats.

woeful viper Oct 6, 2018, 11:29 PM

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unless you make the things yourself you dont pay attention to such detail. Entirely normal.

charred bolt Oct 7, 2018, 12:09 AM

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Can proxies be nested? (proxy inside a proxy)

woeful viper Oct 7, 2018, 12:10 AM

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yes

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iirc

charred bolt Oct 7, 2018, 12:10 AM

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thanks - I thought so, but it's not showing up - must be something else wrong

polar fiber Oct 7, 2018, 12:10 AM

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depends on the type though AFAIK

charred bolt Oct 7, 2018, 12:10 AM

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main model is a vehicle

polar fiber Oct 7, 2018, 12:11 AM

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there are things like weapons+attachments and pylons where it works obviously

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but they have special simulation types

charred bolt Oct 7, 2018, 12:11 AM

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have a custom proxy object - trying to put a proxy a3 container in it \a3\structures_f\ind\Cargo\Cargo20_military_green_F

quaint mason Oct 7, 2018, 2:27 AM

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First go at animation for my pilots: managed to compile with pboproject with no errors, but the pilot is riding the plane in t-pose :/ better luck tomorrow hopefully

sonic valve Oct 7, 2018, 4:33 AM

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What would cause a custom jet wheel to catch the ground and flip constantly? Like should the geo be below or above the land contact?

quick terrace Oct 7, 2018, 9:34 AM

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i remember being able to config oxygen to see emissive rvmats (setting it to night or alike). anyone knows of a way to preview TI maps in buldozer as well?

polar fiber Oct 7, 2018, 10:57 AM

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@quick terrace https://forums.bohemia.net/forums/topic/197521-buldozer-nightvision-thermal/

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last time you asked

quick terrace Oct 7, 2018, 2:13 PM

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😄

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senile

minor jasper Oct 8, 2018, 2:16 PM

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does anyone know why my building model only shows shadowvolume 10 and refuses to show shadowvolume 0?

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properties are prefershadowvolume 0 sbsource shadowvolume

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lods present: shadowvolume 0 (900 faces) shadowvolume 10 (100 faces)

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i am viewing it with shadows set on very high, with 60 fps in virtual reality map

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it seems the only way i can get my SV0 to show up is if i delete SV10.

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the issue only seems to affect building models

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all vis lod faces have "enable shadow" checked

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both shadowvolumes are closed, triangulated and sharp.

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the models are quite simple, between 300 and 1200 faces in vis lod 1

rough idol Oct 8, 2018, 2:35 PM

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prefershadowvolume=

Choose which shadow casting technique will be used. 0 = Shadow Buffer; 1 = Shadow Volume
& then you have

sbsource shadowvolume

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with one property you are trying to disable shadowvolume & with another you are trying to force it

toxic apex Oct 8, 2018, 6:58 PM

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Does anyone know of a method of resetting a mainrotor animation to the 0 position? Im trying to sort out blade folding animations and i've hit a road block. Once the engine has been on the blades don't rotate back to 0 on the animation. I need a way to reset it. Any ideas?

stuck oyster Oct 8, 2018, 7:19 PM

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you could try overwriting the rotor animation source in the config and using that/ using custom rotor source

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if that would be accessible with animateSource command

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Is it for like folding rotor type thing or something else?

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could hidden fake rotors work for it?

toxic apex Oct 8, 2018, 7:29 PM

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Its for a folding rotor

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https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DpAI1ulX0AccliE.jpg:large

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I'm trying not to load the model with too many hidden bits. I was hoping there would be an easy way just to force it back to 0

woeful viper Oct 8, 2018, 7:34 PM

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make the game driven rotor child of a custom rotation bone. When you fold read what the phase of the normal rotor is, then rotate the custom bone to reset back to zero, before you start folding

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thats what i would try

toxic apex Oct 8, 2018, 7:35 PM

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Just trying animatesource first...didnt even know it existed. 😛

white jay Oct 8, 2018, 7:38 PM

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guys this is my first time modelling i have made a store from this tutorial https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNwkH2oCWV0&list=PLmcY1Krao5Wj2ScrKpQqLc6ygbPIfzUN5 its the same http://prntscr.com/l3pwxg but the guy stopped making tutorials again and now all i need is to make a door and windows to my model i know how to make a roof and a floor. and i want to know how could i make geometry and other related things like config.cpp etc. i want to get my model fully working in - game

stuck oyster Oct 8, 2018, 7:39 PM

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you can apply El Tyranos turorials for 3dmax models even though they are made in blender

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but for likebasic modeling stuff you dont need Arma tutorial

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you just need modeling tutorial

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and you dont need a tutorial on how to make a door

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you need tutrorial how to use the tools

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for modeling that is

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but for getting stuff into Arma El Tyranos tutorials are your best bet I think

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you just have to fit them into your 3dsmax use

toxic apex Oct 8, 2018, 7:44 PM

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@stuck oyster - Sadly animatesource didnt work. I'm probably going to try @woeful viper 's suggestion. Thanks guys

stuck oyster Oct 8, 2018, 7:45 PM

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yeah the engine sources dont usually respond well

white jay Oct 8, 2018, 7:45 PM

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okay i will see that thanks @stuck oyster

stuck oyster Oct 8, 2018, 7:46 PM

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@toxic apex did you try to overwrite it or use source = rotor?

white jay Oct 8, 2018, 7:46 PM

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@stuck oyster do you have a link for that guy channel

stuck oyster Oct 8, 2018, 7:46 PM

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not at hand

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google should sort you out

white jay Oct 8, 2018, 7:47 PM

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kk

stuck oyster Oct 8, 2018, 7:49 PM

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@white jay that poytebush had full series too what was the problem?

white jay Oct 8, 2018, 7:49 PM

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nvm found it

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so @stuck oyster do you recommend that i learn more about 3ds max and then apply it for my model but what about object builder does he cover everything i need to know ?

stuck oyster Oct 8, 2018, 7:51 PM

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I think you have to watch them and judge yourself

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I dont use max myself but as a basic starting tip

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you should definitely just learn how to use the program before you try to actually do something specific with it

white jay Oct 8, 2018, 7:54 PM

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oh okay np i have learned a lot from that tutorial but just a quick question so doors i make them in 3ds but windows is the same or i can apply them in object builder

toxic apex Oct 8, 2018, 7:54 PM

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@stuck oyster no i didnt...didnt realise you could

white jay Oct 8, 2018, 8:51 PM

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@stuck oyster do you mean this one ? https://www.youtube.com/user/NoFragJoueaArma3/videos

stuck oyster Oct 8, 2018, 8:54 PM

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no

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where in there does it read El Tyranos?

white jay Oct 8, 2018, 8:57 PM

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well i got it from his twitter https://twitter.com/ifa3_eltyranos?lang=en

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but i didn't find his channel

stuck oyster Oct 8, 2018, 8:58 PM

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https://forums.bohemia.net/forums/topic/207631-from-blender-to-arma-3-complete-process-tutorial/

Bohemia Interactive Forums

From Blender to ArmA 3 - Complete process tutorial

Hello,

 



As I had many requests, I did this all-in-one tutorial I am sharing today. I hope it will be helpful to you.



All important stages are...

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you need to take a class in googling.

white jay Oct 8, 2018, 8:58 PM

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ahm okay thanks @stuck oyster 😅

quick terrace Oct 8, 2018, 8:58 PM

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are you actually trying to find a tutorial of modelling directly for A3?

white jay Oct 8, 2018, 8:59 PM

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yes

quick terrace Oct 8, 2018, 8:59 PM

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i mean, besides A3, do you know how to model something like a house?

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and no offense on the guy making these tuts

white jay Oct 8, 2018, 8:59 PM

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no i just started to look at tutorials from pmc

quick terrace Oct 8, 2018, 8:59 PM

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but fuck me these sort of RP communities have the lousiest quality out there

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shitty models, textures, configs etc

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so i wouldn't follow such a tut to begin with

stuck oyster Oct 8, 2018, 9:00 PM

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you mean the other guy or El Tyranos?

quick terrace Oct 8, 2018, 9:00 PM

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other guy

stuck oyster Oct 8, 2018, 9:00 PM

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didnt watch so dont know

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but I was saying that El Tyranos methods can be used to get stuff into Arma

white jay Oct 8, 2018, 9:01 PM

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i just want to get a building in a3 fully working then i can improve my skills

stuck oyster Oct 8, 2018, 9:01 PM

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but for modeling you need to look up more generic modeling tutorials

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no

quick terrace Oct 8, 2018, 9:01 PM

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@vernal lynx is a beaute (whatever the accents are)

stuck oyster Oct 8, 2018, 9:01 PM

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you need to learn the tools first @white jay

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making something into the game is too big piece of the cake

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you need to know your tools first

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this is very very very important

white jay Oct 8, 2018, 9:02 PM

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do you mean learning more about 3ds max

stuck oyster Oct 8, 2018, 9:02 PM

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yes

quick terrace Oct 8, 2018, 9:02 PM

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a. learn to make a model of a house, software doesn't matter
b. learn how to import a model of a house that is made in A3

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it could be blender, max, maya, modo whatever

white jay Oct 8, 2018, 9:02 PM

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okay its not a problem thanks guys

stuck oyster Oct 8, 2018, 9:03 PM

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especially in this case when the Tyranos tutorial is for Blender