#arma3_tools | ARMA | Page 42

dawn palm Aug 7, 2021, 5:13 PM

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regardless, good comments.

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(and bare in mind, that i get absolutely nada$ for server a based toolset, it's free for whoever wants or can, use it)

dawn palm Aug 7, 2021, 6:00 PM

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proProject 3.05 released with individual 'warnings are errors' options.

note that these are warnings not errors. You have the option of cherry picking those you want to fix and those you want to ignore. This has nothing to do with genuine errors, My tools will never let you ignore those.

Enjoy

dawn palm Aug 8, 2021, 6:03 PM

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important fixes at depbo.dll version 8.15

sly skiff Aug 9, 2021, 3:38 AM

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first time copying diag exe to stable has failed me crycat

rancid relic Aug 9, 2021, 6:41 AM

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sly skiff first time copying diag exe to stable has failed me <:crycat:755748365639352330>

just copy dta folder from diag to a mod folder. After that, you can use that mod with stable - it should overwrite all the stuff from dta

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I've used following setup for years before I've joined Bohemia

glossy inlet Aug 9, 2021, 11:22 AM

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sly skiff first time copying diag exe to stable has failed me <:crycat:755748365639352330>

Fix for that is also in the profiling branch companion mod

sly skiff Aug 9, 2021, 3:27 PM

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rancid relic just copy dta folder from diag to a mod folder. After that, you can use that mod...

This worked great! Thanks!

sly skiff Aug 9, 2021, 3:27 PM

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glossy inlet Fix for that is also in the profiling branch companion mod

But that would mean swapping branches blobcatsweats

glossy inlet Aug 9, 2021, 3:27 PM

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no

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you can load the mod in diag binary too

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its just a workshop mod, you can load it whereever, doesn't need to be profiling

sly skiff Aug 9, 2021, 3:29 PM

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aaaaa

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Reading -1

gritty radish Aug 9, 2021, 4:20 PM

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Does anybody have a c# implementation of gamevalues and or an parser that can read a string blob?

glossy inlet Aug 9, 2021, 4:30 PM

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X39 had something, don't know if it was C++ or C#

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On his github, I think it might even be called gamevalue

nocturne basin Aug 9, 2021, 5:29 PM

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C++

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Could link it
But the functionality ain't perfectly mappable to c#
Plus a c# version of it needs different things to work in c#

karmic niche Aug 10, 2021, 12:13 AM

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So I'm slowly considering porting my CI system for Pythia from AppVeyor (using Mikero's tools) to GitHub Actions.
What do the Cool Kids use to create keys and sign PBOs, nowadays? Does hemtt handle this - especially the signing part? (never used it 😳 )
Or do people have custom scripts for that (using Mikero's tools) and there are no prebuilt Actions for signing?

scenic canopy Aug 10, 2021, 12:23 AM

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there's mikero's tools for github actions as well, https://github.com/arma-actions/mikero-tools 🙂

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HEMTT signing should work on Windows runner

scenic canopy Aug 10, 2021, 12:42 AM

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not that much sqf/addon code in pythia repo from a quick glance?

karmic niche Aug 10, 2021, 2:26 AM

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Yup, almost none. Barely enough to pass control to the C++ and then Python code. Literally one PBO

karmic niche Aug 10, 2021, 2:43 AM

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there's mikero's tools for github actions as well
I've seen that one but I was wondering if there were some more advanced actions, that do something more than just install Mikero's tools (like the workshop uploader action doesn't just install steamcmd and leaves you to it, but it actually does something more).
Otherwise, I still have my old python scripts (minus the signing part) that I can just Ctrl+C/V but wanted to know if there was an alternative to using them

scenic canopy Aug 10, 2021, 7:46 AM

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Most use the ACE template script for mikero I guess

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But looking at the amount of arma code HEMTT should be a good choice

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No p3ds etc

karmic niche Aug 10, 2021, 9:26 AM

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I'll take a look and see the effort needed, but I have a hunch that I'll just look at the ACE scripts, since I've been using Mikero's tools already and that will probably mean less work to make it work. Thanks for your responses

dawn palm Aug 10, 2021, 9:36 AM

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i don't know if true or not for hemtt, but attempts were made to binarise independently of bis binarise, and similarly dsSignfile. (Armake does, or did, this I think). If so, you'll be left playing catchup when bis, quite rightly, add extra features/fixes to either. new file formats especially. And bis are frequently (relative to other things) always fiddling with dsSignfile to improve security. For these reasons, as much as I would dearly love to replace binarise for all it's faults, I don't replace these two with something 'better'. So, caveat emptor, or, sign the pbos yourself using dsSignfile directly (which is what pboPro does anyway)

scenic canopy Aug 10, 2021, 9:43 AM

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looks like its only cpp and sqf so thankfully no need for binarize 😄

rough escarp Aug 11, 2021, 4:42 AM

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Dahlgren I've been learning lots from your code, thank you!

scenic canopy Aug 11, 2021, 9:59 AM

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rough escarp Dahlgren I've been learning lots from your code, thank you!

I am truly sorry for all my bad code 😄

rough escarp Aug 11, 2021, 10:52 AM

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It's good enough for me to read it, and I'm just a truck driver :)

glossy inlet Aug 13, 2021, 10:21 PM

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The absolute frickin comfort.
Need to edit a pbo, unpack, sort out pbo prefix, move files to correct places, edit config, repack, upload to server, oh no typo, do it again.
vs
Double click pbo, doubleclick config.cpp, opens in notepad++, make edit, save file, pbo was automatically repacked, upload to server, oh no typo, go to notepad, fix typo, save file, pbo was automatically repacked, upload to server

blobcloseenjoy

elfin oxide Aug 14, 2021, 7:45 AM

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glossy inlet The absolute frickin comfort. Need to edit a pbo, unpack, sort out pbo prefix, m...

Could you also support editing a binarized config and re-bin it afterwards? That would be very cool

dawn palm Aug 14, 2021, 9:12 AM

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extractpbo (gui) already does that as part of drag'n drop
I wrote that gui some years ago as a replacement to the then excellent and intuitive pboManager.
Unfortunately, pboManager was no longer maintained and couldn't handle prefixes 'properly' nor derap or rap configs and rvmats

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Very few people use it for reasons unknown.

glossy inlet Aug 14, 2021, 1:05 PM

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elfin oxide Could you also support editing a binarized config and re-bin it afterwards? That...

It already works via a temp file on disk.
Had the same idea this morning yeah, nothing preventing me from displaying a virtual config.cpp and un/binarizing in background

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But crashing your whole explorer if your Arma is open while you're editing a pbo is probably not that user friendly

manic hatch Aug 14, 2021, 3:28 PM

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I've update the Mikero Tools today and can't pack anything with pboProject anymore since pboProjects searches BinMake on HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/Software\BIStudio\BinMake and mine is on HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software\Bohemia Interactive\BinMake i don't have BIStudio at all on HKLM

sly skiff Aug 14, 2021, 3:29 PM

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that is of no concern

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if you cant pack, the problem is something else

dawn palm Aug 14, 2021, 3:55 PM

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the fault above is because you have not 'played' steam tools once, after they updated something. pboPro checks both registry hives btw.

unreal lichen Aug 16, 2021, 3:05 AM

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Anyone around that could assist me in debugging what I have done wrong in trying to rebuild a pbo?

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specifically, I'm attempting to revise the https://github.com/Nifnat/Overthrow mod. I've installed the mikero tools (thanks mike), and a3tools, created a P drive, and have the folder structure P:/overthrow/overthrow_main When I try to build it, I get (as the first error) rapify Version 1.85, Dll 7.97 "description.ext"
#include "\overthrow_main\mission_component.hpp"
cannot open \overthrow_main\mission_component.hpp
In File Overthrow\addons\overthrow_main\campaign\missions\OverthrowMpAltis.Altis\description.ext: circa Line 1 invalid/faulty file

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the file is there and it is readable. I'm using pboProject 2.89 with a source folder of P:\overthrow

dawn palm Aug 16, 2021, 6:22 AM

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and have the folder structure P:/overthrow/overthrow_main
cannot open \overthrow_main\mission_component.hpp

there's your answer

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except for #includes, bis have no understanding of relative addressing. everything is \hard\addressed from the begining of the (in this case) the p:\ drive.
it is so pathetic that even a p3d must know which pbo it lives in to get at it's own data\

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in your case you have (presumably) moved everything from P:\overthrow_main, to p:\overthrow\blah\blah
you have to edit all your text files to take account of that.

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for anything non-editable like p3ds you need a tool like moveOBJect.exe to make the changes for you.

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22 years later, and bis still can't achieve this simple requirement, despite all the hype & boasting about arma 1 2 and 3, their tools remain mostly unaltered from the days of xbox elite.

scenic canopy Aug 16, 2021, 7:53 AM

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unreal lichen specifically, I'm attempting to revise the https://github.com/Nifnat/Overthrow m...

Mount the addons folder as your P drive so that in the root of P is a folder named overthrow_main

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Or just move overthrown_main to root of P

unreal lichen Aug 16, 2021, 3:29 PM

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thank you @dawn palm and @scenic canopy

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yes, I agree it is ... that it cannot do something that the first C compiler did.

spring gust Aug 16, 2021, 9:34 PM

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is there a PBO opening tool for linux?

pliant lynx Aug 16, 2021, 9:41 PM

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extractpbo from Mikero should be in the linux versions by Killswitch.

scenic canopy Aug 16, 2021, 10:01 PM

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Armake, Armake 2, cpbo, extractpbo, pbo-fuse

dawn palm Aug 17, 2021, 11:03 AM

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large update to depbo and pboProject.
credits to credits to Big Grampa,Flynn,HG,J. Doberman and Z₳Ɽ₲Ɇ , and several others
enjoy

rough grove Aug 17, 2021, 9:11 PM

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@dawn palm The headers of a pbo generated with your tools aren't fully sorted, Texheaders.bin appears at the end instead of in it's proper place, and as a result the stored hash is incorrect

dawn palm Aug 18, 2021, 12:19 AM

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i thought i'd inserted it properly, will investigate. thanx for heads up.

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Ah, the free version of the tools might cause this.

dawn palm Aug 18, 2021, 5:34 AM

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new release 8.19 of dll fixes 'extractpbo' (error introduced at 8.18)

gray matrix Aug 21, 2021, 2:43 AM

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I'm getting a file not found error when using pboProject 3.03 .to crunch a new addon. This is the first time I've added a CfgFunctions class in an addon. Using the structure that I see in other addons, I heve:

class CfgPatches
{
    class BSF_Client
    {
        requiredVersion=0.1;
        requiredAddons[]={"exile_client"};
        units[]={};
        weapons[]={};
    };
};

class CfgFunctions
{
    class BSF_Client
    {
        class Bootstrap
        {
            file = "BSF_Client\bootstrap";
            class preInit
            {
                preInit = 1;
            };
            class postInit
            {
                postInit = 1;
            };
        };
    };
};

I have a fn_preInit.sqf file in the bootstrap directory. What do I need to know here?

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rapWarning: **********missing file(s)***************
P:\BSF_Community_Addon\addons\BSF_Client\config.cpp circa Line 20: BSF_Client\bootstrap

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I've tried pointing to the file explicitly but still get the missing file error.

dawn palm Aug 21, 2021, 4:47 AM

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the folder does not exist at P:\BSF_Client\bootstrap

gray matrix Aug 21, 2021, 5:33 AM

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Yeah, I was using a relative path like all of the addons that I've been looking at trying to figure out functions. An explicit path worked. Out of curiosity, when looking at an addon like Exile_Client, how would they have packed it with t a relative path?

        class Bootstrap
        {
            file = "exile_client\bootstrap";
            class preStart
            {
                preStart = 1;
            };
            class preInit
            {
                preInit = 1;
            };
            class postInit
            {
                postInit = 1;
            };
        };

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Just by placing it in the root of the P drive?

dawn palm Aug 21, 2021, 6:30 AM

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yes

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in 22 years, bis have never understood how to implement relative addressing (except for #includes). for this reason: this\thing and this\thing ALWAYS mean \this\thing.

being bis, there's always exceptions. damage rvmats must never have the preceeding slash (even tho it's NOT a relative\address) and picture=\any\thing MUST have the \

(actually the one exception was mod.cpp which allowed relative icons. But bis got rid of it because they couldn't binarise it. So we're now stuck with the stupidity of putting a cfgmods inside one, single, pbo)

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the only reason i can think of for not fixing this mess is because they would have to go back and add \ to everything they currently do, including p3d and wrp files. Wouldn't be as difficult as they imagine if their editing tools worked properly.

unreal lichen Aug 21, 2021, 7:10 AM

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binmake is a bis tool ya?

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0:07:56: Cannot read registry HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/Software\BIStudio\BinMake

dawn palm Aug 21, 2021, 8:47 AM

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If you're using pboProject, that message is irrelevant. The tool can't find how to binarise rvmats (which i don't allow it to anyway)

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The cause is because, internally, bis use the old arma2 registry hive, and had no reason to change it, nor for folks upgrading from arma2, wheras in arma3 the hive is in hkcu.

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yes, bin make is their tool, no, it's not needed. The tool hunts binmakerules.txt to find out how to binarise configs, rvmats and convert tga->paa. None of which, pboProject allows binarise to do.

blazing needle Aug 21, 2021, 1:58 PM

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is the github docs page for hemtt down?

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https://brettmayson.github.io/HEMTT

elfin oxide Aug 21, 2021, 2:00 PM

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Yes.

blazing needle Aug 21, 2021, 2:08 PM

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tragic

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@rough grove are you aware of that?

rough grove Aug 21, 2021, 4:28 PM

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I was not, I can look into later. Right now any time I have to put towards hemtt is entirely on the rewrite and it's upcoming release

gray matrix Aug 21, 2021, 7:16 PM

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glossy inlet The absolute frickin comfort. Need to edit a pbo, unpack, sort out pbo prefix, m...

What workflow is this?

glossy inlet Aug 21, 2021, 7:17 PM

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Mr Sandman, bring me a dream

gray matrix Aug 21, 2021, 7:43 PM

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Ah, yeah. That.

glossy inlet Aug 21, 2021, 7:49 PM

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Its WIP tuhl that not ready for beta test yet

unreal lichen Aug 21, 2021, 8:55 PM

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@dawn palm thanks.

unreal lichen Aug 21, 2021, 9:26 PM

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ok, the thing finally built. But, now I get: include file overthrow_main\script_component.hpp not found

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I'm pretty sure I set all my paths during build to \overthrow\overthrow_main and the script_component.hpp is in there.. Suggestions?

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Maybe I'll need to update the layout of the #includes in the overthrow_main to follow what cba does. I kind of feel the author in some places just threw things at the wall to see what sticks.

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Also, question from someone who doesn't know better.. what is the difference between Mikero tools and Hemtt ?

dawn palm Aug 22, 2021, 10:02 AM

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@unreal lichen , by default, pboProject will not include hpp files in the pbo because (ordinarily) header files are processed out of the way when binarising items like a config.cpp
use setup-> to do something about that.
you get a choice of NOT including .HPP and/or .H or neither, or both
with that rule in mind, folks use one of above for items which MUST be included (part of sqf eg)

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fyi: ace /cba exclude .H and include .HPP

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including files that the engine will never use just clogs arteries.

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PS: all credit to @vague shard & Sickboy from all those years ago who started the cba tunnel and #including files whose content was more sqf. A pity he didn't call them SQH, because that's what they were, but too late now.

twin torrent Aug 22, 2021, 8:46 PM

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Hello guys. I am trying to make a pbo out of my folder by using EliteNess and it always gives me a files missing error: cfgMagazines.hpp : \A3\Weapons_F\Data\placeholder_co.paa cfgAmmo.hpp : \A3\Weapons_f\Data\bullettracer\tracer_red config.cpp : \A3\Weapons_F\Data\UI\attachment_muzzle.paa config.cpp : \A3\Weapons_F\Rifles\MX\data\Anim\MX_gl.rtm config.cpp : A3\sounds_f\weapons\Other\dry_1 config.cpp : A3\sounds_f\weapons\closure\firemode_changer_2 config.cpp : hk416a7\object\HK416A7.p3d config.cpp : \A3\Weapons_F\Data\UI\icon_gl_CA.paa BaseColorSights.rvmat : ca\data\env_land_co.paa

missing file(s)

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I can pack my folder to a pbo with pbo manager and it all works, but here I don't understand why it's not finding the A3 folder files, when I'm running Arma it does

glossy inlet Aug 22, 2021, 8:55 PM

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Are the arma files on your pdrive?

twin torrent Aug 22, 2021, 9:09 PM

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ok nvm, I managed to do it with the addon builder

dawn palm Aug 22, 2021, 10:12 PM

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😷 trying to be nice

sly skiff Aug 23, 2021, 12:43 AM

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I just can not understand where people pick up using Eliteness as a packing tool

dawn palm Aug 23, 2021, 3:54 AM

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it's (almost) as bad as pboMangler

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In future releases, am going to scrap it

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let's wait till @twin torrent asks why his env_land_co doesn't (unless he's using cup)

twin torrent Aug 23, 2021, 11:21 AM

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nope, now it's all up running (also no env_land_co error, fixed that one before)

dawn palm Aug 23, 2021, 12:38 PM

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well sure, and that's what the error message above was trying to tell you. Stick with what you've got if you feel more comfortable,, or move up to pboProject if you want to catch things early without having to resort to load game, test, fix, load game test, fix, load game.....

twin torrent Aug 23, 2021, 12:39 PM

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Yes, I think pbo project is my future consideration, I just have to get into grips with it

vague shard Aug 24, 2021, 10:15 AM

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has there been any new code formatter/pretty print/beautifier since start of the year?
ref: #arma3_tools message

neon flax Aug 24, 2021, 10:20 AM

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no

vague shard Aug 24, 2021, 10:22 AM

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how is this one https://github.com/billw2012/vscode-formatter-sqf from billw2012 ?

GitHub

GitHub - billw2012/vscode-formatter-sqf: Visual Studio Code Formatt...

Visual Studio Code Formatter Extension for BIS SQF Format (Arma). - GitHub - billw2012/vscode-formatter-sqf: Visual Studio Code Formatter Extension for BIS SQF Format (Arma).

spring gust Aug 24, 2021, 11:08 PM

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is there an easy way to view paa's on linux?

dawn palm Aug 24, 2021, 11:25 PM

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view. no. list the contents of, yes. with depax

rough grove Aug 24, 2021, 11:49 PM

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spring gust is there an easy way to view paa's on linux?

If you use VS Code you can use the HEMTT extension, it will display the first mipmap in the paa

dawn palm Aug 24, 2021, 11:55 PM

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....which is more than good enough since each additional mipmap is just a 1./4 shrunken 'image' of the previous one

dawn palm Aug 25, 2021, 12:41 PM

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for anyone interested, there's an undocumented -$ option in depax which will create 'fred.bmp' in the folder depax.exe is called from. It's cheap and nasty and up till now, have had no-one wanting this 'feature'

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bmp is used in preference to tga because more viewers are available for it.

gray matrix Aug 25, 2021, 5:06 PM

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@dawn palm Is there a tool in your arsenal that will batch edit p3d's? I have about 100 that I have to delete all but res lod 1 and change texture/rvmat to be identical.

glossy inlet Aug 25, 2021, 5:49 PM

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O2Script can do that

gray matrix Aug 25, 2021, 5:53 PM

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Cool, another mountain to climb!

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I'll get my boots

dawn palm Aug 25, 2021, 6:52 PM

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@gray matrix moveobject/movefolder will rename textures and materials for you, but, as @glossy inlet says, O2script for the rest
(pboProject was originally written in 02script. which might give you some idea of how useful it can be)

gray matrix Aug 26, 2021, 1:20 AM

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@dawn palm What is the correct syntax for
DeP3d -DL1nn P:\p3d assuming that I have a bunch of p3d's in P:\p3d and want to delete Geometry, ShadowVolume, or Roadway? I've tried many variations and don't get any results.

dawn palm Aug 26, 2021, 7:11 AM

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hmmm......

dawn palm Aug 26, 2021, 7:50 AM

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not implemented (yet) ) i thought it was.

gray matrix Aug 26, 2021, 4:32 PM

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Well, that would explain it.

simple dirge Aug 27, 2021, 12:51 AM

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Has anyone made any tools for debugging/playing back sound sets like vehicle sounds without having to build A3?

dawn palm Aug 27, 2021, 4:01 AM

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dewss.exe

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all wss, ogg, or wav are born equal with this tool

crude goblet Aug 27, 2021, 6:12 AM

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if I'm getting this error from dewrp, is there anything I can do to fix it? Or do I just have to get the paid version of mikero's tools? ```Warning unknown mapinfotype 41
The remainder of the file has not been read

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this is with dewrp 1.71

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oh I suppose it might be worth doing to update my dll, maybe that's out of date

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actually dewrp is standalone isn't it. so yeah @dawn palm just so I don't buy something that won't work, would the subscriber version of dewrp fix that?

dawn palm Aug 27, 2021, 7:34 AM

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the warning itself, was only 'there' in earlier releases of the dll (not dewrp) before the 3, new, engine-generated map icons were understood. It causes no subsequent harm.

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as for re-subscribing, my opinion is, it would not be worth it for this reason, but always worth it for the large number of fixes and improvements to all tools, that keep coming nearly every week.

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I'm not comfortable when subscribers drop out after they've already supported me, at least once. Will see if I can lower the price enough to make it a no brainer.

sly skiff Aug 27, 2021, 1:25 PM

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crude goblet if I'm getting this error from dewrp, is there anything I can do to fix it? Or d...

What are you dewrping?

crude goblet Aug 27, 2021, 2:34 PM

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@sly skiff Rosche, Germany https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1527410521

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@dawn palm yeah, I don't do a ton of addon dev or I would be subbed, I mostly just make missions. the tools seem pretty worth it if you're making addons though

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basically, I'm not sure if dewrp is working correctly on this. what's happening is I'm running the alive indexer on the map and its missing large portions of the map (a bunch of towns are skipped entirely) which makes me think the object list dewrp is generating is not complete. but it's possible there's a bug elsewhere in the alive indexer

sly skiff Aug 27, 2021, 2:55 PM

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Could be they are marked with incompatible key point type and the indexer breaks.

crude goblet Aug 27, 2021, 2:57 PM

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I think I will first see if dewrp is outputting stuff at the missed town locations to start, just to see if the problem is with the indexer or dewrp

crude goblet Aug 27, 2021, 8:24 PM

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appears dewrp is working correctly in fact. so the problem is probably somewhere in alive. @sly skiff what does an 'incompatible key point type' mean?

sly skiff Aug 27, 2021, 8:35 PM

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I dunno, I dont know exactly how Alive does its thing

crude goblet Aug 27, 2021, 8:47 PM

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no, I mean specifically what is a key point type

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and what would make it incompatible @sly skiff

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are there docs somewhere I can read?

sly skiff Aug 27, 2021, 8:49 PM

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I dunno. Im not Alive expert. I just recall it might index map keypoints in certain way. You may want to ask in the Alive discord

crude goblet Aug 27, 2021, 8:50 PM

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yes that's what I'm asking, I don't know what you mean by 'map keypoints'

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are those like, location names?

sly skiff Aug 27, 2021, 8:59 PM

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yes. further inquiries @smoky haloive discord

dusty walrus Aug 28, 2021, 12:26 AM

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sly skiff yes. further inquiries <@456226577798135808>ive discord

just a heads up, you pinged a random person

dawn palm Aug 28, 2021, 3:24 PM

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FREE tools update they are now a snapshot of the latest subscriber tools (but obfuscation disabled and not as many of them).
reason for update was to allow folks to create pbo's compatible with servers using fewer files (different ds signature)

potent saffron Aug 30, 2021, 9:40 AM

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I'm trying to figure how to make AddonBuilder binarize and pack my rvmat and p3d files into my PBO. Currently none of those 2 things happen. Putting those 2 file types in the list to copy directly list works to get them packed, but not binarized. Anyone had the same problem capable of shedding me some light?

pliant lynx Aug 30, 2021, 9:42 AM

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yes I had that exact same problem, got it fixed by installing Mikero's tools.

potent saffron Aug 30, 2021, 9:43 AM

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That seems to be answer to everything Arma Tools related lol

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What I'd like to know is: is this aspect of addon builder actually broken, and do I actually need to just get another tool, or do I need to do some wacky configuration steps to make it work?

glossy inlet Aug 30, 2021, 9:51 AM

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Didn't have issues the last times I used Addon Builder think_turtle
It should just run binarize on the files same as mikeros tools do.
You don't want to copy directly, it should handle that automatically

dawn palm Aug 30, 2021, 9:52 AM

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the registry settings for addon breaker are the same as binpbo. they are looking for tools via the HKLM registry. But arma3 stuff is in HKCU

potent saffron Aug 30, 2021, 9:54 AM

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glossy inlet Didn't have issues the last times I used Addon Builder <:think_turtle:7003114000...

Well, it does not. Config.cpp gets binarized just fine. RVMAT simply does not get packed into the PBO at all, unless I put that in the copy directly list. I checked the logs of the last conversion I did (where everything got packed except the RVMAT) and there's not even a mention of the RVMAT in the logs, not even an error

dawn palm Aug 30, 2021, 9:54 AM

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this is no problem for bis because they have the settings (via binpbo) in hklm

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@potent saffron , the only way to fix this, should you want to, is copy the hklm registry to hkcu. why bother?. You can, btw, see the cause instantly, by looking at the bin.log. It tells you it can't find HKLM

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and, for your interest i don't let binarise touch rvmats anyway (or tga or bisurf)

potent saffron Aug 30, 2021, 9:58 AM

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Mmm why is that, if I may ask? 😄

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I'm still pretty noob at this so

dawn palm Aug 30, 2021, 9:59 AM

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I don't wish to be (too) rude about the reasons. Almost of the devs there are good people, and would be un-necessarily offended.

glossy inlet Aug 30, 2021, 10:00 AM

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Oh that sounds like an easy fix.
I'll look at that

dawn palm Aug 30, 2021, 10:00 AM

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see!

potent saffron Aug 30, 2021, 10:03 AM

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glossy inlet Oh that sounds like an easy fix. I'll look at that

Very nice 😄

glossy inlet Aug 30, 2021, 10:03 AM

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Hm it should take binarize path from <A3ToolsPath>\Binarize\binarize.exe which is where it normally would be

A3ToolsPath can be provided either via command line, or via steam or just via location where AddonBuilder.exe is running from

is your steam not running?

potent saffron Aug 30, 2021, 10:08 AM

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It is

dawn palm Aug 30, 2021, 10:08 AM

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 1:02:49: Cannot read registry HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/Software\BIStudio\BinMake
 1:02:49: Cannot read registry HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/Software\BIStudio\BinMake
 1:02:49: Cannot read registry HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/Software\BIStudio\BinMake
 1:02:49: Cannot read registry HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/Software\BIStudio\BinMake
 1:02:49: Cannot read registry HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/Software\BIStudio\BinMake
 1:02:49: Cannot read registry HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/Software\BIStudio\BinMake
 1:02:49: Cannot read registry HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/Software\BIStudio\BinMake```

glossy inlet Aug 30, 2021, 10:08 AM

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There is no reference to BinMake in Addon Builder code

dawn palm Aug 30, 2021, 10:08 AM

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possibly binmakerules.txt

glossy inlet Aug 30, 2021, 10:09 AM

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No reference to "binmake" at all in addon builder.
Is it binarize.exe looking for that then? But why would it need binmake, I thought it had that integrated in itself

dawn palm Aug 30, 2021, 10:10 AM

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it needs to look up how to binarise rvmats, ditto tga

glossy inlet Aug 30, 2021, 10:11 AM

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Ok I found that exact code, including the mixed slashes in binarize/binmake code

I'll add fallback to HKCU if HKLM key wasn't found

dawn palm Aug 30, 2021, 10:11 AM

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😎

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it's not actually looking for binmake.exe, it's after binmake\bimakerules.txt

glossy inlet Aug 30, 2021, 10:12 AM

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Ah binmake is looking up its own config

dawn palm Aug 30, 2021, 10:12 AM

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yes

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it was a damn clever piece of architecture for the time (1998)

glossy inlet Aug 30, 2021, 10:16 AM

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HKCU/Software\BIStudio\BinMake
also isn't correct is it?
I have this
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Bohemia Interactive\BinMake
but not the BIStudio

Ah
Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\BIStudio\BinMake
Well

dawn palm Aug 30, 2021, 10:17 AM

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that exists on your pc at work, because your pc at work previously used binpbo (arma2)

old junco Aug 30, 2021, 10:18 AM

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i need help with bulldozer, when ever i want to start it in OB it says unable to find configuration file

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where do i find that file?

dawn palm Aug 30, 2021, 10:19 AM

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p:\buldozer

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(generally)

old junco Aug 30, 2021, 10:20 AM

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its already there

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but when i choose buldozer.exe then start it again it doesnt work

dawn palm Aug 30, 2021, 10:20 AM

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the the settings are not pointing to it in t/b

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oh that's entirely differemt

glossy inlet Aug 30, 2021, 10:20 AM

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dawn palm that exists on your pc at work, because your pc at work previously used binpbo (...

No I didn't think_turtle
And the data in there points to my A3 Tools

I checked all registry entries with "binmake" that one is the only one with config, and it points to A3Tools

old junco Aug 30, 2021, 10:20 AM

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dawn palm oh that's entirely differemt

wdym bout that?

dawn palm Aug 30, 2021, 10:22 AM

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it is or was the reason why bis devs didn't see this HKLM error in the past @dedmen. time moves on.

glossy inlet Aug 30, 2021, 10:22 AM

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I never used A2 Tools on my PC, only A3.
And the HKLM path points to my A3Tools directory.

And i don't have any other BinMake config directories besides that

dawn palm Aug 30, 2021, 10:23 AM

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well, hkcu is used or set by bis for a3 via 'play' tools

glossy inlet Aug 30, 2021, 10:23 AM

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I don't have the entry in HKCU though

old junco Aug 30, 2021, 10:23 AM

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the buldozer still wont work

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same error

potent saffron Aug 30, 2021, 10:24 AM

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I should point out btw that this isn't an isolated issue on my end. I know at least 2 other guys who are having the exact same issue with addon builder rn

dawn palm Aug 30, 2021, 10:24 AM

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if you 'play' steam tools, hkcu should set (or used to)

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dedmen is fixing it for sure John

potent saffron Aug 30, 2021, 10:26 AM

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Yep, that's why I'm pointing that out, to exclude that possibility. I barely understand your tech jibber-jabber so I don't know if he found the error yet xD

glossy inlet Aug 30, 2021, 10:27 AM

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Yes. I deleted the BinMake entry.
Then Launched Arma 3 Tools via Steam, and it created the correct entry in HKLM, the exact place where it expects it.
So @potent saffron try launching A3Tools directly from steam, not manually by going to the directory

dawn palm Aug 30, 2021, 10:27 AM

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he found an 'undocumented feature' 😎

potent saffron Aug 30, 2021, 10:28 AM

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I always launch A3 Tools from Steam. I used to launch addon builder directly from a shorcut pointing to the directory, but not anymore

dawn palm Aug 30, 2021, 10:28 AM

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mikero frantically scrabbles at regedit

glossy inlet Aug 30, 2021, 10:28 AM

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Check in your registry (regedit.exe) that Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\BIStudio\BinMake exists. Its created by Steam when you launch A3Tools the first time.

dawn palm Aug 30, 2021, 10:28 AM

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you can't 'launch' t/b or a/b from the gui tool. only shortcuts work

glossy inlet Aug 30, 2021, 10:29 AM

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It expects the entry in HKLM (Not HKCU) and it also places the entry in HKLM (not HKCU) correctly, as expected, if you start A3Tools via Steam. Which BI expects you to do when you get the tools via Steam.

The fuckup here seems to be with Steam if it doesn't create the registry entries like its supposed to

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But as far as I can see the entries never were in HKCU like you say they are

Steam correctly creates them in HKLM, and BinMake correctly finds them there

potent saffron Aug 30, 2021, 10:30 AM

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dawn palm you can't 'launch' t/b or a/b from the gui tool. only shortcuts work

Wdym? I always launch addon builder from the A3Tools gui

dawn palm Aug 30, 2021, 10:30 AM

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definately WERE. checking if the truth is now different

potent saffron Aug 30, 2021, 10:30 AM

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glossy inlet Check in your registry (regedit.exe) that `Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\...

I'll check, gimme a min. Finishing some work stuff

dawn palm Aug 30, 2021, 10:30 AM

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sorry @potent saffron i meant o/b (getting tired)

glossy inlet Aug 30, 2021, 10:30 AM

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I think it makes sense though that if BinMake cannot find it. It just checks if it can find binMakeRules.txt right next to binMake.exe, no need to read registry if the file is right there 99% of the time

dawn palm Aug 30, 2021, 10:32 AM

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except it has to know where it.s exe is, because current dir is not likely

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getting distacted. as a user, will let you know re hkcu @glossy inlet

glossy inlet Aug 30, 2021, 10:34 AM

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Easy fallback, binarize is usually always in same directory.
And binMake is usually always in the same directory
and both are in A3Tools.
Can just check if its there really easily if the registry entry wasn't found

I'll add that later

dawn palm Aug 30, 2021, 10:35 AM

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i think it really only needs to register where a3tools are. C,D,E...Z:\some\where

potent saffron Aug 30, 2021, 10:37 AM

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Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\BIStudio\BinMake is there

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in regedit

old junco Aug 30, 2021, 10:44 AM

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External Viewer: unable to create viewer
anyone knows how i fix it?
(happens when i want to start buldozer via OB)

glossy inlet Aug 30, 2021, 10:48 AM

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Ohhh... @potent saffron is your addon builder maybe using binarize_x64.exe?
That one will look in Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\BIStudio\BinMake which doesn't exist, so will always fail 🤦

potent saffron Aug 30, 2021, 10:49 AM

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I'm using the default

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I'll try setting in manually to binarize.exe

glossy inlet Aug 30, 2021, 10:50 AM

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This thing.
Default should be non-x64 as far as I can see, but maybe it somehow got to use x64

potent saffron Aug 30, 2021, 10:50 AM

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Nope, same result

glossy inlet Aug 30, 2021, 10:50 AM

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Can you send me your bin log?
Where mikero said it logs the registry not found errors?

potent saffron Aug 30, 2021, 10:50 AM

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Hold on

dawn palm Aug 30, 2021, 10:52 AM

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pboProject uses x64 too. if it can detect it. it is expected to be in same folder as it's smaller cousin.

potent saffron Aug 30, 2021, 10:52 AM

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Can't find a bin log

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Should be in Arma 3 Tools/Logs

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Right?

glossy inlet Aug 30, 2021, 10:58 AM

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I'd think P:/temp if you pack on pdrive

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my binarize just freezes when I try to pack a pbo notlikemeow

dawn palm Aug 30, 2021, 10:59 AM

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welcome to hell

glossy inlet Aug 30, 2021, 10:59 AM

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Except that in my hell I have debug tools and can just check why it freezes 😄

potent saffron Aug 30, 2021, 11:01 AM

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I don't have any logs on my temp folder

dawn palm Aug 30, 2021, 11:04 AM

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@glossy inlet
re-installed steam tools (devel).
'played' the gui.

glossy inlet Aug 30, 2021, 11:04 AM

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But we were talking about this one
Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\BIStudio\BinMake also created by steam

dawn palm Aug 30, 2021, 11:05 AM

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checking...

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yes. will verify it comes back with a re-install. in the meantime, microsft os will return those settings anyway under software\ not wow\ anyway

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(eg not a good idea to use wow

glossy inlet Aug 30, 2021, 11:08 AM

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But only 32bit binarize will get the values in WOW6432Node, not the _x64 version

dawn palm Aug 30, 2021, 11:08 AM

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k

glossy inlet Aug 30, 2021, 11:08 AM

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Hah my binarize freezes because I'm out of RAM 😄

dawn palm Aug 30, 2021, 11:08 AM

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miser

potent saffron Aug 30, 2021, 11:11 AM

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Whoops lol

glossy inlet Aug 30, 2021, 11:13 AM

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Doesn't help that it tries to scan my whole O: drive on startup.. wtf
Theres a lot of files on there that binarize should not be interested in, and its scanning them all to find a config.bin/config.cpp

dawn palm Aug 30, 2021, 11:13 AM

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it should only do so if you are trying to pack a wrp

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confirmed. (I know you know, but nice to be seconded)

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when binarise crunches a wrp, it travels off in a desperate hunt, looking for land_xx classes. they can, of course be in p:\every\where

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more often than not. it crashes because of this. it hates, eg, trailing , in arrays

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you can prevent this behavior bu forcing it to only look in the wrp folder (but must insert any land_xxx classes in your config.)

glossy inlet Aug 30, 2021, 11:21 AM

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Hah. Actually our steam install script is told to generate this entry
"HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\BIStudio\\BinMake"
But steam is 32bit software, so thats probably why it creates the WOW6432Node one

dawn palm Aug 30, 2021, 11:21 AM

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ouch. nice find

glossy inlet Aug 30, 2021, 11:22 AM

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I have some other things to finish and then I'll dive into all this mess 😄

dawn palm Aug 30, 2021, 11:23 AM

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so, 64bit doesn't have a wow64\ hive?, hence the hardwire (\wow64)can't find it?

glossy inlet Aug 30, 2021, 11:26 AM

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WOW6432Node is injected by windows for 32bit apps.
Thats why 32bit binarize finds it there, windows redirects the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\BIStudio\BinMake lookup to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\BIStudio\BinMake without the application knowing
But its not injected for 64bit apps, so it x64 binarize won't find it because it looks at HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\BIStudio\BinMake

dawn palm Aug 30, 2021, 11:28 AM

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got it. I alwayz get confuzed at this point

potent saffron Aug 30, 2021, 11:29 AM

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Good luck with that haha

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I guess I'll be downloading mikero's tools in the meantime

dawn palm Aug 30, 2021, 11:30 AM

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keep taking the pillz

glossy inlet Aug 30, 2021, 11:30 AM

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Yeah I don't know what causes your issue, and without bin log confirming that its actually the BinMake issue, we don't know if it actually is that

dawn palm Aug 30, 2021, 11:31 AM

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for what it's worth, i think you're spot on with steam at fault here.

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steam might be 32 bit, but it's games rarely are. Perhaps a dev overlooked a flag (s)he could set?

potent saffron Aug 30, 2021, 11:47 AM

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Yeah, I don't know why I can't find that log

dawn palm Aug 30, 2021, 11:48 AM

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<ahem> you can with pboPro. 😷

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and, incidentally. the 'free' tools are same as 'subscriber tools' at the moment. just less features

potent saffron Aug 30, 2021, 12:51 PM

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Trying to use pboproject

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Have some troubles tho haha

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It's telling me it's missing files I set in the config, Arma 3 other mod's (dependency) files. Ofc they're missing lol

dawn palm Aug 30, 2021, 12:55 PM

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a) use a 'p' drive
b) run arma3p

potent saffron Aug 30, 2021, 12:56 PM

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Doing a), let's try that b) haha

dawn palm Aug 30, 2021, 12:56 PM

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'p' can be any letter you like but should be empty to start with

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you need pillz, coffeeeeeeeee, a dog to walk, or hell, talk to the wife while it does it's thing.

potent saffron Aug 30, 2021, 1:23 PM

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Work and lunch were my options

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Btw, I assume this solves the issue in relation to using Arma 3 files. But what about dependencies on other mods?

sly skiff Aug 30, 2021, 1:37 PM

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you would need to unpack those to your P drive too

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or create placeholder files

potent saffron Aug 30, 2021, 1:57 PM

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Makes sense, thanks a lot 😉

sly skiff Aug 30, 2021, 1:59 PM

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also quite often if you inherit configs properly, you dont have to define the filepaths of mod stuff (or arma stuff even) again in your new configs

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as they would be inherited

potent saffron Aug 30, 2021, 2:08 PM

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That is a good point, I'll look out for that. Although I believe in this case everything I have is just items with 2/+ hiddenSelections in which one of them is from somewhere else, so not much choice there

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Either way unpacking the mod will make it easier to work with

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Got a lil' warning packing one of my pbo's: ***warning***:file \jpab_AEW_C_OPS_FARAA\cfgFaces.hpp: 'DLC' FULL_UPPER_CASE is the preserve of #defines.

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No idea what that means haha

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But yeah, I'm enjoying pboproject, it's definitely a lot faster. And throws errors at my face that addon builder didn't and probably should

dawn palm Aug 30, 2021, 2:21 PM

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with thanks to @scenic canopy , it's multi threaded and spawns multiple copies of bis binarise to power thru the slug stuff.

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setup->warnings-> allows you to turn off annoying 'warning' messages. BUT, for now, I absolutely recommend you don't do that. You need all the quirks and oddities revealed to you.

potent saffron Aug 30, 2021, 2:24 PM

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I was actually looking at that just now. But yeah, I'll keep it all on. Thanks for the tip 😉

pliant lynx Aug 30, 2021, 2:26 PM

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how does that multiple binarize's work?

dawn palm Aug 30, 2021, 2:27 PM

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same way your excellent multi threaded tga convertor does, but written in c++ coz the functions to do so, come with a c++ std library

pliant lynx Aug 30, 2021, 2:28 PM

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.rvmat's were binarized by pboproject and binarize only does p3d and wrp, right?

scenic canopy Aug 30, 2021, 2:29 PM

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multithreaded tga conversion etc is in as well but only uses one thread until some quirks are ironed out 🙂

dawn palm Aug 30, 2021, 2:29 PM

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same for rvmats, but other issues are stopping it at moment.

scenic canopy Aug 30, 2021, 2:29 PM

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soon ™️

dawn palm Aug 30, 2021, 2:29 PM

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haha

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why not yesterday?

pliant lynx Aug 30, 2021, 2:30 PM

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was just wondering if there is a large processing time speed gain with large terrains.

scenic canopy Aug 30, 2021, 2:32 PM

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with multithreaded conversion and temp file copying it should help quite a lot for full builds

pliant lynx Aug 30, 2021, 2:33 PM

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nah I'm using convert layers png to paa fast bat, just talking about binarizing/pboproject packing a terrain addons.

scenic canopy Aug 30, 2021, 2:34 PM

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anything using binarize will be multithreaded with both paid and free now, but it mostly help with p3d, not for single wrp

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so if you have an objects addon with lots of p3ds it will be quite a bit faster assuming you have the cores for it 🙂

pliant lynx Aug 30, 2021, 2:35 PM

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speaking of free vs paid, "there can be only one", right, so you have to choose either install free or paid but you cant have both?

scenic canopy Aug 30, 2021, 2:35 PM

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requires binarize 2.03.X something or newer, old one had a sleep issue

dawn palm Aug 30, 2021, 2:40 PM

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@pliant lynx , ask @grand kelp . he'll hate you after all the work he's done, but ask anyway, and duck.

pliant lynx Aug 30, 2021, 2:41 PM

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who?

dawn palm Aug 30, 2021, 2:41 PM

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he made the all--n-one installer.

pliant lynx Aug 30, 2021, 2:42 PM

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ok I assume the answer is no. roger that.

dawn palm Aug 30, 2021, 2:43 PM

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as for wrp, when tga AND rvmat conversion has the multi-threaded GO button, hold on tight to the handlebars. (applies only to layers, whichever pbo they are in)

pliant lynx Aug 30, 2021, 2:44 PM

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tga is irrelevant as we use convert layers png to paa fast bat, but if other large and multiple file processing can be improved, that would be a nice improvement.

dawn palm Aug 30, 2021, 2:45 PM

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sorry, i have tga on the brain at moment due to p3d, i did mean png, duh!

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and all credit to you @pliant lynx for introducing multi threading in the first place. It's saved folks hours and hours. it's rvmats we're after, png/tga isn't meant to supplant you. The user is ten times better off doing it with your tools rather than rinse-and-repeat with pboPro.

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Some teams use your tool to scrap png files instantly, so they never hit pboProject's front door (let alone bis binarise)

pliant lynx Aug 30, 2021, 2:54 PM

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yep convert layers png to paa fast bat and split wrp to multiple pbos does their thing, when pboproject is called there are no PNGs left to process.

dawn palm Aug 30, 2021, 2:56 PM

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what some don't realise is they serve no further purpose. gettung 'them' back is simply 'regenerate layers' and if they have to do that, they've changed the terrain and need to regenerate anyway.

scenic canopy Aug 30, 2021, 2:58 PM

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pliant lynx tga is irrelevant as we use convert layers png to paa fast bat, but if other lar...

Any specific ones that you have in mind?

pliant lynx Aug 30, 2021, 3:00 PM

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just normal terrain files.

grand kelp Aug 30, 2021, 3:02 PM

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pliant lynx speaking of free vs paid, "there can be only one", right, so you have to choose ...

What scenario do you have in mind here? Both suites (free & sub) installed on the host?

pliant lynx Aug 30, 2021, 3:11 PM

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heh use scenario was just lazy bum one, pay tools subscription expired a while ago and now free tools are more up to date 😉

grand kelp Aug 30, 2021, 3:18 PM

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pliant lynx heh use scenario was just lazy bum one, pay tools subscription expired a while a...

In theory AiO should ask if you want to overwrite existing subscriber tools, but I have something in mind for a later update that should drastically reduce these headache scenarios.
I'll send you a DM regarding.

pliant lynx Aug 30, 2021, 3:20 PM

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~~yeah meant to ask when saw that, "AiO" what is that?~~ nevermind got an answer, "All In One".

dawn palm Aug 30, 2021, 8:01 PM

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what am i doing wrong here folks, the arma channel persistently shows a red 'new' msg icon. When i click on arma, the red disappears and there are NO new messages anywhere. A few minutes later, and i get it again. No other discord channel has this behavior. What am i doing wrong?

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it's so annoying i prefer to leave

pliant lynx Aug 30, 2021, 8:03 PM

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hmm not sure about few minutes later, but everytime a spam bot or person who spams to every channel and gets banned, it leaves new messages white channel mark, and there is nothing there.

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it happens ... cant say every day, but very frequently here. and I agree, very annoying. unfortunately cant think of anything moderators could do in this end to prevent that.

dawn palm Aug 30, 2021, 8:05 PM

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no white channel marks either. max interval before another non-existent msg is around 10 mins

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I wonder if it's because I've blocked some people.

pliant lynx Aug 30, 2021, 8:07 PM

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check top right corner, there is umm... err.. icon like mobile device, its "inbox", from there you can view only "mentions", that is if someone pings you.

sly skiff Aug 30, 2021, 9:02 PM

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blocked messages I dont think mark the red icon, but deleted messages with mentions or replies do stick

glossy inlet Aug 30, 2021, 9:03 PM

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yeah discord has that kinda bug sometimes. But it goes away for me after a day usually

glossy inlet Aug 31, 2021, 9:16 AM

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Ok the binMake thing is now fixed in next binarize update (probably a tools dev branch or so 🙃)
It now checks both 32 and 64bit registry (it should find the entry generated by steam in the 32bit one)
and even if it doesn't find it in registry at all, it will fallback to ../BinMake/binMake.exe which will always work for a normal A3Tools install

dawn palm Sep 1, 2021, 12:56 AM

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new subscriber dll fixes:
+debinarisation of rtm files.
+potential missing external file checks if building "addons within addon"

potent saffron Sep 1, 2021, 11:01 AM

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Hands down my favorite feature of pboproject: hallelujah choir upon successful packing 😅

unreal lichen Sep 1, 2021, 4:11 PM

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When using pboproject, how do you set the root for packing? Somehow I have it packing at the wrong root folder, such that the temp folder that pboproject makes is included in the folder hierarchy.

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Also, and I know there are soo many requests. Would it be possible to get an additional log file created that only lists the warnings and errors, so I don't have to search through the huge log to find them?

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Also, to skip the annoying new message notifications, I generally mute all the servers I'm part of.

sly skiff Sep 1, 2021, 4:19 PM

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missing stuff is listed at the end

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so its easy to find

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and packing starts from a folder that contains a valid config.cpp

unreal lichen Sep 1, 2021, 4:20 PM

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Warnings are embedded in the log listing, not just at the end

sly skiff Sep 1, 2021, 4:20 PM

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and you set the folder here

dawn palm Sep 1, 2021, 4:22 PM

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unreal lichen Warnings are embedded in the log listing, not just at the end

errors et al won't be 'separated' because they are issued in context

unreal lichen Sep 1, 2021, 4:23 PM

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I guess I've just been pampered with IDEs

dawn palm Sep 1, 2021, 4:23 PM

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you have no reason to use noisy, if you DON'T have errors, and when you do have them, they need to be in context

unreal lichen Sep 1, 2021, 4:24 PM

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that may be it, I've been using noisy

blazing needle Sep 1, 2021, 4:43 PM

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#production_releases message
@grand kelp

2. [#19] - Added opt-out telemetry. *[subscribers-only feature]*

Is that legally allowed? especially in the context of GDPR?

grand kelp Sep 1, 2021, 4:47 PM

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blazing needle https://discord.com/channels/105462288051380224/292271664115351563/8826568386366...

I wouldn't do it if it wasn't. Data is anonymized, feel free to contact the EU authorities.

topaz grove Sep 1, 2021, 5:39 PM

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Hey mikero! I was wondering, I have a very long binarising time when it comes to me changes out some textures, and bulldozer doesn't work because i have too high polys D: Is there a work around to the binarising time when it comes to slight texture changes? Thanks!

sly skiff Sep 1, 2021, 5:52 PM

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not really if the problem is in the model

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dozer can handle few 100k polys though

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how many do you have?

dusty walrus Sep 1, 2021, 9:01 PM

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grand kelp I wouldn't do it if it wasn't. Data is anonymized, feel free to contact the EU a...

Do you have a privacy notice?

grand kelp Sep 1, 2021, 9:09 PM

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dusty walrus Do you have a privacy notice?

Yes, I'm adding a button in the app that leads you right to it. Figured I'd make it easy to reach. Expect an update within an hour or so.
In the meantime you can find it here: https://mikero.tools/privacy

dusty walrus Sep 1, 2021, 9:34 PM

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Thank you, wasn‘t able to find it with google

topaz grove Sep 1, 2021, 11:07 PM

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I have 400k tris, and 200k everything else. Bulldozer just crashes, idk if it's my polys or not

blazing needle Sep 2, 2021, 12:29 AM

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Yes, I'm adding a button in the app that leads you right to it. Figured I'd make it easy to reach. Expect an update within an hour or so.
In the meantime you can find it here: https://mikero.tools/privacy
that's what I've been interested in, what does my data contain and what is it used for. Also, afaik you'd have to have a confirmation from the user (e.g. a button "Accept") to opt in to the sharing of data

sly skiff Sep 2, 2021, 1:20 AM

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topaz grove I have 400k tris, and 200k everything else. Bulldozer just crashes, idk if it's ...

ah yeh that is a wee bit too much. You should optimize the model a bit

karmic niche Sep 2, 2021, 6:49 PM

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What exactly was the (removed) "wysiwyg" switch for makepbo doing? (-N)

scenic canopy Sep 2, 2021, 6:50 PM

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from memory, packing without binarizing p3ds etc

karmic niche Sep 2, 2021, 6:51 PM

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That's -U AFAIR

scenic canopy Sep 2, 2021, 6:55 PM

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ah, yes, you're right

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-N will just pack the folder into pbo

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-N, https://github.com/Anrop/docker-mikero-tools/blob/master/doc/depbo-tools-0.5.50/MakePbo.ReadMe.htm#L66
-U, https://github.com/Anrop/docker-mikero-tools/blob/master/doc/depbo-tools-0.5.50/MakePbo.ReadMe.htm#L122

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random really old readme

karmic niche Sep 2, 2021, 6:57 PM

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Okay, but that's the reason why I was asking 😄
It says "do nothing special". What is considered "special", in that case?

scenic canopy Sep 2, 2021, 7:43 PM

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rapify etc 🙂

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cpp, rvmat etc

unreal lichen Sep 3, 2021, 4:42 AM

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Where do I find the documentation for pboproject? the $Prefix$ file being generated is generating a different folder root than expected.

dawn palm Sep 3, 2021, 4:52 AM

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the prefix is whatever the pbo says it is. And, btw, this string will be ignored by new versions of the dll when making a pbo.

unreal lichen Sep 3, 2021, 5:01 AM

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I'm not sure I understand. The Prefix file says overthrow_main, when creating the pbo in pboproject it says: <rebuilding cfgworlds>
/Creating ArmA/Dayz prefix pbo:/
Prefix = Overthrow\addons\overthrow_main

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I need the prefix to be \ or blank

dawn palm Sep 3, 2021, 6:18 AM

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paste a screenie of pboPro's front panel pls @unreal lichen

unreal lichen Sep 3, 2021, 6:30 AM

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I don't have permission in this channel to do that.

dawn palm Sep 3, 2021, 6:30 AM

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what does your source edit box say pls

unreal lichen Sep 3, 2021, 6:31 AM

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https://1drv.ms/u/s!Am9PfGjv-o-ucsDssJNdxTIczPs

dawn palm Sep 3, 2021, 6:33 AM

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you have a misunderstanding of the basics of pbo architecture.
you have asked pboProject to pack a pbo in ANY addons\folder it can find

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the result of that is it found Overthrow\addons\overthrow_main
and THAT prefix is correct

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the name of the pbo itself will be called overthrow_main.. which would be pretty dumb if you're over-writing , replacing someone else's pbo

unreal lichen Sep 3, 2021, 6:36 AM

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ahh, I think I kinda get it.

dawn palm Sep 3, 2021, 6:38 AM

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what is not obvious, in fact, contrary to intuituion, is the nameOf.pbo is irrelevant to the engine (providding a prefix is supplied) You could happily rename ANY pbo (with a prefix) PinkPotato, it would work just the same.

unreal lichen Sep 3, 2021, 6:39 AM

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Coming from a non-modding background, I do C/C++/C#/sql/plsql/etc.. the build process and organization has been a little ..different.. than I'm used to.

unreal lichen Sep 3, 2021, 8:51 PM

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does the preprocessor process sqm files, such that #define #ifdef #endif #ifndef are parsed?

dawn palm Sep 3, 2021, 8:55 PM

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yes

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well, a little caution there. yes, they are done at preprocessor time. but, preprocesor time for sqf crap is during game play, NOT, engine start.

unreal lichen Sep 3, 2021, 8:57 PM

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ahh, that is why I'm getting errors when loading the mission. The parts I want excluded at preprocessor time are still there.

dawn palm Sep 3, 2021, 8:59 PM

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it is 'traditional' to choose EITHER, hpp, OR H for sqf and the other for configs. That way, you exclude HPP (eg) but pass H (eg) into the pbo for sqf.
doesn't matter which way round you decide on this providing you remain consistent.

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ace/cba include hpp and exclude h for that reason. Prolly a good rule to follow.

unreal lichen Sep 3, 2021, 9:01 PM

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This mod is using hpp.

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What I am attempting to do, is add a #define in a header and wrap all the Ace medical parts in #ifdef #endif so that I can build it optionally with ace no medical

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it is working mostly, however the game complains during game load about parts in the mission.sqm

glossy inlet Sep 3, 2021, 9:05 PM

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You cannot simply remove classes in mission.sqm

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you need to keep all the numbered classes order intact

unreal lichen Sep 3, 2021, 9:07 PM

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I was wondering that too. I could easily create dummy classes in their place, if I could pre-process them like that.

unreal lichen Sep 5, 2021, 10:28 PM

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Ok, so, I've moved things around and updated item counts in the mission.sqm and am getting a status_access_violation. The build logs and rpt don't seem to point to anything helpful. How would I go about debugging this?

unreal lichen Sep 5, 2021, 10:49 PM

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mmm, I reverted and deleted portions instead of commenting things out. Seems to be working now. I'm going to chalk it up to a bad commenting out job.

glossy inlet Sep 6, 2021, 9:32 AM

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How would I go about debugging this?
Reporting the game crash on feedback tracker

unreal lichen Sep 7, 2021, 1:44 AM

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@glossy inlet It wasn't a game engine issue, rather modifying the mission.sqm by hand and the game engine not liking the changes. I fixed the mission.sqm by deleting the bits I commented out.

pliant lynx Sep 7, 2021, 1:47 AM

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does mission.sqm support comments?

unreal lichen Sep 7, 2021, 1:48 AM

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According to Mikero it "should", but evaluates them at runtime rather than pbo creation time.

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So, maybe not?

dawn palm Sep 7, 2021, 5:31 AM

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it ignores them as it should. There is NO difference between a model.cfg, a bisurf, an rvmat, a mission.sqm a desc.ext. ALL are what bis call paramfiles and ALL use same syntax, /comments/, and #include architecture.

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(small correction, model.cfg is slightly different)

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@unreal lichen , it is unusual, not impossible, unusual, for a mission.sqm to b e evaluated at runtime, They are prebinarised just like rvmat and config.cpp

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you might be confusing it with desc.ext which cannot be pre binarised because it uses values which can only be compiled at mission start.

glossy inlet Sep 7, 2021, 8:25 AM

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unreal lichen <@!90532520101183488> It wasn't a game engine issue, rather modifying the missio...

Game crashing is always a engine issue. It should tell you that something is wrong, but not just die

glossy inlet Sep 7, 2021, 8:25 AM

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pliant lynx does mission.sqm support comments?

everything that supports preprocessor supports comments

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it is unusual, not impossible, unusual, for a mission.sqm to b e evaluated at runtime, They are prebinarised just like rvmat and config.cpp
Its far more common for mission.sqm's to be unbinarized, you even directly have a checkbox to disable it in Eden Editor

pliant lynx Sep 7, 2021, 10:58 AM

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hmm so if I write a comment to mission.sqm, load the mission into mission editor and save... do the comments persist there or will editor discard them? not an issue for me never written comments there and dont see a scenario where I would, just curious about the tech.

glossy inlet Sep 7, 2021, 11:07 AM

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discard

pliant lynx Sep 7, 2021, 11:10 AM

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interesting, thanks for the info.

frigid sonnet Sep 7, 2021, 12:34 PM

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Hey, so I seen that website by gruppe adler that allows you to convert to paa’s. I recognise its client side on their site, but I was curious what the process was? If you could mention me if you’ve got a response that would be amazing I don’t follow this server too closely

scenic canopy Sep 7, 2021, 12:35 PM

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process?

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its a c++ library compiled to WebAssembly to run in browser

frigid sonnet Sep 7, 2021, 12:59 PM

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Ah got ya, any references for where to start if I’m looking to do it myself?

glossy inlet Sep 7, 2021, 1:33 PM

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look at "Blazor WebAssembly" lets you write C# that will run in browser via webassembly.
Easy to get going

scenic canopy Sep 7, 2021, 1:40 PM

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I wonder if the PAA library in C# would work with that

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its a bit cumbersome to work with in general

dawn palm Sep 7, 2021, 2:44 PM

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well, it might sound obvious, but what would you want a 'paa library' to actually do? What would be the end purpose? A web app that can 'behave' like tgaviewer?

frigid sonnet Sep 7, 2021, 2:45 PM

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Just looking for something to convert them on the fly, it's part of a larger project I've been working on the last year

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But if it can be done in C# then I'm sorted

dawn palm Sep 7, 2021, 2:48 PM

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pal2pace will already do that (arma3 calls it img2paa). I'd imagine a web based app could package it

frigid sonnet Sep 7, 2021, 2:49 PM

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Yeah just seen that on the wiki. Should make it pretty easy, cheers

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Sorry one last question, is there a version available for linux?

dawn palm Sep 7, 2021, 2:54 PM

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no

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that said, there is the my lib.so for my tools. you'd have to access it via the API

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(and do your own conversion)

frigid sonnet Sep 7, 2021, 2:56 PM

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Gonna try running it on Wine first, see what happens

dawn palm Sep 7, 2021, 2:57 PM

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shouldn't be an issue, it's ancient x86 code, with few if any surprises.

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i could write the convertor myself but it's need would be very limited since bis have never been able to break pal2pace.exe. and if it aint broke.....

scenic canopy Sep 7, 2021, 3:31 PM

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Armake includes PAA conversion

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https://github.com/KoffeinFlummi/armake

GitHub

GitHub - KoffeinFlummi/armake: A C implementation of Arma modding t...

A C implementation of Arma modding tools (PAA conversion, binarization/rapification, PBO packing). (WIP) - GitHub - KoffeinFlummi/armake: A C implementation of Arma modding tools (PAA conversion, b...

bright gull Sep 7, 2021, 8:18 PM

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frigid sonnet Just looking for something to convert them on the fly, it's part of a larger pro...

If you actually want WebAssembly you can use the same thing that powers paa.gruppe-adler.de
There is a GitHub repo to build the WASM + a couple lines of JS Glue Code
https://github.com/gruppe-adler/grad_aff_wasm

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We have everything on GitHub even the online converter

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(https://github.com/gruppe-adler/paa.gruppe-adler.de)

frigid sonnet Sep 7, 2021, 8:19 PM

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Gonna use the C implementation Dahlgren linked, think it’ll work best for my needs but thank you nonetheless

bright gull Sep 7, 2021, 8:21 PM

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Oki just wanted to make sure you don’t do the extra work of building your own WASM
Because that’s just a shitty job 🙂

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I speak from experience 😂

frigid sonnet Sep 7, 2021, 8:22 PM

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Hahaha nah if there’s one thing I’m good at it’s doing the least possible work to do what I want

bright gull Sep 7, 2021, 8:22 PM

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😂

frigid sonnet Sep 7, 2021, 8:22 PM

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I had taken a look at the repo earlier today before posting

bright gull Sep 7, 2021, 8:23 PM

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grad_aff also has a c api, but the refactor is still ongoing so it isn’t the most stable thing.

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Stable API*

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It works just fine

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Although the reflector of the PAA format is done afaik

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But yeah just use what works best for you 🙂

frigid sonnet Sep 7, 2021, 8:28 PM

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What I’ll end up doing is take that C library and make a quick and dirty API to make conversions, then store to S3 (web api to convert unit logo to paa for game usage)

gritty radish Sep 8, 2021, 7:24 PM

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The c lib above does make a bit of a trouble converting to paa

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Sometimes the color are of or have a taint

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The Adler paa does work without any issues

nocturne basin Sep 10, 2021, 11:10 PM

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size_t buffer_size;
char* buffer;
if (_dupenv_s(&buffer, &buffer_size, "programdata") != -1)
{
    std::string program_data(buffer, buffer_size);
    std::filesystem::path p(program_data);
    // p == "C:/ProgramData"
    p /= "path";
    // p == "C:/ProgramData"
    std::filesystem::path p2(program_data.c_str());
    // p2 == "C:/ProgramData"
    p2 /= "path";
    // p2 == "C:/ProgramData/path"
    ...
    free(buffer);
}``` anyone ever experienced this kind of bug with C++ `#include <filesystem>`?
currently driving me mad because i cannot seem to understand the cause

glossy inlet Sep 10, 2021, 11:12 PM

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try not passing buffer_size to std::string

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If that works I'll explain what happened

nocturne basin Sep 10, 2021, 11:15 PM

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same behavior as p2

glossy inlet Sep 10, 2021, 11:16 PM

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so works now?

nocturne basin Sep 10, 2021, 11:17 PM

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pretty much

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but that baffles me just loads more

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tho i suspect dupenv here

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reporting wrong size

glossy inlet Sep 10, 2021, 11:17 PM

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size_t buffer_size;
char* buffer;
if (_dupenv_s(&buffer, &buffer_size, "programdata") != -1) // buffer_size is size of buffer, not size of string. The string contains the ending nullchar for a proper C-String.
{
    std::string program_data(buffer, buffer_size); // "C:/ProgramData\0" buffer_size includes nullchar, because thats INSIDE the allocated buffer (it has to be)
    std::filesystem::path p(program_data);
    // p == "C:/ProgramData\0"
    p /= "path";
    // p == "C:/ProgramData\0/path"
    std::filesystem::path p2(program_data.c_str()); // reads until first null char
    // p2 == "C:/ProgramData"
    p2 /= "path";
    // p2 == "C:/ProgramData/path"
    ...
    free(buffer);
}

nocturne basin Sep 10, 2021, 11:19 PM

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yeah
youre right

maybe i should not programm when half asleep ... tho, this literally worked yesterday

fallen stone Sep 12, 2021, 12:14 AM

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Eh, something else should be happening with that

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buffer_size should effectively be strlen() here

fallen stone Sep 12, 2021, 12:36 AM

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Seems it's not, unsurprising for win*

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Might want to check _dupenv_s() == 0 && buffer != NULL) for success case though

dawn palm Sep 12, 2021, 3:47 AM

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strlen == number of chars. it does not include the \0 terminator and never has.

glossy inlet Sep 13, 2021, 8:58 AM

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Documentation says its the size of the buffer, the variable name also says its the buffer size.
if the buffer contains a C-String, the buffer has to include the terminating null char. which strlen doesn't include.
Its exactly what the documentation and variable name say it should be

Also the documentation doesn't say that the string fills the full buffer, it might be that the buffer is like 256 chars but the string is only 15.

fallen stone Sep 13, 2021, 9:57 PM

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I hadn't checked the docs until my second messages, I assumed buffer_size was self named. numberOfElements is an odd thing to say though, it's uncommon to consider \0 in that, it's a normality to think of string size as string length.

Also the documentation doesn't say that the string fills the full buffer
That's the point, it's forcing you into an O(n) strlen(). It's not ideal. And per any M$ docs, they are lackluster.

gray matrix Sep 18, 2021, 2:31 AM

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@dawn palm I used ArmA3P to set my dev environment up better but now I'm getting the Cannot read registry HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/Software\BIStudio\BinMake issues when using PBO Project that you and Dedmen were dealing with recently. I didn't see a resolution. I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling your tools and BI Tools and moving install locations and various combinations of those but no luck. The binlog also shows these:

19:21:45: Warning: CfgAmmo missing in PreloadConfig - may slow down vehicle creation
19:21:45: Warning: CfgNonAIVehicles missing in PreloadConfig - may slow down vehicle creation```
And some `Too detailed shadow lod in ` which I've never seen before in the same models.  Some of these shadow errors happen on models with no shadow lod.  Here's my binlog:
<https://pastebin.com/qdFKqzjS>

dawn palm Sep 18, 2021, 4:24 AM

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if you're using pboProject, the HKLM error you're getting is irrelevant because pboProject won't let binarise use any of the tools it's looking for anyway.

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i have no idea, and little interest in what binarise thinks about shadow lods. All my tool can do, is report that binarise thinks it has an error. You're free to ignore or fix it, if you can or can't. You can, if you wish, add to the list that striplog.bat, in my tools folder, removes from the binlog as known nonsense.
Oh, and ps: @glossy inlet did a damn good fix to the hklm issue, which prolly hasn't been issued as an update. But, as mentioned, it's irrelevant to my tools.

gray matrix Sep 18, 2021, 4:40 AM

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dawn palm if you're using pboProject, the HKLM error you're getting is irrelevant because ...

I'm not really worried about the content of the errors either, but the PBO's aren't being packed.

.It may or may not have completed correctly.
BSF_IronWall.pbo not produced due to error(s)
Job(s) completed in 59secs on Fri Sep 17 20:46:02 2021```
Do you know what to do about the crashing?

dawn palm Sep 18, 2021, 4:41 AM

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nope. could be one of ten thousand reasons. BUT, if you're lucky, the last thing it the log it was doing, should help.

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Error 20 reading file 'bsf_community_addon\addons\bsf_ironwall\helipad\bsf_helipad_01.p3d'
I would have thought the above was self explanatory.

gray matrix Sep 18, 2021, 6:17 AM

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Yeah, you'd think. That file hasn't changed in about 2 years and if I remove it and all references to it in the config it just crashes on a different model.. I'll keep hacking away at it.

scenic canopy Sep 18, 2021, 10:31 AM

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have you tried opening it in object builder and resaving it?

blazing needle Sep 18, 2021, 9:10 PM

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has anyone had problems with notepad++'s syntax highlighting? it can't highlight all sqf commands because

imported string too long, needs to be < max_char(30720)

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in the UDL dialog

blazing needle Sep 18, 2021, 10:19 PM

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fixed it by splitting the commands and functions in 4 groups total (two for each)

quiet talon Sep 19, 2021, 7:49 AM

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@dawn palm Hi
Seems latest mikero tools do not remove tex headers from previous pbo and size of texheaders.bin constantly growing up on each new pbo. Can be fixed by pbo project restart. Could you check?

dawn palm Sep 19, 2021, 7:51 AM

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damn!! thanks for heads up

dawn palm Sep 19, 2021, 9:07 AM

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fixed as of subscriber version 8.27 (dll)

craggy lake Sep 20, 2021, 3:07 PM

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I have a separate account for publishing mods. Can I use A3 tools without buying arma for that account?

glossy inlet Sep 20, 2021, 3:10 PM

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No

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Need to own Arma to upload things to workshop

craggy lake Sep 20, 2021, 3:17 PM

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ok, I understand the reasoning.

neon flax Sep 20, 2021, 3:19 PM

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Get it cheap on a sale, I think I have 4 accounts with arma for various purposes meowsweats

glossy inlet Sep 20, 2021, 3:20 PM

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I only have a second one to circumvent my BattlEye ban, now its useless sad
bought it at full price right after a sale even

craggy lake Sep 20, 2021, 3:23 PM

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this will be the 4th account, I just made one for my daughter as well lol shes studying graphic design I told her it was time to learn how to play and mod arma.

karmic niche Sep 20, 2021, 7:42 PM

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What's the .so naming convention for linux extensions? abc.so and abc_x64.so, like on Windows? There's no mention of these on the wiki

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Also, I'm pretty excited! After 5 days of furious coding, after hours, it finally compiles! magic 🪄
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/724529841952653362/889596794122682388/2021-09-20_21h24_23.png
(there are 25 other files that you don't see on the screenshot obviously - it's not that I've spent 5 days on one file 😛 )

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I'm kinda scared to even try running it because I know what will happen on the first try 🙃

glossy inlet Sep 20, 2021, 7:54 PM

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karmic niche What's the .so naming convention for linux extensions? abc.so and abc_x64.so, li...

yes

karmic niche Sep 20, 2021, 7:54 PM

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Thanks! 👍

craggy lake Sep 22, 2021, 2:45 AM

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How do I pass a custom exclude list to PB0project. I need to include *.h and *.hpp and will not have access to the GUI.

Im using GitHub actions.

dawn palm Sep 22, 2021, 3:27 AM

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you can't. they have to be pre-ordained via the gui

scenic canopy Sep 22, 2021, 7:56 AM

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craggy lake How do I pass a custom exclude list to PB0project. I need to include *.h and *.h...

via windows registry, ACE does it via make.py

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https://github.com/acemod/ACE3/blob/master/tools/make.py#L266-L275

craggy lake Sep 22, 2021, 9:02 AM

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I don’t think that works anymore, as I still had to change it manually in the GUI. But I’ll check out the registry values and see if something is different.

scenic canopy Sep 22, 2021, 9:52 AM

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Should work just fine, that’s how pboproject stores its settings

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Just make sure to run it once before applying registry changes

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You can check how its done with the mikero tools action for CBA and ACE

craggy lake Sep 22, 2021, 10:32 AM

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I'll do some local tests and report back with the results

scenic canopy Sep 22, 2021, 11:00 AM

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https://github.com/CBATeam/CBA_A3/pull/1451/files

craggy lake Sep 22, 2021, 11:03 AM

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Thanks, https://github.com/acemod/arma-project-template/blob/master/tools/make.cfg this needs to be updated

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the make.py one in templates passes, bad cmd params are passed to pbo project. Thanks this helps me immensely.

scenic canopy Sep 22, 2021, 11:14 AM

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I think the template make.py is up to date with pboproject, make sure to update your copy

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But no guarantees there 😄

craggy lake Sep 22, 2021, 11:16 AM

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last update was 6 years ago.

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Its fine now that you passed that one. I even tried ZEN.

scenic canopy Sep 22, 2021, 11:21 AM

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last update is 14 months ago by me fixing the mikero breakage

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https://github.com/acemod/arma-project-template/commit/4c9d05abb6abd5dca5eb1c9f42fedebda7837383

craggy lake Sep 22, 2021, 11:25 AM

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+|-X no such thing you CANNOT affect exlusion of pbo files only uses list defined in gui

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it was throwing a silent error

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this is the new and correct one

  cmd = [pboproject, "-B", "-P", os.path.join(work_drive, prefix, module), "+Engine=Arma3", "-S", "+Noisy", "+Clean", "-Warnings", "+Mod="+os.path.join(module_root, release_dir, project), "-Key"]

scenic canopy Sep 22, 2021, 11:28 AM

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then you don't have the latest template make.py

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that was fixed 14 months ago in the commit linked above

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make.py, not make.cfg

craggy lake Sep 22, 2021, 11:31 AM

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yep you are right, I used zen. I'm dumb my fault.

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the one issue I cant solve is build.py it stops on the first pbo.

scenic canopy Sep 22, 2021, 11:33 AM

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makepbo no longer supports unbinarized

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2.05 made compatible
removed some -options
-N wyswig not supported anymore. it's a way of producing crap, but balming my tools

spring thorn Sep 27, 2021, 9:32 PM

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So I uh downloaded some of Mikero's Tools but I'm getting an error when trying to run them.
The code execution cannot proceed because deOgg64.dll was not found

scenic canopy Sep 27, 2021, 9:58 PM

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You need to download the required files, deogg and depbo is required for most

nimble current Sep 30, 2021, 2:13 PM

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i think this is the right channel:
I'm trying to make a powershell script to automate the building of my mod, and i'm having a hard time understanding how to get it to build separate PBO's, I'm also not clear on the correct usage of PBOPREFIX:

my folder structure is
hob
-addons
--addon1
--addon2
--$PBOPREFIX$ - contains simply: hob

my powershell script creates symlinks from my git repo into my P drive, such that:
P:\hob\addon1 is the location of one of the addon folders.
When I build the mod using arma 3 tools addon builder, targeting simply P:\hob everything builds and i get no file not found errors, but the entire mod is in a single PBO

If I try to make the powershell script run multiple times, targeting each addon folder, all of my includes break

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-do i have to make a $PBOPREFIX$ file for each addon, and then make my script set the -prefix flag per addon?
-can the addon builder detect $PBOPREFIX$ files?
-would i have to change all of my paths.. pretty much everywhere, to use model=\hob\addon1\data\model.p3d ?

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up until now i've just been manually building stuff not even using the p drive

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but i'm aware this is bad practice i'm trying to set up a build system that works out of the p drive

pliant lynx Sep 30, 2021, 2:21 PM

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forget addon breaker, use Mikero's pboProject. hob is your addon TAG. so $PBOPREFIX$ begins with hob\ which is the namespace, then all your addons, p3ds, wrps etc need to be tagged hob_ as that is your addon tag. final $PBOPREFIX$ would be hob\hob_mycharacters or hob\hob_myweapons etc whatever names they are. get proper build environment going, get P: drive setup. bookmark this and you learn in no time https://pmc.editing.wiki/doku.php?id=arma3

nimble current Sep 30, 2021, 2:53 PM

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pliant lynx forget addon breaker, use Mikero's pboProject. hob is your addon TAG. so $PBOPRE...

many thanks

plain pebble Oct 2, 2021, 5:40 PM

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i am downloading the dev build for the first time with gameupdater.exe

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i dont have a very fast internet

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is most of the devbuild redundant?

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to be more precise, is it redundant according to gameupdater.exe

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can i just copypaste my stable arma and point the gameupdater.exe to update that one to dev build

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also, i am not sure where to ask this question, i seem to remember that somewhere on this discord each channel purpose was described but i cant find it and i have started to think i may have dreamed it up

glossy inlet Oct 2, 2021, 5:45 PM

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plain pebble can i just copypaste my stable arma and point the gameupdater.exe to update that...

yes

plain pebble Oct 2, 2021, 5:45 PM

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marvelous!

nimble current Oct 2, 2021, 8:36 PM

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So I'm trying to make a pboPorject build script right now, looping over my addons to build them in order, but because pboproject opens in a second window the script doesnt wait for the first addon to finish before building the second, causing the second to get "file in use" errors

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wait nvm im dum

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i was trying to build the same mod twice rooVVV

dawn palm Oct 2, 2021, 8:51 PM

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the easiest way to do that iis organise your pbo folders so that they all live in the same, primary, folder. eg
p:\hobnob\tanks
p:\hobnob\cars
p:\hobnob\air

if you simply point pboProject to P:\hobnob

it will progressively make tanks.pbo, cars.pbo, air.pbo

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the same would hold true if you had
p:\hobnob\air\ch47
p:\hobnob\air\cessna
etc etc

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THE criteria for making a pbo in ANY folder is that it has a config.cpp

nimble current Oct 2, 2021, 9:22 PM

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rooISee1

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is it possible to make pboproject "block" the calling thread? and also not do the "press any key to exit" thing, just exit when finished

pliant lynx Oct 2, 2021, 9:24 PM

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pboproject -P is the parameter I use for batch file use, for skipping press any key in the end.

nimble current Oct 2, 2021, 9:25 PM

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ooh thanks

plain pebble Oct 3, 2021, 12:01 AM

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armagu.exe launches arma32bit

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can it launch the 64bit version

plain pebble Oct 3, 2021, 12:57 AM

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nevermind it seems i am supposed to use the arma3diag_64.exe for what i am doing anyway

nimble current Oct 3, 2021, 8:09 AM

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Hey so uh, I have a bug and I think it might actually be an issue with pboProject:

I'm working on someone elses mod rn, to tl;dr they use an entirely custom class that just contains data for sqf scripts to read, its not based on any arma class and is basically just a lookup table. (that can be patched by submods etc)

when they build the mod, using what appears to be an older version of pboProject (it doesn't have the Warnings are Errors... button) it builds fine, but when i try i get circa Line 14 label is not alpanumeric

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        class LHDs {
            
            0[] = {"","LHD OFF"};
            1[] = {"Marrine_1_LHD_LeftBottom_Radar","LHD Identify Friend / Foe"};
            2[] = {"Marrine_1_LHD_LeftBottom_PIP","LHD Team Shoulder Cameras"};
            3[] = {"",""};
            4[] = {"",""};
            
        };

14| 0[] = {"","LHD OFF"};

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i've never heard of "label is not alpanumeric" before, and as this isnt a base arma class i cant find anything about it on the wiki

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ah okay its the 0[]

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its weird that this is a hard error that stops building, as arma has no issue with it, at least how we're using it with sqf

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@dawn palm hi sorry for the ping, but after more testing it appears that somewhere in pbo project updates, it has a "label is not alpanumeric" (spelling typo as well, btw) error when you have keys that start with a number, arma itself appears to have no issue with this syntax and using "LHDs" >> (str 1) works just fine for looking up the array.

If this is an issue in other areas of arma, could we maybe get a tickbox to control the error?

dawn palm Oct 3, 2021, 9:02 AM

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yep. next update will fix that

nimble current Oct 3, 2021, 10:54 AM

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dawn palm yep. next update will fix that

Thanks!

delicate wind Oct 3, 2021, 1:21 PM

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I was playing ARMA with my friends, but it keeps getting a compatibility error with ace, and then there's a red square on the screen and I can't play, does anyone know how to fix it?

haughty dust Oct 3, 2021, 1:22 PM

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just install the compatibility mod for ace then, thats how you fix it 😁

dawn palm Oct 4, 2021, 6:01 PM

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mikero tools update
dll: makepbo:
+increased speed of obfuscation and changed algorithm

+prefix= (if present in the $pboprefix$) is now ignored
dll:rapify: removed check for supposedly illegal class and 1=(credit Perry Swift)
dewrp.exe: now lists terrain, cell & gridsize, and nObjects by default

wraith fractal Oct 5, 2021, 1:13 PM

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Has anyone had issues with pboProject when it comes to GUI addons?

dawn palm Oct 5, 2021, 2:13 PM

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?

wraith fractal Oct 5, 2021, 2:21 PM

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Well, pboProject keeps complaining over the included script_macros.hpp file where the keyword access = is used.

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But if I don't have that in there, it seems to somehow replace and corrupt the vanilla files leading to the following error:

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https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/882030145433649222/894649534435696701/unknown.png

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We've tried all kinds of things and adjustments but it just won't work.

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When building with Addon Builder, I receive no errors whatsoever and the entire addon works 100%.

dawn palm Oct 5, 2021, 2:30 PM

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i have no idea why you think a bis message about rscdisplays has anything to do with access= other than you are, most likely, editing your file badly.

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as for addon breaker, it NEVER issues ANY error s!!! it ignores them. As for it working in game, then if access= is present, it's at the detriment of other addons.

wraith fractal Oct 5, 2021, 2:32 PM

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The only addons used for this project are CBA and ACE

dawn palm Oct 5, 2021, 2:35 PM

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well, i assume by that you mean script_macros.hpp is one of the ace3/cba files. Ace/Cba is tested by us before EVERY update, and no-one else, so far has complained about above. I'll no go look at that file.....

wraith fractal Oct 5, 2021, 2:36 PM

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No the script_macros.hpp file is contained in my own addon. it contains the parent classes exported from the GUI Editor.

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That's all that's in there.

dawn palm Oct 5, 2021, 2:40 PM

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in that case, you are making the classic, classic mistake that many people make of copy pasting, verbatim. a bis rsc class. THESE classes come from bin\config.bin, and in order for bis to protect themselves from addon damage, they specify the classes in there to be unalterable (via acess=). It's the very last thing YOUR addon wants!

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so, i am reasonably certain you are simply suffering from fat fingerz when editing your file to remove access=

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you can paste your file to me via pm if you like.

wraith fractal Oct 5, 2021, 2:43 PM

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Thank you, I'd appreciate any help.

scenic canopy Oct 5, 2021, 3:12 PM

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neither CBA nor ACE use access =

dawn palm Oct 5, 2021, 3:13 PM

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yeah, figured that out AFTER the event 😷

exotic depot Oct 5, 2021, 11:38 PM

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hey i downloaded mikero tools because arma doesn't help with telling me what errors i have

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when i crunch it tells me that packing failed, i view the output and nothing is there.

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Perhaps im missing something?

sly skiff Oct 5, 2021, 11:45 PM

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do you have logging enabled?

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what does the console say?

exotic depot Oct 6, 2021, 12:04 AM

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https://i.imgur.com/Rke7Oge.png i assume this is the console u are talking about

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i have noisy to log on

dawn palm Oct 6, 2021, 12:04 AM

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well, the error is in front of you!

exotic depot Oct 6, 2021, 12:06 AM

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thought it would be in the output viewer lol

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does it also tell any configs error or anything of that

dawn palm Oct 6, 2021, 12:08 AM

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for sure

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but, it never got to that point of checking i think.

exotic depot Oct 6, 2021, 12:09 AM

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so i gotta fix the lod issue got it

fallen prism Oct 7, 2021, 1:12 AM

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Anyone got a link to the latest version of Notepad++ SQF highlighting, the version referenced on community tools (npp-sqf) doesnt exist anymore

nocturne basin Oct 7, 2021, 1:27 AM

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Consider moving to vscode would be my suggestion here
Much more up to date stuff on there

fallen prism Oct 7, 2021, 3:00 PM

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How easy is it to use?
Im not writing anything, just looking to edit my existing sqf's with ease.

dawn palm Oct 7, 2021, 6:43 PM

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important fix to extractpbo module of dll (credit @[EZ] Progger )

tough sapphire Oct 7, 2021, 7:44 PM

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Anyone here used armago to make a golang extension?

nimble current Oct 7, 2021, 10:09 PM

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so uh, when switching to pboproject from addon builder, after fixing some missing ; and }, i've noticed some of my macro's arnt working

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specifically i have a MODNAME macro, and i use that in subsequent macros for example

#define MODNAME hobmod
#define NEW_VEHICLE(group,name) MODNAME##_##group##_##name
class NEW_VEHICLE(resuppy_box,small_medical) { ...

[CBA] (xeh) WARNING: MODNAME_resuppy_box_small_medical does not support Extended Event Handlers!

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for some reason MODNAME isn't being expanded

nimble current Oct 7, 2021, 10:34 PM

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only error in the bin logs i can find is 23:34:24: Cannot read registry HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/Software\BIStudio\BinMake

vital fractal Oct 8, 2021, 2:08 AM

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Hey folks - just curious if anyone has had a chance to play around with the mod keybinds functionality - is this something I can test in the form of a script first before trying to rap up a PBO? Or is it even compatible with just mission functions?

glossy inlet Oct 8, 2021, 8:19 AM

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vital fractal Hey folks - just curious if anyone has had a chance to play around with the mod ...

Its a mod thing, cannot do it in missions

glossy inlet Oct 8, 2021, 8:21 AM

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nimble current specifically i have a MODNAME macro, and i use that in subsequent macros for exa...

Are these the actual macros in your config? are you 100% sure that MODNAME macro is visible where that NEW_VEHICLE one is used?

glossy inlet Oct 8, 2021, 8:21 AM

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nimble current only error in the bin logs i can find is ` 23:34:24: Cannot read registry HKEY_L...

Here have a fixed binarize.exe that doesn't fail finding binmake

📎 binarize_x64.exe

nimble current Oct 8, 2021, 8:33 AM

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glossy inlet Here have a fixed binarize.exe that doesn't fail finding binmake

Thanks! and yes i'm confident MODNAME exists its about 3 lines above it, I've fixed it now:

Tracked it down to some weird issue with nested macros, possibly limited to pbo project as the addon builder works fine

tl;dr:
this is very old (2 year) code thats been working great up until i switched to pbo project from addon builder:

#define MODNAME hobmod
#define MACRO_NEW_VEHICLE(group,name) MODNAME##_##group##_##name
...
class MACRO_NEW_VEHICLE(boat,mk1) {

this has been working well up until now, and expanding to, as expected, hobmod_boat_mk1

However after the switch to pbo project it started expanding to: MODNAME_boat_mk1

After some debugging, i discovered that if i use:

#define CONCAT(a,b) a##b
#define CONCAT_3(a,b,c) CONCAT(a,CONCAT(b,c))
#define CONCAT_4(a,b,c,d) CONCAT(a,CONCAT_3(b,c,d))
#define CONCAT_5(a,b,c,d,e) CONCAT(a,CONCAT_4(b,c,d,e))
#define macro_new_vehicle(group,name) CONCAT_5(MODNAME,_,group,_,name)

it starts working again, it appears that, for some reason "basic macros" (i.e ones that don't take parameters) don't expand when inside the body of another macro, "complex macros" (those with parameters) do expand

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as much as i'm confident its me doing something wrong, not the tools, the arma engine pre-processes these macros correctly when fed an unbinarized or processed file, as does addon builder, but it appears pbo project does not

grand kelp Oct 8, 2021, 11:43 AM

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possibly limited to pbo project as the addon builder works fine
This is a very obvious statement, as one checks stuff and the other does not.

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MACROS are a finniky thing, however I personally don't see the added value of a macro with < 2 arguments.

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Best advice I can give you until Mikero arrives is to get it working with pboproject once, and stick to it. If you're confident you've discovered an error or issue, it'll get patched out fairly quick.

dawn palm Oct 8, 2021, 1:16 PM

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checking....

dawn palm Oct 8, 2021, 3:21 PM

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@nimble current fix coming soon😋

dawn palm Oct 8, 2021, 4:08 PM

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i've taken you off my xmas card list

nimble current Oct 8, 2021, 5:29 PM

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dawn palm <@!181324798046109697> fix coming soon😋

thats my second pbo project bug i've found, i help rooAwwClap

dawn palm Oct 8, 2021, 5:39 PM

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not only xmas cards, the easter bunny won't visit you either.

nimble current Oct 8, 2021, 5:56 PM

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rooFade

nimble current Oct 8, 2021, 5:57 PM

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dawn palm not only xmas cards, the easter bunny won't visit you either.

<3

dawn palm Oct 12, 2021, 2:05 AM

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@nimble current , latest tool release fixes your #defines

nimble current Oct 12, 2021, 9:04 AM

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dawn palm <@!181324798046109697> , latest tool release fixes your #defines

Thanks! while i'm here, is it possible to get the output of the console window that pops up when i run pboProject from command line into either stdout or a log file? it doesn't appear to be the packing.log or bin.log

scenic canopy Oct 12, 2021, 9:59 AM

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currently no

dawn palm Oct 12, 2021, 10:40 AM

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the only way either of above will happen if you preset noisy to what you want.

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and, your best method of sending everything to a log is
pboProject blah blah >> wherever.txt

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and dahlgren is quite right, there's no method in the pboProject cmdline itself to generate these things.

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if you use the cmdline itself. it is expected you have good familiarity with dos console cmds. things like

&2>>&1> somewhere

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because. after all, you are giving up a gui that ,makes these things more discernable with much,. much more control of the outcome.

nimble current Oct 12, 2021, 11:07 AM

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dawn palm because. after all, you are giving up a gui that ,makes these things more discer...

as i understand, when you call pbo project, it spawns a second executable

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i tried >> but it didnt output anything

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i assume thats because the actual pboProject.exe you call via cmd doesnt output anything

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currently i check to see if pbo project output a file, and if it didnt i run the command again but without -P and read it

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but this makes automation, especially CI, rather difficult

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at least if i want the ci logs to output why it failed

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for example, if i use

& "$pboProject" "-P" "-M=$output" "P:\$mod" *>output.txt

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the file is empty

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happens with all levels of -noisy

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and the $mod.bin.log file appears to not generate at all if the build failed

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making it, as far as i can tell, impossible to get the "useful error" into a file / stdout / etc, i.e config.cpp: circa Line 306 Expected Semicolon OR bad array syntax

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i have a dream of making CI to publish my mod to the workshop, and i'm almost there, but i want the reason why it failed to be displayed in the ci output :(

dawn palm Oct 12, 2021, 11:26 AM

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drop the aster in *>

nimble current Oct 12, 2021, 11:30 AM

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https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/microsoft.powershell.core/about/about_redirection?view=powershell-7.1 thats powershell syntax for all streams, but okay

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file still empty

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curiously, it does something

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it appears to break the text in the window that pops up

dawn palm Oct 12, 2021, 11:31 AM

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i have zero interest in powershell. it has nothing to do with dos/penguin bat/bash syntax

nimble current Oct 12, 2021, 11:32 AM

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oh does this work in cmd?

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hmm

dawn palm Oct 12, 2021, 11:33 AM

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it should, and if it doesn't in powershell, i have zero interest in making it happen.

nimble current Oct 12, 2021, 11:33 AM

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tried it with cmdline

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same thing

dawn palm Oct 12, 2021, 11:33 AM

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ok

nimble current Oct 12, 2021, 11:33 AM

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it doesn't copy into discord very well, but when i try piping the output it produces broken symbols

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in the window that pops up

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the file im piping too remains empty

dawn palm Oct 12, 2021, 11:34 AM

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well, i'll test it here again....

nimble current Oct 12, 2021, 11:34 AM

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i'll check for updates

dawn palm Oct 12, 2021, 11:34 AM

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it should be a non-issue, if not, it's a bug. am fairly sure python has no problems with > and >>

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(or didn't)

nimble current Oct 12, 2021, 11:35 AM

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yeah i think this is a bug, i cant send screenshots in here but when i pipe the output to a file the file is empty

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in both batch and powershell

dawn palm Oct 12, 2021, 11:35 AM

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k

nimble current Oct 12, 2021, 11:36 AM

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sorry for the hassle, your tools are great, well worth the money <3

dawn palm Oct 12, 2021, 11:37 AM

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well, you've lost out on xmas cards, the easter bunny, and now, the tooth fairy won't visit you any more.

nimble current Oct 12, 2021, 11:37 AM

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rooD

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everyone else gets improvements to the tools, so i'll suffer this fate rooFade

dawn palm Oct 12, 2021, 12:11 PM

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aaaaaah, bugger. it's win10. they changed how dos consoles are created.
@)$++)$+)*+%)@@%

nimble current Oct 12, 2021, 12:11 PM

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F

sly skiff Oct 12, 2021, 12:23 PM

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Just you wait for Win11

dawn palm Oct 12, 2021, 12:40 PM

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lemmings

torpid valve Oct 12, 2021, 1:16 PM

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@dawn palm btw your tool throws an error for # which is a scripting command. e.g: action = [_this#1] call fnc_blabla;

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says Unknown #

scenic canopy Oct 12, 2021, 1:20 PM

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the cmd console will eat up all stdout/stderr, no extra pipe handling will fix that 🙂

dawn palm Oct 12, 2021, 1:35 PM

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@torpid valve , thanks for the heads up. i've not seen that syntax used before. what is it supposed to do?

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is it shorthand for select 1

torpid valve Oct 12, 2021, 1:35 PM

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it's the equivalent of select

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yeah

dawn palm Oct 12, 2021, 1:35 PM

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ok

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this was formerly only allowed in 02script. the sqf processor would not accept it

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afaik

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no. not afaik, arrowhead (at least) would not accept #(select)

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#%))+_+^#@+_

scenic canopy Oct 12, 2021, 1:53 PM

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

a hash b

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Arma 3 1.82

neon flax Oct 12, 2021, 1:53 PM

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Hash as select is at least 2 years old

scenic canopy Oct 12, 2021, 1:53 PM

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yep, 11th of April 2018

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3,5 year 🙂

dawn palm Oct 12, 2021, 8:17 PM

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@)(+
(I%@(*%@%()@

orchid shadow Oct 13, 2021, 4:26 PM

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topkek

nimble current Oct 13, 2021, 9:45 PM

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okay so

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i'm probably going to get a restraining order from mikero for this, but i found what i think is another error

creating a texheaders.bin

debug trap (you shouldn't see this)
textures\insignia\ava1.paa:debug trap (you shouldn't see this)

debug trap (you shouldn't see this)
detex: debug trap (you shouldn't see this)

texheaders.bin failed
</MakePbo>
makepbo failed: texheaders.bin failed
HOB_Units.pbo not produced due to error(s)

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rooBooli

dawn palm Oct 13, 2021, 10:09 PM

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sorry, cannot help, am still resolving the >text.pipe

nimble current Oct 13, 2021, 10:10 PM

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thats okay i want that one more anyway lol

thin nova Oct 14, 2021, 1:00 AM

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I have a (hopefully embarrassingly simple) question/problem with pboProject:

my file structure is:

P:\tg\construct
|- Data
|- $PBOPREFIX$.txt
|- config.cpp
|- etc...

$PBOPREFIX$ has this inside:

prefix=tg\construct

everything is being built correctly and works fine in game, but the problem is the resulting .pbo is called construct.pbo instead of tg_construct.pbo. What am I missing here?

pliant lynx Oct 14, 2021, 1:21 AM

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illegal namespace "tg", learn how to use ofpec addon tags https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/OFPEC_tags addon tag missing from "construct" addon.

OFPEC tags

thin nova Oct 14, 2021, 1:51 AM

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ive changed tag to tgn in all instances and still produces a tagless pbo

pliant lynx Oct 14, 2021, 1:54 AM

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you run pboproject from GUI and point the source (whatever its called was years ago when I last used GUI) into tgn_construct directory?

thin nova Oct 14, 2021, 1:56 AM

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okay, that might be my problem. top level directory is tgn with a folder inside called construct

pliant lynx Oct 14, 2021, 1:56 AM

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well, that'll do it 😉

thin nova Oct 14, 2021, 1:56 AM

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gotcha

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👍

nimble current Oct 14, 2021, 4:07 AM

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this debug trap (you shouldn't see this) error is happening with multiple people now, its not happening to me and we're all on the same commit

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i've not been able to figure out how to fix it

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deleting the file and redownloading it, deleting the temp folder, same error

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even tried reinstalling all mikeros tools and updating

pliant lynx Oct 14, 2021, 4:24 AM

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textures\insignia\ava1.paa:debug trap no idea what "debug trap" means, but its something to do with "ava1.paa" texture. I suggest you go through it that its been created and saved properly. I also have on idea about insignia textures... but other textures require suffix, like _CO or _CA etc, might be worth looking into that (unless I'm completely wrong about it).

dawn palm Oct 14, 2021, 4:30 AM

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@thin nova

the prefix in a $pboprefix$ or $pboprefix$.txt is completely ignored.
you should not be using a $pboprefix$ without the .txt extension. Future updates WILL drop support for that useless file, which (in the past) has caused pain and suffering.
you can rename a pbo to anything that gives you a thrill. How to do that is right in front of you on the gui.

dawn palm Oct 14, 2021, 4:31 AM

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nimble current this debug trap (you shouldn't see this) error is happening with multiple people...

how do 'multiple people' expect me to fix this, if they don't contact me?

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debug traps are a self imposed minefield for my code when it detects bis have moved goalposts in some way.

as a (non existent) example:

scope=4;

nimble current Oct 14, 2021, 4:48 AM

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dawn palm debug traps are a self imposed minefield for my code when it detects bis have mo...

so i walked another dev working on the same mod through installing mikeros, putting all the dependency mods in the p drive, installing our git repo

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should be identical to my local setup

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however, they get the above error

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and i dont

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using the same build script

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i've tried having them delete and then redownload the file, even zipping up my copy of the repo incase its some kind of file corruption

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reinstalled arma 3 tools

nimble current Oct 14, 2021, 5:20 AM

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        adding  \HOB_Units\models\model.cfg
.........
bullshit1


Failed. View->output logs for \HOB_Units
HOB_Units.pbo not produced due to error(s)

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...uhhhhh, so i managed to reproduce one of the errors by just reinstalling everything myself

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nowhere in all the mods i'm dependent on or in my mod is the phrase "bullshit1"

dawn palm Oct 14, 2021, 7:24 AM

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k

dawn palm Oct 14, 2021, 7:50 AM

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torpid valve <@!179204846019149824> btw your tool throws an error for `#` which is a scriptin...

sqf statements need to be put between "quotes"

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it's probable that bis tools don't need this because they don't check syntax at all, mine do.

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action = "[_this#1] call fnc_blabla";

torpid valve Oct 14, 2021, 11:18 AM

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dawn palm sqf statements need to be put between "quotes"

The reason I don't put quotes is because I use preprocessor macros in my codes.

glossy inlet Oct 14, 2021, 11:27 AM

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you can use single quotes with macros

torpid valve Oct 14, 2021, 2:43 PM

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Really? meowsweats

nimble current Oct 14, 2021, 5:29 PM

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this would still cause the issue of # select not working

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rooThink

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because, i assume, its detecting # as a preprocessor directive

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not a sqf function

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putting it in quotes fixes the issue, but thats because quotes out rank preprocessor directives

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you can put sqf in single quotes and then use preprocessor directives, but then # would be detected as a preprocessor directive and not a sqf function

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guessin here but idk how you'd fix that

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change the detection of preprocessor commands from #^[a-zA-Z0-9_.-]* to looking for every specific preprocessor command i guess

nocturne basin Oct 14, 2021, 6:33 PM

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Is arma preprocessor actually executing instructions everywhere?
Like... It should "just" be after newline + whitespace the first # marks the start

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Any any other char but whitespace means no preprocessor instruction

glossy inlet Oct 15, 2021, 9:50 AM

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Is arma preprocessor actually executing instructions everywhere?
no, # valid only at linestarts

dawn palm Oct 15, 2021, 9:55 AM

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latest release ensures only linestarts. previously also, but, potentially un-reliable

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@torpid valve ^^

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(cause of error for Leopard was my code was a little too klever, lintchecking the awful syntax of sqxsh*t)

dawn palm Oct 15, 2021, 3:50 PM

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pboProject update
allowed compression for dayz

cli improvements

fixed missing output text to screen

fixed missing -B (no binarise cpp/sqm) to cli
changed -Island= to +Island=
changed -Island to turn off
added +DeletePng after conversion(arma only)
added +-H convert wav/wss to ogg
added +-Q delete wav/wss after conversion
added +-J automake stale pbos
added +X=comma,separated,list of exclude files
added +Z=comma,separated,list of compress exceptions

native flame Oct 15, 2021, 5:55 PM

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I'm trying pboProject with the mod I'm working on and I'm failing on this

Missing File Summary
cfgFunctions.hpp : HMD\functions\event
cfgFunctions.hpp : HMD\functions\process
cfgFunctions.hpp : HMD\functions\render
cfgFunctions.hpp : HMD\functions\ui
cfgFunctions.hpp : HMD\functions\util

What exactly does "missing file summary" refer to? The text is a bit ambiguous.

dawn palm Oct 15, 2021, 6:09 PM

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it's a summary list of all the missing files, or folders, it has encountered during processing

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as in P:\HMD\functions\util does not exist

native flame Oct 15, 2021, 6:13 PM

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They certainly do and regular addon builder as well as Arma are happy so that's why I'm confused.

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If I change "\" to "/" it disappears and successfully builds. But then Arma can't find functions anymore.

dawn palm Oct 15, 2021, 6:20 PM

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addon builder is happy with anything because it ignores all errors

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in windows file\references, accept \ or / so if they're where you say they are (on the p: drive) it should not have come up with missing.

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(you're at the mercy of bis as to whether / and \ are equivalent, but my tools accept either)

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paste me the section of code where some of those references are made.

native flame Oct 15, 2021, 6:30 PM

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Does it require the P-Drive? Because I'm not using that yet. Is that the cause?

dawn palm Oct 15, 2021, 6:30 PM

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as in P:\HMD\functions\util does not exist

native flame Oct 15, 2021, 6:35 PM

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So it can't run locally? I'm scrolling through the entire log and it's ignoring the actual physical drive everything is on (or just not logging it).

\<something>\pilot-displays\HMD\functions/cfgFunctions.hpp circa Line 7: HMD\functions\event
\<something>\pilot-displays\HMD\functions/cfgFunctions.hpp circa Line 20: HMD\functions\process
\<something>\pilot-displays\HMD\functions/cfgFunctions.hpp circa Line 28: HMD\functions\render
\<something>\pilot-displays\HMD\functions/cfgFunctions.hpp circa Line 41: HMD\functions\ui
\<something>\pilot-displays\HMD\functions/cfgFunctions.hpp circa Line 52: HMD\functions\util

dawn palm Oct 15, 2021, 6:39 PM

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it can't crunch 'locally' you need all your ducks in a row on a virtual drive such as P: and use arma3p to extract all game data.

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when making models or maps, p drive MUST contain all relevant data in order to bake in rvmats (p3d) or discover land classes (wrp)

native flame Oct 15, 2021, 6:42 PM

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no models or maps contained. Just code. Hence I fail to understand why extracting game data from magical places is necessary.
My goal is to use this as a smarter tool that actually tells me if I have issues in my code and build+sign the pbo. I'd expect for that to work without a full P-Drive setup.

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But if that wasn't within the intended design of the tool then that's fine. Just wanted to know.

dawn palm Oct 15, 2021, 6:43 PM

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what you expect then is a contradiction.. how can it tell you you have issues (such as typos) if you don't want it to check?

native flame Oct 15, 2021, 6:44 PM

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How does the P-Drive change the code that is to be checked? I feel like I'm fundamentally misunderstanding what this tool is for.

dawn palm Oct 15, 2021, 6:45 PM

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it looks at all possible , potential, errors, such as you mistyping
HMD\functions\Atil

native flame Oct 15, 2021, 6:47 PM

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Aye. How does a "P:\\HMD\functions\Atil" differ from (in my case) "E:\\<path>\HMD\functions\atil"?

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I'm telling the tool the root directory of the sources, hence I assumed the location would not matter.

dawn palm Oct 15, 2021, 6:48 PM

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you cannot specify ANY drive: in your code.

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it ALL begins at \ (linux)

native flame Oct 15, 2021, 6:52 PM

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class APD_HMD_Functions
{
    tag = "APD";

    class Event
    {
        file = "HMD\functions\event";

        class onGetIn {};
        class onGetInMan {};
        class onGetOut {};
        class onGetOutMan {};
...

Correct, I don't. But I specify full paths in either the regular addon builder or in pboProject.
So I thought if I give pboProject "E:\\<path>\pilot-displays" as the source folder it would work relative from there.

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So to clarify. pboProject is not supposed to be and not intended to run from anywhere but the P-Drive?

dawn palm Oct 15, 2021, 6:52 PM

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totally correct.

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every asset you use, from bis, yourself, or others, must be on that drive

native flame Oct 15, 2021, 6:55 PM

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Thanks for the clarification.

scenic canopy Oct 15, 2021, 7:14 PM

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DokanPbo can mount the PBOs as virtual folders and files

split fox Oct 16, 2021, 8:14 AM

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Just another thing to open pbo: https://github.com/winseros/pboman3

native flame Oct 16, 2021, 12:44 PM

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So I have fiddled for a few hours trying to get a successful build with pboProject and so far (after setting up the work drive) the only success was to specify the full path for everything.

For example hmd\functions\event would be fine for the regular builder as the "config.cpp" would be in z\pilot-displays\addons\hmd while pboProject forces me to use the full z\pilot-displays\addons\hmd\functions\event instead.

I assumed the difference might be that I tell pboProject to build from actual root ("pilot-displays") while I have to tell the default builder to go from the mod folder ("pilot-displays/addons/hmd"). But when I setup the work drive to have "hmd" as the root pboProject still forces me to use z\hmd\functions\event.

So one way to build enforces a full path while the other enforces a relative path. Is the full path one of the stricter requirements that pboProject expects? Which in turn also causes enforcing a specific path that starts with "z"?

native flame Oct 16, 2021, 2:00 PM

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It becomes even weirder. After building successfully at least once I can intentionally change the path to something non-existing and subsequent crunches still succeed until I restart the tool.

dawn palm Oct 17, 2021, 1:55 AM

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the reason why a \full\path is required as the source folder is because it is also the prefix embedded in the header of the pbo.

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as stated to you already, every asset must be on the 'pdrive'. I have no interest in on-again, off-again 'tricks' with relative addressing.

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and, the reason why the 'pdrive' must also be specifed in that source folder is that pboProject then knows which drive to access for every other \ref\er\ence

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if you think about the above, elegant, simple solution, how else would YOU specify:
+the prefix to use, and,
+where are the other assets located?

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finally, there is the (currently unknown to you) P:\temp
This is the location that bis binarise MUST have where every >binarised< asset placed. Note carefully, binarised, not unbinarised source. So how would you suggest i ensure that every binarised source (including yours) is provided to the bis tool to work with?

native flame Oct 17, 2021, 7:43 AM

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I'm just trying to comprehend how everything is supposed to work as there are quite unique processes. I don't wanna proceed on assumptions because it coincidentally worked.
So in Arma projects full paths are, by BIS and the community, the right way to do this?
You also mentioned a prefix, where does it come from?

dawn palm Oct 17, 2021, 10:32 AM

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the 'prefix' is the starting location for all the files in any given pbo.

a pbo ONLY saves the following information.
data\texture1.paa
data\texture2.paa
etc

BUT

it's actual address is:

\pre\fix\data\texture1.paa
\pre\fix\data\texture2.paa
etc

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So in Arma projects full paths are, by BIS and the community

yes. and the reason for it is bis don't use relative addressing for anything. EVERTHING for the engine begins at
\some\where

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it is totally impossible for you to access a texture by saying

texture=data\texture1.paa

native flame Oct 17, 2021, 10:37 AM

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Okay so the regular builder seems to be doing much more magic than I thought. Thanks for the infos.

dawn palm Oct 17, 2021, 10:38 AM

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my pleasure. and apologies for my rude manner, but, over the years i've found being savage about it seems to get the message across best.

native flame Oct 17, 2021, 10:39 AM

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Oh I don't mind. I have a bad habit of being pesky until I understand exactly how something works. Even if that entails asking the same question 5 times.

dawn palm Oct 17, 2021, 10:40 AM

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good

dawn palm Oct 18, 2021, 10:43 AM

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tools update; A shiny new snapshot of the current subscriber dll has been supplied in the FREE toolset. It addresses several issues with #defines. And even more error checking.

royal heath Oct 18, 2021, 6:18 PM

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@dawn palm

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hello mate

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I want to report one of the game problems About tools

sly skiff Oct 18, 2021, 6:24 PM

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@royal heath best way is to describe the problem right away

royal heath Oct 18, 2021, 6:25 PM

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ok

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I want to send a message in you Direct

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please

sly skiff Oct 18, 2021, 6:30 PM

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no not to me. I got nothing to do with the tools

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and this place should work just fine

royal heath Oct 18, 2021, 6:31 PM

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can you tell me how can i find some admin for fix that problem

sly skiff Oct 18, 2021, 6:31 PM

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you have not explained the problem

royal heath Oct 18, 2021, 6:32 PM

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Can you delete the fsaa option?
By changing the fsaa, all the leaves of the trees disappear

sly skiff Oct 18, 2021, 6:32 PM

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that has nothing to do with mikeros tools...

royal heath Oct 18, 2021, 6:32 PM

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soo who please

sly skiff Oct 18, 2021, 6:32 PM

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and its probelm with your gpu drivers

royal heath Oct 18, 2021, 6:33 PM

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no i dont think so

sly skiff Oct 18, 2021, 6:33 PM

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its supposed to be fixed in latest AMD drivers

glossy inlet Oct 18, 2021, 6:33 PM

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royal heath no i dont think so

Yes it is

sly skiff Oct 18, 2021, 6:33 PM

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royal heath no i dont think so

I know so

royal heath Oct 18, 2021, 6:33 PM

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wow

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you mean just for me it das

sly skiff Oct 18, 2021, 6:33 PM

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no many people has had the problem

glossy inlet Oct 18, 2021, 6:33 PM

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No its a common problem

sly skiff Oct 18, 2021, 6:33 PM

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with AMD drivers

royal heath Oct 18, 2021, 6:34 PM

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rx 470 4 gb 256 bit]

sly skiff Oct 18, 2021, 6:34 PM

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and latest drives is said to work right again

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if they dont you need to contact AMD

glossy inlet Oct 18, 2021, 6:34 PM

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But its not FSAA, its ATOC.
One lower in the settings

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Turn it off, and its fine

royal heath Oct 18, 2021, 6:35 PM

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I have not liked the game since I saw this problem

glossy inlet Oct 18, 2021, 6:36 PM

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Well its not the game's fault, its AMD's fault

royal heath Oct 18, 2021, 6:36 PM

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How can I send you a photo?

glossy inlet Oct 18, 2021, 6:37 PM

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You don't

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:U

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Good night, sleep well later or something

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https://vid.pr0gramm.com/2021/10/18/7d200062b7f1213b.mp4

▶ Play video

royal heath Oct 18, 2021, 6:38 PM

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See when I disable the fsaa option, the game becomes normal But when I change to the x2 or x4 x8 option, all the leaves of the trees disappear

rancid anvil Oct 18, 2021, 6:39 PM

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royal heath See when I disable the fsaa option, the game becomes normal But when I change t...

so just disable fsaa?

sly skiff Oct 18, 2021, 6:40 PM

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rancid anvil Oct 18, 2021, 6:40 PM

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sly skiff

look at that guy using his fancy image embed powers awe

sly skiff Oct 18, 2021, 6:40 PM

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you can enable FSAA but you need to turn off ATOC

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or update your gpu drivers

royal heath Oct 18, 2021, 6:41 PM

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ok i will .but Can't report this problem to fix it? or delete ?

sly skiff Oct 18, 2021, 6:41 PM

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you can report it to AMD

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it is not a game bug

royal heath Oct 18, 2021, 6:41 PM

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ok

sly skiff Oct 18, 2021, 6:41 PM

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it is a gpu driver bug

royal heath Oct 18, 2021, 6:42 PM

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I hope it's my problem, not the game

sly skiff Oct 18, 2021, 6:42 PM

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it is

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many others have had it

royal heath Oct 18, 2021, 6:42 PM

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ok Anyway, thank you

sly skiff Oct 18, 2021, 6:43 PM

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rancid anvil look at that guy using his fancy image embed powers <:awe:697509122253258833>

🔷 🦾

nimble current Oct 19, 2021, 12:38 AM

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can someone make a tool that lets steam workshop contributors publish a mod pls

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thank

scenic canopy Oct 19, 2021, 1:09 AM

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Steamworks don't allow it, Valve would need to expand permissions for that

glossy inlet Oct 19, 2021, 8:32 AM

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nimble current can someone make a tool that lets steam workshop contributors publish a mod pls

pls ask valve to allow it

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thank

nimble current Oct 19, 2021, 8:51 AM

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glossy inlet pls ask valve to allow it

it is allowed, standard workshop api lets all contributors upload the mod, its a publisher tool limitation

glossy inlet Oct 19, 2021, 9:18 AM

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huh since when :u

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thats neat

nimble current Oct 19, 2021, 9:19 AM

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i cant find the steam workshop patch notes

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but it was a recent update yeah

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maybe last couple months?

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i've done it for garrysmod, i'm not sure if it requires some steam option change on BI's side or if you just need to upgrade the publisher exe

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supposedly tho steamcmd can manually update a workshop mod

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so i might try that later

glossy inlet Oct 19, 2021, 9:25 AM

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https://steamcommunity.com/groups/steamworks/announcements steamworks sdk updates are here

nimble current Oct 19, 2021, 9:30 AM

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yeah i just tested it with garrysmod, you just need to be a contributor to upload the mod

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aight time to figure out this steamworks api for steamcmd.exe and make Publisher.ps1 rooVV1

glossy inlet Oct 19, 2021, 9:33 AM

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Can't see anything in the steamworks changenotes about it

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I'd love to have that feature if it is possible

nimble current Oct 19, 2021, 9:39 AM

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yeah i cant find anything in the changenotes, but it 100% works, at least for garrysmod

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im testing with arma 3 using steamcmd now

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https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/features/workshop/implementation#SteamCmd

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hah HAH!

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totally works

nimble current Oct 19, 2021, 9:49 AM

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glossy inlet I'd love to have that feature if it is possible

i just updated a arma 3 workshop mod i am not the owner of, just a contributor, using steamcmd https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/features/workshop/implementation#SteamCmd

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idk who i have to ask to get support for workshop mods not owned by yourself added to the publisher.exe but maybe you do?

glossy inlet Oct 19, 2021, 9:50 AM

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Me

nimble current Oct 19, 2021, 9:51 AM

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i can provide detailed information on how exactly i did it using steamcmd but its not complicated, i just specified a workshop id of a mod i dont own

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following the wiki page i linked

glossy inlet Oct 19, 2021, 9:51 AM

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The main problem is probably steamworks API that returns also items that you are contributor on

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we don't use steamcmd

nimble current Oct 19, 2021, 9:52 AM

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yeah thats an issue

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maybe a "advanced" box that lets you enter an app id?

glossy inlet Oct 19, 2021, 9:52 AM

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But if we can get the list of items, and just add it into publisher that might already be sufficient

nimble current Oct 19, 2021, 9:52 AM

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and then it checks if you're a contributor

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yeah it appears the only options are to poll every single workshop item and check contributors, maybe a more workable solution is to search the users subscribed items for contributor access? with a fallback manual workshop id entry box that the user can specify a workshop mod and then the publisher can check if the users a contributor

glossy inlet Oct 19, 2021, 9:59 AM

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Found it
https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/api/ISteamUGC#EUserUGCList
Thats how we query
k_EUserUGCList_Published
List of files the user has published.

nimble current Oct 19, 2021, 9:59 AM

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yeah i was just reading this

glossy inlet Oct 19, 2021, 9:59 AM

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There is no option for "List of files the user is contributor on" :/

nimble current Oct 19, 2021, 9:59 AM

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appears theres no way to get

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yeah

glossy inlet Oct 19, 2021, 10:00 AM

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I also see no SteamUGC api to retrieve the list of contributors on an item

nimble current Oct 19, 2021, 10:00 AM

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theres a webapi, is there no C api...

glossy inlet Oct 19, 2021, 10:00 AM

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but we need the C api :U

nimble current Oct 19, 2021, 10:15 AM

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maybe theres a check to see if you're authorized to publish to the mod

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like "if allowed to publish"

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instead of looking for if you're a contributor directly

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rooThink

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i mean the fallback is just let the user input any mod and handle the error on upload

glossy inlet Oct 19, 2021, 10:19 AM

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I made myself a ticket to look at it someday

nimble current Oct 19, 2021, 10:29 AM

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I guess for now i'll just post this:
How to update a workshop mod that you're a contributor for, not just the owner:
1: Install SteamCMD: https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/SteamCMD#Downloading_SteamCMD
2: run steamcmd (Using cmd prompt / powershell), login to it with login <username>, it will then ask you for a password and 2fa if configured.
3: in the same folder as SteamCmd.exe, create a file called "MyMod.vdf" (name isn't important)
4: edit that file with your text editor of choice and put in:

"workshopitem"
{
 "appid" "107410"
 "publishedfileid" "WORKSHOP_APP_ID_HERE"
 "contentfolder" "P:\\@Your-Mod"
 "visibility" "0"
 "changenote" "Your Changelog"
}

Replace WORKSHOP_APP_ID_HERE with the workshop id of your mod, change the contentFolder path to the path of your built mod, then write your changelog in changenote field, save the file.
Back in SteamCMD, type workshop_build_item MyMod.vdf (with the name of the vdf file you made)
assuming you're a contributor to the workshop mod, it'll upload and you'll have updated the mod!

Read the steamworks wiki for more info https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/features/workshop/implementation#SteamCmd

Update, you can also use PublisherCMD, so long as you are a contributor to the mod, see https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Publisher for info

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rooAwwClap i hep

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maybe one day steamworks will add proper support for this and publisher can be upgraded rooFade

neon flax Oct 19, 2021, 10:44 AM

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so basically, just use standard steamcmd upload method and it should work 😛

scenic canopy Oct 19, 2021, 10:55 AM

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you can also run workshop_build_item ... via regular steam client

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apparently not, that one is removed from the console commands

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only download and status is exposed in console 😦

nimble current Oct 19, 2021, 10:59 AM

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yeah i tried that

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it'd be a lil easier for people, might even be worth making a powershell script

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the arma publisher accepts command line, does it perform ownership checks i wonder?

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if it doesnt that might be an option as well

scenic canopy Oct 19, 2021, 11:01 AM

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easy to test

nimble current Oct 19, 2021, 11:01 AM

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rooThink true

scenic canopy Oct 19, 2021, 11:03 AM

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Steam error code: 2, Error code: 1, Error message: STEAM_API_DLL TODO

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wait, I might not be contributer on my test item, one sec

nimble current Oct 19, 2021, 11:03 AM

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oh wow that broke publisher real hard

scenic canopy Oct 19, 2021, 11:04 AM

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yep, it works fine to publish

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I think last time we tested this was during summer

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and then it didn't work

nimble current Oct 19, 2021, 11:04 AM

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yeah the update was semi-recent

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last couple months

scenic canopy Oct 19, 2021, 11:05 AM

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cool stuff, that simplifies a lot of older items being owned by a user and not a shared account

nimble current Oct 19, 2021, 11:05 AM

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i cant find steam changelogs but we discovered it from gmod dev discords

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yeah

scenic canopy Oct 19, 2021, 11:05 AM

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also really scary about who you add as contributer

nimble current Oct 19, 2021, 11:06 AM

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true

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anyone can publish w/e they want

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and considering that arma can load DLL's

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...

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wow thats a big security hole

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stupid old mods that in like years of arma 3 workshop just setup contributors to everyone that helped out

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some real old mods that arn't maintained who have lots of contributors

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and lots of people using

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... oof

glossy inlet Oct 19, 2021, 11:07 AM

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which is also a reason why not to allow it :wob:

nimble current Oct 19, 2021, 11:07 AM

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i dont think you as BI even have a choice...

glossy inlet Oct 19, 2021, 11:07 AM

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Yeah people can always use steam directly

nimble current Oct 19, 2021, 11:07 AM

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i saw no documentation to control contributors access to workshop uploads

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yikes steam, yikes

glossy inlet Oct 19, 2021, 11:08 AM

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Well we could do something, like add some tag so people have to add a tag to their items to enable it

nimble current Oct 19, 2021, 11:08 AM

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yeah like metadata

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there are probably some cool solutions you guys can make to verify that the publisher exe was used and then setup your own version of contributors with more configurable access

scenic canopy Oct 19, 2021, 11:09 AM

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sounds easy to spoof 😛

nimble current Oct 19, 2021, 11:09 AM

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put something in arma itself that verifies the mod was uploaded by publisher

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it'd probably require some kind of signing, like mod key signing

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it wont be easy to fix that

neon flax Oct 19, 2021, 11:10 AM

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It's cool they allow that

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It's not cool we have no control over that ;D

nimble current Oct 19, 2021, 11:10 AM

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:D

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well im just happy i dont have to pass around a steam account and associated gmail account for 2FA just to maintain a mod worked on by many people

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i'm going to pretend there isnt a glaring security hole and show people how to do

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at least for my mods

neon flax Oct 19, 2021, 11:26 AM

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create dedicated CI account

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long-ass password
disable 2FA

nimble current Oct 19, 2021, 11:26 AM

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yeah thats what we're setting up atm

cobalt stag Oct 19, 2021, 3:11 PM

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@dawn palm can you tell - what exactly your tool don't like here in file R3F_LOG/R3F_LOG_ENABLE.h?
https://pastebin.com/KhYcn7AV

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Ah, don't pay attention. I see the reason

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Another question - if /**/ comment blocks not works in your tool in *.h files - how to add a comments in other way?

solemn isle Oct 19, 2021, 8:21 PM

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@dawn palm small bug report, if you rapify

class CfgPatches
{
    class d {};
};
class a
{
    a[] = {"1"};
};
class b: a
{
    a[] += {"2"};
};

you get

////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
//DeRap: config.bin
//Produced from mikero's Dos Tools Dll version 8.32
//https://mikero.bytex.digital/Downloads
//'now' is Tue Oct 19 22:17:46 2021 : 'file' last modified on Tue Oct 19 22:17:40 2021
////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

#define _ARMA_

class CfgPatches
{
    class d
    {
        units[] = {};
        weapons[] = {};
    };
};
class a
{
    a[] = {"1"};
};
class b: a
{
    a[] = {1,"2"};
};

after derapifying

note that a[0] looses its quotation marks

dawn palm Oct 19, 2021, 9:39 PM

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/*comment blocks*/ work perfectly fine. there's NEVER been a problem with them

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you seem only too ready to blame my tools for your own mistakes.

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@solemn isle , thanks for that. will fix on next release.

cobalt stag Oct 19, 2021, 9:56 PM

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dawn palm you seem only too ready to blame my tools for your own mistakes.

No any blaming, sorry if you thinking so. If I'm wrong here - please correct me there it is.

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after removing a comment block - tool passed a build further

dawn palm Oct 20, 2021, 12:12 PM

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@solemn isle new dll fixes your issue with +=

nimble current Oct 21, 2021, 9:01 PM

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having an issue with pboproject with one of my devs, they've got the mikeros tools bin path in path env var, they've reinstalled all tools, they've disabled antivirus, restarted pc, still getting the error:
locating dewss...registry not found

dawn palm Oct 21, 2021, 9:22 PM

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dewss has not been installed.

lethal pendant Oct 22, 2021, 6:30 AM

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trying to use pbo project to pack up my mod, i reference some uniform models from contact and since theyre ebos pbo project flips out and cant find the files?

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is this intended since we cant peek inside or am i even ok to reference things in ebos or nah

dawn palm Oct 22, 2021, 6:31 AM

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you have to make dummy files \in\the\correct\location

lethal pendant Oct 22, 2021, 6:32 AM

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ahhhhh ok

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makes sense

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thanks

dawn palm Oct 22, 2021, 6:32 AM

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this is to ensure, you have no typos

lethal pendant Oct 22, 2021, 6:32 AM

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rog, much appreciated

dawn palm Oct 22, 2021, 11:23 AM

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new dll for rapify now accepts the following pre-processor commands:

#if(n)def __has_include
and
#if (!)__has_include("some\file")

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it is normal for these commands to supply a config.CPP (not BIN). make sure you set/check the appropriate button, because the same commands also make sense for teams supplying binarised content with different variants

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binarised or not, my tools always look for errors regardless

scenic canopy Oct 22, 2021, 11:49 AM

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🎉

glossy inlet Oct 22, 2021, 11:51 AM

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#if(n)def __has_include
only #if supports __has_include, #ifdef and #ifndef don't, also wouldn't make any sense there anyway?

dawn palm Oct 22, 2021, 11:53 AM

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it is reccomended to use it by the gcc compiler to establish whether or not the version of the compiler supports it

glossy inlet Oct 22, 2021, 11:53 AM

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I guess ifdef will always return true maybe? and ifndef always false?

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Well we are not the GCC compiler

dawn palm Oct 22, 2021, 11:54 AM

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yes for later version of my dll, else the reverse is true

glossy inlet Oct 22, 2021, 11:54 AM

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and
#if (!)__has_include("some\file")

~~!__has_include is not supported~~

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is it?

dawn palm Oct 22, 2021, 11:54 AM

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i support it

glossy inlet Oct 22, 2021, 11:54 AM

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You seem to be finding things out about my code that I didn't know I did

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Correct, no its not supported, !__has_include is preproc parser error

dawn palm Oct 22, 2021, 11:56 AM

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too bad. i support the gcc standard

glossy inlet Oct 22, 2021, 11:57 AM

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binarised or not, my tools always look for errors regardless
But you ignore these errors here?
while has_include can be used for offline compilation (though I have never seen anyone do that) its main intention is to be used in unbinarized configs in-game.
And there you won't actually detect errors if you support/allow things the game doesn't support

dawn palm Oct 22, 2021, 12:00 PM

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then most folks will stick to your standards, even if they use my tools. for those using offline compilation (which i too have never seen so far) they have a little more freedom.

glossy inlet Oct 22, 2021, 12:01 PM

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Do you set some macro during binarization so that people can detect if their config is currently processed "offline" ?
That would probably be neat

dawn palm Oct 22, 2021, 12:02 PM

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yes

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it's an embedded #define

dawn palm Oct 25, 2021, 5:08 AM

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tools update:
dll: restored compression for files
pboPro: fixed last 'exclude from pbo' entry was ignored
added psd and cmd files to the list
deanm: (dayz only) added 'notes' decoding and editing for anm files

maiden grail Oct 25, 2021, 4:34 PM

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Hi!
I have a little problem with the interface because of a freeze of the software and I'm having trouble getting everything back in place (http://image.noelshack.com/fichiers/2021/43/1/1635179600-image-2021-10-25-183319.png). I tried to uninstall Objet Builder then A3 Tools but nothing works. Would you have a solution to help me?
Thanks in advance

scenic canopy Oct 25, 2021, 5:17 PM

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current state is stored in registry HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Bohemia Interactive\Object Builder

maiden grail Oct 25, 2021, 10:13 PM

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It's good now
Thanks for your help !

barren grove Oct 26, 2021, 1:10 PM

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Hey,
Since yesterday I have huge problem, I cant upload/update anything to the Workshop anymore, no matter if I try to publish something via the Editor or via Publisher.
I am always getting the error:
'"Something went wrong
Steam error code :16, Error code 1, Error message: STEAM_API_DLL TODO"
https://prnt.sc/1xdnpiu
I even tried to upload it from another PC on an different Network, but still got the same error, but I worked with another Steam account without any problems.
I tried a lot of things but nothing fixed the issue :/

glossy inlet Oct 26, 2021, 1:12 PM

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I'd love if steam would someday fix their TODO's and add actual error messages 😄

barren grove Oct 26, 2021, 1:17 PM

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I found this in the RPT log, dont know if its any help
2021-10-26 15:03:35,493 [ERROR] 6 SteamLayer: class Steam::Query::PublishedFilesByUserAction query failed
2021-10-26 15:03:35,493 [ERROR] 6 SteamLayer: class Steam::Query::UserSubscribedContentList query failed
2021-10-26 15:03:35,493 [ERROR] 6 SteamLayer: Subscribed list failed
2021-10-26 15:03:36,245 [ERROR] 6 SteamLayer: Request failed: result: 16, req: class Steam::Query::CallbackQuery<class Steam::Query::CreateItemArgs,class Steam::Query::QueryArgs,struct CreateItemResult_t,class Steam::Query::CreateItem,struct Steam::Utils::DefaultResultChecker> *, id: 5905507207615093054

glossy inlet Oct 26, 2021, 1:20 PM

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it cannot even query your mods

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seems like the connection to steam is bad

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but if it also doesn't work on a different PC think_turtle