arma3_texture

[orchid oak]

yeah, hmm though I haven't done hiddenselections for it IIRC

I think I removed the hiddenselections component from the script. have to also define it in the model cfg if I'm remembering correct

[full quarry]

Yeah that's fine then.

If you open up the. Paa in texview do that show thst show the alpha channel?

Also what do you pack the pbo with?

And do the textures work in object builders buldozer viewer

[orchid oak]

I've never gotten buldozer viewer to work correctly. it seems to always either break or give me incorrect results, 100% on my end just not very confident in its usage

texview shows the alpha channel being correct. I'm using addon builder to pack

[full quarry]

Unfortunate. It does help a lot with workflow cycle

[full quarry]

Do you use any named properties!

[orchid oak]

named properties? sorry its been a bit of a min

[full quarry]

Autocenter etc

Typically defined in geometry lod

Different thing from the named selections

[orchid oak]

ahh right! yeah stuff like: style or buoancy
probably inherited from the sample file when I started out

[full quarry]

Those are unlikely to affect alpha draw. It could be addonbuilder somehow messes it up.

[orchid oak]

I could try paking with mikero tools

[tame warren]

Is it possible to make emission maps?

[wooden lantern]

no, you’d have to assign it to a separate rvmat and set the emissive RGB through that as well

[tame warren]

Is there a way to map part of a texture to a different rvmat?

[wooden lantern]

yeah

select the faces hit e assign a different rvmat

or do it in blender by changing the material of the selection to something else

[full quarry]

Yes

But typically emissive parts are given their own rvmat.

Like scout mentioned above

[tame warren]

So it is possible? I'm retexturing armor and trying to make glowing borders (kinda like TRON)

[full quarry]

There is version of super shader called superExt. But documentation on it is very scarce

It don't really make glowing borders though

[tame warren]

What I'm trying to do is make something like an SMDI map that tells it which parts should be emissive

[full quarry]

Super ext should be able to do that. But I don't know if it works on characters. It's intended to lit up scyscraper windows and such (it's transferred over fro take on helicopters)

[tame warren]

Aight I'll look into it. Thanks for the lead

[full quarry]

Also don't know if it works through retexturing as it might need to be assigned directly on the P3d mesh.
But try it out

[wooden lantern]

https://tenor.com/view/cat-thousand-yard-stare-thousand-yard-stare-cat-ptsd-cat-soldier-cat-war-gif-9110270742088459827

…low documentation

must… go mess around with it

[full quarry]

[wooden lantern]

u have any ideas or at least the pixel/vertex shader setup

[full quarry]

Might be mentioned in the chat history here somewhere. 🤔

[charred shuttle]

Hi! I need help to make the blood visible on the uniforms. I can't figure it out yet. I'm gonna try to put the class CfgVehicles code here

    class O_R_Gorka_base_F;
    
    class CCC_Unif_Gen3_D_Empty: B_Soldier_F
    {
        scope=1;
        model="\A3\Characters_F\BLUFOR\b_soldier_01.p3d";
        modelSides[]={0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7};
        hiddenSelectionsTextures[]=
        {
            "\CCC_Gear\Content\Uniforms\CCC_Unif_Gen3_D_co.paa"
        };
        hiddenSelectionsMaterials[]=
        {
            "\CCC_Gear\Content\Uniforms\CCC_Unif_Gen3.rvmat"
        };
        class Wounds
        {
            tex[]={};
            mat[]=
            {
                "\CCC_Gear\Content\Uniforms\CCC_Unif_Gen3.rvmat",
                "\CCC_Gear\Content\Uniforms\CCC_Unif_Gen3_injury.rvmat",
                "\CCC_Gear\Content\Uniforms\CCC_Unif_Gen3_injury.rvmat",
                "A3\Characters_F\BLUFOR\Data\clothing1.rvmat",
                "A3\Characters_F\BLUFOR\Data\clothing1_injury.rvmat",
                "A3\Characters_F\BLUFOR\Data\clothing1_injury.rvmat",
                // I cut a few lines here because message was too long, i took this lines from the game's original file in characters_f.pbo
                "A3\Characters_F_Exp\Heads\Data\hl_asian_02_bald_muscular.rvmat",
                "A3\Characters_F_Exp\Heads\Data\hl_asian_02_bald_muscular_injury.rvmat",
                "A3\Characters_F_Exp\Heads\Data\hl_asian_02_bald_muscular_injury.rvmat"
            };
        };
    };```

Her's my CCC_Unif_Gen3_injury.rvmat file class StageTI { texture="CCC_Gear\Content\Uniforms\CCC_Unif_Gen3_ti_ca.paa"; }; ambient[]={1,1,1,1}; diffuse[]={1,1,1,1}; forcedDiffuse[]={0,0,0,0}; emmisive[]={0,0,0,1}; specular[]={1,1,1,1}; specularPower=20; PixelShaderID="Super"; VertexShaderID="Super"; class Stage1 { texture="CCC_Gear\Content\Uniforms\CCC_Unif_Gen3_nohq.paa"; uvSource="tex"; class uvTransform { aside[]={1,0,0}; up[]={0,1,0}; dir[]={0,0,0}; pos[]={0,0,0}; }; }; class Stage2 { texture="#(argb,8,8,3)color(0.5,0.5,0.5,1,DT)"; uvSource="tex"; class uvTransform { aside[]={1,0,0}; up[]={0,1,0}; dir[]={0,0,0}; pos[]={0,0,0}; }; }; class Stage3 { texture="a3\characters_f\blufor\data\clothing1_injury_mc.paa"; uvSource="tex"; class uvTransform { aside[]={1,0,0}; up[]={0,1,0}; dir[]={0,0,0}; pos[]={0,0,0}; }; }; class Stage4 { texture="CCC_Gear\Content\Uniforms\CCC_Unif_Gen3_as.paa"; uvSource="tex"; class uvTransform { aside[]={1,0,0}; up[]={0,1,0}; dir[]={0,0,0}; pos[]={0,0,0}; }; }; class Stage5 { texture="CCC_Gear\Content\Uniforms\CCC_Unif_Gen3_smdi.paa"; uvSource="tex"; class uvTransform { aside[]={1,0,0}; up[]={0,1,0}; dir[]={0,0,0}; pos[]={0,0,0}; }; }; class Stage6 { texture="#(ai,64,64,1)fresnel(1,0.7)"; uvSource="none"; }; class Stage7 { texture="a3\data_f\env_co.paa"; useWorldEnvMap="true"; uvSource="tex"; class uvTransform { aside[]={1,0,0}; up[]={0,1,0}; dir[]={0,0,0}; pos[]={0,0,0}; }; };

[lethal condor]

Any error (messages/symptoms) you got

[frosty comet]

Are there templates? Like for helmets and stuff?

Retexturing camo is a pain.

[charred shuttle]

no errors

uniforms, helmets, vest, etc all working fine, just can't see blood on the uniform

In the .rvmat file i did use the "clothing1_injury_mc.pa" from the game's file

[lethal condor]

I actually recall modifying damage mat/tex is not even straightforward (maybe impossible). First thing I'd make sure is is it correct class to modify

[charred shuttle]

class CCC_Unif_Gen3_D_Empty: B_Soldier_F
this?

[lethal condor]

No

class Wounds

[charred shuttle]

oh

at class wounds i only create the new .rvmat for the normal and injured states

everything else it's the same from the original file

[lethal condor]

Correct. Pain is the way. You may find some templates online though

[frosty comet]

All I want is a template for the base game modular helmet the AAF uses.

But all the links of the NATO texture templates are defunct.

[charred shuttle]

a template for photoshop?

[frosty comet]

For any platform.

I use Krita.

[charred shuttle]

It's a very basic template, Diferent selections are already saved there, you only need to load the seleccions and copy from your camo layer.

[charred shuttle]

https://tenor.com/view/the-book-of-boba-fett-this-is-the-way-the-armorer-mandalorian-gif-25545276
I'll keep looking, TY!

[frosty comet]

Thank god, thank you.

[frosty comet]

Where are helmets and stuff located in the file directory for Arma?

Trying to find the config for the Modular Helmet.

[full quarry]

Get yourself all in one config dump file for easy config lookup

[frosty comet]

...

I have the P drive mounted and the Arma files unpacked

[full quarry]

Me too. Still using the all in one config file is more convenient

[frosty comet]

I don't know what that means

[full quarry]

If you use notepad++ you can use find in files tool

[full quarry]

There is a script command that writes all loaded config in game into single file

Which is easy to search through and cross reference

[frosty comet]

Well I found the source texture

But not the config that it is under

All there is

[stray relic]

Using hiddenSelectionsMaterials [] on uniforms used to break the blood effect, as it did for vehicles with class Damage material swapping.
It got fixed very recently for vehicles in a game engine update, but not sure it has been for uniform wounding.

[lethal condor]

I wasn't replied to you in the post though. Looks there is no way to change uniform effect actually, I really could not use both hiddenSelectionsMaterials and custom wounds

[copper helm]

Quick question, I have a Nohq file that I am trying to edit. The Nohq I currently have has a Fleece type of texture. Any recommendations on how to smooth it out to look more flat without ruining the highlights?

[full quarry]

Very difficult.

You can try using smoothing tools and maybe reduce the normal intensity by painting ovet it with the neutral normal color

[copper helm]

I was trying to copy the texture I wanted and content aware filling and spot healing. The I tried gaussian blurs to smooth it

[full quarry]

There isn't really any tool that directly would do it.

[tame warren]

Yeah sadly it doesn't appear to work on characters, unless I have the wrong color spectrum (assumed white would be emissive and black would be dark)

[full quarry]

it may be it does not work when applied through hidden selections

[ruby bramble]

what's the best guide for implementing textures out there?

trying to learn (correctly) how to apply a skin to a star wars phase ii helmet for a friend, to learn for future use.

[still elk]

hey guys How can I export PAA files to PNG in batches?

[severe rune]

Go to Arma 3 Tools\ImageToPAA
Drop this file into there.
Then just select all your PAA's, and drag&drop them onto the batchConvert

[floral fiber]

gruppe adler paa converter also does it and outputs a .zip

[upbeat cradle]

Does anyone know what's causing this issue? There is a constant glow around the edge of the insignia slot on my uniform. It look subtle in screenshots but is pretty bad in game. No matter what insignia I choose the outcome is always the same

[full quarry]

Maybe alpha sorting issue?

[wooden lantern]

RVMAT flags, think it’s something like AlphaOnTop?

iirc that fixes it

or maybe it’s NoZWrite

[upbeat cradle]

I'm very new to rvmats, could you please explain what that means ?

[wooden lantern]

one sec

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

[upbeat cradle]

Is it a specific flag in O2's face properties section? Like autocenter

[upbeat cradle]

Ill have a look, cheers

[wooden lantern]

renderFlags[] = {NoZWrite};

prior to stage one like right after SpecPower and all that

[upbeat cradle]

I'll give that a go 👌

[upbeat cradle]

That fixed it, thank you Mr.Scout

[wooden lantern]

lmao I’m no Mr scout

[upbeat cradle]

You are now and there's nothing you can do about it, ask Mr.Goat

[rancid obsidian]

Guys

I need help with gimp

I wanna change a green uniform to blue uniform while maintaining texture and shader of that uniform can anyone just tell me that?

I have the blue texture image

[full quarry]

which part in gimp you need help with then? if you already have a texture

[rancid obsidian]

I already said

[full quarry]

then I did not understand what you meant

[rancid obsidian]

I wanna put that blue texture to a green uniform texture

While maintaining the shaders

[full quarry]

gimp has no shaders

im not sure what you mean by that

[rancid obsidian]

@full quarry u got this right?

[full quarry]

no

not quite sure what that means either in this context

pictures might help

[rancid obsidian]

I wanna put that blue texture to a green uniform texture so that changes the color only to my blue texture

[full quarry]

so you have some sort of blue pattern you want to use on it?

[rancid obsidian]

Yes

[full quarry]

riight

ok

well there is no simple easy way to do that

Id suppose you could start by masking/copying the green parts into a new layer for easier access

it is really just a lot of manual work, there is no automation for it

simpler way could be getting all the green parts into a selection and using the hue change tool to turn the green into blue

but dont know if that would have results you want

[rancid obsidian]

Can u tell me like tutorials
Like give the tools address

[full quarry]

no dont know any

[rancid obsidian]

Like step-by-step

[full quarry]

I've learned gimp along the years by myself

there arent really specifc tutorials for retexturing like this

every case is very unique

[rancid obsidian]

The blue texture it's camouflage

But that green it's kinda solid

[rancid obsidian]

U want picture?

[full quarry]

no, I think I get what you try to do

I just dont have any simple advice for it

[rancid obsidian]

Can't do something like this?

[full quarry]

try it out

[rancid obsidian]

Tried

It made it to yellow I think

[full quarry]

try different tools to see how they work I suppose

thats how you learn how to use the program

[rancid obsidian]

And the 2nd one was just changing thr color

[balmy palm]

If I were to make say, 5 modular building (section)s, even though I've tried to reuse textures as much as possible, would it be best practice to use one giant texture for everything, or split it up into smaller textures - even if all building (section)s would all be used at the same time, in the same space?

[full quarry]

buildings shoudl use multimaterial

not single baked texture

[balmy palm]

not baked, just I've been able to overlay some UV's... what does it mean to use multimaterial?

[full quarry]

multimaterial is a type of shader all buildings use

it uses a 4 color mask texture to draw tiling textures (2 uv sets, set1 for mask/ baked textures like AO and set2 tiling texture aligning) allowing higher close up texture quality

if you need more than 4 surface types you can use multiple multimaterials

you can find a wiki page about it

and some examples in the chat history

[balmy palm]

OK, thanks

[solid tinsel]

would anyone know why the proceduraly generated rgb minmap is throwing an error

 2:15:39 Warning Message: Cannot load mipmap #(rgb,8,8,3)color(0,1,0,1)

[full quarry]

in what situation?

[solid tinsel]

drawrectangle script function

_canvasCtrl drawRectangle
    [ _ctr
    , (_width/2.8)*vectorMagnitude _canvasVect
    , (_length/2.8)*vectorMagnitude _canvasVect
    , _dir
    , [1,1,1,1]
    , format (["#(rgb,8,8,3)color(%1,%2,%3,%4)"]+_color)
    ];

we use an almost identicaly in another place without causing any issuie

is this something that could be caused by the HxW ratio not being a 2 factor?

[full quarry]

if you do the format but just insert a
"#(rgb,8,8,3)color(1,0,0,1)"
instead

does that work

[solid tinsel]

1 minute

[full quarry]

(when debugging something complex, simplify to see if basics work)

[solid tinsel]

think i tried this already the other day, but i cant remember

[full quarry]

knowing that can give direction what to try next

[solid tinsel]

still hates me

[full quarry]

hmm

put rgba,8,8,3

[solid tinsel]

its still shows, just throws the error

[full quarry]

the example in biki might have a typo

since you are feeding it RGBA

[solid tinsel]

still works, still throws error

evan worse the color isint there

might just be the border

i dont know why it hates me

[full quarry]

whats different from the thing where it works?

[solid tinsel]

well the original it works, but throws an error
all the others work, no colour, error

[full quarry]

whats different to this?

[solid tinsel]

no error

_canvasCtrl drawRectangle
    [(_fromPos vectorAdd _toPos) vectorMultiply 0.5
    , vectorMagnitude (_fromPos vectorDiff _toPos) / 2
    , _width/2*vectorMagnitude _canvasVect
    , -(_diff # 1 atan2 _diff # 0)
    , [1,1,1,1]
    , format (["#(rgb,8,8,3)color(%1,%2,%3,%4)"]+_color)
    ];

error

_canvasCtrl drawRectangle
    [ _ctr
    , (_width/2.8)*vectorMagnitude _canvasVect
    , (_length/2.8)*vectorMagnitude _canvasVect
    , _dir
    , [1,1,1,1]
    , format (["#(rgb,8,8,3)color(%1,%2,%3,%4)"]+_color)
    ];

so unless the generator just dosent like the ratio or something

[full quarry]

perhaps

if you plug the working one fully into the other one does that work?

if yes, start replace parts one by one

[solid tinsel]

il give it a goo

still hates it

[full quarry]

🤔

then maybe you input something wrong to it

[solid tinsel]

it works, it just complains about it

so i dont know what to do

[full quarry]

but the other one does not complain?

[solid tinsel]

not in its original function

[obsidian nimbus]

is there a way to downscale .paa textures from within texview?

or at the very least without deconverting it, downscaling, and converting it back

[full quarry]

downscale? like resolution?

[obsidian nimbus]

yeah

[full quarry]

dont think so 🤔

[trail sequoia]

PS/GIMP has paa plugins

[obsidian nimbus]

PS also takes 5 minutes to start up

I don't think any of those plugins ever worked properly

[trail sequoia]

Used the gimp one 10 mins ago

[soft silo]

so all i have really done for retextures is mess around with the colour layer

is there any resources on messing around with AO layers / smdi layers?

[full quarry]

You don't really need to do anything with AO

And very rarely with smdi

[soft silo]

I imagine the rest of the layers are dealt with at the modelling level?

Like normals maps, etc

[full quarry]

Actual model texturing process typically exports all of them out at the same time. They are not manually edited.

Retexturing typically does not need to alter any of them unless you reeeeally want to make drastic changes like turn matte surface into more shiny one.

That would involve editing the smdi texture and adjusting rvmat specular values for example.

On the other hand, doing edits on baked normal map manually is theoretically possible but realistically not.

The color shades all correspond to the shape and position/direction of the mesh and as such it's very easy to mess it up

[wooden lantern]

where's the best place to grab like the arma 3 logo at it's highest res

like uhh i think it's usually called marketing resources n stuff

[full quarry]

bi homepage might have presskit

just make sure you can use it in the way you intent 😅

[wooden lantern]

it's for a mod logo

iirc that's fine

otherwise a LOT of mods are in trouble lmao

[rancid obsidian]

Guys

All vanilla shemaghs uses same texture files?

Shemaghs in headgear and facewear

[lethal condor]

Multiple color variants means it uses multiple textures

[rancid obsidian]

I know that

I mean green shemagh In headgear
And green shemagh in facewear

They both use same texture file?

[lethal condor]

Most likely yes if they used the same model. I don't know which facewear you mean

[full quarry]

you can probably check their config classes for hiddenselections and what textures are assigned

[rancid obsidian]

That one wears around character neck

[solid tinsel]

so i found more info on this
https://feedback.bistudio.com/T171035
https://feedback.bistudio.com/T170766
this seems to be an arma issuie

[mighty crest]

Substance Painter 1.7 dropped today. Here is a video on it https://www.allegorithmic.com/blog/substance-painter-17-enhanced-workflow-and-content

[ancient smelt]

SGTGunner: you use it?

[ancient smelt]

Ooo, it supports multiple shader instances now, which means it should be possible to simulate multi-rvmat super shader objects now.

[cedar folio]

Looking for someone to help me retexture a uniform and beret

[full quarry]

if you are looking for someone to do it you can use #creators_recruiting

here we try to guide on how to do it yourself

[cedar folio]

Ok Thankyou I would like to do it myself if I can get help please, feel free to DM me

[full quarry]

you can ask questions here if you get stuck. there are some retexturing guides around the web too that could get you started.

basically it usually is painting new colors over a copy of existing texture file in image editor of your choosing (paint, gimp, photoshop etc)

[cedar folio]

Thankyou 👍

The main issue I have is how to unpack the file and repack the newly retextured model back in

[full quarry]

you dont repack it into the exisitng thing

retexture mod contains no data from the original mod/addon

it only has your new texture files and config that utilizes those textures through hiddenSelections config parameters

[cinder oriole]

Hello, is it possible to somehow make an object transparent (invisible) by changing its texture or material via SQF commands? I would like to hide an object, but keep its collision working. Thank you.

[full quarry]

if it is set up with hiddenselections then possibly

if not, then no

[cinder oriole]

I tried to apply glass mat. Works if there are objects in the background.

[full quarry]

rvmat is not what you want. just the texture

[cinder oriole]

I tried to set the alpha to 0, but then it goes black.

[full quarry]

yeah then the object does not support transparency

as it has not been originally made with transparency

[cinder oriole]

Is therre any way how to find an object with this feature enabled, through configs for example?

[full quarry]

no

what is it you try to do with it?

[cinder oriole]

I am trying to create something invisible a unit would stand on, because an object I place it on does not have proper collision LOD.

And falls through. 😄

I will just put something small and walkable inside it probably. But thanks for your help.

[full quarry]

tricky

you could just attach the unit to the other thing at the height you want

[cinder oriole]

I tried, but that somehow stops its animation.

It freezes like if the simulation was disabled.

[full quarry]

right yeah thats true

what do you want it to do then?

[cinder oriole]

Like breathing, fidgetting etc.

Not like a solid statue.

[cedar folio]

how do i add my retextured vanilla outfit back into the game files so i can use it on my player character in game from the arsenal it is currently a text 2 veiw as i changed it from a .png to .paa

[full quarry]

youll need to create a new config file where you create a new class of uniform and unit that together use your new texture through hiddenselections

[cedar folio]

how do i do all of that and how do iuse the hidden selections is there a video tutorial

[small needle]

By analyzing layers.cfg it will be easy to create both your satellite map and your mask according to the specified colors...

[fickle yacht]

Hi. first time working with textures really, so bear with me 😅

Currently trying to simply re-texture and remove the logo of one object (backpack) and replace it with sth else.

I did the _CO.paa and that was easy enoug, but i noticed some sort of other texture layer being rendered, still having the old logo.

Now im trying to edit the _NOHQ file but im having troubles with it due to the transparency of the file.

Any advice on how to create/modify/edit a _NOHQ file? (i work with photoshop mainly so far)

[lethal condor]

NOHQ doesn't have an alpha?

[fickle yacht]

i made the paa a png with grad#s paa converter and opened in photoshop

it at least looks like one here

[lethal condor]

I don't know what converter you use, but I've never seen this

[fickle yacht]

ill the the arma 3 tools one and see if it gives the same result

[fickle yacht]

https://paa.gruppe-adler.de/

hm.. how would i go about editing a NOHQ file then? cant seem to find the right way to export it in a way i can open it with photoshop

[lethal condor]

Well, remove alpha, that's all

ImageToPAA never had such issue to me anyways

[fickle yacht]

just to confirm, it should look like this then, yes?

[lethal condor]

Ah well... nope

I forgot it could lack R channel or something. This processed texture is not you want to edit

[fickle yacht]

i see if i can convert it with imagetopaa

i cant seem to input a paa in the imageToPaa.exe

[full quarry]

No it does not convert back

Only texview 2 works for that in Arma tools suite.

[fickle yacht]

i saw a video, didnt know i just need to change the file ending apparently

[obsidian nimbus]

anybody know how to rotate a normal map in photoshop?

I don't mean by 90 degree increments, that's easy enough. I mean any degree of rotation

[lethal condor]

Think that, R and G are only indicating the angle for corresponded X/Y axis. Which means you can easily swap R G and/or invert them

[obsidian nimbus]

that's not how it works. that works for exact 90 degree rotations because that lines up with the vectors exactly (since it's 2d)

but the channels them selves would have to be altered for anything in between. swapping them would just make it slightly more or less incorrect

[lethal condor]

But is there anything you can do? Or rather, why?

[obsidian nimbus]

That's what I'm asking. And because I need to rotate a normal map in photoshop

[lethal condor]

I mean, I know you can theoretically rotate it. But why you really want to do that? Do you mean you are importing and converting a 3D model into Arma?

[obsidian nimbus]

I am editing a texture in 2d. It has a corresponding normal map. The texture and it's normal map need to blend in with the original texture perfectly.

My edit includes rotating the texture in photoshop, hence I also need to rotate the normal map

Like, without rebaking in blender or anything like that

[lethal condor]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2R7zHiHfIQ
Hmm, this uses some Blender Shader something something to do anything with normal texture, but does this help?

Not rebaking, it seems it does only some edit to those pixels? Haven't watched entirely though

[obsidian nimbus]

that's exactly what I mean

I need to be able to do it in photoshop

[lethal condor]

https://polycount.com/discussion/63944/photoshop-normal-map-rotation-tool
Maybe this

[dim pelican]

Hello, can anyone possibly share the CSAT Hex and Green Hex camo pattern for the vehicles please. @ me thanks 🙂

[raven wren]

Anyone got an example of an RVMAT setup used to achieve the setup detailed in this wiki page?

The references are all just _co's

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

Trying to figure out if they are just "normal" and have good AS, NOHQ and SMDI or if theres anything special about them

[mint hare]

i guess:
a) use the default Super Shader
b) use plain camo/color as your texture
c) move wear&tear into, say, _MC map

[rancid obsidian]

whats problem with this game?
it supposed to be blue

changes red to blue now changes blue to brown

[full quarry]

perhaps resolution is not right

[rancid obsidian]

I did not change the resolution

[lethal condor]

It still could be a resolution issue. Maybe bit depth. We can't tell without having more info

[full quarry]

what resolution you got in the file?

make sure to check

[rancid obsidian]

It's 613×613

[full quarry]

I believe you had this same issue last time too

and this was the same weird ass resolution you used

😅

and the solution is the same

[rancid obsidian]

Yes

[full quarry]

use correct engine fitting resolutions

in power of 2

[rancid obsidian]

Also half of my retextured stuff are 613×613

[full quarry]

well IT IS WRONG

[rancid obsidian]

And they are fine

[rancid obsidian]

@full quarry

[full quarry]

STILL WRONG

for fucks sake

aW¤UY JQA#)%U HQA#)?%uhqa#%hq'

Do it right in correct resolutions or dont complain it dont work

[rancid obsidian]

So how the others works with that resolution?

[full quarry]

it does not

[severe rune]

DXT compression requires the powers of two.
If your texture is not DXT compressed, off-size resolutions could work.
But the only way to not DXT compress it, would be to not have the correct suffix (_co or _ca or ...) or pack it with a non-compliant paa packing thing.
Either way, you're doing something wrong.

Also don't know how mip-mapping would work, because it reduces the image size by half, which would not really work with odd sized textures

[median anvil]

Hey guys. How could i change the trexture of the shirt from U_B_CombatUniform_mcam_tshirt?

How can i send a picture? I got timed out because of imgur, what is the allowed image hosting site?

[full quarry]

typically imgur should work

you need to complete verification at #✔role-selection though

[median anvil]

I think i'm verified now

https://i.imgur.com/4VGfOPv.png

yeah, its woking now.

How can i change that shirt? I wanted to create diferent combinations of camos and shirts, the shirt doesn't seem to have hiddenselection so im guessing its using 2 models but i can't figure out how to change the shirt

[full quarry]

If it does not have hiddenselections you cant edit it

it could be it just does not have them defined in the config but it has them in the p3d

if thats the case you can define them yourself in your new config class

but it just also might be it does not have them at all in config or in the model

in which case its not possible

[median anvil]

Is there a way to check if the model has it?

[full quarry]

mikeros eliteness can show such statistics of the p3d if you unpack the Arma3 data and take a look

[median anvil]

Doesn't seem like its possible unfortunately, but im also not an expert at this. I guess i will focus on other stuff. Thx for the help!

[full quarry]

if its this one uniform item

it traces back to this character class

the p3d contains 2 camo selections

but the classes that use it seem to have only 1 camo selection defined in the hiddenselections

the camo2 might be the shirt

[median anvil]

Yup, ur right, adding camo2 did the trick... I still can't quite understand uniform making... Its so simple but i get super confused . I also checked the wrong model i checked the uniform model and not the soldier

Thank you

[full quarry]

👍

[lucid halo]

Is this dark shadow the model or something with my RVMAT? Just seems like the frame shows up fine but the door doesn't.

Nevermind. I recreated my AS and seems to be working now.

[lavish hound]

Hey, for those who have made textures for Chernarus, or who have made or run missions on Chernarus Summer: Is there any camouflage patterns you'd recommend to look into?

[wooden lantern]

m90/L swedish

iirc it fits nice

[ashen violet]

I’ve come here for a substance question that I haven’t been able to find the answer too. How does one apply a smart mask to a specific color using color selection from my ID map ?
I’m trying to add a peeling paint smart mask to my wooden door but when I add a mask with color selection it cancels out the smart mask but without doing that the smart mask is applied to everything in the project which I don’t need

[zealous surge]

Put that layer into its own folder/group and add the color selection mask to it. Then, add your peeling paint layer inside of that group and the effects will only be applied to everything inside of that specific folder.

[lilac vault]

Is someone able to point me to where the inventory UI textures / icons are sitting? I've had a fairly surface-level crawl through cfgfiles without much success

specifically inventory slot placeholders

[brittle rivet]

In "\a3\ui_f\data\GUI\Rsc\RscDisplayGear"
ui_gear .paa files in particular
Relevant code seems to be line 41549 of a3\ui_f\config.cpp

[lilac vault]

Legend, thank you very much

[south cape]

Got a really stupid question, does the whole "red cross protected by the geneva convention" video game law apply to making custom textures and stuff for mods? The main concern is will there be any repercussions putting stuff like a medical helmet with the cross into a public mod?

[south cape]

Thought that was the case thanks, wasn't sure since iirc I've seen it on stuff from sog/spearhead but it's been a minute since I've played those

Oh wait nvm pretty sure their stuff was green

[livid knot]

Like gaming said, its protected and can't be used. Some games get away with it, its all dependent on who gets reported and if someone bothers checking. Easy workaround is use white cross on red, but thats the flag of switzerland so can be confusing haha. Also green on white is a classic option, or in halos case a red H on white

[south cape]

I gotcha lol, there's other options we can use like you said so we'll just use them!

[severe rune]

You can also use the diamond, works well in military contexts

"Red Crystal"

[south cape]

Planning on using something similar to this, with some tweaking ofc to fit the genre

[umbral jackal]

Where can I find seamless camo pattern for texturing?

[full quarry]

internet maybe

or you might need to make one yourself

[umbral jackal]

I couldn't find many good resources

[full quarry]

did you type that question into google?

there are also online camo pattern generators

[true roost]

Is it possible to extract the texture files from the Sog Pf cdlc? To be exact I'm talking about the vehicle liveries

I want to create some custom ones but can't find any blank ones or just templates online

[true roost]

I'm most interested in the Anzac ones like the bushrangers

[agile sinew]

Hey which PBO file has the Nemara / CRV-6e Bobcat texture in it? Need to make one with a UN paintjob for a mission we are doing.

[agile sinew]

nvm i found it

[full quarry]

No but they have released some of the textures already and a bunch have also been made into community made templates.
The sogpf discord has a modding channel where the modding support package link is pinned.

It does not yet have allll the textures though but still a lot you might be able to get started with

[true roost]

g, i'll check it out

[sonic dagger]

I'm trying to create a "Tanoa DPM", with colors taken from the map. Is there a color palette somewhere I could use ? I'm struggling to find colors that look good together

[rancid obsidian]

Guys

If the game couldn't find the uniform texture the character and uniform model become invincible?

Invisible

Idk which word Is correct

[full quarry]

Invisible is word for thing that can be seen.

And yes sounds correct.

[rancid obsidian]

Why that happens?

I have a texture

Address is correct

And name is correct

But it won't show

[full quarry]

Path is not correct then.

[rancid obsidian]

It's correct

[full quarry]

Its not if it does not show

Or the the texture is not in the pbo at all

[young patio]

question for you texture peeps out there im making textures using the substance painter preset off of git but im finding its making my colours like massively oversaturated

is there a preset or setting i need to play with to make sure its not like this and more close to the substance painter original?

[old lodge]

Hello, working on a tank model with a friend and for the longest of time we keep getting artifacts in various places on the model and we're running out of ideas for fixes. Keep in mind we are pretty new to this, what could be the cause of this part showing up like this in Substance Painter? Mesh Maps not baked correctly or has to do something with the model?

This has been fixed.

[trail sequoia]

Face normals?

[hallow jay]

I have been having this issue since forever and I don´t think there is an easy fix except for trying to modify the .rvmat values.

But it is still incredibly frustrating trying to texture something knowing the end result will look pretty different to what you are seeing in SP.

[wooden lantern]

I got u

https://github.com/Scouter407/Arma-3-PBR-Workflow

I will shill my own workflow forever even if its not technically correct by arma standards, it produces coherent and decent results and let’s u have metal and not metal objects on the same RVMat

uses PBR so colors are the same upon export, nothing is converted to diffuse

[hallow jay]

cheers mate I´ll check it out

[stable swallow]

just turn down the brightness of the finished texture in photoshop or any photo editing software

[stable swallow]

i never had this problem for colors, the colors in SP look exactly like i have them in arma

[hallow jay]

Not quite sure where the issue is then, maybe rvmat difference? My results vary from not amazing to pretty shocking (especially when having metallic and non-metallic surfaces on one rvmat)

[floral fiber]

try out scouts export and rvmat

[young patio]

question for you all im making a transparent texture for this alien stasis tank now from the side it looks good but from the front theres this weird artifacting going on?

is this like a lighting issue or is there something wrong with my texture/uv unwrap?

[stray relic]

Multiple transparent textures probably. Use face ordering in Object Builder.

[young patio]

how do i do that?

[stray relic]

Select rear most glass face. Faces > Move Top
Select closest glass face. Faces > Move Top

[young patio]

ah uber chad cheers!

[desert heath]

yo for some reason when im replacing PAA's in pbo manager ive been getting the issue "file already exists" but im trying to replace that said file, i even says this when i try and delete the existing paa

[lethal condor]

1. Don't use PBOManager to make a PBO, or even modify a PBO
2. That is not how a modding in Arma 3 works
3. What is your goal

[desert heath]

i was just trying to use pbo manager to replace a paa on vanilla files so i could look at a texture i made, which has worked in the past, I just wanna see my textures in editor 😂

ive done it in the past it just recently started to have the issue

ofc i have to repair my game after but it takes like 3 seconds since its one file

or one paa

[lethal condor]

It still is horribly wrong way to do anything in Arma 3, in multiple context

I just wanna see my textures in editor
What exactly does this mean

[desert heath]

im very very new to texturing xd

[desert heath]

i wanna see what my clothing ive made looks like

[lethal condor]

It is no matter of texturing

[desert heath]

or clothing ive reskinned

[desert heath]

?

[lethal condor]

As I said it is not how a modding works in Arma 3, not about texturing

[desert heath]

so i would have to make a mod to look at the texures? like a retexture mod leaving the base ones in and just adding extra?

or how would you go about looking at your stuff

cause i can look at a texture map all day but doesnt really coorelate well to actually in game

[lethal condor]

1. Make a new folder
2. Make a texture and config
3. Using a correct software to pack it into PBO
4. Load it as a Mod
   This is how a modding works in Arma 3

I don't really have an enough time right now to elaborate so I'll probably leave to some other dudes

[desert heath]

what would a correct software be? I just googled how to open pbo and got pbo manager xd is there one built into arma 3 tools?

[full quarry]

yes. its called addon builder

to look at your new texture in game you can in most cases use scripting to apply your new texture on a character uniform or vehicle

what is it you are retexturing?

weapons, vests, helmets, nvgs need a injection via pbo and in those cases you should be creating a new class that uses the texture instead of replacing original ones

it is best to get the right practices down in the beginning

[desert heath]

gorka uniform

just a granit-b

[full quarry]

for that you can put your new texture in a saved missions folder and apply it via the hiddenselection scripting commands

[desert heath]

how do you do the hidden selection scripting command?

[full quarry]

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

you run this through the script console in editor

you can find examples and probably even a guide for the exact steps online

[hollow quartz]

hello,i am trying to make a rexture for a op between my friends and i but when i made all the sweaters.paa have the same texture this started happening to them,does anyone know why?

im new to arma modding

[full quarry]

What do you mean you made all the paa the same?

[hollow quartz]

the sweaters had variations in color and i wanted them to all be the same color,so i just replaced all the other textures with the brown variant

[full quarry]

thats not really the right way to do mods

what you do is to make one single new class that uses your new texture through hidden selections

instead of messing with the originals or overwriting original files

retexture mod contains a config and your new texture files

nothing else is needed

and nothing is overwritten

[hollow quartz]

well is there a guide or something anywhere to help me navigate through this?

every video i find they just plain out replace the mods original texture or its terribly outdated and from 2006

[full quarry]

there is lot of bad modding info out there yeah

[hollow quartz]

do you have any guides that could help me with this?

[full quarry]

no. but you can probably find something using keywords like "retexturing" and "hiddenselections"

or by even searching the chat history on this server

[hollow quartz]

alright

thanks for the help

[hallow jay]

Bit of a necro, but thanks for this, worked quite well considering how outdated certain elements of this game are. Wish we could just have all the Reforger goodness in Arma 3 as well

[wooden lantern]

nope I saw it anyways ping u coward and yeah np glad it worked out

[hallow jay]

I prefer not to ping and bother people with useless stuff

[floral fiber]

theres no function for exporting weapon icon previews is there

[full quarry]

Im gonna say no. 🤔

I dont know if you can get such ortho view camera in live game

personally Ive used simple sideway renders straight from blender on my guns

[floral fiber]

ive no clue how to stick the tx and stuff on blender else i'd try automate it through there

at the moment ive got a mission on vr terrain which works well enough its just a pain

[wooden lantern]

render it in blender as a 512x512 image with a transparent background, that's a pretty good start

[rancid obsidian]

Guys

Does this Paramilitary garb has texture materials? in config doesnt show anything

[full quarry]

did you look in game config viewer?

whats its classname?

[rancid obsidian]

Yes

It has texture

But material no

[full quarry]

then its probably using default materials from the p3d

[rancid obsidian]

Pants are from independent uniform

[rancid obsidian]

Do I need to add "hiddenmaterials" for it?

Or add and leave it empty?

[full quarry]

if you dont need to change them then no you dont need to add anything

it will use the defaults from the p3d model

[lunar heron]

Hey I don't know if it's correct channel for that but I wanted to ask since I have 0 idea of extracting and entering game files, is there any way to get the icons from files such as the ranks, vehicles, roles ECT?

[rancid obsidian]

I use "Pbo manager"

[lunar heron]

I have no idea how to use it

[rancid obsidian]

It's so ez

[lunar heron]

very helpfull thanks

[severe rune]

You need to first find out which PBO the files are in. (Probably some ui_f one)
Then you can drag&drop the pbo onto Arma 3 tools' BankRev tool. To unpack it.

Keep in mind that many of these icons/images are copyrighted and modifying/redistributing them might be a violation.

[trail sequoia]

Did openGL normals use +y or -y for the green channel?

[copper helm]

I would just like to say. You folks are asking way to high of prices for commissions. A couple months back I asked for a simple face texture based off of a real life person. Since I asked I have gotten numerous people wanting to help, however, everytime we discuss pricing those people are asking for close to $100 or telling me they cant do it without a model as well. Your prices are ridiculous. I have made textures for people and barely even charge them. I have made models and don't charge them. There are people doing way better stuff than any of you making really beautiful models who don't charge that much. I don't mind paying for work but y'all seriously misjudge your market.

[slim bronze]

Its free market though
Charge the amount you like, people flock to lower prices

[full quarry]

anyway. this is channel to talk about making textures, not making money

[plush goblet]

Greetings!
I am here to ask where to start out with my custom texturing needs;

1: custom kit creation
(vest, backpack, uniform, patches, etc etc, additions to modded/vanilla sets)
2: custom textures for vehicles
(typically modded)
3: How and where to put files lol

I do have experience in: unity, blender, photoshop, some in substance.
Main aspect is where should i first start out with doing custom things for my group since they silly and im the only one willing to do this at this moment

[full quarry]

retexturing does not involve 3d models as they are not available for such use. so its all done by painting over existing texture file as reference or just plain new one.

Same applies on both gear and vehicles

[wooden lantern]

learn how to do it yourself

[plush goblet]

i see, but is my idea of adding textures to existing mods that we have in our pack a thing? such as a TFL vest but changed for a certain colorscheme?

[full quarry]

TFL no since that shit is bag stolen flaming crap

[plush goblet]

well inknow of that, it was an example

[full quarry]

we dont help with anything related to banned stuff like that

[plush goblet]

valid.
I digress of that point

[full quarry]

unfortunately since you use it, we cant assist

[plush goblet]

peronsally i dont, it was an example

first thing taht came to mind

BLAH SPELLING my bad.

[full quarry]

Please dont treat me like an idiot

[plush goblet]

Im not trying to if thats what your getting at.

What im trying to simply ask is how would i create an addition to an existing mod that has a custom model, a extra texture piece to add onto.

[full quarry]

yeh well since that "custom" model is in fact likely to be TFL stuff I dont want anything to do with that

[plush goblet]

1: its not, its part of the RHS mod.
2: I jsut wanted to see if someone could help but ig not

I bring up an example and it makes me the bad guy without even knowing why.
Crazy, i just wanted to know how to change up a style of something like the 6Sh pouch from RHS and such to a different style.

[full quarry]

get your group to remove tfl and other ripped stuff and its remedied

[plush goblet]

we dont actually have it in there, it was again, used as an example.
Mainly cause i remmeber TFL gear having a multi choice, but i never liked the look of it so we didnt add it.
But once more, i digress.

Also i have no idea what you are on about the ripped stuff? Is it stolen assets?

[full quarry]

yes that

[plush goblet]

Ah.
Distasteful.

[full quarry]

honestly I just cant believe you "didnt know" sorry

[plush goblet]

valid statement, however, mental issues that span a continent.

Back to trying to learn manually without help cause i said a magical word that makes me the biggest baddest guy to persists

[serene sage]

i have a quick question trying to place a user texture but i coming out faded any suggestions

[lethal condor]

What it does mean faded

[serene sage]

opacity

[lethal condor]

More specifically

Ideally, post a pic

[serene sage]

i dont have a pic of it in game but

Save as a PAA in texview2

can barely is it once its placed in game

[full quarry]

what resolution is it?

@serene sage

[serene sage]

1080x1080

[full quarry]

Thats not compatible resolution

got to be power of 2 dimensions

like 1024

[serene sage]

So 1024x1024

[full quarry]

yes

[serene sage]

Ok will try that thanks for the help

[serene sage]

so i corrected the resolution

still the same thing

[full quarry]

please keep to one channel with same question

[feral grove]

https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/nrHhnlx4ut9DtRvADORSOtZ4qZsusAuL8SXqTEIHbCwZnzeidZea8At3-CtvGc_Q-p14S25Sq8NFgMn8ej4vTDErM9EmlbNBdfIfuT35U9RnSUCW_XQVkLF43PwLQwB0TsoIZw-N

How do I make this look better? Advice?

Just a box, but looks wrong somehow

[feral grove]

maybe its the lack of shadows etc

[silver gull]

what do you have in mind? Look at the thing that surrouds it: low resolution textures. Why do you want to polish something that small when everything else looks average?

[silver adder]

It looks wrong because the Texel Density is vastly different between the object and the scene in general.......as above ^ but the term is Texel Desnity

[unkempt wolf]

Hello ! Im trying to make names on my uniforms for a unit I am in. Only problem is Idk how, I was hoping someone maybe willing to teach me ?

[manic pier]

Hello, I'm a little lost. I have a texture of helmet accessories where some of the faces are transperant. When I apply Alpha map to the texture all of the assets has some noise to them. It's not the artifacts as someone posted before, but "active noise" which isn't static. Any ideas what could cause this?

[full quarry]

its because you have transparency in the object.

you are not supposed to hide parts with transparent textures

[manic pier]

There is no way around it? For example objects blue and green are from one and the same texture. Object blue has transperancy and clearly visible noise. But there is also noise on object green (not really visible in these pictures) which doesn't have transperancy

[full quarry]

try separate solid and transparent parts into their own textures

[manic pier]

roger, thanks

[serene sage]

any one have any ideas

[lethal condor]

Relaunch Arma and see

[ancient smelt]

Looks too flat, too. A raised bevel or box sides might help.

[serene sage]

I have done that multiple times I created another user texture replace the 1 with a six they shows just fine

[lethal condor]

Can't understand your last post. What is 1 what is six what is fine

[stray relic]

Your texture "YA1" does not show as you would like it to?
But you make a new texture "YA6" and it shows ok?
If that's correct, post a screenshot of the YA6 working in game, and also post links to your two texture files so that we can inspect them.

[sage drift]

Ello folks, has anyone had issues trying to retexture the base game Taru heli? Using the same config script (hidden textures…) doesnt work. My textures get overridden for some reason.

[lethal condor]

Tell whatever you exactly do

[full quarry]

check virtual garage texturelist

this applies over hiddenselectionTextures

[sage drift]

Ohhh I didn’t think of that, can I make my own entry to the list so my textures are primary?

[sage drift]

Literally as in goats image. Hidden selections and then hidden textures…. The path in my mod is fine as all the other vics work fine.

[lethal condor]

What I really meant is your actual script or config

[sage drift]

Ah sorry on my phone at the moment

[serene sage]

do they need to be PAA files

[lethal condor]

Always

[serene sage]

i cant put those in discord

[full quarry]

should be possible

discord just wont embed the image

[full quarry]

ya six cant work since its wrong resolution

1080x1080 is not supported

[serene sage]

six works 1 doesnt

[full quarry]

well by chance. its still wrong resolution

you probably need to put correct naming suffix to the source texture

_CA for things that have transparency

so ya1_ca.png ->> converted to ya1_ca.paa

[serene sage]

i dont want it to have transparency

[full quarry]

emm

then why have you saved ya1 with transparency?

then remove alpha channel from the image

and use _CO suffix

[serene sage]

ok this my first time doing to this how do i not save it with out transparency srry for being a pain in the ass

[lethal condor]

Depends on your image editing software

[stray relic]

We're making progress now...
... what image editing software are you using?

Summarising help from the other chaps:

1. Change resolution to 1024x1024 pixels
2. Remove transparency (by removing alpha channel)
3. Save file as ya1_co.png or ya1_co.tga
4. Convert file to ya1_co.paa

[wooden lantern]

is there any way to force a PAA to save with cleanest compression bc it just automates it down to dxt1 and since it’s dds adjacent I figure stuff like dxt5 and 8.8.8.8 would work, but is there some sort of forced compression I need to set

[full quarry]

check the compression rules

you can use suffix _dxt5 maybe

[wooden lantern]

is it somewhere on the wiki cuz I can’t find it with a general search

[full quarry]

no might not be

its a txt file in the armat 3 tools install folder

dont remember exactly whre it was

[normal thistle]

how do you get the AH-11 texture for edit👀

[frosty pumice]

seems like my "camo1" selection is doing something wrong here... but cant figure out why

both vehicles use the same texture but they end up with diffeent colors??

just realized their color is randomized whenever i spawn them in the editor

[lethal condor]

textureList[]=
{
    "red", 1,
    "green", __EVAL(1/3), // You can also use EVAL to evaluate an expression
    "blue", 1,
    "black", 1
    // You can noticed that the white source is missing, therefore, it won't be part of the random
};```Because your config sets the randomization?

[nocturne prairie]

my section count in Object Builders get high, but i down know who is the problem... I have 3 Textures with 3 rvamts. when i add the first texture with rvmat, is the count on 1. but when i add the next texture with rvmat, my section count is on 173... texture size 4096x4096

[stray relic]

Select all the mesh with texture 1, copy to clipboard and delete it.
Paste it back in.
Repeat with texture 2 and 3.

[nocturne prairie]

nice, thx!

[frosty pumice]

    class PTNI_Truck_UN: PTNI_Truck /// some class that is going to be visible in editor
    {
        crew     = "PTNI_Rifleman_UN_AD";
        faction    = ptni_faction_UN;
        hiddenSelections[] = {"camo1","camo3","camo4"};
        hiddenSelectionsTextures[] = {"ptni_truck\Data\ptni_truck_ext1_UN_CO.paa","ptni_truck\Data\ptni_truck_ext2_UN_CO.paa","ptni_truck\Data\ptni_truck_cover_UN_CO.paa"};
    };```

camo1 and camo3 works just fine with the retexture, but not camo4?

ive rechecked that camo4 is in fact connected to the correct mesh

[stray relic]

Also present in model.cfg sections[]?

[frosty pumice]

that was it, thanks

[austere valley]

hi everyone, why i can't find the uniform file

[lethal condor]

?

What file you talk about

[austere valley]

this one

idk how to find it

[lethal condor]

What file you talk about, I'd ask again

[austere valley]

the texture one

i want to change the camo

[lethal condor]

Open responsible PBO and extract its PAA

[austere valley]

ok but i don't find the file with the texture

im sorry if i expalin very bad but im new in modding

i mean the only result is picture like in the scrteen i sent

[lethal condor]

"Arma 3 how to open PBO" is one way to Google

[austere valley]

why there is no " HiddenSelectionsTextures " for the class I_G_Soldier_SL_F

[dawn bough]

it's inherited from the base, look up that class,
I_G_Soldier_base_F

[austere valley]

that's not this texture im looking for

im looking for this one

[full quarry]

looks like the rest of the textures it uses are the default ones for that uniform model.

the shemag is separate camo selection I guess, shirt is one and pants are one so they can be swapped around

the pants are from that texture with black shirt

the model is this

actually the pants look like they are that by default too.

character opened up as proxy in Object Builder shows what it looks like by default

[dawn bough]

Thanks Goat 🐐 for explaining.

[full quarry]

mikeros eliteness for example can show what the default textures on it are if someone wants to look

[versed axle]

Does anyone know where to find LDF uniform textures?

They are apparently not in Character pbo in Contact dlc folder and config viewer redirects it to AAF base uniform

[austere valley]

thank you bro

[lilac oar]

Hello, I would like to retexture the Tempest/ KAMAZ Typhoon in ArmA 3, but I can only find the version with its camo pattern. How can I find one with a solid color/camo/where would it be?

Please and thank you!!

[crisp timber]

check in the enoch folder under characters, its the I_E prefix

"\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\Arma 3\Enoch\Addons\characters_f_enoch.pbo"

[vernal sage]

There's a template here:
https://forums.bohemia.net/forums/topic/173971-beazleys-man-truck-tempest-retextures/
Plenty of mods like RHSAFRF or Aegis, as well as various standalone Tempest rexture packs on the Workshop also have flat colour texture variants.

If you don't like that template or the ones from those mods, you'll have to reconstitute your own by mixing various (greyscale) layers from the NOHQ/SMDI/AS to replicate the baked in details from the original (camouflaged) textures.

[lilac oar]

Thank you so much!

[heavy ivy]

Any advice on how to add text onto a texture without making it look like it's a sticker or something?
Working on a UN helmet, but if I just add the logo as a piece of text, it looks like like it sits on top of the helmet cover instead of being part of it

[lethal condor]

Maybe provide some pic can tell us more

Such like your current result vs how it should be

[heavy ivy]

this is what I currently have

Zooming in a bit, you can see these ridges that are the various bits of fabric it's made of, but the logo doesn't have them. Which makes it look like it's' a sticker or something. I tried setting the text layer as an overlay, but that results in the text being a light blue instead of white

[lethal condor]

So you want to make the UN more fabric anyways

[heavy ivy]

yes, because, from what pictures I've seen, that appears to be the way they are IRL

[lethal condor]

Thing actually you can is having blend mode other than Normal

[full quarry]

layer blend mode screen could work

or few stacked up

or lowerin opacity of the letter layer

[nocturne lake]

Or make a mask with the lettering and use hue/sat and brightness/contrast layers

[full quarry]

lot of ways to paint a cat

[heavy ivy]

Tried the opacity route, and it looks somewhat better. Not a great, but it's a WIP so I can work out the kinks as I go along

[lethal condor]

Opacity is not what we all suggested

[full quarry]

I mentioned it

other options may be better though

like playing with the saturation like da12thMonkey said

[lethal condor]

Ah yes my bad, you did

But primary option is always the blend mode

[full quarry]

1 saturation layer and 1 screen layer and playing with the opacity could be alright

[heavy ivy]

Gave the Saturation overlay a try, and that might have done it. Only problem is it's maybe too dull a white, but that's both an easy fix & might even be better that way

[full quarry]

Try that in game. Bright white don't look great either.

Alternatively you can duplicate the layer and use another blend mode on that to brighten it.

[nocturne lake]

Yeah use an additional brightness/contrast or levels layer to move the tone to where you want it

IMO it's always better to use off-white and off-black shades in games though, rather than pure black and white. Stuff gets dirty, bleached by the sun etc. and avoids game HDR going crazy when it encounters colours at the extreme ends of the histogram

[heavy ivy]

Got it in game, and it's obvious that I made the text obnoxiously large. So got to change that.
And then it might be too bright, so I should probably bring the brightness down

[nocturne lake]

Also have a look how it is on Altis or another island rather than VR. VR has very weird lighting

[heavy ivy]

Will do

[heavy ivy]

Here's' what it looks like under Altis and, for good measure, Tonoa lighting

[full quarry]

Id darken it some yeah. Arma lighting boosts colors quite a bit so the texture needs to be a bit desaturated and darker than whay you might naturally expect

[heavy ivy]

Noted. So, plan is to:
Make the UN lettering smaller, make it more desaturated, and, if possible, I'd like to get rid of the cat-eyes band.
Can ask on the CUP/CWR discord about that last one

[heavy ivy]

how's this?

[full quarry]

youll have to put it in game and see

[heavy ivy]

It's...better? Think I need to go slightly more desaturated, and the lettering is still too big

actually, no, comparing it to the earlier images, it looks nearly identical. Back to the drawing board I guess 😐

[full quarry]

It is smaller

[heavy ivy]

but still too big, imo

making sure that "UN" symbol is symmetrical on both sides is also going to be a pain

[stray relic]

Just in case you're trying to make this because you're unaware of an existing option, did you know about the 3CB Factions mod, which includes a fully fledged UN faction, amongst many others?
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1673456286

[velvet monolith]

how do i add a custom icon/logo for my mod? specifically the one used on ace arsenal?

[heavy ivy]

I am aware, but I was wanting to create Cold War UN assets for CWR3, which, to my knowledge, doesn't have one. Thank you for the recommendation, however.

[stray relic]

Probably this config parameter:
picture = "\A3\weapons_F\Data\UI\gear_acca_snds_l_CA.paa";

[stray relic]

It has Cold War factions on all sides, but if not what you're looking for fair enough. Didn't want you to have a "doh" moment later on if you hadn't seen it. 🙂

[lethal condor]

If you mean you want an icon like Apex icon there, this
https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Mod.cpp/bin_File_Format

[heavy ivy]

I think I've now got it to where it looks good, or, at the very least, acceptable

[austere valley]

it looks good

[austere valley]

how can i open paa file in gimp

for retexturing

[stray relic]

Convert it to .tga first using texView2 (Arma Tools, Steam).
Do all your work on .tga (an uncompressed format) and keep this source.
Any .tga textures in the \data\ folder will be automatically converted to .paa by the Build tool.

[austere valley]

i convert it to png file to open it

my goal is to add a camo patern

is it easy to do ?

[full quarry]

No. 😅

But it's a good learning experience

[trail sequoia]

If only there was a way to allow people to paint using substance etc while keeping your model locked

[austere valley]

someone have experiance in changing camouflage of an uniform ?

[brittle rivet]

Or the .paa extension for gimp
I think it's from gruppe adler
https://github.com/gruppe-adler/paa-gimp-plugin
I still had to reopen with texView to fix the alpha mode sometimes

[brittle rivet]

Yeah
It's much easier if you can find a template for the uniform that someone has already made
Then it might be as easy as insert the camo texture you want
There are a bunch of templates that were posted for use on the BI forums
I've used these, and they have a template for ig_guerrila2_1_co
https://forums.bohemia.net/forums/topic/185433-petes-texture-templates/
The only issue I had was one of the vests, but I was being picky about having the webbing be cutout exactly

If you don't have a template, you might be able to use layers to get the right effect, but you will need to spend a fair amount of time cutting around the various cutouts
And you probably need to get the bump textures from the _NOHQ, _AS, and other non-colour textures (they can also be helpful in seeing where precisely to cut)
Time creating good dirt textures, or using randomly generated dirt textures will make it look better

If you have your .xcf in the folder of your addon, remember to exclude .xcf unless you want to include it in your .pbo

[warm falcon]

hello how can i add a desert camo to the AAVP7 from the USMC (the desert camo from the US Army)

From the Cup mod

Or put it directly in the Vehicle appearance menu permanent

[vapid bronze]

I want to start retexturing vanilla uniforms for my personal use. I already have the camouflage swatches, but how do I actually do the retexturing and the mod packing?

Explain like I'm 5

[lethal condor]

1. Unpack the responsible PBO to get the PAA
2. Use some software to convert PAA to PNG
3. Use some image software to edit whatever you want
4. Make a config, proper file/folder structure
5. Use some software to pack into PBO
6. Use it in-game

Unfortunately, especially 4 requires a lot to explain

[vapid bronze]

I'm in the Arma 3 folder, where's the vanilla uniforms PBO?

[lethal condor]

Depends. Usually they are located in characters_f_***.pbo

[trail sequoia]

Can you use multimaterials for vehicles or is it limited to buildings only?

[full quarry]

Can use it with anything!

[trail sequoia]

yippee

[wide shadow]

is there a technique or tool or something that can get substance painter to author specular maps the way arma wants it, with the 3 different maps baked into the R G B channels? I looked at the pins and got the export settings but I'm not sure it worked 100%

[full quarry]

The preset pinned have been said to work OK. But due to how different render environments and shaders SP and the game uses it might not always look the same.

[wide shadow]

hm. I mainly ask because the spec map it put out looked to be just black. I guess I'll see when I get it in-game.

[full quarry]

That may not be right.

Unless it's not meant to be shiny

[wide shadow]

actually come to think of it, I might have set it that way. it's hard to tell, I'm learning like a dozen new things at once trying to make this stuff

I set up substance painter with a non-PBR workflow but I'm not accustomed to doing non-PBR work so it's been kind of weird trying to get stuff to behave the way I want it to

I may well have just cranked down all the specular maps to all black. again, I guess it'll be something to troubleshoot later down the line

[full quarry]

The export method above may be made for pbr workflow. I don't remember exactly though

[wide shadow]

I tried that previously with a project I had mistakenly done in PBR and it did not work

didn't do any automatic conversion of maps, it just was like "the maps you want don't exist in the project, tough luck"

[full quarry]

Then it probably is for the non pbr workflow

[worldly spire]

is adding a uniform significantly harder than retexturing an existing one or is it survivable?

[full quarry]

Suvivable/learnable yes.but it is harder as you make a lot more from scratch.

[worldly spire]

ah, is there a guide for it?

[full quarry]

Well not exactly. You would first pick up a program like Blender and start learning 3d modeling.

[wooden lantern]

I’m guessing you made something in pbr

https://github.com/Scouter407/Arma-3-PBR-Workflow

this is my export for pbr if u wanna test it out with ur project

[wooden lantern]

?

ah

u could not pay me 3 trillion dollars to deal with unit drama

[stable swallow]

So what exactly is the problem with the helmet ?

Both, why the drama started

The problem of the unit was afaik that they want to keep your work even tho you said no

I see i guess

But im curious you said you based it off of another mod, do you have permission from the mod to retexture that helmet ?

Hm then i think you cant dmca the unit

Since they got permission, not you. But the texture is still your IP so thats kinda a weird case

[wooden lantern]

It’s not really that weird tbh

He made stuff

He never signed it over legally

Therefore it’s his stuff

it’s not a DMCA more than it is a content takedown notice type of thing, ie, remove this and it’s fine

[lucid halo]

How would I make it so only some of my windows of a sky scraper glow at night to simulate people being there? Use an Alpha or would I have to use a separate texture for just those windows?

[trail sequoia]

Seperate texture

[trail sequoia]

yup just clone rvmat and add emissive value

[umbral pike]

If you have performance to spare, make a small empty room that has a glass wall thing with a super bright light inside. It’ll add some depth to it

[trail sequoia]

here's an example

[full quarry]

There is super Ext shader that should turn on and off at night

It was used in take on helicopters for lit windows

[severe rune]

I don't think it turns off at day. More like, it's just so bright everywhere else during day, that you can't see it?

[trail sequoia]

Yup, same with emissive property

[severe rune]

#arma3_texture message There is an example of SuperExt for stripes on the stairs

[floral fiber]

correct same principle is how IR patches are done
i.e black cant be emissive during night time, isnt emissive during day time anyway but under nv for some reason its emissive now

[keen terrace]

Is there a reason to use .paa textures over .tga?

[full quarry]

textures get converted to PAA anyway

paa is the engines texture format

[keen terrace]

Assuming that happens when the addon is packed?

[full quarry]

if you do things right yes

[keen terrace]

Thanks

[lucid halo]

Can you use a NOPX on a decal or is that set for only terrain textures?

[full quarry]

terrain textures only

[ornate veldt]

ambient[]={1,1,1,1};
diffuse[]={1,1,1,1};
forcedDiffuse[]={0,0,0,0};
emmisive[]={0,0,0,1};
specular[]={1,1,1,1};
specularPower=100;
PixelShaderID="Super";
VertexShaderID="Super";
class Stage1
{
    texture="BR_Weapons_Attachments\BR_Buttstocks\BR_Buttstocks_AR_Platform\BR_Buttstock_AR_Carbine\BR_Buttstock_AR_Carbine_nohq.paa";
    uvSource="tex";
    class uvTransform
    {
        aside[]={1,0,0};
        up[]={0,1,0};
        dir[]={0,0,0};
        pos[]={0,0,0};
    };
};
class Stage2
{
    texture="#(argb,8,8,3)color(0.5,0.5,0.5,1,DT)";
    uvSource="tex";
    class uvTransform
    {
        aside[]={1,0,0};
        up[]={0,1,0};
        dir[]={0,0,0};
        pos[]={0,0,0};
    };
};
class Stage3
{
    texture="#(argb,8,8,3)color(0,0,0,0,mc)";
    uvSource="tex";
    class uvTransform
    {
        aside[]={1,0,0};
        up[]={0,1,0};
        dir[]={0,0,0};
        pos[]={0,0,0};
    };
};
class Stage4
{
    texture="#(argb,8,8,3)color(1,1,1,1,AS)";
    uvSource="tex";
    class uvTransform
    {
        aside[]={1,0,0};
        up[]={0,1,0};
        dir[]={0,0,0};
        pos[]={0,0,0};
    };
};
class Stage5
{
    texture="#(argb,8,8,3)color(1,1,1,1,SMDI)";
    uvSource="tex";
    class uvTransform
    {
        aside[]={1,0,0};
        up[]={0,1,0};
        dir[]={0,0,0};
        pos[]={0,0,0};
    };
};
class Stage6
{
    texture="#(ai,64,64,1)fresnel(1.82,0.71)";
    uvSource="none";
};
class Stage7
{
    texture="dz\data\data\env_land_co.paa";
    uvSource="tex";
    class uvTransform
    {
        aside[]={1,0,0};
        up[]={0,1,0};
        dir[]={0,0,0};
        pos[]={0,0,0};
    };
};

DayZ (but its the same as Arma nearly)
why is my RVMAT so messed up ?

[lethal condor]

What do you mean by mess

[ornate veldt]

@lethal condor ehmm - cant you see that it looks like my bath mirror ? xD

without rvmat

[lethal condor]

It does not tell what is your goal. Because you maybe wanted a mirror

Also why don't you just ask in DayZ server

[ornate veldt]

because its the same engine, we have all the same tools Object Builder etc, same textures etc.
And in DayZ Modding a lot of people just ignore quality and try to pump as much stuff into the game.
My goal is that it looks properly like a regular buttstock.
My issue is:
I dont know how to create a prover RVMAT
AND I have metallic and roughness files - so I first need to find out how to get smdi and as for rvmat

[lethal condor]

Rendering engine is different anyways

[hallow jay]

How can it be the same if arma uses spec gloss?

[ornate veldt]

dayz uses spec and gloss to ?

[hallow jay]

Why do you have met rough files then?

And how come you dont have smdi and as? They come from the same place as _co and _nohq

[ornate veldt]

Bought model

[ornate veldt]

and metallic and rough is the standard for modern engines / PBR texturing. thats why modern assets come with it.

[hallow jay]

You need to create textures that arma can use, for example in substance painter using an arma export preset

[stray relic]

As the others have said, it's messed up because you have procedural AS and SMDI maps in the rvmat at full value (1), rather than customised textures to match your diffuse.
The artist typically would texture in something like Substance Painter and would export
_co, _nohq, _as, _smdi
which would be adjusted for the Arma engine (as it's not PBR) and to work with the specular powers of the rvmat.
They would also adjust the Fresnel values to give surface optical qualities appropriate to the material modelled.

[lethal condor]

Still there really is no reason to ask this in this server

[ornate veldt]

Thanks a lot for the helpful explanation - this was the message I was looking for.

[ornate veldt]

Man - the game is from the same studio, it uses 95% of the codebase of arma 3, even the Modding guides are only from arma 3 for dayz, the texture guides everything.
I dont get it why you are so obsessed in trying me not to ask here.

[full quarry]

keeps things easier to manage as there are differences between dayZ stuff

[ornate veldt]

I guess it is probably possible then to import the PBR textures into Substance and export the as & smdi then.
🙏

[lethal condor]

My point still stands

[ornate veldt]

How come, he was then able to help me ? .....

Yes, its not the same - but still a lot of resources are 1:1

[full quarry]

and we have had cases with people trying to debug stuff ending up being impossbile to debug because they are dayZ stuff

so we dont do dayz stuff

we do these things so that its easy to help people here

you are in dayz discord and the enfusion modders discord. those are the places where dayz modders can help you out

[ornate veldt]

I can understand that - I agree with you, but a simple "in arma 3 we do it like that - not sure if it will work in dayz"
Is more than enough - I am not asking someone to make anything or whatever, I was just asking how it works in Arma or how you handle it in Arma.

Believe it or not but everything the dayz community knows about modding is from arma3 resources.
Like there is 0 guidance or documentation for dayz its only for Arma, that also has a reason - since its literally the same engine just with a newer version.
"DayZ Tools" is literally a copy of Arma Tools, the fileformats are the same and the textures are also the same.
I just wanted a quick info how you handle stuff, since the Arma community is way advanced in terms of knowledge, I did not ask for any debugging or whatsoever.

I hope you dont get that message, wrong, I appreciate the help already and I see no reason why it is a issue to ask something "Arma Engine" related.

[ornate veldt]

"Enfusion" isnt that also a Arma engine ? 😛 - kidding 😉
so god forbid anyone from arma asks a question there - oh thats the case actually 😄

[full quarry]

to ensure we dont waste time debugging something we cant help with we dont do dayz stuff

if you want to ask arma questions, ask arma questions

[ornate veldt]

isnt a question about a arma rvmat a arma question ?

[full quarry]

sure. but then dont bring up dayz and make it off topic

[ornate veldt]

you see where this is going - i dont want to argue, since I understand your point.

[full quarry]

and right now Im starting to dislike your attitude

so if you bring up dayz again youll get boot out

[ornate veldt]

Sorry!

[full quarry]

and if your debug thing ends up being waste of time because its dayz youll get boot out too

you can ask. but you may not waste time

[ornate veldt]

Yeah thanks! - I mean thats actually the only thing what I wanted to do - because e.g there is no documentation on what is an "Pilot View"
I sometimes just want to ask a question// i know what pilot view is obviously but thats what I meant with that there are similiarities.
If I will ask anything dayz related I will add "DayZ related - But how do LODs work in A3" - would that be fine for you / the discord ?

[stray relic]

Yes, if you have the model in a format such as fbx and the uv maps, you should be able to import the co and nohq into Substance. If you don't have a high-poly model then you won't be able to bake fine details into the maps, but at least you should be able to generate an _smdi and _as texture set which will greatly improve the result in game. You'll need to research how to export from Substance to Arma format though, as it's not 1:1 and needs a little bit of work to get the correct channels in the right places, but some searching here will turn up that info.

[rose whale]

Anyone know why these CA textures all have white outlines outside of non-transparent parts?
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/998647210340274226/1296881960513175583/image.png?ex=6713e6f2&is=67129572&hm=5754bdc6c11a66e9399e454731481bff7637de30045d75ac8f38e253c49e4699&

Makes it look all white and static-y when it should just be green and brown

[wooden lantern]

try shader flags on rvmat

NoZWrite and AddBlend iirc

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

[full quarry]

perhaps no correct suffix for source image

and you have white as transparent parts bacground

so it might bleed through on mipmapping

ah CA is mentioned, but is ca in the name of the source file?

and is it tga or png?

[rose whale]

Yes yes yes,PNG, the files all look fine to me

I'll make sure the rvmat didn't get messed up, I don't see why it would, it's a dead simple retexture

[wooden lantern]

mm dithering

having alpha values that aren’t 1 or 0 can do that too iirc

[full quarry]

could also save the png with background color enabled and have the transparent area be one of the main texture shades

[rose whale]

Hmm, how do I do any of that in photoshop?

[full quarry]

no idea

dont use it myself

[rose whale]

Well then how would you do that? xD

[solar grail]

Help, i accidentally created a thermal texture 😐 png res is 1024x512 transparent background, converted to paa. how would Marko remedy this?

[full quarry]

what exactly would you want it to look like?

[stray relic]

That sign won't be readable with thermals, so you could just use a procedural flat colour in the rvmat or perhaps
P:\a3\data_f\default_ti_ca.paa

[cedar lichen]

I think their problem is that the texture is only visible in thermals and isn't visible normally (which is what is desired, to be seen with mk1 eyeball)

[mental sable]

Hello im trying to make a custom beret retexture using an existing 3cb baf model and ive already set everything up but i have this error when i try loading the addon

heres my config

does anyone know what im doing wrong?

sorry im really new to texture creation

[solar grail]

As is the original (not one of the screenshots). On a whiteboard (empty)

[solar grail]

As it stands its only readable in thermal. (Thats not desired)

[full quarry]

youll need to overlay your image over the original whiteboard texture and use that

[mint hare]

you don't mention class UK3CB_BAF_H_Beret_Rifles anywhere, hence the "undefined base class" error Read https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Class_Inheritance#External_Base_Classes or something

[mental sable]

ok thanks

[mint hare]

also, #arma3_config would probably be a more appropriate place if you need further help with config

[mental sable]

alright thanks for letting me know

[solar grail]

Oh, ... i always thunk that setting texture in editor already does that. So basically add white background. Thanks

[mental sable]

i got it working, thanks for the link!

[distant dawn]

is there a way to generate a gear icon for a vanilla retexture? i retextured the vanilla beret H_beret_blk and wanted an icon with the retexture

[livid knot]

No there isnt. You can generate an icon designed for the editor, but it will look bad

[lethal condor]

#arma3_config message

[distant dawn]

bless you

[lethal condor]

Why you could hear me sneeze

[distant dawn]

lmao

[lone kernel]

Hey! So, I'm having a particularly troublesome issue with a texture in our mod and I'm stumped trying to fix it

Whenever we try to pack the mod with PBOProject, it throws us this error:

Went to Mikero's Tools Discord to see if this was an issue on PBOProjects's end, as we'd never encountered this issue before and the mod used to pack just fine

Mikero's Tools confirmed (via PBOProject, Eliteness and Mikero himself) that the file is likely corrupted somehow, and throws this error:

File itself can be found here, in case anyone would like to take a look:

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/553724870714720257/1298095104229117973/Dam_wall_nohq.paa?ex=671850c6&is=6716ff46&hm=c92244af33ceddfd5ce79e2364620667db106cd76c6c3e813ed0db60daa01772&

It opens fine in TexView2, and I can convert it to/from PNG with no issues

But no matter what I do, I simply cannot get the mod to pack with this texture

Any help for a self-taught modder on this one? 😅

[lucid halo]

When getting free textures online that come with, metalness, displacement, roughness, which do you tend to use for the SMDI and AS?

[lethal condor]

AS is just an AO map. SMDI, check pin

[lone kernel]

🙃

[stray relic]

Using the file as-is, I get the same error as you.
Converting it to a .tga and then resizing to 2048x2048 in Paint.net, it then works fine.

[still musk]

could SOMEONE please take the cup or rhs CH-53's and make a camoflage pack for em? because marine grey and german woodland being the only 2 choices on the ENTIRE workshop more or less is kinda disappointing for us stallion users while almost every other heli varrient has TONS of options

a humble request for the niche ch 53' users

some options:

Olive Drab/Flat Green
Desert Tan
Tri-Color Desert
NATO Green and Black
Digital Woodland/MarPat
woodland (no german markings)
winter white

or use this as a ref (https://www.dstorm.eu/pages/en/usa/h-53.html)

if ANYONE would be willing to do this as a fun/side project or if they have free time we would GREATLY appreciate the effort.

[trail sequoia]

sounds like a perfect excuse to learn texturing
if not try posting here instead
https://discord.com/channels/105462288051380224/292271129303842817

[lone kernel]

Yep, that's what Mikero had me do, and weirdly enough resizing it worked

Thanks for the help!

[sleek temple]

Hi everyone! Why can't Buldozer see the textures? P disk is mounted, paths are correct. The problem appeared after reinstalling Windows.
External Viewer ```
D:\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\Arma 3\arma3.exe -buldozer -windowed -noLand -exThreads=0 -noAsserts -cfg=P:\Buldozer.cfg -name=Buldozer

DLL Folder ```
D:\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\Arma 3 Tools\ObjectBuilder

Path to textures ```
P:\

error example, solid grey textures

[full quarry]

you are mounting the P drive from the launcher?

that does not really work that well usually

if you create simple mapdisk.bat file for mounting with simple subst command it should work

https://pmc.editing.wiki/doku.php?id=arma3:tools:setup-p-drive

[sleek temple]

I've tried both ways, and they don't work

[full quarry]

the subst batch file is really a must to do to make sure the base setup is working out

youll have to make sure the launcher automounting is disabled too

so that it wont interfere

[sleek temple]

I've already done it.)

[full quarry]

next thing is to start Object builder from its exe or shortcut to the exe

you dont start the launcher at all after basic setup

[sleek temple]

That's the only way I run it. Yeah

Arma 3 Tools launcher I didn't run. Only ob exe via shortcut

[full quarry]

does the texture exist in this place?

on P:\

and in case you had laucher P drive mounting done you likely need to restart computer to completely clear it up

and then switch to mount with the custom mapdisk.bat

[sleek temple]

Yeah, that's what I did 👍

[sleek temple]

yes

[full quarry]

what does this show?

are the paths red or black

[sleek temple]

black

[full quarry]

👍 that means Object Builder sees them correctly

what resolution is the .paa?

ideas I have left are that the file could be broken somehow and buldozer cant load it

or buldozer cant see your P drive right for some reason

you could try the 64bit arma3 exe too

[sleek temple]

Note: this is the problem with all the models I try to open

[full quarry]

try the 64 bit exe then

[sleek temple]

same problem

[full quarry]

do you have the normal stable branch installed?

or profiling or dev build?

of Arma3

[sleek temple]

Currently on Steam stable branch. I installed profiling a week ago, and then changed it to stable

[full quarry]

stable should work alright

is your P drive set up with Mikeros Arma3p?

to unpack A3 data?

[sleek temple]

I had tools on the old PC and there I used arma3p on disk (X).
On the new PC I installed the system and connected the disk (X)

I mean, I didn't run Arma3P on the new system. As far as I understand, I already have the unpacked Arma3 files.

a3 folder was created in 2023

[stray relic]

What does Object Builder show in the Resource Library window for the textures? green shapes?

[sleek temple]

yes

[stray relic]

If you convert it from paa to tga and change Object Builder file name to the tga, do you see the texture in the OB viewport or in Buldozer?

[sleek temple]

in OB only

[stray relic]

ah I have an idea then

[sleek temple]

no)

[stray relic]

Can you select and hide the glass faces in OB, so they don't appear in buldozer?

[sleek temple]

😭

same thing with inverting the selection

[stray relic]

Make a copy of the res LOD to an Edit LOD, delete all glass faces so you only have the _co

When you go to buldozer, make sure you don't have any of the faces selected

[sleek temple]

i deleted all glass faces, but still no textures in Buldozer. + strange error about _co.paa considering that I made a replacement with _co.tga...

[stray relic]

show current LOD resource textures
it will convert from tga to paa when running buldozer

[full quarry]

could be worth try to run arma3p again to refresh the P:\bin\ stuff

[sleek temple]

That's what it is

[sleek temple]

it's not gonna hit any folders other than a3, is it? In the sense that if I run arma3p it again there will be no duplicate A3 files or deletion of my addons files? 😅

[stray relic]

just a3

[full quarry]

(hit N for dubbing though)

you dont need it and it takes forever to unpack

[sleek temple]

GOD it helped. Thanks, guys

[full quarry]

[ornate veldt]

I already saw the Pin about
Metallic
Roughness
etc.
Is there any like workflow you guys recommend or Photoshop Template or Tutorial to get as close of an SMDI as possible ?
Would be really thankful for the help 🙂
from PBR Textures. (roughness) (metallic)

[static salmon]

if anyone knows any existing arma textures that look very similar to this pleeeeassse let me know

[full quarry]

what are you texturing?

[static salmon]

a model

[full quarry]

ye but like

what kind

[static salmon]

why

[full quarry]

as in tanks and weapons and uniforms dont use that kind of textures

[static salmon]

i know

[full quarry]

so im trying to understand if you are in the right track

[static salmon]

dw i am

[full quarry]

ok then

[ashen violet]

One of the funniest and least productive interactions I’ve seen lol

[rocky whale]

any ideas?

ive already verified game files

ive already tried re converting the paa manually

ive already changed the name

the texture opens fine in TexView 2

and the whole model opens with texture in OB no problem

[livid knot]

Can you send the paa?

[rocky whale]

why?

[livid knot]

So I can look at it and see if there is anything about the file that would contribute to it corrupting

What are you using to pack the texture into your pbo?

[rocky whale]

im packing with mikeros pbo project

[stray relic]

You're missing it's file name suffix, such as _co or _ca

[rocky whale]

the screenshot is a little old

its currently _CO and not working

[stray relic]

Yes, but did you change the name of the source texture (eg tga) to include the _co BEFORE converting to paa?

and try not to post out of date info, it just wastes our time suggesting fixes, be accurate and update

[rocky whale]

ill try that

[stray relic]

just adding _co to the paa does nothing, it MUST be done before conversion

It might actually be an error message relating to the p3d, rather than a texture

[rocky whale]

didnt work

[stray relic]

preNLOD errors are most often solved by verifying/repairing files.
Start by running A3 with ZERO mods.
If that works, add back in mods until it errors again.

[livid knot]

I believe its their mod that is causing it though no?

[stray relic]

He hasn't given anywhere near enough info for us to diagnose much further

If he confirms that it's his mod breaking the game, then we can make some more suggestions