arma3_texture

[severe rune]

Btw just found, the SuperExt doesn't have TI texture. It uses the TI texture slot, to store the emissive 🤔

[full quarry]

oof

[wooden lantern]

so that’s why mine didn’t work alrighty

[thick gate]

What is/Where is the NightEmissiveCoefficient?

I've got everything working outside of the problem that it is extremely dull

[severe rune]

its something the engine decides, probably based on daytime, moonlight something

[burnt fjord]

I have tried making the P07 pistol have night sights (glow in the dark sights) kinda like what the four-five and ACP-C2 pistols have, but i have been unsuccessful. I tired changing the TI_CA and SMDI textures, but both didnt do anything. I have been able to make cat eyes on the back of a helmet i made, but that was by using a seperate selection and rvmat file, where as the p07 uses 1 selection and texture for the entire handgun. What properties would i need to change to make this work?

[eager gorge]

Is there a quick way of testing a new headgear texture via init without needing to reload?
Like with this setObjectTexture [0, "textures\custom_test_texture.paa"]; for uniforms?

[lethal condor]

Check pinned

[eager gorge]

Thanks!

[tulip dirge]

Does someone here have the TFAR RT-1523G (ASIP) Big base camo so I can reskin it?

[severe rune]

https://github.com/michail-nikolaev/task-force-arma-3-radio/blob/master/addons/backpacks/models/data/clf_prc117g_ap_co.paa this one?

[tulip dirge]

Its the clf_nicecomm2, but I was wondering if there was a version with the original skin just made so I can put my own camo on or that I have to skin that on myself

[severe rune]

all the files in that folder, are the ones TFAR has

[wooden lantern]

no luck still after removing TI slot btw

[tulip dirge]

Could someone tell me why the difference in quality is so different?

[stray relic]

The first screenshot is in substance painter or other paint software which probably uses metal/rough PBR materials?
While Arma 3 is older generation, and isn't using PBR but instead Specular/Gloss rendering.
So the skill for the artist is to export textures, combined with the rvmat, to make it look in game like it does in the paint software. There are a number of export presets around which do a fairly decent job most of the time. Try searching this discord.

[inner ingot]

In substance painter, if you set your 3d Preview to base color (shortcut C) you'll get a fairer idea of what the texture actually looks like. I feel like a lot of the time I have to darken down my textures for Arma things

And like Apollo said, you should use the substance painter export presets https://github.com/MoonieFR/SubstanceToArma?tab=readme-ov-file

[tulip dirge]

That explains a lot, appreciate the help guys

[full quarry]

Different programs also have very different lighting conditions. And out of Arma, VR has the worst harsh light

(map lighting is not the issue though but what was stated before buy the other guys.)

[hallow jay]

Yeah its normal, compared to SP the ingame result is always brighter and oversaturated. It is what it is.

[tall stirrup]

Does anyone have a list of images that can be displayed on a whiteboard, such as a map of LZ Connor or Camp Rogain? Or can you tell me how to do that?

[flint sinew]

hope thats right / what you're looking for

it's just all the paths so theres not much description cus tehres al ot of them

had to send as a .txt because its too much for discord

[tall stirrup]

Thanks, you are a lifesaver.

[rancid obsidian]

Guys

Why insignia and flags won't work?

I tried everytime and didn't worked

[lethal condor]

Because something is wrong with your something. Nobody can give you any good answer at this point since you gave no info

[rancid obsidian]

I have insignia problem and this is my config

Resolution is 128×128

It shows in the list but no logo

[rancid obsidian]

Anyone alive?

[stray relic]

Example from A3 to use as template

[rancid obsidian]

I didn't used material before and worked few months ago

And If I do that what material should I use exactly?

[stray relic]

You make a texture. You also make a material.

[rancid obsidian]

Convert my logo to material

[stray relic]

Have you heard of .rvmat files before?

[rancid obsidian]

Yes

[stray relic]

What is one?

[rancid obsidian]

Wdym

[stray relic]

You've heard of rvmat files before. What would you say it is?

[rancid obsidian]

Idk how to explain

But

I forgot

[full quarry]

if nothing shows up in game are there any error pop ups?

and is the path to the file actually correct

[rancid obsidian]

Yes

No errors

[hollow fulcrum]

I am having issues with my textures, it says "Cannot load texture tablet_texture.paa" I looked for every misspelled word and looked if there were any issues, and i can't find anything that is causing this problem. Can someone help me?

    class MyGPSMod {
        units[] = {"My_GPS_Item_ground"};
        weapons[] = {"My_GPS_Item"};
        requiredVersion = 1.0;
        requiredAddons[] = {"A3_Data_F", "A3_Weapons_F"};
    };
};

class CfgWeapons {
    class ItemCore;
    class InventoryItem_Base_F;

    class My_GPS_Item: ItemCore {
        scope = 2;
        displayName = "Custom GPS";
        picture = "\Tablet\icon\black.paa";
        model = "\Tablet\data\tablet.p3d";
        descriptionShort = "Custom handheld GPS device.";
        hiddenSelections[] = {"camo"};
        hiddenSelectionsTextures[] = {"\Tablet\textures\tablet_texture.paa"};  // must match what your .p3d expects

        class ItemInfo: InventoryItem_Base_F {
            mass = 5;
            type = 401;
        };
    };
};

class CfgVehicles {
    class Item_Base_F;

    class My_GPS_Item_ground: Item_Base_F {
        scope = 2;
        scopeCurator = 2;
        displayName = "Custom GPS (Ground)";
        author = "YourName";
        vehicleClass = "ItemsElectronic";
        editorCategory = "EdCat_Equipment";
        editorSubcategory = "EdSubcat_Electronics";
        model = "\Tablet\data\tablet.p3d";
        hiddenSelections[] = {"camo"};
        hiddenSelectionsTextures[] = {"\Tablet\textures\tablet_texture.paa"};

        class TransportItems {
            class My_GPS_Item {
                name = "My_GPS_Item";
                count = 1;
            };
        };
    };
};```

[stray relic]

Are you using a p:\ drive for your mod files and have you tried using mikero's free pboProject (with error checking) to build?

[hollow fulcrum]

nope but ill check it out now

[stray relic]

Also, you should be using a texture suffix, most likely tablet_texture_co.tga (before conversion to .paa).
https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Texture_Map_Types

[hollow fulcrum]

so for that part. I just do is change .paa into _co.tga

[stray relic]

Rename your original texture (example: tga) to include the _co at the end, then convert to .paa.

[hollow fulcrum]

ohhh okay

[hollow fulcrum]

@stray relic OMG!! thank you so much, everything works. That the only thing i was missing and that was using a different tool.

[lethal condor]

What have you done ingame to test is also the question

[hollow fulcrum]

what is the type for GPS slot? I thought it was 611?

[full quarry]

Id refer to the vanilla configs to check

for example the all in one config file in the pinned messages

[rancid obsidian]

I tested in virtual arsenal and map editor it didn't show
Also when I selected 111th division insignia and selected my insignia the insignia didnt changed but that 111th division becomes brighter

Idk if that was inportant

[lethal condor]

• are you 100% sure it is not about missing texture (correct filepath)
• are you sure the texture itself is actually working elsewhere
• are you sure your config is following the correct structure

[fluid phoenix]

A3 uses PBR spec gloss format from SP and not straight PBR right?

Disregard. Seen some good tips in pinned messages.

[full quarry]

yeh its not really PBR as modern rendering now does it

[rancid obsidian]

It fixed

[valid cloak]

im not sure if this is texture related but im trying to add some images to a mission file, i normally use JPG but i have around 40 images this time so i want to make them PAA, only problem is when i put them in game, the images are in negative? or something like that, like a blue filter on all images rather than their true colour, has anyone else encountered this?

my process is;
Open PNG in Text2View
Save As PAA
Path image in game

Incredibly simple stuff and it couldn't be going more wrong!

All help appreciated in advance!

i have attached an example

we do not operate as smurfs

[burnt fjord]

i might be wrong on this, but i think the images need to be in 1024x1024, 2048x2048 size.
mby 1024x2048 would work as well, as long as the ratio is correct and its in that computer sizeing instead of smth random like 800x760

[full quarry]

man above is correct. you are using wrong resolution

[valid cloak]

thanks guys, did a little test and were no longer smurfs, quick sound advice

[midnight kraken]

guys is there a way to retexture inside the hunter vanilla ?
please tag me

[full quarry]

no

[midnight kraken]

there is no way?

to even change the color

?

why

[junior swan]

Does anyone in here know why arm insignias don't show up for people?
Like I can place an AI unit, assign a patch but anyone connecting to the server doesn't see said patch? am I missing something?

[full quarry]

the model has not been set up for that.

makind something retextureable is not automatic in creation process

and the interior probably has not been deemed needing retexturing

[midnight kraken]

ffs

btw is there a template for arma 3 vanilla vehicles somewhere ?

i need the files to retexture them

[fluid phoenix]

Do you recommend messing around with the rvmat before I mess around in SP tweaking textures? @full quarry

[full quarry]

Hmm well typically I've liked to keep rvmat values pretty neutral/basic and let the textures do the work.
That usually seems to have worked best in different terrain lightings

also the rvmat values affect the whole texture instead of just controlled part

specularity is maybe the only thing worth messing with but that works in tandem with the SM/SMDI/DTSMDI texture

more specularity = higher maximum shine for the specular texture to have

but that too has technical limits on how much you can control it with the texture (bit depth of the channels)

[fluid phoenix]

Thank you. Good insight. Is a neutral rvmat easily obtainable and if not do you have quick access to one I could have?

[full quarry]

P:\a3\data_F\ has default super rvmat (although we have recently learned it could be better formatted)

but it likely works startup as reference just fine

then you can check vanilla assets too for how their rvmats are set up

there are some variation in there I think. Some have set final corrections via the rvmat values instead of textures and so on

[fluid phoenix]

Okay, thank you!

[full quarry]

Things like less ambient occlusion power can mimic translucency as in the thing does not get shaded so strongly. I recall I used that with the sogpf parachutes.

But most things are typically either quite solid or have straight transparency via alpha channel of the color texture

[midnight kraken]

is there a template for arma 3 vanilla vehicles somewhere ?
ping me where i can download them

[brittle rivet]

@midnight kraken Most were on the forums
I found the drive link for these a while ago
You might be able to find others with wayback machine from the forum

It has some vehicles, not all though

[midnight kraken]

Thank you @brittle rivet

[fast atlas]

Has anyone messed around with the Parallax changes in the dev branch yet today? Curious how much it will effect the ground textures.

[midnight kraken]

any idea how to deal with the ghost hawk colors being too glossy that wont match other vehicles?

[stray relic]

Make a new _smdi texture which you link via a modified .rvmat material, which you display on your modded Ghost Hawk using hiddenSelectionMaterials.

[fickle yacht]

hello!

I'm working with ace spray tags and i created a tag for our unit. Sadly, the texture is flickering quite roughly when using on vehicles.

Any advice in how to fix this?

[full quarry]

how is it applied?

and do you use correct naming suffix (_CA) to convert it to .PAA?

[fickle yacht]

the graphic on the vic? ace tagging, gotta check how it works exactly but its assigning a texture to the "clan logo slot"

[full quarry]

Ok so its part of the original model. 👍

[fickle yacht]

ah, no? i dont follow.

[full quarry]

texture naming rules have wiki page

[fickle yacht]

rename the stencil_white.png to stencil_white_ca.png before converting it? (im using grad paa website btw).

[full quarry]

but basically the source files need to have correct suffix so that conversion to .Paa follows right conversion rules for that type of texture

[fickle yacht]

https://tenor.com/view/the-universe-tim-and-eric-mind-blown-mind-blown-meme-mind-explosion-mind-explosion-meme-gif-18002878

[full quarry]

_CO for non transparent diffuse textures _CA for textures with alpha transparency

[fickle yacht]

never heard of that. okey cool. i will give it a try!

[full quarry]

most people have not 😅

[fickle yacht]

just to clarify for my brain.

1. rename src image file to name_ca.png
2. convert to paa.
3. naming convention after that doesnt matter.

right?

[full quarry]

well sure but you dont really typically go around changing the names after they are turned to .paa

it also helps to recognize what type of texture you have there

name_ca.png -> name_ca.paa

keep things simple

and no extra work

[fickle yacht]

fair. just wanted to make sure how it works

[full quarry]

the issue you see is due to the transparency picking up ambient occlusion shading from the surface behind it.
One way to combat that is to turn the white part also slightly transparent

[fickle yacht]

👀

hm will try

[fickle yacht]

That worked 🥳

also got rid of the white fringing on the outside of the pixels 🥳

thanks alot @full quarry

[meager tinsel]

hi guys, i made bake co maps (diffuse) but for some reason it's completely black, please help

[lethal condor]

What is black, when it's black

[meager tinsel]

after baking the resulting co uv map instead of displaying the texture shows just a solid black color in the lower left corner of the photo

[lethal condor]

Why don't use Material Base Color you use as the texture as the CO?

[meager tinsel]

thanks, i will try, but will it give a metallic color?

[lethal condor]

Will what?

[meager tinsel]

if i use the base color of the material, the texture in arma 3 will convey a metallic shade? (P.s. sorry for my bad english i speak with translator)

[lethal condor]

No. Base Color is not Metallic, not related even

I am saying there is no point to bake but just use the texture you use in Blender

[meager tinsel]

okay, thanks

[twin saddle]

Does anyone know if the UGV stomper is available to be retextured or is that a no no

[full quarry]

The model like all other A3 models not available for use, but Im fairly sure it can use hiddenselections so it can be retextured

[twin saddle]

Yeah not looking for the model but the texture

[full quarry]

you can find its classes to look at where if it has hiddenselections set up and where the texture paths point to with the ingame config viewer

[twin saddle]

Oh yea I forgot about that

[full quarry]

or I have all in one config dump file linked somewhere in the modding channels

leopards advanced modding tools mod gives also better config viewer

[twin saddle]

ill check config later for that hehe

I keep forgetting theres a built in config viewer to find all this stuff

[full quarry]

👍

open up notepad on computer and write it down with permanent marker on it

(disclaimer: is joke dont do that for real)

[worthy pivot]

Hello, y have problem, i have selected textures in object builder, but in eden edtior, i dont have texture only white, one have solutions ? its 3d

[full quarry]

do you use P drive to build your project from?

your texture names look bit odd there in the OB list. Arey adhering to correct texture naming rules and resolutions?

[worthy pivot]

yeah

[worthy pivot]

have you example ?

[full quarry]

pinned messages have the wiki link

can you preview the model in object builders buldozer previewer?

[worthy pivot]

i have this error

[full quarry]

Where exactly?

starting buldozer?

[worthy pivot]

yes when a start/restart buldozer

[cold carbon]

I am having a hard time packing the textures with my model.
I got a boat model which is made of 3 materials in blender.
each material has its own texture png image (solid color)
i converted the PAA etc but they just dont link when going through object builder

[lethal condor]

Blender, Material tab, there is some slot to write the filepath for tex and mat

[cold carbon]

does all this stuff need to be in the p drive even if its in blender

[lethal condor]

What you put there is not PNG but PAA if that's what you ask

[cold carbon]

could you please show me where you find it? i have the toolbox plugin but in materials tab there is no slots for me

[lethal condor]

Scroll down the matetial

[cold carbon]

as far down as it goes

[lethal condor]

Then you didn't checked ArmaToolBox's check

Once the object is checked as an P3D Export ready, should be there

[cold carbon]

can you please show where can i find this

[lethal condor]

3D view, press T to open side menu, Toolbox, checkbox

Just in case, have you installed ArmaToolBox, even?

[cold carbon]

thank you found it

yes yes i installed it

[lethal condor]

Sounds you've never used it if you never knew the checkbox

[cold carbon]

yes i never did

first time

[cold carbon]

how should I set the path to be properly found? is it relative to mod (same as model in config file, for example: "\DroneBomb\dronebom.p3d"?

[lethal condor]

Relative to a PBO

[cold carbon]

im getting error in addon builder and i cant tell

[cold carbon]

ok thanks i'll try

[cedar folio]

got a texture file but can see the outlines of the sleeves and front and back of the uniform?? you can see the textured areas which would be on on the elbows and shoulders of the uniform but nothing else is lined how do i do something to see the lines im using photoshop

[full quarry]

you cant really see the uvmappin in image editor unless you have image of the uvmappin to use as reference layer

using uvmap grid image applied on the model can work though

this is about what you would see in game and can use as reference

[cedar folio]

Brilliant Thankyou

[safe pendant]

quick question, is the texheader.bin file created automatically when packing the mod as a .pbo file?

[severe rune]

Yes

[safe pendant]

Thanks

What about the PBOPREFIX file? Also autmatically?

[severe rune]

There are no pboprefix files inside pbo's

That's something mikero generates, to store information stored elsewhere in the pbo

[safe pendant]

Oh, I see. I am using some extracted mods to learn modding and figuring what is necessary from me to add

[brittle rivet]

Sometimes the matching normal and smdi textures can also help with finding edges as well
SMDI needs split by channel to view properly though

[flat current]

hi totally noob here, is it possible to change a texture of a structure that doesnt have a hidden selection?
i wanted to change this arma3-land_connectortent_01_floor_dark_f

[full quarry]

No.

[flat current]

thanks, is there any other solution?

[full quarry]

No 😅

[flat current]

alright

thx

[lethal condor]

Technically yes. It requires a freaking amount of hacky solution

[flat current]

too hard for me, i just wanted to make a concrete floor

[full quarry]

no need to even imply that thanks

[inner ingot]

I have some concrete floor decals in my structures mod 👀 https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3336740643

I should probably make one with an attributes field so you can put a texture on it

[versed axle]

Does anyone have a photoshop file for Parade Uniform? There use to be one on the Forum, but thats been down for a millennia

[full quarry]

theres been an alternate link pasted around occasionally

to at least partial collection

could be one there

[flat current]

I'd love that, I wish I knew how to model and mod, your mod looks sharp btw

[lethal condor]

Arma 3 Samples

[rancid obsidian]

Hey guys

Can someone help me with Viper helmet

I can't find the hiddenselection

Of helmet

[lethal condor]

Why

[rancid obsidian]

Wdym why?

[lethal condor]

Because I see zero point to do so

[vernal sage]

It has camo defined for its hiddenSelection.
hiddenSelectionTextures uses only one texture: \a3\characters_f_exp\opfor\data\headgear_vipersp_alt_co.paa.

Y'know, you can easily find all of this information by just looking at the Config Viewer and finding the Special Purpose Helmet's classnames...

[lethal condor]

There even is no reason to fetch it

[rancid obsidian]

I looked but hiddenselection was empty

In config viewer

Also I used camo for hiddenselection but it was invisible

[vernal sage]

....no it isn't?
https://i.imgur.com/TJm4R5A.png
camo shows up consistently as a usable selection on Eliteness, the in-game config viewer, as well as in a hex editor.
Either you're using the wrong model altogether or you are not assigning the right texture.

[brittle rivet]

I know for certain that it works, because Aegis adds two different hex camos for the viper helmet

[cedar folio]

looking at retexturing this buckle but cant retexture over the image with crossed rifles is there any way i can retexture over this?

[lethal condor]

Overwrite RVMAT may fix it

[cedar elm]

Hi,
I finished a mod, but when I other people use it the model.p3d ask for the texture directory from my PC and the texture just doesn't work properly at all. How do I make it just dependent on the .pbo?

[full quarry]

I'd recommend following the default method of setting up P drive and building your project from it.

[cedar elm]

Can you guide me a bit on that? I have the P drive mounted, but where should I locate my mod in there?

[full quarry]

I'd recommend stuff after addons folder.
Addons folder is where the pbo goes.

Beyond that I can't really type out on mobile.

[cedar elm]

ty ty

[cedar elm]

Ok, at the end, I ended assigning a random texture and mat from arma 3 and replacing it with hiddenSelections

[forest hazel]

Why isn't the glass texture transparent?

I'm using a glass texture from a3 itself, not a custom one so the image can't be the problem

I tried selecting the glass selection in object builder and doing "move top" but that didn't do anything

[lethal condor]

Which texture and mat you used in OB (not config)

[forest hazel]

None are assigned through object builder, I'm using hiddenselections

I did try assigning them through ob but I got an error saying unable to load texture for some reason

[lethal condor]

Likely because P3D has no tex there

[forest hazel]

Any idea why I would get this error?

The filepath is correct so idk

[lethal condor]

Wrong texture path likely

We can't tell because we don't know what it says and you do

[forest hazel]

This is the same filepath i used in the config and it worked fine so im not sure why its not working now

[lethal condor]

Which path you use in config

[forest hazel]

in the config i used the same filepath in the screenshot

[lethal condor]

No, I'm not asking to clarify the same thing again, what is written in the config, just copy paste it here so I know it

And what is the P3D's texture path

[forest hazel]

hiddenSelections[] =
{
"main",
"wings",
"det_1",
"det_2",
"seat",
"extras"
};

    hiddenSelectionsTextures[] =
    {
        "\MiG21\Data\main.paa",
        "\MiG21\Data\wings.paa",
        "\MiG21\Data\det1.paa",
        "\MiG21\Data\det2.paa",
        "\MiG21\Data\seat.paa",
        "\MiG21\Data\extras.paa"
    };

I took the glass hiddenselection out

[lethal condor]

I'm not asking to take it out

[forest hazel]

as i asssume it's not needed if the texture path is in the p3d

oh okay

[lethal condor]

I asked what was literally written in the config

[forest hazel]

hiddenSelections[] =
{
"main",
"wings",
"det_1",
"det_2",
"seat",
"glass",
"extras"
};

    hiddenSelectionsTextures[] =
    {
        "\MiG21\Data\main.paa",
        "\MiG21\Data\wings.paa",
        "\MiG21\Data\det1.paa",
        "\MiG21\Data\det2.paa",
        "\MiG21\Data\seat.paa",
        "\MiG21\Data\glass_ca.paa",
        "\MiG21\Data\extras.paa"
    };

this is what was it said before

[lethal condor]

What about P3D

What about the filepath and filename, too

[lethal condor]

Try without first backslash

[forest hazel]

Brilliant that fixed it thanks for your help

[full quarry]

It is recommended to use mod tag in your folders and filenames for unique names.

If someone else makes mig21 folder with mig21.p3d it will conflict with your mod

[forest hazel]

Thanks I will do that

[gritty pasture]

I was about to

they should effect quite a bit, especially on ground textures with bumpy normals

I have an issue I cannot solve... one of my models look ok in buldozer, but when I binarise it it looks broken

buldozer: http://i.imgur.com/iDeqFkT.jpg

ingame: http://i.imgur.com/vvpzKxX.jpg

I double checked everything, still can't understand why it does that

[copper helm]

Does anyone know if I can make left and right arms have different textures?

[lethal condor]

A soldier's barearms, right? IIRC no

(Technically yes, if you make a custom model)

[copper helm]

Thats what I was aware of, which it very unfortunate. If I make a model that has multiple hidden selections on the body and then reference them in a config you think it could work for everyones face?

[lethal condor]

That is not how it works anyways

Arms are a part of a uniform model, so theoretically possible literally impossible task

[copper helm]

When saving textures as paa do I need to make them all the same size? I can seem to get the hand detail on my character. My co is 1024x1024 but the nohq/as are 512x512

[lethal condor]

That doesn't matter

[copper helm]

So I have retextured the arms and I can't seem to get the hand details back. I have all the other files linked to a3. For some reason no matter what I do I can't get the details back. Any ideas?

Second picture is how all the other ones look

[fast atlas]

The texture looks good in buldozer at least :), have no idea what would cause that though I have little to no experience with textures. If you end up messing around with the parallax changes though I'm sure it would be greatly appreciated if you could post a quick sample so people not into the texturing could get a good idea of how much of an effect it would have.

[lethal condor]

You may miss a proper RVMAT

[fast atlas]

Also Bamburgh is looking great by the way from what I've seen, can't wait to get on there.

[copper helm]

I repathed it back to the OG folder and it worked fine, but the tattoos faded more now, is there a way to make them darker?

[full quarry]

You may need to look at how the skin rvmats are built on the wiki

And which stages you may need to edit

[unreal magnet]

Just made the most ugly texture for the SUV known to mankind
http://abload.de/img/2016-01-17_000046ckbk.jpg

[copper helm]

I have been looking at them heavily, I am copying the rvmats that work and having the exact same pathing and they still mess up for some reason

[lunar kayak]

@unreal magnet was the PedoBear needed? Kappa

[unreal magnet]

😄

[lunar kayak]

i wish you could edit addons without having to restart the server every change -.-

so much time wasted

[lethal condor]

We cannot tell because you told really no specifics

[bronze stone]

@unreal magnet Such a beauty

(for a trashcan :D)

[unreal magnet]

hehe

[fair grove]

anyone here with modding experience that can help me make a retexture addon for arma 2?

specifically: i want to make an addon that overwrites default chedaki camouflage with this texture

no model editing, nothing

just an addon folder with a data pbo that replaces the smersh_body textures on the chedakis

i have all the necessary tools i believe, texture editing software isn't needed since i already have a texture so thats about it

[full quarry]

check if it uses hiddenselections in config that you can use to retexture it

and does the texture actually fit the model/original texture layout

[fair grove]

only config i have now is a config from foxfort

[full quarry]

you would need to look at the original ins_soldier_base class

this config does not really have any useful information

if the models are set up with hiddenselections it would be defined in the ins_soldier_base class

since these classes dont define it

[vernal sage]

Unfortunately, the vanilla Arma 2 ChDKZ character models do not support retexturing via config. Most edits back in the day were done with hex edits to the original models (e.g. ins_soldier_1.p3d, ins_soldier_g.p3d, etc.). It was pretty much the standard until the Sample MLODs for A2 assets were released.

Seeing as how it appears that you're using modded models of the ChDKZ faction units, you can check if they have selections by scanning the model with Mikero's Eliteness tool. Unpack the mod's PBO and check the models one by one; Eliteness will show you whether or not the model has selections defined.

That being said, if the original mod didn't make use of hiddenSelections, then it's doubtful that you'll be able to find them.

[full quarry]

it was established in DMs that this may be too much work

(also why I do prefer helping in public)

[full quarry]

is this from Forza?

[karmic bison]

nop

It comes from a former person who had a French server and left their vehicle open source

[full quarry]

then it probably is from Forza

cant use that

that kind of servers you talk about are known to do forbidden things

[karmic bison]

Ah, darn! And models purchased on Sketchfab.com, would they no longer cause this problem?

[full quarry]

there is no absolute guarantee to sold model not being ripped from some game

especially very cheap "game ready" models are often that

[karmic bison]

very well i understand thank you

[true roost]

Does anyone know the dimensions of the map texture for Land_map objects (paper maps)? Iv'e been trying to make a custom one but even though i extract the correct pbos i cant open the .paa's

[full quarry]

you need to install the arma3 tools and use texView2 to open paa and save it as png

[true roost]

Thanks

[outer needle]

Could someone clarify an engine behaviour to me?
Would a texture set that has a definition of multiple selections inside its uv space be called multiple times (once per selection that uses it) by the game, or would it be only called once and once loaded into vram it can populate the rest of the selections without additionals calls?

[graceful blaze]

Idk if this goes here or #arma3_model but I'm trying to find out if it's possible to add an additional hiddenSelections to a vest model?

I'm trying to add patches to the chest of the GA Carrier but don't want to just edit it into the texture itself. Is it possible to make a custom 3D patch and attach it to a coordinate on the model and then just define the texture somehow?

I'm mostly just a config wrench monkey, I've never really done models or textures for the game so I have little to no clue what I'm doing lol

[lethal condor]

Usually not, especially if that's not a model you don't make

[brittle rivet]

You can use attachTo with scripting and a custom patch model, wouldn't need model editing
There's a mod that does it with gui for custom vests, something similar could work for adding patches without editing the texture or model
The mod: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3352708204

[full quarry]

Model edits are not possible.

[graceful blaze]

Gotcha, thank you. We'll probably just end up doing retextures then, until we bite the bullet and make our own models

[outer needle]

bump ^

[full quarry]

If you define them as sections for retexturing it adds draw calls I believe.

[outer needle]

ty

[full quarry]

If you are looking to make hidden variant parts via hiddenselections that will be performance intensive as the mesh is not hidden, it's transparent. And the rendering has to do a lot more transparency calculation

[burnt fjord]

https://community.bohemia.net/wiki/Section_Count

[gentle mauve]

as a noob who just stepped into all of this...

so this would be somehow inefficient? with different types of flash hiders or stocks/grips within one model?

model maker would have to consider "potential less performance" vs "more models/bigger filesize"?

[lethal condor]

Usually people make one P3D per one variant, as the game doesn't really offer such "hide some parts" for weapons natively

[stray relic]

Use hide animations, rather than hiddenSelections.

[lethal condor]

Which is not available for weapons

[full quarry]

Magazine and attachments like sights are typically separate objects

Hiddenselections are meant for texture swapping, not hiding a lot of mesh as it's not hidden, it's transparent.

[gentle mauve]

thank you. so it could be called sub-optimal then how the mod handles different configurations

[outer needle]

nah, I got that clear pretty early on.

Im asking to know if I can maximize the texture size without compromising the mod file size, for example, hold multiple attachments into a single texture set, kind of like an atlas in itself

A practical example would be multiple 512px images that can be fit into a single 4k texture that would still achieve my target texel density while reducing the number of necessary files to achieve that.

While it would be neat to have a single texture set for 5 or 6 attachments sharing the same material, I'm worried that doing this will potentially strain the performance on the long run because instead of calling smaller files per selection, it would call a larger file per selection if engine behaviour is calling a set per selection.

Unless the engine calls it once and once in memory if it tries to be called again it knows that it should use something already there but with a different uv coords.

Idk, this might be elemental knowledge but I suppose I have always used an unconventional workflow, and yes, I understand that what I'm describing is basically an atlas itself, what I would like to know is whenever it's practical and if Arma would take advantage of it

[full quarry]

I don't think you'll benefit from combined atlas

Especially as retextured would be using only tiny portion of it but still need to load the whole texture

It is recommended to follow BI practices in these things most of the time.

[full quarry]

Very sub optimal

[balmy dagger]

what causes this

[full quarry]

which part you dont want to happen?

[balmy dagger]

chassis

it's missing after i did reskin

[full quarry]

usually caused by wrong pathing to the new texture

[balmy dagger]

but others work

only this doesn't work somehow

[full quarry]

typo

[balmy dagger]

lemme check

i checked again but i don't think so

the skin is on the plate 😭

[balmy dagger]

got the model working now but the retextured texture doesn't shows up

[molten quarry]

where can i find the arma base game vic and unifoms as well dlc to re texture

or could some suggest a video or help me for 5mins to give me a good start

[full quarry]

retexturing is done by painting a new texture (possibly using original texture image as reference)

3d models are not involved

you can search chat history here and googling can bring up some guidance too

[molten quarry]

that true i meant the the original text to use as a blueprint of it but appty the response

[brittle rivet]

@molten quarry This has templates for many of the vanilla textures
Some of the DLC texture templates are in Arma 3 Samples
All of the texture files are in the base game files, and can be viewed by unpacking the pbos or by viewing ingame with scripts or a viewer
I think the Advanced Developer Tools has an ingame texture viewer.
If you want to do stuff with the texture, you have to unpack it, and convert to a usable format with TexView2

These will probably help with the mod creation stuff
https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Arma_3:_Creating_an_Addon
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=238437456 Retexturing guide
https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Arma_3:_Characters_And_Gear_Encoding_Guide

[brittle rivet]

You can't the model
You can get the texture, and figure out how it works with some effort (and sometimes UV test textures)
Something like this, from when I did retexturing of the p90

You probably don't even need to go that far, since most of the uniforms are less messy

[mental night]

when i view my texture in gimp it looks good but when i export it to png it becomes shit

why is this happenning

i am following this tutorial : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZoI7f0ApSI

Pls Help

[ashen violet]

Save it as a .tga

[full quarry]

you can make a "visible copy" of it as separate layer or image to get all the layer blending right

something breaks when its exporting it but its not really possbile to say what

probably how it merges the layers

[mental night]

Can text view 2 convert a tga to paa

[ashen violet]

Yes

[mental night]

still i am getting that flat ugly image

[full quarry]

did you do what I mentioned?

[mental night]

yeah i merged all layers

but it still gives me the ugly camouflage

[full quarry]

did you try the copy visible to new image?

the template you are using could be broken

[mental night]

i made the template my self

[full quarry]

does not mean it could not be broken. 😅

[mental night]

and it worked for the camouflage i created earlier

[full quarry]

unfortunately this is irrelevant since now it dont work.

try copy visible to new image

[mental night]

ok

doing it right now

wait

which layer to do it

the nohq ur the template one

[full quarry]

copy visible would copy everything as it is

[mental night]

i am not undertstanding what to do

these are my layers

[mental night]

ok

hell yeah

it finally worked

@full quarry thnx man

[full quarry]

that would indicate your layers are somehow messed up and dont merge correctly on export.

[mental night]

love you my man

[full quarry]

but this is simple workaround

[mental night]

yep

[heady solar]

Is it possible to change the texture of pylon weapons/magazines? Like the ones in the pic?

[lethal condor]

Likely no

[full quarry]

ammo dont have hiddenselection I think

neither does the pod 🤔

[solemn crystal]

Heyo, I'm looking for a Texture Dev for an upcoming Oceania Altis Life server.

[full quarry]

#creators_recruiting

[outer needle]

is there any tip to improve texture quality output once compressed?
Im observing a lot of anisotropic artifacting in sections in my models once the textures are in/game, they tend to look almost like a very subtle perlin noise

Im using Substance 2025 with 8bit png outputs to convert into PAA if that info is relevant.

[severe rune]

TexConvert.cfg defines what kind of compression is used for the textures, based on the suffix. Maybe tweaking that a bit can help

[full quarry]

picture?

could be ambient occlusion bleed if game treats your model as transparent where its not

(dont mix solid parts and transparent parts on same texture)

[outer needle]

sure, give me a couple mins

[full quarry]

and remove alpha channel from _CO textures

[outer needle]

its very subtle, there is a lot of green and red spots all over the texture. I imagine its due compression

[full quarry]

right thats from the compression I think

you could try reduce colors on the texture beforehand

liek if you got lot of very subtle gradient changes on surface it can get messed up when it reduces colors on compression

[stray relic]

Common issue with textures all of a similar colour, especially black.
One way around it is to remove weathering/scratches etc from the main _co texture and put them on the _mc texture in supershader.
That way when it gets converted to .paa with compression you avoid most of the green/purple blotches.

[outer needle]

thank you, this is actually very informative

[full quarry]

super shader also has the DT /detail stage that can be used

[outer needle]

changing topic for a bit, is there a way to transfer rvmat and texture into the selections of different lods?
doing so manually with 3 or 4 selection is not that bad, but im doing a vic to test and im just dreading having to do +30 texture set setup per lod hahaha

[stray relic]

30 textures in a LOD? That will be terrible for performance. Aim for 3 - 7.

[outer needle]

I do notice a difference between compressions indeed, whats the downside of using for example, dxt5 vs dxt1? File size on disk?

[brittle rivet]

Found this, don't know if the table applies to .paa files, but the compression algorithms are mostly the same from what I understand (except I don't think Arma 3 supports BC7)
https://www.modding-forum.com/guide/3-texture-compression/
I'd guess Arma 3 has safe greyscale colours as well, but I don't know if anyone has made a complied list or palette
Also https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/TexConvert.cfg (file is in Arma 3 tools directory), if you want to play with forcing certain compression algorithms. Might be some issues with certain paa formats for some uses, haven't played with it

[outer needle]

bc7 is dxt5 nvm, i misread earlier

but thanks for the info!

[lilac gorge]

anyone have project argo textures?

[hallow jay]

Why would you need to do this?

You assign the textures and rvmats to the first resolution LOD, and you then keep duplicating this mesh to create the other resolution LODs, making the necessary changes (either decimating or reducing poly count manually).

This will retain the texture and rvmat information

This now sounds as if you first created all the LODs without assigning textures and rvmats to anything, which is nonsensical

[full quarry]

You make first lod complete the. Make the lesser lodss from that.

If you assign textures/materials after lods are done your workflow needs to change.

[outer needle]

indeed, im still working on that hahahaha. Yeah, ive just been doing tests here and there, this is the first actual time I do additional resolution lods for stuff with has more than 3 selections at once

[outer needle]

its because I did, read above xD

[full quarry]

Basically it means you need to do the lods again.

[outer needle]

I did haha. Now I know I need to be better or this will happen again haha

[severe rune]

Yes

[hallow jay]

Then you shall suffer the consequences of your actions

Resolution lods should imo be the very very last thing you create in your workflow

And I personally create textures as the penultimate thing, just before the resolution LODs. This makes sure you can correct any mesh issues (mostly animation related, but could be anything really) without having to redo the textures as well.

Oftentimes you might find yourself having to cut / scale / whatever the mesh or its parts multiple times before you get the correct final result, and if such changes affect your UVs then redoing the textures can be a nightmare.

[graceful blaze]

Does anyone know how to texture this thing?

[stray relic]

If that model is heli_light_01_f.p3d then I don't think you can retexture it, as BI didn't provide hiddenSelections on that part of the airframe.

[granite sail]

Hi guys, inquiring how i would go about using a reskin based on CUP 'guerrilla jacket' so the texture the same model but 3CB version in stead?

this arma 2 original model is used in both CUP and 3CB, i want to change the dependency to 3CB if possible in the mod i'm working on (with permission of the original author)

[outer needle]

yeah, I often come over and over again to the models I do a tweak here and there, im running on a non conventional workflow anyway so its always been "weird" since I first imported stuff into arma a couple of years ago. Just wanted to get closer to the conventional process for game making assets. For the moment being, lesson learnt regading lods haha

[full quarry]

sometimes one must learn the hard way 😅

[brittle rivet]

How do textures get applied to resolution LODs
Most importantly, if I have an LOD 0 with clean uv, and LOD 1 and higher have messy UVs from using decimate to make them, will I run into texture issues from incorrect uv mapping?

[full quarry]

decimation might not be the best way to reduce the first lods

if it messes up the uvmapping you did it too rough

the model can also be made in ways that dont really support decimation

sometimes manual reduction is must

but basically the same textue is used on all lods

[brittle rivet]

So at least for lod 1, it would be better to match UVs
Which means making good topology that reduces easily is probably the best solution

[full quarry]

all lods should have at least relatively matching uvs

[outer needle]

after tweaking the noise in the texture "dirt" the result was much more cleaner, the splotches are not that visible anymore. Also tweaked the rvmats to make the shine slightly duller, im much more comfortable with the result now. Thanks for the info and help yesterday

[lyric dagger]

Can you have a multimaterial texture with transparency? I want to create a ground decal that mixes 3 textures: water, mud and transparent texture around the edge. I want to use multimaterial as I will create multiple variants and I don't want to bog down the game with large textures for each variant.

[ashen violet]

No, multimaterial doesn’t support transparency

[lyric dagger]

Damn. That creates a big issue for me then.

[ashen violet]

You can still use a multimaterial for all of your non transparent textures and use a single super shader for the water

[full quarry]

water decal wont really look great anyway

youd want some sort of specular wet surface look

not water

since decals shape on the ground

and the water would not look like it pools properly

wet mud works nice though

[lyric dagger]

Yeah it's for a muddy puddle stream, not just the water. I found a workaround. I made an edge loop and assigned it a normal CA texture to achieve the edge fading off so the decal can blend with the ground texture

[full quarry]

how big decal are we talking about?

[lyric dagger]

1.45x10 meters

The "water" is just a trick, it's a simple texture that has high specular so it shows the env map.

[full quarry]

it could work with supershader too

so you could have the alpha on the edge with more control

DT, MC and SMDI channels could get you same results

[lyric dagger]

Yeah, but i want to have many variants and multimaterial is better for that as I can just use base mud and water textures and blend them using a mask.

[full quarry]

👍 then all good

[lyric dagger]

On a related note: is it possible to make a land decal to have different footstep noises? I want my puddle stream segment to have the squelchy mud noises when walked on.

[full quarry]

with roadway lod should be possible

[lyric dagger]

Any idea for existing assets that do that? I can look it up how they do that.

[full quarry]

all buildings have roadway lod that defines the walkable surfaces and the soundscape that surface has

[lyric dagger]

I'm trying to go back into moddingafter few months of break, but now stuff I know had worked fails to pack.
"ModelInfo.MemSphere is not a float"
Is the error and I have no idea what that means or how to fix it.
using pbo project

[stray relic]

Map or assets?

[lyric dagger]

Assets. This getting werid now.
I took a mod that I know packed fine. I packed it to test just now for test and it worked fine, packed and all.
However when I just made a copy of a mesh that was in the working mod folder and renamed the copy. Now I get the ModelInfo.MemSphere is not a float.
Even more weird after deleting the copied file the error stays.

Great, bulldozer also stopped working after I reinstalled it to see if that would help...

[stray relic]

Perhaps start with some basic things

• re-launch Arma tools from Steam (just once)
• rerun arma3p to unpack game data to p
• delete temp cache

Also update to all latest mikero tools if not done already. Latest free version of pboProject is 4.29, but also update other sub-tools.

[wooden lantern]

what suffix is for raw textures

cuz _raw doesnt work, and the _uc posted here like years ago also doesnt

_8888 doesnt even compress it to 8888 it does 1555 😭 and replacing the 1555 with 8888 in texconvert.cfg doesnt work

[full quarry]

what is it you try to achieve?

[wooden lantern]

uncompressed noise texture for clouds

im trying to use a perlin noise but it keeps getting absolutely crunched, dxt5 works decently but ofc compression artifacts mess up the clouds

[full quarry]

what does vanilla use?

[wooden lantern]

_raw

that's what happens when you save with raw

    class Uncompressed
    {
        name                   = "*_uc.*";
        format                 = "ARGB8888";
        dynRange               = 0;
    };

that's the config i found in this channel from years ago but it did not work

[full quarry]

did you use this or did you replace _uc with _raw?

[wooden lantern]

i tried first with the _raw that's normal in the cfg, then copied in this classname and tried _uc

[full quarry]

raw already exist in the config though

so I doube you can have 2 rules for same suffix

[wooden lantern]

raw isnt actually raw

no i copied in the _uc suffix as a new one

not replacing the old _raw

[full quarry]

technically you can have any suffix you like and create a new rule for it

[wooden lantern]

yeah, so it should save as uncompressed but it doesnt seem to be following that rule

[full quarry]

this is the actual file you used yes?

[wooden lantern]

yeah

this is saved with _uc from the config above

it uses ARGB4444, still not uncompressed for some reason

[full quarry]

do you convert it with texview2 or imagetopaa?

[wooden lantern]

imagetopaa

[full quarry]

do you edit imageToPaa rule cfg?

[wooden lantern]

yeah

[full quarry]

just making sure its not something simple as this 😅

[wooden lantern]

lmao ur good yeah ive just been staring at this because there's no reason why it shouldn't allow it

that's my source file if ur curious

[full quarry]

it comes out as transparent for me

🤔

[wooden lantern]

alpha channel is black

original noise texture from arma has it that way so i do too

[full quarry]

👍

[wooden lantern]

many undocumented mysteries

[full quarry]

ok so at least custom classes work

but yes 8888 does not seem to be right

[wooden lantern]

strange

8888 is a valid dds compression

so i wonder what actually gets you an uncompressed paa

[full quarry]

@severe rune we could use your advice with the texture compression rules.

https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/TexConvert.cfg

ARGB8888 is listed as valid format type

but it results in ARGB4444 image

[full quarry]

what resolution is the original texture?

[wooden lantern]

4096x4096

[heavy crystal]

Hi guys

[wooden lantern]

oh wait

sorry

game texture is 2k

my texture is 4k

[full quarry]

no

[heavy crystal]

If I hook the app the will battle eye stop me from injecting custom shaders?

[full quarry]

probably

[heavy crystal]

They're kernel level anti-cheat scares me with how often Arma 3 crashes

Dang

I want more fps

And I seen a guy bypassing it last night with iron sights snipes. 5 in under 1 second from 1000+ meters.

Can just run a VM e.e

[full quarry]

that guy probably ran some cheats too

[heavy crystal]

Was in code4gaming koth

He went like 60 and 1 before I left

[full quarry]

probably cheats

anyway its not really topic of the channel

@wooden lantern 2k texture had no change

[heavy crystal]

Mmm, oh yeah

[full quarry]

the argb8888 type dont seem to work

lets see if dedmen has any insights 🙏

[heavy crystal]

Just copy the existing format

What is it?

RGBA8 is pretty common though. So that's odd.

[full quarry]

is fine. dont worry about it

[heavy crystal]

Okedoke. I'm a graphics software engineer though, so can probs halp

[full quarry]

not really. its issue of the texture convert program.

[heavy crystal]

Is it a proprietary internal format?

[wooden lantern]

on god 🙏

[lyric dagger]

For some reason my ground decal using the multimaterial is broken really badly. There puddles are misalliged, there are artifacts, and it looks wrong as well, no normals.
I can't tell if it looks good in buldozer as that went tit's up and I can't get it to work properly. I tried running it from arma 3 directory, but that way it does not display any textures at all.

This is the mask file.
An my rvmat: https://pastebin.com/EFgawqUx

[full quarry]

the multimaterial uses 2 uvsets by default

do you have 2 uvsets

[lyric dagger]

Ah! That might be it, I do not have 2 uvs. I only ever did multimaterial once, quite some time ago

[lyric dagger]

Sadly that was not it, I had two sets of UVs. I guess I'll supershader it.

[ashen violet]

You can use your mask as an ID map to create your textures in substance painter

[valid venture]

Hello guys, anybody know if/why Blastcore compiled by Neetch was deleted from the workshop ?

[full quarry]

unknown

also #arma3_questions is the place to ask such

here its bit lost

[valid venture]

Couldnt find a general mod channel but that makes sense. Thanks

[silver glen]

If I were a complete beginner in texture stuff for arma and wanted to make custom vests/uniforms/helmets, do y'all have any suggestions/vid recommendations on where you started?

[brittle rivet]

Retexture guide: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=238437456 (There are some more out there, but this one is pretty good)
Making an addon: https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Arma_3:_Creating_an_Addon
Characters and gear config stuff: https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Arma_3:_Characters_And_Gear_Encoding_Guide
Pete's texture templates are pretty good, if it's there for what you want to make textures for (most vanilla stuff, not quite all) #arma3_texture message

You will need Arma 3 Tools, and either Mikero's tools or Hemtt is highly recommended for packing mods
paa addon, for gimp or photoshop, faster than texview2, but texview2 still sometimes needed https://github.com/gruppe-adler/paa-gimp-plugin, https://github.com/gruppe-adler/PaaPhotoshopPlugin
(Gimp addon is gimp 2 only at this time, doesn't work on gimp 3)

I use Mikero's tools, in part because I started with it, in part because it has useful tools with it.

If you are trying to retexture stuff, the config browser ingame is useful for checking all of the config required
For reference configs, either Arma 3 samples or unpack from game files using Arma3p from mikero's tools
(Do the P: drive setup if you are going to unpack, much easier to keep the files neat that way: https://pmc.editing.wiki/doku.php?id=arma3:tools:setup-p-drive)

Edited to add gimp 2 note, since I keep forwarding this message

There's some other useful stuff on pmc.editing.wiki as well

[gentle mauve]

the PS Plugin doesn't seem to work with PS2025?! or is it just me?

[brittle rivet]

Wouldn't be surprising, since the last release was in 2020
I can't test though, since I use GIMP
You could try building the plugin for PS2025, with the instructions on the github
Or just use the online converter https://paa.gruppe-adler.de/ or TexView2

[full quarry]

or imageToPaa

[midnight kraken]

GUYS WHY ISNT THERE A NYX TANKETTE IN THE SAMPLE FOR TEXTURES there are not tank templates for the tankettes or the tank dlc

btw why isnt there any templates given out by BI?

i mean except the ones in the samples

and where do i find more templates? like the good ones stuff that BI has given out on samples are great since you can remove the dirt and the scratches

[midnight kraken]

tag me please

[young patio]

question for people how do people go about making their skin textures? ive got a head in game but it looks "waxy" as hell

Im using SCOUTS Substance export preset on PBR-Metal-Rough

Rvmat attached as well

[lethal condor]

Your SMDI have no specular (G)

Check pinned for more info

[full quarry]

Wiki page about skin shader.

Substance painter metal rough won't work and the normal Arma export templates probably don't know how to export stuff for skin shader

[young patio]

Ah cheers both

[wooden lantern]

that's an export for super shader 😭

ive never tried texturing the skin shader with it

[young patio]

https://tenor.com/view/i-guess-we-gonna-find-out-miniklinonline-i-suppose-well-find-out-we-shall-see-itll-be-revealed-gif-26252461

[full quarry]

Won't really work but you can maybe use the export results to combine what skinshader uses.

[uncut flower]

Can someone tell me please how to super easily get the normal map and other necessary texture maps for arma 3 from blender?? I also have two objects joined into a single headgear and I dont know how to combine the textures for the two... please...

[young patio]

coolio ive got the skinshader to work also @wooden lantern ill show you now what your workflow looks like combined with that shader looks dope imo

question about the hair though its got a super reflective quality now so im thinking seperate material-new rvmat-default shader?

Either that or somehow fix my green channel in substance because i have no idea wtf is going on with it bit it is not exporting

So that is the PBR-METAL ROUGH Scout Export workflow + the skin shader

theres an obvious SMDI issue which im pretty sure is related to the missing green channel

[severe rune]

I'm a bit unnerved that the config in our tools says version 6, but the tools source code I have here says it should be 8.

TexFormDefault, ///< no preference, autoselect
TexFormARGB1555,
TexFormARGB4444,
TexFormARGB8888,
TexFormAI88,
TexFormDXT1,
TexFormDXT2,TexFormDXT3,
TexFormDXT4,TexFormDXT5,
TexFormP8,

Hah. Here you go.

Also not sure if anyone tested the game's 8888 parsing. I only recently added DXT to 8888.
The export code for 8888 doesn't exist, I could write it, but updating PalToPacE would be a pain, it hasn't been touched since 2018
That would probably take atleast a day

With a FT ticket I could do it, but I doubt its worth it

[full quarry]

Well it does look like the cloud raw file can't be made right without it. 😅

Sure there are not many who might want to mess with it. But none can.

[urban marlin]

Hi all, modding newbie here. I'm making a retexture mod for the Black Wasp that adds a few skins to the virtual garage via textureSources. In addition to the body of the plane, I'd like to change the color of the glass canopy too.

But it doesn't look like it's set up to accept different textures through hiddenSelections. Is there some way I can get the game to load a custom .paa for the glass texture instead of the default a3\air_f_jets\plane_fighter_01\data\fighter_01_glass_01_ca.paa ?

[lethal condor]

You (normally) can't because it has no hoddenSelection

[urban marlin]

Understood, thanks

[gritty kettle]

So I am completely new to texturing and I made a model. Now I am in substance painter trying to bake the maps onto it. But the AO map seems to cause this any idea why that might be?

[lethal condor]

There is however a workaround for it. Arma 3 Aegis did retexture Black Wasp II's canopy

[urban marlin]

Ooh interesting, I'll take a look at the Black Wasp Aegis config and see if I can figure out how they did it

[warped hornet]

hello, I'm new around here, and I'm trying to make a smdi.paa texture on gimp.
Anyone know how to do that? or just help me and create it for me using the texture that i can provide.

[paper citrus]

You cant use gimp to directly output a .paa, you need to save it as png or tga, then use the paa converter from the arma 3 tools to get it

If youre asking about how to make a proper smdi, that entirely depends on what youre doing, there is a substance plugin for outputting a correct smdi, doing it by hand is not exactly ideal

[warped hornet]

Yes, a proper smdi 😅

[stray relic]

Import your blender model into Substance Painter.
Texture it with appropriate materials, PBR.
Export using a plug-in or custom mapping to produce tga textures of _co, _smdi, _nohq, _as (Arma doesn't use PBR)
Convert from tga to paa using texView2

[warped hornet]

ok thank you, I will try to do it. but first I need to buy that substance program first.

[gritty kettle]

Alright

[abstract rapids]

Hello! I'd like to know if that could cause any trouble if i put an ogg video in the hiddenTexture class in the vehicle's config. The goal is to have an animated screen for a bus

[lethal condor]

If it has a hiddenSelection, just script it so it can apply the texture in game

Not in config

[abstract rapids]

It has, putting right in the config will cause performance issue or something ?

I'd like to make it the most simple possible

[lethal condor]

I don't know why it makes it simple

And no, there is no performance difference between config vs script

[wispy sundial]

Hi. Who Can help? I'm applying a texture edited in Photoshop by "setobjecttexture" and getting this ingame. Another textures working good. I made something wrong in photoshop?
https://i.postimg.cc/7hgrVRZK/20250629143311-1.jpg

[lethal condor]

Getting what?

[gritty rain]

Hey, is there a guide out there, where the steps of the texturing are explained (config.cpp, layers.conf, .paa nad .rvmat files)?

[versed axle]

Does anyone have layered paintdotnet or photoshop files for AAF fatigues texture?

[brittle rivet]

Might be in here: #arma3_texture message
Don't remember since I haven't done an AAF fatigues retexture

[lethal condor]

There is likely no comprehensive guide for these files because these files are very generic. You can tell what's unclear in your situation it can help us to explain

[urban marlin]

Hi all, any insights as to what's going wrong here? On the left is my texture as it should be, loaded directly with setObjectTexture referencing a .jpeg within the mission file. On the right is the same texture as loaded by my mod's config, discolored and with artifacting.

It's a 4096 x 4096 .paa converted from a .tga of the same size using ImageToPaa. No compression done when exporting. The mod texture looks fine in GIMP and TexView 2. But clearly something is going wrong in Arma! Have texture graphics set to "extreme" in-game.

[lethal condor]

Likely because PAA is a compressed foemat

[urban marlin]

That makes sense, but it seems odd the color of the PAA is correct in TexView 2 and incorrect when the same file is loaded in Arma. Is additional compression done when the texture is loaded in-game?

[lethal condor]

Maybe. Regarded to some artifact, you may find it in vanilla assets too, if you take a look very carefully

[urban marlin]

Ok, thank you. Yeah I can live with the artifacting but the color being wrong is problematic because I'm trying to closely match some real colors. Will keep tinkering.

[stray relic]

Some discussion about artifacting (green/purple) and how to reduce it here
#arma3_texture message

[urban marlin]

Appreciate it, thanks. I ended up changing the color curve of my red channel slightly and it helped quite a bit. I'll avoid solid, all-black textures going forward!

[severe rune]

Dude what a pain.
Even back in 2011 we couldn't build TexConvert anymore.

We don't have a library we used to use, and even intel got rid of it.

Arma 3 legacy is already a nice beast.
pre 2010's legacy is a whole other level

[cedar lichen]

lol

[severe rune]

The game also cannot read 8888.
It mean, it has the parsing and handling code, but the pac format specifier for 8888 doesn't exist. So it cannot detect if a paa file is in 8888
If it could detect that, it could handle it fine though 🤣

Nevermind some of the parsing code is also missing.
Also TexConvert won't be handling it either

    class TexRGBA8888
    {
        name = "*_8888.*";
        format = "ARGB1555";
        dynRange = 1;
    };    

This is also funny.
"Give me 8888" "Ok, I'll give you 1555"

TexView has "ARGB888" as display option, but it cannot read 8888 paa's 🤣

Here's one that'll pack ARGB8888. (But cannot handle jpg)
Now you just need a TexView and a Game that can read it 🤣

[wooden lantern]

😭

wonder why yall never transferred to nvidia texture tools api tbh

[severe rune]

A matching set with ARGB8888.
It might go into next tools dev branch.
You'll need next (not todays) A3 dev branch or next profiling branch for the game to read 8888

[severe rune]

And I never even got my FT ticket 😠

[severe rune]

That image is not power of 2 sized! 😠

tadaa

Here's a TexView that doesn't crash when you double click a PAA because microsoft added code that thinks we are windows 7 and then does something that just doesn't work and crashes it.

Did you know that ImageToPaa can convert jpg's ?
"No, it throws an error that it cannot load it" you say?
Well. TexView has this fancy "ijl15.dll" file, and if you copy that next to ImageToPaa, then it can do jpg too!
Magic!

[severe rune]

I tried my best

[wooden lantern]

It was a small screenshot from a 4k texture to show compression 😭

[wooden lantern]

that’s the source file

[severe rune]

huh that works

But yours is all messed up 🤔

[wooden lantern]

Mine is RGBA

[severe rune]

Actually, that also doesn't look correct 🤣

[wooden lantern]

wacky

[severe rune]

Blue and red are literally swapped, how did that happen

[severe rune]

If I swizzle it in TexConvert.cfg, then it works ingame.
But TexView, shows both the broken and working verseion the same, both working in there, what sorcery is this

Ok seems I swapped it inside ImageToPaa 💀
or rather, I didn't swap it

[severe rune]

TexView shows the correct always, because the swizzle is stored inside the image, and TexView automatically un-does it 😄

[severe rune]

BAH.
So.. A RGBA8888 texture, is actually stored on disk as BGRA.
The game (and TexView and ImageToPAA) then flips it around when loading.

For the smaller formats that doesn't matter, it anyway needs to convert the 4444 to 8888 when loading it, so at the same time flipping it around is no big deal.

But for 8888 that's super annoying, if it were the right way around I could just do a stupid simple copy when loading it :/
So I'll just leave it that way. A bit more weirdness added to Arma, for the benefit of making the texture loading cheaper.

That seems good, on tomorrows profiling

I just made _8888 that used to be 1555 to be real 8888 now
Don't know why someone bothered to put a 8888 in there that isn't even 8888

[wooden lantern]

😭 the mysticism of a 10+ year old game

[severe rune]

Our internal 4444 to 8888 conversion is also F'ed up as heck.
Probably lucky that no-one is using it?

it should turn 0xF alpha, into 0xFF alpha. Instead it turns it into 0x1E
I tried to use it to test if the things I'm doing are correct, but that thing in itself is already F'ing broken

[wooden lantern]

thank god no one before me has ever tried to experiment with texture formats lmao

[severe rune]

It was fun though.
Important to have a mix of things to work on, has been a while since I dug in super old stuff

[full quarry]

[night sundial]

I'm trying to re-skin an existing in game uniform and the vanilla normal map is affecting the outcome. So I see there are vanilla normal maps in the folder and I'm thinking how can I add a custom normal map to my uniforms?

[short carbon]

i have no clue if this is the right channel to ask about this but does anybody have like a clear sample png of the syndikat camo

[dense peak]

Still struggling between B2M vs Designer...

Since I think I wouldnt use designer that much, I have painter but for normals etc.

[worn sedge]

You can upgrade to live and get both for about 25 bucks more than 1

[calm tangle]

why don't you take it from game files ?

Install Arma 3 Tools

Extract game data

then you can find syndicat camo

but if you mean the camo pattern itself, unfortunately we dont have it, you gonna have to reproduce it yourself

[short carbon]

yea

[dense peak]

mm... but monthly payment 😄

[full quarry]

Heya!

#arma3_terrain is the best place to talk about this subject.

Video tutorial are usually lacking in many areas for this unfortunately. We have some resources pinned in the terrain channel

[gritty rain]

Okay thanks, I post it there as well, I hope someone can give some guidance

[oak pollen]

Hey it is not a big deal but my build log complains about Unsupported procedural texture type #(argb,512,512,1)r2t(rtt1,1.0) Can not create source for procedural texture - probably badly formed texture name: "#(argb,512,512,1)r2t(rtt1,1.0)"

It works in game

[stray relic]

I think we all get that error when we use renderTargets. It only started showing in the logs a few updates ago. Presume it's a BI bug in reporting.

[oak pollen]

ah ok thanks for the answer

[cunning viper]

Just like many other people, idunno if this is the right place to ask since there isnt really a dedicated channel for graphics but does anyone know how to avoid jagged dotted lines in arma 3 without my performance being affected if its possible? i know its something to do with Anti Aliasing in the settings but whenever i crank that up i get horrid FPS. Thanks in advance

[lethal condor]

#arma3_questions

[full quarry]

Antialias is what smooths that out

[tropic crater]

anyone use Tex2View in linux? if so, how did you get it set up? it instant crashes on steam w/ proton for me

[severe rune]

You're probably talking about binarize.
Binarize has no rendering, thus no "render to texture".

It cannot create such a texture.

It's trying to create it to see if it has transparency

[oak pollen]

safe to ignore then? like I said mirrors work in game

[atomic kernel]

Hello, not sure if this is the correct forum but I'll try

I'm having a really weird issue with object builder view for a helmet model. Its not showing texture as I want to look, looks like is just messed up somehow. Even looking inside object builder my Color texture is shown good.

Heres what I've tried:
Apply transform (lined up in Arma3 char head), textures baked pre-triangulation, textures baked pos-triangulation (this solved a problem where my model was totally blank), exported with arma 3 tools for blender (already use this for a scope and worked fine), did all lods and shadow volumens and exported it in p3d, exported only the mesh res1 in p3d, assing texture and rvmat inside blender with the A3 tools, used tga and png (testing each one) format to convert it to paa, did the RVMAT from a tutorial (also a helmet tutorial) and in the tutorial works but not mine, did a test using only color texture (using only color or with normal, specular and shadow maps give me the same error) and even still not working

Really I'm out of ideas, remember that doing a scope was really easy to make work textures but now I don't know what's going on

[full quarry]

textures need to be baked triangulated

[atomic kernel]

already did that

[full quarry]

what are the files?

please post files with file extensions

[atomic kernel]

sure

[full quarry]

so they actually embed

[atomic kernel]

this are the paa I'm using with model triangulated

in the rvmat I'm sure are correctly named also in cfg

[full quarry]

post png or jpg so they embed into discord for easy viewing

but also the texture does not matter

[atomic kernel]

heres all the docs using in pdrive

[full quarry]

the model is the problem

[atomic kernel]

okok

[full quarry]

post picture of the actual error view

[atomic kernel]

here are the pngs

heres the error

and how it should look

[full quarry]

you probably mess up the uvsets on export

so they dont combine

and instead create multiple separate uvsets

A you must only have 1 uvset after export

B in blender all separate objects uvsets need to have same name

[atomic kernel]

I did the uvs once all obs were joined. Also exported it into Unreal and shows ok 😦

I'll check anyways the uvsets

as far as I know this is telling me that I'm using only 1 uv

and all the obj like lods and shadow volumes have the same one with samen name

[full quarry]

👍

how do you export it to Ob?

[atomic kernel]

but even trying to export only 1 obj like resolution 1 is causing thaat error

letme take a ss

using the arma 3 blender tools... choosing export as p3d

with this configs

already tested without checking all or seperate and doesnt help

[full quarry]

you dont use P drive?

when you open the model in OB

is it and the textures on P drive in your mod project folder?

[atomic kernel]

Yes I use it, it is named on spanish hehe. It's Disco Local (P:)

And yes, I put all the things I'm using for my helmet in P drive

[atomic kernel]

Aaaaand yes, I put textures inside the pdrive, using the PAA files

[full quarry]

what kind of pathing do you have for the textures?

on the model?

have you checked what path gets exported out inside OB?

[atomic kernel]

SOLVED!

I installed tools in another disk. So I reinstalled it in the disk where I have arma 3 😅

now model shows color but wrong specular

Maybe cuz I did not made it in G channel(?)

or B and G... I dont know, im pretty noob in this

solved the specular! Now time to test it inside game! 😄

[full quarry]

🤔

the tools location should not matter

your OB might be configured wrong though

or you run OB from the arma tools launcher

[atomic kernel]

Well... Reinstalling it where arma 3 is solved the problem 😅

[full quarry]

if it works 😅

[atomic kernel]

Then it works 🚬

[ancient smelt]

The indie pack has them all.

And designer is worth it, often you want to play with your textures and do more than just make maps from them (e.g. you might mask out parts of the image and blend them into the height map to give it more depth).

Plus then you can package your textures into substances for painting directly in painter.

[severe rune]

yes, I think R2T wouldn't let you have any transparency anyway.
It failing to create the texture, will detect it as non-transparent, which is correct in that case

[stray relic]

Why have these bin log errors, such as this one about R2T or the subskeleton indexes, only started appearing in the last year or so?
Are they new checks added by BI or were they always there but somehow not being "output" to the report file? (using pboProject)
It's frustrating that so many of them appear to be incorrect, or unfixable, bloating the report file and potentially hiding the real important errors amongst the mass of irrelevant clutter. Would be a great benefit to modders if this could be rectified.

Subskeleton index out of range. There seems to be a SubSkeleton index that is greater than the number of sub skeletons, this should not be happening. Please report it with reproduction steps/files.
Geometry LOD has UVSet, it is useless, consider removing it.
Can not create source for procedural texture - probably badly formed texture name: "#(argb,512,512,1)r2t(rendertarget1,1.0)"

[severe rune]

There was a bug in binarize where all warnings would not be printed at all

We have different log levels. Errors were printed, warnings were just spewed into the void.
We fixed it so that warnings are reported properly

Also we added some new messages, like that geometry and subkeleton ones

[stray relic]

Thanks for the explanation.
Can you remove them again please?!
Or explain how to "fix" the subskeleton or geometry LOD, as it doesn't seem possible? For example, you can't remove the UVSet (even when completely empty of uv maps) from the Geo LOD. And you've explained that the R2T lines are spurious. And no one really knows anything about the subskeleton stuff.
It's great having error reports, but only if they're accurate and useful.

[severe rune]

yeah the subskeleton should go away.
I don't udnerstand why you cannot remove uvset.

[stray relic]

Try it in Object Builder. Every LOD has UVSet 0 as a minimum, which cannot be deleted.

[severe rune]

An empty UVSet == no UVSet.
The message is only printed if it has points inside it

[stray relic]

That appears to be incorrect. You can check for yourself though. Make sure you have absolutely no uv points in the Geo LOD UV Set and you'll still get the message.

[severe rune]

Well thats what the code says it should happen.
I would need to repro it to check why thats not working, but thats a low priority

[silver nacelle]

Hello, I am using this glass texture and the underneath looks like this. Any suggestions on how to fix that?

[full quarry]

Did you sort the alpha surface order?

[silver nacelle]

probably not, how do I do that?

[full quarry]

The blender toolboxes have thing for it in their menus and in OB there's tool for setting the order.

Simples way in OB is to select transparent surface and use move to top tool to no put it at the top of the alpha stack.

If you had overlapping transparent surfaces you would want to select all,move top, deselect lowest one, move top, and repeat untill they are sorted so that they are in order.

[silver nacelle]

yep, that fixed it

[inner ingot]

Oh, you can do the alpha sort in blender toolbox? I always just did it as a last step like, do everything in blender, make a hiddenSelection of all glass named _glass, select it in OB and do the move top -> sort alpha

but if I can eliminate that last step... 👀

[pliant imp]

Would anybody happen to have a retexture template for the F/A-181 Black Wasp? Just took a look through Pete's texture templates Google Drive folder but it's not in there.

[lethal condor]

Arma 3 Samples has one. It is incredibly hard to make a proper tex tho

[pliant imp]

What makes it so difficult?

[lethal condor]

You can see. It uses very user unfriendly layers

[pliant imp]

Ah okay

[wise sun]

Is there an easier/better way to make vehicle textures other than just tossing a file like this in photoshop? Would I be able to somehow upload the hatchbacks p3d into Blender or something than export it? Is there some sort of community plugin or addon for such a thing?

[balmy palm]

not unless you make/buy your own model, no

and to be fair, even then you'd still need to use something like substance painter, which still isn't an easy process

[worn sedge]

I think its well worth getting all of them. Get the pack if you can. I think you can make payments on upgrading but I'm not sure. Worst case make payments on one and when you pay it off pay the additional 25 to upgrade to the pack

[oak pollen]

Can somebody tell me what have I fucked up & why I see outlines thro my model?

never mind I fixed it bad naming and forgot to include in config

[chrome cave]

hello. anyone knows how to make in game patches and upload them as mods?

[full quarry]

your texture has transparency. when it should be completely solid

dont mix transparent parts (_CA) with non transparent surfaces (_CO)

[toxic jungle]

does anyone have a texture folder full of the main vehicles and their layers? i cant find then anywhere... thanks!

[lethal condor]

Unpack some relevant PBO might help with it

[toxic jungle]

ive tried, still cant figure out where they are

[lethal condor]

We can't either because we don't know which Mod which vehicle

[toxic jungle]

i was just wondering because maybe someone here has old files of them

[lethal condor]

That info doesn't tell us what you are looking for

[toxic jungle]

Textures for stuff like the hatchback, hummingbird, and other normal original vehicle textures

[lethal condor]

They are all located in addons folder PBOs

If you wonder check in config viewer

[brittle rivet]

Hatchback is in soft_f iirc
AH-6/MH-6 is in air_f
soft_f is unarmoured vehicles
armor_f is armoured vehicles
air_f is aircraft
Stuff is also in the related PBOs, like the apex aircraft are in air_f_exp

The Arma 3 Samples from steam also has templates for some, and Pete's texure templates (#arma3_texture message) have a bunch of the other templates

[warped current]

Any shirtless torso textures out there? Wanting to make a tank top model so it need a chest/torso.

[full quarry]

negative

or one of the vietnam mods might have actually

[warped current]

Like unsung? Or the DLC?

[full quarry]

was not unsung I think but one of the mods

so not sogpf either

[warped current]

I don't think there's any vietnam-era gear mods besides Unsung, and if there are, it's new factions/compats made for SOG.

There are no sleeve tshirts tho.

Incase that's what u ment.

Pretty sure it's S&S you're talking about.

[full quarry]

yes that sounds familiar

[urban marlin]

Hey, just saw this. Idk if you still need it, but I recently made templates for the F/A-181 Black Wasp II and To-201 Shikra that you can use (or anyone else if they want). It's too big to upload in Discord so here's a Google Drive link: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1BCoqCeiJDwt-r0N61-uljBG2IjBj43UC?usp=drive_link

[pliant imp]

You are absolute royalty, may your bedroom be the perfect temperature for as long as you live 🙏

[urban marlin]

Happy to help lol

[prime rock]

hey everyone, posting this before I go to bed. How do I properly export my files from substance painter? I seem to be stuck at this preset issue. I followed this guy’s tutorial: https://youtu.be/l5NvcEnS8m4?si=iN9oJgInpKYfsZja but my .sdmi png is not exporting because of a texture set issue. I can send pictures in the morning if that helps

copied over from #arma3_model

hope it doesn't come off as rude that I'm posting it twice, just want to make sure I'm not messing anything up if I miss the .sdmi file

[prime rock]

Figured it out, I was missing some channels under the texture set list

[inner ingot]

https://github.com/MoonieFR/SubstanceToArma/tree/main can try these too

[cold citrus]

I'm looking to take up texturing for a unit I'm in, we're using the SOG Prairie Fire dlc and was wondering if its possible to use Substance Painter with the models

[lethal condor]

No, you can use sample PSD

[full quarry]

substance painter is not possible to use with any arma content

[cold citrus]

I've got PAA files from the previous texturing person with the units insignia on it, is there anything I can do with those?

[terse agate]

You can convert them back into jpg etc using texview

[cold citrus]

For example, here's two of the textures converted to png

[terse agate]

yes, so you can edit those and then convert them back into paa

[cold citrus]

Is there a way to replicate this easily

It's worn look specifically

[lethal condor]

^

[cold citrus]

As well as the writing

[cold citrus]

I suppose now I'm just asking for general texturing advice

[full quarry]

lot of practice

[lethal condor]

You were supposed to at least read my answer(s)

[cold citrus]

I did. I have the example PSD from the SOG google drive

For the cobra

I also have this open on photoshop

[lethal condor]

Okay, now what is the question? You got the sample, you got the PSD

[cold citrus]

Is there a way to do something like this easily or is this something I'd have to do entirely by hand

[lethal condor]

By using the sample (template)?

[cold citrus]

Ok clearly I'm confused

[cedar lichen]

the answer is no you only have the template to work with

so yeah you're doing it by hand

substance etc requires the model

[lethal condor]

I just see the point, no they don't have easily reskinnable PSD

[cedar lichen]

with file patching you can atleast view it ingame quickly

[cold citrus]

So I'd have to do the weathering entirely by hand

[full quarry]

yes

[cold citrus]

And this is where my lack of artistry kills me

[dire stone]

Anyone know how to access the SOG files. Im trying to reskin the SVH

[severe rune]

You can ask the SOG devs to give them to you, they have a discord

You'd need their permission anyway

[dire stone]

Wheres about could i find a link to the discord

[severe rune]

I think its pinned in #sog_prairie_fire or maybe in #channel_invites_list

[dire stone]

Found it, Thanks

[wooden lantern]

charcoal brush

easiest way

[cold citrus]

Hm, I'd been trying to use grunge masks

[dire stone]

Retexture Item wont show ingame, any ideas why not? No errors when packing.

[full quarry]

What do you pack with?

[dire stone]

mikeros tools

[full quarry]

do your classes appear in the ingame config viewer?

are you sure your pbo is actually running in the game?

[dire stone]

Whats the handiest way to find it in the viewer

[stray relic]

Place the asset in Eden Editor, right click, find in config viewer

[dire stone]

Its not in the game though.

[stray relic]

Let's see your config then - use pastebin and post a link to it

[dire stone]

The retextured item itself is not here

[full quarry]

leopards advanced dev tools has better config viewer with more easier search

[dire stone]

https://pastebin.com/f5FDmkNm

[stray relic]

b_helmet_svh4_01_01 is not a valid class name?
Shouldn't it be vn_b_helmet_svh4_01_01?

[dire stone]

Thanks alot

[slim smelt]

Does anyone know how to retexture the RHS Heli pilot helmets? I couldn't find a video or anything related to it.

[brittle rivet]

Pretty much it will be the same as any other retexuture
This here has most of the starting stuff: #arma3_texture message
I don't know if RHS helmets actually are retexturable, haven't looked at the config. They likely are though
Be aware of the RHS license, best would be to ask Pufu or RHS[ Soul_Assassin] before putting much effort into it
Helmets should be acceptable though: https://www.rhsmods.org/page/EULA

[slim smelt]

I've seen a bunch of people add textures to them. But I can't seem to find the PBO its in

[brittle rivet]

Start with the config browser to find the file names for the textures and models
Then use the unpacker from mikero's tools to search until you find the right PBO
Not certain which PBO it would be in
I'd check the rhs_infantry PBOs first, but I don't know how RHS is organized internally (other than obvious stuff, rhs_melb is the little birds matching MELB)

[dire stone]

Anyone know why its flashing this error? The image is converted into a PAA already.

[ashen violet]

Check your source image to ensure it’s the correct bit depth before converting to paa. Does the image have an alpha channel ?

[dire stone]

Yeah its got an Alpha Channel and is 256x256

[ashen violet]

I’d save the source image as a 32 bit targa before conversion

[dire stone]

How do i save it as a 32 bit

[ashen violet]

I’m only familiar with photoshop. That process looks like File>Save a copy>save as type(select Targa)>32 bits/pixel

Also remember to name your texture correctly before conversion so it would be yourTexture_ca

[burnt fjord]

is it possible to apply emissive textures per pixel using a Super shader?
i want to make the P07 pistol have glow in the dark sights

[full quarry]

use proper naming suffix _CA in your source texture

naming rule wiki page is linked in pins

[full quarry]

night sights typically have just the dots with separate mesh and rvmat

[wooden lantern]

yes

#arma3_texture message

I’ve never gotten it to work tho

I just know in theory it exists

[dire stone]

Retexturing some S&S helmets and trying to have it so the code just links back to their models. Some help would be appreciated.

[lethal condor]

Retexturing 101: don't re-introduce what you don't expect to update. AKA just include your texture

[dire stone]

Now im getting inheritance classes missing when all the required ones are there

[lethal condor]

It says so when your config didn't meet the requirements

Now post your config

[dire stone]

https://pastebin.com/nasP3ERy

[lethal condor]

Line 88-89 is not closed

[dire stone]

Still not packing

[lethal condor]

Troubleshooting 101: not telling the error is one fault, now do it

[lethal condor]

What your current lines around 88

[lethal condor]

You didn't started it but ended

[burnt fjord]

it kinda works, but it also looks broken

this is how it should look

[lethal condor]

I also tried that method before. AFAIK it was introduced in TKoH and to depict skyscrapers nightscape. I have actually never got the emmissive coef work, or not even sure if it even has one

[lethal condor]

Now you started a bracket with no info

[dire stone]

What line

[burnt fjord]

80 and 90

[burnt fjord]

it should be
class classname: inheritanceclassname
{
code
};

and not how it is between lines 81 and 85

[lethal condor]

Now TestHel is invalid

[dire stone]

How do i make it valid again

[lethal condor]

You need to think simple

EVERY class use this format

class YourClass
{
};```or if your class have a parent
```cpp
class YourClass: ParentClass
{
};```You see TestHel is not doing it

[cedar lichen]

probably need to post your modified rvmat

my guess is the coordinates of the as/nohq arent right anymore

the way the _em texture works in terms of emissive level is iirc you need to make the texture how you want it to look in use so you need to make it overly bright

[burnt fjord]

so _em isnt just a black background with white stuff that should be emissive?

[cedar lichen]

lemme quickly look I did an experiment with it a few months back

[lethal condor]

_em can have colors AFAIK, not just BW

[cedar lichen]

yeah my EM texture is like this

[cedar lichen]

yeah the coordinates are wrong i think

        aside[] = {1,0,0};
        up[] = {0,1,0};
        dir[] = {0,0,0};
        pos[] = {0,0,0};

at least this is what it is in p07

you might also need a second texgen for the DT stage

as it has a completley different coordinate that might be affecting the visuals

[burnt fjord]

i will try that

[lethal condor]

Line 91

[burnt fjord]

feels like it is less bright with a new _em texture that is green highlights and transparent on the rest
and still looks broken

[lethal condor]

I would make it sure what is broken by using very obvious tex like FF0000

[dire stone]

Whats wrong with it

[lethal condor]

It is wrong. You still did not get the point, you can't start a bracket without a class declaration

[cedar lichen]

you can also try changing the vertexshaderID back to super, atleast in my testing you didn't need superext for the em texture to work

but i doubt thats the issue with the em not working proper

[burnt fjord]

what stage would _em go into then? isnt Super limited to 7 stages?

[cedar lichen]

no no keep it for pixelshader

like this:

PixelShaderID = "SuperExt";
VertexShaderID = "Super";

[lethal condor]

These stages and numbers do matter, don't try to bother with changing the stage and textype combo

[burnt fjord]

it is still quite dim in the dark, but the texture seems better, still has this visual glitching tho, this visual glitching also changes on the direction of the light

[cedar lichen]

yeah thats definitely the normal map not being right

[burnt fjord]

not being right as in the coordinates or something else?

[cedar lichen]

yeah the uvtransforms

hold on try this

the only other thing I can think of is the stage6 and stage7 being different from the original but idk

[burnt fjord]

same as before

i changed the DT coordinates back to:
aside[] = {1,0,0};
up[] = {0,1,0};
dir[] = {0,0,0};
pos[] = {0,0,0};

and now it seems slightly offset

gotta dip for now, will come back to this later, ty for the help @cedar lichen

[upper thicket]

what is needed for the thermal view of a vehicle? I just know its a texture but I dont know anything else

[full quarry]

That is all.

[upper thicket]

Do I just color it in grey scale?

[full quarry]

the different channels have different uses if I recall right

there was a wiki page about them Im pretty sure

[upper thicket]

https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Thermal_Imaging_Maps
ah this very simple one I hope

this willl be very odd to do ngl, but I suppose I can see wat base game stuff does for each channel. maybe I can load the thermal textures a co? to help visually see

[cedar lichen]

better would be to open the texture in texview and cycle through the colour channels

[low helm]

Cool blogpost from allegorithmic: https://www.allegorithmic.com/blog/texturing-ubisofts-rainbow-six-siege

[near warren]

not sure where to ask, but it's related to texture so-
What's the max size of a unit/clan insignia?

[lethal condor]

2^n until 4096

[near warren]

ooo perfect