#arma3_texture | ARMA | Page 41

full quarry May 4, 2020, 1:11 PM

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I wonder might there be some sort of bug in there going as I was just yesterday testing out a weapon and shot various cars with it and they appeared to take damage and the damage textures changed

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but when I got into the car it showed no damage

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and when I got out the damage textures had reset

rare dove May 4, 2020, 1:18 PM

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hmm, engine problem rather than a model one?

full quarry May 4, 2020, 1:20 PM

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not sure. could not replicate the issue I saw anymore xD

rare dove May 4, 2020, 1:25 PM

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oh well, another mistery then

full quarry May 4, 2020, 1:26 PM

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perhaps the part just needs to be its own object

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where is the part located in the model?

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is it at far edge or in the middle

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is it inside a room?

rare dove May 4, 2020, 1:38 PM

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yes, a board inside a room

full quarry May 4, 2020, 1:38 PM

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if you move it somewhere out in the open does it still bug

rare dove May 4, 2020, 1:38 PM

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I tried it as standalone and copied just the board mesh, and then it no longer bugs

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but I haven't tried to move it on the deck

full quarry May 4, 2020, 1:39 PM

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What Im after is that if it somehow gets culled from view by some geometry

rare dove May 4, 2020, 1:44 PM

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ah, ok, it's crammed space, basically a corridor with the bulletin board in the middle

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moved it on the deck, still same problem

rare dove May 4, 2020, 2:41 PM

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found something suspicious. Seems that there is a 'second copy' of the carrier part where the unit spawns in. That is then visible from time to time. If I spawn the unit in the hangar or not on jdg_carrier_deck_9 the texture works

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is there a way to see if a simple object with is retained there?

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hmm, this one yields nothing: systemChat str (allSimpleObjects ["JDG_Carrier_deck_9"]);

full quarry May 4, 2020, 2:56 PM

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just check all nerObjects or entities

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and see whats there

rare dove May 4, 2020, 3:30 PM

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opened https://feedback.bistudio.com/T150737 on the problem

thick dagger May 4, 2020, 4:34 PM

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Hello everyone!
I am but a mere self-taught apprentice texturer (or at least i sued to be, haven't worked on texture for a while), and I would like to try my hand at re-texturing a modded model to see what I can get out of it in Substance Painter.

I did make a few textures back in the days for other modders, but they always gave me the model already done, though I had to unwrap some of those, and I wouldn't know how to extract a model from a downloaded mod.
Would any of you know how it's done, or maybe have some link to a tutorial or such? :)

I need to extract the 3d model (with all related maps) in order to import it in Substance Painter, to be precise.

Haven't done this in a while but iirc I can bake most maps myself as long as I can find both the high-poly and low-poly (which I am not sure are in the published mod?).

full quarry May 4, 2020, 4:34 PM

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you cant

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you would need the original model if you want to retexture with substancepainter

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extracted models cant be used for this

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retexturing is done in paint/gimp/photoshop by drawing over the texture

thick dagger May 4, 2020, 4:37 PM

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I guessed as much :/

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Thank you!

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I'll try contacting the original modder then, it's probably better, since the whole point was to try and make a better quality texture out of the model.

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Thanks again!

full quarry May 4, 2020, 4:39 PM

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Id guess what you have been done before should be called texturing

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since you been using the original models.

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retexturing means the different thing I described

thick dagger May 4, 2020, 4:54 PM

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I didn't know that, I only assumed it meant to re-make a texture for an already fibished model. But your way makes more sense, of course.

thick dagger May 4, 2020, 5:40 PM

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As a rule of thumb, what would be the resolution for a weapin texture, in your experience?

strong stone May 4, 2020, 6:04 PM

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Depends on the weapon size and how much detail your trying to cram onto the texture sheet. I usually use a 2048x2048 sheet for rifle sized weapons in Arma, but you can get away with less.

thick dagger May 4, 2020, 6:13 PM

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Nice, that's the res I'm most used to. I was concerned it might cause performance issues, as most models I've seen in-fame seem to have lower res textures (I might be weong though).

frozen blade May 4, 2020, 6:25 PM

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tex resolution is driven by ingame tezxture settings

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arma supports (poorly) up to 4k

scarlet fiber May 4, 2020, 7:14 PM

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anyone know why this error is being thrown by @tender fjord 's pbo project? the file is definetly there i've checked

Warning: 2mercs_logistics\data\guard.rvmat circa Line 89: a3\data_f\env_land_co.paa
rapWarning: **********missing file(s)***************```

severe rune May 4, 2020, 9:25 PM

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the file is definetly there i've checked
So P:\a3\data_f\env_land_co.paa is there? just making sure?
Seen people state "i've checked" quite often and then have it turn out that actually the file is indeed not there

scarlet fiber May 4, 2020, 9:34 PM

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I checked and it looks like in my p drive, its data, instead of data_f i assume thats wrong? also when in game the building appears seethrough?

severe rune May 4, 2020, 9:37 PM

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yes thats wrong

full quarry May 4, 2020, 9:46 PM

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your p drive setup up does not seem to be correct

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I would recommend checking out PMC wiki for tools and P drive setup with Mikeros tools

scarlet fiber May 4, 2020, 10:01 PM

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I have my p drive setup, how do i set it up with mikero's tools?

frozen blade May 4, 2020, 10:34 PM

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https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Arma3P

Arma3P

scarlet fiber May 4, 2020, 10:36 PM

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thanks!

tender fjord May 5, 2020, 3:26 AM

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it's the subscriber version of pboProject and the dll. moment...

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https://mikero.bytex.digital/Downloads

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certainly.

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(and thank u for your comments in other channel)

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as for HOW you buy it, i would imagine it's on the bytex home page.

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(I have no involvement in marketing my tools)

silent mortar May 5, 2020, 3:48 AM

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is arma dx normals or opengl?

full quarry May 5, 2020, 3:49 AM

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DX

silent mortar May 5, 2020, 3:51 AM

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thanks

dense peak May 5, 2020, 5:01 PM

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Hello I'm looking for help, I can imagine that someone already ask for this but I searched around internet and didn't found my anwser so I'm here ^^ my question is : I created my own skin for a vehicle, I used the this setObjectTexture [0,"name.jpg"], then put my skin in game and it worked ! Now I wanna know how can I do to put it in an addon, I want to have the original skin of arma 3 and also my skin so I can put the vehicle with or without the skin in any mission (cause actually the command is only working for a single mission, logical) so I would like to do without the command, I want to do like a real addon in its own right so then I can publish it on steam and my friends can use it, if someone can help me or give me a link to a tutorial it would be very nice 🙂 thanks in advance for any help

full quarry May 5, 2020, 5:06 PM

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BI forums editing section should have re-texturing topics that should get you started

dense peak May 5, 2020, 5:08 PM

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Np I'm still searching actually, I posted a message here to get help faster ^^

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Ok I found, I will come back if I have problems thx ^^

frozen blade May 5, 2020, 5:12 PM

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https://forums.bohemia.net/forums/topic/151777-tutorial-simple-re-texturing-guide-from-start-to-finish/

Bohemia Interactive Forums

[Tutorial] Simple Re-texturing Guide (From Start To Finish)

NOTE: This guide will be updated to use the Arma 3 Tools once all relevant tools are released. Ive seen various guides on different stages of the texturing process, but I have not yet seen a single complete guide with all the steps laid out from start to finish with zero short...

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pinned message

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2 second google search

mystic pawn May 5, 2020, 6:18 PM

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hello guys, i'm trying to make some custom textures for an orbat in a mission but for some reasons, arma "cannot load" my texture. I've try using both texview2 with a TGA and ImagetoPAA but nothing seems to work : what am I doing wrong ?

full quarry May 5, 2020, 6:20 PM

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where are you storing the files?

mystic pawn May 5, 2020, 6:42 PM

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directly inside the mission folder

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with the mission.sqm

severe rune May 5, 2020, 6:43 PM

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how did you reference the texture path

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have you checked your log file? does it maybe also say file not found?

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can you open the paa in TexView, aka is it working?

mystic pawn May 5, 2020, 6:48 PM

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how did you reference the texture path
like this (edit : sorry for the @) https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/272416420988715009/707302176862634089/unknown.png

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have you checked your log file? does it maybe also say file not found?
i dont know how to do this ! you mean that the game creates a rpt like file when i play a scenario from eden ?

severe rune May 5, 2020, 6:49 PM

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Maybe it needs full path, which would be annoying

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you mean that the game creates a rpt like file when i play a scenario from eden ?
The game creates a RPT when you just start the game, where you try your scenario doesn't change that

mystic pawn May 5, 2020, 6:51 PM

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oh that's nice, but those rpt aren't store with my profile files like they are on the server ? i never saw them !

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can you open the paa in TexView, aka is it working?
just checked that : it works

pale bough May 5, 2020, 7:17 PM

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what's the resolution of the image?

mystic pawn May 5, 2020, 7:20 PM

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256*256

pale bough May 5, 2020, 7:21 PM

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that shouldn't be a problem then

severe rune May 5, 2020, 7:21 PM

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I'll put my hand on a filepath issue, I think you can fix that with preproc?

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maybe with a trusty __EVAL and getMissionPath

mystic pawn May 5, 2020, 7:23 PM

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aaaannnnd i'm lost

severe rune May 5, 2020, 7:23 PM

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texture = __EVAL(getMissionPath "texture.paa")

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maybe

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the preproc fix variant I dunno now

mystic pawn May 5, 2020, 7:29 PM

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i found the wiki page for getMissionPath but what is __EVAL

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works

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thanks @severe rune

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but why does it takes the whole path from my C: drive to the paa to work ?

coarse tapir May 5, 2020, 10:25 PM

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Hello, why does my vest texture appear blueish tinted ingame? edit, I fixed it, it was wrong size at first, resized to 2048 helped 🙂

frozen blade May 5, 2020, 10:51 PM

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size or suffix

broken sun May 6, 2020, 1:55 AM

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How do I apply new textures to Apex and Contact content?
I've seen a reddit thread discussion where someone states: " ...they are all encrypted and will be... But you can still use CfgPatches and hidden selections to re texture stuff if you know what you're doing..."

full quarry May 6, 2020, 1:58 AM

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the latter part is true. you can write a config patch addon that creates new classes from the existing ones and you can set those classes to use your new textures with the hiddenselection feature.

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BIforum has more info

broken sun May 6, 2020, 3:00 AM

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Then in theory I would only need the existing class names, right? There’s probably a list of them somewhere for apex and contact

full quarry May 6, 2020, 3:07 AM

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You could use the "all in one config dump" file

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or in game config viewer

broken sun May 6, 2020, 3:16 AM

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Okay so I used the dump but if I have no way to access the ..._co.paa file... then how do I apply a texture to it if I don’t know what the texture map looks like?

full quarry May 6, 2020, 3:21 AM

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I would say preferably you would set up the modding tools and development environment as that gets you access to all the available textures.

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PMCwiki has simple and proven to work steps for that

broken sun May 6, 2020, 3:25 AM

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Well that’s why they added the samples, right? I know for some contact things that’s the case. But witnessing some things on the workshop that have somehow textures things not in the sample files is confusing to me

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But thank you

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I will check those out and keep things appropriately done

full quarry May 6, 2020, 3:27 AM

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not all textures are released in the sample templates

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some you have to create yourself

hollow oracle May 6, 2020, 5:06 AM

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Any reliable way to convert a normal map to an AO without baking?

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I'm stuck with albedo, rough, metalic and normal for the time being and was hoping I could create my AS out of the normal rather than wait for the artist to get back to me

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Could subdivide and do my own bake but that gives me vietnam-style flashbacks

full quarry May 6, 2020, 5:18 AM

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I've managed to get passable results with AwesomeBump

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depending on the quality of the normalmap

hollow oracle May 6, 2020, 5:49 AM

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Awesome, thanks

full quarry May 6, 2020, 5:50 AM

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the UI in it is a bit odd xD

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but it makes pretty good results

severe rune May 6, 2020, 8:02 AM

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@mystic pawn the mission path is different depending on where the mission was started from. Thats why you need a dynamic getMissionPath to get the path that its currently at

mystic pawn May 6, 2020, 8:03 AM

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oh ok

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i think i get what you meant back there

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i need to create a variable where i get && store the current mission path

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then i use this variable

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is that it ?

severe rune May 6, 2020, 8:56 AM

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no

mystic pawn May 6, 2020, 9:02 AM

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😢

dense peak May 6, 2020, 12:16 PM

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Hello where can I find code type for all vehicles in arma 3 please ? I mean the code to put in config folder, thank in advance for any help

versed nacelle May 6, 2020, 12:23 PM

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If you're working with configs and textures, you should have a P drive which includes the A3 directory, containing all Arma 3 assets.
Since you already know which vehicle you want, you simply find out in which config file the original class is, move up to find CfgPatches and use the classname inside that in you're requireaddons 🙂

dense peak May 6, 2020, 12:26 PM

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ok thx I'm looking for this ^^

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But I wanted to look into my P drive as you said but between yesterday and now he disapeared ? Did i made something wrong ?

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anyway I'm mounting the project drive again I will see if it happen again

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nvm i found what was wrong

vapid trail May 7, 2020, 5:02 PM

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hey guys, am in need of some help creating a uv-map. anyone able to help?

full quarry May 7, 2020, 5:06 PM

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Most modeling programs can do that and have tutorials for it. What kind of issue do you have?

vapid trail May 7, 2020, 5:07 PM

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am able to create textures in gimp and been asked to do some for a model. but the model has no .psd of the uv map

full quarry May 7, 2020, 5:09 PM

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Blender for example can export the uv layout. Fastest way would probably be to talk to the modeler who made it to get it.

vapid trail May 7, 2020, 5:10 PM

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ok, thanks for your help

glad matrix May 8, 2020, 1:07 AM

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Howdy all was hoping someone would be able to help me setup a basic config.cpp all the ones I have attempted have not really worked. I have 0 coding experience and honestly kind of require a hand holding, I have looked at online textures templates etc. but most miss or simply don't explain little details that can make or break the code and I have had no luck troubleshooting them myself or working past them

old zenith May 8, 2020, 6:11 AM

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The texture of what exactly?

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Vehicles, clothes...

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Or static objects

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@glad matrix

ornate kettle May 8, 2020, 9:07 AM

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anyone know if it's possible to use pal2pace to batch convert from .paa to .png?

full quarry May 8, 2020, 9:22 AM

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yes it is. Just needs a suitable .bat file you drop the files on

ornate kettle May 8, 2020, 9:33 AM

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that's my main issue then, found it hard to understand the info about it

glad matrix May 8, 2020, 1:07 PM

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Uniforms vest and helmet

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@old zenith

frozen blade May 8, 2020, 4:26 PM

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you have these in A3 samples @glad matrix

zinc pilot May 8, 2020, 6:22 PM

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Have you guys every experience the problem where you can't open a PNG via TexView?

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It's one specific PNG I can't open

frozen blade May 8, 2020, 6:29 PM

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it's most likely 16bit/channel

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instead of 8bit/chnl

zinc pilot May 8, 2020, 7:52 PM

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Ah alright, I'll check if that was the issue

glad matrix May 8, 2020, 9:24 PM

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I need someone to help explains things within the code

coarse tapir May 8, 2020, 9:43 PM

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is blenders normal map baking broken in 2.8? I cant get it to render me a clean normal no matter how I tinker with stuff

full quarry May 9, 2020, 12:11 AM

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Has worked for me just fine

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what kind of issues are you seeing

ornate kettle May 9, 2020, 12:28 AM

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@full quarry I manage to get the bat file to convert a single file but it's just telling me it's unable do convert any time I "generalize" it, so like *.paa/png sorta thing, any idea?

full quarry May 9, 2020, 12:31 AM

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I found a bat like that just not long ago on BI forums I think. just cant find in anymore so I must have accidentally deleted it

untold summit May 9, 2020, 1:35 AM

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Would anyone be able to advise / help with a problem I have with paa images.
When I go to convert any jpg or png to paa, the paa files come out huge.

A jpg image of 78kb comes out at 256kb, no matter what size the png or jpg are, I cannot get Tex view to output any image smaller than 256kb.

ornate kettle May 9, 2020, 1:36 AM

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is the image itself the same size still?

severe rune May 9, 2020, 1:36 AM

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paa uses different compression and has mipmaps

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so yes, the paa is bigger

ornate kettle May 9, 2020, 1:36 AM

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surely it would decrease when binarized I'd imagine

severe rune May 9, 2020, 1:36 AM

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"binarized"

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paa's are just as "binarized" as jpgs

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they are both binary files

ornate kettle May 9, 2020, 1:37 AM

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well, packed, does binarizing the textures selecting the option in addon builder decrease the size of the paa when packed?

severe rune May 9, 2020, 1:37 AM

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no

ornate kettle May 9, 2020, 1:37 AM

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rip

severe rune May 9, 2020, 1:37 AM

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paa's are not "packed"

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they are converted into a more efficient format

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more efficient for the engine to read/process/render

ornate kettle May 9, 2020, 1:37 AM

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ahh

untold summit May 9, 2020, 1:39 AM

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Its odd that a packed paa thats 23kb when loaded into tex viewer it says the file is 32kb on one setting and 256kb on the other.
Is there any trick that you could advise to get a lower file size?

severe rune May 9, 2020, 1:40 AM

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no its not odd, thats mip mapping

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you could remove the mipmaps that you don't need, but that would counter the optimization that you are doing by converting to paa in the first place

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did you correctly suffix your filename before converting it?

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aka image_co.jpg -> image_co.paa

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the suffix decides what compression is used

untold summit May 9, 2020, 1:43 AM

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I will give that a try.

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Dedmen I will send you a dm of the image I see, that has me very confused, if that is ok.

severe rune May 9, 2020, 1:46 AM

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I'll go to bed right now

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so seeya tomorrow (in ~10 hours)

untold summit May 9, 2020, 1:49 AM

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All my images come out at either 64kb, 128kb, 512kb or 1mb. When they are converted from any size PNG or JPG files, I never get any other PAA file size.

full quarry May 9, 2020, 2:15 AM

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does it matter?

night prairie May 10, 2020, 8:19 AM

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Does anyone know why a full building would render over another object with transparency. Can't seem to find the problem in the rvmat

http://prntscr.com/se28l0
http://prntscr.com/se28rv

Shield Rvmat:
https://pastebin.com/qBtfZRLU

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Only from certain angles ^

full quarry May 10, 2020, 11:46 AM

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Maybe noZwrite

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Big objects can have problems like that I suppose.

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Does it have view geometry lod?

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Or geometry lod?

night prairie May 10, 2020, 3:49 PM

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It doesn’t have a view as to purposely have AI shoot at people inside it. It foes have a Geo LOD

full quarry May 10, 2020, 3:53 PM

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if theres no view geometry lod at all it will default to the normal geometry lod

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likely its size and rvmat thing

night prairie May 10, 2020, 3:53 PM

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Gotcha, I will keep fiddling with the rvmat

full quarry May 10, 2020, 3:54 PM

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📎 unknown.png

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or stuff like this

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on different sides one or the other of the big models you are looking at are first in the draw line

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You could perhaps try different shader like glass

night prairie May 10, 2020, 4:01 PM

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That was my next line of playing was different shaders and I will give it a go. Thanks

minor perch May 11, 2020, 10:54 AM

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Hello, does someone knows of a good weathering tutorial for uniform texture (with Gimp ideally, but other with PS will do as well) thanks in advance. Tx and rgds. GFT

zenith pine May 11, 2020, 2:12 PM

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Can someone help me find the texture files for U_BG_Guerrilla_6_1 (The green FIA uniform used by the default AT rifleman called "Guerrilla Apparel" in the arsenal) and U_I_G_Story_Protagonist_F (The guerilla uniform used by kerry in the adapt campaign called "Worn Combat Fatigues (Kerry)") Because I can't find them in any of the character files

lethal condor May 12, 2020, 11:40 AM

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I've tried to use “sick” faces, and I found this weird problem:

Apply an sick face e.g. AsianHead_A3_01_sick and damage the unit
The sick gross bumps don't appear on his face.
Load a rvmat e.g. a3\characters_f_oldman\heads\data\m_asian_02_sick.rvmat that used in a different sick face texture using setObjectMaterial
Apply an sick face (AsianHead_A3_02_sick in this case)
Bumps appear

Bumps (this means nohqs) don't appear on their faces if you use setFace first, if loaded via setObjectMaterial first, bumps appear on their faces.
Maybe it's an offtopic, but I don't know where should I discuss about this. Also I'm not sure I did describe this problem properly. What could cause this problem? How do I fix them?

granite leaf May 15, 2020, 11:14 AM

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Hello all, quick question.

I have made some custom uniforms and coded them into the weapons, vehicles and patches cfg the best I can. They are showing in game but the models are black. No textures are actually showing.

Ive checked everything is correct but I can't seem to find out why it isn't working. The PAA's were converted by the arma 3 tools and they open find when using TexView 2.

I am really at a loss here.

Thanks all!

full quarry May 15, 2020, 11:24 AM

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sounds a lot like broken rvmat

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or perhaps bad pathing

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do you have P drive properly set up?

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and do you pack your addon with PboProject

spark shore May 15, 2020, 11:23 PM

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hey question
if a model in object builder has its texture paths marked as .tga
and the path is correct but its a .paa instead
does it accept it anyway?

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not sure wheter to post this in textures or models

frozen blade May 15, 2020, 11:27 PM

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yes

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i always use tgas

spark shore May 15, 2020, 11:28 PM

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so even if the file format is different it won't cause errors during the packing?

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trying to be sure because I really am not in the mood to rename a few hundreds paths

frozen blade May 15, 2020, 11:37 PM

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buldozer set to aconvert files

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i have both rvmats and co/ca textures set as tgas

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so i can actually preview smth in ob directly via dx viewport

spark shore May 15, 2020, 11:41 PM

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I'm not practical with bulldozer
does it mean it does it automatically convert during packing? or do I need to use bullzdozer to convert it?

frozen blade May 15, 2020, 11:44 PM

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i perisnally use buldozer to convert it

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but it ai t necessary

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it should pack just fine

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if all tgas are already paas

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despite the path being .tga

spark shore May 15, 2020, 11:50 PM

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oh thank god

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thanks and sorry for the repetition
wanted to be sure

shell prawn May 16, 2020, 11:15 PM

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Hey guys! I’m looking to employ someone who would be willing to texture a few things for me.

sly shore May 17, 2020, 1:02 PM

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I'm pretty new to texture creation; If I get weird green compression artifacts with dxt compression in texview (tga/jpg/png input) any ideas on what to try ?

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The file is fine in argb8888 without alpha

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https://i.imgur.com/ovpWJ4g.png

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I don't mind the compression, the weird green tone is the issue

full quarry May 17, 2020, 1:38 PM

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What texture type suffix are you using? The suffix defines what conversion rules are used?

sly shore May 17, 2020, 1:43 PM

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Thanks! Using _co fixed it, should have read the docs for texview better, was using none of the mentioned typed, the file got randomly renamed at some point

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Oh, no the preview in texview was just not switching after saving, the issue is still present

full quarry May 17, 2020, 2:03 PM

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Is the suffix in the original file?

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Also DX compression is like that, it reduces colors of texture.

sly shore May 17, 2020, 2:04 PM

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Could I fix that by reducing colors in the first place ?

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Like using Gif Compression or similar

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And yes, its named "tex_co.png"

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Hm, texview doesn't seem to like opening files with indexed color spaces (256 in this case)

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Even after compressing to 256 colors (with artifacts) and back to sRGB the issue persists :/

full quarry May 17, 2020, 2:23 PM

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Why are you using indexed palette?

sly shore May 17, 2020, 2:27 PM

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I reduced the colors with photoshop and switched back to 8Bit rgb after that

full quarry May 17, 2020, 2:32 PM

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If you want to understand the artifacts more checkout how DX1 compression works!

pale bough May 17, 2020, 2:39 PM

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are you using texview to convert files?

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use imageToPaa instead

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also, you will always have some artifacts with DXT compression unfortunately

sly shore May 17, 2020, 2:57 PM

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Same result with imageToPaa

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Sure, it's a lossy compression after all, I just want that green gone 😄

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Even if I brighten up the image way too far beyond looking similar I get these green artifacts

silver gull May 17, 2020, 3:04 PM

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does it actually make a difference ingame, or is this just ... perfectionism for OCD reasons ?

sly shore May 17, 2020, 3:04 PM

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It looks horrible, I wouldn't worry about it otherwise 😄

silver gull May 17, 2020, 3:04 PM

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tried dxt5 ?

sly shore May 17, 2020, 3:05 PM

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Yeah, same result

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Looks better but the green is just as present

full quarry May 17, 2020, 3:20 PM

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Does your texture have green in it?

pale bough May 17, 2020, 3:40 PM

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what if instead of pure black, you tint it slightly blue?

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just a tiny bit

full quarry May 17, 2020, 3:50 PM

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true, pure black can be problematic

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📎 unknown.png

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you could use these colors for example do it the same its here

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as you cant have that much gradient with DXT1

sly shore May 17, 2020, 3:55 PM

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Seems Like I'll just have to redo it with less gradient yeah

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Does your texture have green in it?
@full quarry No it does not at all

full quarry May 17, 2020, 4:02 PM

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then it just interpolates between the black and grey poorly.

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you could use less absolute value

sly shore May 17, 2020, 4:03 PM

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How does one do that ?

full quarry May 17, 2020, 4:03 PM

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lighten the darker ones

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even it out more

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thats a shaded area yes?

sly shore May 17, 2020, 4:04 PM

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yes

full quarry May 17, 2020, 4:04 PM

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and you have a normalmap and ambientShadow map for it?

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as those will shade the crevises

sly shore May 17, 2020, 4:05 PM

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yeah I do

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I'll try around with it thanks, Its probably just an extreme edge case with the compression algorithm

tall siren May 17, 2020, 5:47 PM

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so i want to retexture the helmets from Hawiians, Siege-A, and DireOne, but there is no _co file when i use PBO manager

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all i wish to do is take the american flag off

severe rune May 17, 2020, 5:48 PM

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Do you have permission for a retexture?

tall siren May 17, 2020, 5:48 PM

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i do

severe rune May 17, 2020, 5:48 PM

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Or rather.. to take and edit their textures?
Why not ask them for the file that you need then?

tall siren May 17, 2020, 5:49 PM

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they said the helmets are from DaveGary, and i cant find him

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they gave permission from the uniforms

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for*

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the helmets i want to do: https://www.armaholic.com/datas/users/us-75th-rangers-version-10-1_4.png

jolly peak May 21, 2020, 7:11 PM

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is there any way to add an AO map to an rvmat?

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without blending it into the CO map?

rare dove May 21, 2020, 8:48 PM

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@jolly peak the AS stage probably, I think it's stage 4 in super shader

full quarry May 22, 2020, 12:00 AM

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👆

jolly peak May 22, 2020, 3:42 AM

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when i drag my AI into my boat, it only fills my passengers and not my gunners? Any theory as to why?

dusky sundial May 22, 2020, 7:42 AM

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Hey peeps.
Looking to do a cheap reskin of a uniform via a command line in the units init.
Basically putting the low meg skin into the mission file instead of a mod for example.

Where could I potentially locate the vanilla uniform textures in the game files for me to open and edit?

lethal condor May 22, 2020, 7:45 AM

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The easiest way to get the texture path is getObjectTextures IMO. Then you know how to open it

dusky sundial May 22, 2020, 7:46 AM

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I can just run getObjectTextures while wearing the uniform?

lethal condor May 22, 2020, 7:46 AM

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Yes

dusky sundial May 22, 2020, 7:46 AM

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Just run that in debug correct? In-game, just that getObjectTextures

lethal condor May 22, 2020, 7:46 AM

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No

dusky sundial May 22, 2020, 7:46 AM

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Hm

lethal condor May 22, 2020, 7:46 AM

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getObjectTextures player```Or such. More info in BIKI
https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/getObjectTextures

dusky sundial May 22, 2020, 7:47 AM

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💋

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Got it a3\characters_f\opfor\data\officer_hex_co.paa

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Thanks bro

ember shale May 22, 2020, 1:48 PM

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Hey, has anyone here retextured the t-14 tank from RHS?

frozen blade May 22, 2020, 2:28 PM

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why?

ember shale May 22, 2020, 2:30 PM

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I am looking for a texture to reference.

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or maybe even borrow.

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plus it looks easier than the MBT_03 from aaf

dark trail May 23, 2020, 1:02 AM

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Hey does anything know how to make your own helmet in arma 3 and if they can teach me how

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I want to try and put a logo on a HGU helmet in arma 3 if anyone can help me out

versed nacelle May 23, 2020, 1:25 AM

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If you just want to retexture an existing helmet than you'll find a lot of information on the internet (mostly on BI Forums) on how to do that.
For making your own models you should start with 3D modelling and texturing, and import those into Arma.

jolly peak May 23, 2020, 1:29 AM

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anyone know how to properly set up aim down sights on a turret?

dark trail May 23, 2020, 1:32 AM

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Its a modded helmet @versed nacelle

versed nacelle May 23, 2020, 1:32 AM

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doesn't matter; retexture is retexture

dark trail May 23, 2020, 1:34 AM

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How can i find the PBO file of that helmet since its not in the BI

versed nacelle May 23, 2020, 1:38 AM

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You can check for the classname of the helmet in the config viewer, which usually also indicates where the config is placed. Or ask the mod developer

full quarry May 23, 2020, 1:58 AM

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Also assuming the helmet is even made for texture change. It would need to have hiddenselections degined in its config.

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You can find its config with the in game config viewer too.

dark trail May 23, 2020, 2:27 AM

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I'm not the best at using photoshop but can anybody help me with the project I'm working on

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If anybody's is willing to help me I'll probably pay

half garnet May 24, 2020, 7:28 PM

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I am having issues with some transparent texture. The part that is supposed to be transparent is black. What is happening?

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I am opening a PNG in TexView, saving as RGBA/DXT5

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Exporting to PAA in Image to PAA

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And the background is black

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Not transparent

severe rune May 24, 2020, 7:29 PM

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what is your texture filename suffix?

half garnet May 24, 2020, 7:29 PM

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ca

severe rune May 24, 2020, 7:30 PM

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and it had that before you converted it from whatever->paa?

half garnet May 24, 2020, 7:30 PM

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Ye

severe rune May 24, 2020, 7:30 PM

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where are you using it? on a model?. Did the model have a transparent texture on it at the time it got binarized?

half garnet May 24, 2020, 7:30 PM

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I was using it on a blank sign

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Trying to get a spray paint effect as a custom texture

severe rune May 24, 2020, 7:31 PM

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Vanilla sign?
Models store on their faces if the face can be transparent

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if the model itself thinks it cannot be transparent, an transparent texture also won't work that well

half garnet May 24, 2020, 7:33 PM

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Got it

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Yeah, it just needed to be on a transparent user texture

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:/

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Thanks Ded

deft lantern May 24, 2020, 10:20 PM

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Hey chaps,

Odd situation; I've been working with a template on a new texture, and having sorted out the NOHQ, SMDI and TI layers (all correctly defined in the .rvmat), this is the result I've gotten; https://i.imgur.com/3rAfQTj.png

Obviously, I'm missing the shadows and so forth like the trousers underneath, and I'm pondering where I need to take it from here to get that sorted. Any thoughts?

silver gull May 24, 2020, 10:29 PM

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_as map (ambient shadow) in the rvmat must be defined. Additionally, you can use this map to multiply it ontop of the _co texture to give more "depth"

deft lantern May 24, 2020, 10:42 PM

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Hm. I'll have to look up how to define that in the .rvmat then, as the base one for the vanilla uniform didn't define it.

deft lantern May 25, 2020, 11:51 AM

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Alright, so officer_spc for INDEP doesn't have an _as at all. I'll have to try baking the shadows on to the _co in that case.

ember shale May 25, 2020, 12:44 PM

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https://imgur.com/oQlsO44 this texture job is for a faction I am trying to make and bring in. How does this look and where do I find the texture for the gun?

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nvm I found the gun turret

flat estuary May 25, 2020, 2:56 PM

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Hi guys
im trying to port an arma 2 face to arma 3

trough the custom faces feature

i sawed in tex viewer 2 , the res is 1024 x 1024 wich is on arma 3 standards and the weight is exactly 512 kb
problem is when i try to go to custom faces , it shows the default face but in a more darky theme

any tips for porting an arma 2 face texture ?

im trying to convert a PAA file into a jpeg , and i think the problem is happening there

frozen blade May 25, 2020, 3:23 PM

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as far i know the UV layout is different for A3 and A2 faces

full quarry May 25, 2020, 3:24 PM

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Custom profile faces don't work anymore in A3

limber basalt May 25, 2020, 5:43 PM

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they dont?

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they did for some time

full quarry May 25, 2020, 6:26 PM

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As far as I can tell they dont seem to work

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or people are using the system wrong

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¯_(ツ)_/¯

deft lantern May 25, 2020, 7:35 PM

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Correct me if I'm wrong, but to a .rvmat to apply to a uniform, it has to be the following, yes?

        {
            "ETC_Units\data\uniforms\ETC_Uniform.rvmat",
        };```

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Oof, that threw the block out of kilter.

full quarry May 25, 2020, 7:39 PM

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hiddenselection materials dont work very well

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you do have an extra, at the end if the array is just that one material

deft lantern May 25, 2020, 8:19 PM

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I think my brain just died, because that went waaaaaaaaaaaaaay over my head.

full quarry May 25, 2020, 8:49 PM

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📎 unknown.png

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extra ,

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as your list stops there

deft lantern May 25, 2020, 11:23 PM

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Hm. Removing that didn't actually have any effect.

frozen blade May 25, 2020, 11:38 PM

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?? is it stopping when packing

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or what is the effect you are looking after

deft lantern May 25, 2020, 11:48 PM

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Negative. Packing is fine.

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I'm trying to sort out the shadows for the texture I posted above (https://i.imgur.com/3rAfQTj.png), and adding an _as layer was suggested; the vanilla .rvmat didn't have an _as layer. As far as I can see, the only other alternative is painting the shadows on to the texture directly.

frozen blade May 25, 2020, 11:52 PM

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as stands for ambient shadow(s)

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it isn’t ambient occlusion, so it works completely different. you will be able to see the effect of it only when the mesh is in the shadow

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of the sun light

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also a3 works with diffuse textures, not albédos

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so some of the information PBR workflow/shading otherwise allows to be layered during render time

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needs to be baked into the color texture

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usually that means AO overlay and eventually some curvature texture

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also a properly baked normals map for folds (macro/micro/ fibers) goes a long way

frozen blade May 26, 2020, 12:16 AM

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@deft lantern ^^

deft lantern May 26, 2020, 9:50 AM

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@frozen blade I think I (vaguely) understand, but that's still going over my head.

torn onyx May 27, 2020, 12:44 AM

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anyone here willing to do some retexture work? or possibly teach?

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trying to retexture and make some custom pilot helms for my mil-sim group but all the videos and guide ive gone through are kind of all over the place

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I'd be willing to pay if someone taught me or did it as well

dreamy girder May 27, 2020, 9:40 AM

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https://forums.bohemia.net/forums/topic/229235-modeling-retexturing-guides-tutorials-compilation-list/

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First two links under Retexturing should help

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The model you want to retexture needs hiddenselections set up, is it a normal BIS helmet?

jade juniper May 27, 2020, 3:05 PM

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Hi, can anyone help me please ? I have a probleme with a texture wich outline is white. I would like to know how to fix it. https://gyazo.com/c44df142660f40b23cfd245375ad80a1

frozen blade May 27, 2020, 3:41 PM

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compression issue most likely

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@torn onyx use #creators_recruiting

jade juniper May 27, 2020, 4:30 PM

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how can i settle it ?

silver nacelle May 27, 2020, 6:11 PM

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Wondering if someone can help me. I'm trying to make a transparent texture (Blue glass) but all the Rvmats I've tried make to so any part of the texture above the horizon (from the camera perspective) is entirely invisible. Anyone got any suggestions?

jade juniper May 27, 2020, 6:21 PM

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I use a blue texture with a low opacity but no rvmats

silver nacelle May 27, 2020, 6:25 PM

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Hmm, I could try that, thanks.

frail crag May 28, 2020, 6:41 AM

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Ok i'm at wits end here. I'm trying to re-texture the stock M900, I feel like this should be stupid easy ' class C_Heli_Light_01_civil_F; class OP68_Loach : C_Heli_Light_01_civil_F { scope = 2; scopeCurator = 2; side = 1; displayName = "OH-6 Loach (OP68)"; faction = OP68_Faction_USA; vehicleClass = "OP68_air"; crew = "rhsgref_hidf_helipilot"; hiddenSelections[] = {"camo1"}; hiddenSelectionsTextures[] = {"\op68_us_stuff\data\MD500_green.paa"}; animationList[] = {"AddDoors",1,"AddBackseats",1,"AddTread_Short",0,"AddTread",0}; };

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But the texture won't take. It keeps the randomization from the stock helicopter and I can't figure out why.

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Can anyone help?

grand warren May 28, 2020, 6:54 AM

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wrong texture path most likely
try
{"op68_us_stuff\data\MD500_green.paa"};
without the back slash

frail crag May 28, 2020, 7:14 AM

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I added ` class EventHandlers: EventHandlers
{
init = this setVariable ["BIS_enableRandomization", false];
respawn = this setVariable ["BIS_enableRandomization", false];

    };` and that fixed the texture but my attempt to remove the skids with the animationlist command isn't working

full quarry May 28, 2020, 9:26 AM

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Are you trying to replace the vanilla config or add a new class?

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Ah new one. Pls use code block and syntax highlight when posting configs

plush fractal May 28, 2020, 10:29 AM

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Gentlemen I'm in dire need of WhiteHead_16 texture

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I've found a list but it only goes to 15

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send help

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it's called "Kelly" in the virtual arsenal

full quarry May 28, 2020, 10:40 AM

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all the textures should be in the A3 data

lethal condor May 28, 2020, 10:41 AM

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Your go-to is Config Viewer, you can find the path there

grand warren May 28, 2020, 10:44 AM

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i can recommend this mod for extended config view and editing
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1387934106

Steam Workshop::7erra's Editing Extensions

plush fractal May 28, 2020, 11:12 AM

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aight thanks pals

frail crag May 28, 2020, 10:39 PM

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Is there a way to change the reflective qualities of the stock arma M900? (MD500) I want to reduce the reflection of the metal.

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Make the paint more flat

frozen blade May 29, 2020, 2:07 AM

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

setObjectMaterial

spark shore May 30, 2020, 12:53 PM

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anyone knows a guide on how to use substance painter specifically for arma modding?

full quarry May 30, 2020, 12:54 PM

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Their is no definite guide for that.

spark shore May 30, 2020, 12:55 PM

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shame
I have no idea what to do honestly
been told to use non-pbr mode but when I do all metals turn pitch black

grand warren May 30, 2020, 12:55 PM

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there is an arma shader around for SP

spark shore May 30, 2020, 12:56 PM

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what would that do?

grand warren May 30, 2020, 12:56 PM

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https://github.com/ianbanks/arma_3_substance_shader

GitHub

ianbanks/arma_3_substance_shader

A Substance Painter shader for Arma 3 super shader objects. - ianbanks/arma_3_substance_shader

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what would that do?
i don't know enough to answer that. i just read the chats 😄

spark shore May 30, 2020, 12:58 PM

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wouldn't even know how to add that lol

grand warren May 30, 2020, 12:58 PM

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i think (guessing) it translates PBR to arma

spark shore May 30, 2020, 12:59 PM

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oh that'd be cool

full quarry May 30, 2020, 1:00 PM

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It makes use of Arma compatible shader/material setup

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Inside SP

spark shore May 30, 2020, 1:02 PM

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guess I'll have to put them inside the shader folder wherever it is

full quarry May 30, 2020, 1:04 PM

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Google probably knows how that is done.

spark shore May 30, 2020, 1:06 PM

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yeah just checked

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didn't even seem to work

frozen blade May 30, 2020, 1:13 PM

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@grand warren nope, you can’t translate PBR to arma

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you non-PBR spec gloss shader @spark shore

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that is the closest you will get

grand warren May 30, 2020, 1:14 PM

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TIL, thx

spark shore May 30, 2020, 1:15 PM

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does that mean that the standard non-pbr materials just won't work?

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I was hoping to find a SP guide without anything non arma relevant

frozen blade May 30, 2020, 1:21 PM

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that is like trying to find a guide for modelling in insert software that is arma specific

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that means specific metalness smart materials won’t work

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but that’s about it

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any tut for painter can be applied to arma basically

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especially if you use it like a painter software more than relying on smart materials

sterile wigeon May 30, 2020, 1:35 PM

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regarding that shader, if you download the release, it will use the Base Color as color and not the Diffuse, to be honest I tried fiddling with everything inside that shader but can't get it to show the texture even close to how arma sees it. I am currently working with standard metal/rough and let substance painter convert it in the export window. I then do a little post processing in a graphic program.
I can post the workflow and so if wanted (I am not an expert in any way and it could be that I am doing something horribly wrong).

full quarry May 30, 2020, 1:38 PM

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yeah metal rough just does not properly translate into spec/gloss

frozen blade May 30, 2020, 1:40 PM

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sp actually does a decent job, you can even do it manually

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overall i find spec/gloss (even pbr) to be allow more creativity

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https://marmoset.co/posts/pbr-texture-conversion/

Marmoset

PBR Texture Conversion | Marmoset

By Joe “EarthQuake” Wilson In this tutorial, I’m going to demonstrate how content created for traditional shaders can be converted to PBR shaders, how to convert content from one PBR workflow to another, and explain the various differences in modern workflows. This tutorial is...

silver gull May 30, 2020, 2:26 PM

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spec gloss is a bit more difficult to work with in legacy however. because diffuse is black where metal is. So its a good idea to retain a mask where metal actually is

spark shore May 30, 2020, 3:47 PM

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I still to understand correctly the difference between material, mask and texture
I think the first is about how the model is around light, like shiny or rubbery
the second should be the pattern(?) like bumps and stuff like that
and the 3rd would be the actual colors?

sterile wigeon May 30, 2020, 3:54 PM

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Substance has sone autoconvert channels in the export window, that work quite well except for metal. For metal I export the map called 2d or so and in gimp I us lighten at 30% and over it

Using metal rough can give you more acces to ready and free materials if you aren‘t that good with substance designer yet.

If you want to do the work there is also a default node in designer that converts you any material from metal/rough to spec gloss

silent onyx May 30, 2020, 4:57 PM

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have anyone encounted a instance where the Rvmat just skips over the gloss and spec and puts it to one, i have this one pack i am doing i put it neatly into mymod/modname/rifles/data <- where my rvmat is located get ingame and one of the rifles Gloss and spec goes overboard and just makes the model extremly light/glossy but Normal map works like a charm

frozen blade May 30, 2020, 7:29 PM

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define puts it to one

silent onyx May 30, 2020, 7:38 PM

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https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/1045344971733254724/E634B3E9D7609018F5FDA29082D66B8E1EF3EDB7/

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like that '

frozen blade May 30, 2020, 7:49 PM

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pastebin rvmat

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and smdi texture to imgur

silent onyx May 30, 2020, 7:51 PM

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https://pastebin.com/MprbhHCc

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https://imgur.com/hG83zqP

frozen blade May 30, 2020, 8:16 PM

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seems fine, might wanna adjust a bit the channels in your smdi

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drop a level on each channel individually

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indeed for some level arma goes tits up

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reading these from textures

silent onyx May 30, 2020, 8:22 PM

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yea thats what i found extremly odd i move it from an old mod folder where it works great but after i moved it to cf_vietnam it went tits up

frozen blade May 30, 2020, 8:50 PM

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how does that look in OB?

silent onyx May 30, 2020, 8:53 PM

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Model looks all fine in OB, linked corrently with the model with no errors

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this is how looked like in the old mod folder before i moved it into cf_Vietnam for my community

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https://imgur.com/DdgHV0j

full quarry May 30, 2020, 9:04 PM

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what all did you move and from where?

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and what are you packing the pbo with?

silent onyx May 30, 2020, 9:05 PM

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packing with pboProject and i moved it from my old mod folder cf_weaponpack towards cf_vietnam and i moved it all, changed pathing in rvmats and in OB

full quarry May 30, 2020, 9:07 PM

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in configs as well I assume?

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or it does not have hiddenselectiontextures/materials

silent onyx May 30, 2020, 9:08 PM

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it dosnt have any hiddenslectionstextures/materials

distant rose May 31, 2020, 7:43 AM

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move your old mod folder out of P, clear your p:\temp folder and try packing it.

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if there's anything amiss then with your moving it, it will show up.

silent onyx May 31, 2020, 8:55 AM

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I removed temp folder awhile ago didnt move The old mod folder will try that

distant rose May 31, 2020, 9:29 AM

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remember and clear your temp again 🙂

silent onyx May 31, 2020, 10:06 AM

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Will do 🐷 💦

silent onyx May 31, 2020, 11:32 AM

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nop that didn't work :S

minor perch Jun 1, 2020, 7:02 AM

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Hello, I did a little research, and I am looking for a sample of the AAF camo pattern for Vehicles (for a retex). Does one exist and is available or I would have to redo from scratch (I have the one for soldiers from the BI samples)? Thank you very much in advance

acoustic dove Jun 1, 2020, 7:29 AM

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@minor perch https://imgur.com/2c5hRg7

Imgur

minor perch Jun 1, 2020, 7:38 AM

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@acoustic dove Thanks a lot - I thought this was infantry but maybe this is the same fro vehicles, with different scaling - will try !

acoustic dove Jun 1, 2020, 7:38 AM

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ye it should be same its just the pattern scaling

pale bough Jun 1, 2020, 9:02 AM

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the vehicle pattern is not the same at all, pattern is different and colours are way different

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@minor perch here, I made this a while ago https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/378346813834657794/590264056464539703/AAF_vehicle_camo.png

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IIRC it should tile perfectly fine

minor perch Jun 1, 2020, 10:24 AM

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Thanks @pale bough !

pale bough Jun 1, 2020, 10:27 AM

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No problem

shadow sky Jun 3, 2020, 2:16 AM

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Asking for a friend, would it be possible to replace all of the billboards on Altis with "Xi Jinpooh"?

dense peak Jun 3, 2020, 6:10 PM

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how can i add a transpraceny to a rvmat?

full quarry Jun 3, 2020, 6:53 PM

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you dont, you need transparent texture

wooden oyster Jun 4, 2020, 3:50 AM

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if i don't use custom Config and use addon builder from armatools will the texture mod work?

lethal condor Jun 4, 2020, 3:56 AM

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If you don't make/use a config, this isn't a MOD/addon

wooden oyster Jun 4, 2020, 4:01 AM

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okkie

brisk trellis Jun 5, 2020, 6:23 AM

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@wooden oyster a config is needed to tell the game what this thing is and how it should handle it.

wooden oyster Jun 5, 2020, 7:01 AM

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@wooden oyster a config is needed to tell the game what this thing is and how it should handle it.
@brisk trellis i made the config but i m having problems with rvmat

brisk trellis Jun 5, 2020, 7:15 AM

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How does it look ingame?

last delta Jun 6, 2020, 1:15 AM

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Hello everyone! Just getting a strange error with my new uniforms. Uniforms works good in local, but when I'm logged in inside a dedicated server, if I'm wearing those uniforms there is a chance that the new user see me without the texture. Here are some pics:
https://gyazo.com/48eafb8c48807260da528791c3b8ca43
https://gyazo.com/14df592a596389a3d45104952e7e5cd9 (Insignia and camo2 swapped due to this bug)
https://gyazo.com/b02cfb2e43e2cecabae9253f3942c439
The quick solution is to drop the uniform and put it on again. The texture mix is done, but I really want to fix that texture bug. I will drop the hiddenSelections and HiddenTextures below

hiddenSelections[]= { "Camo", "Camo2", "Insignia" }; hiddenSelectionsTextures[]= { "VSM_AOR1\Data\VSM_ARD_AOR1_1.paa", "\VSM_AOR1\Data\basicbody_mcoe_co.paa" };
(This one is from the shirt uniform)
hiddenSelections[]= { "Camo1", "camo2", "Insignia" }; hiddenSelectionsTextures[]= { "VSM_AOR1\Data\VSM_AOR1_BDU.paa", "VSM_AOR1\Data\VSM_AOR1_1.paa" };

Code that creates the battle-dress uniform

Camo1 and Camo2 are used to pick the shirt and pants respectively in two different textures.

Anyone have encountered this bug before? Any fix known?

I suspect that when the user is loading the textures of other users already in the server, insignia loads before camo2 and camo2 gets stuck, because this bug is always with Camo2. Camo1 in both uniforms loads just fine.

frozen blade Jun 6, 2020, 3:00 AM

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you have a typo in
"\VSM_AOR1\Data\basicbody_mcoe_co.paa"

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also, weird

last delta Jun 6, 2020, 11:20 AM

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What typo? I dont see it!

grand warren Jun 6, 2020, 11:31 AM

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\

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At the beginning

last delta Jun 6, 2020, 12:01 PM

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Fixed it. That makes a difference between absolut and relative paths, but I'm afraid that's not the cause of the bug 😦

sudden forge Jun 6, 2020, 5:20 PM

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Do yall have any good tips on ground textures? Mine always look like that meme "Yall got any more of them pixels?"

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Or are there any links to making good heightmaps? I use xnormal for the... normals. lol

silver gull Jun 6, 2020, 5:44 PM

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you make good heightmaps by making it first and then all the rest, and not taking some photo and trying to determine the height by algorithm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4HMw46rEHc

frozen blade Jun 6, 2020, 6:24 PM

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normals/paralax/displacement maps are all program textures

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which means they better get generated of something, not really forcefully extracted from some 2d raster file

dense peak Jun 8, 2020, 8:41 AM

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can someone help me with this problem?

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https://prnt.sc/svrm3i

severe rune Jun 8, 2020, 8:41 AM

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wrong resolution

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not power of 2

dense peak Jun 8, 2020, 8:47 AM

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dosent help to change the resoloution+

severe rune Jun 8, 2020, 8:49 AM

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yes it does

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if you do it right

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both axis need to be power of 2

dense peak Jun 8, 2020, 9:01 AM

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i dont now what you mean

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https://prnt.sc/svrzv0 like this?

lethal condor Jun 8, 2020, 9:02 AM

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Yes

dense peak Jun 8, 2020, 9:03 AM

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https://prnt.sc/svs0o7

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😦

severe rune Jun 8, 2020, 9:04 AM

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now you put a non-rectangular image into a rectangular resolution?

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I think 1024x512 would fit better

frozen blade Jun 8, 2020, 9:05 AM

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lol

severe rune Jun 8, 2020, 9:05 AM

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you convert to paa yes?
In your first screenshot, the filename is missing the suffix

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I guess you want _ca or _co

dense peak Jun 8, 2020, 9:07 AM

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https://prnt.sc/svs355 like this

severe rune Jun 8, 2020, 9:07 AM

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that looks like then same colors as ingame

dense peak Jun 8, 2020, 9:08 AM

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I think i am to stupid

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i dont get it

severe rune Jun 8, 2020, 9:08 AM

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don't know what that photoshop screenshot is supposed to tell me

dense peak Jun 8, 2020, 9:09 AM

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i dont now what i should do

severe rune Jun 8, 2020, 9:09 AM

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change the resolution to 1024x512

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name it whatever_co.png

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then convert to whatever_co.paa

dense peak Jun 8, 2020, 9:09 AM

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ah ok

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thanks it works

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❤️

west aspen Jun 8, 2020, 3:28 PM

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What is the max insignia size???

lethal condor Jun 8, 2020, 3:38 PM

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4096x

west aspen Jun 8, 2020, 3:42 PM

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k

silver gull Jun 8, 2020, 4:20 PM

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😄 thats like with skyrim "high rezzz 4k" mod for eyes...

dense peak Jun 8, 2020, 8:22 PM

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https://i.imgur.com/MstlRMv.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/0WDpn4n.png

Need help with this. Not sure why it's coming out black. Here is my CfgMarkers class:

class CfgMarkers 
{
    class MissionCompletionDuck
    {
        name = "MissionCompletionDuck";
        icon = "\kfb_assets\textures\dms\duck.paa";
        color[] = {1, 1, 1, 1};
        size = 32;
        shadow = false;
        scope = 0;
    };
};

versed nacelle Jun 8, 2020, 8:26 PM

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color is an RGB value, from 0 till 255.
So a value of {1,1,1,1} is almost black (compared to {255,255,255,1} which is white)

dense peak Jun 8, 2020, 8:26 PM

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Will try, thanks!

versed nacelle Jun 8, 2020, 8:27 PM

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Sorry... I'm wrong about that: https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Arma_3_CfgMarkerColors

dense peak Jun 8, 2020, 8:28 PM

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Is my sizing wrong? It should be DXT5 right?

versed nacelle Jun 8, 2020, 8:31 PM

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Not sure, I always use the default settings and seems to work 99.9% of the time...
Although I'm also not sure if colored markers work (never tried it), since people can set the color manually

dense peak Jun 8, 2020, 8:35 PM

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I tried setting marker shape to icon, still black.

full quarry Jun 8, 2020, 8:36 PM

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it should be greyscale to pick up color from the color parameter

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an pretty bright white

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compare to vanilla markers

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also you are lacking the _CA suffix

lethal condor Jun 10, 2020, 12:36 PM

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Does anybody have good tips to retexture black texture to some colorized thing? I'm trying to retexture M320 and give it sand/olive and some scheme (just an experimental work), but since the original is black and dark, just lighten it will make it noisy (middle).

📎 20200610213408_1.jpg

silver gull Jun 10, 2020, 3:44 PM

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if the base layer is not further modifiyable, then start from scratch...

full quarry Jun 10, 2020, 3:45 PM

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I dont really see it as much any noisier than the rest

silver gull Jun 10, 2020, 3:46 PM

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"but if i place my eyeball on that screw i can see the pixels"

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sure you could try and extract a mask or difference map in greyscale - "black" (or whatever grey value the base color is) is transparent and anything different is a color and then layer that on top of another color. Dont expect anything magic however

lethal condor Jun 10, 2020, 4:03 PM

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Hmm sounds no luck for me then 🙃

full quarry Jun 10, 2020, 4:12 PM

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do you have an example what you would like it to look like?

pale bough Jun 10, 2020, 4:19 PM

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what if you use the NOHQ and SMDI maps to remake it instead of just recolouring the CO?

full quarry Jun 10, 2020, 4:20 PM

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those dont affect the color

lethal condor Jun 10, 2020, 4:20 PM

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That's an idea, but I don't think I can make a good patterns from smdi

pale bough Jun 10, 2020, 4:21 PM

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what, no I mean use them to apply detail to a solid colour base

full quarry Jun 10, 2020, 4:21 PM

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ah

pale bough Jun 10, 2020, 4:21 PM

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like in overlay or multiply mode

lethal condor Jun 10, 2020, 4:21 PM

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Am actually trying to do, but no joy for now

full quarry Jun 10, 2020, 4:21 PM

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My gut says its not very good approach

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as those textures contain things that are overlaid with the color texture

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and not peresent in it

pale bough Jun 10, 2020, 4:22 PM

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eh, it seems to work fine for things I've retextured

full quarry Jun 10, 2020, 4:22 PM

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¯_(ツ)_/¯

lethal condor Jun 10, 2020, 4:23 PM

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Some do, some don't 🙂

pale bough Jun 10, 2020, 4:23 PM

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it is a bit of a gamble whether or not they'll be useful, depending on how the original artist made them up

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It seems to work pretty well more often than not though

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like, take a look at this NATO Tempest skin I made https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/378346813834657794/720312671098109962/tempest.png

lethal condor Jun 10, 2020, 4:31 PM

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Hmm sweet. However that's too much for today, I need to rest 😄

silver gull Jun 11, 2020, 5:02 PM

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how does one make a proper ADS / ADSHQ map? AS, sure just AO bake.
Do you just make all interior dark / use AO with larger radius for the "D" part of ADS?

full quarry Jun 11, 2020, 5:35 PM

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for interiors, buildings, big objects I like to use ADSHQ, it has softer gradient.

AO bake, usually dont leave interiors black if theres supposed to be lights in there and adjust green and blue channel in gimp to get results that look nice

silent mortar Jun 12, 2020, 3:11 PM

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@lethal condor in regards to that M320

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I would take the base layer, cut out all the parts you want to remain unchanged and stay black like rubbers etc, then I would fill the other areas with a medium light shade of tan that you can easily desaturate later to put whatever color you want on it

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then I would take the sections that the tan covers and copy the original black one, adjust curves until you see fit and then duplicate it and invert and use the blending modes to layer it back ontop of the orginal black one you just adjusted

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then merge those two and use curves to lighten them up a bit and overlay them with blending modes probably softlight onto the tan below

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then you can easily change the tan color with hue adjustments

lethal condor Jun 12, 2020, 3:32 PM

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I don't think I read your way correctly, but thanks, I'll give it a try on a limited knowledge and understanding

stone cedar Jun 15, 2020, 4:44 PM

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Is there a way I can find all the car textures can only find offroad, hatchback and suv

lethal condor Jun 15, 2020, 4:46 PM

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somewhere

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If you want a generic way, check texture path via getObjectTextures or config

stone cedar Jun 15, 2020, 4:49 PM

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Thank you have a good day

mellow sage Jun 15, 2020, 5:45 PM

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Hey guys a little question, in subtance painter before i export the textures i need to bake the textures

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?

frozen blade Jun 15, 2020, 6:56 PM

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https://docs.substance3d.com/spdoc/tutorials-142213429.html

Substance Painter - Tutorials

Tutorials : Recommended tutorials for getting started with Substance Painter.

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https://academy.substance3d.com/courses/getting-started-with-substance-painter-2018

Getting Started With Substance Painter on Substance Academy

In this course we are going to take a project based approach to learning Substance Painter. We will texture an old lantern step by step to illustrate key workflows and techniques used in Substance Painter. We will cover topics such as creating projects, baking maps, creating ...

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@mellow sage see above ^^ this channel is for issues specific with A3 texture workflow, not individual software issues/tuts

mellow sage Jun 15, 2020, 6:58 PM

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Thankes man 🙂

ionic ember Jun 15, 2020, 9:02 PM

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Hey, I've been trying to find any kind of general tutorial on getting started with modding ARMA 3 - the only comprehensive tutorials that actually start from scratch I have found have all been from 2014, and even in threads started in 2019 people link to these, yet every one I've followed seems to be wildly out of date and doesn't reflect what I see with modern versions of the software they use. Would there happen to be any tutorials, either text or video, that is entirely or mostly up-to-date with how things are done now?

grand warren Jun 15, 2020, 9:28 PM

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what kind of modding?

ionic ember Jun 15, 2020, 9:45 PM

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well, anything really, I'll want to learn it all

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I was starting with retexturing existing models

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which I made what seems to be a pretty good texture, I checked the UV maps from the models and it lines up fine, but I cant do anything with it. I tried to take the p3d file and un-bianarize it so I could open it in object builder, which I successfully did (kind of?) but object builder is completely unable to load any textures for me, no matter what I do

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I tried making my own MLOD P3D file by going to blender, installing the armatoolbox plugin, exporting to p3d like I've seen in multiple videos, but it just says "unable to load file. load error." when I try to open it in object builder

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another video had me use the bianarized p3d files which I got by extracting a base-game PBO, then packing the texture into my own PBO with a config.cpp that contains texture, model, attribute and class definitions

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and the mod loads into the arma 3 steam launcher just fine and it shows up in the loaded mods list, then when I go into the game it says "Youre running a modded version, multiplayer blah blah blah"

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then I tried going into the arsenal and the uniform I created just didnt show up

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@grand warren

grand warren Jun 15, 2020, 9:53 PM

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have a look at those tuts:
https://forums.bohemia.net/forums/topic/207631-from-blender-to-arma-3-complete-process-tutorial/

also very helpful sources:
https://pmc.editing.wiki/doku.php?id=arma3

Bohemia Interactive Forums

From Blender to ArmA 3 - Complete process tutorial

Hello, As I had many requests, I did this all-in-one tutorial I am sharing today. I hope it will be helpful to you. All important stages are available in videos description. I will try to make more tutorials in the future, so dont hesitate to guide me to parts of the videos th...

patent blaze Jun 16, 2020, 12:48 AM

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Hello there

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I’m having a question please

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How do I remove a reflection from vehicles ?

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Which file is suppose to render it ?

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Some vehicles the reflection on it very annoying and make colors looks darker

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Any advice

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Thank you very much

ionic ember Jun 16, 2020, 3:18 AM

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@patent blaze try reading up on how RVmats work

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https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/ArmA:_RVMAT

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learning about the rvmat options, how to edit them, and how the AS, SMDI, and CA files work together to create various material effects

patent blaze Jun 16, 2020, 3:51 AM

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Thank you very much @ionic ember

full quarry Jun 16, 2020, 9:29 AM

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@ionic ember debinarizing p3ds is a big nono.

solemn mural Jun 16, 2020, 10:24 AM

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can i use png as uniform texture for test?

lethal condor Jun 16, 2020, 10:24 AM

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No

ionic ember Jun 16, 2020, 10:29 AM

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@full quarry then how can I use config files to define which models to retexture

pale bough Jun 16, 2020, 10:32 AM

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well if it has hiddenSelections defined then you can retexture it

ionic ember Jun 16, 2020, 10:33 AM

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yes but how - I cant get config.cpp class definitions to function and it doesnt give me any kind of error logs to tell me whats going on

pale bough Jun 16, 2020, 10:34 AM

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what does your config file look like?

ionic ember Jun 16, 2020, 10:34 AM

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it just doesnt show up - it packs into a pbo just fine, loads into the arma 3 launcher just fine, but it never appears in the arsenal list when I open the game

pale bough Jun 16, 2020, 10:34 AM

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put it up on pastebin and put the link here

ionic ember Jun 16, 2020, 10:34 AM

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ill do that when I get home

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ty

ionic ember Jun 16, 2020, 12:52 PM

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When I got back, I was copy pasting the config, and I had an epiphany that I had put "CfgWeapons" inside "CfgVehicles"

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via misplaced bracket

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now it functions with the base model, not needing to de-binarize thank you

solemn mural Jun 16, 2020, 1:05 PM

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where i can download paa converter as stand alone?

lethal condor Jun 16, 2020, 1:06 PM

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What do you mean? TexView can do

ionic ember Jun 16, 2020, 1:06 PM

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hes talking about the bitools 2.5 and Arma tools on steam

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I agree it was confusing

solemn mural Jun 16, 2020, 1:07 PM

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i dont want to download the whole arma tools

lethal condor Jun 16, 2020, 1:07 PM

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Why? Only 400 or so MB

ionic ember Jun 16, 2020, 1:07 PM

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all of the tools are pretty dang useful, I would reccomend it

solemn mural Jun 16, 2020, 1:08 PM

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i just trying one texture

ionic ember Jun 16, 2020, 1:08 PM

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besides, if you reaaaly hate it, you can downlaod the arma tools, run it once, then go to the steamapps folder and take out the texview folder and delete the rest

solemn mural Jun 16, 2020, 1:08 PM

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ohh ok

ionic ember Jun 16, 2020, 1:09 PM

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thats what I did, but I kept the arma tools, but ive mostly been using texview

full quarry Jun 16, 2020, 3:50 PM

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"I just wanna" is the worst excuse ever.

native mesa Jun 16, 2020, 7:25 PM

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Hey guys, as a new person to the editing scene, is there any way to just jump in and start?

full quarry Jun 16, 2020, 7:28 PM

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no

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Im fairly certain you need to use graphics editors or texture creation programs instead of jumping.

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but if you describe what you want to do then possibly we can put you on right track

native mesa Jun 16, 2020, 8:17 PM

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I want to re texture some models for private photography

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Specifically the VSM acu model

full quarry Jun 16, 2020, 8:40 PM

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VSM stuff is no longer in circulation if I recall right

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so cant be done

native mesa Jun 16, 2020, 9:34 PM

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Ok what if I want to retexture something else?

ionic ember Jun 16, 2020, 10:11 PM

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@native mesa I've been on the same journey and I just recently managed to piece together the ability to retexture models and how to make custom models and configuration files and stuff, I'm no expert but I managed to figure it out from scratch

native mesa Jun 16, 2020, 10:12 PM

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@ionic ember thats excellent? Any tips on how to start?

ionic ember Jun 16, 2020, 10:14 PM

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Im about to hop on my computer and ill send you links to two of the tutorials that helped me out the most, but they left out a lot of details and I had to do a LOT of research before reaching the point where I could successfully load a model into the game after watching them, but as I've done most of the beginning level research you can use me as a resource for your beginner level questions as well

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they are both from 2014, and thats been the hardest part is that most tutorials after 2014 are more advanced stuff, and a lot if the software has changed since then

native mesa Jun 16, 2020, 10:15 PM

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Well I’m excited to try it out

green mantle Jun 18, 2020, 9:28 AM

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Which PBO (and where) is the texture for the Offroad (Covered)/Offroad (Comms)?

lethal condor Jun 18, 2020, 9:41 AM

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They're still EBO'd. You can use templates on Arma 3 Samples

green mantle Jun 18, 2020, 9:56 AM

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Okay

lethal condor Jun 18, 2020, 9:59 AM

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I mean keep it public @green mantle

green mantle Jun 18, 2020, 10:00 AM

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I mainly DMd you because of the picture

lethal condor Jun 18, 2020, 10:00 AM

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There's no point to do it. Just post URL

serene agate Jun 18, 2020, 3:14 PM

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Hi, I'm not a texture maker but I'm here with a requests, is there anyone who'd be willing to help make a few textures / reskins ?

versed nacelle Jun 18, 2020, 3:17 PM

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@serene agate use #creators_recruiting for finding people to do work for you, and make sure you add as much information as possible (type of work, amount of work, timeframe, payments, etc)

serene agate Jun 18, 2020, 3:17 PM

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ok.

solemn mural Jun 18, 2020, 3:58 PM

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this setObjectTextureGlobal [0, "coral_texture.paa"];

its possible to make this work on a vest ,for test purpose?

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its work on the uniforms

versed nacelle Jun 18, 2020, 4:04 PM

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vests don't work, since you won't be able to get the vest object

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You could try

vestContainer player setObjectTextureGlobal [0, "coral_texture.paa"];

although I doubt it will work.

PS. this is more a #arma3_scripting question

pale bough Jun 18, 2020, 4:06 PM

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vests can't be setObjectTexture'd

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only uniforms and backpacks

solemn mural Jun 18, 2020, 4:06 PM

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ohhh ok

pale bough Jun 18, 2020, 4:06 PM

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you'll have to make a little mod if you want to test and use vest reskins

solemn mural Jun 18, 2020, 4:07 PM

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ya i was afraid so

serene agate Jun 18, 2020, 6:14 PM

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Do I have to use adobe photoshop to do textures for arma 3 or are there free alternatives for software?

frozen blade Jun 18, 2020, 6:35 PM

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there are other free or cheaper alternatives

warm nexus Jun 18, 2020, 6:35 PM

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GIMP is free and decent, little janky at first but you get used to it

frozen blade Jun 18, 2020, 6:35 PM

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by cheaper i mean perpetual license

serene agate Jun 18, 2020, 6:42 PM

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So a follow up, I'am complete noob, never done this before, can't seem to find a tutorial I understand, when I've made the texture, say for a uniform item, how do I make it appear in virtual arsenal as an actual uniform?

warm nexus Jun 18, 2020, 6:44 PM

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This should help you out with getting started with it. Just follow the guide and you should be good. A guide to texture, start to finish. https://forums.bohemia.net/forums/topic/151777-tutorial-simple-re-texturing-guide-from-start-to-finish/

serene agate Jun 18, 2020, 7:25 PM

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I somehow managed to make it not work?

I'm just trying to get the \A3\Characters_F_Exp\Syndikat\Data\U_I_C_Soldier_Para_1_F_2_co.paa texture as an actual uniform item. might just be too dum to figure it out :/

full quarry Jun 18, 2020, 7:27 PM

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Wut that sentence makes no sense. Textures are not items

serene agate Jun 18, 2020, 7:28 PM

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U_I_C_Soldier_Para_1_F_2_co.paa
Is a hidden texture that was never made an in-game item, I've managed to actually get it onto AI in singleplayer scenarios in 3den using setObjectTextureGlobal in the init

full quarry Jun 18, 2020, 7:29 PM

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So you will need to make an addon that creates new item that uses that texture. Or use the scripted method.

serene agate Jun 18, 2020, 7:30 PM

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I'm trying to create a new uniform item using the texture but I can't seem to get it to work...

full quarry Jun 18, 2020, 7:31 PM

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So an addon with config?

serene agate Jun 18, 2020, 7:34 PM

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. . . yes?

I dunno know, normally use Orbat to make faction mods, I have 0% clues on how to do any actual modding / addon building

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reason I trying to create is for a Tanoan military faction.

full quarry Jun 18, 2020, 7:44 PM

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The guide posted above should have the necessary steps.

warm nexus Jun 18, 2020, 8:03 PM

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All you really need to do is write up a config which is pathed to the texture you want to use, pack that into a pbo, sign it, then add into whatever you're doing it's that simple

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Because the texture already exists in the game files going from what you're saying it should be a piece of cake

serene agate Jun 18, 2020, 8:18 PM

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/// Uniform config ///

class cfgWeapons
{
class UniformItem;
class Uniform_Base;

class U_B_soldier_new: Uniform_Base
{
author = "BFO Team";
scope = 2;
displayName = "Tanoan Combat Fatigues";
picture = "\A3\characters_f\data\ui\icon_u_b_soldier_new_ca.paa";
model = "\uniform\uni.p3d";
hiddenSelections[] = {"camo"};
hiddenSelectionsTextures[] = {"\A3\Characters_F_Exp\Syndikat\Data\U_I_C_Soldier_Para_1_F_2_co.paa};
   class ItemInfo: UniformItem
   {
       uniformModel = "-";
       uniformClass = B_soldier_new;
       containerClass = Supply40;
       mass = 40;
   };
};
};

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packet it, signed it, made it as both local, and workshop item, still can't see it in the virtual arsenal

warm nexus Jun 18, 2020, 8:20 PM

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Is the model pathed properly?

tidal fog Jun 18, 2020, 8:21 PM

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This would be a problem... cpp hiddenSelectionsTextures[] = {"\A3\Characters_F_Exp\Syndikat\Data\U_I_C_Soldier_Para_1_F_2_co.paa};

serene agate Jun 18, 2020, 8:25 PM

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I just used a template from a post a buddy linked me 🤷‍♂️

tidal fog Jun 18, 2020, 8:26 PM

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Well, you are missing a "

warm nexus Jun 18, 2020, 8:26 PM

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Right after .paa but before};

serene agate Jun 18, 2020, 8:26 PM

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Ah ok

tidal fog Jun 18, 2020, 8:27 PM

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Highly recommend some form of syntax highlighting when editing code or configs

serene agate Jun 18, 2020, 8:29 PM

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>        hiddenSelectionsTextures[] = {"\A3\Characters_F_Exp\Syndikat\Data\U_I_C_Soldier_Para_1_F_2_co.paa"};```

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so like that?

tidal fog Jun 18, 2020, 8:30 PM

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Yeah, without the ">" at the beginning

serene agate Jun 18, 2020, 8:35 PM

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#screenshots_arma

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/// Uniform config ///

class cfgWeapons
{
class UniformItem;
class Uniform_Base;

class U_B_soldier_new: Uniform_Base
{
    author = "BFO Team";
    scope = 2;
    displayName = "Tanoan Combat Fatigues";
    picture = "\A3\characters_f\data\ui\icon_u_b_soldier_new_ca.paa";
    model = "\uniform\uni.p3d";
    hiddenSelections[] = {"camo"};
    hiddenSelectionsTextures[] = {"\A3\Characters_F_Exp\Syndikat\Data\U_I_C_Soldier_Para_1_F_2_co.paa"};

///This is line 17 btw... which is blank in the actual config file///
class ItemInfo = UniformItem
{"
uniformModel = "-";
uniformClass = B_soldier_new;
containerClass = Supply40;
mass = 40;
};
};
};

old lodge Jun 18, 2020, 8:47 PM

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class ItemInfo = UniformItem

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you typed it wrong @serene agate

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there's has to be a space between ItemInfo and =

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I'm not an expert myself, but if that's the only issue, it should work

serene agate Jun 18, 2020, 8:48 PM

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ok, so it's correct to how I updated it in #screenshots_arma ?

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well no error launching this time

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still no uniform in Virtual Arsenal?

tidal fog Jun 18, 2020, 8:52 PM

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It's supposed to be a : not an equal sign.... 'tis a class definition not an assignment

serene agate Jun 18, 2020, 8:53 PM

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so It's suppoesed to be:

class ItemInfo : UniformItem

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?

warm nexus Jun 18, 2020, 8:54 PM

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ItemInfo: UniformItem

serene agate Jun 18, 2020, 8:54 PM

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that's what I had it as, and the error posted in #screenshots_arma happended?

tidal fog Jun 18, 2020, 8:54 PM

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class ItemInfo: UniformItem

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Anyway, got stuff to do

serene agate Jun 18, 2020, 8:58 PM

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by any chance, could someone "fix" the config and I'll try it?

old lodge Jun 18, 2020, 9:06 PM

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@serene agate use the one i just posted in #arma3_config

pale bough Jun 19, 2020, 4:09 AM

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are you using the _co suffix?

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is it a really dark texture?

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the compression doesn't handle pure black or colours close to it very well

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oh

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what's the resolution of the file?

full quarry Jun 19, 2020, 4:16 AM

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arma textures all need to be in power of 2 sizes

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weird that you even get those converted to .paa

pale bough Jun 19, 2020, 4:16 AM

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they have to be 2^x

full quarry Jun 19, 2020, 4:17 AM

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must be only ImgToPaa that has those checks then

pale bough Jun 19, 2020, 4:18 AM

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doesn't matter if width and height don't match, just make them 2^x

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so 256, 512, 1024, 2048

full quarry Jun 19, 2020, 4:18 AM

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1024x1024, 2048x512

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etc

pale bough Jun 19, 2020, 4:19 AM

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can also go down to 64, 32, and 16

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because of how graphics are simply handled

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if the resolutions are incorrect, shenanigans occur

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and that's not an arma bug mind you

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that's just how the graphics do

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tbh I'm surprised Arma even runs with a dodgy texture like that

spark shore Jun 19, 2020, 1:41 PM

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anyone has a substance painter export preset for specular glossiness?

severe rune Jun 19, 2020, 1:46 PM

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📎 Substance_Painter_2020-06-19_15-46-49.png

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I also have a second one that uses the "Converted Maps" glossiness 🤔

spark shore Jun 19, 2020, 1:47 PM

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I shouldn't be worried if the colors are different right?

severe rune Jun 19, 2020, 1:47 PM

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right

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it just chooses at random.. or by order you select them or smth

spark shore Jun 19, 2020, 1:48 PM

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thats stupid
anyway thanks a lot

silent mortar Jun 19, 2020, 4:31 PM

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@severe rune youre working from specgloss PBR?

severe rune Jun 19, 2020, 4:33 PM

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I think so

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has been a while

silent mortar Jun 19, 2020, 4:34 PM

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ah okay

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yeah I switched to metalness

severe rune Jun 19, 2020, 4:35 PM

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Since I have my PBR metal rough Arma shader.... I'd use that too if I wanted

silent mortar Jun 19, 2020, 4:53 PM

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can you share that one?

severe rune Jun 19, 2020, 5:02 PM

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https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1720529762 🙃

Steam Workshop::Arma PBR Shader

silver nacelle Jun 19, 2020, 5:17 PM

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Seem to be having a problem with my custom Muzzle Flashes. The Muzzle Flash works but it seems to turn my gun transparent. I've tried making it a proxy but then the muzzle flash doesn't show up.

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Any suggestions?

silent mortar Jun 19, 2020, 9:28 PM

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@severe rune ah sorry thought you meant the export settings

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that is pretty slick though idk why i havent noticed it before

severe rune Jun 19, 2020, 9:28 PM

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Ah, I have the export ones for my shader too 😄

silent mortar Jun 19, 2020, 9:28 PM

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mind sharing that setup

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also has anyone made a video on this shader?

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curious about performance and what not and if it would be worth requiring it to be used

severe rune Jun 19, 2020, 9:32 PM

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didn't see a video

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didn't notice any bad perf, but some shadow/light occlusion/reflection stuff is still not perfect

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well example model is in the download. substance export preset added to workshop screenshots

silent mortar Jun 19, 2020, 9:51 PM

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appreciate it

spark shore Jun 20, 2020, 1:59 AM

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got a weird question
can I force an hiddenselection to show only a smaller area than the texture its been used on?

full quarry Jun 20, 2020, 2:00 AM

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sure

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just pic a smaller selection of mesh to apply it to

spark shore Jun 20, 2020, 2:01 AM

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wouldn't that resize the selection to that new square?

full quarry Jun 20, 2020, 2:01 AM

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a texture can cover part A, B and C of a model but only part A can be assigned as hiddenselection part

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perhaps I did not understand the question?

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best to explain what you are trying to do

spark shore Jun 20, 2020, 2:03 AM

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yeah
basically I have a vertex group that I want entirely hidden selection
but its not exactly a rectangle because its not a flat surface

full quarry Jun 20, 2020, 2:03 AM

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well the mesh shape does not matter

spark shore Jun 20, 2020, 2:04 AM

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indeed

full quarry Jun 20, 2020, 2:04 AM

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the uvmapping of it is what pics the are of texture it uses

spark shore Jun 20, 2020, 2:04 AM

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but the UVmap is like an oval

full quarry Jun 20, 2020, 2:04 AM

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yes so the new texture you assign to it needs to match that

spark shore Jun 20, 2020, 2:05 AM

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can we use DM?

full quarry Jun 20, 2020, 2:05 AM

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Im just about to go to sleep so not at the moment

spark shore Jun 20, 2020, 2:06 AM

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oh alright no prob
but basically my though was that in this case whoever doesn't have the UVmap will have an hard time retexturing

full quarry Jun 20, 2020, 2:06 AM

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that is how it is

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that cant really be helped

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retexturing is a backwards into the tree climbing type process

spark shore Jun 20, 2020, 2:07 AM

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I guess so

full quarry Jun 20, 2020, 2:07 AM

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if you want to you can unwrap the part differently too I suppose

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it should look pretty much the same but the texture itself might look more distorted

spark shore Jun 20, 2020, 2:08 AM

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its like a cube so not sure how I'd be able to turn it into a rectangle

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a cube missing a face

full quarry Jun 20, 2020, 2:09 AM

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you can also always provide picture of the UV map as a image that can be overlaid on a retexture image

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why does it need to be rectangle?

spark shore Jun 20, 2020, 2:09 AM

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yeah the thing is its for the Art of War thing
and I like to be sure it'll make it into an entry before posting pics

full quarry Jun 20, 2020, 2:09 AM

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if you want it to open flat you need to add more uv seams

spark shore Jun 20, 2020, 2:10 AM

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thats why I wanted to use Dms

full quarry Jun 20, 2020, 2:11 AM

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📎 unknown.png

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nicer cleaner unwrap

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📎 unknown.png

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or as individual faces

spark shore Jun 20, 2020, 2:13 AM

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yeah I did exactly that but can't really make it into a rectangle

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since its not for camo but for a specific image

full quarry Jun 20, 2020, 2:15 AM

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I must say I dont quite understand what it is you are doing. The pics would probably clear it up

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we might revisit this tomorrow

spark shore Jun 20, 2020, 2:15 AM

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guess I can post an UV
not really that much

full quarry Jun 20, 2020, 2:15 AM

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right now its 🐐 💤

spark shore Jun 20, 2020, 2:16 AM

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https://imgur.com/a/cwsvWNb
yeah no problem

full quarry Jun 20, 2020, 2:16 AM

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I suppose you could add more seams

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or try textools uv tools out

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theres some nice stuff there

spark shore Jun 20, 2020, 2:18 AM

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yeah but I don't think I can modify it in any way to turn it into a rectangle
thats why my initial question
since my pictures wouldn't need very defined borders I could just place a rectangle over the entire UV hiding its borders

full quarry Jun 20, 2020, 2:19 AM

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so you have some sort of picture

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like a photo

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you want to project onto the model

spark shore Jun 20, 2020, 2:19 AM

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basically

full quarry Jun 20, 2020, 2:19 AM

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ah

spark shore Jun 20, 2020, 2:19 AM

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like a kitchen cover

full quarry Jun 20, 2020, 2:20 AM

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that is a more tricky business then

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Id myself make teh unwrapping and textureing on a flat subdivided plane

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and then turn that into the shape

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so the picture follows the shaping of the "cloth"

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there could be other ways to do it too but cant think of any

spark shore Jun 20, 2020, 2:23 AM

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but this way the edges will be stretched
basically as I said its like a kitchen table cover
https://imgur.com/a/cwsvWNb

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guess I'll try some stuff
worse case scenario I'll just make it in SP and rip to whoever tries to retexture it

full quarry Jun 20, 2020, 2:31 AM

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this is done with cloth physics

spark shore Jun 20, 2020, 2:34 AM

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oh yeah I've tried that
but the polycount was too high so I had to retopologize

full quarry Jun 20, 2020, 2:34 AM

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📎 unknown.png

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well this here for example is 2000 tris about

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sorry 4000

spark shore Jun 20, 2020, 2:35 AM

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I guess I can try just making a low poly cloth simulation

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mine is half of that

full quarry Jun 20, 2020, 2:36 AM

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should be fine then?

spark shore Jun 20, 2020, 2:37 AM

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kinda busted my balls on that peak performance retopology but if it'll fix this problem I'm willing to start over again for the 3rd time

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thanks for the tips

full quarry Jun 20, 2020, 2:38 AM

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📎 unknown.png

spark shore Jun 20, 2020, 2:38 AM

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thats cool

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guess it flattens easly

full quarry Jun 20, 2020, 2:38 AM

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📎 unknown.png

spark shore Jun 20, 2020, 2:38 AM

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yeah thats it

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now go to sleep
I want my VBIED robot dogs ready

silent mortar Jun 20, 2020, 3:15 AM

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@spark shore if you are trying to UV that tablecloth I would 100% just UV it normally like a square

full quarry Jun 20, 2020, 3:18 AM

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https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/605797044065533972/723738078287495260/unknown.png

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better 😄

spark shore Jun 20, 2020, 12:49 PM

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@silent mortar you mean the one in my imgur link?

trim horizon Jun 20, 2020, 11:13 PM

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hey anyone got any tips for using substance painter to create textures for arma?

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I find it a little hard to get the results from the viewport actually close to whats ingame

trim horizon Jun 20, 2020, 11:51 PM

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my current ingame results vs my SP viewport on a test model https://i.imgur.com/TKy2TTG.jpg VS https://i.imgur.com/LOqzN3o.png

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https://i.imgur.com/MBqH1OP.png

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the export preset

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if anyone has any pointers i'd greatly appreciate

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inspecting my SMDI map the darker areas are what I'd expect to be less shiny

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https://i.imgur.com/nfrWztF.png

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and thats what it seems to say on the forums

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https://i.imgur.com/fbE1HE3.png

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but when in game the cloth seems shinier

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and I just cant puzzle it out

strong stone Jun 20, 2020, 11:59 PM

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These are the export settings I use with PBR metal roughness:
https://i.imgur.com/n0Y5Rfk.png
I also multiply the SMDI by the AS after export. The color on metal parts with these export settings needs to be adjusted down in darkness, they show up brighter in-game.

trim horizon Jun 21, 2020, 12:03 AM

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thanks for sharing your settings, if I may ask a question or two more. What do you mean by multiply the SMDI by AS and how much more would you darken down the metal?

frozen blade Jun 21, 2020, 1:33 AM

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why would you do that?

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@trim horizon don't do that

silver gull Jun 21, 2020, 2:12 AM

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trying to get very shiny material with very non shiny material in one texture is futile

trim horizon Jun 21, 2020, 9:33 AM

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why would you do that?
@frozen blade
Why? Well mostly just because its the way i'm used to working with PBR materials for unity and unreal engine or even just blender cycles. If I want some clips made of metal on my bag for example im going to need to be able to make them shiny compared to the cloth.
I assumed it was possible in arma 3 due to assets like the avenger helmet having this difference between metal and rough. https://i.imgur.com/GEGYCNm.png
Would it be fair to assume the avenger helmet is using 2 materials in such case?
Anyway I don't think its a totally unreasonable thing to want to do but if its not possible its not possible and ill find a workaround

silver gull Jun 21, 2020, 2:47 PM

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theres a difference between light sheen and pristine polished metal

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normalizing (/autoleveling) SMDI and adjusting via rvmat is advisable

frozen blade Jun 21, 2020, 10:18 PM

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@trim horizon still, overlaying ao on smdi is the stupidest thing o heard

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you can obviously use 2 materials

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or use a single one and force it a bit

silver gull Jun 21, 2020, 11:00 PM

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ao on specular is simple method for "crevice dirt"

frozen blade Jun 22, 2020, 6:21 AM

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if you do that in SP, there are way way way better ways to do just that

zenith sorrel Jun 22, 2020, 8:07 AM

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Anyone here making medievil kinda civvie clothes?

full quarry Jun 22, 2020, 8:47 AM

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Have not seen anyone making such no.

zenith sorrel Jun 22, 2020, 9:11 AM

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Sadness..maybe ill try and get into 3d modelling when im free ina few weeks lol

full quarry Jun 22, 2020, 9:12 AM

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👌

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It's a nice hobby

trim horizon Jun 22, 2020, 9:25 AM

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highly encourage it, medieval clothing wouldn't be a bad place to start either

full quarry Jun 22, 2020, 9:34 AM

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Well it kinda is if you're starting from 0. xD

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There's a bit of learning of basics to do before jumping into character making

trim horizon Jun 22, 2020, 9:39 AM

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ok true but like you need that first project to aim for right

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so you know what parts of 3d to learn

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and have a bit of direction

zenith sorrel Jun 22, 2020, 9:49 AM

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Im in like so many hobbies rn tryna divide my time is a nightmare and i dont even work full time xD. But anyways i concur, thats true medievil is simple ish clothing wise (we arnt talking armour to any onlookers here) but thanks guys! Its blender

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Id have to use right?

full quarry Jun 22, 2020, 9:54 AM

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Blender is good and free option yeah.

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There are of course other 3d modeling programs if you want shelve off some money

zenith sorrel Jun 22, 2020, 10:02 AM

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Aha nah ill take blender..my money is required elsewhereee. Are the paid ones better?

versed nacelle Jun 22, 2020, 10:04 AM

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IMHO is Blender more than enough, and even used by AAA studios (depending on how it's used afterwards)

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But is does depend on what you want to do with it, which for Arma is pretty basic and therefor will do the job just fine

zenith sorrel Jun 22, 2020, 10:05 AM

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Ohh fair enough

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Thanks mate these details help !

full quarry Jun 22, 2020, 10:14 AM

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Yeah nothing wrong or worse in Blender

zenith sorrel Jun 22, 2020, 10:14 AM

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Sweet..i shall commence operation soon lol

trim horizon Jun 22, 2020, 10:34 AM

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yeah like, generally speaking blender + texturing program of choice

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is enough to make most things

keen jasper Jun 22, 2020, 10:49 AM

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Just to confirm something if i get a uniform or headgear from the arma 3 samples i retexture it make a couple of different ones i am allowed to make a mod out of it and publish it on the steam workshop ?

frozen blade Jun 22, 2020, 10:59 AM

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yes

zenith sorrel Jun 22, 2020, 11:10 AM

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@trim horizon fair enough 😅

keen jasper Jun 22, 2020, 2:55 PM

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So i have a uniform ready config is ready it works ingame but i see on a tutorial things like Uniform_basic.paa Uniform_NOHQ.paa and Uniform.rvmat i think rv mat has something to do with shadow and stuf ? but what is NOHQ

trim horizon Jun 22, 2020, 2:56 PM

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NOHQ is the normal map

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for adding "height" details

keen jasper Jun 22, 2020, 2:57 PM

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is that needed for a uniform

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and how do i make it in arma 3 tools or elitnes

full quarry Jun 22, 2020, 3:16 PM

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Did you make the uniform?

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Do you have any knowledge on how textures are made?

distant rose Jun 22, 2020, 3:28 PM

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but what is NOHQ
"arma 3 what is nohq" + google = https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Texture_Map_Types
literally the second link 🙂

Texture Map Types

keen jasper Jun 22, 2020, 4:11 PM

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Not that much knowledge no
I retextured an arma sample uniform and made the configs for it

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Oh cheers will google next time Uro

spark shore Jun 23, 2020, 9:58 PM

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anyone knows what rvmat parameter adjusts a model brightness?

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probably the diffuse?

frozen blade Jun 24, 2020, 8:32 AM

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nothing to do with rvmat, but most likely with the diffuse texture

spark shore Jun 24, 2020, 3:06 PM

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so I just tone down the texture brightness?

full quarry Jun 24, 2020, 6:22 PM

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for retexturing you dont need anything else but textures

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using someone elses p3d files in your own mode is a nono

dusty oar Jun 24, 2020, 9:47 PM

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Its a licensed set on the server im going to play on. And the Squad needs to reskin the clothes itselves, the admin will only implement individual mods as its ready to use.

rough owl Jun 24, 2020, 11:12 PM

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Is it hard to add just a patch to a uniform?

versed nacelle Jun 24, 2020, 11:13 PM

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if you own the model it's (relatively) easy, otherwise you'll need to ask the dev to add it

grand warren Jun 24, 2020, 11:23 PM

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or use insignias

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(if the uniform supports it)
https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Arma_3_Unit_Insignia

Arma 3 Unit Insignia

solemn mural Jun 25, 2020, 8:02 AM

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where i can find basic config for uniform texturing?

lethal condor Jun 25, 2020, 8:08 AM

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Depends on the thing you wanted to do

solemn mural Jun 25, 2020, 8:11 AM

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complete set of uniform vest and helmet , i have 0 skills in coding
any chance that there such an thing that i just changes lines where needed and i providing the texture?

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like ready made mod that only need to pack?

lethal condor Jun 25, 2020, 8:12 AM

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You want to make a retexture or brand new something?

solemn mural Jun 25, 2020, 8:13 AM

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retexture

lethal condor Jun 25, 2020, 8:13 AM

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Then there's bunch of examples and guides

solemn mural Jun 25, 2020, 8:14 AM

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i know
i tried to follow them but always got headache on the code parts

lethal condor Jun 25, 2020, 8:14 AM

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You can't hide and run from them

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Trust me it's really easy if you get what part does what

solemn mural Jun 25, 2020, 8:16 AM

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any video/site with good explanations?

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maybe i watched "copy paste" videos

lethal condor Jun 25, 2020, 8:22 AM

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https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Arma_3_Characters_And_Gear_Encoding_Guide
Could be a good ref, some of em are useless when you only do a retex though. If you have stucked somewhere, dudes in #arma3_config will help you

Arma 3 Characters And Gear Encoding Guide

solemn mural Jun 25, 2020, 8:23 AM

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thanks

dense peak Jun 25, 2020, 3:37 PM

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hey i want to create a basic rvmat file where is just a texture included as color but i dont know how becuase i am really new with this

severe rune Jun 25, 2020, 3:38 PM

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If you want just a simple plain color you don't need a rvmat

dense peak Jun 25, 2020, 3:39 PM

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i need it for my server because i can only use rvmat file

severe rune Jun 25, 2020, 3:39 PM

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Explain?
Rvmat doesn't set the base texture, just some stuff on top

dense peak Jun 25, 2020, 3:51 PM

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I need it for altis life i want to use this way because if i use normal textures i have some bug on my tuning shops

full quarry Jun 25, 2020, 3:56 PM

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🙈

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that life stuff is just always completely broken

lethal condor Jun 25, 2020, 3:57 PM

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~~Just like real life is?~~

dense peak Jun 25, 2020, 4:15 PM

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Can you tell me how i can do this

full quarry Jun 25, 2020, 4:16 PM

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what you think you want to do makes no sense

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so your models are probably made totally wrong

dense peak Jun 25, 2020, 4:57 PM

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You can come on my server and figure it out

full quarry Jun 25, 2020, 5:06 PM

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No thank you.

frozen blade Jun 25, 2020, 5:27 PM

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laughts hard

grand warren Jun 25, 2020, 5:30 PM

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i must admit, i had to giggle at that one 😄

dense peak Jun 27, 2020, 10:04 AM

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Anyone know an easy way to test your custom textures without having to replace vanilla textures or write your own cpp?

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I'd like to see the 3d model in game to test if certain aspects need editing quickly and efficiently

severe rune Jun 27, 2020, 10:06 AM

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

dense peak Jun 27, 2020, 10:11 AM

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tyty

arctic cypress Jun 27, 2020, 3:00 PM

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Im trying to retexture an already existing model using hiddenSelections to make a part of the texture transparent - is that possible?
Simply making the path to the texture empty removes to much, but when I try to apply the modified texture - the transparent stuff is black instead

full quarry Jun 27, 2020, 5:31 PM

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No

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Not possible.

forest pond Jun 27, 2020, 6:32 PM

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Hope someone can point me in a general direction:

I've recently learned how to quickly uv map a cube, and import it into the game as basically a CA_Magazine.

I'm using Blender, Paint.net, and the Arma tools kit

When I spawn the item in my inventory, and put it on the ground, the uv map seems to have applied, but the object is transparent. I can just barely see that the texture is there somehow.

Is it a blender setting I need to mess with? or do I need to make a different type of lod? not really sure where to start with this.

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https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/655460080606511136/726266368059506829/unknown.png

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https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/655460080606511136/726266594732277810/unknown.png

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If you look closely, there is a 5 on the top
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/655460080606511136/726267444037156995/unknown.png

forest pond Jun 27, 2020, 7:01 PM

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Update: Looks like I need to make friends with .rvmat , thanks guys

full quarry Jun 27, 2020, 8:43 PM

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also if your thing is transparent when it should not be, you are using wrong kind of a texture.

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

Texture Map Types

spark shore Jun 27, 2020, 10:38 PM

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anyone knows a mass paa to png/tga converter

full quarry Jun 27, 2020, 10:44 PM

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there isnt any

severe rune Jun 27, 2020, 10:45 PM

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batch script :3

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sorry,
powershell script :3*

full quarry Jun 27, 2020, 10:45 PM

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but I recall there was a bat for that described on Biforums or somesuch

spark shore Jun 27, 2020, 11:03 PM

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anyone has a link?

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this didn't seem to work
https://forums.bohemia.net/forums/topic/227462-converting-pac-or-paa-to-png/

frigid escarp Jun 28, 2020, 2:41 AM

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pal2pace should do if you specify the extensions

spark shore Jun 28, 2020, 2:44 AM

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not sure Ive used the script above and it didnt work
even tried making a new path but nothing changed

white cargo Jun 28, 2020, 10:44 PM

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📎 artifact.jpg

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anyone know what causes these artifacts? I tried Forcenotalpha = 1 but it didn't help

spark shore Jun 28, 2020, 10:46 PM

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something odd in the nohq?

white cargo Jun 28, 2020, 10:47 PM

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that's what I thought maybe at first, but I made the nohq perfectly smooth and no change

spark shore Jun 28, 2020, 10:47 PM

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shadows maybe?

white cargo Jun 28, 2020, 10:48 PM

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I think it was still present without the shadowvolume

full quarry Jun 28, 2020, 10:58 PM

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same thing as you see on your model I believe @spark shore

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@white cargo what shader you got on the glass surface rvmat?

spark shore Jun 28, 2020, 10:59 PM

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not sure

white cargo Jun 28, 2020, 11:00 PM

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supershader

distant rose Jun 28, 2020, 11:02 PM

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do you have NoZWrite in the renderflags of the rvmat?

white cargo Jun 28, 2020, 11:02 PM

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yes

spark shore Jun 28, 2020, 11:02 PM

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what does that do?

frozen blade Jun 28, 2020, 11:03 PM

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https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/ArmA:_RVMAT#Render_flags

ArmA: RVMAT

white cargo Jun 28, 2020, 11:04 PM

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https://pastebin.com/82SHWaP8

Pastebin

/* class StageTI { texture="opx\opx_trop\data\trans_ca.paa"; }...

distant rose Jun 28, 2020, 11:09 PM

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you could try throwing on a tex/rvmat set from structures_f/data/windows/ to rule it out being model related, if you havent do so already

white cargo Jun 28, 2020, 11:13 PM

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might test that later, trying something else now

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model takes about 10 min to load in buldozer

white cargo Jun 29, 2020, 12:15 AM

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📎 artifact.jpg

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issue still present with vanilla rvmat, though less noticable

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~~issue not present with no rvmat~~

full quarry Jun 29, 2020, 12:19 AM

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is that on the surface or behind it?

white cargo Jun 29, 2020, 12:19 AM

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let me correct that, issue IS there with no rvmat, just barely noticable

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no

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📎 unknown.png

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can't be alpha channel either

full quarry Jun 29, 2020, 12:20 AM

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its not these bits?

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if you assign pure transparent texture or procedural color to it, do they still appear

white cargo Jun 29, 2020, 12:23 AM

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lemme try pure transparency

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those parts you encircled are the opaque stuff. I actually think it might be some completely black parts on the alpha I can't see that's causing it, gonna try fiddling with that and see if it makes a difference

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📎 artifact.jpg

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seems like it was the alpha after all, just some parts were entirely dark, but I couldn't spot it because the surrounding areas was also quite dark, but not completely

full quarry Jun 29, 2020, 12:59 AM

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one problem down

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1000 more to go xD

white cargo Jun 29, 2020, 1:13 AM

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only 1000?

spark shore Jun 29, 2020, 6:28 AM

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deleted the message and reposted here, seemed more appropriate
I have a model with 2 components
one is transparent(_ca) and the other is not(_co)
somehow the _ca texture turns the _co transparent aswell
even if they share no rvmat or texture
the _ca texture is moved on top in object builder