arma3_editor

[remote storm]

I'm wondering if its maybe because it's close to my mission start location cause non of the other vehicles mess up

[slow jewel]

yeah i don't know about Mods

[turbid olive]

btw, why do you want vehicles?

it's like cheating in antistasi

[slow jewel]

oh shit lol

[turbid olive]

that's not the point of the game lol

and you can just add to its presets

[remote storm]

doing a solo and I'm just testing things out for an exsisting save to see if it will work

[slow jewel]

did you ever try the vanilla respawn modules ? or should i say the vanilla vehicle respawn modules

[turbid olive]

you can just buy a start vehicle in the start, what is on preset is enough

[remote storm]

that is what I'm using, none of the vehicles are modded they are all part of the CDLC

[slow jewel]

hmm ok i see

i had the same thing happen to me years ago but i can't remember what was happening

can you just place a car or truck down in the mission and see if that works

maybe theres something in that mod that don't let you cheat 🙂

[remote storm]

nah ain't that cause the mod uses respawns plus it's only after the mission starts do the vehicles explode once they do it once they respawn and everything is fine but it does kinda kill the immersion every single time it happens

[slow jewel]

im assuming that theres a vehicle spawning on top of another vehicle

or the exsisting vehicle don't get deleted soon enough befor the new vehicle come in

somthing like that

or it happends so quick you can't see it happen

and did you check the RPT file at all

[remote storm]

That's what I am thinking maybe... purposely edited the respawn to not include explosions

[slow jewel]

yeah do that

[remote storm]

Okay so update, started a new mission save and they didn't explode started a different location so gonna move towards where the vehicles spawn save and relaunch the mission to see if they explode

[slow jewel]

roger

thx me i don't use mods 🙂

[remote storm]

yeah it seems that on mission start up when I'm at the location they explode so it must be a vehicle spawning ontop of the pre existing one

[slow jewel]

roger that

[remote storm]

And no I never checked it where can I find that?

[slow jewel]

C:\Users\your name\AppData\Local\Arma 3

go right to the bottom of the file and start there

i always delete all the RPT files in there and then start my mission over so theres only 1 file in there

[remote storm]

nah not got a RPT in my folder

[slow jewel]

huh you have to

C:\Users\your name\AppData\Local\Arma 3

or where ever your game is located

mine is on C:

[remote storm]

yeah just checked no RPT file(s) in either my Arma User folder or in the Arma game folder

[slow jewel]

you must be looking in the incorrect place m8 cuz there always a RPT file

maybe serch RPT

i couldnt find it at 1st but then i found it later

[remote storm]

yeah just did there aint one... maybe it's cause Antistasi has it's own way to save the missions?

[slow jewel]

well as soon as you start your game a RPT file gets made

or i mean start a mission

[remote storm]

Same result in both folders and I still have the mission up so it might just be cause Antistasi saves the missions differently

[slow jewel]

it has nothing to do with saving a mission

it makes a RPT automaticly

[little bobcat]

Rpt is created by arma, not the Mission or something else.

You will always have at least one.

Done Run the game with "-nologs" Parameter, it creates useless rpts without and benefit in return.

[slow jewel]

ahh maybe he has nologs set

RPT files are not useless

most of it is but at the bottom of the file is where you want to start

i learned lots from the RPT file over the years

most people don't want to look at the RPT file cuz of all the mess of a mission they made 🙂

RPT file tells you lots if you take the time to read it slowly

from the bottom up

been playing Arma games for over 20 years i can tell you i know

i started in OFP

[little bobcat]

No, if you have nologs, you still have a rpt. But it has almost no content

[slow jewel]

oh i see

well i never have nologs set i want the full thing

cuz some times if you get an erra it gos away so fast i cant read what it was so i go to the RPT file

and its in there 🙂

at the bottom of the file

plus i delete all the RPT files befor i start up a mission so theres only 1 file in there for me to read

if need be

befor i knew about the RPT file there was like 50 of them in there 🙂

and if you get a repeteing erra don't open the RPT file just delete it: and fix the erra: cuz it will tale a 1 Hr to open 🙂

iv been though all the stuff lol with Arma 🙂

[remote storm]

right I have eventually find the RPT files

[slow jewel]

cool

like i said you found it later 🙂

[remote storm]

now the issue is wtf am I looking at hahahahahaha

[slow jewel]

go to the bottom of the file

all the way down

[remote storm]

yep

[slow jewel]

read slowly

as you go up

see if it says anything that you can make out to whats happening in your mission

over time you will learn what its saying to you

[remote storm]

bruh my dyslexia is making this harder it all looks like a big block of white lol

[slow jewel]

lol yeah it does but you will learn to understand it

[remote storm]

doesn't help there is 41 thousand lines of text

[slow jewel]

wow thats a lot holy shit

[remote storm]

yeah

[slow jewel]

my RPT file is only like 100 lines

41 1000 really ?

ok so now you know about the RPT so lets get back to fixing the mission

so how are you going to stop the extra vehicle from spawning on top

im thinking the Mod sees a chopper or truck there and say oh that the incorrect thing and spawns a new 1 there

like i said i don't know mods

[remote storm]

I very doubt it’s the mod itself as but I may be because the mod opens up the map and respawns the vehicles back in its respawn locations resulting in a new vehicles explosion… give me a sec to test this

[slow jewel]

ok yes u may be correct

[remote storm]

Just give me a second to become deaf for 5 secs whilst I hear 5 explosions go off lol

[slow jewel]

lol

so are you saying you put vehicles there: on the mission spawn points

[remote storm]

I have it set that the vehicle respawns on its starting location upon being destroyed but the weird thing is it’s only affecting theses 5/6 vehicles it’s isn’t affecting the AA, AT, Artillery, MG’s etc. just these vehicles

[slow jewel]

so do this just put 1 vehicle down some where near you where you spawn with no respawn thing

[remote storm]

I was right it is duplicating the same vehicle upon start of the mission, so I have 3 trucks 1 tank, 1 Kubelwagen and 1 civ car moves the trucks, tank and Kubelwagen but left teh civ car and only teh civ car exploded

[slow jewel]

so whats the fix ?

you mean i was right 🙂

[remote storm]

well yeah I also thought of the same issue the fix well apart from move each vehicle idk what else there is to fix... I'll need to test some thing else to see if storing the vehicle will still allow it to respawn

[slow jewel]

ok so you have it all fixed right

[remote storm]

Basically thought there might be a way to delay the spawning of the vehicles on mission start but I think that’s a little out of the realm of possibility for the moment

[slow jewel]

my god i so happy i don't use mods 🙂

i did use mods back it the day but i got so sick of all the crap

now i love my clean Arma 3

[remote storm]

Tbf most of my mods don’t add anything new most of them are QOL fixes but Antistasi itself even then doesn’t “add” anything it’s mostly the CDLC’s and ARMA DLC’s that do that new but my god you have to go down a proper rabbit hole if you want to change something

[buoyant latch]

hello
my pc seems set the mission folder to
C:\Users(username)\OneDrive\document\Arma 3 - Other Profiles(username)\missions(missionname)
how can I change this?I want to disable the awful garbage(=Onedrive) after change save location,
but I cant find the way,help me plz

[prisma oyster]

Hi, move it to %userProfile%\Documents\Arma 3 - Other Profiles and it should be fine 🙂

[buoyant latch]

Thanks!!!

[mental brook]

Does anyone know how to make NPCs not get out of the vehicle when there are shots around them, but make them get out when a shot is fired at them? I placed anti-air vehicles and when they shoot into the sky, every NPC in vehicle get out

[prisma oyster]

try setUnloadInCombat 🙂

[mental brook]

they are still getting out of the vehicle

I want to make something like they don't leave until a shot hits their vehicle but when anti air shoots in the air they panicking and getting out of the vechicle before arriving to point where they have to go out

[prisma oyster]

set them to careless + a hit event handler then, that's what I would do

[mental brook]

Okay, thanks, it worked. I worked on the script a bit more and it turned out even better.

[mental brook]

one more question, do you know how to make the effect of shots fired into the sky without using aa? or any effects to make battle look and sound better like sounds of shooting from a distance?

[scarlet crystal]

Use the Tracers module

[little crag]

You have from zeus to play sounds but idk if its mod for sound or mod from zeus

[mental brook]

thanks

[snow quiver]

Whose balls do I need to tickle to get this in:```
One way connections. Love the fact that this is in and messed around with the commands a bit, but it doesn't seem like it supports one way connections. With this I mean it should be possible to add 2 connections of the same type between objects be able to tell which connection goes from one to the other. A setting in the connection config would be preferred for this. I imagine you can add 2 connection configs like this already and differentiate like that.

https://forums.bistudio.com/topic/184951-eden-feature-requests/?p=2916389

Pretty much all other things I can think of that I'd like I could mod in, but not being able to make duplicate connections of the same type and being able to differentiate is such a miss. Using A&S linking mechanisms something like that would be really nice. Subfolders and layers (groups in entity list) are already in so that's good for sure.

I guess technically speaking I could kind of make 2 things named "Link1" and "Link2" and then draw 1 the one way and the other the other way.... but meh

Makes it a lot more confusing to use

[mental brook]

I wanted to make an intro for a mission from a YouTube guide, but when I go to the mission files, this is the only thing that shows up. There should also be an init, description, start, and sound folder. Does anyone know how to fix this?

[small patrol]

There should also be an init, description, start, and sound folder
Nope

[mental brook]

So I have to create these folders?

[prisma oyster]

yep

[small patrol]

Also we don't know what is that tutorial

[mental brook]

https://youtu.be/k71ngFBWLWU?si=5QFHfuGsZcS-SM7x

I tried to use this

[mental brook]

ok im dumb

[turbid olive]

1:43 he explains

[mental brook]

thanks for help

[quick forum]

cant seem to find any documentation on ModuleMPTypeSectorControl_F, anyone got any idea what it actually does

[flint thunder]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SdlaInHOgns, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7ssZEX1H_M, and use biwiki, and google. also check the mod Eden Enhanced, i think there was some stuff from R3vo for that as well,, might be mistaken.

the one from OCB definetly uses the sector control module and explains it a bit

the script/code side should be available ingame under functions and stuff

i mean, use the wiki, really; https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Arma_3:_Module:_Sector, easy to google 😉

[quick forum]

2/3 things you sent are on the complete wrong module but thanks for the suggestion

[carmine hawk]

Hello, does anyone here have experience with the SCP Containment breach assets? I'm having multiple problems with the AI and the structures there, they just completely ignore the Walls of a custom built structure using the Hallway pieces and I do not know how to fix this. Does anyone here know?

[fresh oracle]

AI will ignore objects (phase through) if there isn't another possible path around it (that they can find) and likely if it isn't set up right.

[carmine hawk]

Is there any way to fix this? Rn I have the structure builta tiny bit outside the map, just where no trees and grass spawn and I also tried building it above the water. I want to avoid building it on the hilly terrain as it messes up the complete structure. Or would that be the only way to achieve it?

[fresh oracle]

Do you want the AI to not move at all? I doubt you could teach them what a wall is.

[carmine hawk]

I just want them to stick to the inside of the structure 😅 . It would not be fun for the players if suddenly enemies attacked from the walls and completely ignore the corridors. And tbh I don't understand enough of AI pathing to even begin to know how I could theoretically fix this. All I know is that somehow in the VR worls the AI kinda sticks to the corridors, but as soon as I try the same in a real map, it breaks and they run everywhere.

[fresh oracle]

I mean you could try to setTerrainHeight and make it perfectly flat like in VR.

[carmine hawk]

I will try that, thx:). Really new to this stuff, so this helps a lot:)

[carmine hawk]

Thank you. Thank you, it finally works! It really was the terrain that was fucking everything up. I will be completely honest, I wouldn't have found out the issue alone, so thank you very much

[mental brook]

How can i end mission with CAS air strike effect that activates when im in trigger?

[turbid olive]

an easy way is to spawn the moduleCas_F

[lucid plover]

Is there a description.ext parameter I can use to overwrite the text in this box?

[wind raptor]

That might not be possible.
From https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Description.ext#overviewText:

The text that appears at the top of an MP mission is defined in mod mission definition and not through Description.ext
I'm not entirely sure if "the text that appears at the top of an MP mission" refers to IntelOverviewText from the Editor, but I do remember that at least one of these multiplayer overview properties could only be set in the Editor.

[lucid plover]

Yeah I think that may be a missing parameter unfortunately

[west parrot]

what does this error mean? i cant select a class when i start a server because of this

[prisma oyster]

some wrong mod

[scarlet crystal]

Or missing mod

[random lotus]

Hey guys, question: i created a custom composition and saved it. however, i did not save the mission of it. Now that i want to modify the composition through eden editor, how can i put the saved composition at it's original location in the map in eden?

[flint wharf]

Hey folks, sorry for such a noob question. This here script is in a scenario but I'm stuggling to find it to grab it's innards. Anyone know where workshop scenarios save? I found the workshop folder, but it had a .bin file which I do not know how to unpack(?)

[winter stratus]

Hi! I want to make my own story in Arma 3, but I don't know how to make a level screen, does anyone know?

[prisma oyster]

Hi! what do you mean "a level screen"? a way to select missions?

[winter stratus]

level screen

[prisma oyster]

level screen

[winter stratus]

yes

[prisma oyster]

sure - what do you mean "a level screen"? a way to select missions?

[winter stratus]

"a level screen"

like this

[turbid olive]

https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Description.ext ?

[winter stratus]

Thanks guys, I'm new to this so I don't know much.

[flint wharf]

@winter stratus Sorry for the ping, you can also edit those fields by going to 'Attributes->General' in the Editor

They're functionally the same, but this method may be easier

[scarlet crystal]

play it, close it, then go to Documents -> Arma 3 - Other Profiles (or the other profile folder depending on which profile you're using) -> your profile name -> Saved -> Missions

[summer skiff]

What's up folks.
I've got a question about ACE and it's PBO Check tool. I hope it's OK for me to ask about it here.
I'm trying to whitelist some client side mods using the Checker, but i'm unclear as to where i can find the specific names for the mods i'd like to whitelist.
Do i use the same naming structure as on the server, i.e. @ACRE2;, or is there another system i should use?

[scarlet crystal]

https://ace3.acemod.org/wiki/framework/checkpbos-framework

[terse flower]

Quick question will Eden be capable of saving placed Objects directly into the SQF?

[queen vapor]

what do you mean? Eden is a full missione ditor

[amber cosmos]

How do I make sure the player never takes control of a group as its leaders are killed?

In Arma 2 you could make the player rank "Private" and the last member of the group which would work consistently but that no longer seems to be the case. Is it baked into the groups cfg now or something?

[worn iron]

bit of a silly question, but how do I place decals in the editor? are they under the props tab in the editor?

[small patrol]

Decal as in? What kind of, and what do you want to achieve?

[terse flower]

from what i saw few months ago it saved mission objects only to .SQM file

but for MP is better to have .SQF file and spawn objects serverside so people can't just download your mission file and steal it

3D Editor have indeed various usability

[robust nacelle]

._.

No it can't save objects to SQF

Because nobody actually makes missions like that because it causes ridiculous network load every time someone joins the server

[lone zephyr]

anyone getting an issue to where AI will spawn in a sitting /leaning pose ?

[scarlet crystal]

No

Check your mods

[worn iron]

I never replied, but I wanted to put graffiti and bullet holes, and I eventually found the tab they were in

[plain gale]

Probably https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/load3DENScenario

[granite willow]

what have i pressed? i used 3den enhanced mod, and ig missclicked somewhere

it made all the trees dead

[small patrol]

Ctrl+G

[half socket]

is it possible to make the sky cloudy but still has the sunlight like it wasn't covered by cloud?

[granite willow]

can i make it in a game smh? looks pretty apocalyptically, i wanna try doing a scenario, but it shows only in editor

[small patrol]

No

[plain gale]

Sadly no.

[lone zephyr]

Hey yall im working on an ORBAT and I got this red X here anyone know how i can remove it ?

[lone zephyr]

also can someone tell me why the cars are greyed out ?

[turbid olive]

did you get the code somewhere?

[lone zephyr]

wym ? also for the cars i put "B_G_Offroad_01_armed_F"

[prisma oyster]

maybe it's one every two for readability

[lone zephyr]

hold on heres the code for 1st

class 1platoon
{
id = 1;
idType = 0;
type = "Infantry";
size = "Platoon";
side = "Resistance";
commander = "";
text = "Claymore 1";
textShort = "1st Pt";
description = "";
assets[] =
{
{ "B_G_Offroad_01_armed_F", 4}
};
};

[prisma oyster]

try 10 and see

[lone zephyr]

nope still the same

[prisma oyster]

one every two is greyed out?

[lone zephyr]

yes I also have it for the Air wing and its not the same

[prisma oyster]

can you try

assets[] =
{
  "B_G_Offroad_01_armed_F", "B_G_Offroad_01_armed_F",
  "B_G_Offroad_01_armed_F", "B_G_Offroad_01_armed_F",
};
```out of curiousity?

[lone zephyr]

stand by

same

[prisma oyster]

here is the doc btw https://community.bistudio.com/wiki?title=Arma_3:_ORBAT_Viewer
the only difference I see is an empty commander
eventually try to change a value one by one, IDK

(be sure to save and/or load the mission to make the Description.ext changes be considered ofc)

[lone zephyr]

I also have another with out a commander and thats just fine

[lone zephyr]

already using the site

also any idea on the red X ?

[prisma oyster]

noppity nope

but it's an infantry group, so maybe just setting vehicles means "no humans"? IDK

[lone zephyr]

Nope the " type" part is for its icon on the map

ok its just that first one ig I did it for another in the same tree and it worked lol

[prisma oyster]

I decline any responsibility in ORBAT 😄

[lone zephyr]

LMFAO nah buddy your good lol

[lone zephyr]

ok one more question for ORBATs Right now i have one tree set up for my guys now if i want one for up for OPFOR do I have to set up a whole different description.ext or do i just add them in on at the end of my tree ? my tree ends at that circle do i just add the OPFOR one ender that and have the first } at the end ?

thanks in advance !!!

[deft robin]

-# couldn't find a help channel, so ill ask here
I come here seeking help with some very odd issues which have been plaguing my unit's mission files. We are unsure as to what causes it and its seemingly random, when it occurs radars cease to function on vehicles and cannot lock targets. the issue persists whenever the mission is loaded, what's even weirder is that copying any part of the mission with the issue into a new mission causes the issue to occur again.

We are all very confused over here and have been unable to find the cause or solution for months. I tried to find help for this in other places, but could not find anything on the issue. We do run a modlist, when the file is loaded in vanilla the issue goes away entirely, so we know its tied to one of the mods we run, but we have tested every mod and couldn't find which one could be causing it after months of testing.

please ping me if any of the wizards here have an idea of what the cause could be and/or how to fix it

-# here is the modlist and broken mission file

[turbid olive]

Use VSC + SQF extension for your own sanity

[turbid olive]

did you try to remove Sensor Target Info mod?

just guessing

[deft robin]

hmm, we probably did, but ill check again

[turbid olive]

also, try to load your mission with only dependency stuff

you can check de dependency list on editor

[deft robin]

i did with nothing except the map itself, as stated above

[turbid olive]

okay

and the problem continues

[deft robin]

no, the issue goes away when ran with nothing but the map

[turbid olive]

so it's just a matter of narrowing down what mod is causing it, one by one

maybe it's not one alone, but two that aren't compatible with each other

[deft robin]

issue, persists

[deft robin]

yeah, that's what we guessed, but we weren't able to figure out which ones were causing the issue

[turbid olive]

so remove shitty mods and let just the ones most popular, like cba and ace

and keep trying

one by one

[deft robin]

we went through every mod one by one and tested if the issue persisted when removed, but we weren't able to figure out what mod was causing the issue after a couple hours of going through the list

[turbid olive]

🤔

[prisma oyster]

remove all, then add one by one
or remove half, if it does not work remove half of the remaining ones, etc

[deft robin]

hadnt considered doing it that way, ill try that next (though it may take me a while)

[prisma oyster]

oh it most likely will take a while yes

[lone zephyr]

not a crazy scripter please explain ?

dm if needed

[turbid olive]

just a recommendation https://code.visualstudio.com/download

[lone zephyr]

OMG THE COLOR CODING

Bless you thank you !

[tacit storm]

HELLO, I HAVE PURCHASED ARMA 3 A LONG TIME AGO AND I AM STILL LEARNING EVERYTHING. WOULD ANYONE LIKE TO EXPLAIN THE BASICS TO ME?

[prisma oyster]

yes
first thing: don't shout.

second, head towards #arma3_questions for questions, or #looking_for_game to state that you are looking for someone to train you in-game

[slow jewel]

why can't everyone pic be as good as your's and mine @prisma oyster

i guess we are just good looking 🙂

[prisma oyster]

not Arma-related

[slow jewel]

oh shit sorry 🙂

[turbid olive]

I mean, Is he Dr. House?

[turbid olive]

Play the campaign, particularly the prologue

[sly sleet]

is anyone familiar with the black screen you can get while respawning in scenarios? basically when i respawn the black screen just stays

[turbid olive]

are you using any kind of script for it?

[meager steppe]

hey y'all. I have been scripting a mission loosely based off the Kabul airlift, and I was using the C-5 mod. plus a c-17 from the USAF mod. I think the scripting for loading the vehicles in the c-5 is fine, as it uses vanilla mechanics and are just tanks + humvees, but I was not sure how I can script the c-17 to load cargo and missiles (which are on a cart as a vehicle in the USAF mod) since it has a custom action for that. anyone know anything about that?

[turbid olive]

https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/addAction
https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/setVehicleCargo

[meager steppe]

the USAF mod has a custom action, so would setvehicle cargo even work with that?

[turbid olive]

wdym?

I'm not sure what you want to do

[meager steppe]

the USAF mod has a c-17 globemaster. I want the game to automatically load the cargo into the plane, then takeoff after another trigger. I have the other trigger worked out, but the c-17 has a custom loaidng action, not the base loading. It doesnt appear to have ace cargo, or VIV transport. I just want to put crates and otehr cargo in it

[turbid olive]

ah got it, yeah, you will need to find relative position for those kind of script

I'm working on something like this, for one of my missions

I had to set up some kind of transport configs that has relative positions

[meager steppe]

thanks man, appreciated

[turbid olive]

do you know liberation gamemode?

they have a whole file of things like this, I'm sure they have a configuration for C-17

[meager steppe]

no actually

I will check it out

[turbid olive]

case you need it...

["USAF_C17",-10,[-1.2,14.4,-0.43],[-1.2,12.8,-0.43],[-1.2,11.1,-0.43],[-1.2,9.5,-0.43],[-1.2,7.9,-0.43],[-1.2,6.3,-0.43],[-1.2,4.6,-0.43],[-1.2,3,-0.43],[-1.2,1.4,-0.43],[-1.2,-0.1,-0.43],[-1.2,-1.8,-0.43],[1.2,14.4,-0.43],[1.2,12.8,-0.43],[1.2,11.2,-0.43],[1.2,9.6,-0.43],[1.2,7.9,-0.43],[1.2,6.3,-0.43],[1.2,4.7,-0.43],[1.2,3.1,-0.43],[1.2,1.5,-0.43],[1.2,0,-0.43],[1.2,-1.7,-0.43],[-1.2,14.5,1.22],[-1.2,12.8,1.22],[-1.2,11.2,1.2],[-1.2,9.5,1.22],[-1.2,7.9,1.22],[-1.2,6.3,1.22],[-1.2,4.7,1.22],[-1.2,3,1.22],[-1.2,1.4,1.22],[-1.2,-0.1,1.22],[-1.2,-1.7,1.22],[1.2,14.5,1.22],[1.2,12.8,1.22],[1.2,11.2,1.22],[1.2,9.6,1.22],[1.2,8,1.22],[1.2,6.3,1.22],[1.2,4.7,1.22],[1.2,3.1,1.22],[1.2,1.5,1.22],[1.2,0,1.22],[1.2,-1.6,1.22]]

[meager steppe]

is that the offset positions?

[turbid olive]

yes

[meager steppe]

you are a lifesaver

[turbid olive]

the -10 idk what is for, can't remember

I think it's for unloading

[novel widget]

If you're so worried about people stealing your mission, then maybe you shouldn't be hosting a public server in the first place.

Or you could look into alternatives such as binarizing your mission PBOs (Not sure if possible, never cared)

[meager steppe]

Ok now I am struggling to make a script that makes trucks carry cargo to an area where they are then loaded

[queen vapor]

eden supports binarising pbos

[turbid olive]

what's the problem?

[meager steppe]

I'm just not very well versed in code in general, and I am struggling to have a truck bring cargo to a tarmac to them get loaded

I might just try to make it so that the cargo is already on the tarmac, and just loaded in random intervals

[turbid olive]

AI or player?

[meager steppe]

Ai. I want the ai to load all the planes automatically

the player is supposed to defend the airbase while they do

the ai boarding is easy, and the viv isnt too hard either.

but the ai loading the cargo is trickier, because I want the cargo to move to the tarmac

[turbid olive]

you want the cargo to be unloaded on tarmac and then loaded in the truck?

[lone zephyr]

stupid question but if i put stuff outside the map for example the stuff on the far left will they spawn in multiplayer ?

[prisma oyster]

yes

[lone zephyr]

thank you Dr. House

[slow jewel]

what map is that brother ?

[lone zephyr]

Angola

[slow jewel]

is that on the workshop ?

[lone zephyr]

Angola Maps v1.3

yes

just type that

[slow jewel]

is that cup ?

[lone zephyr]

requires terrains core yes but not cup from what i can tell

[slow jewel]

oh nice thx m8

[lone zephyr]

its a nice map little to no frame drop although the map screen ie the picture i posted is really detailed and may or may not give a little drop in performance thats just me though

[slow jewel]

yes im checking it out

[gleaming flower]

Hello! Is this the right channel to ask for a little help with EDEN?

I'm having a problem with revives not working and I'm unsure where else to look as google is no help.

I have revives enabled, but when people go down, they simply die.

It's set to 'basic' so idk what I'm doing wrong.

[rough canyon]

anyone know if there is a way I can turn all of these that are on the map off, its a modded map

[fossil urchin]

You want all lights off from a specific area or every light off?

[fossil urchin]

You should able get with "reflector" class.

private _axis = worldSize / 2;
private _center = [_axis, _axis , 0];
private _radius = sqrt 2 * _axis;
tag_lights = _center nearObjects _radius select {(isClass(configOf _x >> "Reflectors"))};
{
    [_x, "OFF"] remoteExec ["switchLight",0,true]; 
} forEach tag_lights;

[winter stratus]

Do you have any information on how to do the leveling system like in Arma 3 Contact?

[scarlet crystal]

leveling?

[winter stratus]

Like the transition from "false negative" to "going dark" in the "first contact" story

I guess I couldn't explain

[scarlet crystal]

so you want to make a campaign, this would be a better word

[winter stratus]

Yes! That's what I was saying

I hope it's possible otherwise all my plans will fail

[scarlet crystal]

it is, there are numerous campaigns on workshop already, I wonder though why you take First Contact as an example and not the base East Wind

but basically you make a set of singleplayer missions and then put them into a mod folder with its own description.ext file as in here: https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Campaign_Description.ext#Campaign_Directory_Structure

[winter stratus]

You're right, but the first and only campaign I played was "First Contact", the others haven't arrived yet 😄

Thank you bro

[scarlet crystal]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIvLIg6gQB0 there's also this video that does generally the same that the guide I linked, however it might be outdated, I never really watched it

and you can always download any workshop campaign and see how someone else did it and try to follow their workflow.

[winter stratus]

thank you bro

I have another question. I want a vehicle to appear at a certain point in my story. Is it possible to do this with a trigger system?

[scarlet crystal]

yes

[gleaming flower]

still not sure how to fix this...

it's just totally broken

[winter stratus]

Would it be too much if I asked how we did this?

[scarlet crystal]

well it depends on how you want it

[turbid olive]

how did you configure that?

[scarlet crystal]

if the trigger's condition returns true you can either:
a) create the vehicle and give a position
b) move the vehicle from one point to the desired one
c) keep the vehicle in the spot you want but hide the model and then unhide it

[winter stratus]

This job requires a lot of effort but if it happens it will be great and thank you very much.

[gleaming flower]

in the multiplayer preferences iirc? where you usually set it. it's enabled with no requirements - no medic or needing to set it individually on units

but when someone is killed, they simply die instead

[turbid olive]

did you set the unconscious time?

do you have something in your description.ext file in your mission folder related to that?

[gleaming flower]

i believe that is just default, i've not edited that. forgive me, i'm quite new to using eden.

[gleaming flower]

i believe this is also default. let me get a screenshot

[turbid olive]

are you using mods?

[gleaming flower]

Some, yes, but none that I believe should alter anything about dying. I have ace3, but specifically a version that doesn't edit anything medical.

[turbid olive]

well I would test without any mods first before coming here

and if you have a description.ext in your mission folder, make sure you don't have a revive setup as well there

[gleaming flower]

I don't have one, unless something has generated one.

[turbid olive]

no worries about it then

just test it without mods

afaik you set up that, and it works normally

[gleaming flower]

I can't test it without ANY mods as it's using some assets but...

hopefully that shouldn't change anything

[turbid olive]

test in another scenario

make a new one and test the system

[gleaming flower]

yeah, good point

ive disabled ace3_nomedical only for now, to see if thats the issue

[turbid olive]

I think ace3 disables the default system anyway

[gleaming flower]

yeah this was a version without medical. it works in other scenarios, like official ones, but not my own for some reason

[turbid olive]

so again, test it without mods, if it doesn't work, maybe you'll need to setup the revive system in description.ext

[gleaming flower]

doing that rn

[turbid olive]

more info here in case you want to read

https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Arma_3:_Revive

[gleaming flower]

when i die, it flags in chat that i 'forced respawn'

even though i didn't press anything

i'll test in a fresh eden with no mods at all lil later when i've time and report back

[gleaming flower]

ah hell, well this is annoying. with no mods installed, it works just fine

whiiich means it's one of my mods, but i have no idea wtf it could be...

[gleaming flower]

alright, i have discerned the issue, i think - uncertain if anyone has familiarity with this mod, but it appears that space marines from 'there is only war' cannot go down and be revived - they simply die.

[turbid olive]

okay, use ace medical, it's easy and fun

[oak glade]

Hello, I have a problem with Arma. I resumed a mission that I had created on my old PC and put in the MP Mission and Mission folder, but when I open Arma, it cannot find the mission. Someon can help me?

[fossil urchin]

You could add it in C:\Users\%USERNAME%\Documents\Arma 3 - Other Profiles\%YourArmaProfile%\missions
https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Missions#Locations_of_Mission_Files

Damn old link, didn't find A3

[oak glade]

I am checking, but I cannot find it via this link. In any case, thank you for your prompt response

I just found out that I'm the only one who isn't looking properly. Thank you very much

Oh yes is empty ahah

[lone zephyr]

Hey yall i got this comp placed down and in the editor its fine but when i go in game everything left of the trucks disappears visually

I've tried enabling and both disabling simulation and all the setting match with the rest of the base everything shows except that section

[fleet elm]

folks I'm going mad here

Does anyone know of a westland seaking model?

[quiet fractal]

Item attributes - Show model on/off ??

[gleaming flower]

How do I disable the 'save and quit' option in a mission? I want to just have it 'abort', and I don't want saving.

[small patrol]

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

[gleaming flower]

How do I actually apply this, though?

[small patrol]

Just like any SQF command, use it in an SQF file and execute it

[gleaming flower]

Forgive me, I only know how to use the editor. How would I go about doing this?

[small patrol]

AKA use it in any script field, like Init of an object

[gleaming flower]

I see, okay!

So I can just put it in this, for example?

[small patrol]

Ja

[gleaming flower]

That worked, awesome

[fleet elm]

Is it possible to add beacons to vehicles?

I would like to add beacons to vehicles in arma i just dunno if I can do it in eden or is it modding

[scarlet crystal]

modding

unless you find a prop that looks like a beacon so you can attach it to a vehicle and then use scripting to cast a light of specific color.

[lone zephyr]

Sorry found it out I had it too far off the edge of the map

[gleaming flower]

Anyone know why my Tasks are all viewable, even when not set to 'assigned'?

I thought unassigned ones should be invisible, but mine are always visible, for some reason.

[gleaming flower]

Figured it out 👍

[slow jewel]

what did you do to fix it

[gleaming flower]

Simply synced the triggers with 'create task' of the same task that they lead to, rather than them just leading to the node that sets them to available, thus making the task only get CREATED when the trigger fires.

[slow jewel]

copy that m8

i guess it depends on how you want your tasks to be available

one after another or all available at any time 🙂

[gleaming flower]

Yeah, this scenario is definitely more linear.

[slow jewel]

yes i mostly use linear tasks also

and lost of times i don't even use tasks: i just put in the briefing what to do 🙂 and no one ever reads the briefing 🙂

and then they say how do you play this mission 🙂

[gleaming flower]

All my missions are zeused at least.

And pretty straightforward [go here, kill that].

My players are all pretty new.

[opal edge]

Is anyone else experiencing objects from the 3D world in the mission appearing on their map screen in the editor as if the map screen was slightly transparent?

Like if I have several trenches in front of me and zoom out on my map, I just see shadows of those trenches on my map itself. This has been going on throughout different modsets with a pretty stable repro case.

[gleaming flower]

having an issue now where i've been kicked out of zeus and can't re-enter it

not sure what caused it, was seemingly random?

[scarlet crystal]

Screenshot?

But I would say a mod issue. Or you have reshade running.

[opal edge]

Hm. Good call, I do have ReShade running in the background since recently, just with filters off. Thanks.

[opal edge]

Nevermind. It was a ReShade filter running after all.

[young nebula]

Question regarding environmental settings.

If I have understood them correctly, start for various settings like overcast, fog etc is what they are at the start of the mission and forecast is what they will increase or decrease to over time?

But how quickly does the change happen?

[opal edge]

There's a category just above those named Weather Forecast just under the Date one that sets up how long it takes to go from the start to forecast values

[young nebula]

Cool, thanks. I assume that's mission time and not real time?

[opal edge]

Uh

Feel free to try out some value like 1 hour and set time acceleration to 6x and wait 10 minutes, I guess?

I'll give it a go while I'm AFK as well

Seems to be in-game time

[scarlet crystal]

Yeah and if you increase the time multiplier the changes will happen faster too

[young nebula]

Yea, tested it too. Going from 0 to 100 in half a minute looks quite ominous.

[final hill]

i get confused by fog decay, what does it mean exactly?

as in how much less fog there will be as elevation increases?

[prisma oyster]

yep, something like that
it's density value removed per metre

[final hill]

Ah, ty

[quaint sorrel]

Mikero's subscriber (35$/year) tools can obfuscate the PBO 😉

Moving server side stuff to serverside (addon) can help with it as well

[terse flower]

I only asked if EDEN can export objects to SQF without bottlenecks. And yes it doesn't matter if it's for serverside or clientside usage. Having all in SQF makes it easier when you want use only parts of your work at the time. And the server with persistent game mods use this a lot to prevent noobs from stealing it.

[lucid comet]

Can anyone point me how I can incorporate a custom tutorial to the 3DEN Editor (like how the current tutorial is implemented)? I can create the scripts if need be, just asking if its feasible and where to begin

[plain gale]

Look at the biki. There is a section explaining how to do it.

[lucid comet]

I must be blind cause I dont see it 😅 Nvm I found it finally https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Eden_Editor:_Configuring_Tutorials 😄

[robust nacelle]

NotLikeThis

[snow quiver]

Anyone knows how the entity list gets created (Left-side pane) ?. It llooks like a normal treeview, but it has colored items and I can't get parseText to work on it

[loud escarp]

Would anybody be able to look at this and guide me in the right direction to get it fixed?

a lot of it is repeat lines

I was thinking it could be ACE out of date or corrupted some how on the server, but I force updated, reinstalled, all that jazz as well.

Theres a section in there about fnc_loopAudio.sqf not found, but I know the mission file can see it, cause it was using that script in the editor.

And then the rest of the spam is User tried to set invalid material #reset

When trying to load into the server the chat floods with No entry '.model'

[golden steeple]

hi guys, i added a "loiter" waypoint for the V-44 X to loiter the waypoint and attack, but i don't know why it's heading straight to the waypoint instead of doing the loiter, it ever turns to the wrong direction, altitude and distance.. how can i fix this? i'm going crazy with this...

[wind raptor]

A Blackfish with a single waypoint like this flies to the waypoint location and circles it as configured. Does your Blackfish have any other waypoints before or after the loiter waypoint?

[turbid olive]

Loiter waypoint is a pain, maybe you need to check its radius, some aircrafts requires a larger loiter radius to get it working

Also, repeated loiter waypoints will act as a "move" one

[sick sinew]

anyone know how I can make jets follow the taxi way on a runway? I know some already do it automatically but towards the top of the main airport on Altis they sort of cut across the grass then take off once they get to the runway.

[turbid olive]

once you place an AI near an airport, it will try to follow the taxiiway predetermined by configs, nothing that you can do to change that (afaik), the AI will not respond to any waypoint or commands

[sick sinew]

damn, thanks anyway

been playing A3 for years and this game still surprises me

[golden steeple]

i found the issue, when i add a loiter waypoint alone it works, but if i add a move or land waypoints it breaks and it doesn't work, i want the aircraft to loiter the area for some time (with the waypoint: timers) and then for it to land, but adding more waypoints after the loiter one breaks everything

[turbid olive]

Yes, loiter waypoint likes to be alone and unique

[golden steeple]

😭

[golden steeple]

yes it has waypoints after the loiter waypoint, but i guess there is no fix for that, doing the loiter for some time and then the landing waypoint, it's very frustrating

[turbid olive]

what do you want to achieve?

[golden steeple]

i want to call for AI support (V-44X) with the loiter waypoint, but i don't want it to go around in circles forever, just for some minutes and then the aircraft would go back to the airport with the "land" waypoing

[turbid olive]

are you using CBA?

asking because you can use waitAndExecute function of it, or you can just do a sleep and then remove the loiter waypoint and do the landing

for landing, I recommend using the landAt command instead, syntax #3

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

[stark tinsel]

how i make the hide terrain module only execute when a global variable is true?

[turbid olive]

what do you want to achieve?

[stark tinsel]

i want an object in the area to be hidden when a global variable returns true

[turbid olive]

Ik, but why hide it

do you want the object to be deleted?

[stark tinsel]

no is map object

like bridge

cannot explode

[turbid olive]

okay, so you have some commands to help you with that

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

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

maybe a combination with that

the first command get the bridge and the second you use it to hide

[stark tinsel]

oh so no way to use trigger to activate?

[turbid olive]

and for the variable to returns true, do you know how to do that?

[turbid olive]

well yeah, that's how it works, you put some condition in the trigger and those commands in the on activation field

in that case, what condition hides the bridge in your scenario?

[stark tinsel]

when variable "MISSON_objectDestroyed" returns true - it is pre set by some other scripts

I want bridge at [1437.73,11473.1,0] to go invisible then

[turbid olive]

put that variable (without quotes) in the trigger condition and then work with those commands

read those pages

I can't provided you with an example rn because I'm on mobile dc

[stark tinsel]

is ok thanks a lot i see what i can do thank you

[gritty needle]

Does anyone have any tips for optimizing performance when making larger missions? I want to create large scale scenarios but even the presence of a lot of assets tanks the framerate. I've tried some methods of disabling simulation and visibility for assets that are far from players but they dont seem to have a noticeable effect

[prisma oyster]

see https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Mission_Optimisation

[gritty needle]

Thanks!!

[rain canyon]

hello how can i dynamic spawn mines if players get close to a point/sector?

[light briar]

A trigger zone, activation on players, specific ones or specific sides, the. In the activation field you will need to create your mines... Look at the createVehicle commands.

[gritty tulip]

Sorry if this is in the wrong spot. But I placed a c130 on the USS Freedom to attempt to take off from it, no issues in the editor.

When I host that mission for MP, the c130 is stuck in place and will not move, it’s like the c130 is being held in place by something. Any ideas?

[flint thunder]

sounds like some attachto commands

check init field of c130. make sure c 130 is unlocked, and on/ veery slightly above carrier landing deck

also more infos please; setup/mods/ scripts running? the c130 is empty i assume, and you yourself jumping in it ingame, not rc'ing ai?

[dusky sand]

Hey guys, But there is a mod that allows you to create a mission directly in the game as the OPEX guys did that you approach the board and choose which mission to do.

[gritty tulip]

correct, carrier and my self spawn in the game. I even zeus'd in a C130 and that didnt even move. It seems to roll if i get out of it, but the moment I hop in the pilot seat, its stuck in place. The C130 is from the USAF mod

[idle cipher]

Hey guys what's a good go to program for dealing with PBO files, as I've never used them before?

[flint thunder]

https://github.com/winseros/pboman3?tab=readme-ov-file

[flint thunder]

darn. might be a mod issue. i love usaf mod, but encountered some errors in the past that usually got fixed laters.
Please try to reproduce with some vanilla aircraft, same mods loaded.
If issue persists: it is some issue with your scripts or mods

else might be some setting

[gritty tulip]

sounds good, I appreciate the reply.

[flint thunder]

no worries. First i thought it could have to do with dynamic simulation while rc'ing ai to fly, but that is not the case.

[flint thunder]

damn, i can reproduce, did use the launchers as well; stuck. -.- not meant to operate from carrier 😛 😂 aka mod issue 🤷🏻

SOLUTION:

RHS-USAF - c130 works, though!
3CB as well
or do try NIMITZ carrier by TeTeTe3 https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=643530417

[gritty tulip]

Well it’s weird, I did it on another mission I had, worked just fine (not the launchers) I was able to fly straight off it

[flint thunder]

well, turns out nimitz is still WoRkInG :))) so you could use nimitz mod as well. not sure about the key/ pbo on a (dedicated)server though..
aka: the same mod/ plane constellation works on the nimitz.
I have no clue why it doesn't do on the vanilla carrier 🙁

[gritty tulip]

Well my dedi is a whole other set of issues I’m working through 🤣

Are you launching with the catapult?

[flint thunder]

-> same game settings.
launching the usaf c-130j on the vanilla USS Freedom:

• no taxiing, no moving, stuck. (other animations work, like engine and lights, throttling, doors)
• putting it on the catapult directly via zeus: holdActionAdd shows up, runs thru, nothing happens, plane not moving 🤷🏻 ❔

-> same game settings. just added USS Nimitz mod (legacy 2020 v, not experimental 2024 version [- yes, both still maintained/working mods.])
both, both works on the nimitz. 🥳 🤷🏻

[gritty tulip]

interesting. I guess i need to try the catapult lol

[spark path]

Hey everyone, could someone help me create a trigger or some kind of mechanic that would allow me to call in a support battalion in the middle of a battle? It's purely PvE.

I'm new to the game, so if you could be as clear and simple as possible, I'd appreciate it lol

[turbid olive]

check Gunter Severloh's videos, maybe you will find something realted to this

he has a lot of good scripts for mission

[spark path]

Ah, okay, thanks. But do you know if there's an article or something on Reddit that explains it step-by-step? My English is pretty bad, so I don't know if I can follow a video.

[turbid olive]

hmmm maybe you could search in the bohemia forums

but those videos are really understandable because he shows how to do it, not just by talking

[spark path]

Okay, I'll take a look. Anyway, I found a video of Gunter Severloh's, it seems pretty simple. Thanks.

[mental brook]

Do you know what to do to make the helicopter land at the waypoint I gave and not several dozen meters away?

and how can I make the soldier die immediately after starting the scenario without any shooting, so that he just dies

[flint thunder]

Please use the search function in here or in #arma3_scripting !! there was a discussion rather recently, exact same topic about waypoints

(top right 😉 )

[flint thunder]

in init something like this;

_unit setDamage 1;

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

[mental brook]

thanks

[idle cipher]

you need a helipad or the game itself will find a "close" spot that can fit the helicopter landing

you can put down a helipad from the props section

and you can hide it from visibility to make it not look goofy in game having a random marked helipad somewhere

[scarlet crystal]

there is an invisible helipad object tho

[idle cipher]

didn't notice

[scarlet crystal]

because it's invisible

[lone zephyr]

any reason no formations was removed from eden and zeus ?

[prisma oyster]

it means "no change", not "no formation" 🙂

[rain canyon]

how do i set units to despawn everytime the server restarts or turns off

[lone zephyr]

meaning they wont move from the spot they spawn in

[prisma oyster]

that's not a thing unless you script it

[lone zephyr]

ah ty

[idle cipher]

unit disableAI "MOVE"

unit disableAI "PATH" and they can still rotate and look around I think

[rain canyon]

specifically turrets

[turbid olive]

wdym? If I understood correctly, every time you restart the server, the mission also restarts

and I don't know what kind of mission you're talking about

[rain canyon]

uhh kp lib

[turbid olive]

ah

[rain canyon]

oh i see

[turbid olive]

they despawn automatically, why?

even in game

[rain canyon]

im testing it rn through multiplayer lan when they get destroyed and when i try to log back in they respawn like nothing happened i was the one who placed them there i just wanted to know if there is a way when they get destroyed they dont respawn on a server reset

[turbid olive]

what are "they"?

[rain canyon]

static defenses

[turbid olive]

and what version are you using?

[rain canyon]

96.8

[turbid olive]

no my friend, that kind of stuff you just don't put on editor lol you need to script that, check my pull request on this

[rain canyon]

ohhhh

i see

[turbid olive]

https://github.com/KillahPotatoes/KP-Liberation/pull/975

also APR fork spawns dynamic static weapons, but it's "dynamic", generally the static weapon spawns in shitty places

my PR offers a way to edit the map and manages those objects and spawns static weapons if supported by configs

[rain canyon]

oh i see it now

thanks for this

is it only exclusive to structures and not around like air bases?

[turbid olive]

If you're talking about my framework, it takes whitelisted objects within 300m of a sector

and you can indirectly add to terrain objects as well

by using a logic object

[rain canyon]

i see

is there a way to adjust the distance from the sector?

[turbid olive]

yes, it's a config thing there

KPLIB_objectsGrabber_radius = 250; actually is 250 lol

[rain canyon]

so if i want to place say the patriot and the radar within the airfield i need to put a terrain object close to them so they can actually spawn where i want them to spawn?

[turbid olive]

check APR fork, they have a random spawn for those type of static weapons

[rain canyon]

well ar fork is random

apr*

i want them to spawn exactly where i want

[turbid olive]

you need to read the description of my pull request and add those script into your mission

[rain canyon]

actually i just realized something aswell theres alot of kp liberation types

[worthy silo]

Hello, I would like to ask about an issue with playing .oog files while using Conversations.
I have had a lot of problems with some units not being able to play .oog files, and after a lots of tests, it turns out that I have found the problem, so here's my question.

Is it normal, that to play .oog file the unit need to have a radio equipped? Even when it speaks in DIRECT, or I force it by one of the BIS_fnc_kbTell parameters?

[flint thunder]

i think so, had another issue where the vanilla radio item equipped made things work.👍🏻
can't remember out of my head what that issue was rn 😬

[worthy silo]

Yeah, I was unable to found any information on that on the "default web search engine", BIS Wiki, forums, nowhere and was starting to go insane. But thank You for Your response!

[gaunt hamlet]

gentlmen I am losing my mind

what command can I out in an AI init box to force them to lower their weapon. I have the path disabled but I also want them to lower their pistol/rifle

[idle cipher]

have them in SAFE or CARELESS theyll be like that i think

otherwise you can play one of their idle animations

when they're in that state then you can `disableAI "autoTarget" and theyll stay that way I believe

[flint thunder]

The unit must have an assigned radio item (such as "ItemRadio")* to see or transmit the messages*. A radio item must have the property

simulation = "ItemRadio";

in its CfgWeapons config.

might only be stated in that channel radio part of the big chat & radio section in the wiki though ^^
https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Category:Command_Group:_Radio_and_Chat

[worthy silo]

Well, actually the unit does not have to have radio assigned to "see or transmit messages" in DIRECT channel as my tests have proven. It only needs it to properly play the .oog file.
And, my units in both with and without radioes were showing spoken text (DIRECT) in sidechat and moving their lips according to .lip file. But unaudibly.

[idle cipher]

I just tested this and can play the file using directSay without radio

[worthy silo]

I was thinking if directSay would help, but I guess that I would have to omit the "Conversations" files and all the ".bikb stuff".
But thanks for checking, much obliged

[idle cipher]

i've been messing with audio the past couple days as well

[worthy silo]

If You are making a mission for multiplayer, using units init boxes might not be the good way.
In SP it's not a problem, but in MP the code will initialize every time a new player joins.
So as @idle cipher has stated, having them in SAFE or CARELESS should do the trick. If You want to use an animation, then initbox will be good [*as in: not very bad] only if You do not plan on doing anything else with them in the mission

[idle cipher]

i'm about to start messing with the conversations and stuff shortly as I had just figured out playing the built in config radio protocol audio files

I was trying to figure out if it's possible to invoke and chain radio protocol audio together the way the engine does it when doing AI commands and such

[worthy silo]

I have tried tons of things, with modifying OOG files, giving thm proper bitrate and stuff. That thing was pretty painful to debug.
But now, doing converting everything in my mission just to use "directsay" would be more painful than just give units radios, so I'll stick with that.
Still, thanks for the feedback!

[idle cipher]

can u share what your audio is doing and what wasn't working?

my question for tonight is what do the multiple entries to a speech[] array mean in the sentences config? does it chain audio together?

[worthy silo]

I am not sure what do You mean by "multiple entries", but speech[] points to one file at a time.
And to have multiple sentences said, you have to create a class for every sentence. Well, not "sentence" as linguist thing, but a "said part".

And I do not know how to properly mix radio protocol with custom sounds in conversations.

[idle cipher]

yeah im assuming it plays all the files in speech[] and thats your audio for a sentence

[worthy silo]

My audio is just things that I want a couple of units to say.
I made proper cfgSentences in description.ext and .bikb files for every conversation.
Then it turned out, that:
-all the actors show spoken text in DIRECT (I can see the sideChat)
-they MOVE THEIR LIPS
-but only those who have radios play the .oog file.

[idle cipher]

have you gotten conversations to play the words from the A3 RadioProtocol configs built in?, the wiki gives an example that I couldn't get any audio
speech[] = { %Team, RequestingCloseAirSupportAtGrid, %Location };

[worthy silo]

I haven't tried it yet, sorry :/

but I could try to do this, wait a moment

[idle cipher]

tbh it kind of makes sense you need a radio. it doesn't really make sense that directSay without a radio works

did you try calling BIS_fnc_kbTell with radioMode = false?

[worthy silo]

yes, I have tried, but it did not change much. I was able to force units to speak on DIRECT or chosen radio channel, but since they had their radioes - the sound was on.

that line "speech[] = { %Team, RequestingCloseAirSupportAtGrid, %Location };" is from kbTell enty on BisWiki?
I guess that it SHOULD work fine in Conversations. If You wanted to put it in the conversation with custom sounds You just need to make separate classes for each said Sentence.

[idle cipher]

i tried it but couldn't get any audio but didn't try much further

pretty sure it's supposed to play that AirSupport audio file in A3 config

idk what %Team and %Location entails, i think that replaces the fed variables to kbTell and looks for their className in the config and also play those sounds if they exist

[worthy silo]

Yes, but You need to have .bikb file, and I gues that You need to have %Team and %Location defined.

[idle cipher]

had bikb and everything setup, the text portion displays correctly and everything just no audio

[worthy silo]

The example from BISWiki shows part of bikb file, and that's true what You have said, it is being fed variables.
But You also need to get the code to define %Team and %Location, and the example is from A2 I guess, because of the names

this might be helpful https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Location

I'll try to do it and see if it would work

[idle cipher]

combine all the audio stuff together it's a bit complicated to put together

yeah I just need to hear the already existing A3 in a .bikb I made and I'll be satisfied for now

can't get any actors to produce sound tho

[worthy silo]

I'll try to do it, give me a couple minutes

[idle cipher]

Let's move replies to #arma3_scripting

[spare rose]

Has anyone been able to replicate Conquest mode (from Battlefield) in ArmA? I'm trying to make a Galactic Conquest (from Star Wars Battlefront)-Operations from (Battlefield 1/Battlefield V)-Conquest hybrid and I could use some help.

[summer skiff]

What's up Arma people.
I'm interested in learning how to make ace arsenals that are tailored to each player slot, i.e. specific options available for the SAW slot, AT slot, etc.
I've done some poking around online, but i seem to be lost.
Would anyone be able to give me some pointers, or help me by pointing me at a wiki/guide i could follow?

[gaunt hamlet]

It’s gonna be SP, the problem I’m running into with just setting them to safe, is when they have a handgun out they don’t seem to wanna have the handgun in the lowered state like rifles .

[turbid olive]

https://github.com/PiG13BR/PIG-Arsenal_Whitelist_ACE

[worthy silo]

I think that "Eden Enhanced" has options to add ace arsenal to any object.

So You could give ace arsanels for specific objects, but not necessarily roles

[undone ravine]

Is there a way to assign layers to objects? Feel like Ive seen that somewhere. Like you’re building a wall and you want to lock things in place…?

[scarlet crystal]

select the objects and click "new layer" in the layer sidebar/drag them to the existing layer

alternatively use 3den enhanced

[undone ravine]

Is this only an enhanced eden thing?

[golden steeple]

why the AI is trying to land in the same landing spot? i gave them different helipads and waypoints to load troops, and yet they try to land in top of the other helicopter

or it just stays in the air

[snow quiver]

Scratch that question. I messaged moricky, it's handled engine side

[idle cipher]

Is it normal for a mission in the editor to take like 5-10s to load when test playing? it was instantly before but now it takes time for me to load

[slow jewel]

@idle cipher go to arma3_ai and read my post if you like: about choppers

[idle cipher]

it seems it's because of my view distance being pretty high

I don't really see how that causes a level to load like 30x slower but it does

[turbid olive]

"before" what? before you edited the whole map?

objects placed in editor takes performance

[formal rock]

Why won’t ai capture the objective I have

They’re soawned

I have respawn tickets

I have the full sector thing set up

Yet they don’t wanna attack it

They just stay still

Some of the modules are Zeus but I’m not using the Zeus editor itself to do stuff

This is all Eden

[molten sun]

RHSTERRACORE... Some Buildings have missing Textures but get previewd correctly... why ?

[idle cipher]

well I wouldn't say it if I thought my map had a lot of stuff

i'll get back to you after some more testing

[ornate sapphire]

@swift warren yo bro rex dm me dude or atleast tell me why u kicked me im confused dude

[vestal perch]

try repair the mod in the launcher. maybe your files got broken somehow

[molten sun]

Fixed it. Thanks

[radiant isle]

can i ask a arma 3 editor question? its something here that isnt working correctly for me
in this tutorial im watching, this guy gets this menu thing in the lower right, which i usually also always get but this time when im selecting units or triggers etc nothing appears for me making it so i cant use triggers

the only one i get is "cancel" when im going to deploy units and nothing else. ive played editor for like 10 years so i know this isnt right, i cant use triggers or anything

[small patrol]

I'd start with unload Mods to try

[radiant isle]

Yeah thing is I turned off all my mods and it was the same problem

[small patrol]

Then what are you really trying to achieve

[radiant isle]

I want to connect triggers to waypoints but it is not letting me. So I can’t do scripting

[small patrol]

Isn't that a Right Click?

[radiant isle]

Il check give me a few mins. Been a few years since I scripted last time but il check

[idle cipher]

only way is to right click trigger -> set waypoint activation

[radiant isle]

thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!! that was the missing part

still weird that i dont see the little UI thing that shows the hotkeys though

[final hill]

Do you have 3den enhanced loaded?

[plain gale]

Works fine with 3den Enhanced.

[sick meadow]

is there a way at all to force AI heli pilots to hover at a certain altitude (flyInHeight?)

the ai doesn't seem to want to budge below 50m

*hover for players to fastrope

[scarlet crystal]

Bug afaik

They used to fly lower now they just don't.

[sick meadow]

darn

thanks anyways

[slow jewel]

what ? i can make a chopper hover 2m if i wanted:

// this is over water but yeah yup

// other code

Helo2 doMove getPos pad2LZ;
Helo2 flyInHeight 10;
sleep 6;
{Helo2 animateDoor [_x, 1]} forEach ["door_back_L","door_back_R","door_L","door_R"];
Helo2 flyInHeight 2.3;
sleep 1;
Helo2 flyInHeight 2.1;
waituntil { sleep 2; (getPosASLW Helo2 Select 2 <=4) or !alive Helo2 or !canMove Helo2 or !alive Pilot2 };
sleep 2;

//   other code

[autumn girder]

Hello fellow mission markers., I'm hoping someone can help me with a problem I'm having.

I'm trying to hide the AI until players get into a trigger, and then the AI appears. Then, if the player leaves said trigger, the AI disappears.
The intent is to save processing power on my unit's server while not using another mod like drongos or alive. If you can be of any help, please DM me.

[idle cipher]

you just need 2 triggers that will keep creating each other and deleting itself when the condition is met

you'll want to do more than just hide them because the AI still runs when hidden though

you can disable all their AI features

Oh and btw, this entire concept can be automated by just turning on dynamic simulation, with the caveat that they are not hidden from view with hide. It'll turn on and off the AI depending on the distance to players

so I would use that if they don't need to actually be hidden

[autumn girder]

So dynamic simulation plus triggers

?

[idle cipher]

dynamci simulation won't hide them, itll just turn off their AI simulation based on player distance, so you'll have to add something like a trigger for that

there might be dynamic simulation on/off event handler or mayb eit works with some AI feature event handler. otherwise triggers I guess it will be

[turbid olive]

Activation: Any Player
Activation Type: Present
Repeatable: tick
Server Only: tick

Condition
this

On activation

unitName hideObjectGlobal false;

On deactivation

unitName hideObjectGlobal true;

not tested

[idle cipher]

yeah what Pig did is way easier, I forgot there is deactivation and triggers can be repeatable because I am noob

triggerLoop = 
{
    params["_trigger"];
    
    private _newT = createTrigger [
    "EmptyDetector", getPosWorld _trigger, false];
    
    if ((triggerActivation _trigger) isEqualTo 
    ["ANYPLAYER", "PRESENT", false]) then
    {
      _newT setTriggerArea (triggerArea _trigger);
      _newT setTriggerActivation 
      ["ANYPLAYER", "NOT PRESENT", false];
      _newT setTriggerStatements 
      ["this",
       "systemChat 'triggered NOT PRESENT'; [thisTrigger] call triggerLoop;", false];
       deleteVehicle _trigger; 
       {
           //enable AI here
            _x hideObjectGlobal false;
       }
       forEach (units group1);
    }
    else
    {
      _newT setTriggerArea (triggerArea _trigger);
      _newT setTriggerActivation 
      ["ANYPLAYER", "PRESENT", false];
      _newT setTriggerStatements 
      ["this",
       "systemChat 'triggered PRESENT'; [thisTrigger] call triggerLoop;", false];
       deleteVehicle _trigger;
       {
           //disable AI here
            _x hideObjectGlobal true;
       }
       forEach (units group1);

                    
    };
    
};

I did all this instead lmao

you're still gonna need to set the AI on/off in what Pig said, otherwise the AI will still simulate while invisible so there won't be any performance gain (except for not rendering the invisible enemies)

[slow jewel]

@autumn girder or look for EOS_1_98 its a great Starter System

[cobalt valley]

Is anyone able to make a flag mod for me?

[prisma oyster]

such as?

[mental brook]

Hi, do you know how to make the soldier's (player's) face displayed as it is in the identity and not in the player's profile?

[scarlet crystal]

setFace command

[ashen marsh]

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

[mental brook]

thanks

[flint thistle]

Creating some stuff in EDEN I have a good amount of objects placed down and now my games kinda choppy/low fps. When playing the mission though I get 60+ FPS. Just on EDEN it's really low. Anything I can do about that?

[plain gale]

Put them in layers and disable transformation. That should hide the icons drawn in 3d space. Usually that's the cause for the low FPS.

[flint thistle]

Seems to have no difference for me. The only thing that kinda works is lowering view distance but it's still stuttering

[small patrol]

If pressing Backspace will "fix" it, do what R3vo said again

[flint thistle]

It doesn't either

[small patrol]

Then you may have terribe amount of objects or scripts

[flint thistle]

I guess so

[granite notch]

Does anyone know what this error is?

[small patrol]

You may have a broken Mod or script. Cannot tell anything more

[granite notch]

i'll have to go through my mod list then

[abstract garden]

Anyone know how to disable text chat while keeping channels (for things like map markers)?

[prisma oyster]

sure! see https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Description.ext#disableChannels 🙂

see also https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/enableChannel

[limber ravine]

I can't remember if it's possible to mute individual channels or lower the volume on a specific channel. I've had this happen where I wanted to prevent certain players in a certain area from hearing each other's radio communications. And it doesn't require mods

[olive pasture]

is there a way to remove map markers, like windmills and houses?

[limber ravine]

It seems that only through the rscMainMap class config

Essentially, you can use the config to create a map without displaying houses, markers, roads, or fences. You can leave only the elevation map and satellite imagery. Nothing else at all. You can even hide the grid.

You can even configure the map so that your fps drops to 10 when you open the map.)

[olive pasture]

I have an issue with one of rock objects, it causes a lot of lag when sim is enabled and when it's disabled it causes a constant stutter does anyone know of a fix?

Sim enabled
https://cdn.steamusercontent.com/ugc/16349215583128254239/D354B47558DB33EEC8BDF442BB2121E07385648A/

Sim disabled
https://cdn.steamusercontent.com/ugc/13178344963695534478/374ED1C47C114E1332F6CC239182A3C01B8A96A4/

It only seems to happen when driving through the tunnel. I tried the rocks from cytech and there were no issues however, they can't be added to the modset

[olive pasture]

It also only happens when controlling the player, in both eden and zeus there are no issues

[forest gyro]

hey guys, making an operation for a server of 50 and would be using headless client to

make sure they are optimized for zeus and the players

how could i transfer zeus placed units to HC?

prefer placing units using zeus because, its more fun for me and also it helps me make sure the ai doesnt do dumb shit

[sinful zenith]

The rocks are too complex. Not much can be done there.
Maybe you can use PhysX collision flags script command, to disable the rocks collisions?

[prisma oyster]

is rock fixing out of the picture?

[sinful zenith]

They are pretty hard to fix. Cuz you know, they're rocks

[prisma oyster]

https://tenor.com/view/really-oh-seriously-not-bad-christian-bale-are-you-sure-gif-20212458

[slow jewel]

lol @ Lou you got the best one's lol

that cracks me up every time i see it lol

[ebon light]

anyone here done much mission making with the sog CDLC?

[olive pasture]

Thanks for all the help, I decided to use some assets in the Yulakia mod as it's much smaller than Cytech and they are much more optimized than vanilla. @sinful zenith creating the rocks as a simple object also works, using this mod https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=694171151 makes it very easy

[ebon light]

Trying to build an alive mission on cam lao nam, and want my players to be able to build like you can in the mike force game mode but cant figure it out, dont even know if its possible tbh but figured id come here an ask

[granite willow]

It didn't worked. I also noticed that there are bridges at altis, that don't show up in props

Same as tanoa

[small patrol]

1. Preview
2. Aim at the bridge
3. Press Esc
4. Open Debug Console and put typeOf cursorObject
5. Press Execute
6. See if there is a return value

[deep ocean]

Anyone familiar with altering the lighting on maps? I kind of want to see what the Prairie Fire maps would look like with similar lighting to Niakala

[final hill]

The alive discord might have the help you need

[light tendon]

I was today years old when I discovered editor + zeus is peak arma 3

[thick zenith]

I'm having some huge issues with multiplayer respawning. I've been trying to set it up so my players can respawn on a living squad member or on the Invincible AI "ammo bearer" i have following them around. But they don't appear as valid respawn positions.

I followed a tutorial to set it up where I placed a respawn module and then Sync'ed it to the "player" units. I then created a second respawn module and sync'ed it the Ammo Bearer who i logging to use as my Zeus character.

but during the mission the one sync'ed to the squad only shows one member as a respawn point and only if they are alive, and the one linked to the unit I use when zeusing just never shows up.

[ebon light]

Nah im making an alive mission but what im looking for help with is a SOG cDLC Feature

[ebon light]

Can't seem to find it

[fossil urchin]

#channel_invites_list message

[civic bane]

Currently have a problem which I encountered yesterday and persists.

I set up a custom face for my character in the editor, and load into a scenario. However, when I am loaded, it changes to the default face which is the bald fella. This happens regardless of face/faction/language.

I verified all files and removed all mods and this has continued.

Are there any solutions to this problem, and is it to do with the current outage?

[flint thunder]

scroll up, there is a command to set face.
it was discussed heere before, use search box top rigth "set face"

it also depends on the player's profile.
afair: Faces set order is like that:

player profile > mission(editor-set) profile

unless you set the face and stuff with a command.

#arma3_editor message

[slow jewel]

// in a script file
_x setFace "AsianHead_A3_02";

// or
// in a unit's  init
this setFace "AsianHead_A3_02";

[civic bane]

So, how do I make it so that the face I set in attributes in editor is not the player profile face?

[final hill]

hi
is there a way to hide the respawn module position on the map?

i've sync'd a trigger to it so that it's only available if enemy Indfor is !alive in the trigger area but it still shows on map

[noble isle]

Inside the respawn position module there should be something that says show to. Set it to side and its allies or nobody

If you are using the markers I believe there is something to hide the markers

But I cant remember of the top of my head

[final hill]

"Nobody" option isn't there in the module

[noble isle]

Is it the marker or module

[final hill]

module

[noble isle]

It should be called something like shown to

Or visible to

[final hill]

i used markers for the initial respawn but it won't accept to be sync'd to a trigger

i want players to unlock a respawn pos after they reach a specific area

[noble isle]

Im not up to date on using it for modules but you could try createvehicle

to just make the marker when you need it as opposed to showing it

[final hill]

yeah

module seems to be always visible

[noble isle]

Yeah creating the marker is probably the best option

module*

As long as you want it hidden to everyone

atleast until its needed

[final hill]

how to use a createvehicle to create an empty marker and set its variable name as respawn_east_2?

i can't fetch the empty marker's editor name by logging it

[flint thunder]

please R.E.A.D., what scotty wrote

in unit's init fields

😉 a little bit of self-initiative. if unsure, post screens how you did it and we can help you further. but also experiment a little, that is how you learn it (at least i do).

@deft peak do we have this as an arma gif yet? 🙂

[undone basalt]

[FALSE] call BIS_fnc_drawRespawnPositions;

[turbid olive]

I used to put this code on my ops

{ 
  _x setMarkerAlpha 0; 
} forEach (allMapMarkers select {"respawn" in markerType _x});

[eternal lava]

Is there a way to make power lines from electric poles placed in the editor?

Say from a simple wooden pole to another

[prisma oyster]

it is really better to use the generator; you can force place poles using "place on anchors" or some other option

[final hill]

in the init of the respawn module?

[undone basalt]

initserver.sqf

[final hill]

in initserver.sqf?

[turbid olive]

Yes, if it doesn't work, put in the init.sqf

[fossil urchin]

Should work because it's global, and if add in init should use local command, otherwise it will multiple times set it globally

[fossil urchin]

There could be an easily added show to "none"

[turbid olive]

Ik, but I remember having problems with it for no reason

[fossil urchin]

Yeah.
Maybe just for sure and I bet performance won't drop because of that

[turbid olive]

maybe now I would change for setMarkerAlphaLocal (maybe it won't work since the respawn marker is global) and use it in the init.sqf, Idk if the respawn module set the markers after the server init

but I remember testing the code in dedi server and and it only worked in init.sqf

[final hill]

been trying to have the trigger work only when any player is present and no independent is present on dedicated server and so far it doesn't work

[fossil urchin]

You are checking side x and not alive x count thislist.
So you should check

side group _x != independent && alive _x

And any player , you should check what your thisList return when player goes in trigger.

[final hill]

({isPlayer _x} count thisList > 0) && 
({side group _x != independent && alive _x} count thisList == 0)

[final hill]

hmm, i'm missing something

[fossil urchin]

({side group _x != independent && alive _x && isPlayer _x} count thisList > 0)

[prisma oyster]

findIf?

[fossil urchin]

Yes , this. Would be better solution

thisList findIf {side group _x != independent && alive _x && isPlayer _x} != -1

[final hill]

doesn't seem to fire

[fossil urchin]

Anybody to Activation

this && thisList findIf {alive _x && isPlayer _x} != -1 && thisList findIf {side group _x == independent} == -1

or
independent to Activation
And not present
and

this && (allUnits inAreaArray thisTrigger) findIf {alive _x && isPlayer _x} != -1

But really, don't know how to do good of this.
Issue is thisList using, because it will only return units that will activate your trigger.

[final hill]

yeah, i could also use 2 triggers overlapping the target area, 1 detects the players the other presence of a certain faction, have a 3rd one fire if the 1st 2 are fired

[sick meadow]

anyone know if there's some arma magic i can use to make a convoy obedient? i know this is a hail mary and likely impossible

[small patrol]

What situation makes the convoy not obedient?

[sick meadow]

just trying to get the whole thing to move, only the first three vics move out and the other five stay put or do loops

i am aware that large convoys also are tricky for the AI to handle, I'll try breaking it up into smaller groups

[small patrol]

Does some part of the convoy placed like this and have no margin between? Sometimes it makes AI to brake the convoy

And this worked pretty fine to me

[sick meadow]

i've done my best to space them out well enough but the last four just won't budge

could it just be LAMBS AI conflicting?

or maybe just the map (Kujari)? i know AI is quite fickle

[small patrol]

Quite likely

[sick meadow]

yeah i'm gonna chalk it up to that

thanks for your help though

[real salmon]

does anyone know a mod or script that can let me and my friend player on zeus but not see eachothers troops? i found a mod called Zeus Wargame, can anyone tell me if what i asked is possible?

[scarlet crystal]

yes

[olive pasture]

do you have any sugestions to use instead of scaling the road texture, it's to change the ground to be better. The issue I have right now is that scaling the texture makes it so you can run into it and glitch out

I would have use the runway dirt but uh it aint dirt

[copper notch]

Hey friends, I want to make a scenario where me and my friends are clearing some buildings, but once I play test the mission all of them fall out the side onto the ground

Why does it happen and how do I stop it?

[turbid olive]

disableAI/doStop commands

[copper notch]

Why does it happen anyway?

[turbid olive]

IA in groups always try to be in formation, so they will probably exit the building to do that, at least, the members

[copper notch]

Oh ok

[turbid olive]

so to work with AI in groups in a static position, you need to use those commands, I recommend using disableAI, you can read about this command syntax in the biki

[copper notch]

What if I don't group them

I don't think I can

[copper notch]

Quick question

When I do (MyUnit) disableAI "MOVE"; what do I put in place of My unit when I have multiple objects selected

[plain gale]

Where do you write that?

[copper notch]

I already got it at this point, but I'm doing this in the editor, attributes, Init

[plain gale]

this disableAI "MOVE"

[copper notch]

Nevermind I don't got it

[plain gale]

It just adds it to the init field of all selected units

[copper notch]

Ok

I labeled a unit WIGGO and did WIGGO disableAI "MOVE" and they still jumped out

[copper notch]

Nevermind they're still jumping out when I did disableAI move

Was it supposed to be something else

[plain gale]

That should work.

[copper notch]

I do get an error

Hold on

Error disableai type group expected object

[plain gale]

You added it to the composition init.

[copper notch]

What does that mean

Should I add it to each soldier

[plain gale]

You select all units, right click, attributes and then paste the code above into the correct init field

is says Object: Init above it

[copper notch]

Oh ok

[plain gale]

you probably right clicked on the flag icon above one of the entities which brings you to the group attributes

[turbid olive]

you can, but AI in groups works better because they share information, they act "smarter"

[plain gale]

Also better for performance.

[copper notch]

Anyway, I want to host the game with my friend tomorrow, can anyone help me setup a team speak and an Arma 3 server?

I'm more or less familiar with TS3 and tfar but I never had to configure a TS3 server myself

Nor did I ever host a mp session

[turbid olive]

for arma server use FASTER, and for ts3 I'm sure there are tutorials out there

[final hill]

anyone remember the mod name that added the option to change map city/town names to custom ones?

like you could change Kavala to Miami for ex.
forgot the mod's name

[turbid olive]

Idk about these commands, but you should try it
https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/setText
https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/nearestLocation

[final hill]

Ty

[final hill]

found it, if anyone interested:

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3110642448

[cobalt prism]

How do I log weapon, uniform, and attachment classnames in 3DEN? Or in aresnal for that matter?

Like, I know I can do it via export with the arsenal and the config viewer, but I wonder if I can do it just like I can do it for vehicle classes in 3DEN

[turbid olive]

I have this, but it's for playable units in editor (requires ADT)

[cobalt prism]

Sounds good, but I think I might just want to export to clipboard via Arsenal

[turbid olive]

AllPlayableUnitsItens = [];
{AllPlayableUnitsItens = AllPlayableUnitsItens + [(headgear _x)] + [(goggles _x)] + (assignedItems _x) + (backpackitems _x)+ [(backpack _x)] + (uniformItems _x) + [(uniform _x)] + (vestItems _x) + [(vest _x)] + (magazines _x) + (weapons _x) + (primaryWeaponItems _x)+ (primaryWeaponMagazine _x) + (handgunMagazine _x) + (handgunItems _x) + (secondaryWeaponItems _x) + (secondaryWeaponMagazine _x)} forEach (playableUnits + switchableUnits);
AllPlayableUnitsItens = AllPlayableUnitsItens select {count _x > 0};
AllPlayableUnitsItens = AllPlayableUnitsItens arrayIntersect AllPlayableUnitsItens;
copyToClipboard str AllPlayableUnitsItens;

something like this?

[cobalt prism]

That works, but I what I was think is that, in 3DEN, there's a option with right click that logs the class name of the vehicle. It's called "Log Classese to Clipboard".

I want that but for like arsenal so I can do it rather easily.

Like I can for vehicles

[turbid olive]

well in ACE arsenal you can just ctrl+c to copy a classname

[cobalt prism]

Yeah that's it. I might have to have use ACE in order to get what I want

Thanks anyway

[gentle mason]

Trying to have an AI use a custom face texture in the mission file as their face for a mission. Reading through SetIdentity and SetFace on the wiki but scratching my head as to how to apply a custom face texture to a model/how to have it search for that texture

[lone zephyr]

so i got a helicopter set to land and when it goes in the chopper goes through the ground like phases into it and explodes

[final hill]

Would this work if I executed it in the debug menu and then import it to an arsenal?

[turbid olive]

yes

[idle oyster]

Hello, i do not know SQF.

I am trying to make an ambush scenario, where BLUFOR ambushes an OPFOR convoy which contains something of use. After grabbing it, the players must escape to a certain point.

I've got this down, but I'm trying to work on a QRF to spawn mid-engagement, and having the players need to run from them instead of fight.

TLDR, I need to make an unbeatable QRF for my mission. Preferably dropped via heli.

[turbid olive]

https://www.youtube.com/@Gunter_Severloh check this channel out, maybe you will find some useful for your scenario

touching sqf out of nowhere without any idea is hard, so you need to start with some examples and videos (my advice)

[turbid olive]

🚨

[hushed marlin]

Hi, so i've been stuck in a problem a while now. I am trying to do hold interaction on a locker to swap the equipment for a custom loadout. Anyone can help?

[turbid olive]

https://dontasktoask.com/

[prisma oyster]

I don't see any problems here yeah

[olive pasture]

is creating a super simple object the same as having it baked into the map?

performance wise

[hushed marlin]

my another message didnt send, so when i add a code to a init, and it doesnt show any interactions on a locker, can anyone help me with fixing the code?

[olive pasture]

yes

[olive pasture]

send the code

[hushed marlin]

sure wait a sec

[
this,
"Załóż loadout: MSBS",
"\a3\ui_f\data\IGUI\Cfg\holdactions\holdAction_connect_ca.paa",
"\a3\ui_f\data\IGUI\Cfg\holdactions\holdAction_connect_ca.paa",
"",
"true",
{},
{
private _loadout = [
[
["PSZ_MSBS_556K_406","","","PSZ_AccO_EOT552_NS_DOWN",["PSZ_556x45_PMAG_30",30],[],""],
[],
[],
["PSZ_U_PL_WDL_wz2010_Crye",[["ACE_packingBandage",30],["ACE_fieldDressing",25],["ACE_morphine",1],["ACE_tourniquet",4],["kat_chestSeal",1],["kat_Painkiller",2,4]]],
["PSZ_V_UKO_H_WDL_R",[["PSZ_556x45_PMAG_30",8,30],["CUP_HandGrenade_M67",2,1],["rhssaf_mag_brd_m83_blue",3,1],["rhssaf_mag_brd_m83_white",1,1]]],
["PSZ_B_wz93_WDL",[]],
"PSZ_H_wz2005_WDL",
"rhs_facewear_6m2_1",
["Binocular","","","",[],[],""],
["ItemMap","","rhsusf_radio_anprc152","ItemCompass","KAT_Katmin","CUP_NVG_PVS15_black_WP"]
],
[]
];

    player setUnitLoadout _loadout;
},
{},
[],
2,
0,
true,
false

] call BIS_fnc_holdActionAdd;

[turbid olive]

!sqf

[formal mural]

How to use SQF syntax highlighting in Discord

```sqf
// your code here
hint "good!";
```
↓ turns into ↓

// your code here
hint "good!";

[olive pasture]

both conditions need to be set to true

[
    this,
    "Załóż loadout: MSBS",
    "\a3\ui_f\data\IGUI\Cfg\holdactions\holdAction_connect_ca.paa",
    "\a3\ui_f\data\IGUI\Cfg\holdactions\holdAction_connect_ca.paa",
    "", //<----- This needs to be true
    "true",
    {},
    {
        private _loadout = [
            [
                ["PSZ_MSBS_556K_406","","","PSZ_AccO_EOT552_NS_DOWN",["PSZ_556x45_PMAG_30",30],[],""],
                [],
                [],
                ["PSZ_U_PL_WDL_wz2010_Crye",[["ACE_packingBandage",30],["ACE_fieldDressing",25],["ACE_morphine",1],["ACE_tourniquet",4],["kat_chestSeal",1],["kat_Painkiller",2,4]]],
                ["PSZ_V_UKO_H_WDL_R",[["PSZ_556x45_PMAG_30",8,30],["CUP_HandGrenade_M67",2,1],["rhssaf_mag_brd_m83_blue",3,1],["rhssaf_mag_brd_m83_white",1,1]]],
                ["PSZ_B_wz93_WDL",[]],
                "PSZ_H_wz2005_WDL",
                "rhs_facewear_6m2_1",
                ["Binocular","","","",[],[],""],
                ["ItemMap","","rhsusf_radio_anprc152","ItemCompass","KAT_Katmin","CUP_NVG_PVS15_black_WP"]
            ],
            []
        ];

        player setUnitLoadout _loadout;
    },
    {},
    [],
    2,
    0,
    true,
    false
] call BIS_fnc_holdActionAdd;

did that work @hushed marlin ?

[hushed marlin]

wait let me try

[prisma oyster]

remove comments from init fields

[hushed marlin]

o shi sorry XD

nope still doesnt work

[plain gale]

Post the code.

[hushed marlin]

what?

[fossil urchin]

You are missing one {}, (on action start )

[
    this,
    "Załóż loadout: MSBS",
    "\a3\ui_f\data\IGUI\Cfg\holdactions\holdAction_connect_ca.paa",
    "\a3\ui_f\data\IGUI\Cfg\holdactions\holdAction_connect_ca.paa",
    "_this distance _target < 3",
    "_caller distance _target < 3",
    {},
    {},
    {
        private _loadout = [
            [
                ["PSZ_MSBS_556K_406","","","PSZ_AccO_EOT552_NS_DOWN",["PSZ_556x45_PMAG_30",30],[],""],
                [],
                [],
                ["PSZ_U_PL_WDL_wz2010_Crye",[["ACE_packingBandage",30],["ACE_fieldDressing",25],["ACE_morphine",1],["ACE_tourniquet",4],["kat_chestSeal",1],["kat_Painkiller",2,4]]],
                ["PSZ_V_UKO_H_WDL_R",[["PSZ_556x45_PMAG_30",8,30],["CUP_HandGrenade_M67",2,1],["rhssaf_mag_brd_m83_blue",3,1],["rhssaf_mag_brd_m83_white",1,1]]],
                ["PSZ_B_wz93_WDL",[]],
                "PSZ_H_wz2005_WDL",
                "rhs_facewear_6m2_1",
                ["Binocular","","","",[],[],""],
                ["ItemMap","","rhsusf_radio_anprc152","ItemCompass","KAT_Katmin","CUP_NVG_PVS15_black_WP"]
            ],
            []
        ];

        player setUnitLoadout _loadout;
    },
    {},
    [],
    2,
    0,
    true,
    false
] call BIS_fnc_holdActionAdd;

just copied condition (Condition for the action to be shown and Condition for the action to progress) from wiki

[hushed marlin]

only this error now

[fossil urchin]

i assume you have one [] too much here.

        private _loadout = [
            
                ["PSZ_MSBS_556K_406","","","PSZ_AccO_EOT552_NS_DOWN",["PSZ_556x45_PMAG_30",30],[],""],
                [],
                [],
                ["PSZ_U_PL_WDL_wz2010_Crye",[["ACE_packingBandage",30],["ACE_fieldDressing",25],["ACE_morphine",1],["ACE_tourniquet",4],["kat_chestSeal",1],["kat_Painkiller",2,4]]],
                ["PSZ_V_UKO_H_WDL_R",[["PSZ_556x45_PMAG_30",8,30],["CUP_HandGrenade_M67",2,1],["rhssaf_mag_brd_m83_blue",3,1],["rhssaf_mag_brd_m83_white",1,1]]],
                ["PSZ_B_wz93_WDL",[]],
                "PSZ_H_wz2005_WDL",
                "rhs_facewear_6m2_1",
                ["Binocular","","","",[],[],""],
                ["ItemMap","","rhsusf_radio_anprc152","ItemCompass","KAT_Katmin","CUP_NVG_PVS15_black_WP"]
            
        ];

Last [] is too much, so 10 (0-9) should be array items, not 11

@hushed marlin ☝️

https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Unit_Loadout_Array#Misc

because with getUnitloadout

[ 
    this, 
    "Załóż loadout: MSBS", 
    "\a3\ui_f\data\IGUI\Cfg\holdactions\holdAction_connect_ca.paa", 
    "\a3\ui_f\data\IGUI\Cfg\holdactions\holdAction_connect_ca.paa", 
    "_this distance _target < 3", 
 "_caller distance _target < 3", 
    {}, 
    {}, 
    { 
        private _loadout = [ 
            ["SMG_01_Holo_F","","","optic_Holosight_smg",["30Rnd_45ACP_Mag_SMG_01",30],[],""],[],[],["U_B_HeliPilotCoveralls",[["FirstAidKit",1],["30Rnd_45ACP_Mag_SMG_01",2,30],["Chemlight_green",1,1]]],["V_TacVest_blk",[["30Rnd_45ACP_Mag_SMG_01",1,30],["SmokeShellGreen",1,1],["SmokeShellBlue",1,1],["SmokeShellOrange",1,1],["Chemlight_green",1,1]]],[],"H_PilotHelmetHeli_B","",[],["ItemMap","","ItemRadio","ItemCompass","ItemWatch","NVGoggles"] 
        ]; 
 
        player setUnitLoadout _loadout; 
    }, 
    {}, 
    [], 
    2, 
    0, 
    true, 
    false 
] call BIS_fnc_holdActionAdd;

[hushed marlin]

ohhh okay

now it works thanks

[idle oyster]

I'm trying to do an airbase capture map, how can I spawn a helicopter that will fly to a point, land and drop off their passengers?

[granite willow]

U can use vanilla waypoints, they work pretty well

[idle oyster]

in eden?

[granite willow]

Yes

[idle oyster]

think i should give a bit more context, i'm trying to make these guys as QRF

[small patrol]

What makes it an QRF, that is the context. Just telling it so does not tell more info to us

If you mean you want them to fly and approach whenever some event has happened, and if that's what QRF mean, use trigger

[jovial canopy]

what waypoints should be recommended for helicopter patrol loops around an area (door gunners or not) and allowing them to eliminate enemies they see on the patrols? I assume search and destroy?

[lapis wind]

Im having trouble figuring out how to determine all of the available electronic light sources (street lamps and building lights) that are on a given terrain - the type that are placed in the builder/come with the terrain.

Is there not an easier way to pull up class names for these objects? Ive tried a few different methods but none of them have produced any actual results for me.

[queen vapor]

So has anyone gotten Mission Attributes to work? Mine are abjectly refusing to let themselves be saved to the sqm.

To be clear I mean what's also known as scenario attributes

[turbid aurora]

have you tried cycle waypoint? Make a circle with move waypoints and the last one you do cycle. Getting air to do anything is problematic

[jovial canopy]

I have tried seek a destroy or destroy (but aircraft keeps going higher above the targets) and loiter though the radius it loitetlrs is weak and increasing the radius causes it go higher above the targets

I will give that move cycle a shot tho.

[jovial canopy]

unfortunately the helicopter keeps moving higher and higher for some reason above the targets. ai limitations maybe?

[turbid olive]

with loiter? it's the radius, you need to make a bigger one

if you really want the IA heli to target enemies, you need to do some scripting... like using reveal command

[jovial canopy]

with move + cycle I mean. loiter works okay by default but the circle radius it creates is too low and increasing it just seems to increase how much furhter it flies up.

[jovial canopy]

So without the scripts or any sort, the ai will just fly endlessly or more braindead

[turbid olive]

yes, practically

most of time they are unable to find targets on the ground, even though it's obvious

[jovial canopy]

I see I might have to look more into scripting then. sucks that the basic waypoints don't do that well for ai heli patrols

[turbid olive]

a simple loop detecting players in a area with a reveal command can help you with that

[jovial canopy]

how about ai?

and can it be enabled via zeus? or enabled when using zeus?

[turbid olive]

same way

[turbid olive]

well sure, if "enable" you mean you can call the command on the fly, you just need to be careful about the locality of the command, it requires local argument (the spawned unit must be local to the machine that is calling it to work)

[jovial canopy]

Yeah i'm just planning to enable it on the fly when i spawn the unit for fun in certain sp scenarios

*mostly open ended or free roam ones

[turbid olive]

you can totally do that
https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/nearEntities
https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/reveal

[turbid olive]

global argument actually, but the effect is local, so take note

[jovial canopy]

can i put these in the init of the helicopter/units?

I'm testing with the default mi48 + its crew

and can this simply target factions regardless of unit type?

[turbid olive]

I don't recommend doing this because every client runs those init on their computer as well, maybe it will help with the local effect, but I rather make a file with a script and use variable names and remoteExec if needed

[primal salmon]

I'm trying to change the order and the names of the squads presented in the role assignment menu but when i edit the squads attributes/callsigns it doesn't do anything and still has it in the wrong order. Is it because I'm changing the wrong thing, anyone got a solution?

[plain gale]

You have to do some black magic in the mission.sqm to change the order. We did that in the spearhead campaign.

But I think CBA has a tool for that.

[wind raptor]

Yes, see #arma3_editor message.

[timber wraith]

Its also dependant on in which order they are spawned, if you spawn them in the correct order that you want it should work

Is there a setting that makes Eden spawned buildings appear on the map when the players load in?
I'm using 3den enhanced and Zeus Enhanced. I recall being able to do it in the past as a setting but cant find it

[plain gale]

There might be a mod that draws them on the map but they don't show up by default.

[timber wraith]

well shoot

[civic bane]

For the past ~2 weeks, on the editor, when I load a scenario, it gives me the default bald Snowe character instead of the one that I chose in the attributes. Installed again etc, nothing works to fix it.

Carried out the following; new player profile on in-game, went into editor and loaded new scenario with the same problem.

Changed from Default to Sabet, and the issue continues, with only Sabet skin appearing.

So essentially the problem is that the player profile is overriding the attributes selection in the editor.

I know there are temporary fixes such as changing faces in attributes, however these are both impractical and incompatible with GM/SOG for faces which are textured.

Is there a permanent solution to this problem that allows me to select chosen face and play with that face in a single player Eden editor scenario?

Any help will be appreciated.

[prisma oyster]

For the past ~2 weeks
remove the addon you installed then

Is there a permanent solution to this problem that allows me to select chosen face and play with that face in a single player Eden editor scenario?
the solution can be CfgIdentities usage, otherwise by default the game loads your profile

[civic bane]

I have wiped Arma3 clean and have played with no mods yet the issue has persisted

[prisma oyster]

that phrasing made it look like "suddenly" there was a change in behaviour

but regarding "playing with the set identity", you can either use a CfgIdentities you set on the character, or
place a player unit somewhere, and in the init field of the unit you want to play (provided it is single player): ```sqf
selectPlayer this;

[primal salmon]

Alright thanks I'll try it out

[primal salmon]

Squad names still aren't changing in the role selection but atleast its in order now

[civic bane]

Performed some more testing;

Command ‘selectPlayer this;’ was ineffective at solving the problem.

Had 2 characters, my character and an AI in the editor under the same unit.

When loading the scenario, I spawned as the AI despite not ticking ‘Playable/Player’ it in the scenario, which ended up with me playing the AI ‘Robertson’ and the AI in the role of ‘Player 1’ if that makes sense.

My character controlled by AI still had the problem of having the Snowe/default face.

This issue is getting more complicated than I previously expected, how should I proceed with it?

I operate on MacBook, if that gives any clarity.

[prisma oyster]

what I mean is that place the "player" unit somewhere you will never encounter (you can even delete it)
and in the unit that you customise and want to play, use that script and you will control it

[rain token]

Hey folks, I have a problem and can't really find an angle to tackle it so I was hoping someone here could help me with that.

I designed a little armory in Eden, just a cage with a table, some guy standing there, giving out weapons and a few weapons and pieces of equipment are on the table (some weapons, some nightvisions, pistols, map, etc, you know, a little bit of clutter so it looks nice).

So, with Simulation disabled on these equipment pieces are not usable / nobody can pick them up and this is great, but I am a little bit anoyed that you still get the "Pick Up" Action displayed when you look at them. Is there a way to disable this action for objects? I know there is removeAllActions or removeAction but these only work for user added actions. Is there another way to remove default game actions like the pickup action?

[undone basalt]

this setdamage 1

[rain token]

Oh my god, thats so f****** genius. Thank you. Never would have tried that.

[civic bane]

That works surprisingly well! Whilst it adds a few more seconds to getting in-game, it is better than the alternative. Whilst I hope it is ultimately fixed for now it is a good stop-gap, thank you.

[swift iris]

something like this,only the front qlin moved but the rest stayed

all synced and grouped

[scarlet crystal]

are the passengers in the same group as drivers?

[granite willow]

You can use follow or move waypoints. Also I don't think that there is a point in syncing

[swift iris]

uh im not sure haha i just put them inside the cars

[swift iris]

alr

i used move

only on the qlin tho

[granite willow]

U can use follow waypoint for other vehicles, place waypoint on the qulin

[swift iris]

oh alr

il try it tmrw

thanks

[olive pasture]

is there anyway to clear the text on the bottom left?

[swift iris]

i connected the follow waypoint to qlin but the zamak doesnt move and the troops just start unloading themslves??

[turbid olive]

put them in the same group, formation column, the first vic - the leader of the group, and that's it, you don't need to add a follow wp nor sync units

[prisma oyster]

clearRadio

[swift iris]

thxxxx it worksss

do you by chance know where to change behaviour? like the one where you choose if they prefer roads or not

[olive pasture]

thanks

[turbid olive]

I don't know if the path they choose is related to their behaviour, I've seen tracked vehicles taking shortcuts, meanwhile wheeled vehicles reaching their destination using only roads

[swift iris]

for me only the front vehcile goes and the rest turns,one goes into a side road the other one drives into a field

urghh

and the last car is like moving its tires left and right and not moving lol

[scarlet crystal]

Have you tried spacing them out

[swift iris]

nope

il try

yea 2 of them go on the field and other one turns onto a sideroad

[turbid olive]

looks like they are trying to be in WEDGE formation, maybe you forgot to put them in column formation

[plain gale]

Ctrl+ R...3den Enhanced shortcut

[swift iris]

yup didnt make a column formation

[turbid olive]

that's why you have to put them in column formation, it's in the waypoint attributes or the group's attributes

[swift iris]

is it in attributes?