enfusion_scenario

[lean scroll]

It's great being able to create these custom units at loadout selection

[west karma]

You spelt sheshul wrong

[solar shard]

modded XM177 or ingame?

[lean scroll]

Modded - it's the GAU-5 mod in the Workshop (not mine)

[solar shard]

Sheshull Forces?

[solar shard]

Ah I thought so. check

[solar shard]

thats the one thing I was so much faster now in ArmaR then setting up my first custom loadouts when APEX released

[lean scroll]

Yeah agreed, although I still get a little confused by the various ALICE pouches etc. but I imagine that'll improve with repetition

[toxic geyser]

Question, I'm trying to place weapon racks and equipment boxes in lieu of an arsenal box for a co-op mission, but nothing spawns in them. What is necessary to get items and weapons to spawn?

[willow inlet]

Check if it works if you have campaign faction manager prefab placed in

[steady nimbus]

Hi there, does anyone know how to make tasks for a coop mission?
Is there any sample I could take a look or anyone that could help me with the process?

[toxic geyser]

I placed it and something broke, causing the arsenal itself to be empty

[zinc wharf]

Anyone know how to get markers to show up on the map?

Using SCR_MapDescriptorComponent

Or anything really, i just want to have a reliable marker I can position around the map for debugging...

[late plover]

Where can I find the info to Host a Coop mission on a dedicated server Ie. The guid etc.

[halcyon patrol]

Has anyone managed to utilise the supplies and loading them into trucks for players to deploy prefabs in their own custom coop missions?

[magic oasis]

@solar shard looks like objectives are working now 🙂....kind of

[median oar]

Good question :) someone?

[zinc wharf]

I just need to be able to place markers on the map for debugging, can't find a simple example anywhere...

[warm lichen]

is that a prefab or something you custom made? the loadout selection screen, i mean

[worthy glade]

has anyone come across a wave respawn for missions, or a way to make round-based respawns for tdm-like games?

[lean scroll]

There is a wave respawn timer component

[median oar]

Player wave respawn component for players ist there otherwise for AI this is a good start point https://github.com/exocs/Reforger-Sample-Coop

[toxic geyser]

I found the issue(?) The normal prefabs don't spawn anything, but the editable prefabs spawn with everything in it automatically for all boxes and racks

[lean scroll]

How do I import these sample missions into my enfusion engine

[toxic geyser]

When opening the workbench there's an import option

[lean scroll]

Thank you

When I create my own prefab by duplicating an existing one, it saves to MissionName\Prefabs...

Can I freely use this in my gamemode/mod?

Or do I need to do any extra steps

[austere path]

is there a way to open a map to move the camera faster in the world editor?

[lean scroll]

Right click in the world editor and hold it, use WASD + QZ to move, scroll wheel determines speed

[austere path]

I need a map

cause I can't scroll all the way out because I won't see anything

[toxic geyser]

the persp button allows you to change to a top perspective, which is sort of a map

[wooden owl]

Can you pin this?

[worthy glade]

can we get a small tutorial page attached to the examples?

[keen torrent]

Did you solve the sizing issue? I'm running into the same problem. I even tried scaling up with entity itself with no change

[native topaz]

Hi Team hoping someone can help me, I am trying to adjust the fog in my mission, I have the fog/haze manager and set the parameters I want however as soon as I go and play my mission within the workbench the fog is gone. Does anyone know wtf I am doing wrong?

[muted vigil]

is there link to tools i dont own arma on pc i own it on xbox
is there a way to download it without owning arma on pc

[visual stump]

Stupid question. I just published a mission. I want to now download it and host it on my server. When publishing we don't have a server.json file. How do we pack one in when published? I want people if interested to be able to host my mission.

[pearl badge]

The server has a -listScenarios flag. https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Arma_Reforger:Startup_Parameters#listScenarios

[visual stump]

My problem is where do I get the information people are putting in their server.json file so I can get the conf information for my made mod to put in my server

[proud sorrel]

Can't wait to check it out!

[mighty axle]

does anyone know how i can get scr faction control trigger to activate multiple times? for ex: the trigger activates, spawns a unit- this unit eventually dies, and i would like the trigger to become active again

[solar shard]

Not quite sure but I believe you have to buy it on Steam to use the tools on pc sadly

[solar shard]

I believe @proud sorrel stumbled upon the same in his last video. Don’t know if he solved it.

[solar shard]

That’s the Respawn setup in the gamemode and custom created Loadouts added in the loadout manager.

[native topaz]

Thanks mate 👍 glad to know I am not the only one

[solar shard]

Setting up custom Loadouts is pretty easy. Just copy a character prefab into your project and edit it.

I will include it in my tutorial list which will be added soon to my NightOps git

[silent canopy]

I had an occurance of no session id in my serverDatajson file has anyone run into this?

[balmy vigil]

Any way to use group prefabs but make them spawn inside a bunker I placed?

Oh from digging in the code, is this a WIP feature?

[lean scroll]

Seems like I’ll either have to wait until the Eden editor gets remade or more documentation comes out, I’m not interested in adding in new factions/content etc, just making missions, engines a little too uninforming rn

[lean scroll]

Yes thanks for showing me this Zeal

[lean scroll]

It's honestly a 10 minute job once you work it out - like building a Matryoshka doll

[proper wind]

Anyone know how to make a custom faction?

[lean scroll]

Personally, my irritation is that I cant spawn individual units

AI only exists on a group level

Just spawn a group and delete the extra units?

yeah ive resorted to that

theres just a lot of stuff that is still not documented for beginners yet, like, how each component interacts etc

[solar shard]

create groups with only 1 member. Give them a defend point at the fortification and optional add a compartment component to the fortification where you setup how they use the turrets inside etc

[lean scroll]

How do I add map objectives

Tasks that get executed/do other tasks in sequence

for players

[balmy vigil]

K

[solar shard]

@lean scroll its all in the coopSample from bohemia. Its explained in Herbiies tutorial (pinned here) or useless fodder's youtube video and this, and many more typical features are shown off in my NightOps - Everon 1985 coop mission, where I offer the source code here:

https://github.com/Zealous666/AR_NightOps1985

[median oar]

Did anybody try to prezoom the map to the mission?

[lean scroll]

I took a look at the coop sample but its beyond me, like, how does each component interact with eachother?

I didn’t see any scripts in there either

[solar shard]

early access is around 1 week out. That time we needed to learn the basics stuff you just asked for. I guess an eden like editor is years away so better start learning on a developer tools level right now to achieve even greater stuff in just weeks. Just my two cents 😉

[solar shard]

there are some scripts in it. Either attached as a userScript to the game logic entity or at the trigger etc.

[lean scroll]

Oh okay

I dont see Herbiees thing pinned

To be honest im a person who learns with a human there explaining it vs simply piecing apart and reading

[solar shard]

https://github.com/Herbiie/ArmAReforgerMissionMakingGuide/wiki/1)--ArmA-Reforger-Mission-Making-%7C-Getting-Started

[solar shard]

Than give useless fodders video a chance

[lean scroll]

I’ve watched his video, I didn’t see the objective part

[lean scroll]

Thank you

Ill have to watch fodders video again

[solar shard]

Im writing down a tutorial right now about some more specific mechanics about the NightOps map. Tasks, vehicle respawn, custom Loadouts, stable weather ssystem etc. But this won’t be published before next week.

[lean scroll]

Alright

Im coming from someone who doesn’t work in game engines, only wanting to make scenarios/etc from the assets BI already gave

So, I don’t really know much about components and how to reverse engineer this kind kf stuff

I do know C# though

[ionic lark]

@solar shard first of all, thank you for your mission. It help me alot to understand how things work. But still strugling with tasks. Tried to do copy of your secondary task 2 but can’t make it work. But anyway it is very much helpfull ❤️

[solar shard]

Hey thx. As stated in the mod description published, the task system is very glitchy right now. Even stated by @quasi jay that it has issues and needs a total rework for MP. But luckily, @mental cove is developing one right now and we all hope he can get it to run.

At this point I just replicated voji‘s task from their coopSample. Sometime it works, often not. Definitely not in MP most time. So don’t struggle with that too much.

There will come two more missions next week with the tutorial showcasing some more mechanics to copy like a dynamic vehicle Respawn with wandering respawn positions. My goal is to complete the NightOps mod with total of 3 missions showcasing the most (basic) coop stuff and it will be followed by a tutorial explaining those specific stuff.

[ionic lark]

Sounds amazing! Will focus on enviroment and AI until then. Thank you!

[deep prairie]

any tut for dynamic ai spawn?

[quasi jay]

Sorry, but this is misleading. The task system works correctly when used correctly. But to use it correctly, it's very difficult and not very modders friendly, sorry! 😦

[lean scroll]

Will it be modder friendly 😂

[solar shard]

Im very sorry i Said that in the wrong way. Actually that’s new to me. I was tagging you in the hope you say exactly that. So no one of us were able to set this up correctly for MP then. I really wish we could get a very little tutorial how to set it up MP friendly. Right now, most time it doesn’t send it’s content over network and just shows the default values.

The simple thing like finishing tasks via trigger, create tasks in runtime via trigger etc and most important to set it up MP friendly is the one thing Joey malley tries to setup since days and no one of us solved it.

I for myself abandoned that tasks stuff some days ago and concentrate on other mechanics since it killed too much of my spare free time without a progress.

[mental cove]

A total rework is a bit of an overestimation of what im putting together, just making a few wrapper classes and calling things in a different way really. And it all works in sp, and in mp fine if you have everyone on the server before you create the tasks.

[solar shard]

Well speaking of this specific channel here #enfusion_scenario the one thing next to the basic stuff (setting up a mission, adding WPs etc) everyone is asking every hour is how to set up tasks properly. So I guess this is awesome @mental cove

[west karma]

I don't have Tasks in mine

[solar shard]

As said, once Joe Malley has released his "framework" and I was able to implement it, I will write a tutorial about exactly that.

[west karma]

Going to try and work them out today 😛 that and maybe adding vehicles (which could be very easy idk)

[balmy vigil]

The editor play button has a "play from camera position" option, but can I use it and spawn as a game master?

[west karma]

@solar shard Did you just make your SCR_CoopTaskManager from scratch or did you copy a prefab and edit it?

[solar shard]

its based on the _base

so basically from scratch

[balmy vigil]

Wow the AI is stupid, setting a patrol route is almost imposible

[solar shard]

you can always when testing out of the editor press esc and play as gamemaster

[balmy vigil]

They can get stuck in a bloody fench

or a lamp post even

[ionic lark]

It's time consuming ngl but put more waypoints, reduce radius. AI setup was easiest thing for me so far.

[thorny barn]

The fact that you can reuse waypoints between groups is really cool.

I’m looking forward to using that too create more dynamic ‘actions on’ behaviours

[west karma]

I think that's saying more about the complexity of everything else than the ease of AI setup 😛

[spice temple]

I have placed a Vehicle Maintance station how can i let a car spawn there? tryed adding the vehicle spawner component but did not work

[earnest notch]

There is a setting for increasing the witdth of the AI path, haven't tested if that helps in any way?

[west karma]

Can you get all your projects open in the workbench at the same time?

[solar shard]

Don’t think so. But you can of course manage several worlds in one project

[late plover]

Thanks man!

[solar shard]

Is there a roadmap for early access what features to expect? I saw some vehicles in the official custom sample master mod for example or the disabled destroy furniture feature. Wondering if / when features like NVG, tracked vehicles etc are coming. Expecting to be months away Ofcourse.

[deep prairie]

anyone has height map sample i can use?

because when i load my height map seem like nothing change..it remain flat

[quasi jay]

Theoretically you can get one from https://terrain.party/

[solar shard]

#enfusion-terrain-makers asked?

[deep prairie]

oh wrong section

[torn wyvern]

hm, i got a weird problem with the arsenal prefabs. i got a faction manager placed down and configured. i place down a full arsenal box, i test it in the editor and it works (even the custom arsenal preset works, i added the rolled up BDU and all the PASGT helmet variants). i close the editor, load the world again and it does not work anymore, all the arsenal boxes are empty. same thing happens after publishing.

[visual stump]

Hey all, I was able to make a successful mission following Useless Fodder's video. Thank you so much for that @proud sorrel I am curious though, I have my GUID that comes with the MOD but how do we get the game id part that goes in front of the conf line so I can add it to my server? How do we pack a server.json file into the bundle? Do we add it to the bundle and then rezip it and then publish?

I just realized, it would be nice for people to leave comments on your mod to see how you can better it than just seeing a "like" percentage 🙂

[unborn oasis]

What should the "Game Mode" field be for Game Master?

[torn wyvern]

In the basegame Gamemaster mission its "#AR-Scenario_GameMode_GameMaster"

[unborn oasis]

Does that still work for custom maps?

I'll give it a try

[median oar]

I just made a script it does work in the editor but not on a server. If we can solve the issue we have a solution 😄 (Simple Marker ) #enfusion_scripting message

[zinc wharf]

Thanks dude, I will take a look after work!

[sullen talon]

Maybe you are trying to modify some core data (packed, lock icon) - override such items in your mod and then use those

[torn wyvern]

yeah should work. its the ID for the language stringtable. if there would be a different translation for "Gamemaster" in different languages it would be the correct translation automatically depending on the language you set in your game

[ancient adder]

Anyone got a link/info on creating custom loadouts?

[pallid shoal]

what are the keyboard layout for workbench? i cant wsda to move

[ancient adder]

Right click then WASD

[pallid shoal]

ok thank you

[ancient adder]

scroll wheel to speed up down

Q Z up down

[pallid shoal]

ty

[unborn oasis]

Ahh alright thanks a lot!

[torn wyvern]

hm, im not sure, just placed down one of the arsenal presets, i did not modify it. interestingly it works in a new project, even if i do the exact same thing. i´ll compare both projects, maybe i can find some difference.

[torn wyvern]

ok thats interesting (maybe, im not sure 😄 ). the only difference i was able to find was that the arsenal prefabs and the faction manager were in different layers i created. now i moved the the arsenal prefabs into the same layer and it works without a problem. should that be a thing? is the order of the layers important?

[ancient adder]

Any ideas which component I edit to remove starting weapons from the loadout?

Want my player to spawn with no weapons

[sullen talon]

Order of/in layers can force order of initialization, so yes, managers should be before other dynamic things ideally :\

[junior cliff]

order as in order on the list? or the IDs (order of creation)?

If alphabetically it would be nice if we could use numbers in the names.

[wooden owl]

This is awesome, it works great, except for one thing, I want to use the AISpawnerComponent to make waves of enemies spawn every X seconds, but for some reason the component won't allow more to spawn, it also won't allow players to respawn if they die, or if they aren't in yet when the ai spawns, thoughts?

Basically curious if you know what in the script is blocking new spawns, and if it would be possible to turn it off.

[sullen talon]

You will need to implement your own logic, it is just an example of how to approach it 🙂

[sullen talon]

The order in which you see them, yeah

[ancient adder]

Never mind - there is an "unarmed" character already built as a prefab.

now how to make prefab characters playable

I'm being dumb, I just need to add the unarmed character to the loadout manager and then remove the others, so they can only respawn as that.

[west karma]

@sullen talon is there an easy way to set tasks as complete via script? So could I have a custom trigger that sets a task as successful?
I notice there's getTaskState in your mission, is there a setTaskState??

[sullen talon]

@quasi jay will know more 🙂

[quasi jay]

GetTaskManager().FinishTask(myTask); 🙂

[solar shard]

@west karma have you by any chance find out how to create tasks midmission? Still cannot find out a way that JIP see the tasks in my server

[west karma]

Not at all sorry haha

I've forgotten how I added the tasks in the first place 😄

[visual stump]

Curious, I have the time and weather manager in. Have weather states. I am just trying to make my mission start with raining and dark/dusk and become morning as time goes on. I am trying to set my initial day time but it looks to either be night or day. So strange.

[solar shard]

Maybe it’s conflicting with the one in base Eden.er your map is probably based one. I can recommended the force weather component you find in my NightOps map. It’s based on ex0‘s C&H variant

[sullen talon]

Perhaps you are duplicating the TimeAndWeatherManager? See Zeal's note 🙂

[toxic geyser]

Has anyone figured out how to enable selecting the group/company name in the spawn menus?

I know they can be changed in the faction manager, but how do we allow players to pick their callsigns?

[west karma]

If you have named the task, say, task1 in the World Editor, can you reference this in a script? So would
GetTaskManager().FinishTask(task1)
work?

[solar shard]

    SCR_TriggerTask task = SCR_TriggerTask.Cast(GetWorld().FindEntityByName("trg_secondaryTsk_2"));
        GetTaskManager().FinishTask(task);```

I tried this in different variants but always got a pointer null.

But now when I think about it, maybe it was no triggerTask class, I used. Will check when I’m at home.

[visual stump]

Thanks, I had seen that but wasn't sure how to impliment it. I do have two time and weather. I adjust the duplicated one and it adjusts stuff but it doesnt look like time goes by.

[solar shard]

Well my solution is to NOT use another weather manager since one is in the Eden.er which resets itself uncontrollable. And then instead, I add the force weather component to my gamemode.

[pliant rock]

Pff, just looked in to the AI Skill Default

[solar shard]

LOL

[pliant rock]

https://tenor.com/view/cylon-by-your-command-robot-gif-17178504

[torn wyvern]

thats good to know, thanks 😉

[visual stump]

Thanks man I will try that.

[solar shard]

It still needs ONE weather manager to inherit. So make sure that indeed one exist (Usual the default one in Eden.et)

[visual stump]

I appreciate it.

[west karma]

Can you do the equivialnt of a sleep? to delay something

[quasi jay]

See this method: GetGame().GetCallQueue().CallLater();

[west karma]

Is there any documentation for that method?

Mkay, added basic tasks to the tutorial:
https://github.com/Herbiie/ArmAReforgerMissionMakingGuide/wiki/4)-ArmA-Reforger-Mission-Making-%7C-Extras

[deep prairie]

this is what i need

[near vault]

@west karma Thx for a very well laid out and explained set of tutorials, that's a lot of work you have done and it is very much appreciated

[west karma]

Only thank me if it all actually works in MP 😛

[near vault]

lol well we will see, we needed a good intro to it and that certainly gets us started

[visual stump]

@west karma yes thank you. Do you have anything regarding server.json? Useless fodder video really helped get my mission started but I cannot figure out for the life of me the proper gameid for use on my server conf line.

[near vault]

so a missing element to that is setting up a player orbaty, lets say a command group an d a couple of squads, with preconfigured roles/loadouts

[west karma]

Nope, don't have a server

[west karma]

On the to do list, but it looks like it won't look the same

[near vault]

dont you have an mp enviro to test your stuff on ?

[visual stump]

As much controversy there is over 2042 it would be sick to have on the fly mission builders/scenarios without needing to spend hours.

[near vault]

i played about in the factions manager but to date only see 1 group in the respawn gui screen

[west karma]

Nope

[near vault]

ok well to give u access to ftp and a server isnt an issue, but... the ball breaker is being able to edit the json file on the fly to add a sceanrio to test, eg #missions type of functionalisty

[visual stump]

Where do we get this initial conf line for our server? I mean sure I have the missions/name.conf

[west karma]

Atm am happy letting other people do the MP testing for me 😛

[near vault]

@visual stump I just followed the tutorial for the server configuration on the wiki, it worked for me out of the box, didnt even need to set up firewall rules

[lean scroll]

MP is for nubs, real OFP mission making veterans play solo (spending days testing their own mission)

[west karma]

The way will likely to be to build up the menu from the ground up

[magic oasis]

So far, when the mission ends I have to restart my server to start again. Am I missing something or is this limited at the moment. For reference I am hosting Night Ops

[median oar]

Thats true for now :(

[lean scroll]

Anyone experimented with triggered music playing....?

[visual stump]

My apologies, I guess I missed that wiki since I was following Fodders video. I will go look up the wiki. Thanks.

[solar shard]

https://github.com/itsSchrobo/awesome-arma-reforger take a look here. Complete server tutorial.

Found it here: https://discord.com/channels/452035973786632194/975861303270862898

[median oar]

Check the toilet flush :)

[solar shard]

cannot recommened that till I re-implemented the tasks 😉

[lean scroll]

Devs, are you guys planning on making the task framework more accessible? Or just relying on modders

[magic oasis]

I can tell you we had a lot of fun. 😊🙏

[solar shard]

Thats awesome to hear. Mission 2 and 3 of this mini-campaign are allready in production but right know I will finish the task system of that first mission.

[lean scroll]

The timeandweather manager advice is great - I was wondering why the missions was so easy to test. It's because nobody was shooting back at me!

[steady nimbus]

followed step by step, when I open the world I can't find the game mode, any idea?

[lean scroll]

can confirm @west karma 's system has worked for me with a basic seize task. SP only test. Thank you

@steady nimbus did you change the name of the script when saving? I did and it didn't work, so saved with the exact same name as per the tutorial

And then it worked

[slender gull]

Hey,
I was able to make your script to work with few modifications to complete tasks.

SCR_BaseTask task = SCR_BaseTask.Cast(GetGame().GetWorld().FindEntityByName(objectiveName));
task.Finish();
GetTaskManager().FinishTask(task);```

I think issue was that you were missing GetGame().

[steady nimbus]

same name, same folders, same capitalization

[solar shard]

love you already. mind to explain that?

[slender gull]

Edited my original message.

I am 99% sure issue was:
You were missing GetGame().

[solar shard]

well and to get the correct task class I guess. EditorTask etc

I will give it directly a shot

[slender gull]

Also, I just changed type to SCR_BaseTask so it can accept any type of base task instead of editorTask.
Eg. TriggerTask, CustomTask

[solar shard]

Ah I wasnt aware that this is the parent class. I was just checking which of my task need which class but thats awesome

but just to understand... in your code you shows me still editorTask

so you just changed it afterwards? I will do that too. That makes so much sense

[slender gull]

I didnt edit my code snippet, let me do that so its fixed for future referencing.

[solar shard]

well but it works. just tried it out

I appreciate your help. Thank you very much.

Now all whats left to solve is why they most time not appear in MP

[visual stump]

Yay, if you delete out your addons folder or where your project was being created from you are toast right? I mean we cant take down a published one and keep editing?

[slender gull]

Oh, Do you RPL commands to server?
Because they can only be completed on server side.

[visual stump]

I was testing an error and didn't even realize where the files were stored originally. FUN 🙂

[solar shard]

the issue is, they dont show up correctly in the beginning. Icons dont appear on the map and in the name / description there are the default placeholders. The task prefabs of course have the rplcomponent added.

thats how they usual appear when launching the map via dedicated server.

[magic oasis]

Can confirm. Also, for me as the first to join it was middle of day. For next guy it was night.

[slender gull]

How about third guy?
Eg. Its possible server only set day and it defaults to night on clients.
Or vise-versa.

[magic oasis]

When I left and came back it was synced. When I played through a second time there was also no issue.

[slender gull]

Do you have link to repo?

[solar shard]

yeah mom, commiting right now newest version

[solar shard]

sorry, kid woke up.

https://github.com/Zealous666/AR_NightOps1985

I appreciate your support btw!

[slender gull]

Will check it soon,
I was about to finish off one of my scripts, but do you know how to get Entity name from component.

[solar shard]

sorry no. Im still struggling with understanding the class based syntax and request support all the time.

😛

[slender gull]

Yeh, This IDE doesnt make it any easier.
Its super hard to find out all data that class holds.

Example, GenericComponent only shows few functions.

[solar shard]

speaking of that. Has anybody figured how let a trigger only run one time? Is there some sort of "deleteVehicle thisTrigger" in the onActivate script necesary?

[slender gull]

I dont understand last part.
But you can either have simple bool that sets false once used to prevent more uses triggers.
Or you can destroy whole trigger. I did this because I wanted to also delete object from the world.

[solar shard]

the last part is meant like destroying the whole trigger. How would you achieve this?

[slender gull]

I am still working on MP solution, but this works in SP/as a host:

SCR_EntityHelper.DeleteEntityAndChildren(GetGame().GetWorld().FindEntityByName(entityName));

Tested quite many languages, but seems like you can use nim to highlight this new scripting language. 😄

[solar shard]

works fine, thank you. I friggled a little bit more with the rplComponent of the tasks, really courious if they work now in MP but im not at the gaming station right now to test.

[slender gull]

DeleteEntityAndChildren can only be executed on server.
Thats why I created new class to handle RPC to make it work in MP.

WIP

{
    [Attribute("", UIWidgets.EditBox, "Objective name", "")]
    protected string objName;
    [Attribute("", UIWidgets.EditBox, "Objective description", "")]
    protected string objDesc;
    [Attribute("", UIWidgets.EditBox, "Objective title", "")]
    protected string objTitle;
    
    void CollectItem()
    {
        Rpc(RpcAsk_CompleteObj, GetOwner().GetName());
    }
    
    [RplRpc(RplChannel.Reliable, RplRcver.Server)]
    protected void RpcAsk_CompleteObj(string entityName)
    {
        //Send hint to all.
        SCR_BaseTask task = SCR_BaseTask.Cast(GetGame().GetWorld().FindEntityByName(objName));
        task.Finish();
        GetTaskManager().FinishTask(task);
        
        Rpc(RpcDo_CompleteObj);
        SCR_EntityHelper.DeleteEntityAndChildren(GetGame().GetWorld().FindEntityByName(entityName));
    }    
    
    [RplRpc(RplChannel.Reliable, RplRcver.Broadcast)]
    protected void RpcDo_CompleteObj()
    {
        SCR_HintManagerComponent hintComponent = SCR_HintManagerComponent.GetInstance();
        hintComponent.ShowCustomHint(objDesc, objTitle, 10);
        
    }
}```

[solar shard]

Did you by any chance did find a way to create / unlock tasks midmission in runtime by trigger instead of all shown at the mission beginning? Thats the last big part im struggling with.

[slender gull]

Havent yet work on that.

[slender gull]

Who was that guy working on Objective/Task system API?

[solar shard]

@mental cove

[slender gull]

Do you know latest status of that project?

[solar shard]

yeah he just asked my to join his server for testing purpose. So I guess he's making progress but I wasnt able to help since im just at my work mac right now

[slender gull]

Uh oh, my script made game not feel good.

[silent canopy]

has anyone else lost everything even after saving and closing workbench like the project exists but all layers are gone like the world and everything in your saved folder?

[solar shard]

not really but sounds like your meta files of the layers are gone

[west karma]

Ah fuck yes, my script has the filename in doesn't it

Does a find and replace SCR_HerbTaskManager with your filename

[slender gull]

Hell yeh, found way to get entity name as component.
It should now work in MP. 😄
Had to set parent class to ScriptComponent because it has GetOwner().

Anyways, going to check your project now.

[lunar latch]

So when i load the eden.ent terain it does not work properly i can only see a white outline of the map anyone else had this problem. Even if i "tp" to object that are supposed to be on the map it does not load

[solar shard]

its m_01 btw

[slender gull]

Umm...

[solar shard]

höh?

let me check if github has merged wrong

they are all only one time there

[lunar latch]

Here is my porblem the world does not seen to want to load

[solar shard]

jap its a merge error since I moved some scripts into another folder. I will re-upload the whole git

[silent canopy]

they are still referenced in the meta

[worthy glade]

Anyone have a notion of how to make a game mode like counter strike "defuse bomb" with a round based system and one life to live per round?

[slender gull]

To do second part of that, you just spawn players as spectators when they die and once round is over you just force spawn them again.

[worthy glade]

Interesting, I haven't seen the spectator thing

Even better, I can move players to a goofy play area, unless I can use spectate to force them to watch 1st person

I could make a mod to display the round info on a screen in the play area, that'd be sick

[slender gull]

That should be possible with this new UI layout system.

[junior cliff]

any way to place the unit in the tower, not on the tower?

[solar shard]

here we go. uploaded it completely again:

https://github.com/Zealous666/AR_NightOps1985

[slender gull]

So, which task should be only visibler?

[solar shard]

are you via server / mp in?

in SP it works fine

[slender gull]

Through editor. Shouldnt that be player-hosted?

[solar shard]

editor and scenario (ingame) works fine. but when playing via dedicated in a real mp / coop environment, they are just empty

[zinc wharf]

Anyone worked out how to set the imageset for a mapDescriptorComponent?

[solar shard]

joe malley mentioned that he believes, it only works well when tasks are initialized AFTER all players have joined the server but thats just what I heared. I have really no experience in that

[zinc wharf]

I know which Quad i want to use, but I cannot choose the imageset

[solar shard]

all tasks have rplcomponents etc but it seems like either, I havent set up them correctly or the class needs an overhaul to broadcast itself

[slender gull]

I think that might be because of this.

Right now trying to figure out how to run dedicated server. 😄

[solar shard]

@native monolith was so nice to test the dedicated stuff for me since I hadnt the time to setup one by myself the last days

https://github.com/itsSchrobo/awesome-arma-reforger btw is a good source for setting up one

[solar shard]

maybe @quasi jay can elaborate that a little bit for us for better understanding

[slender gull]

Based on comment, it should only affect editor mode.
But, you cant never trust just comments in script.

[median oar]

Here the repo for KOTT thanks for all the help 😄 https://github.com/devinSpitz/KingOfTheToilet @sullen talon gave you credit cause i got some scripts from you and you helped me some times here 😄

[slender gull]

Thanks.
I think this should be standardised format for MissionHeaders.
Because you cant remember all addon ids, else we are going to end up like this:

{1C7C31ACBB314DCF}Missions/MissionHeader_1.conf
{1298YFEHO0H82312}Missions/MissionHeader_1.conf
{FDSHUO8123JJDGFD}Missions/MissionHeader_1.conf
{FA089U212J1298321J}Missions/MissionHeader_1.conf

[solar shard]

cannot really follow. whats the issue?

you mean instead of the ID?

[west karma]

You can't tell which mission is which when putting it on the server I think

[solar shard]

ok, fair enough.

never saw that from a server standpoint.

{7413AC94034AF2BC}Missions/nightops_everon1985_1.conf here ya go

am I crazy... i could have sworn that I saw the prefabs of the conflict buildings, when they are just that blue transparent preview but now Im looking since an hour and cant find em

has anybody figured out how to adress the "visible" flag of an preplaced entity? thinking of a way of "hideObjectGlobal"

[slender gull]

Got this error when trying through scenario.

Also, I added Print to init of CoopTaskManager, seems like it never gets called on server.
Strange. 🤔

Also, I tried to attach debugger to server, but wasnt able to.
Dunno if there's tutorial somewhere.

[solar shard]

those support class is from their eliminateTask. Did you tried it several times?

its a task / class their wrote for their coopSample I guess

[visual stump]

Anyone familiar with looking at our logs to see why a mission might not have loaded from the server?

My mission load fine from the workshop to play

[keen torrent]

weird issue. When I try to drop GenericWorldPP_Default into my world, the editor hard crashes without and error, everytime. Any suggestions? Sometimes I don't even get as far as dropping it. The editor will also crash when that entity even shows up in the resource library.

[slender gull]

Yeh, i had same issue.
Its optional so I just skipped that part until its fixed.

[keen torrent]

Gotcha, Thanks Solid!

[main tangle]

So whenever I try to do anything with the navmesh file (CTI_Campaign_Eden.nmn) including reading it or selecting it in the Navmesh File field in the NavmeshWorldComponent in SCR_AIWorld the editor crashes. I think this is also the cause of a crash if I try to open CTI_Campaign_Eden.ent. The crash.log file shows: Program: E:\Steam Files\steamapps\common\Arma Reforger Tools\Workbench\ArmaReforgerWorkbench.exe Reason: Access violation. Illegal read by 0x7ff68b30fd9d at 0x2678517d1b8

[silent canopy]

sometimes when publishing I dont get a scenrioid, why? I am very confused

[main tangle]

Just tried purging the Arma Reforger Tools regedit records but that didn't help.

[left lava]

https://streamable.com/tzsxo0
Any idea why they didnt move with the vehicle ?

[main tangle]

I don't think AI driving is implemented yet.

[left lava]

ah

[left lava]

And they can be gunner and fire with the vehicle weapon ?

[main tangle]

That I don't know, but it should be pretty easy to find out.

[left lava]

ok thanks

[main tangle]

So to clarify, I get the crash when I follow these steps and press Ok at the end: https://github.com/Herbiie/ArmAReforgerMissionMakingGuide/wiki/2)-ArmA-Reforger-Mission-Making-%7C-Creating-The-Mission#adding-ai-world

Although I'm looking at the CaptureAndHold scenario right now and it isn't populating the Navmesh File field so maybe it isn't needed. I'll proceed assuming it isn't and see what happens.

Wait a second, CaptureAndHold doesn't have AI does it. So I can't really conclude it isn't needed for a scenario with AI.

[main tangle]

So I was able to load GM_Eden.nmn, so at least that works. I have no idea why I am unable to load anything inside ArmaReforger/worlds/MP/ though. Any troubleshooting advice would be most appreciated.

[heavy phoenix]

Would it be in bad taste to reenact that time, in the 80's, that a dozen retired rangers smoked 20+ Crips gang members in LA?

[brazen oyster]

is there a way to make AI force path 0 or hold position?

[proper wind]

https://tenor.com/6sxZ.gif

[slender gull]

Bad taste is quite tricky subject. Its just how people intercept things.
Special forces eliminating enemies? Most thinks thats ok.
Retired people who became vigilantes? Dunno.

I tried to lookup the subject, and google gave me no results with multiple different search combinations.
So I think its quite niche global knowledge as I hadn't heard about that before.

[heavy phoenix]

So what had happened was, late 80's. Army ranger gets out the service and buys a house in LA (Why). Gang shit goes down outside his house and he regularly gets in peoples face about gang shit going down on his front lawn and calls the cops about all of it. One day, they threaten to burn down his house and shoot him so be calls up a bunch of his buddies that got out of the service and (probably) asked them if they want to get into a gunfight one more time?

Anyway, 12-15 army rangers, fresh-off the irons have a BBQ with a something like four guns to each man and enough meat to feed an army. They eat like kings and when the sun goes down, the shooting starts. Anyway, 20+ KIA gangers and a few wounds to the rangers but the chief of police was PISSED!!! Anyway, no one ever touched his house again.

Best part is the owner of the house had a .357 magnum backup gun. He had a magnum as a backup. "Who's the gangster now, bitch?!"

[slender gull]

Combat missions is quite different than just shooting people on your streets.
One of them has legal rights to shoot.

Is it possible that they killed innocents? Doubtful, but possible.
Did they danger public safety with shootout and damage innocent peoples property? Yeh.

Personally, glorifying/recreating shootouts in civilian settings is personally no go.

[solar shard]

Not exactly. But giving them a defend waypoint helps since they don’t react on you as long as you are outside of the WP circle (they still shoot at you when they see you but hold position)

[slender gull]

You could also create custom AI task that has delay built-in.

[solar shard]

What das that help in that regards?

[solar shard]

Yes. Give em a getInNearest waypoint and only tick the Gunner position in the WP settings

[solar shard]

Dont understand exactly but this gave me some stuff to think about it. Right now it’s struggling that AI on move / patrol WPs leave their cycle route and hunt you when they hear you shooting kilometers away. Not sure if it’s intended and the enemy is radio em but it’s disturbing often.

[magic oasis]

I was experimenting with blowing a car up. 5 minutes later the AI turn up having left their patrol route and scared the crap out of me! I mean, they would come and investigate I guess but if it’s intended or not is anyones guess!

[main tangle]

I'm having an issue with the navmesh not propagating into bunkers. I think the space inside is too small and is getting marked as not traversable in the navmesh. As a result all my bunker groups end up standing on top of the bunkers. Is there any way to force them to use a different navmesh? That way I can use my custom navmesh to allow other groups to maneuver around barricades and whatnot but my bunker groups will use the default game navmesh which will allow them to stand inside the bunkers. Here's what it looks like currently: https://i.imgur.com/kxqMxc8.png

[median oar]

You could make the waypoint prio until a player is near enouth that you can say its fin when they hunt. With a trigger as example :) thats what i gone do now propaply until i find something better :)

[solar shard]

well in arma 3 i solved that sometimes to have groups on careless in a big trigger area and only when a player is inside the trigger area they are aware etc. so they dont go on adventures when c4 explodes kilometers away. same approach somehow

[solar shard]

do you mind to share the code how you change a waypoint to be not on prio via trigger?

[median oar]

Dont mind when if done it xD maybe today :)

[main tangle]

I managed to come up with a fix. I created a copy of my world, deleted the bunkers, and then generated a navmesh in that world. This created a navmesh that took into account everything except for the bunkers. I then switched back to my original world save and selected this new navmesh and lo and behold the bunker groups were once again inside the bunkers.

This feels kinda hacky however. It would be nice to be able to flag certain objects to be ignored by the navmesh generator. That would work much better I think. Either that or give us more options to force the navmesh generator to place meshes in certain places.

[median oar]

Do you know i filtertype for a trigger that makes sure its a player? ChimeraCharacter also is ai right?

[solar shard]

Yeah I remember that herbiie provided a userScript in his first Tutorial which does exactly this. So attach the script to your trigger and it assures that it fires only by alive players

Im at phone Right now so can’t give it right now

[median oar]

Should that not be just a filter?

[solar shard]

Nope. Ex0 said you have to do that afterwards. The filter must stay chimeraCharacter

[median oar]

hmm yes the alive thing xD but thats not realy nessecary cause if you dead you where already alive on that spot xD

ok 😄

[solar shard]

Yeah it’s just another parameter. But just look into that tutorial #2 of herbiie. It’s pretty easy.

Here ya go:

https://pastebin.com/fnzivzvY

Ah it was actually in his 2nd tutorial:

https://github.com/Herbiie/ArmAReforgerMissionMakingGuide/wiki/2)-ArmA-Reforger-Mission-Making-%7C-Creating-The-Mission

[median oar]

also found it its not a problem 😄 but thanks anyway xD

[solar shard]

As far as I can tell, all you have to do now is find out how to address a static waypoint and change its priority flag

[median oar]

@west karma can you add a license there? otherwise it impossible for me to use cause its copyrighted xD

[median oar]

Not a problem im already doing it xD

[proper wind]

struggling with custom factions and loadouts

getting this error:

Function: 'Get'
Stack trace:
scripts/Core/proto/Types.c:353 Function GetRandomElement
scripts/Game/UI/Menu/GameMode/SCR_RespawnSubMenuBase.c:293 Function QuickDeploy
scripts/Game/UI/Menu/GameMode/SCR_RespawnSubMenuBase.c:212 Function OnMenuUpdate
scripts/Game/UI/Menu/SubMenu/SCR_SuperMenuBase.c:22 Function OnMenuUpdate
scripts/Game/UI/Menu/GameMode/SCR_RespawnSuperMenu.c:101 Function OnMenuUpdate

[solar shard]

Can’t speak about custom factions but custom Loadouts are easy to achieve. Maybe try it first?!

[proper wind]

its a factions issue

I cant get any loadouts to work my faction

[solar shard]

Oh Check. Sorry but never friggled with that yet

[proper wind]

Well

are you using config files or characters for your loadouts? @solar shard

[solar shard]

Characters.

Just dublicated character prefabs into the project and edited them with new names

[proper wind]

I've done that yeah

and changing faction affiliation

[cloud obsidian]

I am looking for confirmation by a BI dev responsible for mission making on this:
You can not move or delete existing objects from any of the parent scenes (e.g. Eden.ent) for your mission (e.g. CustomInheritEden.ent). I have not seen info about it pinned yet so, I want to put it at least on the biki. But I'd like to be sure there is no intended way to do this right now.

[quasi jay]

This is correct, you cannot delete any existing objects from any of the parent scenes.

[median oar]

Do you know why i dont get the parent Waypoint? xD

I try with parent and owner both seem to net be what i want xD Does parent mean Main Component?

[solar shard]

Where is this component attached to? That’s afaik the parent.

[median oar]

No component the trigger has all the functions 😄

Ah direct cast from the parent not find component maybe

[exotic reef]

is this going to change in the future? seems like a pretty big limitation

[solar shard]

Why not use getWorld EIentity getItemByName bla and find the preplaced named waypoint?

[quasi jay]

I am not the person to answer this, some engine programmer would have to share their insight. Maybe @rich niche could shed some light on this?

[median oar]

Cause i dont like that you should be just able to copy paste the waypoint 😄

[exotic reef]

just thinking out loud, but aren't layers just a delta applied on top of the existing world? why can't there be "negative" layers that delete or edit the base world in the same fashion

[median oar]

But the parent itself is null wtf? xD

[shy oriole]

it looks like if you select the slot entity, then drag the prefab for the gun into the rack. it will place it in there for you, so i guess. just drag all the weapons you want into the rack once and save it as a new prefab?

equipment boxes are filled with tickboxes under SCR_ArsenalComponent

[median oar]

Finished 😄 Its easy now. Add this scripts recompile. After that on your waypoint add an RLC_PlayerTriggerPrio as child set the parameters you want and add a Hierarchy Component. Than it will set the prio when the player is to far and remove the prio if his near 😄

[solar shard]

will test it later. pretty cool!

Thanks dude

[median oar]

as example 😄

[solar shard]

I could take this in my upcoming tutorial of "special things". Will credit you ofcourse

[median oar]

Thats fine yes 😄 i now making a missions that has randomized spawns etc. to make it more interesting to play 😄

[junior cliff]

Is SCR_WaypointAreaMeshComponent needed for waypoint to function properly or used only for visualization?

[median oar]

Does it may need to be set only from master RPL ? Cause of network stuff? than it would need a RPLComponent as well

[solar shard]

hm having a hard time to att the RLC... doing it via CREATE and dragging it into the world causes an engine error that he cannot hook it to a child... I guess because its needed to be a component? Or should I just add it as a component to the waypoint?

[median oar]

No its no component its under the create tab

[solar shard]

yeah, but when placing it in the world it causes errors. Dont know if this solves itself once I moved it then as a child to the wp

[median oar]

Yes it will go away when its a child 😄

[median oar]

Error is: RLC_PlayerTriggerPrio cannot hook to the waypoint, it is not a child of SCR_AIWaypoint!

[solar shard]

yeah exactly

ok, will test it now

[median oar]

Self explaining? xD

[median oar]

im not sure if its need to get replicated 😦 i think maybe yes so i would need to do a little bit more xD

[solar shard]

so basically, you add this to EACH waypoint with its own stuff. Sounds like a lot of trigger queues for me. Why not just place one trigger (not as a child) and give im the names of the waypoints alltogether he should change?!

(speaking of cycle patrols which several waypoints)

[median oar]

Yeah if you want to make mutliple waypoint for one trigger yes

[solar shard]

the thing is, I like to try to use as few triggers as possible since every queue is pressing performance as we all know from Arma 3 times ^^

[median oar]

But that would mean its also not that accurate. If you make like a patrol trouth the hole city when its ok for the ai to just ignore it? One trigger over the hole city?

[solar shard]

so I would just place one trigger covering area of all waypoints and when the player enters this area, I would change all waypoints to "no prio" in one step. Do I miss something here?

[solar shard]

yeah you are right about that too. Maybe we need both for diffeerent situations 😄

gimme an example: in my nightops map I have a very short patrol. That would be a waste to use several triggers...

[median oar]

yes it would be xD

[solar shard]

every trigger is more queue performance... even when I set the triggers to 5 seconds interval to make a little bit more random reaction time to that.... I would like to have just one trigger covering the whole area and to add infinite wp names via that trigger

[median oar]

Ok So it eather prios the parent or all children? would that be a solution?

Than it could make both just depends on what the hirarchie is xD

[solar shard]

that is a cool idea. Making the waypoints its children and changing all its children instead. That way you could either place all WPs to change as its children or just one by one in your big city scenario

you are a genious 😄

[median oar]

Ok will do that 😄 give me some time 😄 i also do the rpl stuff. that would mean that every waypoint and the Trigger would need a RPL component. with that i can make sure only the master(server) sets the prio

[solar shard]

yeah and a hierachy component for the waypoints. But that could be done manually and explained via tutorial since on the other hand, you would had to make a prefab for each waypoint again

[median oar]

yes is there no way to say that a component needs another one?

[solar shard]

keep in mind to make a failsave if there is a children without the prio flag (like a cycle waypoint) too

[median oar]

lile Require....

[solar shard]

oh dont know

[halcyon patrol]

We need to find a good way of storing all these good tips and tricks for the ones that are just coming across in single discord messages

The pins haven't been updated in days

We have good GitHub resources but we will end up duplicating work

[solar shard]

absolutely. isnt @round goblet or someone managing the biki?

[halcyon patrol]

I'm not sure to be honest. Can anyone contribute to the biki?

[round goblet]

https://github.com/ofpisnotdead-com/awesome-reforger

I still plan on revisiting that, there is a lot of new content.

[green hill]

You can always check #community_wiki the good people there will update the wiki for you

[round goblet]

feel free to contribute, I can give access to anyone interested

biki is super annoying to get updated and not every content is welcomed in there

I'll make link to this list to biki 🙏

[round goblet]

I can

[junior cliff]

how can I prevent AI from disembarking the vehicle I wanted to have one guy sitting in a BTR turret.

But when he spots enemies he just disembarks.

[lean scroll]

Agree with this. Especially for newbie / less skilled content creators (I.e me / most creators) and those just starting out

[halcyon patrol]

Maybe we can get BI to transfer away from 1995 wiki pages

😂

[solar shard]

(trying to find a way like HideObjectGlobal)

[pallid shoal]

My idea is to use the conflict game mode and edit it. I would like to do a capture island but with a small group say less then 10. No pvp so only two factions. Is there a way to do this and customize the capture areas defenses?

I like all the leveling up and resources aspects but want to make it more pve

[halcyon patrol]

Would love the idea of that too but I'm sure it's no small feat. Definitely doable though. Just need the skills.

[hoary topaz]

Is it possible to disable third person in the editor?

[pallid shoal]

Is there a way to get access to the conflict file? I know the logic is accessible through workbench but want to start with an example

I am sure I could do it from scratch but would be quicker I would think by removing aspects

[slender gull]

Which conflict file?

Eg. Game settings, Mod settings, custom config files, etc.

[pallid shoal]

A sample scenario I guess that I can edit

Some thing I can download or access to put into workbench and edit

Maybe we already have access to it and I just don’t know that’s why I had the question

It’s not a mod And his baked into the game so I assume I needed to figure out a way that I could edit that game mode or set of files

[slender gull]

Ah, I just misread, argh.
I was thinking you were talking about config files, not conflict game mode. 😄

[pallid shoal]

😊

[slender gull]

@solar shard I have completed system that can add new tasks on runtime. 🙂
It supports any tasktype and adding multiple tasks at once.

[pallid shoal]

Yeah it’s all good I’m just frustrated because I know the game logic is in workbench So I know you can create your own conflict type mission file but I was just hoping there was a shortcut LOL

[solar shard]

this is awesome. Im at work right now and break is over. Would love to implement this tonight and contribute & explain in my upcoming tutoiral

maybe this solves the MP task issues too on dedicated server! Great work @slender gull !

[slender gull]

Hmm, yeh. It can be workaround with the initialization issue.

[halcyon patrol]

Haven't checked, would assume so but you can also disable third person as an option on a dedicated server

[pallid shoal]

My group likes the idea of the leveling up and moving resources and trying to capture the island over multiple sessions. My second thought was to incorporate game master into it so that I could remove unneeded objects as they progress

[hoary topaz]

Ah, haven't looked into server setup yet but at least that's an option. Thanks

[toxic geyser]

Using the version of the racks in the editable prefabs folder automatically spawns in all of the weapons

[pallid shoal]

Is the leveling up aspect and the resource management tied directly to conflict or is that it’s own logic resource I can put into my mission

[slender gull]

This is a little longshot, but I think conflict gamemode = Campaign scripts.

So you can either edit those classes, or do childrenn class out of them.

[west karma]

Pretty sure if I'm telling you to use it in a tutorial it's not copyrighted even without a licence, but sure

[timber roost]

Hello mission makers companions, yesterday i played my edited mission with teammates and we had a problem with JIP, seems that any player joining server after the mission start (let's say 1 min start), would be kicked by battleeye, anyone came accross this?

[median oar]

I can not use it in switzerland until there is a license that says so xD as far as i understand that. But thanks the tutorial helped me realy 😄

[west karma]

I thought there was an easy way to add a generic licence thing to Github

Find me a licence and I'll add it @median oar 😉

[median oar]

Do you have any arma code there? i dont see any so MIT would be good?

[west karma]

What do you mean ArmA code?

[median oar]

Something copyrighted by arma / Bohemia Interactive xD send you a pm 😄

[round goblet]

Just write it down somewhere (gist.github.com could be your friend) and ping me with link.

[slender gull]

Right now there's few ok tutorials.
But problem is that they are scattered around everywhere.

[round goblet]

@slender gull can you ping me with links in DM?

[slender gull]

As said, they are scattered everywhere. And thats the problem. 😄
Check pinned messages in different enfusion channels, Search from youtube, etc.

[round goblet]

I usually do that to update my list. 💪

[median oar]

Now it also support either children waypoint or parent waypoint. Depending on the hierarchy. (The trigger needs Hierarchy and RplComponent and the Waypoint need RplComponent) im not 100 sure if the children waypoint may need the Hierarchy component but the when it is parent it does not need it.

@solar shard i did not test if it can grab the children tell me if it does work or not 😄

Make a prefab with the RplComponent already on it. To not get this error: "RLC_PlayerTriggerPrio cannot hook to the RplComponent please add one!"

[solar shard]

not sure if I did it right. Recompiled the scripts.
Placed them in the world (errors!)
Added rpl and hierachie tom them and created an prefab out of it.

But still child errors. Added a waypoint TO it. So the waypoint is its child. Still error. Is this allright?

[median oar]

yes should work :) the habdling is terrible xD have to only run the code only ingame/runtime xD will fix that later :)

[solar shard]

so all the erros are to be ignored? Lets give it a short...

[median oar]

have to do something else will answer later sry xD

[keen phoenix]

hey team, has anybody had any luck getting AI pathfinding to be a bit better or is this just the way the game is for now? Even when I'm making a million waypoints they're getting stuck on every nook and cranny

[west karma]

Which NavMesh are you using?

[keen phoenix]

here I am not having touched one at all, which one should I use?

[west karma]

Haha add a navmesh otherwise they don't know where to nav!

I've been using CTI_Campaign_Eden.nmn

https://github.com/Herbiie/ArmAReforgerMissionMakingGuide/wiki/2)-ArmA-Reforger-Mission-Making-%7C-Creating-The-Mission#adding-ai-world

@quasi jay So I'm looking into a way of limiting the number of each loadout a team can have (so you can only have 1 sniper or 2 MG etc.), any tips?

Atm I'm thinking adding something to OnPlayerSpawned that gets their loadout and adds it to an array, then in SCR_LoadoutManager having something where it checks that array to see if the max number of each loadout has been reached and if it has then remove that loadout from the m_aPlayerLoadouts array?

[zinc wharf]

Does anyone know where you setup the different map configs for your gamemode?

for example, the SCR_MapCampaignUI is added as a UI element in a SCR_MapConfig, but where is that assigned for your scenario?

(this example is for the CTI world included in ArmaReforger)

[west karma]

Or am I able to get an array of all players loadouts just in the loadoutmanager... hmm

[keen phoenix]

thank you mate you're a legend hahaha

[tacit scaffold]

Hi,
How do i connect the completion of a waypoint to a trigger? Do I have to add an component to the waypoint or do I write some lines of code?

[flat marsh]

Anyone got multiple scenarios working at once yet?

Like listing 2 different maps and swapping between?

[solar shard]

like that? what do you mean exactly?

[slender gull]

I think he means multiple sub-worlds.

[solar shard]

Swapping? Still not understanding correctly. Can only speak to myself. I have a folder for every mission of that mod in the Worlds folder (cause of the amount of layer files) and swap between the worlds all the time.

While it is in the same mod project, you can swap and copy/paste stuff between the worlds.

[wooden owl]

Sometimes my AI just straight up ignores their next waypoint, the weirdest part is that it doesn't happen every time i test, only sometimes.

Anyone else run into this issue.?

[keen phoenix]

I found this issue when AI would I guess 'investigate' during night time when their perception was really really poor, outside of that I haven't

[wooden owl]

Hmm

[keen phoenix]

so I spent a lot of time in arma 3 editing but I'm new to C++ and enfusion.. how would I go about scripting a vehicle to blow up? I guess not as simple as this setdamage 100; anymore hey

[visual stump]

I have the night op downloaded. Learned most of what I needed from useless fodder for my mission. Has anyone made a base MP mission start file to get things going?

I really hope they give reforger some love instead of just launching it for 30 dollars and waiting for all the modders to work out the bugs 🙂

IMO I think reforger tools should have two levels. Simpler mission building for people that just want to get in and play and then open up the hood for all the and geeks to help group 1 🙂

[keen phoenix]

They've said they'll be making something that closer resembles the eden editor from arma 3

I just wish there was more documentation for reforger, but it will come

[whole wyvern]

Hello guys 👋 I just made a simple mission that's perfectly working. I'm able to choose faction, loadout then play, BUT when I publish it to workshop then play it in the game, I keep spawning in water. Any clue on this ?

[nocturne sage]

What's the name of your spawn point? Is it the default name? I remember watching uselessfodders video and he mentioned that using the default spawn point name can sometimes result in spawning in water. Complete guess, but maybe something to check?

[whole wyvern]

It's called USFieldSpawn. Yeah I watched it too.

[nocturne sage]

Not sure then, I've been working on a mission myself but not published, I might encounter the same issue when I do

[whole wyvern]

Yeah probably. I just don't get why the result while published is not the same while in Ref tools 🤔

[solar shard]

does anybody know whats the corresponding flag for an entitiy, whn adressed with .show(true)

[graceful warren]

hello, does anybody know any good coop mission?

[glacial pivot]

Hey guys, did some troubleshooting to find that a mission I made for the server loads me in water, and it just stays there forever. What could be causing this issue?

[magic oasis]

We have been playing Zeals night ops mission. It’s good fun.

[slender gull]

Please define good

[slender gull]

But yeh, I agree Zeals stuff is fun.
And its open source!

[glacial pivot]

I'm still not sure why I'm in the water loading screen forever when I launch my server

[hazy raven]

Hello everybody, i have a issue, when i check my addons files i can find for exemple three files (ex : 591AF58DA9F7CE8B) but i can't find mine for my mission so when i use the Arma Reforger Server Mod Helper, i can't find my mission in it, i can only find three of them the three folders on the top of the screen... I don't know why and i really hope you can help me with that.

In yellow is my main project folder

Btw, my mission work in SP in the main game

[glacial pivot]

https://i.imgur.com/2YWzm2g.png

if it's something super basic I am very sorry but I have no idea what it is

Is it my spawnpoint maybe?

I have 3 of them

why are there so many damn barriers to this, just trying to test a simple map.

[slender gull]

Is editor fine?

[glacial pivot]

No errors

[slender gull]

And it spawns in correct location?

[glacial pivot]

When I die and respawn?

Yes

[slender gull]

Does map show correct spawn?

[slender gull]

Is the problem with only on respawning or?

[glacial pivot]

When I load the map on my server it just loads water

[slender gull]

Dedicated or listen server?

[glacial pivot]

I think dedicated? I'm not sure what the difference is

[slender gull]

Do you use Server tools to host server and connect, or do you enter by scenarios screen?

[glacial pivot]

Server tools, also I had no idea you could enter by scenarios screen

Okay wait, when I load in the game regularly I spawn in the water O.o

[slender gull]

How about through editor?

[glacial pivot]

By hitting play?

[slender gull]

Ye

[glacial pivot]

Let me check

When I turn off play from camera it definitely loads in the water

[slender gull]

Ok, screenshot me your spawnpoint settings.

[glacial pivot]

SCR_SpawnPoint?

[slender gull]

Your problem is definetly in the scene.

[glacial pivot]

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

yep I've been following multiple different tutorials for things so they might not all be on the same page with setup

[slender gull]

DOes it show loadouts menu in startup?

[glacial pivot]

It does not

https://i.imgur.com/skEe7As.png

[nocturne sage]

Blink can you show your gamemode

[slender gull]

Sounds like you are missing some manager prefabs.

[glacial pivot]

https://i.imgur.com/syQlB2S.png this one?

[slender gull]

Whose tutorial?

[nocturne sage]

Can you show all the components on the gamemode, something might be conflicting

[glacial pivot]

https://youtu.be/-_cnBaLV10Y

[whole wyvern]

I have the same problem, but in editor I can have the faction & loadout menu, then spawn correctly. But when I play my published version through the game, I can't choose faction and stuck in water

[slender gull]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNL_oFhlmLU

Check managers part.

[glacial pivot]

whoops

yep that one too lol

[nocturne sage]

Which manager is he missing though? It doesn't look like he is.

[glacial pivot]

The part 2 had me remove prefabs and add MP prefabs

[slender gull]

Not sure.
Make sure he's managers matches yours.

[glacial pivot]

Yeah I'm doing that now

[nocturne sage]

They do, I had this issue and it was due to components in my gamemode prefab

[whole wyvern]

I just follow this tuto and still can't spawn

[glacial pivot]

https://i.imgur.com/ZHdjczm.png omfg! Forced faction is FIA

[primal ridge]

hey can anyone help me? When i try to connect to my server in the console turns up this error : (E): IRepliecation::JIPError: Inconsistent item on Slave connection. Item is missing or diffrent item was Loaded in place. (con=0x0)
and my game crashes but when i load the scenario with the same mods as the server no crash and in workbench no error what is going on?

[slender gull]

So you found issue? 😄

[nocturne sage]

That'll be it

[glacial pivot]

YESS!! and I can spawn! THANK YOU!!

[slender gull]

Show all logs on server.

[whole wyvern]

All's good in editor, but stuck in water on the game, any clue ?

[primal ridge]

where do i find them

[slender gull]

Did you have dedicated server?

[primal ridge]

yes

kopie from consol?

[slender gull]

Yes.

[nocturne sage]

Do you have a respawn timer component in your gamemode? I'm not sure that'll help but it could be it.

[slender gull]

Console shows all logs from server side.

[slender gull]

For client side, go to
C:\Users\USER\Documents\My Games\ArmaReforger\profile\console.log

[nocturne sage]

What I'll do Soljian is publish my mission and I'll let you know if I encounter the same issue

[whole wyvern]

Fine

[slender gull]

Client side seems fine.
Show server.

[primal ridge]

what you mean show server the config?

[slender gull]

server side logs.

[primal ridge]

and where are they?

sorry i am new to this

[slender gull]

In the console.

[primal ridge]

copy the console or what?

[slender gull]

Yeh

Copy from the console.

[slender gull]

K, give me sec to read it

[slender gull]

Yeah, I cant say anything specific than that you have lot of problems in your scenario.

[primal ridge]

okay? how do I recognise the problem

[primal ridge]

do i need to put the resource folder in the folder of the map?

becauce i can start the mission in workbench and i get no error and can play the mission just fine

[slender gull]

Whose tutorial did you follow?

[primal ridge]

for with part of the progress?

[slender gull]

?

[primal ridge]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNL_oFhlmLU this one and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zryfAg3t6-E

[slender gull]

Try following only useless fodder.
You can skip PP and visual parts.

[keen torrent]

I've run into an issue with my mission. The arsenal and mobile spawn point solution work great locally, but on a dedicated server, it doesn't. Its seems that if I have anything set as a child to a vehicle prefab, that vehicle will not function once its running in a dedicated server environment. Any suggestions?

[primal ridge]

? skip PP?

PP19 mod?

[slender gull]

PostProcessing

[primal ridge]

and how / where to skip it?

[slender gull]

Once he goes over visual improvements tutorial part, you can ignore that.

[primal ridge]

i feal dump right now where can you give me a time stamp im so confused

[slender gull]

59:05

[primal ridge]

and why should i skip i didnt place enything off this kind

[slender gull]

For around 50% of users, including me.
Game crashes when I search or try to add PP to my scene.

[primal ridge]

ok but in editor everything is fine withe the mission and there is just trubble on the server

[magic oasis]

The entire engine and workbench is new to everyone. Hard to get solutions to even the simplest problems let alone network authority in multiplayer. Just need to be patient, take it slow and share as much info as we can.

[primal ridge]

confusing enough as I try to connect to the server I saw how someone tried to connect as well and he didn't crash he didn't get the error but I did

[magic oasis]

Maybe you have some mods loaded that are conflicting?

[primal ridge]

they get loaded automatically when I try to join or am i wrong

are there server sided things that could provent me from joining like old data?

[leaden basin]

I got alot of similar errors until i dumped all my mods

[primal ridge]

i have moddod weapons on the server cant realy drop them unles it fixes it :/

[slender gull]

Took me 3 days.
Had to remake few systems, but its finally done.
First public release of Operation White Devil is now out!

Includes my own intel gathering and and objective systems. 🙂

[primal ridge]

jesus iz just works now after i deletet EVERY mod nice there is no problem enymore 😄

[primal ridge]

thanks after i cleart it it worked first i didnt get waht you meant but after a while thx

[steady nimbus]

Hi, I'm trying to publish a test version of my mission but I keep getting error over error, tried to move the folder around but now I'm getting problems with image.

RESOURCES : Packaging project successful
RESOURCES (E): Failed to load metafile of mission config image:
DEFAULT (E): Cannot copy image:
RESOURCES (E): Creating bundle failed

I checked the post fixed here of how to fix the issue but nothing changed, tried multiples images and sizes.
Anyone know what I'm doing wrong?

[slender gull]

Is the image inside your addon?

[steady nimbus]

yes sir

[steady nimbus]

does it need to be in addons or inside art or equivalent inside your project folder?

[slender gull]

I used to have that issue.
Then I just rebooted my whole PC.

Sounds ridiculous, but it fixed my issue. 😄

[steady nimbus]

I'll try

[steady nimbus]

lmao it worked, thanks a lot!

[slender gull]

Again. Another reason to blame Bohemia, because even if we follow their guidelines directly they don't solve issues as they havent tested all edge cases.
I wouldnt assume from indie studios to test all edge cases, but Bohemia is +34 billion USD yearly revenue studio. They should have resources for automated testing and for 99% edge cases.

[steady nimbus]

as long as they fix this constant crash I'll be ok with them, can't play for 10min in a row but anyways that's for another section on discord lol

[slender gull]

I have never trusted Armas multiplayer system.
I play solely SP only.

[west karma]

Your loss. Never had any problems with ArmA MP and it sure beats SP 😉

[burnt dock]

does anyone know where I can find this so called tutorial

[keen phoenix]

Can be a bit hit or miss for me when I try some bigger scripts, one time I did a dday airboure script which would randomly spawn planes to fly over the map.. spawned one for every player and ended up having a shit tonne haha

[magic oasis]

Has anyone figured out sequential tasks? One task being activated on success of another?

[dapper bane]

Does anyone know where the base version of conflict source is

so i can edit i

it*

[proper wind]

Might sound stupid but how can I create a giant invis wall?

just a plain collider

or trim everon quite a bit

[solar shard]

Isn’t it the MP/Campaign stuff?

[solar shard]

Im beginning to find out. Will provide a solution in 1-2 days (don’t have much time to mod atm)

[magic oasis]

any tips on adding hud markers for a move task? can't seem to find anythimg

[median oar]

I have added a HUD Marker from the tutorial in this mod: https://github.com/devinSpitz/KingOfTheToilet otherwise the people did not understand that they have to flush the toilet xD

[vivid anchor]

What all is needed for ai in a mission

I've added perception and aiWorld

Drop a group in. And they just stand there

[magic oasis]

navMesh file loaded in the aiWorld?

[magic oasis]

thanks. can you point me to where its defined. It's 8am and i'm staring at toilets 🤪

[west karma]

https://github.com/Herbiie/ArmAReforgerMissionMakingGuide/wiki/1)--ArmA-Reforger-Mission-Making-%7C-Getting-Started

So-called POM here is a so-called link to the so-called tutorial

[magic oasis]

@west karma thanks for your so-called effort to help the so-called community

[west karma]

That's to do with locality and where you're running scripts, you're evidently execution a global command locally. Not ArmA's fault at all 😉

[west karma]

So-called thanks for your so-called response

[median oar]

This script is for the Hud Manager of the playerController: https://github.com/devinSpitz/KingOfTheToilet/blob/main/Scripts/Game/RlcUiWaypoint.c

Heres the Layout you need:
https://github.com/devinSpitz/KingOfTheToilet/tree/main/UI%2Flayouts%2FHUD%2FTutorial

you need at least to edit this Line: ​                        IEntity entity = pWorld.​FindEntityByName​(​"​KOTToilete​"​);

Cause your task is for sure not KOTToilete xD

There is no implementation of waypoint reach for that check the Reforger Tutorial in the default arma project :)

[keen phoenix]

haha no no, I never said it was

[mighty axle]

whats the different between the various waypoints, aside from the obvious ones.
For example: the attack and destroy wp, vs a move wp+ a wait wp does the same thing technally doesnt it?

[keen phoenix]

With the move waypoint and wait waypoint, I know the wait waypoint you can alter the time they wait there for? as for attack and destroy I can only imagine it makes them continue tracking and hunting enemies

[mighty axle]

i ask because i have trouble using anything but simple move, patrol and cycle waypoints

the other waypoints break something in one way or another

[keen phoenix]

yeah? what trouble are you experiencing? I've spent the last two days pulling my hair out trying to get AI to do various things hahaha

[mighty axle]

well i set up a simple simulation us squad S&D (town). the squad gets caught up on the attacking part, they get like stuck on things

where i can simulate the exact same scenario with a move waypoint, paired with a wait wp

[keen phoenix]

when I had that it was because I didn't have a navmesh, could that be it at all?

[mighty axle]

ummm

if there was no navmesh wouldnt they no be able to walk at all?

i would assume ai world brought that in

or gamemode

[keen phoenix]

thats what I thought but I think theres movement aswell as map-specific navmeshes, so head into SCR_AIworld, check navmesh, and you'll have an option to choose which navmesh, choose like CTI

[mighty axle]

i have another unrelated question too

[keen phoenix]

yep?

[mighty axle]

when i get on ill check that out

ais and vehicles- idc about them moving or driving

but how could i get an ai to get in a turret and shoot something- i got the ai to spawn, walk to getinnearest- after playing around with some models i got him to track and shoot (but no hits)

i added vehicle perception to the ai group, that seemed to give him the ability to see(sort of)

but that whole thing broke so i tabeled that

[keen phoenix]

yeeep I've found the same thing, not sure about that. I find that they always shoot up and above the targets

[mighty axle]

yeah okay same answer ive recieved from multiple people

seems to be broken atm

aye thanks

[keen phoenix]

i'd love to know how to script a vehicle to blow up, can't seem to find how its done or to even spawn in destroyed (trying to get some explosions in my city)

[west karma]

No they can walk but they don't know where things like fences are for planning a route

[fossil crag]

How to predefine faction groups, and restrict players from creating new groups?

[west karma]

Good question

[fossil crag]

How to limit player loadouts in each group? (example: in each group maximum 2 riflemans, 2 machine-gunners, 1 marksman)

[west karma]

Another good question

The simple answer is to write a loadout and faction manager that does, but how one does that I have no idea

[tacit scaffold]

I got a hopefully simpler question:
How do I complete a waypoint by script?
And for debugging purposes: What do i call to get a simple hint or textmessage displayed?

[west karma]

you can use Print to get things to show in the log

[tacit scaffold]

🤦‍♂️ should have thought of print <-<

[west karma]

Print(String)

[slender gull]

To show hints do this:

SCR_HintManagerComponent hintComponent = SCR_HintManagerComponent.GetInstance();
hintComponent.ShowCustomHint(objDesc, objTitle, 10);

[tacit scaffold]

Thanks a lot.

[red apex]

does anybody know how one can speedup time ingame by script?

[barren heart]

Has anybody noticed the category tags keep resetting on mods or am I just seeing this on my end.
Like if you go into the workshop now and are sorting by SP/MP scenarios and the vast majority have become untagged?

[solar shard]

Am i being so dumb.... really... how can I change the granade type of my m203? Just testing my new modded smoke- and flare shells 🙂

cant find any keybind

[west karma]

Can you drag them in in the inventory?

[solar shard]

yeah that works. and when all others dropped, he loads my smoke shell perfectly. But how to so directly? its not like Arma 3 where you had those magazine slot

[tacit scaffold]

you can drag it into an equipment slot and reload it manually after firing by pressing the corresponding key. But so far there is no option to use one type over another type.

[wraith shoal]

hi, does anyone know why my ai is not showing in editor and not spawning when i hit play?

[solar shard]

thats weired since the UI is suggesting i with the different warhead icons and even a distance indicating similar to Arma 3

[west karma]

Try moving it around and making sure it's snapped to ground?

[wraith shoal]

it is snapped to grown, i also put other 2 grups and they are not spawning or showing

idk if i'm missing something

[west karma]

Have you selected the Spawn Instantly button?

[wraith shoal]

this one?

[junior cliff]

timeManager.SetDayDuration(86400 / var.GetFloat());

from Zeus time multiplier attribute.

[wraith shoal]

it makes no sense AI spawns for everyone but not for me

wth

[west karma]

Yeah

Have you added AIWorld?

[wraith shoal]

nope

[west karma]

😛 Try that:

https://github.com/Herbiie/ArmAReforgerMissionMakingGuide/wiki/2)-ArmA-Reforger-Mission-Making-%7C-Creating-The-Mission#adding-ai-world

[wraith shoal]

this one?

oki, ty

will test

now! fak my life

following a tutorial where that is not explained

[west karma]

😮 Which one?

[wraith shoal]

https://youtu.be/WNL_oFhlmLU

or i missed that part

[slender gull]

Eh, One of my AI's didnt do ragdoll.
All other AI did ragdoll on death, so probably Bohemias bug.

[west karma]

https://youtu.be/WNL_oFhlmLU?t=943 ye 😛

[wraith shoal]

damn right

[west karma]

https://github.com/Herbiie/ArmAReforgerMissionMakingGuide/wiki/4)-ArmA-Reforger-Mission-Making-%7C-Extras#creating-custom-loadouts

Custom loadouts added to tutorial - if I've missed something pls let me know

[wraith shoal]

that's great, thanks for sharing

[halcyon patrol]

@west karma Thanks for your contributions dude

[wraith shoal]

@west karma what about scripting? are you going to add some?

[west karma]

I am basically learning how to do something then writing up the tutorial for it.

I don't know any c# so don't know how to script anything

[lean scroll]

Doing gods work, Herbiie

[lean scroll]

This is very reassuring - I’m guessing 90% of mission makers won’t have coding experience. Im learning c# and can write basic programs, but when I look at some of the enfusion scripts posted here it feels like I’m a 10 year old reading a Greek tragedy

[red apex]

im fiddling with the cinematic timeline, and how that would work with scripting... but the editoris crashing a lot for me.

[lean scroll]

Anyone had luck with playing triggered music for ambience / immersion? I.e at the start of a mission

[magic oasis]

@west karma the mobile respawn point is amazing. I spent many hour figuring out that for A3 and now look where we are. Wish it was all that simple.

Have you had any luck with hud markers for waypoints?

[red apex]

you mean like a introduction scene? - i guess thats tied to the cinematic timeline.

[solar shard]

@median oar showed me how to to that via his CaptureTheToilet mod. I will explain it in my tutorial next week but its, for now also included in the NightOps sourcecode

[magic oasis]

I took a look but 🤯

[magic oasis]

Watching a stream and I see GM and respawn on players with radio backpack. Is similar possible in editor? I assume so but has anyone enabled it? If so, how?

[white stirrup]

In your game mode, there should be a "SCR_PlayerSpawnPointManagerComponent", I believe if you check the box for "Enable Player Spawn Points" with the PlayerRadioSpawnSpoint set as the prefab, it should work

[magic oasis]

That’s awesome. Thanks.

[white stirrup]

Has anyone figured out how to put units into turrets in editor?

[magic oasis]

In the compartment setting of the weapon you can add a name of a character. Pop a character next to it with a name and enable the AI

[white stirrup]

Ivan1, the luck b***ard 😄
ty

[magic oasis]

Ha. My guy was called Steve.

Only problem is he only fires when I get to like 50 feet away.

[lean scroll]

how can I reduce a vehicles starting health to very low so it'll get taken out with a single M72 round...?

[magic oasis]

setDamage 20;? 😪

[keen phoenix]

nooo idea

[solar shard]

What I noticed regarding that topic, that the backpack of the RTO, default prefab or added to your own custom layout is invisible although visible in loadout screen. Is it only me?

[white stirrup]

Make sure that it's the correct faction item

[solar shard]

well as said, have it also on the default rto loadout

[white stirrup]

let me try this real quick

[white stirrup]

can confirm, the radio somehow doesn't init correctly 😄

If you pull it off and back on, it shows

no issue with regular backpack

[solar shard]

yeah I know. its weired

but there is also a scoped m16 with doesnt have a scope actually ^^

[white stirrup]

😄

If you drag the RTO guy prefab into editor, it shows there, but when you start the game, it becomes invisible too

Let me dig a bit

[solar shard]

yeah as said, thats what i mean with default loadout. I notied that last week. Didnt really bother with adding a radio backpack to my own custom loadout but noticed now too, that is always the case

[white stirrup]

Will you write the bug report / check if there is one already?

[solar shard]

I did already

[white stirrup]

send me the link please 🙂

[solar shard]

but there are more buggy things. For example, if you put another M72 LAW in to a backpack. You can actually replace the shot variant but when equipping the new one, he wont put out the sights TILL you show that again too if you are in 1st person. swapping them in 3rd person works fine.

https://feedback.bistudio.com/T165471

[pallid shoal]

A few days ago I mentioned wanting to recreate a conflict type mission. Someone mentioned I would probably need to use scripts. Does anyone know of the scripting for this

[magic oasis]

Best to open it up in the world editor and take a look

[west karma]

Noitce there are bayonet prefabs in Weapons>Attachments

[lean scroll]

Anyone observed performance differences between in-game vs. editor? I've made some change to my mission and it's resulting in a c. 5-10 FPS drop (on the 99% FPS) in tools editor vs. my published version. I've reverted all the changes so tools editor version is now exactly the same as the published version, but something odd is still going on

Makes me wonder whether some code cleanup / background remnants are causing it

[slender gull]

Do you have any other addons enabled?

[magic oasis]

I wish I could get my head round scripting. Feel like most of the potential is locked behind scripts. 🥹

[pallid shoal]

Can I just point to conflict?

[lean scroll]

Good point. Let me look into this. Just to confirm, the drop is when I play via the tools, not in-game

[magic oasis]

I sometimes get drops in the workbench to like <5 fps. Only fix is to reboot the workbench.

[wraith glen]

My scenario resets to day time in the published version after setting it to night with the weather editor, am I doing something incorrectly?

[iron hollow]

there is a default weather manager included in eden which overwrites your settings

[wraith glen]

I see it, thank you

that worked, headache over :)

[magic oasis]

You will see in the logs any prefabs which are duplicated.

[proud sorrel]

This is ace advice. Shared it on my big tweet of Arma Reforger advice (and tagged with credit)

[magic oasis]

Link for tweet?...found it good info on there

[solar shard]

headache will return once you restarts the workbench 😉

I recommended to use the force weather script included in some maps

[wraith glen]

it fixes the problem in the final build, if you remove that object every time you start up the editor it'll work fine

[proud sorrel]

https://twitter.com/UselessFodder/status/1527025290169487360?s=20&t=qr4D0wb_JL7abhagdVRjBw

UselessFodder (@UselessFodder)

A Big Ol' #ArmaReforger Workbench Editor 🧵 for mission designers and mod makers

I'll be continuously updating this thread with new @EnfusionEngine information, so feel free to bookmark

Twitter · May 18, 2022, 8:36 PM

[mighty axle]

what exactly did you mean by this, i cant find cti under any aiworld navmesh settings

[lean scroll]

For info all - this appears to happen in all situations. I've published an update to my mission and it runs around 5-10 fps faster in-game. Not sure if it's just me, but the overhead of the workshop running alongside the test environment would make sense.

[west karma]

Think the link to my tutorial in that is the old one, might be worth updating
https://github.com/Herbiie/ArmAReforgerMissionMakingGuide/wiki/1)--ArmA-Reforger-Mission-Making-%7C-Getting-Started

[proud sorrel]

Oh, kk. I'll do that

You have a twitter account @west karma ?

[west karma]

Nope

[proud sorrel]

kk

[proud sorrel]

Added to the tweet https://twitter.com/UselessFodder/status/1530649517774630913?s=20&t=FM_r4bTrRHaxbWbATAe5zQ

UselessFodder (@UselessFodder)

Herbiie on the @ArmaPlatform official discord has put together a complete Mission Making Guide for #armaReforger. This is an exceptional tutorial and worth reading through for any mission maker.

https://t.co/Jke1phLrdM)--ArmA-Reforger-Mission-Making-%7C-Getting-Started

Twitter · May 28, 2022, 8:37 PM

[west karma]

🥳 Thanks

I'm still adding to it so there's custom loadouts on there now as well, if you've not got that far yet

[chilly lava]

how do you add a single soldier? xD

[west karma]

Like an enemy?

[chilly lava]

yea i mean they all in groups

[west karma]

They all need to be in groups, but you can remove all but one person from the group

[chilly lava]

ah ye ok

ah lol yea i see that was easy lol

[west karma]

https://github.com/Herbiie/ArmAReforgerMissionMakingGuide/wiki/2)-ArmA-Reforger-Mission-Making-%7C-Creating-The-Mission#adding-an-ai-group

But rather than clicking the + to add click the - to take away

[chilly lava]

dunno im too used to the Eden Editor i guess xD

[west karma]

Well in the Eden Editor they are also always in a group it was just less obvious 😛

[chilly lava]

true 😄

[west karma]

I'll say it though the Enfusion mission making is still better than the old 2d editor from the start of arma 3 👀

[chilly lava]

yea its just a steeper learning curve, atleast for me 😄

[west karma]

Remember clicking through every person in a company sized mission to make them playable 😬

[chilly lava]

i guess both have some pros and cons 😄 the Enfusion is definitely more advanced

but lawdy ive been trying for 20 mins to get an NPC to sit in a vehicle and still no luck 😄 that stuff was easy in Eden

[west karma]

Yeah, I think vehicles are tricky - AI can't drive. The Get in waypoint should work though?

[magic oasis]

It’s a brand new and far from feature complete. I think we have to be patient to the fact that things just don’t work and things that were easy in Eden do not apply any more.

[west karma]

But workbench > ArmA Tools by quite a degree

[magic oasis]

To be honest I never used tools but to upload on mod re uploaded. I find Workbench to be amazing. Not only really powerful but good fun to use.

[lean scroll]

Some solid knowledge from @winged geyser that should help newbie mission makers

[keen phoenix]

So when you're looking at scr_aiworld, look into the navmesh component, there'll be an option there to see what navmesh you want to use (sorry im not at my computer now), and one should be CTI

[mighty axle]

this is all i get, i navigate the sub categories, and theres nothing that mention cti

[keen phoenix]

Sorry mate, expand Navmesh settings. What do you see there?

[keen phoenix]

Yep and click the ... beside Navmesh File

And explore those directories and you should find 4, two for CTI navmesh infantry and vehicles, and two for navmesh NEW I think

[mighty axle]

oh add the vehicles navmesh under there

aw man just crashed

[keen phoenix]

Just the infantry, back in your SCR_aiworld there are two navmesh components I believe one is intended for vehicles but seeing as they dont work right now anyway may aswell leave disabled

[mighty axle]

mm okay, so add the cti one NOT vehicles

copy ahaha

[keen phoenix]

Aha I swear thats always what happens when you make progress in mission making, but yeah that should work for ya

Hahah yep

[mighty axle]

guess which one i added first

b4 u said

lmao

[keen phoenix]

Haha, too keen to get it working mate

[mighty axle]

lol yeaaaaa i break things thats how i elarn

[keen phoenix]

Good method

[magic oasis]

Morning guys. Once I have posted a mission to the workshop, any idea how I can then remove it?

[solar shard]

That’s the best part. You can’t.

[lean scroll]

It's there for eternity to shame us @magic oasis

I supposed you could clear the mission, change the title to "test" and remove description etc. to make it non-identifiable

[solar shard]

Did you try to change it to „tested”

[lean scroll]

Any thoughts on how best to set a trigger to imitate a "radio call"? I.e the old OFP menu would be 0-1, and there would be a squad with a "wait" waypoint synced to a trigger activated by a radio call

[magic oasis]

I deleted the thing from my published folder to try to remove it

[median oar]

Spawn and Despawn system is coming 😄 With prefab use and no naming of an entity just with hierarchy xD https://stream.spitz.onl/play/35

[west karma]

Do prefabbed vehicles not work in MP?

[median oar]

Try it as env prefab with my system and it should work as well but please give me feedback 😄

• https://github.com/devinSpitz/AiAndEnvSpawnFramework
• It's also in the workshop for dependencies
• There is an example world to check out how to do and what's possible
  IT Does:
• It does spawn and despawns on player contact just with hierarchy no naming
• It does add the waypoint automatically to the ai without naming them as in the example shown and only how in the example shown 😄
• It does recreate the navmesh for all created env if wanted

Have fun with it 😄

[willow inlet]

If they are placed directly in world editor, they may have issues in MP.
Try vehicle spawner instead

[median oar]

Should they have? only the masters spawn stuff? i know you know better than me xD

[willow inlet]

When using SpawnPrefab in MP scenario, it will be master which actually spawns entity and gives it to remote clients.
Here the problem is that preplaced objects are loaded with the world, so replication treats them as static.
For now, please use a system which spawns those after world load.

[median oar]

ok will do that as fast as possible. thanks very mutch 😄 There is a world loaded trigger or something than?

While mine is only triggered by player alive and in zone the world should be loaded right?

[willow inlet]

I'm out of pc, so can't check.
Look into chimeraWorld, world, game, gamemode classes.
I think most of people are using Call later and frame events, but it's not the nicest

[willow inlet]

Yeah

[median oar]

Perfect so no problem there 😄

But i will make sure it can not happen anyway in the next update. Thanks very mutch 😄

[west karma]

But then they won't appear in the hierarchy so making them MSPs would be more difficult?

Mmm so all vehicles HAVE to respawn? Bit annoying

[west karma]

So how do I add an MSP with a spawn point attached to a vehicle?

[median oar]

Is it ok/save to assume that if the GameMode is Loaded the world is Loaded as well? That should happen before right?

[tall heart]

Is there anything else I need to do when uploading to the workshop? My mission is not visible in the Scenario tab.

[median oar]

Seems to work fine here: https://stream.spitz.onl/play/36 In Editor is GameMaster and on PeerTool is the player

[willow inlet]

We had issues with it too, can't confirm atm

[willow inlet]

Check components on radio truck, it's the one which can spawn players in conflict

[median oar]

Ok as I intend(and do) to use it with a player (and alive) trigger it should not make any problem anyway. And I still added the check, it at least does not hurt 😄

[wild trellis]

How did I break conflict mission? About half way through the mission, ai bases stop spawning in. The map markers are there and the camp fires, just no tents or ai spawning in...?

[west karma]

What's the component called? Or do I have to guess that too? 😛

[willow inlet]

I'm not in front of PC to check myself. It's gonna be something with respawn in the name.

[lean scroll]

Who let the devs out 🤔

[west karma]

When you say radio truck do you mean the command variants? Because they don't have any components that have respawn in the name, they have one which says "spawn protection" but that's just enabled/disabled

https://i.imgur.com/P804wwK.png

With ActionsManager, VehicleAnimation, NwkVehicleMovement and Rpl at the end

The CampaignRadiOTrucks are the same

[willow inlet]

Yeah, command truck is what I meant
Does it have deploy HQ action in actions manager?
If not, then conflict has additional inherited prefab for those somewhere.

[willow inlet]

Laws allow us to have weekend off
I know, it feels strange to me too

[west karma]

No, it doesn't.

Now my loadouts are starting with their grenades out by default shrug

[wild trellis]

Could this be where my conflict scenario edit is breaking? ```16:23:52:214 SCRIPT (E): NULL pointer to instance
Class: 'SCR_CampaignBase'
Entity name:'MainBaseSouth' id:2305843009213696671

Function: 'SpawnDefenders'
Stack trace:
scripts/Game/Entities/Campaign/SCR_CampaignBase.c:839 Function SpawnDefenders
scripts/Game/Entities/Campaign/SCR_CampaignBase.c:3232 Function LoadState
scripts/Game/Campaign/SCR_CampaignBaseManager.c:637 Function LoadBasesStates
scripts/Game/Campaign/SCR_CampaignStruct.c:111 Function Deserialize
scripts/Game/GameMode/SaveLoad/SCR_MissionStruct.c:33 Function Deserialize
scripts/Game/GameMode/SaveLoad/SCR_DSSessionCallback.c:73 Function LoadStruct
scripts/Game/GameMode/SaveLoad/SCR_DSSessionCallback.c:87 Function OnLoaded```

[west karma]

Does conflict have mobile spawn point vehicles? I thought it just used players with radios

[keen torrent]

@west karma Yes. The Mobile HQ vehicles that can be spawned by Sergeants. I've tried to dig into those entities but can't find out what makes them act as a respawn 😦

@sullen talon Quick question. You posted a small example with dynamic enemy spawns. Is there a way to make those only trigger from a certain faction? I'm trying to combine placed and dynamically spawned units, but the placed soldiers are setting off the trigger before the players get there.

[sullen talon]

Yes, in the trigger check that the entity triggering it has FactionAffiliatedComponent and a particular Faction GetAffiliatedFaction()

[west karma]

@sullen talon @exotic reef Is there a way of getting all players in an array easily? I was thinking if there was an allPlayers or failing that allEntities then I can do a check tos ee if they are players

[sullen talon]

GetGame().GetPlayerManager().GetPlayers

[mighty axle]

how an i delete things out of the base eden layer? i can delete things, but when i save load again its always back

i just want this stump out of my life

[last plume]

Belated thought: Does the World Editor allow for mission-specific terrain alterations of Everon? 🤔

[junior cliff]

as in terrain mesh? No.

You also can't remove objects from the base world.

[last plume]

Okay, then that means that World Editor does not yet support an equivalent to VBS4's Geo Mode... wherein roads can be placed/edited (e.g. adding intersections) with the AI taking these into account, terrain elevations changed ('hey that berm isn't there in Conflict mode!'), surfaces altered (e.g. 'the squad was ordered to cut down the high grass at that specific entry point to the camp'), and so on, all before/separate from the actual placing of entities and Editor modules and triggers

[unique minnow]

does anyone know how to create a circle marker-like thing on the map?

[west karma]

Thanks!

[narrow path]

It may be as simple as a script that checks every time a vehicle or that specific vehicle is created, and they attaches a spawn point for the faction to it.

[pearl badge]

I'm playing with spawn point distance from objective and wondering if there is a faster way to get an idea of how far things are from one another. Using the measurement tools seems to be really inaccurate, and loading into the game to see the distance on the HUD is excruciatingly slow. Is there another method?

[narrow latch]

I can't seem to get a custom faction spawn point to work?

[solar shard]

Hey. Has someone found a way to kill a spawned unit like setDamage 1?

[sullen talon]

On the master you can do CharacterControllerComponent.ForceDeath() I believe

[narrow latch]

so I have a spawn point, and it works, but it doesn't have an icon on the map, and the faction selection screen says the faction has no spawn points

[patent sleet]

Do you have a faction defined for the spawn point? It's in the "Unsorted" drop down menu

[narrow latch]

yeah

the spawn point works, it's just a weird "No Deploy points available" message

using a custom faction though

[patent sleet]

Sorry, not really sure. I haven't messed around with custom factions

[prime smelt]

Not sure if this is the best place to ask, but has anyone managed to make a conflict mission with friendly/enemy AI moving between the capture points and capturing etc? I assume it isn't easy to do.

[wild trellis]

I bet you could do it with waypoints, which I just figured out how to do yesterday. I've been editing conflict mission (into a PVE mission), and I imagine all you'd have to do is make waypoints from each point to the next! Then again, if unpopulated, the battle, I assume, would continue! I added a bunch more patrols and they seem to come into contact with friendly AI at taken bases sometimes, but they rarely seem to be able to take back a base on their own. (If you want to check mine out, it's just called "Conflict PVE" in workshop.)

[prime smelt]

Cool, I'll give it a look.

[pallid shoal]

Had the same idea I will check one what you have done so far. I have a small group of less then ten that want to do this type of game as pve

[west karma]

Have you found that at all?

[narrow path]

No idea, but that is how it was done back in A3.

[red apex]

has anybody been able to turn on a light? i placed a lightentity, fiddled around with its properties (comparing values from a streetlamp)... but it just wont lit up.

[willow inlet]

Did you try at night?

[red apex]

yes. and funny thing: a copied streetlight does lit up. a self placed doesnt. i tried copying all parameters... but no luck.

[merry frost]

any reason why it doesn't let me publish to the workshop once i've bundled?

keeps saying unauthorized

[hazy raven]

I have a issue my task in my mission always disappears when i relunch my world editor ingame mode... i don't know what to do

[west karma]

Does it give you an error in the log?

[merry frost]

ok, i logged out and logged back in and fixed it seems

[west karma]

Ah of course

[red apex]

Q : How do you make a LightEntity emit light ? (image for clarity) https://twitter.com/jerry_hopper/status/1531393173225984002

jerry hopper (@jerry_hopper)

i did had an Electrician education... but turning a light on in #Enfusion is wizardry i do not yet master. #ArmaReforger #HelpAppreceated

Twitter · May 30, 2022, 9:52 PM

[narrow latch]

I don't have an "Initial Tasks" selection in my Task Manager?

[snow frost]

ok learning a lot but if I have built a mission already but I want to add something from another mission how do I import those resources?

[willow inlet]

@red apex so you managed?
https://twitter.com/jerry_hopper/status/1531417699435352064/photo/1

Was it something that you have to have light under parent entity which is active?

jerry hopper (@jerry_hopper)

TADAAAAAA!!!

Twitter · May 30, 2022, 11:30 PM

[main nymph]

Long time amateur modder first time asker: Anyone know how to Link trigger events to create a series of objectives like the task modules in Eden editor? I only have a script to end missions. Also anyone know how to edit probability of presence like in 3den editor to add unpredictability to ai spawns? pardon if this is the wrong channel, I just arrived here. Thank you.

[narrow latch]

I can't even get tasks to show up on the player at all

hmm odd, I can complete the task but it still doesn't show up on my task list

[snow frost]

look in the pinned get the sample coop

[main nymph]

Thank you! Where do I drag that download? I Found the Tools folder under steam but not sure where to place these files.

[hazy raven]

Can someone explain to me how the Time and Weather manager works, because i don't know how to use it.

[snow frost]

make a folder any folder put it in there. the open up the tools and add existing locate the folder and file and your done

[narrow latch]

me too dumb to figure out the bit with the script lol

[snow frost]

yeah me too thats why I got the coop mission

[narrow latch]

either way I've decided im just gonna give the mission a Zeus to handle things like tasks and spawn points

now I have AI, and they follow all their waypoints n stuff but they don't feel like shooting each other

or me

[snow frost]

you are using the faction manager right?

[narrow latch]

yeah

is there some kind of setting to decide what they're hostile too?

im using a custom one because I have a custom faction

[hazy raven]

@narrow latch Did you put the perception manager in the game editor ?

[narrow latch]

that's the thingy

lol

yeah, just forgetting some of those beginning steps lol

sure it'll come naturally soon enough

I was more focused on getting the piano to play rick astley

I had this prediction that with the new editor, the complex stuff will become easier, and the simple stuff would become harder lol

And I back that up with an anecdote about how I got the car to play radios, and got the radio to play custom music just by looking at the editor

[hazy raven]

I really try to find a way to make a mission that you have to do with one live only, (when you die you spectate the other).

Do you have a idea ?

[narrow latch]

I know you can disable respawning at the moment

not sure about spectate

im not smort, but maybe there's a way to force a player into armavision after death

[hazy raven]

🤔 Maybe

[narrow latch]

Man, i'm so impressed with my self with how I was able to figure out some of the things, it's making me hyped for when smarter people figure out all of the things

[hazy raven]

I having the same thought

[hazy raven]

Do you think it is possible to attach a spawn point to a vehicle ?

[left lava]

Yep

Make the vehicles parent and spawnpoint children

[red apex]

Weirdly enough, i set the Light Geometric property: Visualisation to Opaque and back to 'disabled' and it then i worked. All other lights i placed after that worked too.

[solar shard]

Did anybody made progress to initialize the task manager on dedicated server? @mental cove while everything else works fine now, I still have the issues that the tasks dont appear on the dedicated server. Did you made a success?

[mental cove]

not really, I couldnt figure out the replication stuff so i made a spaghetti workaround, and I have tasks on the server but only eliminate tasks are completeable, and if you complete any task before the first one in the list, then the first one also gets finished. Also if you JIP after task is finished the server and/or your client crash

[junior cliff]

Maybe it would be better to write our own. Planning to take a look at this during this week(end)

[median oar]

Im not en expert but whats the problem with the replicate stuff? may i can help :)