enfusion_model

[zenith quartz]

UVPackmaster is a must have. Love it to bits.

Although the actual unwrapping process is what I struggle with and loathe now. 😄

[calm rune]

When it comes to hard surface ZenUV can do the unwrapping for you. You may have to go in a tweak a couple things after or you may not. Depends on how good of a job it does to your liking but you literally do not need to create a seam yourself if you do not wish with ZenUV.

[last hill]

Hoping I haven't missed it when I hit search, but trying to find out if we can create modded versions of attachments to our vests that we add and/or belts so that players can pick and choose from their own loadout, like the Alice rig on the base game? I see in their prefab that they are listed as Attachment1 etc etc, but how does the engine determine their position of attachment? Is it hardcorded or is it dummy related in the vest.xob?

[zenith quartz]

Are there sockets per chance?

[tacit eagle]

https://tenor.com/view/too-bad-oh-well-seven-psychopaths-christopher-walken-gif-12507071

@willow sage

[last hill]

That is what I was wondering, however can't see the sockets on the bone heirarchy on the base vest so I am not sure :/

[delicate condor]

@willow sage @tacit eagle , take it to DMs

[willow sage]

Don't get me involved, a few people above him also got hit with his unnecessary opinion.

[delicate condor]

Block and ignore then.

[sly bridge]

can you keep these sort of comments to a necessary minimum if you really can’t help yourself (so i don’t need spam spank)?

[tacit eagle]

what's the focus on me for?

[mental onyx]

Discussion about anything related to Model creation Is there really no room for some casual banter on-topic? The moderators seem very aggressive on any casual banter, even if its within the topic of the channel. There can be a good mood in the channel and its instantly killed off my moderators.

[delicate condor]

not when it escalates like above

[calm rune]

This Discord is ran like a prison LOL. I am literally only here to see what people are creating. This might be the only discord I've ever been part of where the moderators ruin the enjoyment and not its casual members.

[undone halo]

Same I dig the clothes mod @calm rune

[calm rune]

tyty

[sly bridge]

you are free to discuss anything in relation to model creation. You are also free to banter in any of the offtopic #channels

generally speaking, (especially for 60k server) each single time there were no moderation, things have drastically escalated to the point of having multiple people warned / muted / banned

[leaden trench]

I've been using this tool to do UVs in a single click for years. If your topology is good then the results are perfect; http://www.quelsolaar.com/ministry_of_flat/

[tacit eagle]

seems pretty good steve

[leaden trench]

It's a massive timesaver. UVs are no longer something I even think about... I've done assets for multiple published titles with this tool 🙂

There are also some really great UV nodes in Houdini FX... but I'm not paying $$$$ every year for a license just for a couple of nodes.

[tacit eagle]

subscription are the big bad

also how would one purchase this? what is it only on negotiable terms?

[leaden trench]

There is no order button as most customers are big studios integrating in their pipeline or software vendors. e.g. this tool is in the latest subscriptions of Cinema4D. That said, he is perfectly happy to sell it to anyone, just have to email the guy, then it's $100 for a perpetual license.

[woven swallow]

Any Blender addon version of this?

[leaden trench]

No, it's .obj in and out

[woven swallow]

why the Futuristic UI tho haha

[leaden trench]

For fun I think. There is a command line version of the tool also.

[woven swallow]

I will consider it. I enjoy UV unwrapping my models but there is times that I wish it wasn't that tedious.

[shell hedge]

blender doesnt have auto uv?

what would a "good" uv map look like for the modding sample weapon?

yeah I was gonna say the uv button in c4d does what that site shows, now I know who made it

[agile crater]

I think you must learn uving for know how texture will behave in substance painter. Remember you must hide your seems ans automatic soft dont do this work. Really uvs are not so long too do. When you do one part its exactly the same for others.

A good uv will do a Nice baking

A Nice baking will get a nice texture

And a good texture will do a Nice 3dmodel on game

Anything else when you do your owned uvs you will contrôle your lods subdivises

[leaden trench]

Check these wheels... pretty fucking nice bake there with automatic UVs.

[daring condor]

It does, it's hot garbage

Honestly I don't mind UV unwrapping

[shell hedge]

Yeah I'm finding it quite rare to need to adjust my UVs after c4d does them

but my meshes are usually not complex

[daring condor]

I just do the old, mark sharp edges as seems, cut up cylinders where necessary and then have unpacker do the rest

Don't use UV packmaster cuz I hate paying for shit

[daring condor]

Add the extra polies and make those wheels 3d

I'm pretty sure refudger can handle it

[agile crater]

Humvee reforger polycount is 60k tris

for exemple , in lod0 you can do in 3d the tire designs and in lod 1 2 3 you can bake them

but for you you must have a good uv

[leaden leaf]

May I ask what that is?

[tacit eagle]

its a rare semi disposable 68mm launcher @leaden leaf

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myV1-Xxj9a4

[woven swallow]

just bored. warming up.

[covert dune]

Arma Reforger: Napoleonic War Edition 😆

[woven swallow]

or 🏴‍☠️

[covert dune]

True true

[leaden trench]

You know, you are probably right. Reforger can handle many millions of polygons. However I am making overall poly count + # of materials the same as BI vehicles for the worst case scenario; many instances on screen at once in an already complex scene rendering on Xbox Series S or low end PC.

[tacit eagle]

you should always keep it close to the games standard. unless the game is over 10 year old and you can just increase those numbers

[woven swallow]

that's not true. the game can't handle "Millions of polygons", it could load the model but that doesn't mean it's efficient. that's why we make two versions of our models. "high poly" and "Low poly".

[glossy lynx]

I normally am able to import models that have around a million polygons as a maximum

Past that point it is more applicable to split the model up if you want more polygons

[tacit eagle]

hmmm high poly is not used in game its only for baking textures on to the low poly

[woven swallow]

Yeah you can but that doesn't mean is efficient. Low poly version is for that and high poly version is used to bake all the high details into your low poly by generating a normal map. I hope that makes any sense.

[tacit eagle]

now how does reloading for this thing work

[shell hedge]

just remove the semi part from semi-disposable

[tacit eagle]

but bacon then its just a disposable ; ~ ; and the thing about this this is that you can carry a bunch of reloads for it

[woven swallow]

Update: v0.9 - Placeholder textures

• Model
• UV's
• Textures

[woven swallow]

are those animation stages or different shells ?

[tacit eagle]

they bee ammo

[woven swallow]

different ammo then

[shell hedge]

I guess the RPG animation won't work since the thing comes in from the rear?

[tacit eagle]

it has a front extendable inner barrel sleeve like the rpg 22. I dont know if that barrel sleeve is removable and contains the rocket inside or you load it from the rear with the sleeve retracted

I'm pretty sure that ignition system is electrical. so there is no need to align the rocket

[blazing axle]

You lot are nuts, I've spent a week trying to figure out how to make a simple house and got a crap grey model that I can't figure out how to add windows or doors too. (I have no experience in this, trying to learn) hats off to you all. Know your work is appreciated if only by me.

[woven swallow]

thanks dude. But I'm pretty sure we all been there. you just gotta keep practicing..

[glossy lynx]

I would not even know where to start with buildings so kudos to you for trying

[delicate condor]

floorplan

[tacit eagle]

typically buildings dont need a high poly

so its a little easier to work on

the only high poly you do are on planes. and typically for doing roofs

[plain galleon]

the white plane is the "flashlight" light position.. but I can't figure out where it is defined as to where to be created?

[fathom bolt]

With the prefab if I remember on the left panel you have your model and the light

[plain galleon]

ah thanks! forgot that

[blazing axle]

How many vertex should the average weapon model have?

[tacit eagle]

the pkm has 30k

for lod 0

[fathom bolt]

I think you can go for max 40/45k vertex at one condition multiple LOD’s

[tacit eagle]

you can go as high as you wish but you start getting little returns and higher performance demands.

always try to get the most amount of detail with the least amount of polys

EI no need in making a glock that has 30k verts

[blazing axle]

I re-cut it down to 10k so hopefully that's okay..

[tacit eagle]

show us

[plain galleon]

In arma3 there was the lod 0 and the view pilot.. but how in reforger do we make helmets that's not visible from the player wearing it?

[calm rune]

You mean like when you are in first person and you kind of see the helmet in your vision? In the opacity map there is a head clipping map.

[plain galleon]

Perfect,thank you

[woven swallow]

That's nice! I made one of those a few weeks ago.

[fathom elbow]

lovely cigar 😋

[tacit eagle]

its popsicle you put it in your mouf

[tacit eagle]

nice

[hazy shell]

Love the M24

[unreal sable]

Hi I'm planing to model some buildings for my new map. I want to know what's need to be done to ensure the models work and also support destruction. Any guide or tutorial for blender?

[shadow gorge]

Hi all, I'm exported my model design on INVENTOR software in "OBJ" format, and after by using MAYA with a export in "FXB" format. If I try to read the final FBX file done with 3DMAX for example, it s' work but in REFORGER TOOL, the import never work, I should miss something, configuration?? Thanks in advance for the help that you could give me for this. A little picture of the car I made.

[delicate condor]

your object is likely totally messed up from turning it from CAD model to mesh model

from the look of it im guessin its way too high poly and not nearly game ready

you will need to look into mesh optimizing

[shadow gorge]

Thanks you very much, I don't know why I didn't remember of this important detail of mesh optimization that I had already did for another model for Arma 3, four years ago.

[cloud rampart]

I need help, we have a problem from member of our team, suddenly all his models get this colors on reforger (Like it have differents mats on blender, but the model only have one by now)

If we apply a textore on it, mantains all the color and the texture under it

[zenith quartz]

This is because of vertex colors I think.

Make sure to remove them when importing.

[daring condor]

Reformer multiplies base colour with vertex colour as Avery said

[cloud rampart]

Where to remove it?

[daring condor]

Your 3d modelling suite of choice

Blender, Maya, Object builder

[cloud rampart]

Nothing

[delicate condor]

check if it has multiple vertex color layers

[daring condor]

if it stays like that just pivot to making a nerf mod 👍

[woven swallow]

WIP

[tacit eagle]

more wrinkles?

[unreal sable]

Hi I'm planing to model some buildings for my new map. I want to know what's need to be done to ensure the models work and also support destruction. Any guide or tutorial for blender?

[tacit eagle]

I dont think anyone but the devs know how destruction will work for buildings.

[delicate condor]

no guides. you would have to study the existing buildings in the workbench

[unreal sable]

😦

any tips , has anyone designed new buildings?

[tacit eagle]

tips for what exactly? as level zero beginner?

[unreal sable]

for example i want to setup the building and know how to setup collision, materials, lightning, sound inside... etc

sizing, i'm creating a new map, and i have some experience in blender

i want to add also custom textures, some bilboards and posters around

[woven swallow]

"Some experience" wont help you bortha, plus you came to wrong place looking for help. people here wont help you. I'm sorry but that's how it is. I suggest you udemy.com

[unreal sable]

i mean, i dont need modeling help, just i want to know what is needed to import custom buildings correctly into efusion

[delicate condor]

this is good place to ask for advice but usually people dont have time to explain every little detail

[unreal sable]

or at least provide documentation url, the official enfusion site is poor on docs

[delicate condor]

there is very little documentation so far

so unfortunately we are all stumbling in a dark room together

you can check out the existing buildings in the workbench viewers and see what kind of lods they have and so on

and try to replicate that

[unreal sable]

ok thanks 😄

i will see that

[tacit eagle]

I wish blender used gpu for cloth simulation ; ~ ;

my cpu no good at multicoring 😦

[daring condor]

well. cloth sim code is 16 years old at this point

[tacit eagle]

yeah I just searched it up

[daring condor]

amd cpu, nvidia gpu combo remains supreme

[tacit eagle]

yeah epic... but who owns those things

[sly bridge]

i do :))

[daring condor]

i do^2

decided to upgrade on a whim in the before times

(early 2020)

[fathom elbow]

Apparently Solid Edge (CAD software) offers a free community edition
https://www.plm.automation.siemens.com/plmapp/education/solid-edge/en_us/free-software/community
Seems like they go the autodesk route, except also allow other people than students to use it? For some reason when i test downloaded it i got an academic license instead though, not sure what that is about xD It even has FEM calculation in it

why use CAD in addition to normal poly modelling? It's super useful for complex boolean shapes that are super hard to get correct with poly and subd modelling. E.g. A barrel shroud with perfectly circular holes in it, and the holes being perfectly rounded off... You can use the CAD geometry as HP and retopolgize for LP

[tacit eagle]

Moi3d is probably the best lite cad program for artist. I dont use freecad or solidworks in my creations

[fathom elbow]

freecad is atrocious to use

[fathom elbow]

it doesnt look free?

[tacit eagle]

moi 3d is 300 dollars

and freecad is not bad at all. like blender it gets better every update

[fathom elbow]

and just like early days blender the interface is/(was when i tried last) atrocious when you are used to industry standard tools

[tacit eagle]

if you can use autoschiet or solidworks you can use pretty much any cad program out there, rhino, moi3d, freecad. like a 3rd artist can go from max to blender or how a programmer can jump around in any c based language

[fathom elbow]

you can use it after you learn how the f they made their control scheme work. i used inventor, solidworks, ProE and Creo for years - but for freecad i had to use tutorials to figure out how to use some of the basic sketching and constraint functions, because how backwards they worked.

[sly bridge]

never used it myself, i know a few pro lads make use if it. Autodesk Fusion and the newer Shapr3D are pretty good

[pliant bolt]

I must add, C# is a nice, C++ makes me cry, and C.. I don't know

[willow sage]

I have a nice meme, especially for this occasion.

[pliant bolt]

https://tenor.com/view/clap-leonardo-de-caprio-perfect-applause-gif-12818297

[glossy lynx]

Watch out! It's dangerous to post memes here...

[willow sage]

Nice T0nk

[light lynx]

chaffee?

wait no its not. The basic shape is similar

[willow sage]

It's a thread-putting-back-on-rails image xD

[broken grove]

Hi artists ... would you kindly provide some feedback if you use EnfusionBlenderTools? Thanks a lot -> #enfusion_blender_tools message

[fathom bolt]

i have a problem with scope reticle

i've change the reticle in a copy of the artii hdr mat

and this is what i got when i put my game in low quality

its not happening with the vanilla scope

[calm rune]

My first attempt at making a police uniform for my mod. High poly is almost finished. Just need to add small small things like belt loops and then the retopo phase begins.

[willow sage]

Marvelous Designer stuff here 😄

Nice one Vergy!

[calm rune]

MD is my addiction 😅 now zBrush I have a love/hate relationship with.

[bright raft]

I think I got same issues multiple times. With the texture of reticle, I changed some settings to make it basically copy the texture as is, without compressing it. Dont know if that is the issue here, but might be worth a try:

[fathom bolt]

Ok thanks I will do that

[zenith quartz]

Finally taking the time to render these. 😄

Just finished texturing, not sure if they're good or not but I'm happy with them at least. one more pic to render and then I can put it on my artstation woo

[tacit eagle]

blocks

[bright raft]

Honestly they look insanely good. And material looks very accurate

[zenith quartz]

Thank you!

[junior thorn]

Just curious I noticed you put optic cuts on them. Any plan to add the ability to use red dots on them ?

[zenith quartz]

Yee it's planned

[silver shale]

Hey, I tried to make a custom model for a helmet with night visor attached and make it rotate with a bone when NV is activated but for some reason the selfmade bone will not move at all when called from script (first time messing with bones and proc anim), do you guys know why?

i tried multiple different positions for my bones but any of them will work

[last hill]

As of right now, you cannot have any more than 163 bones. Including dummy items or empty items. The game skeleton will break.

I am not 100% sure if there is a fix coming for that kind of thing, but considering the roadmap, I believe perhaps there will be by the devs.

[silver shale]

Thanks!!, that explains a lot🤣

[tidal latch]

all items directly attached to character (like uniform, helmet, vest, boots, etc) have to use exactly same skeleton as main character. You could make NVG a separate object and then attach it

[silver shale]

Yea, gonna try that, thanks a lot!

[last hill]

Will that allow a proc anim to control it via scripted button press?

[tidal latch]

it should be possible - after all you can assign prefab over there

[sly bridge]

lovely gen5s. self made, right?

[zenith quartz]

Yup!

And thank you!

[sly bridge]

can you show a wire because fellow modeler reasons?

the g19 is basically g19x, right? g17 frame, no?

[zenith quartz]

G19 is a G45 specifically. 🙂

Well lemme rephrase haha.

I renamed them P47 (longer) and P49 (shorter) so Glock doesn't smack me with a DMCA. P47 is a Glock 17, P49 is a Glock 45.

(And the Glock 45 is basically a Glock 19X. It's weird and convoluted haha.)

[shell hedge]

i rate it 17/10

could even be 19/10

[willow sage]

Mine rate is ❤️ at ❤️ scale.

[tacit eagle]

I dont know if glock sues you unless you are making big profit (game dev) or making counter fits

[sly bridge]

glock won't sue, but they are prone to spanking.
I had some not so nice words with someone from glock's US legal before they figured i wasn't making a profit, then they finally said they'll tolerate the branding...

[tacit eagle]

dont you mean 17 shots no 38 : 3

[tacit eagle]

guess what this is gonna be

[shell hedge]

stun baton from half life 2

[tacit eagle]

no bacon but almost

[leaden leaf]

Rifle Barrel…maybe a pipe bomb lol

[thin canyon]

Is there any collisions tutorial? I make blender object, export to game, everything looks fine, but I can go through.

[calm rune]

Another piece of PVC with weird fittings? 🤣

[shell hedge]

did you setup collision layer for your collider? is your collider visible when you inspect the model in workbench?

[calm rune]

Are you placing Down the .xob file or the .et(prefab) file in your world? You will always be able to walk through the .xob

[thin canyon]

I'll say later, I have to go to work

[calm rune]

Either way you need to make a prefab and place the prefab into the world with a Rigid property and then make sure model geometry is checked.

[silver shale]

Does anyone know how to hide a prefab on first person view when attached to BaseLoadoutClothComponent of helmet?

Like PASGT goggle does

[sly bridge]

Opacity map -> head clipping procedural map - doesn’t work?

[silver shale]

Nope

[blazing axle]

What scale should I use in blender for model making? Is it 1:1 with real life?

[daring condor]

yes

unless you are doing physics sim stuff

in that case scale it up by like 10 but shrink again before exporting

[calm rune]

Some odd reason this does not work with my baseball hats either but when I imported a helmet it worked fine :/

[sly bridge]

might be some engine side limitations in regards to accessories for helmets?

[thin canyon]

It works now, thanks a lot for the advice. It was .xob file and model geometry.

[misty solstice]

Hot ash

[blazing axle]

My first attempt using blender. now to make the magazine for the front.

[zenith quartz]

I'm surprised there isn't like a checkbox or something that determines whether or not something renders in 1st person.

[shell hedge]

best thing I found was setting alpha to 0 on camera transitions in the camera handler component, but that doesnt really make things not render

feels a bit hacky

[delicate condor]

Probably something that would need engine side feature

[shell hedge]

or maybe you can set the entity's flags to not be visible

maybe then it truly does not render

yep, this works, the only prerequisite is you need a reference to the entity (in my case it was myself)

[silver shale]

Wow, can you explain the process?

[shell hedge]

modded class SCR_CharacterCameraHandlerComponent
{
    IEntity m_entityToHideInFirstPerson;

    override void Init()
    {
        m_entityToHideInFirstPerson = GetOwner();
        super.Init();
    };

    override void OnThirdPersonSwitch(bool isInThirdPerson)
    {
        if (m_entityToHideInFirstPerson)
        {
            if (isInThirdPerson)
                m_entityToHideInFirstPerson.SetFlags(EntityFlags.VISIBLE, false);
            else 
                m_entityToHideInFirstPerson.ClearFlags(EntityFlags.VISIBLE, false);
        };
        
        super.OnThirdPersonSwitch(isInThirdPerson);
    }
};

disclaimer I have no idea what kind of repercussions this will have when playing, I tested it for 10 seconds

[silver shale]

Thansk again! I will test it out with NVG

[silver shale]

This will do any client not see the entity, so maybe messing with rpl will do the trick(?)

[quartz crypt]

This won't work correctly with shadows, tho

[shell hedge]

not sure what you mean

[quartz crypt]

I think that he means it will be invisible to everyone, not just you in FPV

[silver shale]

I mean I want to hide nvg like a helmet does when equipped, but adding an oppacity map wont work since NVG are attached to helmet by SlotManagerComponent. The idea is to make a workaround to hide the NVGs in fpv only for character that is wearing the helmet

[shell hedge]

yeah that doesn't make sense to me, your client shouldn't care about other people's cameras

[quartz crypt]

But aren't you setting that flag on whole entity?

[silver shale]

Yeah but afaik in your script you are setting those flags to the entity

Not related with character

[shell hedge]

yeah, but I'm setting it on my client, why would this propagate to others?

[silver shale]

In the case you've tested you are referencing the entity by GetOwner(), maybe referencing it this way will not make flags propagate to others clients (Dont know how GetOwner() works in this example) but the NVG must be referenced by helmet, not the character

Dont really know if I am wrong, just thinking out loud

[shell hedge]

I used my character as an example, you can use whatever entity you want

all GetOwner() does is gets me the owner entity of the component

and then I hide the entity in my example

[silver shale]

But what im trying to achieve is that any other client keep seeing the entity

While my client dont see NVG in FPV, others clients can still see it from their own cameras

[shell hedge]

why wouldn't they? you're only setting it to invisible on your local machine

did you test the code and notice the entity disappear for everyone?

[silver shale]

I mean, the mod is intended to be on server side

[shell hedge]

then this will not work for you, as the function I was using runs on the player that switches camera

you will need to extend it to notify the server that someone switched their camera

but why?

also #enfusion_scripting

[wary inlet]

working on m18 mod, here's the model so far

[sly bridge]

so do i :)))

[bright raft]

Damn thats a lot of detail. I guess not for ARMA ;d

[sly bridge]

not every part will be in reforger / a4, did it like this because of artstation trend basically

[bright raft]

Huge props for attention to detail

[sly bridge]

thanks, took me a while to get all the right photos

[zenith quartz]

So do I!

I found the patent and modeled off of that. Also did magazines but apparently I don't have a picture of them.

This image is an old WIP anyways, though.

[sly bridge]

lol, much imagination between us. Looks good

[bright raft]

A side project I started this week:

[wary inlet]

yo shit nice work! very detailed model, mind if I ask where you got the reference?

[sly bridge]

some from a friend who si a gunsmith, most from the internwebz

[wary inlet]

nice, my model so far lacks more of the high poly details, do you plan on further texturing yours?

[sly bridge]

lol, i have that model started as well back in 2014...

[sly bridge]

yeah i have everything baked, need to get some free time to texture it all
https://i.imgur.com/VxBqzlY.png
https://i.imgur.com/Nu1t7dT.png

[bright raft]

I've seen on BI forums 😄

[sly bridge]

looking good

[eager hill]

The hardest part about doing guns with all internal components is finding good reference photos. Sadly it's not always possible

I'm working on this and even though I'd love to make all the parts of it, I just can't find photos of everything

[sly bridge]

here’s my reference imgur album for m17 / m18 - if anyone needs it
https://imgur.com/a/My5eSXq

[sly bridge]

true, generally speaking it is way way easier to get proper refs for things used by the US, at least because there is no language barrier.

also the more is used (and the more civilians have access to these) the higher the chances to get proper images, or find someone who has direct access and can get you pictures directly

[tacit eagle]

just use a vpn when you are going to chinese sites

[sly bridge]

? what does that have to do with anything?

[tacit eagle]

same for this generally speaking it is way way easier to get proper refs for things used by the US

[sly bridge]

just wondering, what precisely one would find on Chinese websites?

[tacit eagle]

stuff you wont find using other languages... also getting ddos which is why you should use a vpn.

its how I made this

[shell hedge]

ddos powered launcher

[tacit eagle]

yes also forums are really good source for info. because english and even russian sites lack a lot of info

for Chinese equipment the English sites are like stuck in the 90s for the most part

[daring condor]

Yandex and Google translate are invaluable when looking for that stuff

[tacit eagle]

yes its also easy for me since russian is rather easy to understand, however russians dont understand me

[last parcel]

does anyone know the width of the reforger characters ?

[delicate condor]

for what purpose? model measurements? collision measurements? You can check the sample character too I suppose

[last parcel]

trying out to make buildings, so more measurements so characters can fit through doorways and such

but if it exits a sample character I will use that as a measurement thanks 🙂

[tacit eagle]

why not just look at the buildings in
enfusion ?

[daring condor]

Why not just look at the sample character

[calm rune]

Just use real world measurements.

Everything is 1:1 scale

[dire estuary]

Damm you will have made every launcher in existence soon

[tacit eagle]

no 😦 I haven't

[sly bridge]

unfortunately it isnt, a lot of things are scaled up

[calm rune]

When it comes to buildings it seems so. I know when I tried to make a police station all my doors, windows and walls were 1:1.

[sly bridge]

it's not just buildings

[calm rune]

I should have been more specific. Instead of just saying “everything”. I was responding to his “trying out to make buildings, so more measurements so characters can fit through doorways and such”.

[sly bridge]

for A3 dimensions are also a bit larger, to minimize clipping with gear. about 10cm both height and width for door frames and window frames

[tacit eagle]

I would make rooms, hallways and doors a little bigger than what would be in irl.

[wary inlet]

keep those rocket launchers rolling 🙂

[tacit eagle]

do you guys think its worth adding a take down animation for the launchers? so when you put it on your back you have to break it part and when you want to use it you have to assemble it and reload it before you can fire.

[delicate condor]

would definitely slow down launcher use and make it more tactical choice

[tacit eagle]

yeah, it would also look very stupid to be running around with a rpg 29 that is 1.85 m in length on your back

there is a cheaper export variant of the 29 that is a single piece

[shell hedge]

can you make it explode if you bonk the rocket against a wall while running around?

[tacit eagle]

only if the player named bacon in the argument string.

[shell hedge]

I'd be down with that

just waiting on someone to make cursed reforger

[tacit eagle]

almost all of these rockets have a acceleration fuse, some have a time delay like the PG series that fuse the waist motors and then fuse the warhead.

[hazy shell]

We already have that 😂

[chilly dragon]

Was reforger vegetation made using speedtree?

[shell hedge]

brother I have a question can I dm you?

[tacit eagle]

yes but only if cute

[tacit eagle]

@shell hedge

[plain galleon]

my sight keeps showing the camera from like a 0,0 position rather (which shows the weapon from inside) but it looks good, what am I missing?

[bright raft]

The viewpoint for camera is defined differently. Search for Camera point

[plain galleon]

have that on same point..

guess my origin is off somehow

this is still too low, but feels strange

[uneven vessel]

Are you referring to the origin point feeling strange or (what appears to be) the lack of magnification? I only ask as I had the latter problem with my own SUSAT, caused by having the eye memory point too far away from the PiP texture

[delicate condor]

Smål Master Chief?

[honest wave]

yes

[plain galleon]

Thanks, I noticed the magnification but that was on next on my list. So thanks, speeds that up.
For the strange origin, guess it's in the fbx ? We divide the work so I do implementation but haven't done the model

[bright raft]

From what I've found, camera point of PIP is taken from Camera point rather than any Memory point in the model. You would have to check the component source, but the position itself might be in relation to object center, but also in relation to weapon it sits on. For example my optics from modern optics pack can have issues on other weapons sometimes

[tacit eagle]

block out of a new creation what is it 😮

[shell hedge]

half life 2 stun stick

[uneven vessel]

nice Law 80

[sand pagoda]

lp finally done

[sly bridge]

lovely

[shell hedge]

is it a military trombone? sorry I don't know much about guns

[uneven vessel]

don't be foolish.. a trombone has a slide, this is clearly a bassoon

[misty solstice]

Looks like an E web

[tacit eagle]

British designers. how much stupid odd and complex stuff can we put fit on your equipment... yes

[patent flower]

@sand pagoda this is beautiful

[zenith quartz]

Detail is insane on that SPG-9

Nice work

...it's an SPG-9 right? 😅

[calm rune]

#creators_recruiting

[tacit eagle]

its spg-9 but better

[sand pagoda]

yea, also called spg-9m

literally the same but with extendable front leg and with better scope

[zenith quartz]

Time for weirdness.

[wary inlet]

bazooka!

[wary inlet]

this dude has some mad modeling skills

[shut bloom]

I have a Question. so Is it Possible do Update the FBX after the fact. so If I want to Block out a Building and then finish it after the fact is it possible to reimport the finished model thus changing the Prefab ... ?

I fiddled around a bit but cant reimport the fbx properly.

[sand pagoda]

just use 1 prefab

and then when model will be done, change it in prefab settings

[shut bloom]

oh so just replace the Model in the Prefab

man why didnt I realise that

[sand pagoda]

yeyp

[shut bloom]

BRUH xD

Thx

[sand pagoda]

you gonna use prefab for building anyway

[shut bloom]

ye i know just didnt realise that was also a way

[sand pagoda]

😉

[shut bloom]

btw I really like the SPG 9 bake gud stuff

[glossy lynx]

If you update the fbx while enfusion is open it will automatically update the xob as well

[calm rune]

Huge time saver. Works with textures as well. As long as everything has the same file name.

[surreal ore]

Any idea how to make colliders move along with the visual lod, when using a proc animation.

I have tried this a million times following the wiki

some people have no problem with it, but i can never get it to work correctly

[last hill]

If you delete the FBX on the workbench and then import again to the same place it will update the model to whatever you exported from your 3d software

[pure kayak]

So i wanted to ask about slots, how do they work? im making a viking helmet (dont ask) and i wanted to add cheekguards as an optional piece, i figured i'd make slots to attach the parts too but im not sure how to do that exactly

[tacit eagle]

viking helmet?

[pure kayak]

dont worry bout it

the main thing is i just need to work out slots, as i want to add an attachment to the helmet thats optional

[pure kayak]

anyone know what would cause this to happen? it was working totally fine till i added the slot

[tacit eagle]

@shell hedge

[wary inlet]

could be an origin problem with the helmet

[tacit eagle]

why cursed ; ~ ;

[pure kayak]

i'll check and see, thanks

[zenith quartz]

Some of the UV islands look a bit funky. I would recommend unwrapping using conformal rather than angle based. Also I would recommend using something like UVPackMaster to pack more efficiently.

I'm sure some purist will come along and say 'addons bad' or whatever but seriously it's worth the money.

[tacit eagle]

I did it by hand no auto unwarp

ive wanted to make a unwrap of a single styrofoam piece as much as possible like you would a human head

im also sharing the same uv space on some stuff like those long strips

[chrome plaza]

hey lads, how many tris would be good for a tree? and how does enfusion handle the foliage? should all the leaves be apart of the model? or just the trunk and the leaves are procedural or someshit?

[last parcel]

I would suggest looking at the trees in enfusion to get a overview how they did it

[tacit eagle]

I think the trees are done like in every game where the leaves are texture planes

[chilly dragon]

Leaves and smaller branches are done on texture plans and are called clusters. You'll want to have the clusters as a separate texture from the trunk as enfusion handles the leaves and the trunk materials as two different classes. I'd say 8k faces is the upper limit

[chrome plaza]

legend, thanks for the explanation mate

[delicate condor]

some A3 trees go up to 11-12K tris and the Inocarpus on Tanoa is 16K but those are fairly big trees.

[near bear]

Does anyone have the t pose model for reforger the modder doing my milsims uniforms can't find it

[sly bridge]

it is in the sample files #reforger_samples

[near bear]

Thank you so much

[blazing axle]

Hello everyone, for some reason my model is showing gaps in the workbendch but not in blender, any ideas what could have caused this?

[shell hedge]

when you load the fbx in blender do you see the gaps?

[delicate condor]

Could be texture is low res and has no bleed and is transparent around the uvmapping

[blazing axle]

nope looks fine

[shell hedge]

ah ok so might be the texture

[blazing axle]

im using 2k should i go for 4k?

[delicate condor]

No, just fix the texture

[shell hedge]

why is it transparent

at edges etc

[blazing axle]

its in the same locatons i used a weighted bevel along edges

that's why I suspected it was model issue. will have a play with textures. what resolution is best to use or is it what ever I want?

[shell hedge]

try loading it in with a blank texture

or put default material on it

if it still happens then its a model issue

[delicate condor]

2k or 4k usually. Depends a lot on what you make

[last hill]

Check and see if any verts are not connected. Do a weld on all of the vertices on those areas, see if it improves.

[light eagle]

You need to triangulate your mesh before exporting.

[shell hedge]

the blender fbx exporter does not triangulate automatically?

[light eagle]

No

[shell hedge]

ouch

[light eagle]

Workbench tries, but you get things like this.

[shell hedge]

ok, this makes sense

[blazing axle]

same issue (set and applied the triangulate modifier before export)

[last hill]

I noticed this issue on clothes if there were multiple elements in an area, they seemed to come apart.

[shell hedge]

if you drop the blend/fbx file maybe one of us can look at it

but I'm pretty useless as I don't use blender

[blazing axle]

we have a winner! Thanks you and everyone for responding.

[shell hedge]

so the bevels were not connected?

[last hill]

Pleased to hear it

[blazing axle]

now it looks crap in places but thats learning for you!

[last hill]

If it worked undo and go around manually then try a smooth or whatever it is called on blender

[delicate condor]

you may need to apply sharp edges manually

clothing spreading apart might mean differences in vertex weights between verticles in same position. ideally those should be merged together to avoid such

[zenith quartz]

This is a subdivided mesh, too small triangles in a small area just disappear

Don't put subdivided meshes ingame tho.

[hazy shell]

Not sure if this is the correct channel but here we go:

Does anyone know if its possible to add a collision box to one of the bush models ingame ? I'm trying to achieve a "hedge" effect ala Normandy
And if so, how ?

No idea what I'm looking for in all the add component stuff

[shell hedge]

if you want to reuse the collider that the mesh already has, you can change its layer in the Rigidbody component to something that collides with players

it will be pretty jank though, I think I would create a prefab/mesh that only has a collider and put it inside the hedges, if you aren't modeling the hedges yourself

[hazy shell]

Changing the layer works semi decent for my purpose - but its a start. Thank you for that one

Do you know the steps to do it that way ? I'd would PM you in that case 🙂

[shell hedge]

I just tried to do it, it seems to work, but it's hard to place because it's invisible

even with collider debug show it's invisible

until camera gets really close to it

[shell hedge]

I figured it out, let's do it

[woven swallow]

WIP Cannon - Textures are placeholder.
I've been super busy with IRL work. that's why taking for ever to finish.

[shell hedge]

RESOURCES (W): Invalid collider 'UCL_Collider'. Export skipped

why is it invalid?

[tidal latch]

it is not cylinder probably?

[shell hedge]

I may have accidentally squished it a bit

it works now after unsquish

[dire estuary]

Can you provide a screenshot of the mesh? I have never gotten _UCL to work

So I’m curious to see what I do wrong

[shell hedge]

basically I made a new one

and did not do any manual transformation

just the generator sliders

[tidal latch]

https://github.com/BohemiaInteractive/Arma-Reforger-Misc/tree/main/Art/Model Examples here you have example file containing all colliders

[dire estuary]

Thanks, will have a look

[celest imp]

Is that in a mod on the workshop / do you have any plans to release it there? It looks great

[sly bridge]

not yet. When finished, it will be in rhs status quo

[broken grove]

Any tips AR Blender users? 🙂 https://twitter.com/MiroHorvath/status/1577981514234609664

Miro Horvath (@MiroHorvath)

Hi community, I'm preparing my talk(link below) for @BlenderConf and I wonder, what kind of information you'd like to hear regarding Arma Reforger art pipeline in Blender?
Retweets appreciated🙏
https://t.co/vGBHG0BtTH
#b3d @ArmaPlatform @EnfusionEngine

Twitter · Oct 6, 2022, 11:18 AM

[zenith quartz]

Would love to hear more about decal usage and the workflow for creating and applying them.

[hot pumice]

new type of characters with their own skeletons could be something interesting but probably lenghty to explain

[broken grove]

@hot pumice @zenith quartz thanks guys, for both suggestions would be better to make a dedicated video tutorials than spend only few minutes at the conference honestly

@zenith quartz could elaborate more on what's not clear in regard decals?

@hot pumice so you'd like to know how to model a new character from scratch as well? or just the skeleton/rigging part?

[zenith quartz]

I'm just generally interested in the workflow for creating vehicles in Reforger, where decals should and shouldn't be used, how they're made (I'm guessing trimsheets), especially for welds on edges like the BTR has. Those looked straightforward but kinda confusing when I actually tried them.

[hot pumice]

just interested in creating new characters from scratch with their own skeleton, was always tricky to do it in arma3 due to the large amount of animations needed to make it on par with the basic armaman, but yeah the more I describe it the more time consuming it sounds
if its something short then I guess the basic blender side pipeline of a type of asset, like a box or a weapon could be interesting
well I say short but I'm not sure how long it would take, assuming the models themselves are already made in the short

[shell hedge]

just do it like this

[hot pumice]

perfect

[shell hedge]

game is called Everything and it's a cool experience, in case anyone's interested

[fossil crater]

https://tenor.com/view/horse-cavalo-spin-meme-flip-gif-17331191

[shell hedge]

ah so this is how they mocapped Roach for witcher 3

[fossil crater]

There is actually a mod of a horse in dayz that does this

[hot pumice]

we have the technoloy

[shell hedge]

they removed the G from technology and got this

[hot pumice]

crap

[tidal latch]

do you want to create human like characters? I did some experiment with creating some basic animation workspace out from mixamo ( https://www.mixamo.com/ ) animations

[hot pumice]

nothing particular in mind atm, just curious

[tidal latch]

well, if you want to use new skeleton then it didn't changed too much and you still have to make all the animations from scratch

with mixamo though, you can do some shortcuts when it comes to anim creation and concentrate on configuration

[hot pumice]

guess I should have expected it
but at least it seems simpler to make animations now?
not sure

[gilded sandal]

Hello guys! I Imported custom 3D model as FBX. Collisions work, textures looks great everything is fine. When I publish world to workbench model is there, but textures gone. How to solve the problem?

[shell hedge]

wut

whats the mod name

[gilded sandal]

https://prnt.sc/OEjnkHAyYBXx Mod name: Test1 recently added. As you can see wall has no textures. But in the editor textures are ok.

[shell hedge]

got editor screenshot?

I see no texture in the material

[gilded sandal]

In the editor materials are attached, I use prefab only. Maybe I must register asset or do something more than just import ant place object?https://prnt.sc/tDCxz98iLZ9A

[shell hedge]

click apply to prefab bottom right corner

to sync changes with prefab

[gilded sandal]

Holy cow! It worked! Thank you mate. https://prnt.sc/XJTR17Hb_rNy

[celest imp]

I saw that mod on the forums it looks like it's going to be the best one yet, I didn't know you were apart of the dev team. Quick question, do you guys have a public discord server?

If you don't you should think about making one it would be great

[sly bridge]

ahm, RHS has been about since 2003....(https://www.rhsmods.org/team) no public discord server

[sly bridge]

thought about it, decided against long time ago

[celest imp]

Ok, I saw RHS has been around awhile but I have never played Arma 3 since my pc can't handle it lol

[celest imp]

Alright I was just hoping to see some more sneak peaks into development lol

[sly bridge]

that happens on forums / twitter, but going ot, and this isn't the place

[celest imp]

Oh ok

Sorry about that forgot this was model_makers chat

[delicate condor]

Im gonna say its not a lot more simpler but the GUI is a lot better alternative for the text editor configs that A3 required. It is easier to follow imo.
The making of animations in whatever program they are made in is still the same though, that wont really ever change and it is a skill like any other that gets easier and faster the more you do it and the more shortcuts you discover for your workflow.

one major difference and reforger handicap is that the game animations are not accessible like they were in previous titles so they cant be used as reference anymore.

so in that sense its probably even more difficult/time consuming now to make a set than it was in A3

the IK systems with items and such might make it a little bit easier to make stuff too, but have not done much with that yet so just making guesses for now

[zenith quartz]

Getting somewhere.

[sly bridge]

neat! i have that planned

[zenith quartz]

Thanks! It's a weird amalgamation of the AKV-521 and AK-12SP. 😄

Plus an upper receiver partially inspired by the original prototype AK-12.

[sly bridge]

:)))

[shell hedge]

I wonder what the easiest way for me is to export colliders with layer presets from Cinema 4D

do all the sample models have FBX with the custom usage attributes?

[fluid fern]

https://youtu.be/IKE6_3cyzYI
Thanks a lot @warm token to help me

[shell hedge]

no bueno since Cinema 4D doesn't care about FBX custom attributes, but it's Python so I bet I could make a plugin when super bored

[stray swan]

21:33:08:519 RESOURCES (E): Object is broken after TootleFastOptimizeVCacheAndClusterMesh

Clicking on the material section of the xob on the sight PIP gives me that error

[zenith quartz]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/872868903334858803/1028435317121896498/unknown.png

Shelf.

(:

[shell hedge]

can't wait to browse ikea in reforger

[tacit eagle]

come on even ikea doesn't have exposed screws

I would hide that since Ive have that experience

[delicate condor]

Not IKEA but close. Kallax has bit wider outer frame than the shelves and the older Expedit a lot wider outer frame. 😅

Armaverse would probably have something like EKIA brand

[zenith quartz]

I just based it on a shelf in our apartment. 😅

I dunno who made it.

[pure kayak]

IKIA

anyways, i got yet another hopefully quick question, im trying to get a PBS-4 Suppressor i modelled into enfusion as a test, yet im kinda lost. how should i go about attaching the suppressor prefab to the AK-74 one? hopefully the right chat, no idea where models/prefabs stand

[last hill]

So in the model you would need to check what bones/dummies are on the default weapons, also keep in mind the reforger weapons don't have suppressors in the engine directly. A few mods add them to custom weapons via script but yeah. I believe if you add a dummy inside the barrel of your suppressor, labelled something that exists on the rifle in the tools, like barrel_muzzle, or use the attachments compatibility mod and set it up that way then you should be able to import, with skinning (your supppressor would need to be weight painted) and set up the prefab accordingly.

Hard to explain all of the steps required.

[plain galleon]

Best advise for character and transfer of weights, which model do you use?

[plain galleon]

Also which method, been trying different transfer weights tutorials on YouTube but so far it only copy the vertex groups but the application is way off

[calm rune]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yEAvSDrS_n0&t=14s&ab_channel=CGIZONE

I use both of these. Works great. The current model given to us does not have weights on the head/neck so you need to tweak those yourself. I was told they have the model updated but it has not been pushed to the Arma Reforger Samples yet.

[plain galleon]

Thanks!

[tacit eagle]

what should I call the one on top m1a or m1e1?

[woven swallow]

WIP - Bear trap

[zenith quartz]

Now make it bounce.

Bounding bear trap.

[woven swallow]

this is actually meant for a project that we're working on. it will be in game and animated.

[tacit eagle]

where are the ghost people that goes along with it

[open sage]

This gave me flashbacks

[river ice]

So, I have a vehicle in reforger, inheriting off the UAZ for now. As soon as I hit play though, it's sinking through the floor. Could the geo be wrong in some way?

[glossy lynx]

You can't have a trimesh as a collider
Also check that your colliders are correctly configured

[plain galleon]

same skeleton on ours compared to ALICE.. its possible to rotate and move as you can see, but ingame its frozen/static like it has nothing assigned. What could be wrong?

[tidal latch]

its not same skeleton

check number of bones on both pictures

[plain galleon]

ah its missing camera (and 1 more it seems)

camera made the trick

now my only concern is that I can't seem to hide the groin..

🙂

[river ice]

Is there any sample cars to look at?

[chilly dragon]

Have you tried the override meshes to hide in the prefab?

[plain galleon]

yeah, afaik it works great for legs, torso, arms.. unless i am missing something there is no selection for the groin

[chilly dragon]

You just create a selection and name it "groin". If you look under the meshes tab of the basebodys lod's it gives you the names of all the meshes to hide

[tidal latch]

https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Arma_Reforger:Vehicle_Creation

[plain galleon]

want to do it for my pants, not for my character (because then same problem if someone else picks up the pants).. and don't want to start trying to overwrite

oh wait, now it seems to have a Groin there.. but no effect :/

[tidal latch]

maybe you have something in override meshes to hide in pants?

[shell hedge]

it's too big

[chilly dragon]

I was just explaining how you can find the names of the character meshes to hide. Ignoring that this is a jacket and the other selections this is how it should look

[shell hedge]

I had body meshes clip through clothes until I defined body meshes for my character (or was it faction?)

ah, it was this

when submeshes of body was empty, legs were clipping through pants etc

[plain galleon]

yeah but groin isn't working.. still there even when defined

[chilly dragon]

try what bacon suggested then

[glossy lynx]

There is a new vehicle tutorial and example mod

[plain galleon]

but then we back at the problem, if the USA soldier picks up our pants

i mean, won't happen often but not ideal solution

[shell hedge]

huh but all the soldiers have the same submeshes in the faction

so it should work

[fluid fern]

Hi guy, i would like to open an ancien mod but when i try to open it with the aden enfusion tool from blender i get this error.
Do you have solution?

[sly bridge]

@fluid fernwhat file type are you trying to open to begin with?

[fluid fern]

I have unpacked a pbo with mikero tool and I want to open a p3d

[sly bridge]

did you make that ancient p3d you have unpacked?

[fluid fern]

no but i asked the author if i could import it on reforger

[sly bridge]

then ask the author to provide you with the raw files @fluid fern

the error is in relation to the importer not working with binarized p3ds for obvious reasons

also, generally speaking, if you don't own the content, and you do not have explicit permission to use said content (in written form or a proper license) you will get yourself in a quite a bit of trouble

[fluid fern]

of course, I thought the raw pbo would be ok, I will ask him for the raw

[zenith quartz]

I cannot for the life of me figure out how to do the internals on my AK.

Not like... actual parts but the overall chamber for the bolt. Either I'd be screwing up my bakes, showing too much, or showing too little, and it's tricky since there are 4 openings in the dust cover, plus the magwell and trigger hole for in the receiver.

[tacit eagle]

do you explode your model for a bake?

I think you only do AO as non exploded

[shell hedge]

for something like substance Painter you just set high and low in the same places

if your item doesn't come apart there's no reason to bake exploded

[tacit eagle]

how you bake normals without exploded? eps when using a cage

since your gonna get overlapping detail that you don't want

[shell hedge]

yeah you're right, for a gun it doesn't really matter but for a house or things with an interior it will

[tacit eagle]

for a gun it matters a lot I cant think of anything that doesn't require exploding for a good bake, maybe you can set it up to bake sections that are applicable and they are confined to only baking those sections individually

[shell hedge]

I mean it's not wrong to do either, so just do what you are happy with

in the example of the rifle you'd probably want the parts that move to be baked outside

[sly bridge]

you can do it based on naming convention, of course visually it is easier to have things exploded

i only bake using groups (marmoset) or naming convention for substance, and also AO in 2 passes (exploded/ named) and everything in one place

[tacit eagle]

hmm I wonder if blender has such options

[sly bridge]

should have

i mean i also used max using material_ID for certain bakes (haven’t used in a while since marmoset / substance) can do it better and faster

seems there is an addon (free) that does that - quick search = https://youtu.be/fSHYr0jf82Y

pretty similar to substance / marmoset setup

[tacit eagle]

nice, thank you. will have to look more into it

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

HP is done

[leaden leaf]

👀

[zenith quartz]

No not the actual baking process, but rather when I stick my HP in Zbrush for the final polish. Connecting parts together like the dust cover and receiver means Zbrush will essentially weld them together instead of having a seam. Idk. I'll figure it out.

[thorn topaz]

Is it possible to set sculpting groups to prevent that?

[fluid fern]

Hi guys, I don't know if I forgot something but I expose my problem.
When it rains it rains inside my models lol
I've added the right components:

• rigid body
• hierarchy
• rpl component
  I forgot something ?

[shell hedge]

you have a collider?

[fluid fern]

Yep

[fluid dragon]

Hi, guys fixed one problem and encountering the next 2 lol, Somehow my Steeringwheel doesnt work in the imported version (in blender it works), i added the steering_wheel_placeholder.pap in the ProAnimParams and also selected the Bone but it doesnt turn when i turn the car around. Second Problem is the tires are glitching slightly into the ground where do i tweak that so that doesnt happen ?

[shell hedge]

there has to be some difference between your entity and one that does not have rain inside, whether it's a collider layer or something else I don't know, I'd go one by one

[fluid fern]

What I do is my LODs I do a shift+D and I modify mesh --> normal --> Flip and I rename it to collider. I put them in the COLLIDER collection with propfireview and the corresponding material

[shell hedge]

does your collider actually work ingame? does it import correctly?

is it the same layer as colliders of objects that dont have rain inside?

[fluid fern]

They import correctly, I have no problem of collision, when I put metal for example, the noise and the shots are on metal BUT it rains at

[regal isle]

If im not wrong, doesn’t it also happen in the btr? Im pretty sure it rains inside the btr as well

Could be wrong

[shell hedge]

it does not rain inside the btr

[shell hedge]

do you have Rain Occluder selected in your MeshObject component?

[fluid fern]

i check that after work

[vague sandal]

@gilded sandal bro how did you do it to turn the asset into the solid prefab and not a hologram that can be traversed

[vague sandal]

hey guys, I have this inside the tool already but I can't make them become solid, they are like a hologram and the character goes through it, I can't find a way to make them solid. for cover or barrier, someone with some suggestion please

who throws me a lifeline with this

[delicate condor]

You need collider

[neat canopy]

https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Arma_Reforger:FBX_Import

Here you can read about colliders and import

[vague sandal]

thanks

[neat canopy]

Also in the end you have to add the "RigidBody" Component to your object and check "Model Geometry" and "Static" 😉

[vague sandal]

I already have it but it still doesn't get solid

[neat canopy]

Did you check the "static" box in the bottom of rigidBody Component?

[vague sandal]

import and export everything, material, skin, but I think I missed something, or I haven't done something in the tool

yes

I tried to put it as a layer preset as a cover and it didn't work either

[neat canopy]

ok... Hmm.

Have you done the "Collider Setup" in Blender?

And added the right prefix

[vague sandal]

ok, I'm going to try that, I'm also rereading the material you sent me to see what happened to me, I scream again after a while, let me try what you tell me

[neat canopy]

ok, sure 🙂

[vague sandal]

thanks bro

and how many do I need to add, just one?

[neat canopy]

just one Box for the collision with the soilder and vehicles, later you can add one more for the bullet collision of weapons

I would suggest a box because it´s a simple object and has the shape of a box. So that should be fine

[vague sandal]

@neat canopy epa bro thank you, that was it, you made it work for me, thanks again

I appreciate it

[neat canopy]

Nice, no problem.

[vague sandal]

@neat canopy bro but the bullets keep passing me, and I put the two that you told me, it is already rigid and I can walk on it but the other projectile does not activate

any suggestion sorry to bother you with that

[neat canopy]

It should work when you have two colliders. One with LayerPresets "Building" and a Material of your choice so you can´t walk through and the second collider has to have the LayerPreset "FireView" and a Material of your choice (makes sense to use the same), which handles the Bullets then.

@vague sandal

[vague sandal]

Ok I understand you, I mean I have to select it, good
Ok I understand you, I mean I have to select it, good

[fluid dragon]

is there any info out yet how to do custom animation stuff for vehicles and all the related stuff for that ?

[tidal latch]

you can have one collider sometimes by using i.e. BuildingFireView if the shape works both for character collision and fire geometry

[autumn ledge]

If you could do so, I'm sure i can get people to throw money @ you

[vague sandal]

@neat canopy guys thanks everything went perfect and works great... now what I can't give is that the prefab appears in the Game Master editor as a props

any ideas

hahaha thanks again, this is the page of the gurus

[vague sandal]

I already have the editable object I can move it from one side to another already in the game, but I can't see it in the Game Master objects

[last hill]

Did you add it to the list per the tutorial of making new game master items/props?

That would be a question in the config channel mate 👍

[fluid fern]

Hi all, i have a question, I'm in my building but I can't see the walls when I'm inside, how do I correct this on blender?

[shell hedge]

inverted normals on the walls?

[fluid fern]

https://tenor.com/view/success-great-job-nice-great-success-great-gif-5586706

Can anyone explain to me why the wall is transparent?

[shell hedge]

make sure your normals are facing the right way on the mesh

[fluid fern]

The orientation of the faces is ok, so I think it's due to the vertex?

[shell hedge]

show screenshot with face normals visible?

[shell hedge]

are the normals fine in the fbx as well?

[fluid fern]

No in the fbx it is bugged

[shell hedge]

ah someone that knows blender will be helpful here, not the first time I see this normal issue with blender exports

[vague sandal]

@last hill Thanks bro, I already solved it with overwriting, I wanted it as an ineherent but I couldn't work it, it will be later that I see what I'm missing, but for now it works fine that way, thanks for your advice, and by the way, I like all your mod, especially the one you did to mortalis ares, greetings

[tacit eagle]

it looks like you have multiple lines intersecting each other

should look like this

and you need to triangulate

[fluid fern]

How can I do that?

[tacit eagle]

do what?

[fluid fern]

To correct the error, I do not see how to do

[tacit eagle]

start by fixing the horrible topology

dissolve that curvy ngon

use knife tool to make squares like my image

make sure there are no random vertices

you can also do this just make sure the triangles are not too long because you start getting strange shading issues

[fluid fern]

I will redo my walls

ok it's good thanks

[cloud rampart]

Anyone have problems with the helmets appearing and vanishing on first person randomly?

Have activated the headclippinga and the AlphaBias and Apha In Shadow

[calm rune]

You need to duplicate and rename one of the headgear materials. If you choose to make your own from scratch the head clipping opacity map does not work as far as I know or at least I could not get it to work. So I had to duplicate the actual material from one of the vanilla piece of headgear and then insert my BCR AND NMO maps.

[cloud rampart]

Really? Thanks for the advice, ill try It later

[leaden leaf]

Wasn’t someone making a GRAD BM-21?

[delicate condor]

yes. been a while since I've seen anything posted about it

[leaden leaf]

Ah okay, hopefully who ever posted about it is still working on it

It looked amazing

[delicate condor]

you can check if its on the workshop too

[leaden leaf]

I just did sadly it’s not

[sly bridge]

please don’t post in this channel unless it is model making related, or at least tangent

[cloud rampart]

Solved with this, thanks! Its a mess need to do this things to get it properly working...

[tidal latch]

could you share perhaps material which didn't work? Did you assigned opacity map?

In RHS we are using plenty of custom materials and we never had that issue, so I guess you missed some element

[cloud rampart]

Compared both .et and are the same except the bcr and nmo

And that bcr and nmo are now perfectly working on the duplicated material

[tidal latch]

what about emat?

[cloud rampart]

sorry, emat, not .et

[tidal latch]

so both emats are identical? I mean, the one freshly created and then the one duplicated?

[cloud rampart]

recreated all the parameters from the original asset from reforge to a new material

[tidal latch]

have you checked that in text editor?

[cloud rampart]

that dont work, but if we duplicate it, it works perfectly

[tidal latch]

can you share material which doesn't work?

[cloud rampart]

try to recover the old material and give it a try with text editor

[tidal latch]

I could probably tell you what was wrong in your newly created material so you wouldn't have to create duplicated mats

[cloud rampart]

anyway, the rhs ones was tested on workbench or game? We saw this error only looking at some angles on a private server, the helmet blinked randomly in u look at one direction

[tidal latch]

game

[cloud rampart]

never saw this error on workbench or single player

ummm, ill try later to recover the emat and share it to you

[tidal latch]

sure

[tacit eagle]

:3 18K verts, I just have to make separate materials, learn mixer 😦

[spring ferry]

add seams on those sharp edges 😄

[tacit eagle]

why D:

[daring condor]

because its best practice to avoid issues with bevel bakes

https://www.artstation.com/blogs/typhen/BDr6/this-is-normal-2-baking-normal-maps

this explains why towards the end

[daring condor]

yeah no edge separation between the two sharp objects

not good

[tacit eagle]

im gonna blame bacon on this one

[daring condor]

so the way it works is that a normal map is baked relative to the relevant normal

and if you mark something sharp you split the normals

and since the UV map is mroe likely than not not pixel perfect it will mess up the bake

since it will overwrite the very edge and when the other edge tries to read it it gets a completly wrong angle

[shell hedge]

edge breaks go where you want edge breaks, typically when surfaces would change height is one reason? or something

haven't had issues of this kind yet

[daring condor]

every hard edge should be a uv split

link i sent explains why in detail

[fluid fern]

Hey, i have a problem with raini in my building, yet I have activated in the mash object
https://youtu.be/EA8aZBgCrPg

[fluid fern]

Nobody had answers?

[shell hedge]

can you show collider layer?

wonder if this has something to do with it

[fluid fern]

In blender they are in PropFireview with a material (on this model I have concrete, metal and wood) and their name is in UTM_COLLIDER, UTM_COLLDIER.001 etc.

[shell hedge]

building should probably be BuildingFireView

can you see if this makes any difference?

[fluid fern]

And I don't have any errors on import

Ah!

I'll test it tonight and get back to you.

[fluid fern]

and maybe with this collider, the geometry data export will work and I will suddenly have the visualization of my buildings on the 2D map

[fluid fern]

Same error with buildingfirewiew

[neat canopy]

Hey, I am currently a little bit bored and search for a cool project or object I can model and texture for someone. I don´t want money, just have fun. I am specialised on smaller objects and buildings. Just DM me 🙂

[neat canopy]

Have you triangulated your UTM geometries?

[fluid fern]

How?

[neat canopy]

go in "edit mode" of the UTM
then press A to select all
search for "triangulate quads" in the searchbar.

and press enter

[fluid fern]

Okay i check that later

[shell hedge]

he was able to walk on the thing so I figure collider mesh is fine

[neat canopy]

Yeah have seen that but just to be sure 😉

[shell hedge]

at this point prob go over this and some vanilla house and see what the differences are

[fluid fern]

After a test with the triangular it was the same, so I said to myself "maybe it's just in the editor", so I launched my mission in GM having put the building before on my other world and it does not rain inside

[neat canopy]

Nice 👍

[wise lily]

Lego mod?

[calm rune]

Some WIP before and after shots of the detailed high poly for a clients Reforger mod.

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/847516074715250769/1033232413205204992/unknown.png
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/847516074715250769/1033232349393072158/unknown.png

[fluid fern]

By the way, did you import a custom building ? And export the geometry data (razerlisation and 2D geometry), to know if the building is visible on the map in game

[woven swallow]

Bear trap
Mode: Blender
Textured: Substance painter

[pallid dune]

1P29 finally done & in game

[wise lily]

Lego mod ?

[tacit eagle]

no we are not 5 years old

[tacit eagle]

has anyone tried Quad Remesher? Ive tried the trail version and it does not do a great job

[calm rune]

It is good for organic modelling. Horrible for hard surface.

[fluid fern]

Did you have problems importing fbx? infinite loading and workbench crash?

[wise lily]

???? Lego mod

[tacit eagle]

@calm rune most of the videos I see on it are for hard surface stuff oddly.

[shell hedge]

it's native in my Cinema 4D version, would you like me to test something for you?

[tacit eagle]

no I have it, I just dont find it that useful like how videos portray it

[shell hedge]

I think I used it for LODs for one of my meshes recently and it was very helpful

[tacit eagle]

how do you make good lods? do you take lod0 and decimate it or do you make a new model and just reuse the animation and uv?

[shell hedge]

so far I've been successful (most of the time) reducing poly counts with options like "keep uv edges" and/or "keep 3d edges" selected, so it does its best to reduce poly counts in places that arent edges first, so the shape is preserved

I've also seen someone turn the entire model into voxels and reduce their resolution but this doesn't seem applicable to hard surfaces (but it worked for things like rocks) and you lose UVs

[fluid fern]

can you help me? I applied another texture on the top of my building but it doesn't appear, except on the bottom

[tacit eagle]

did you mark seams? by default it should be red edges

also what are you point to the box?

[fluid fern]

I don't understand

[tacit eagle]

hmmm you need to select all the faces you want to apply them. also did you make a UV map or are you baking everything to another model?

[delicate condor]

No spam thanks

[misty solstice]

?

[delicate condor]

Random stickers

[fluid fern]

How do I do that? Because what I do is that in the texture part I believe a new one and I apply an image to it and then I go to edit mode to apply it on the faces I want

[willow sage]

Is there anyone who knows what the status is with CUCV vehicle?

[fluid fern]

Do you manage to create windows that break when you pull on them? On the window emat I changed the class to MatPBRBasicGlass but I'm just passing through.
On blender I put the collider in UBX_GLASS

[shell hedge]

I think windows need a destructible component; see vanilla windows in buildings

[fluid fern]

I have my model which is empty so I added doors and I saved under our name then I wanted to place it on my map and hop crash (there is nothing conclusive in the logs)

[fluid fern]

I took the same components as a window and same, maybe is not the right collider to put

[shell hedge]

try the same collider as the window glass

[fluid fern]

has anyone ever had this?

[shell hedge]

need to go over the differences between your building and vanilla buildings

95% chance something is missing

[fluid fern]

I just add prefab, normally I should have no errors

when I look at other prefabs, the layout is the same

[shell hedge]

huh I've never seen splines as children of an entity

does this work?

[fluid fern]

I have error with the splines but it's the same with the objects I place

[shell hedge]

well if it starts crashing after you add doors then something in the doors or around them might be missing

[fluid fern]

No, but whether it's a door or a rock, I have the same on everything

[shell hedge]

oh... hard to say then

I've experienced a ton of crashes when working with generators

[fluid fern]

Really unpleasant all these crashes

[lethal frigate]

How can we port structures form a3 to reforger?

[sly bridge]

you can’t port a3 vanilla content

you can only forward port content you made your own

[lethal frigate]

Ooh ye u forgot what about a2

[fluid fern]

You can vanilla a2 object

[sly bridge]

i didn’t, you asked about the structures from a3

[wise lily]

lego mod

where is?

[misty solstice]

Lol

[hazy shell]

Lets go !
Looks great Nyu

[surreal ore]

@lethal frigate @fluid fern https://www.bohemia.net/community/licenses/licensed-data-packages

These packages are portable. Their license determines what they can be ported to. With a quick skim through the list it looks like all of them can be ported to any Arma game and DayZ

[fluid fern]

I know I already imported the rails 😊

[woven swallow]

anyone here knows a tool or a script that generates the LOD's in blender?

[glossy lynx]

I normally just use the decimate modifier or manually decimate models to create lods that confine to uv’s

[woven swallow]

Yeah but I was looking for something more automate or faster.

[woven swallow]

you're not texturing your models?

[tacit eagle]

if I leave them alone for long enough they texture themselves

[woven swallow]

I can tell

🥱

[tacit eagle]

do the ghost people also use hamemrs 😮

[calm rune]

Right now I just set hard edges and set the crease to 1.00 then use the decimate modifier but I’d also like to know if there is something more automated. When you set your crease to 1.00 the model holds it shape and doesn’t tear apart when using the decimate modifier.

[woven swallow]

I am aware of sharp edges, but I'm looking for a one click thing.

[woven swallow]

lol

[glossy lynx]

Due to budget cuts we could not afford to craft the helicopters out of metal

[summer sierra]

Can’t wait to see that thing finally in the game!

[tacit eagle]

needs more raw meat texture

[wary inlet]

dude that is mint are you able to texture them?

[regal isle]

Hey! Just wanted to ask you something. Did the new update mess up the weapon system on the little bird? I know you guys were close to release. Plus your black hawk guns went rogue

[glossy lynx]

The guns work differently, so they are fine

[regal isle]

Shweet! I know people dont like the question so you dont have to answer. But how far do you think it is from release 😅

[glossy lynx]

We'll release it when we think it's ready, still needs a good bit of work

[summer sierra]

Strider is the perfect PR guy he gives you answers that aren’t really answers! Not an insult at all reminds me of NFL coaches 😂😂

[willow sage]

@junior thorn
Maybe will be able to create an enhanced radio with battery/antenna swappable system. There will be animations needed to operate on radio.

[misty solstice]

Minty

[woven swallow]

Nice and clean. Good work. I would like to see the UVs.

[thorny cobalt]

Lookin real hot

[tacit eagle]

🥺 ded never says anything about mien stuf 😦

[thorny cobalt]

Then make better stuff :whip:

[willow sage]

Thanks guys,
Really needed that.

Have one actually with me rn.

[misty solstice]

Damn, looks perfect

[calm rune]

That’s because all you make is PVC pipe

[junior thorn]

That looks really cool man! Damn you mod makers are incredible. Good looking model 👍

[tacit eagle]

do you guys think I should change the sight?

its a chairman 1946 design

[misty solstice]

I kinda like it

What I can’t wait to see one day is riot shields lol

[woven swallow]

too easy

[tacit eagle]

sometimes fun to get out the tablet

[misty solstice]

Then why hasn’t it become a thing yet

[minor crystal]

try using the by angle decimation option if using blender

you can just use ratio too but by angle works well for me

also gotta keep in mind its just a lod, people wont see it clearly

[light eagle]

It all depends on use case and your needs. Decimate is really only your friends when your lod transitions can be seamless. Works fine for LODs 2-x. If it's something that the player is going to be able to see in detail during the transition, I would suggest doing a hand made retopo. Choose the areas of highest detail that you can afford to simplify with limited impact of shape. And while halving the vert count between lods is the general rule of thumb, it's not a hard rule. If your LOD1 is only 20-30% less than your LOD0 that's fine.

[woven swallow]

That's a good suggestion if you're only taking your time on a model, but if you're trying to be productive I believe that won't be ideal. But yes you can grab the LOD0 duplicate it then start cleaning the mesh, that would be your LOD1 then do a duplicate LOD1 but this time you can start deleting small parts such as screws (if you have small parts such as that for example). Then duplicate LOD2 and start using Decimate modifier. Unless you got all the time in the world you can retopo more. Just an idea.

[shell hedge]

idk about blender but there should be an option to preserve 3d edges and uv edges

[zenith wave]

Very nice

[spring pond]

ik what ill be looking at tonight when ill nut 😉

[young shard]

Are we able to add custom characters into Reforger? Like If I wanted to add a Star Wars Droid to the game what would I have to do?

[sly bridge]

1. you cannot add things you haven’t done or bought
2. you cannot add anything owned by Disney, star wars included

[sly bridge]

@surreal ore nope

[surreal ore]

Yeah

To act like you have any control or authority about what I do on my personal computer is laughable.

And to act like people can't make mods simply because the name Disney comes to minds is laughable too. Starwars is eh. But most of the stories by Disney are not copy written because they now fall into public domain.

[sly bridge]

you do what you wanna do on your own computer, that is all fine

[surreal ore]

And that's exactly what I stated to someone else and you deleted my post.

[sly bridge]

i have no authority over that, but just like there will be no piracy talking even less encouragement, same goes for ip infringements

[surreal ore]

I didn't encourage anything. I simply stated facts.

I didn't tell him to rip models from a starwars game.

[sly bridge]

if you don’t like how this discord is moderated, feel free to take that into #discord_server or contact dwarden directly

this discussion is over in this particular channel

[surreal ore]

Hahah

[tacit eagle]

all im gonna say is that i plead the 5th

[tacit eagle]

hmm the threads are non connected with the tire, I guess my lod for the trailer is correct

[woven swallow]

Not interested in that to be honest. I'll think about it tho.

[misty solstice]

I’m just pulling ya leg would be awesome to see and how it would work

[shell hedge]

prob animating it is the hardest part

[tacit eagle]

dont say that word bacon it scares me

[woven swallow]

I could model it and let someone else animate it. I've been trying to learn animations and i have a basic understanding of it but no time. I do this for fun.

so much shit I've been wanting to finish, by the way @shell hedge I can finish the cannon if you're still interested in making it work in game lol.

spam

[woven swallow]

guess what this is ?

[little kayak]

Fish trap? 🙂

[tacit eagle]

bread box

[woven swallow]

yup

[woven swallow]

lol

[open sage]

The Krusty Krab?

[woven swallow]

haha didn't thought about that lol!

[shell hedge]

blender screenshot

[calm rune]

Lobster trap. Where I am from that is what they are used for at least.

[woven swallow]

I think is used for fishing in general, not just Lobster maybe im wrong lol

[tacit eagle]

its for ze crabbe

i will also never accept snacks from strangers too

[woven swallow]

this is my reference when i went to the zoo i took a picture of it

[woven swallow]

lol

[misty solstice]

The krusty Krab

[misty solstice]

Wait is it an actual building or just like a cool prop you can put on the ground and stuff

[prisma delta]

It's an underwater restaurant run by a stingy crab.

[misty solstice]

Minty

[willow sage]

Like Devodnik said it would be a nice shore proop or Everon life item to earn some €

[woven swallow]

I'm thinking about making shit load of props mod so server owners can use.

[sly bridge]

@ivory cape would support it :))

[tacit eagle]

apparently this was made in 42 but did so bad that they shelved them until 1945 berlin

and held it like this... however I think its incorrect

I think you hold over hand, aim it next to your head and extended it away from your head before firing

[woven swallow]

A mic 🎤 or what ? Lol

[willow sage]

Trying to meet the materials that are on real one.

Model is in reforger and together with @spring pond with help of @shell hedge we have figured out how to add custom inspect actions for non weapon items.

[shell hedge]

next step is make the display work

[willow sage]

If you will have spare time to think about it we will be glad mate.

[thorny cobalt]

display gonna be ez

[junior thorn]

Well that was fast! I you guys are incredible

[shy sedge]

Looking to hire a modder for our server looking for Marine skins specifically Marpat camo

[willow sage]

#creators_recruiting is a channel for you.

But there is actually several mods containing MCCUU, one of them is mine.

https://reforger.armaplatform.com/workshop/596CD7B382CB3BCD-USMCEquipment7th3Bat4Coy

[woven swallow]

looking good looking good

[open sage]

There seems to be a problem with this mod. The vest and backpacks don’t spawn in the arsenal box

[calm rune]

That poor PRC has been through the ringer.

[covert dune]

I remember those from DayZ. Looking good!

[shy sedge]

great work! thank you for directing me to the right place!

[willow sage]

Will be able to fix the clipping later, if I'm right @calm rune has perfect weight transfer samples and fixed skeleton.

[calm rune]

#reforger_samples message

[neat canopy]

Is there a tag in the WorkbenchTool for Blender like _LOD0, _LOD1 etc. that will be ignored on export? Like the EDIT Lod in A3

[shell hedge]

LODX is taken from mesh names on importing

[tacit eagle]

dis gud lods ?

[shell hedge]

yes

[hoary glen]

Bohemia Interactive Prague senior technical artist Miro Horváth gave an almost-hour-long talk earlier today: https://youtu.be/6GI3vbgJ17k

[glossy lynx]

Amazing work

[willow sage]

@spring pond is fighting with the configs because for some reason detach script is not returning Battery to loadout and etc.

[covert dune]

This is actually pretty awesome. Not many companies give you such an insight. Was an interesting watch. 👍

[calm rune]

That thing is gonna look so damn good with some tweaked animations 🔥

[tacit eagle]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/982010785893081161/1036136490612305980/unknown.png?width=960&height=667

[covert dune]

Is 2650 Tris too much for a fancy old radio prop at LOD 0 ? Or is that no problem for Reforger ?

[tacit eagle]

no its not a lot at all

the weapons alone are 30k