enfusion_model

[covert dune]

Oh alright. Thanks Nyu.

[glossy lynx]

When importing an fbx is how do you get workbench to recognize the other meshes?

figured it out, it was merging meshes by default

[agile crater]

@willow sage nice work

[lofty hull]

When will this awesome mod come out?🙂 And thank you for making this mod!👍

[willow sage]

Dunno, still fighting with configuration :<

[shell hedge]

I have a mesh that uses only part of a larger texture, is there a tool that will create a new, smaller, texture with only relevant information?

[torn jay]

flashlight model for @shell hedge upcoming laser and flashlight attachment mod

[willow sage]

Hell yeah!

[cloud rampart]

Hi, i'm getting a error with my model, this is the aspect of it. Get the error "Material file has incorrect format" sometimes, but with even new materials can't solve this

any clue?

[willow sage]

Have you compressed textures before importing ?

[cloud rampart]

no texture added yet, thats the look with materials clear

[willow sage]

Have you assigned any material to object ?

[cloud rampart]

4 assigned

Even redoing on game the materials get this error

[willow sage]

You are exporting fbx by blender ?

[cloud rampart]

yes

[tacit eagle]

I think its a vab

[cloud rampart]

a vab?

[summer sierra]

What’s the final goal? 🔥

[cloud rampart]

Its a Spanish BMR

We have it on arma 3 and are importing it to reforger

[summer sierra]

Sick

[cloud rampart]

RESOURCES (E): Material file has incorrect format '$Vehiculo:Assets/Vehicles/Wheeled/BMR/data/BMR_Detalles_Interior.emat'
RESOURCES (E): Could not open material '$Vehiculo:Assets/Vehicles/Wheeled/BMR/data/BMR_Detalles_Interior.emat'```

the log of the error

[willow sage]

It looks like there is problem with only one material.

[cloud rampart]

i cut part of the log, but happen with all materials

[willow sage]

Oh okay.

[cloud rampart]

there're a lot of material sxDD

[willow sage]

Hah, yeah my brain is like lasagna atm.

Have you used a materials that were used in A3 also ?

[cloud rampart]

I think that, but the one working on it says he remade the models twice :/

the materials*

[willow sage]

Is he using SP for texturing yours assets ?

[cloud rampart]

substance painter?

[willow sage]

Yep

[cloud rampart]

yes

but that model have no textures yet

is the material raw

[willow sage]

I believe that he is exporting them incorrectly.

I will check them tomorrow if you will send me a complete set of one of these materials

[shell hedge]

try importing textures and making your materials in-engine

[shell hedge]

in workbench

[cloud rampart]

The original its green

[willow sage]

For me you need a random png textures to be assigned as nmo and bcr slots

Use whatever you have in png format and try to place it inside this assigned materials

If they will show, everything is allright

And you will need to worry only for your textures artist to deliver them asap

[cloud rampart]

Have already one

its so strange

[shy sedge]

Hey SpaceStrider when do you think you will be updating the rhib love the model just crashes the server when we try to load it in!

[tacit eagle]

working on this piece of junk

the tooling to make this thing probably cost more than for an entire car

[glossy lynx]

I can do it soon
just been busy working on the helicopters

[shy sedge]

roger love the work by the way thank you for the quick response

[tacit eagle]

the doors of the BMR will be able to open ?

[last hill]

That issue is your artist has messed up the BCR or NMO channel maps on the textures.

BCR = Base Color (diffuse) and goes in the RGB, then create the Alpha Channel and put the Roughness on that channel, export out with alphas on, either png or tiff works best in my experience.

NMO is set up as Normal goes in RG, Metallic goes in B, alpha channel is your AO channel.

So you will have two RGB+A Textures for the vehicle per material.

BCR is your BaseColor + Roughness in Alpha
NMO is your Normal on Red and Green + Metal in Blue channel, Alpha is your Ambient Occlusion.

Hard to explain without a diagram and am on my phone at work on a quick break.

Hope it helps. But that appears to be the error in your texture maps causing weird colors.

Also ensure the artist is using either 512, 1024, 2048, 4096 etc etc. Also must be square or they will cause errors and not pull the channel maps correctly.

[tacit eagle]

so you cant use 1024 x 2048 or 512 x 4096?

[last hill]

Well now I don't know, some folk seem to be saying it works fine as long as it's the right ratio, I just haven't had any success with that.

[sand pagoda]

You can

[cloud rampart]

I said in prior messages the model dont have textures yet

[cloud rampart]

@last hill

Looks like somehow the models is broken, the one who made the UV used UVPackmaster for first time, since he used that, the model looks like that

We are redoing the UV from a backup we have

[delicate condor]

there probably are too many uvsets in it

[cloud rampart]

only 4, tried to reduce to 1 or 2 and still broken

for now he is redoing it and its not broken for now with 4

[delicate condor]

it should really have just 1 unless you use different uvmappings on different textures on same surfaces

different materials dont need different uvsets

they can overlap on same uvset /uvmap since they dont share surfaces

[cloud rampart]

What?

It uses differents materials for differents parts of the model, the exterior have one, the wheels other, interior other one...

Vanilla assets do that thing too

But anyway, i said we used even only 1 and still broken on that blender we used, we started again with a backup who work (With 4 materials)

[shell hedge]

I don't know about the blender tools addon (I don't use blender) so I'm used to creating my materials inside workbench after importing all textures, and then assigning them to the mesh

[cloud rampart]

Tried that too

or i think so, we remade a reassigned it on workbench

[shell hedge]

maybe you discovered some kind of new bug

but I've used meshes with multiple materials and did not have this kind of issue

but I never imported materials 😦 just tex

[cloud rampart]

maybe, even using duplicated vanilla materials do strange things

its something related to the model more than materials i think

cause if we are using a backup an redoing all again and now is working well...

don't know too much about blender, i only make the textures on SP haha

[shell hedge]

I think 3d tools try to include material information alongside the fbx, maybe the exporter of said material information didn't put something in there that it should have

I use SP as well, so I just export textures and make materials in Workbench usually

[cloud rampart]

The one working on the model says he exported all as always, we did other vehicle like that and looks fine

[shell hedge]

the plot thickens

[woven swallow]

Let's make medieval assets, anyone wants to help? 🤔

[tacit eagle]

why this arma not skyrim

[delicate condor]

because anything is possible 🎶

[woven swallow]

Exactly.

[calm rune]

Stop complaining. All you make is cylinders 🤣

[tacit eagle]

I would not be talking

[calm rune]

Some vest WIP for a clients Reforger Mod

[shell hedge]

untextured clothing could make for a great army men style mod

toy soldier stuff

[calm rune]

Just make everything green with a the bare minimum metallic shine. BOOM! Toy Soldier mod 🤣

[shell hedge]

yea scale all the houses and furniture up etc, put conflict gamemode in it

[tacit eagle]

rs2 vietnam has that toy sol a der mode

[woven swallow]

Happy Halloween!

[willow sage]

Started to make pipes too.

[woven swallow]

As long as you texture them I don't mind 🙃

[willow sage]

Will be, don't worry.

[shell hedge]

veles pipes are really good

[willow sage]

I have no doubts, they will fit the reforger climate quite well

[tacit eagle]

pipu

[light eagle]

Regarding geometry requirements. The wiki states

    overlap of more objects is totally unacceptable
    overlap of just two object is acceptable in edge-cases when necessary
    best is to split the the overlapping collider```

Does this apply to tri-mesh geometry for view/fire geometry or just collision meshes like vehicle?

[shell hedge]

all and any collider is my understanding

but I feel like it might only matter for colliders that interact with the same layers

because a lot of stuff in the game has overlapping colliders of different layers

[light eagle]

I'm sure the layers overlapping isn't an issue. Just concerned with too much detail in a tri-mesh being an issue.

[shell hedge]

too much detail in a trimesh that's overlapping something?

[light eagle]

I'm reworking the blackhawk geo. It's got multiple UTM geometry meshes. I'm optimizing them, no hurt in making sure nothing is touching.

[shell hedge]

the BTR70 has a fire geometry collider with 3500 triangles

[light eagle]

Blackhawk is currently much higher than that.

[shell hedge]

I'm looking at the blackhawk and all colliders it has combined have less triangles than the one on the BTR

well, at least the workbench version

[light eagle]

Yeah, that seems off. I'm looking at 169k just on the fireview at the moment.

[shell hedge]

wut, maybe workbench did some optimize magic on import

wait, fireview?

[light eagle]

Yes

[shell hedge]

I see firegeo and viewgeo

maybe I'm not looking at the right thing

this is on RAL_UH60.xob

[light eagle]

I almost wonder if it cleans things up. The blend file is no where near as low as the geometry in project file.

[shell hedge]

I think there is a checkbox for that in import settings

[light eagle]

topology optimization.

[shell hedge]

question is whether it does that to the geometry too

there is also a merge trimesh checkbox

but the way this collider turned out in workbench it does not seem to have a high poly count

[light eagle]

We had some overlapping in the vehicle geo. I've cleaned up the fireView and vehicleFireView. Doing as much as we can to make it run better.

[shell hedge]

only thing I remember is collision warnings start firing when the wheels touch the ground sometimes

so not sure if it's the convex ones since they are above wheels

[light eagle]

Yeah. We don't have much of a workaround for that. Helicopter module doesn't support wheels yet. So they are scripted.

[shell hedge]

ah

well vanilla vehicles have wheels too, but I guess they do raycasts inside engine classes than script classes?

[light eagle]

The original helicopter was a car Ralian turned into a helicopter. That was the best way to get wheels working on it. But then scripted physics for the helicopter...

[shell hedge]

hm yeah it's a tracemove in script, I was wondering if using EOnContact or something would be more efficient

I've sometimes got performance drops in my stun grenade and that thing only fires like 5 traces ONCE, though it may have been my fault

[light eagle]

I'd have to bring that up to Ralian.

[shell hedge]

I mean, this assumes that the wheels are problematic, I don't know if it drops frames when they are disabled

[shut shadow]

im no modder but when it comes to cosmetic things like clothing mods etc
Lets say someone created their own model for a piece of clothing like a jumper is it as easy as replacing the current clothing in game with the model?

In other words is it easier to import models like clothing into the game compared to others mods???

[delicate condor]

you would be creating a new mod

not replacing but adding new

[shell hedge]

clothing requires to be rigged as well, but once you figure this out it's easy peasy

[willow sage]

Side project, will see when we will get info about NV devices.

[shut shadow]

rigging to the character animations ?

[shell hedge]

yes

[shut shadow]

ah ok

So lets say if I had created my own Star Wars models would that be ok to try and mod? I know ur not allowed to rip assets from other games etc but what If someone created a clone mod using their own models and for a private server for a select group of people would that be ok?

[shell hedge]

if you have written permission from the intellectual property owner then I guess it's fine

[shut shadow]

even if the assets are self created and its not being distributed to loads of people?

[tacit eagle]

I will dm you that answer

[shell hedge]

not relevant

[sly bridge]

rigging is the process of assigning mesh vertices to bones.

[sly bridge]

not allowed to be uploaded to the existing workshop, even these were made by yourself

[shell hedge]

no IP rights protected content ever, even with a license?

[delicate condor]

with license/permission, yes

[sly bridge]

if you have a license or agreement etc, of course, but generally speaking companies playing in the same field - video games - (with exceptions) will not provide you such license

[shell hedge]

oh yeah I agree Disney probably won't give me a license to port hulk into arma but I wanted to make sure

[delicate condor]

there is always a chance if you happen to get right person to answer the query. Though in case of corporate Disney the question may not reach the right person who could give the permission and who would be supportive of such things

[tacit eagle]

well i changed my name to Disney and I say go ahead

[delicate condor]

tis not the right way

[minor crystal]

something about this connection feels off but besides that very pretty work

unsure if thats just how the device is but a slight bevel/chamfer there would make it look nicer imo

[willow sage]

Yeah there is small bevel but maybe this picture will show it better.

There is small gap for two halfs of housing coming together really nicely.

But if you noticed it you prove me that I wasn't even close enough.

[shell hedge]

yours looks better than the real life one

[willow sage]

https://tenor.com/view/farted-blushing-dog-cute-doge-gif-5971288

[minor crystal]

ohhhh i see

my rule of thumb when it comes to this stuff

exaggerate the bevel slightly for game art

its easy to get carried away when modeling but from any game distance you wont be able to see the seam of the plastic so exaggerating the bevel makes the seam more noticeable like it is irl

but still amazing work man

[willow sage]

Whoa...
I'm speachless, thank you.

[minor crystal]

like here these should probably be smaller but at a in game holding distance they are more noticeable this way

but thats preferences

so eitherway ur fine

[willow sage]

Will make several more mid 2000's nv devices and I will try to follow these comments, if I remember correctly, tactical_toxic left me similar feedback.

Thanks anyway!

[woven swallow]

Was this textured in Substance or Blender ?

It looks real good

[light lynx]

@minor crystal when is that rifle getting released? Been keen for it since you showed it 😋

[lethal frigate]

hi guys

is there any generator for making collision boxes on the models?

i saw that somewhere or someone mentioned it one time that there should be some

the object looks funny cuz i used only one texture for materials but this is just a test

cuz i found a way to proces models from sketchup trough blender and import into reforger

if i can learn all about structures and how to make them properly

im gonna make a big collection from them

i have some older skp models i made in the past

i know this is not the best way to make models but its very simple

made textures a little darker

[sly bridge]

don’t.

[light lynx]

?

[shell hedge]

guys just hyped up about the rifle man

[leaden trench]

This script is very useful for 3DS Max http://www.scriptspot.com/3ds-max/scripts/ucx-tool . I don't know if there is a similar tool for blender.

[shell hedge]

oh that looks like a great tool

[lethal frigate]

@leaden trench thank you alot man

i have no 3ds max but my friend has it so i will send this to him

[shell hedge]

what about mesh -> convex hull

in blender

does that do something similar?

[pliant bolt]

I used to use convex hull when making collision objects for arma 3 objects

Worked perfectly tbh, still quite a bit of work though

[lethal frigate]

let me see

im so noob in blender

that i think there is no bigger noob then me

[shell hedge]

well convex hull is probably not applicable for a building

[lethal frigate]

where is mesh 😄

[pliant bolt]

everyone is a noob at some point, enjoy it before u get better and get frustrated that u still have to look up the easy thing haha

[pliant bolt]

Well u can just select the corners of the part u want to convex hull, and then just convex hull those

[minor crystal]

substance and then a viewport screenshot in blender eevee

[minor crystal]

excited to see it :)

[minor crystal]

honestly for a bit i completely forgot about it working multiple halo mod projects

now i'd like to drop it but been busy adjusting to living on my own and a new job so been too busy sadly

hopefully soon

[light lynx]

Fair fair. All in due time 😄. But let's not talk about it before I get banned

[minor crystal]

huh

confused lmao

[light lynx]

Im just giving pufu a hard time

^

[minor crystal]

ah lmao

[woven swallow]

Lol

[tacit eagle]

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

[minor crystal]

tooob

is that a marmo bake

[tacit eagle]

I have not baked yet, its just a high poly render

WIP pics

its a pipu

[bright raft]

That looks very nice

[tacit eagle]

Thank you

[minor crystal]

nice work homie

[minor crystal]

beautiful work, did you do the strapping by poly modelling or did you use a spline

[leaden leaf]

How’s this going?

[willow sage]

I have most of them, so it's a matter of minutes before I measure something. It takes longer to verify if everything is correct with the scale.

But I do not know if we will put it into the game shortly because the odkupiciel brought me back to the ground saying that BI will do night vision, aaaaand taking into account the circumstances in which the reforger takes place, it will rather be pvs-5 or pvs-7. Not to mention all the backend will be needed to use nv.

[leaden leaf]

Wait Reforger is geting NVGs

[leaden leaf]

Okay man, thanks for the update and thanks for replying so quickly.

[willow sage]

Nobody said that, and nobody confirmed it either.

It is my personal opinion after long hours in workbench, it would be a sin not to use the enfusion possibilities.

[willow sage]

Completely forgot to click on reference you made.

The radio mod is still in progress, @spring pond is fighting with scripts for main functionality but we are slowly moving forward, we have slowed down a little because of lack of knowledge in some components area.

To give you the full picture of the project i paste the functionality chart here, but in polish (sorry) 😛

https://www.figma.com/file/fqX0NNW7aMlHfE47QtvlP4/Untitled?node-id=28%3A709

Also what is worth mentioning there is one person who would like to contribute to making the project happen by creating another radio for indfor (FIA) side.

[sly bridge]

this is a channel for model makers. So if you wanna add to the channel’s topic then fine, but do NOT inquire or press people about features or release dates

[light lynx]

^

[sly bridge]

that goes for others here as well

[woven swallow]

Pufu you need to relax a little bit brother. Life is short. Enjoy it.

[autumn ledge]

Im going to go out on a limb and say when some people inquire about mods and features, it wont hurt as long as the they know the boundaries of their questions. If modders decline to answer, it is what it is. No harm, no foul right?

[delicate condor]

the main thing is that this channel should not become the ETA enquiry channel especially when more and more mods are being made

at this time that sort of questions are bit rare still but if its not moderated it will get out of hand

[autumn ledge]

Perhaps a special permission needs to be issued to ask questions to modders?

[delicate condor]

such things can be asked in DM or workshop threads

most of the time modders cant really give ETAs anyway

[autumn ledge]

And that is very true. If unmoderated it can lead to a unstable situation

[delicate condor]

it is unfortunate but its not thing for this channel to keep it more on topic and useful for the people making stuff

[autumn ledge]

If someone has an idea to help improve the mod, would it be helpful or a hindrance

[delicate condor]

then the mod should have its own discord or release thread for such input

or if someone asks here "how to improve my model" then thats on topic

[sly bridge]

i’m wielding a ban hammer :))) i am 100% relaxed. I don’t make the rules, i also would prefer that people can read between the lines on their own.
Also, what @delicate condor said +1

[minor crystal]

while i understand i would absolutely prefer to be asked in the channel about updates / info instead of DMs, personally

[minor crystal]

toob but scary

nice work

love the work on the grill-ish part on the right side of it

[bright raft]

Saint toob

Thanks

[minor crystal]

saint toobimus maximus

is this bevel mod or subdiv

or bit of both

[bright raft]

Both

[minor crystal]

based

[bright raft]

I like to use them both as some areas require it imho

[minor crystal]

another use whichever works for the part you're doing modeller

same

[tacit eagle]

did someone say tube 😮

[willow sage]

Guacamole maker!

[minor crystal]

tooob

[dire estuary]

Nice!

[hazy shell]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/976159912679850004/1038278610689212426/20221105032814_1.jpg

We need access to that roof 😂
I can see myself defending the shit out of that

[delicate condor]

Until there is artillery.

😅

[tacit eagle]

fires 256 s5 rockets into windows

[lethal frigate]

I will have to reimport it in pieces

It's 3 lvl

Basement ground floor and first flor

It has atleast 30 rooms

It's huge house

This is made in sketchup heh

Then exported to blender and then to arma

But as I said I will have to cut it in pieces some textures have problems

I don't have a pic of last floor here

I'm still learning how to make the best looking object both model and texture , this is just testing how bigger objects go into reforger by this method with sketchup and blender

[tacit eagle]

why not just do everything in the blender

[lethal frigate]

Cuz i have like 30 mins of expiriance in that program

And making models in sketchup are way faster

I spent on this building 1 hour all together

[delicate condor]

You will likely need blender for proper uv mapping. And you will want to learn how to use the multimaterial to optimize the model.

[tacit eagle]

there are a few ways to model buildings

1. floor plan: cut walls using the knife tool, offset the walls. extrude to window and door openings and lastly to the ceiling height

2. use planes to create walls and openings and then use the solid modifier to add thickness and connect each wall together using Boolean union and clean up the mesh

3. snapping with premade sections and merge all vertex by distance to create a solid mesh

[agile crater]

pls guys dont use sketchup for modeling videos games

[sly bridge]

did you made this model?

[lethal frigate]

ye

[summer sierra]

Operation Neptune spear aka raid on osama bin laden vibes

[lethal frigate]

hey guys i have this colider here but u still can go trough it what im i doing wrong

[tacit eagle]

is it manifold ? maybe its too complex :S

[sly bridge]

good, but generally speaking sketchup is not really a software for game assets

[lethal frigate]

okay i get that

[calm rune]

A wild PuFu is now on the hunt in the interwebz wilderness on the search for some proof that this building was not made by such and such user. Lets see how this pans out 👀

[lethal frigate]

im just trying to learn

[sly bridge]

no i’m not, just a valid question

[sly bridge]

how is the collider named

[lethal frigate]

utm

[sly bridge]

belive me i’ve been doing model for long enough to figure out when stuff is made by someone else

[sly bridge]

polycount?

[lethal frigate]

idk for that but it has 1130 verts and 2136 faces

[sly bridge]

weirdly

[calm rune]

Do you have these? This seems to be the root of all issues with building collision around here.

[lethal frigate]

ahh no i have only meshobject

how do i make that

is that made trough blender?

[calm rune]

Bottom right corner + Add Componet then search for RigidBody then make sure that Model Geometry is checked. EDIT: No it is made done through the engine.

[lethal frigate]

okay

i did it lets try

bruh

i dont know how to expres my appriciation to you

it works

[calm rune]

😅 you are welcome

[lethal frigate]

is there a way

so i can make it an actual material

like stone or brick or metal

[calm rune]

You can set the collider to any of these materials using the EnfusionTools addon for Blender

[willow sage]

We need to talk, this is why prc is having wooden bullethole after being shot.

[calm rune]

Slide into the DM's ma friend

[shell hedge]

Or just assign it in workbench

[calm rune]

Can also do that but if it is as simple as 4 clicks in Blender then may as well do it there 😅

[lethal frigate]

anyone know why i dont have any materials here?

[delicate condor]

its not the materials tab? its lower

[lethal frigate]

in game material i have none

also in layers

i cant chose like what type of material this is brick stone wood metal...

oh sorry the colliders setup menu

[trim needle]

Can anyone link me documentation on the collider types? I searched on the Wiki and can't find anything on the types. UTM etc..

[last parcel]

check the pinned stuff on this channel

[surreal ore]

@trim needlehttps://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Arma_Reforger:FBX_Import

[smoky fractal]

Saint Javelin

[smoky fractal]

a stinger

[tacit eagle]

WRONF

[smoky fractal]

its russian rip off?

@tacit eagle

[tacit eagle]

Double wronf

[smoky fractal]

a russian rip off javie?

oh shit its a polish rocket launcher

@tacit eagle

[dire estuary]

Nice!

This is a quick and dirty render of the upcoming launchers that will be available in SFP. Grg18 and NLAW is high-poly models, the rest is textured low-poly.

[leaden leaf]

I can’t wait!! This look amazing

[patent flower]

very nice

[minor crystal]

pretty

[willow sage]

Like!

[junior thorn]

Looking great

[shell hedge]

by the time armored vehicles come out we'll have like 250 launchers ready to blow them up

[tacit eagle]

its the year of luncher

[tacit eagle]

Is bevel+weighted normals the proper way to go regarding tanks and so forth?

bigg and large objects

[tacit eagle]

I just do sub d 😦

[sly bridge]

there is no one tool that fits it all. i generally do a mix of subd, chamfers modifiers, zbrush decimations etc

[dire estuary]

My problem is that i cannot get a decent resolution so i was thinking about working with chamfers and skip most of the normal and go with tileable textures instead.

[sly bridge]

what is the thing you wanna achieve?

[dire estuary]

Texture my tank I’m working on. It’s just to many items to get some decent resolution on a regular hp/lp workflow

[tacit eagle]

what size are you working with?

I´ve tried 4096x4096 for the turret but its not sufficient

[icy flower]

Can someone help me design a uniform mod for my milsim?

[tacit eagle]

https://i.imgur.com/p7QafKV.png

[icy flower]

We've got over 150 people and it would be great to have our own uniform with our unit patch and American flags on em

Looking for something similar to the 7th Ranger Battalion Uniform mod

[tacit eagle]

the basic texture pack for the leoptard 2 for the turret is 2048 x 1024 in warfunder

I think you are wrong, im pretty sure they are working with chamfers

and procedurals

here is the color map for the turret

and the normal map?

for the body its 2048

Are you sure its the entire model and not just selected parts?

thats a big list of materials, but then i guess they chopped it up in more materials then

yeah well you can see that they try to make modular stuff like the mg42 mount and gun so that they can reuse them on other vehicles

[sly bridge]

reforger also supports decals normals

have a looky over humvee / jeep

[tacit eagle]

oh shit

that might be the solution

what do you do with ze decals?

[sly bridge]

check these, much easier than explaining

[tacit eagle]

Nice, they are creating an atlas just for normals

thats awesome

[delicate condor]

#creators_recruiting is the channel for that.

[tacit eagle]

how do them normal decals work?

[tacit eagle]

Just as a regular normal map

except you change the shader to DecalPbr

where you can ignore to write albedo etc etc only render normals

[patent flower]

that is lovely! GJ

[agile crater]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/507943761322442755/1039528469043888189/image.png

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/507943761322442755/1039550724738134078/image.png

French Army in progress.

[sleek forum]

Anyone has any idea how to make custom ladders? I made a model, but Im missing some pivot ids or something, can anyone explain this?

[smoky fractal]

that helmet kinda looks like this

[tacit eagle]

no it looks more like this...

@sleek forum did you take a look at the ones all ready in game?

[sleek forum]

i figured out bone stuff, but it still wont work action and everything is there, but just cant start climbing

[smoky fractal]

https://tenor.com/view/paz-white-flag-wave-waving-flag-gif-15666633

nqh this

[crystal bridge]

anyone knows how to maker the crosshair mod to work?

i keep getting error when i launch GM with that mod enable

[agile crater]

@smoky fractal do you know LISTENBOURG ?

[tacit eagle]

thats where lou is from

[icy flower]

This is what I have so far and it's my 2nd day on blender. I just wish I could get it to look pretty and I knew how to texture lol

[willow sage]

This is troll or i just don't get it somehow?

[icy flower]

What?

[junior thorn]

He’s not a troll. He’s trying to learn to use blender. He’s new. He also made a list over in #enfusion_texture

[icy flower]

No troll, just like 16 hours straight watching videos and playing around with stuff

[willow sage]

So i didn't get it

What do you need ?

[icy flower]

Before I fit it on the model

[willow sage]

Hmm, have some time

[icy flower]

I do! I own my own businesses so I have all the time in the world lol

[willow sage]

jump in!

[icy flower]

Better fitting newer vest version lmfaooo

[smoky fractal]

i will be reviewing ur mod when it comes out

[icy flower]

Don't expect much, I can't make it like the 7RBN did theirs lmfao

I would kill to have one look as good as theirs

[regal isle]

A noob question. Will i need a powerful pc to use the modding tools? My laptop can’t run the game since my video card is 2 gb. But could I possibly use the tools to create models?

[tacit eagle]

depends on what you want to make

enfusion runs like the game when you are previewing it.

[regal isle]

So there’s no point tryin?

[tacit eagle]

also most of work is gonna be done in separate programs like 3d modeling software blender, photo editor like gimp or paint.net, audacity for sound

[regal isle]

I was thinking of learning how to make custom vests and helmets

Even vehicle if possible

[tacit eagle]

do you have the game on pc? why dont you try, I dont know if the game works with older cards that are not DX 12 compatible.

and if you cant work with enfusion you could always team up with others and do the out of sdk work then

[regal isle]

That’s the thing, i dont . I was planning on buying it for that purpose.

[delicate condor]

You can try out if you can use modeling software like blender and if you even want to continue down on that path before committing to buying the game on pc.

Blender being free you can start the learning with no cost. Then once you know if you like 3d modeling you can consider again if you want to try out if the modding tools can run on your machine

[regal isle]

Just asked Papa Javi about it and he told me that he could make it work on integrated graphics. It is slow when you launch the game but gets the work done. So me having a dedicated graphic card gives me hope

[delicate condor]

Still. Does not hurt to learn the part that is free first to see if you like doing it

[regal isle]

Oh yeah. Gonna start working on blender rn

[eager hill]

And don't be disappointed when your first models don't look as good as some you could see above. 3d modelling is not easy and takes a lot of work, but if you keep practicing your work will improve.

I know some people who gave up on Blender because they were comparing their models to those created by people with years of experience

[regal isle]

Oh my first few ones are going to be dogshit

I hope my drawing skills dont transfer onto 3d modelling

[eager hill]

So start with some youtube tutorials and get comfortable with basics of the program. Then if you like it, you can invest in some courses - personally I recommend what Tim Bergholz creates, at least that's how I started making better models

[eager hill]

Drawing skills are not an issue. I can't even draw a straight line

[regal isle]

Haha cool

Thanks for the motivation dude

[regal isle]

Gonna try my hand at creating some plate carriers. Do you think that’s something to practice on as a beginner?

[eager hill]

Too advanced, start simple. Do what's in the tutorials first. And later when you want to create something on your own, try props. Barrels, crates, sandbags, hescos etc.

[delicate condor]

you can also pick some small part from a plate carrier and model that

like just a latch or piece of strap or something else small

for someone who wanted to make houses I could say model a doorknob

or the nails and screws

singlular small things that are easier to complete before moving on to more complex things made from many parts

[icy flower]

Start small, work your way up. I had great help from Vergy and Punky when I got to the step of making it work on an in game character

[autumn ledge]

Once i get a proper rig, i can't wait to learn from the greats

[wild solstice]

Hey there, i have a question about lods. I already checked out the tutorial in the official wiki, but didnt found an answer. Is there a way to set the distance for specific LODs in blender or the enfusion engine. I only found the factor value which is not in meters.

[shell hedge]

do cylinder colliders need a minimum number of faces or something?

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

no clue how did I mess up this one, typically they import fine

mesh name is "casing_LOD0"

[willow sage]

Yeah, had the same problem,
Remove the middle edge and you should be fine.

[shell hedge]

same thing with this one

[willow sage]

And on other side also

[shell hedge]

so no caps?

[willow sage]

no at all

If this wont help rename it to UTM

But i believe it should

[shell hedge]

I have this collider in my stun grenade project and it works fine

I tried triangulating it before exporting too

[willow sage]

I had the same problem yesterday, i created a bucket shape cylinder to fit a helmet and then I need to tri mesh it because Enfusion wouldn't take it

[shell hedge]

but I don't want utm

utm bad

[willow sage]

Who wants it 😦

[shell hedge]

it works when my collider and mesh are bigger, I wonder if this is a problem because of floating point errors or something, with this tiny mesh (bullet casing)

capsule worked lol

cylinder didnt at this size

same thing with a cylinder out of blender

[tacit eagle]

outstanding work bacon :3

[shell hedge]

now I need to make one for a bullet, and capsule doesn't work now

[tacit eagle]

:C bullit? why does it need one

[shell hedge]

I guess so that it doesn't phase through everything when fired

[tacit eagle]

are they cones

[shell hedge]

vanilla used capsule for bullet

aight it worked now, had to make it 10% bigger than the bullet mesh

[smoky fractal]

we want know about the deagle

[shell hedge]

soon

[vague sandal]

Hey people, who knows what's going on here in this problem... the sever and the mod crash when I die with the weapons I'm making work, would anyone know what's going on, I think it could be something with the collider? Who knows what I can do to correct the error

[shell hedge]

look at the console.log file for possible reasons

[willow sage]

Redoing stuff from 7th Marines

[smoky fractal]

@willow sage can u possibly use a darker marpat woodland

like this

[willow sage]

I could but i already made them faaar more dark as they should be, i mean in game.

[tacit eagle]

Has anyone tried making Civi Vests? Press Vests, Red Cross, etc?

[calm rune]

For some texturing tips make sure you break up the pattern at the seams. Also make sure the rotation of the pattern is correct.

[willow sage]

Thanks for the tip, this could be a coincidence this pattern is really repetitive

[tacit eagle]

if one was to make a cardboard box with such camo do they also have to shift images for seams?

[shell hedge]

no but you have to do it on pipes

[smoky fractal]

thats the wrong helmet

[calm rune]

I know that. I was referring to seams 🤣

[summer sierra]

We’ve used your pack since community servers came out! Keep it up!

[junior thorn]

The saint has risen

[smoky fractal]

i said that joke first

[dire estuary]

Sweet!

[zenith quartz]

The speed at which you crack out these extremely detailed models is insane!

[smoky fractal]

is that the rocket launcher from halo

[trim needle]

Can anyone link to resources on the creation of buildings? I have tried to get as much info as possible on portals etc for windows but I have no idea how to make doors etc

[river ice]

No, that is not

It’s some sort of Russian ATGM launcher

[smoky fractal]

im being sarcastic

[tacit eagle]

i think you mean acoustic

[tacit eagle]

smol detail and scope adapter

[neon night]

I’m so hyped rn

[lethal frigate]

Have anyone tried making some megascan model for reforger?

[agile crater]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/873601234932756530/1041038398619660438/image.png

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/873601234932756530/1041038271892955186/image.png

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/873601234932756530/1041038146663624714/image.png

Hope Arma 4 will have planes

[timber fjord]

This will be implemented on arma Reforger?

[agile crater]

hope in arma 4

[tight hollow]

is that the eurofighter or rafale?

[timber fjord]

Seems like a rafale

[smoky fractal]

can u go inverted?

[willow sage]

C130 rolling on the strip,
C130 rolling on the strip,
Airborne Ranger gonna take a trip,
Airborne Ranger gonna take a trip,
We gonna stand up, hook up, shuffle to the door,
We gonna stand up, hook up, shuffle to the door,
We gonna jump right out, and then count to four,
We gonna jump right out, and then count to four!

[agile crater]

@timber fjord yes its Rafale, @smoky fractal i dont understand

[smoky fractal]

its a top gun reference

[trim needle]

Hi all working on a custom house to test making buildings and getting this warning. I've checked the portal PRT panes in blender and they look fine. Am I missing something simple here?

[woven swallow]

WIP: My version of Mjölnir, just trying some stencils.

[neon night]

Is this a mod????

[finite quartz]

Did someone know how to add a Colider to a Bone so that the colider moves with the object in reforger?

[midnight path]

im willing to pay someone to show me how to make a car mod

[reef sun]

💵
https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Arma_Reforger:Car_Creation

[midnight path]

moreso to show me a good workflow, i also just kinda need someone to run quick questions by on occasion

[delicate condor]

first learn modeling, then worry about how to put that into game

[midnight path]

im familiar with modeling since i 3d print stuff, but its a steep learning curve to actually make models that do things

[tacit eagle]

depends if you come from a cad background working with mesh modeling is different than what you know.
working on game models where you create HI and low poly meshes, UV unwrap, texturing, animating

[midnight path]

yeah i dont know any of that

it makes cad seem easy

i understand what LOD is and stuff so i know to incorporate that in the future

but uv unwrap, animations. never done any of that

[tacit eagle]

first learn how to do sub d modeling

[shell hedge]

yeah you should listen to super mario here

[deft owl]

Hope Arma 4 will have planes

[delicate condor]

@deft owl this thread doesnt really have anything to do with the topic of the channel

please keep them on topic

[river ice]

Reforger doesnt support fixed wing right now

[shell hedge]

yes but actually no

[river ice]

The simulation for the vehicle type exists

That's about it

[tacit eagle]

@shell hedge "yeah you should listen to super mario here" who is super and who is mario?

[light eagle]

Reforger doesn't support fixed wing like it doesn't support rotary wing aircraft....

[reef sun]

Why does my bone not move the collider attached to it? (It is part of the armature and has the right vertex group) It only works with the v_root. In the .txo it says it is parented to the v_root. How do I change that in blender?

[reef sun]

Turns out the normal vertex groups with bone deform does not work. You need to parent the collider to the bone directly

[hazy crane]

Hi, there is some information about the maximum polygons count in a model? (airplane, vehicles, weapons, equipment, etc). We might be modelling a new aircraft and would be nice to know.

[shell hedge]

I don't know about a maximum but I accidentally imported a mesh with 300k once and it was fine

probably use less though ok?

[hazy crane]

hahaahah

ok

[tacit eagle]

do you want to check war funder?

its around 370k tris or 200k verts

[shell hedge]

is there anyone here that knows how to bevel a couple edges retaining the UV?

[tacit eagle]

I dont think its possible without destroying the uv... maybe if you do it manually and slide edges close the to edge and manually create a bevel

[shell hedge]

roger, seems like it's better use of time to redo the texture then

[tacit eagle]

well bacon if the mesh is easy you might be able to save it

duplicate the mesh, bevel one mesh and overlay both together in the UV editor and adjust the beveled one to fit inside the original you might have to Unwrap the beveled one / reseam it

[shell hedge]

its a cylinder/scope

I kinda did it but then shading broke

[tacit eagle]

I would have to weld the displaced vertices together

[shell hedge]

but maybe breaking edges manually is better than redoing texture

[tacit eagle]

show :C

[neon night]

Do you guys know how to make a 6B3 vest or any ideas to help with it?

[covert dune]

That's coming in the 2nd milestone update along with the 6B2, so I wouldn't bother

[neon night]

Just wait till it comes

[sly bridge]

@fluid fern don’t

[lethal frigate]

how do you compile couple objects to make a prefarb?

[lethal frigate]

what does this mean?

and i cant register and import my prop

[hazy crane]

There is a wiky entry about it. Im not at pc to give you the link.

If it is a prop search for Assets/prop creation in the wiky

[tacit eagle]

new toob 🙂

[covert dune]

Another day another toob

[tacit eagle]

sight picture

[minor crystal]

are you going to texture all your toobs and turn them into a mod? or do you just enjoy modeling toobs

[shell hedge]

i dont like texturing cylindrical stuff

[sick plume]

Okay, I somehow ended up with 90 more bones than I am supposed to have - whack

[tidal latch]

what skeleton did you used?

can you post some pic from Wokrbench with bones list?

[tidal latch]

Can you post pic from Workbench?

https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Arma_Reforger:Weapon_Creation#FBX_export_settings I have suspicion it could be thing described over here - leaf bones

[tidal latch]

indeed, read the wiki page then

[sick plume]

Ah fair

Leaf Bones is doing me in?

[tidal latch]

something is also skinned to Armature bone which is not correct

[sick plume]

;-; I want to figure this out

Thanks for the help boss o7

[willow sage]

too many

Vergy have sent you a skeleton with weightref, have u used it?

[shell hedge]

i mean the leaf bones thing is a checkbox so that should be easy to test

[sick plume]

I will check the sample bones and get a fresh start on trying to merge the boonie to the bones.

I had to have goofed somewhere since this is the only hiccup

[shell hedge]

hats more complicated than aircraft carriers

o wait is this the same strider even, dang not the same guy, would'be been a good joke if it was

[sick plume]

Wait what, there can only be one

But fr, I am struggling

I have been starring at this screen for eight hours now and nothing works

[tidal latch]

have you tried to unchecking leaf bones? Collision_end is clear indication that those were enabled

[sick plume]

I will make that attempt and try again after I sleep. work in an hour lol

Thanks for the help, I will reach out good or bad when I try that

[smoky fractal]

m16a4?

[willow sage]

Slowly taking it's shape

[calm rune]

click on model then shift click on bones. With both selected press CTRL + P then press with empty groups. Done. That is how you rig your model to the skeleton. Literally that simple.

[sick plume]

Empty Rig not weight?

om I want to hit myself

[calm rune]

No make sure you have it weighted first

[sick plume]

I am going to have to review weighting because I am messing something up. Ill double tap it soon

[tacit eagle]

i like punkys m16

[calm rune]

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

[trim needle]

Anyone ideas on why the material on the walls of my custom building is flashing? I'm also noticing light bleed though the walls.

Also noticing the same in a different room of my building. Could this be that I have too many light sources or is it a config/model issue?

[tacit eagle]

maybe z height fighting with mesh or materials

[trim needle]

Can you explain what that means if you don't mind. Is it that the building it too tall along the Z axis?

[tacit eagle]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z-fighting

can also happen with materials too but I don't remember how its called

it could also be something else, maybe with how the lighting portals are done, I dont know

[trim needle]

Cool ok I'll give that a look over. Never heard of this before so really interesting that this could be my issue.

Thanks for the help 🙂

[tacit eagle]

try disabling the lights first and use a flash light to see if the problem is with the lighting itself

[trim needle]

Hmm good idea

Flashing of textures still occur without the big room lights so I'l have to try something else

[tacit eagle]

im pretty sure its with your materials. maybe someone else knows more

[trim needle]

Good to know thanks very much for the info you have given me already 🙂

[shell hedge]

any chance you ended up with multiple materials using the same polygons?

or overlapping polygons?

[uneven vessel]

Silly starting point but just making sure you haven’t accidentally duplicated some polygons/object and left them in place is worth checking

[bright raft]

Looks very good man

[low leaf]

Looking for some guidance on how to block light. The problem I'm having is it's too bright inside my tanks, and increase the AO causes an unsightly contrast on the character model.

[shell hedge]

how does the btr do it? unless it doesnt

[cloud rampart]

Same happen to me

Looked at the BTR but nothing

[willow sage]

70%

[open sage]

Chocolate gun

[uneven vessel]

felt inspired by the PRC152 to get in on the radio game

[smoky fractal]

@willow sage is it going have attachment compatibility?

[trim needle]

Don't think I have any overlapping verts in the mesh. Same for the materials

[low leaf]

It doesn't look like it does

[glossy lynx]

By no means a functional vessel, getting the model into the game has not been too awful

[sick plume]

Okay so I figured out LOD and colliders. Now I am just trying to weigh the rig for export... I think? And I believe the automatic weighing failed. I don't know what I am suppose to do. Do you have to manually weigh paint at this point or is there a work around? (I am using Blender, still working on a boonie. Vertex added for Head, Neck3, Facial Jaw. Parented to Head for all LOD and UTM)

[willow sage]

You need to transfer weights from vergy's weight transfer model. Or since it is only boonie you can just simply parent it to the skeleton with empty weights, and then on your boonie model find a vertex group called head and paint it whole red in vertex paint mode.

[willow sage]

Looking good!

[patent flower]

Totally did the same and started work on a new Bowman PRR haha

[willow sage]

Marconi Prr was originally on our list guys.

[autumn ledge]

Please keep us in da loop! Super excited to see naval assets

[patent flower]

GJ on the radio stuff looks epic

[willow sage]

Thanks, honestly we are really close to release it.
Odkupiciel is struggling with sync Rplload & Rplsave, it's pretty much pain in the ass to get things work here.

[calm rune]

I tagged you in a weight transfer tutorial vid in this channel.

[sick plume]

Thank you

[smoky fractal]

@willow sage whats the next weapon u planning to do?

[willow sage]

M203 but need to hold my horses and finish what i have started. Done NV set, recent USMC remake, radios and now M16A4.

Need to finish one of those first.

[agile crater]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/507943761322442755/1043253259822973009/HK416F_C.png

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/507943761322442755/1043253258539520090/HK416F_S.png

[autumn ledge]

Night vision 🙏🏾

Puhleaaassse

[smoky fractal]

no famas?

[sick plume]

Does Vergy's Weight Reference need to be parented to the Armature or can I transfer to my LOD and Object without it being parented?

@calm rune

[willow sage]

I don't know how you re making lods but maybe for workflow practice purposes you should first parent your mesh to skeleton and then when it's following skeleton in pose mode you should create any amount of lods by duplicate and using decimate on duplicated objects.

[sick plume]

Good to go, thank you

Any ideas how to resolve this? It periodically slides off of the head and rest as if it was never weighed

[willow sage]

Find a bone named head or neck I don't remember which one actually was responsible for whole head movement. And on mesh you want to bring in game in vertex group tab pick that bone and select whole mesh by pressing crtl +a and on vertex group tab press assign button. After that you will be sure what whole mesh is following that bone.

[sick plume]

Issue did not resolve but it is more stable\

The model looks stable when idle but as soon as I move it looks like an LOD1-2 and off center/floating from the head

Reforger is saying it is missing Geometry... any tips for a hat?

[willow sage]

Can you show me a your lod1 and 2 modificators in blender ?

[sick plume]

How do you want me to go about that? Like screen share?

[willow sage]

Um, just ussual screenshot pasted here.

[sick plume]

Whats a modifiactor?

@willow sage nvm I figured it out because of you ya beautiful bastard!

Thank you so much!!

[sick plume]

(Blouse is 7RBN)

[agile crater]

@smoky fractal the famas is in.

[calm rune]

Not really in the mood to explain how to make LODs at 5:30am BUT your original model should be LOD0 so just copy and paste the original and name it LOD1 then reduce the tri/poly count and the weights will already be there for you Bcz it was a copy of the original. The proceed to then copy and paste LOD1 and call it LOD2 then reduce once and again then repeat all steps for LOD3 & LOD4.

[pure kayak]

Originally made for A3, the CAGE Armour Chassis

[patent flower]

Trying to export a model with weighting out of blender for the first time, I put into enfusion but it seems the weighting hasnt transferred.

anyone got any suggestions

[shell hedge]

"export skinning" enabled in import window?

[calm rune]

little WIP for my first attempt at a gas mask

[slate salmon]

Presumably this will be headgear?

[calm rune]

of course

[slate salmon]

Any plans to have variants? E.g. a helmet and mask

[calm rune]

Oh yes.

[patent flower]

Thats the buscuit cheers!

[willow sage]

Where is tea?

[zenith quartz]

He looks like he's about to cry.

[shell hedge]

well they did strap a gopro to his hat

maybe he's shy

[patent flower]

haha

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/365625330611912705/702300487218757662/Untitled.png

[patent flower]

il get the kettle on

[covert dune]

Helicopter Battery ?

[patent flower]

This a piece of equimpent more important than a heli battery lol

[open sage]

It’s clearly meant for storing snacks

[uneven vessel]

Assam/Ceylon Forcefield Generator, it's the secret behind Chobham Armour

[crisp moat]

Wat

[smoky fractal]

mustard gas mod confirmed?

[smoky fractal]

the panzerfaust 3?

@willow sage Any updates on the m16?

[willow sage]

Need to fix textures because this FN M5 rail does not look like it should. Originally they were violet, the barrel oxide is too bright, too many scratches, etc.

Should appear on the workshop at end of the week perhaps.

[pure kayak]

Hey guys, got a quick question

im trying to get attachment points for a vest working, has anyone actually managed that yet?

[calm rune]

Clothes and more clothes!

[tacit eagle]

I like the non screen pads

[calm rune]

I had one like 2 years ago but I could never get use to it after a month of trying so I just threw it in the closet lol

[urban helm]

Any guides for importing vehicles?

I found one, bless

[agile crater]

@calm rune this guy is talented

[minor crystal]

adding a slight amount of metalicness to the gun paint will make it pop a bit like real ones too

i mean like a small amount tho

iirc some of the paints used for guns have some metallic properties irl too

[woven swallow]

You using Substance painter ?

[agile crater]

@willow sage i can help you for texturing if you need

[neon night]

What is this and will it replace the reg npcs

[turbid halo]

Can somebody make a AV-8B harrier and add it to arma reforger already 💀😭

[tacit eagle]

no only gr3 and only gr3

[turbid halo]

GR3 is British Biast

Arma has to be American Biast

[shell hedge]

metallic? metallness? metallicness? I never remember

[tacit eagle]

shine texture

[shell hedge]

no thats specular

or is that glossiness? glossy?

[tacit eagle]

I just crank everything to 1

or 11 if I can

[agile crater]

albedo , ambiente occlusion , normal map , roughtness and metallic

take template unreal engine in substance

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/392728823105323020/1044773950623858739/image.png

[shell hedge]

OP, the overpowered map

[agile crater]

alpha map yes

for me its woring

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/392728823105323020/1044774211933184021/image.png

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/392728823105323020/1044774534160601148/image.png

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/392728823105323020/1044774647348068412/image.png

[pure kayak]

so i asked before about attachment points but now im unsure if thats a thing i need to add, but i assume its something model related still. how can i get pouches to "snap" to my vest model?

[lethal frigate]

how many polygons in a building reforger can handle?

[delicate condor]

Many.

One should not be looking for maximum though but make optimized mesh

[lethal frigate]

ofc

i will

for now i have 180k

[delicate condor]

Likely works but sounds like a lot

[lethal frigate]

im gonna cut it into pieces

[tacit eagle]

well the roof has tiles so a good amount

[midnight path]

@gilded lake

[minor crystal]

metalness / metallic

i was just extremely sleepy excuse my dumb wording lmao

[minor crystal]

use a normal map and split it up into like 2x2 or 4x4m grids that are instanced, should keep it relatively lightweigjt

or be even more extra and use a mostly flat plane with a heightmap lmao

[shell hedge]

metallicness

[minor crystal]

me

[uneven vessel]

I forget - can objects terrain cut? Can I make a trench object that I can just place somewhere on the ground and have it be 2m deep?

[shell hedge]

no

[uneven vessel]

ta

[patent flower]

any idea why my ui icons generated from the model for my helmet are facing 180 degrees the wrong way

[shell hedge]

I noticed helmets are facing 180 degrees so maybe you need to adjust camera in the preview render attributes to match (copy settings from existing helmet?)

[patent flower]

not spotted that, thanks il try that

[shell hedge]

do note though that each time you make a change to the preview render attributes, you may need to restart workbench to apply them since they are cached

[patent flower]

cheers!

[lethal frigate]

is it possible to use materials.emat from base game for our models?

[shell hedge]

sure... but you cant extract the textures

you can assign them in workbench but I imagine UV stuff will be not fun

[lethal frigate]

ik i just need like base material

no im not thinking about extracting them

but using them for model

[lethal frigate]

do i just apply them or how do i use them

[delicate condor]

youll likely need to setup a multimaterial setup and create a mask to project different surface materials on your model

[ancient walrus]

do the characters walk on the geometry in AR or is there a roadway lod for bridges et al ? anybody know ? cheers in Advance

[tacit eagle]

they can navigate around objects, climb them move inside buildings

I believe that roadway lod is no longer a thing

[ancient walrus]

well i was really looking for more specific to Geometry and roadway and the surface influence on vehicles and AI /character

[shell hedge]

well for one thing there's no AI driving yet

but yes AI can walk over things

[ancient walrus]

well yeah but what they walk over in the model Geo or Fire geo or such do we know ?

[shell hedge]

I think colliders impact the navmesh

if it collides with the character it will count as a surface

[ancient walrus]

ooft thats very different then

do we know if geometry animates after init or is it static after that ?

[shell hedge]

don't know about that

[ancient walrus]

ok ill have a delve and find out thanks for input

incase ya was wondering why i asks , i wanna continue some ideas https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISgEBIFfxGg

[tidal latch]

AI navigate through navmesh and collides with geometry which has proper layer preset ( https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Arma_Reforger:Collision_Layer ). Geometries can be animated and there is also possibility to regenerate navmesh (see compositions for instance)

[ancient walrus]

cheers i will read up on that link , i think maybe navmesh isnt on the fly but ill still see what the outcome is now iwht new info cheers

[tidal latch]

navmesh can be regenerated for selected area via scripts

[woven swallow]

Not finished yet. I get bored and jump to other models..

[nocturne sparrow]

something about great minds

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/849724013702021181/1044499773610278962/image.png

[woven swallow]

Love it! i got plans of adding some decals too.

[smoky fractal]

I have to resort to the cannon mounted at the top of the stairs loaded with grape shot, "Tally ho lads" the grape shot shreds two men in the blast, the sound and extra shrapnel set off car alarms.

[calm rune]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/847516074715250769/1045173998943748186/image.png
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/847516074715250769/1045174151398293504/image.png
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/847516074715250769/1045174465165807647/image.png
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/847516074715250769/1045174587664650261/image.png

[calm rune]

High poly is done. Now on to the part I hate most, retopo 😩

[smoky fractal]

@calm rune what camo is this going be in?

[shell hedge]

dope

I wonder if you could use it as a turret while having a standing animation so you can move it left and right

with the stick

[tacit eagle]

wrong question bacon you should ask how fast can it go down the mountain

[shell hedge]

but its levitating in mid air

so like, no gravity

[autumn ledge]

Attach a cart to it with an auto cannon feature lol

[woven swallow]

lol let's see when it finished

[woven swallow]

What do you guys think of that rope? lol

[shut bloom]

Does anyone have a clue how to do Interior Probes correctly?

I cant seem to understand how the ones in Reforger get the Red Mesh as the Boundary.

[shell hedge]

um try do it like the vanilla houses

or use box volume of the size you want

[agile crater]

no AO in enfusion ?

[hot pumice]

I think the NMO has occlusion

[agile crater]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/643382252318752769/1045467212292567101/image.png

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/643382252318752769/1045467012870180934/image.png

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/643382252318752769/1045467099977494609/image.png

setting basics , no change

maybe bohemia put ao scale to 5

[zenith quartz]

Damn that's a good looking vehicle!

[halcyon blaze]

Very exciting

[tacit eagle]

when the AO goes up to 11 :3

[autumn ledge]

I can't wait to see the interior and experience it's handling

[shut bloom]

well all the Buildings do it like this tho.

[shut bloom]

I would really love to understand how I can achive this result I have no clue where this Mesh of the Shed is. its not in the Geo its not in the Occluders its not in any Component. how can I achive the same with my Building?

[burnt thunder]

Very nice, out of curiosity, what is that based on? Seems vaguely familiar but also not

[hidden yarrow]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/VBMR_Griffon

To be more specific its the VBMR serval(its on the same wiki page thats why i posted griffon)

[burnt thunder]

Nice

All ya need now is a FAMAS

And you can just be French

[shut bloom]

So I Figured Out how to make those Box Volumes for the Interior Probes

What you have to do is Make Boxes to where you want to have the Volumes. Then name these BOXVOL_01 and the following _02 etc. for some reason it does not seem to start with 00. These Boxes are in LOD 0 then Import your model as normal and just apply The dummyVolume.EMAT to those boxes and done. now you can Put your Interior Probe inside your Prefab and have fun :)

[atomic vale]

Okay so, I haven't purchased Reforger yet, but before I do, does anyone know the process for porting Reforger models into blender so I can work on them?

I worked on Arma 3 models if that helps

[shut bloom]

you cant. there is no way of exporting or Editing the Base Models that exist in Arma Reforger.

[atomic vale]

Sad!

[shut bloom]

well you werent able to do that in Arma 3 too. only through some Cheeky not so legal ways.

[atomic vale]

I am unaware of any legal dubiousness

I do apologise

[shut bloom]

well what you would be doing is either Ripping them straight out of the game which is not ok. or breaking open the Model Files. which is also not OK.

[atomic vale]

Duly noted

[shut bloom]

well you are not really able to do any of that with Reforger.

but there are other nice stuff you can do In the workbench to see how their stuff is setup so its allot more open than A3

[atomic vale]

Right

[tacit eagle]

its like the m79 osa but worse in every way :3

[covert dune]

At some point you should put all your toobs in a row and measure just how many kilometers of toob you've created

Just for the heck of it

[calm rune]

Then simulate some water running through them all 🤣

All jokes aside that is gonna be one beefy launcher pack If you are making a mod out of them.

[tacit eagle]

I will I want to make a large community mod project so everything is standardized and we are not making the same things

its around .065km of tube

[pure kayak]

Blender render with enfusion lighting. ZSH-1-2M helmet

[autumn ledge]

Would be awesome if it were a mod folder kcomprised of different modders) where you can pick and choose from the mods within

All can be worked on via code or password

[tacit eagle]

no its work like any other mod. just with more sharing of content.

[pure kayak]

Just gonna ask again, has anyone worked out slots? for character gear, i want to add a visor to my helmet above but i want to do it via slots

[shell hedge]

have a look at the alice pack maybe? the pasgt helmet has some slots in loadout cloth component too

[pure kayak]

hmm i'll try, i checked the alice webbing and couldn't work out how to do it

[agile crater]

@burnt thunder french army dont use famas right now . and we are not doing 1990 army

[willow sage]

AO is kinda superior here on Griffon

[shell hedge]

honestly seems kinda like a bug since other vehicles have much more pronounced AO it seems

hmm nevermind they dont haha

the truck does

[agile crater]

the hummvee and jeep dont

haha maybe a missed

[shell hedge]

yea only the truck, weird

looks like truck is the bug

[agile crater]

they are not lot of influence of ao for the vehicule's exteriors

[shell hedge]

I apologize for not using #creators_recruiting but I was wondering if anyone here has made a 3d model of a tangent or quadrant sight for a grenade launcher?

[agile crater]

do you have exemple pls ?

[willow sage]

I will be making one for carryhandle USMC mod

[shell hedge]

yeah I need a side sight, can't use a top one for this

[agile crater]

m203

[willow sage]

Yeah it is on carryhandle

Just take closer look

[shell hedge]

oh yea I see it, sorry

[agile crater]

sorry i only did M320 and hk269

@willow sage how look like the textures in game

[willow sage]

Awesome man, but i changed my mind and will release whole package with correct UV's as you have said.
That will take some time i guess

[agile crater]

you can use same materials

[slate salmon]

Will you be making one that can take optics like an ACOG?

[shell hedge]

seems like acog could go on the top rail

[willow sage]

Maybe once the mod will be release i will try to reconsider what else is needed.

[pure kayak]

trying to find a way to do the visor screws cause current ones lookw eird

[tacit eagle]

whats wrong with them

[pure kayak]

it was modelled for A3 the helmet, so teh screws were baked onto the glass as i could use CA textures

so when i did the reforger version i had to add 3d ones, but they aren't connect so instead of 4 screws theres "8"

[covert dune]

Just connect them and have them clip through the glass. That's what I'd do

[burnt thunder]

Oh yeah forgot the French adopted a new rifle

Didn't they adopt the 416?

[agile crater]

they do

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/507943761322442755/1043253258539520090/HK416F_S.png

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/507943761322442755/1043253259822973009/HK416F_C.png

all fbx files

[willow sage]

Current prefabs of m16 with m203 cannot be separated, AFAIK that was possible when reforger was released.

For now I'm planning to add carryhandle as a default "scope" something what riverx does on his m4a1 and mk18. So yes you will be able to replace it also with any compatible optics.

And Beacon will prepare for you another present

[shell hedge]

you can remove the 203 but its glued to the front part of the rifle so all you have left is a barrel

[willow sage]

But lest shhhh about it

[tacit eagle]

i think they forget to add in the standard handguard when you remove the m203. or atleast that what should happen like with arma 3 how on certain weapons if you remove a scope you get the default sights

[midnight path]

anyone working on a container ship?

[tacit eagle]

why are trying to make the first mission from cod 4 😮 ???

[midnight path]

i just want to make a realistic port

[tacit eagle]

no I dont think anyone is working on any civilian ships

you could use the ships from TOH

[midnight path]

no i dont mean controllable, just a prop

like a container ship sitting in harbor

[leaden trench]

I made one patrol-ship type vessel with a flat deck big enough to take eight 40' containers. I didn't release it yet because I plan first to make the cranes in the port functional to give it some game-play purpose like transporting vehicles/supplies/containers that are unloaded by crane.

[midnight path]

wow thats cool

[covert dune]

Damn good luck, that sounds awesome

[agile crater]

@urban helm good

[summer sierra]

Nice!

[urban helm]

🤌

[urban helm]

My first time bringing a weapon in, letting the headaches begin

[last parcel]

it's alot easier then it was in arma 3

[icy flower]

@calm rune You available for a sec?

[icy flower]

Nvm lmfao found it

[icy flower]

Someone needs to make a complete tutorial on how to make mods for Arma Reforger specific, starting from blender and then transferring everything to enfusion and getting everything to work in between. As a newbie this is so complex and complicated without a step by step guide of exactly what to do 😂

[leaden trench]

Have you checked the tutorials on the wiki? They are quite extensive, very good info. https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Category:Arma_Reforger/Modding/Tutorials/Assets

[icy flower]

I've read them. It doesn't give me everything I need tbh and im a visual learner lmfao

So for example I can create the 3d model but then I need to learn how to weight it to the arma reforger character and all the steps with that to get it to work in game properly. Basics like that where there is no info out there. It's very intimidating for the new people coming in wanting to mod, with how complicated the system is and the steps it pushes out a lot of new players wanting to get into modding very quickly

If someone took the time and made a tutorial for Arma reforger specific from blender to getting it into game I think that would help out so many people coming into this

I will literally pay someone to take these already built models and get them to look good and get them to work in game at this point cause my head is gonna explode lmfao

[leaden trench]

Weighting to a rig is not Reforger specific. You can find many existing Blender tutorials for that.

[shell hedge]

You're just impatient. You may find someone to help you with this in #creators_recruiting though

[delicate condor]

It can't really be made less intimating because it is a lot to learn, starting from non Arma specific modeling, texturing and animating which share same principles but tools vary between different programs. After the generic basic stuff tackling the Arma specifics becomes easier.
But it's not really realistic that all the possible things get covered by specific tutorial. At least not without years of time.

[urban helm]

Well at least its textured in 😂

[smoky fractal]

@urban helm it will grow into u

[pure kayak]

ZSH-1-2M cover

[urban helm]

bravo 6 going dark

[smoky fractal]

will this helmet do its intended purpose as not stopping rounds

[pure kayak]

i dont think thats supported in reforger yet

when it is, it will

[smoky fractal]

Not properly because its just plastic no kelvar

[tacit eagle]

wow another inciteful comment...

bryce are you gonna work on the texture more?

[smoky fractal]

this post was made by the ach helmet gang

[urban helm]

Not for the time being, trying to teach my self how to make this a working weapon lol

Not very good at all this since it's my first time bringing something into any game haha

[urban helm]

If anyone has some time, would you have some time to hop on a call and kinda show me what to do to get weapons in the game?

Trying to follow the wiki but I just dont understand some things lol

[neon night]

When is this mod coming out?

[neon night]

Can and will this come with an Npc

Cause it’s really annoying when I have to go to an arsenal box for everything

[pure kayak]

probably will when its done, but my mod will likely be very slow progress on reforgers side

[neon night]

Thank you man because I lose it when i find a badass gear mod and then it’s only in the arsenal box