enfusion_model

[pure kayak]

well the idea will be gear but then im gonna do mods focusing on factions using the gear

[neon night]

Ok

[pure kayak]

anyone know what else other than skinning can mess with the rig? i swear i've exported correctly, it was workin gbefore but now its suddenly not

[halcyon blaze]

Is anyone working on any vehicle mods at the moment?

[urban helm]

folding stock and side charging handle 👀

[agile crater]

@urban helm if you need advice for texturing pm me 🙂

[uneven vessel]

Mk6 helmet

6,8cm Remington

[urban helm]

40mm AGL

[pure kayak]

heya again, does anyone know what i should look into to be able to allow an "editable" helmet? as in, i have the visor on my helmet and i want it to be attachable/detachable on the fly, is that possible?

[tacit eagle]

i think the cheap way is to have be a prefab attachment

so you can take it off when you want and put it on your uniform

[summer sierra]

I think @agile crater has a bad ass armored looking vehicle being worked on but I can’t remember

[pure kayak]

ya wouldnt happen to know how i can do that?

[neon night]

British army mod

[calm rune]

Nice texture on the strap. Care to share? 😅

[neon night]

Will this be a faction?

[tacit eagle]

there is 3 factions in arma reforger right now. I believe that you can create more factions. but right now there is / will be civilian, blufor, redfor and greenfor.

[calm rune]

🤦‍♂️ He is asking if it is going to turn into a faction. It is obviously a helmet..

[smoky fractal]

@calm rune is there going be a non rolled up sleeve shirts?

[calm rune]

Due to not wanting to make that version.

[sick plume]

Vergy, loved your new uniform mod that you just dropped

[uneven vessel]

Yes

https://twitter.com/tepacheloco/status/1595897776398864384?s=46&t=E8RXxiHQ0BA23NIUfRwpQw

TepacheLoco (@TepacheLoco)

It might just be a little thing but I find this deeply satisfying looking @ArmaPlatform #ArmaReforger

Twitter · Nov 24, 2022, 9:50 PM

[uneven vessel]

It's based on a substance painter fabric preset that I know I bought as part of a pack, I'm not sure which, but it's a pretty basic hatched pattern - the stitching is added using auto stitcher, with a duplicated blurred version of that with negative height to get the deboss effect. Finally there's the dirt layer I've added over everything

[tidal latch]

fyi, M923 is sort of correct state (it still has some AO baked in diffuse) and rest of the vehicles will be tweaked one day

[calm rune]

Ah okay gotcha. Yeah I swear I’m always in the hunt for good smart materials or alpha maps for straps or molle. It’s hard to come by.

[agile crater]

@tidal latch ok super for your answer. after some tests , they are not lot of changed when they are AO and when they are not. only inside vehicules

[autumn ledge]

Scroll down n you'll see the information provided in thread

Perhaps someday soon

[pure kayak]

something went wrong with the velcro making it stretch out, gotta fix that

does anyone know why a prefab would keep adding a belt slot back even after resetting/removing it?

[last hill]

You can't remove them, only uncheck the enable check box inside your prefab.

[pure kayak]

Managed to fix the stretching thanks to the feedback about triangulating

[willow sage]

Hey Jomie,

Can you show me your armpits, i just wanna know how have you resolve extended streching problem.

That's all, uniform is great.

[strong nexus]

hello everybody i m trying to learn how making a mesh with a Material Prb Multi
Someone can show me a picture of the 2 uv set
how are they organised Thanks

[pure kayak]

@willow sage my topology is kinda bad ngl

my biggest "fix" i've found is different weight transfer settings

this is the settings i use in blender

[tacit eagle]

you dont do weight by hand?

[pure kayak]

Nope

no need for it tbh

[delicate condor]

There's always need for hand tweaking

No mesh works 100% with weight transfer

[pure kayak]

i find with those settings i've never had trouble

neither in a3 or reforger

its very rare i need to tweak by hand

[tacit eagle]

Will this outfit be replacing the normal soviet outfit?

[pure kayak]

No

[tacit eagle]

Ok thanks

Is there any plans on making it a faction?

[calm rune]

Are you insane? Weight the entire thing by hand. All you have to to is transfer then go in and tweak a couple areas if needed.

[tacit eagle]

when you mean weight you mean to duh bones?

[calm rune]

Weight painting

[pure kayak]

maybe, depends on how much i work on it i guess

the main goal wasn't a proper russian faction anyways, it was a rethinking of arma 3's cut "Raven Security" PMC in a modern time

[pure kayak]

is it possible to replace the wooden parts on the ak74 in reforger with custom models?

using prefab stuff

[tacit eagle]

if they are separate meshes Im sure yyou can do it

[shell hedge]

no

[zenith quartz]

Layzer.

Did this in an hour, need to actually start detailing things now.

[shell hedge]

edgy

is it just me or is looking at models using these preview color materials kinda cool

[zenith quartz]

It can be!

[patent flower]

very nice

[zenith quartz]

Thankya!

[patent flower]

whats it going to be?

[minor crystal]

bools+bevels im guessing by the 1 hour speed?

looks sweet

[zenith quartz]

DBAL-A3

[willow sage]

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/koCXPbqjNDs

[zenith quartz]

Yup! And solidify. Most of the shapes are actually just flat with solidify modifier.

[willow sage]

So Holosun LS321 will take you half of that time 😄

[zenith quartz]

Oh wow, that one is... very simple. 😄

[willow sage]

Challenging you ! 😄

[zenith quartz]

Might just have to make it in the future haha.

[willow sage]

I would like to see it from your hands

[urban helm]

You can make a Perst-4 for a Russian laser !

[zenith quartz]

Planned. 😄

[urban helm]

Awesome

I’m gonna get a PKM with a zentico kit in

[light lynx]

Wow, last time I suggested a model to made a Moderator warned me 😂

[tacit eagle]

is prst-5 just ruka?

[burnt thunder]

What in the world did you suggest?

[light lynx]

@burnt thunder literally just a normal gun. Hence why I made that comment above

[delicate condor]

This is not a suggestion channel where people pitch their ideas.

@light lynx if you have questions on topic of how to make models, this is the place, but it's not the place to try to get someone to make your favourite things.

[light lynx]

@delicate condor no I'm well aware of that. I'm just pointing out how people do it all the time. And part of the problem I had with it was how I was told, was very rude and abrupt. I've been a mod on large discord communities so I get the struggle, just not the poor treatment when I wasn't even aware not to do it

Is all

I wish I knew how to model. Would make so much rad shit

[delicate condor]

It should be logical that this channel is about "how stuff is made" but yes it does not always convey to everyone and excited people don't always think that far ahead.

Modeling is learn able skill though which you too can pick up if you have the time to invest on learning

[light lynx]

For sure. I'm just not very good in a 3d space. Tried it back in highschool but could never wrap my head around. Texturing would be more my thing but I don't have a photoshop subscription and I'm still trying to wrap my head around enfusions nuances 😂😂

[shell hedge]

all you need to learn is patience

[delicate condor]

Photoshop is not a requirement

[light lynx]

I don't like the free ones

I use krita but I don't think it's as good

[delicate condor]

It all depends on what you learn to use

[shell hedge]

no clue why you'd use photoshop for texturing

maybe if you like suffering

[delicate condor]

Then it's good. PS is just as useless if you don't know how to use it

Modern workflows don't really include 2d texture editing much if at all

It's all done in 3d space on top of the model.

You could check out some basic tutorials for the new Blender and try them out

[shell hedge]

blender has a very good node material system

when you consider that it's free

it has all the tricks like curvature and ao

[willow sage]

I would say excellent if you want achieve something not linear

[shell hedge]

which is basically the only reason pbr materials look as good as they do - just abuse curvature, cavity and ao maps

[light lynx]

I've never worked on texturing other than using templates or 2d. I should look into blender. I've always avoided it due to my lack of 3d modelling skill or eagerness to learn

[delicate condor]

It may not be as difficult as you fear

[calm rune]

After the Ground Support update For those who have clothing in their mod and can no long drag it onto the body or right click it and make it go onto the body:

-->object properties -->BaseLoadOutClothComponet -->Area type - set class-->LoadoutJacketArea or whatever type of clothing it is PantArea, VestArea, etc.

[zenith quartz]

TODO: rubber lens covers and and a few tiny details.

[leaden leaf]

What time frame is the camouflage pattern / kit?

Russian correct..just what time?

[neon night]

EMR

[calm rune]

Little WIP shots

[covert dune]

[hot pumice]

where were you people during a3😭

[calm rune]

Well I can not speak for anyone else but I only started taking modeling somewhat serious like 6 months ago 😅

[tacit eagle]

arma 3 so limiting

[woven swallow]

Almost done with this thing. Haven't got the time to finish it but i will prob this weekend. IRL work has me super busy atm.

lol

[pure kayak]

what cannon is that by the way?

[lethal frigate]

ive been working on this model what you guys think?

[sly bridge]

looks good, but you do need to break a bit the seamless textures (or at least use better ones)

[lethal frigate]

ye im still looking what could fit it the best

[sly bridge]

why did you reply to me though?

[neat canopy]

Wrong guy sorry

[neat canopy]

Try to use MultiTextures like on the buildings Bohemia did. They mix 3-4 different brick textures on one wall, that way it brakes the repeating textures.

To get results like this.

[tacit eagle]

you bake using PBR?

[willow sage]

Ah those bones....

[tacit eagle]

did bacon make the sights

[willow sage]

No, he was looking into it but we need to find a way how to add separate sight for M203.

[tacit eagle]

of the same type or the one on the front

[willow sage]

Ye, will check it.

[willow sage]

Will try to make sight for M203 work somehow, if not i will release it like it is.

[surreal ore]

@willow sage InputManager

[willow sage]

Will check that tomorrow.

[last hill]

Check the one in the base one, it's animated now and might point to how?

[covert dune]

Double toob ? 🤔

Double the power.

[autumn ledge]

'Tubeular' lol

[tacit eagle]

ive made the m202 flash which is quad tube which is double

[agile crater]

while waiting for ARMA 4 to be released, AMF is working on the potentially future elements of the French army.
HORNET AIR GUARD (anti-uav turret)
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/507943761322442755/1048592988416253972/FVOWc_XWAAEwDnM.jpg
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/507943761322442755/1048592947173666906/image.png
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/507943761322442755/1048641786899345438/image.png
HORNET AKERON MP (anti-vehicule turret)
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/507943761322442755/1048593339383033896/FVOWdiqXwAA3R2h.jpg
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/507943761322442755/1048593291559583864/image.png
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/507943761322442755/1048642262504067182/image.png

[shell hedge]

download it and find out

[tacit eagle]

damn bacon should have said its a mod :S

[zenith quartz]

I've never done character models before so I made a hat to try it.

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/922248828697067550/1048700930918465658/image.png

Thanks.

[tacit eagle]

arma is slow turning into tea eff tue

[tacit eagle]

maybe its because the xbox cant handle it

[tacit eagle]

The weapons and The soldiers are showing

But the mod crate is empty

And the things that appears on the showcase map dont show up at the gm mode

Oh

It had an update

Now it has the bdu soldiers

There we go

Nice

Have fun. It's a pretty cool mod.

you guys are in the wrong channel

You're right, just wanted to help him out.

[willow sage]

No, fixed some minor issues and added lods just give me max few days.

[sly bridge]

@tacit eagle feel free to do it yourself, this is not a request channel

[willow sage]

Will add it to USMC pack, you may know guys which rifle it is

[summer sierra]

Should make it compatible with bacons lights an lasers an stuff!

[autumn ledge]

M110! Sweet

Very nice DMR

[shell hedge]

dope

[tacit eagle]

is not m110 its a m16

sr 25 has a different upper, non cylindrical

[willow sage]

Yeah, you noticed that!

So I think we still guessing 😄

[urban helm]

a bit chonky

[autumn ledge]

Just a little fonky

[tacit eagle]

did you not scale it before importing into enfusion?

[urban helm]

no

lol

[zenith quartz]

Here's a lifehack for scaling things which have picatinny rails:

If it was modelled correctly, that length above is exactly 1 cm.

[covert dune]

I actually dealt with something related today..The Picatinny on the reference would not line up with my model if I went by real size. Was infuriating.

[tacit eagle]

what reference?

also cylindrical objects are the best thing to measure with they are very accurate and used in metrology

[covert dune]

Tried to make a Midwest Industries AK rail handguard for something

[urban helm]

i got it scaled p well now

[smoky fractal]

bro u should drop the mod

[urban helm]

eventually yes

[last hill]

Daimyo maybe you could try working on your own mod, instead of all the demanding comments etc on everyone else's..

[sick plume]

That looks sick dude, nice job so far

I am so confused why the clothes are fighting me, its like they just choose not to bind weight to the bones

It kinda sucks and thats not counting trying to figure out patches

[calm rune]

Yeah it is non stop.

[sly bridge]

last warning - this is model makers discussion. If you do not partake in said discussion in a meaningful way, anything of the sorts is considered spam and you will get infractions

[neon tusk]

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/95/Picatinny.svg/1200px-Picatinny.svg.png

[eager hill]

Here's a model of picattiny that has correct dimensions.

[sand pagoda]

[zenith quartz]

That looks excellent!

[sand pagoda]

i want to die now

it was too painful

[tacit eagle]

why?

[smoky fractal]

i think he was trying covert to a different program

[sand pagoda]

bcz it was too painful

doing lp for a helmet is fucking aaaaaaaaaaaaa

[smoky fractal]

@sand pagoda so with the mod u making u just doing the poly handguard and stock ak-74 or u planning do more weapons?

[sand pagoda]

we have a shit ton of weapons to do

we just need more people and more time

[smoky fractal]

@tacit eagle might help u idk

[eager hill]

What was your workflow to create that cover on the helmet? Did you duplicate part of helmet's mesh, scaled it and then sculpted it? Or was it done using shrinkwrap or something like that?

[tacit eagle]

shrinkwrap and snapping is the way to go. you can also use some other addons for blender that help out a lot... auto retopology does garbage work typically

[sand pagoda]

cover was done by other guy from our team

as far as i know he use marvelous desginer for this

[tacit eagle]

we need a giant mega modding team ; _ ;

[sand pagoda]

and zbrush

[eager hill]

MD is way out of my price range sadly. So I guess, I'll have to use shrinkwrap or come up with something else

[tacit eagle]

retopoflow or instamesh is good

[delicate condor]

blender cloth sim can perhaps be useful

at least worth to try it out

[eager hill]

not a bad idea

[delicate condor]

its not as good as MD but it can get good results

[covert dune]

I always wondered if that works. Put cloth sim on something, enable physics, let it all fall into proper place, then convert to mesh

[eager hill]

do they work on planes? Or does it need some thickness to work properly?

[delicate condor]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8f0mpmoTg8E

there are tools that expand the workflow

[covert dune]

Damn. 👀

Definetly not usable as is, but it probably does save quite a bit of time and gets a base down

[shell hedge]

usually works for simple things

[covert dune]

Like a tarp on a truck maybe I just thought

[delicate condor]

dont judge it just by the video

[tacit eagle]

i personally i just snap some lines and use grid fill

and duh shrinkwrap does all the work after

also you dont need that simple cloth pro... you can do the same with normal blender, you just have to create a asset library and write down some presets for cloth interaction

most of the blender addons are not magic btw they just automate a lot of the processes

especially the paid ones

[tacit eagle]

I just select the perimeter and hit grid fill :3

[agile crater]

ARQUUS VBAE Modeled by [AMF]Alexis
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/597672601334054933/1049421314307407983/image.png
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/597672601334054933/1049421812582326402/image.png
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/597672601334054933/1049422264136912896/image.png

[crisp moat]

Is it out?

[smoky fractal]

probably not

[tacit eagle]

nice work but who ever designed that vehicle

its like from red faction :S

its like they combined a minivan, a atv and a mrap together

did you guys make a EBRC Jaguar?

[agile crater]

@crisp moat its a real vehicule. and its not be out in reforger.
@tacit eagle https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OO-0rWTPH1M

@tacit eagle is already in arma 3

[tacit eagle]

nice im guessing the amx 10 rc too? which is my favorite

[agile crater]

maybe who know

[pure kayak]

What team do you work with?

[autumn ledge]

I'm excited for the debut whenever you drop it. Query: Is there a possibility for manual transmission? And is it AWD or RWD?

The one you're implementing

[agile crater]

@autumn ledge what its awd and rwd ?

[slate salmon]

All Wheel Drive and Rear Wheel Drive

traction intégrale et traction arrière

[autumn ledge]

Beat me to the punch
Thank you

[autumn ledge]

Just wondering which drivetrain would be used for the vehicle essentially

[sly bridge]

RHS

[smoky fractal]

Why u warned me for

[crisp moat]

Lmao same

[pure kayak]

never thought rhs would have issues finding manpower

[sly bridge]

@smoky fractal + @crisp moat - what does anything you type here have to do with the topic at hand, including the last message

[smoky fractal]

I ask @sand pagoda a question

I didn’t spam

[crisp moat]

Same was just wondering if that model were implemented in game

[sly bridge]

i have not seen a single model making related question here

neither of you have contributed in any meaningful way to this channel, the emphasis here is makers

do you work on any models and you require some help, or do you provide modeling related pointers or help @crisp moat ? what about yourself @smoky fractal ? i’ve searched before issuing warnings, everything i was able to find was along the lines of - when will you release a or b - which is spam. This isn’t the place for it, in fact this server is not the place for it

[agile crater]

@autumn ledge its 4x4 and 4 directionals wheels

[smoky fractal]

I asked what there planning for the mod pack

[sly bridge]

irrelevant to this channel = spam

read the description

[smoky fractal]

ok im spamming im asking a question

not

[crisp moat]

No I don't do models, I asked if this was out because I liked how it looked and it would be cool to see a futuristic car in-game, I simply did not realize it was illegal to ask a question in this channel.

[sly bridge]

i just told you that you are

[sly bridge]

also read the description of this particular channel

[crisp moat]

I'm not very attentive to things sometimes so I never looked at any channel description

[sly bridge]

then you shouldn’t be so surprised about being issued a warning

with this is mind, this place is NOT for

1. asking question in regards to plans, release dates and alike
2. random ideas and opinions that have no relation to this channel
3. anything that can be read as pressure on community developers of any sorts.

for everything else, #rules do still apply

[smoky fractal]

I saw that

[sly bridge]

!mute 450842577634066435 3d you have been warned enough times

[wet sky]

Silence!! ò_ó
...
I keel u, @smoky fractal!! Ò_Ó
Daimyo Cross#3876 now has 4 infractions.

[sand pagoda]

A drama happend while i was sleeping

[sly bridge]

https://tenor.com/view/jules-mumm-bejules-sekt-lama-llama-gif-13278581

[tacit eagle]

is that carl the talking lama?

[shut bloom]

WIP Blockout

[pure kayak]

traktoor?

farma begins now

[vagrant chasm]

Tactical precision tractor

[urban helm]

Unmanned precision guided farm vehicle - sponsored by Tesla

[burnt thunder]

Someone made a towing system now with this you only need tanks and you too can become Ukrainian

[autumn ledge]

Say what?! Logistics are almost a thing?

[willow sage]

Is there any way to create a spring on the bipod that is working correctly?

Have tried it by the bones but it seems to not "clamping" other side of spring to hinge.

Edit: Checked Humvee suspension bones, its useless in this case

[willow sage]

Should I do this by exporting animation?

[sand pagoda]

I think doing this as procedural anim is a way

[shell hedge]

bipods are indeed animations

I mean the deploy and fold

[willow sage]

will try both

[shell hedge]

similar to the fire mode selector

[delicate condor]

Typically springs are made as textured tubes as otherwise they eat polices like crazy

Main thing for it to work animated is to distribute weight on its whole length evenly between the bones on its both ends

[willow sage]

Yep need to bake them.

[sand pagoda]

✂️

[shell hedge]

the gloss makes me want to make a hazmat suit

maybe not even that hard too, just make a metaball and press inflate/deflate

[shut bloom]

https://tenor.com/view/sure-john-cena-are-you-sure-gif-5783187

[slate salmon]

Could team up with Vergy, he's making a gas mask. Could be an NBC suit instead of a HazMat

[agile crater]

#581396411694972938 message

Do you know how do this big câble spring ?

[tacit eagle]

@agile crater

[agile crater]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/581396411694972938/1049712729453236264/05-Serval-ES22-A-1187.jpg

sorry was in my discord chan

[tacit eagle]

just use spring modifier in blender

for the LP around 5 to 6 sides

[agile crater]

understand but the animation ^^^must i creat a skeleton ?

[tacit eagle]

I think you can just do a keyframe and stretch it down

[shell hedge]

is that a pipe inside a pipe?

[tacit eagle]

yes

[covert dune]

toob-ception

[tacit eagle]

but the real question is what is it?

[shell hedge]

I googled it out so pointing it out doesn't count

[tacit eagle]

did you do a image search?

[shell hedge]

no I googled for "two tube rocket launcher"

does anyone know of a tool that can take a couple individual meshes, let's say 4, and combine their UV tiles into 1 (four 25% size tiles) tile?

something automated so I don't mess it up doing it by scaling manually

I have like 8 meshes I'd like to squish into two textures

[torn jay]

Now that would be great

[tacit eagle]

hmm 😦 maybe you can bake them to a new uv

In blender I think you can rename all the UV to the same name, join them and rearrange the uv islands

[tacit eagle]

@shell hedge I found this program called SpriteUV2

[shell hedge]

texture merge, interesting, thanks I will try this out

[shut bloom]

if that tool does not work i may have an idea but I dont want to spam the channel. so you can write me if you like

[shell hedge]

going around edges and breaking/unbreaking phong shading is oddly satisfying

[urban helm]

How many polys should I stay under for a vehicle?

[tacit eagle]

300k

[shell hedge]

2147483648

but as low as you can while looking nice

[sly bridge]

@urban helmsurely not 300k. depends on vehicle

[next palm]

Enfusion still requires LOD's to be made manually for models, right?

[delicate condor]

yes

[zenith quartz]

You can use simplygon to partially automate it though.

[sly bridge]

or unreal :))

[patent flower]

^^

[shell hedge]

Or dont do lod and set pixel size scale to 0.1 so the mesh disappears instead of switching lod (actually don't do this)

Wait is this how I can make grass meshes cull quicker?

Genius

[calm rune]

unreal? please explain because I HATE making LODs 😅

[sly bridge]

https://docs.unrealengine.com/4.27/en-US/WorkingWithContent/Types/StaticMeshes/HowTo/AutomaticLODGeneration/

[calm rune]

I would be that guy that downloads another game engine just to make my LOD life a little easier. Thank you! 🤣

[shut bloom]

well simplygon seems to have allot more use cases and is prob the better choice and you can use it for free.

[delicate condor]

Does UE have its own thing now or is it powered with simplygon?

[sly bridge]

it’s a mix. well, today (ue5 full tech) it uses nanite, so no lods needed

[calm rune]

Do you know which pipeline you are suppose to use so it doesn't break the UV?

[shut bloom]

never used simplygon but seems to be that most workflows dont break UVS. I guess you have to do it trial and error

[calm rune]

Can not find a tutorial related to my issue so I am just stumped. It creates beautiful LODs but gives me a completely new UV which I do not want.

[shut bloom]

well some tools seem to bake textures down and create new Uvs to do some stuff just try some other workflows i guess

[sly bridge]

there should be a tick someplace

@delicate condor
As of engine release 4.22, UE4 support for Simplygon has been deprecated and will no longer be supported. You can continue to get updates from Simplygon but will have to do your own integration into the engine. As an alternative, we have our own internal solution which you can read more about on the Skeletal Mesh Simplification documentation pages

[light eagle]

As others have said, you are most likely not going to hit the hard limit on poly count with effusion, but there are many caveats.

600k vehicles import just fine and are currently working on active mods in game, but have fun with import times and workbench crashes whenever you reimport your mesh. For these reasons alone it's beneficial to break up your asset into separate meshes where possible.

The engine can handle a million poly object. But handle isn't "runs great". Lowest possible poly count for the required detail and asset scale is still the best choice. No one wants to use an asset that causes performance issues for some.

Use case always needs to be taken into account. Is this a one off asset? Will there be multiple in scene? If there will be multiple, could it cause severe performance issues if the number of them in the scene gets too high?

[tacit eagle]

I said 300k tries for vehicles because thats what war thunder uses for their Air and Land stuff, DCS similarly as well slightly more actually... but dont just do 300k because you have to...

the T-72 is around 200k tris

or 120 verts. note this is with the simple tracks billboard style tracks

not the full 3d ones

[light eagle]

3d for games is always about balancing quality and performance.

[nocturne sparrow]

Depends on the game
AE86 in Assetto Corsa is over 200K tris, a comparable car in DayZ standalone is under 40K

[tacit eagle]

well we are talking about enfusion games here, assetto corsa might also be using the 1st and 3rd person for its mesh. and for dayz I dont think cars are all that common.

[nocturne sparrow]

Yes, Enfusion, so Assetto and similar games needs car to look good because it's a racing sim, shading has to look good as light moves on the sheet metal, you need a couple, even several hundreds of thousands of triangles. DayZ (also Reforger) just needs a functional vehicle, the model looks crappy by comparison. But it looks good for a Bohemia vehicle (https://i.imgur.com/FoihxdN.jpg). Definitely good enough to stick into Reforger and match the other vehicle assets. It depends what you're making... but you can pull that car in the picture off at 40,000. So someone makes Volkswagen Golf with 300,000 tris... needs to be reduced.

[shut bloom]

well idk. the BTR alone has around 190k Triangels.

[tacit eagle]

30k is for weapons :S

we have the tech no logy (stares at xbox)😒

[nocturne sparrow]

How much has UAZ, URAL?

[tacit eagle]

probably pretty close I know with the ural the undercarriage is very simple

[shut bloom]

Ural has 66k

[tacit eagle]

I believe the ural was the first vehicle they made for refrogwies

[shut bloom]

possible

the base Humvee with no roof has 60 k tris aswell

[willow sage]

Sorry for deleting 7th 3/4 mod. I'm in halfway of redoing whole content of orinal one mod with something more suitable.

Some of you have seen it earlier maybe.

[shut bloom]

Progress so far. soon to be towing Tanks.

[tacit eagle]

I have to ask why a tractor out of all the vehicles to choose from?

[shut bloom]

cant really talk about that yet

[urban helm]

Tactical Ukraine Wrecker

[tribal sleet]

1960 Era Mod 😉

[autumn ledge]

2 tube destruction tool

The bipod looks like its carried by soldier due to length but i imagine it's be too heavy realistically. I love it

[sick shard]

anyone know what could cause this both models have the same setup just mesh changes no idea why it won't move the object into the inventory I have another model that also does this

[covert dune]

The pink version of your buttstock is taking up 10% of the backpack, the black one is taking up 28%. Still not enough to fill the backpack, but it's noteworthy I think.

[sick shard]

So I fixed this not sure what the issue was but I just took the pso1 and removed some components and adjusted what I needed and fixed the issue not sure what was causing it but odd to say the least

this was before I changed everything again works now but this is a weird bug or issue https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1050275935129178193/1051326186350972999/2022-12-10_21-33-06.mp4

[covert dune]

Odd.

[sick shard]

very

[tacit eagle]

@autumn ledge yeah more info over here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FHJ-84

there are a lot of inaccuracy. such as 5kg per rocket which is incorrect. Chinese weapons are mostly impossible to find info and pics on.

[autumn ledge]

I'll say lol
Seems legit though. Id imagine they took schematics from Russian Rocket trucks but id like to see their variant

[covert dune]

Does anyone know why BI keeps doorframes and windowframes seperate from the base model of houses ? Is it something useful for LODs or ?

I can understand doors and windows, but why the frames ?

[tribal sleet]

Doors and Windows are separate Assets linked to house prefabs. So one has to produce for example a door only once

[covert dune]

I know, my question is about the door/windowframes. 😅

I dont understand why they are seperate

[tribal sleet]

Isn't it the same principle? Having the same doorframe, but put door A into it for one house and for another house door B

[covert dune]

So it's for variety you mean ? So you can mix and match the door and window frames ?

[tribal sleet]

I think so, but I am only a terrainmaker😅

[willow sage]

@covert dune
The reason to separate them is to simply make them modular in case of upcoming assets, damage system and other unknown stuff.

You make f.e: 10 different models of doors and you can mix them in house assets.

[covert dune]

That does make sense now. Thanks you two!

Now just the question arises if BI offers their standard door and window sizes somewhere so custom buildings can be made compatible.

[willow sage]

Hmm, I believe that in their sample assets there will be place for buildings also. Just to compare their sizes and make "lightportals" as they have announced them.

And also what is more, because buildings in reforger are showing only face that are visible towards you (without opposite not visible sides), they will need to deliver something to show how to correctly set them to work exactly how they are doing it in Reforger rn.

[covert dune]

Hm yeah no sample building for now. Hopefully in the future. 🙏

[low leaf]

Yes, you are correct. The modularity is for diversity and customization.

And you can make custom doorways already, the sizes are probably derivable from the asset viewer.

If I had to guess, you could also go with 1m x 2m and scale it as needed

[agile crater]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/417739997370908683/1051527244448796802/image.png

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/417739997370908683/1051527020636553216/image.png

[tacit eagle]

gazelle cockpit

[uneven vessel]

How do I set my helmet to be hidden when in first person view?

Aha located it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8o3WnGLIQ_4&t=13m20s

Have to set the opacity map and enable some settings around alpha bias

[zenith quartz]

It's kinda insane to me just how high poly a good amount of Reforger's assets are. 😄

I'm starting to feel like I'm going too hard on cutting down polygons / verts sometimes.

[woven swallow]

Ithaca Model 37 blockout.

[errant edge]

Who is the one currently working on the FAL? Punky or Ashyl?

[zenith quartz]

I needed a break from that laser. 😅

[tacit eagle]

teambuilding device

[covert dune]

That's a nice microphone you got there

[leaden trench]

If you are coming from A3, it may be an adjustment, however, compared to some other games it is still quite low; it's not uncommon for Hero assets to have up to a million triangles. In Forza your ''Heroes" are cars, in MSFS they are planes etc.

[tacit eagle]

MSFS doesn't have that many polies

[leaden trench]

Per guidelines here, 900k for a "Huge" plane: https://docs.flightsimulator.com/flighting/html/mergedProjects/How_To_Make_An_Aircraft/Contents/Modelling/LODs/LODs.htm

[tacit eagle]

its around 500k tris for lod 0

[calm rune]

A lot of models you see are assets that are bought from websites that are not game ready. People just shove them all in engine and do not even create LODs and publish. The normal player obviously doesn’t see this or realize that his game’s performance could be smoother.

My HP models are anywhere from 5-20 million polys yet after my retopo is finished it is down to a small 3-4k tris lol.

[tacit eagle]

average sculptor enjoyer ^

[zenith quartz]

I haven't actually looked at any modded ones yet, but some vanilla models (particularly the VZ-58 or whatever) are very highly detailed.

[tacit eagle]

is it more than 30k?

[calm rune]

I’m referring to clothing assets mainly.

[zenith quartz]

I think so.

[zenith quartz]

Fair yeah.

I think my last rifle's LP was ~38K all together.

HP was 20-30 mil, can't remember.

[tacit eagle]

I think my hind HP so far is like 5mil

[calm rune]

Good count. I know some developers that do not even consider sub 10mill even a proper HP.

[zenith quartz]

Zbrush gave some nice bevels. 😄

Hopefully the XM5 won't be totally annoying to work on.

I'm already at the point where I'm doing pixel measurements to find widths.

[tacit eagle]

yes pixel scaling is best

[zenith quartz]

• some tweaking after.

[willow sage]

Some nice calculations over there.

[woven swallow]

I wish there was a website where I could download specific weapon parts dimensions.

[shell hedge]

like an aggregated one? would be helpful... you have to google individual stuff

[woven swallow]

Yeah but there's no exact measurements on each part. The only way I can think of is going to gunstores and see if they let me measure shit up 😂

[fossil crater]

@shell hedge https://www.firearmsguide.com

[shell hedge]

time to remake all my mods

[woven swallow]

I'm buying it right now.

[lean quartz]

paywall
Big sadge, I’m gonna have to stick to gunbucket

[autumn ledge]

There there friend..

[lean quartz]

The good news I guess is that so long as I’m making character models, I won’t necessarily need the gun models

While I’m here, I suppose I may as well ask, what’s the vert limit on Enfusion character and weapon models? And would I be able to make custom skeletons for animations once the characters are completed?

[calm rune]

I do not know what the max limit is but I do know that one of the vanilla Jackets sits at 11k verts for LOD0.

[urban helm]

Idk exact limit but its pretty large

[lean quartz]

Oy vey

11k for a jacket?!

[urban helm]

My guns are like 30k verts and its fine

[shell hedge]

11k is rookie numbers

we've actually been playing for weeks with clothing mod packs that had 40k+ on some items and no LODs

and it was fine

[calm rune]

Right. In Squad one of the uniforms is upward of 120k verts.

[shell hedge]

doesn't mean not having LODs is good, just saying

[lean quartz]

I couldn’t imagine needing 120k verts tbh

[tacit eagle]

no wonder why sqaud runs like dog schiet

[calm rune]

Says you. I get a constant 90-130 FPS on full servers lol.

[lean quartz]

I made a uniform for A3 that was around 11k polys total IIRC, and the only why I could imagine adding more is if I went back and redid all of the fabric elements

[shell hedge]

he just comes here to troll

[calm rune]

Yeah I am slowly seeing that.

[tacit eagle]

no squad runs pretty bad

[calm rune]

When I made A3 clothing I tried to keep Jackets and Trousers both below 2k verts. In Reforger I like to splurge a little and keep each individual item below 7k. For all I know I could use 20k but Ive not seen a dev come out and give us a real limit.

[lean quartz]

How do you handle things like wrinkles and folds? The way I do it, that being vert-by-vert, It’s kinda hard for me to wrap my head around it

Works wonders on solid symmetrical things like helmets and guns thoughh

[tacit eagle]

sculpting bruh or cloth sim

[lean quartz]

Aight then

[calm rune]

Well when I retopo my HP I just try and place my quads in an area where they catch some of the deformation but not all. If you go along with every fold and wrinkle the topology is going to be very messy. So 70% of it is just baked.

[tacit eagle]

also you can use proportional editing

[lean quartz]

a3 doesn’t have cloth physics and it makes me seethe

[tacit eagle]

this is for enfusion, and we are talking about how to make clothes in blender. I dont think anyone has done cloth sim in enfusion either

[delicate condor]

Im not seeing cloth simulation for characters happening

[lean quartz]

Isn’t cloth sim the thing that gives long coats physics, or were you talking about something else?

[tacit eagle]

90% of the low poly work can be done with the shrinkwrap mod

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5t2WQJMoQDM

[lean quartz]

Cheers

[calm rune]

You keep saying that but the results are just ugly when you have complete piece of clothing that contains pockets and such. The way I see it, just do it manually and perfect the craft. More rewarding and results will always be better.

[tacit eagle]

you can then use snapping to define those areas / build them up

[delicate condor]

there is no point in arguing over techniques. any technique is fine if get good with it

[tacit eagle]

hell you can use multiple shrinkwrap mods with their own vertex groups to define the end of sleeves

[lean quartz]

When you say “do it manually,” do you mean with extra bones in the animation skeleton?

I think that’s how TF2 does the medic’s lab coat, but I’m not sure sure

[delicate condor]

you cant add bones to the skeleton like that

for the game

[calm rune]

Talking about retopology. Nothing to do with the skeleton.

[lean quartz]

I meant in the context of making a model and skeleton from scratch

[tacit eagle]

brother skeletons / animations/ rigging what ever are the last thing you make

typically*

[delicate condor]

not necessarily if you create a new character with new shape it is beneficial to create the skeleton first and create mesh around it so joints and such can be tested while they are made

[tacit eagle]

and the player model with all the animations are in the samples

[lean quartz]

I know, i guess what I’m asking is if I had a model that had an integrated coat, would it be possible to use the rigging to make custom animation for the coat physics rather than relying on the computer to do it automatically. Like I say, I think that’s how the medic’s lab coat is done in TF2, and given how I’ve heard rumours that Enfusion would enable custom skeletons, I was curious if that would be a possible avenue to take

[delicate condor]

very difficult

[lean quartz]

Cause I’m not too fond of the ancient MMO approach of gluing the coat to the legs

[lean quartz]

And tedious I imagine, but such is custom work

[delicate condor]

you would likely need to recreate all the animations

so is it worth the effort for just coat tails? 😅

[shell hedge]

you can absolutely make clothing animations just using joints all over your coat

likewise you can use joints to make vehicles get dented when collided with

and so on

question is do you have the time

[delicate condor]

Im gonna say system to constantly read character animation to animate coat tails migth get bit heavy

[lean quartz]

Funnily enough, I was considering an animation overhaul for A3 that would change the running/walking/sprinting animations to something to emulate the old Battlefront 2005 animations.

Then I saw the list of animations that there are in the Animation viewer just for running with a rifle and realized it would be far lengthier of a process than that

[lean quartz]

Yes

1000 times yes

[shell hedge]

correct, but I'd happily trade 5 fps for a working batman cape

[lean quartz]

I managed to teach myself some basic 3d modelling, so if I can learn how to suffer through weight painting, I shouldn’t have too much trouble learning animations

[delicate condor]

😅

[lean quartz]

The one thing I’d be afraid of is losing track of which animations I need versus which ones I’ve done

[shell hedge]

animation_new.blend
animation_new_2.blend
animation_newest.blend

[lean quartz]

Basically yeah lmao

[delicate condor]

blender allows you to save separate actions

you may want to just start with blender animation guides and tutorials

[lean quartz]

So I could make a list of actions inb4 hand and just go down the list?

[delicate condor]

sure

[lean quartz]

Awesome. I’ve got to get my model finished before I do any of that though, so once I get my files from home, I should be good to resume work on them

[delicate condor]

Prepare for it to be a bit more involved and tedious than you make it sound right now 😅

[lean quartz]

Oh I know

The model I made for A3 was all done and dusted, so I sent it off to our aux mod header; the conversation went something like this:

“Did you weightpaint it?”
“What’s weightpainting?”

[shell hedge]

press autorigging buttons

[lean quartz]

Auto what now

[shell hedge]

the thing that weighs your stuff to joints by distance (and other modifiers)

[lean quartz]

No one has told me of the existence of this button

[shell hedge]

I don't use blender but check this out https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7piAUK9AQs4

it's not a solution to everything, but it might help you

[lean quartz]

With my existing model being in the Arma 3 template, I don’t think I have the ability to view the armature, but thank you anyways; it will help with my future models

[shell hedge]

you can get the armature from the sample character mod

[lean quartz]

You mean for Enfusion, or A3?

[shell hedge]

yes, enfusion

well, reforger

[lean quartz]

Ah

[zenith quartz]

Retopoflow is cool. I just wish I had / anything to use it on. 😅

[tacit eagle]

there are some good free alternatives and technics

[shut bloom]

you know. Retopoflow is free aswell. you just have to download it through Github.

[calm rune]

That is what I use.

[tacit eagle]

i am the big dumb I never used the githhub

[shell hedge]

there's a button to download contents as zip

[shut bloom]

more Progress. HP is at about 50 % done.

[shell hedge]

great j-job morty

tractors are the staple of arma series since ofp

anyone remember doing stuff like _m2 attachTo _tractor? I sure do

[summer sierra]

Just wanna hook up Ashyls AA to the tractor 😂

[deft wedge]

Is there a uniform that is already weighted that we can use to transfer the weight onto different uniform models? Really struggling to figure out how to get the weight correctly.

[tacit eagle]

just keep messing around with it until it looks right

also make sure you have the geometry to make sure it bends smoothly

and should be quads for deforming animations

[calm rune]

Assuming you use blender.

[deft wedge]

Yes that is what I am talking about and thank you!!!.

[woven swallow]

WIP: Ithaca Model 37

[minor crystal]

daily toob

[finite knoll]

@tender shore

[agile crater]

@finite knoll what happen ?

[finite knoll]

None was just showing him

[quiet fog]

what do you guys say would be good project to start with when you have never used blender before? I was thinking of maybe a grenade or something similar that is rather simple (I hope?)

[shell hedge]

donut

[quiet fog]

haha, im actually following blender gurus Donut tutorials 😄

[delicate condor]

something simple yeah

it will take some time to get into the program since it has a lot of different tools

[uneven vessel]

Donut grenade, best of all worlds

[last hill]

Mmm shrapnel sprinkles. Hundreds and thousands of them

[tacit eagle]

Maxwell the carriable cat™️ would be the perfect 1st time mod

[plain galleon]

I would say start with small stuff, like you say grenade. But also props and everyday stuff are nice and range from all sorts of complexity.. but perhaps make your favorite beer can, or tools from your garage etc.. so you got reference lying at home. Avoid things with a interior model… unless you really determined and won’t give up, then go with something that really motivates you. Even if that’s a tank with full interior

[tardy mortar]

C'est horrible ton fusil. Il manque le côté texture, on a l'impression que c'est du plastic. Mais il y a du beau travail de fait pour la ressemblance. Courage, c'est presque terminé.

[willow sage]

Keep it up mate!

[cloud rampart]

its there a fast way to make a body pose from a 3d model change to the reforger body pose?

I hate too much the lattice

[calm rune]

I use the lattice due to the great results but you could always try applying the mesh(with empty groups) to the skeleton then move the bones inside of the model then reset pose. Not sure if that would work but you could try.

[woven swallow]

Thanks dude!

[woven swallow]

English please?

[shell hedge]

he said it's bad because it's untextured, probably didn't realize it's wip

[tardy mortar]

Your rifle is well made but the texture is horrible

[covert dune]

It's just some basic colors applied in Blender lol

[shell hedge]

no man everything posted here is 100% final

[cloud rampart]

Not sure if anyone got this problem, but with one model, every time I import it to workbench, its getting exported empty

One time tried to rename the file and get solved, but later tried the same and nothing

If i import it to substance painter for example, all works well, only happen in workbench

[woven swallow]

Thanks, but that Shotgun's texture is just a place holder. not textured yet. I still gotta do the UV's so i can texture it in Substance Painter.

[last parcel]

ingame and working still need to work on textures

[willow sage]

Hey,
Should i be worried that my pivot ID for helmet is empty ?

No attachment follows the skeleton.

Edit:

To clarify this stuff i have done whole norotos mount for pvs and it was following the helmet. This time i'm not able to set it in one place.

[young shard]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bWQTf2MyYU&t=5687s

[covert dune]

I've followed that before, and that tutorial is amazing.

Highly recommended.

[young shard]

Very useful for getting into creating game assets.

[tacit eagle]

im not a fan of using bevel modifiers I just use bevels or do edge loops

[young shard]

While I'm here is there a sample for a building mesh from reforger?

So I can get sizes right.

[covert dune]

Ran into the same problem

[tacit eagle]

there are samples for the humans

[young shard]

Yeah found the Github but no building samples.

[tacit eagle]

and in enfusion you can measure stuff as well

[young shard]

Really.

Oh.

The Arma Man for reforger is 150 Cm tall.

[tacit eagle]

yes ive seen it done, personally if I was doing buildings do not go with 1:1 scale with real life with things like door ways, hallways and rooms, its better for gameplay to make things a little bigger

[young shard]

Yeah. That's why I wanted to see Reforger's scaling.

[tacit eagle]

is the humans really 1.5m tall?

thats really short for a man

[young shard]

Yeah seems there doing a lotta interesting things with this engine.

[tacit eagle]

that cant be correct

[shell hedge]

Well, good topology is probably a good thing to learn, and putting holes in things is going to teach you it

Regarding the flashbang vid

[shell hedge]

just under 180 in my "put a cube over the character" test

[tacit eagle]

yeah that's what I thought

[covert dune]

Gonna try and make it fold under ? Or just keep it nice and simple ?

[last parcel]

just gonna keep it simple first time around later on maybe abit more advance

[covert dune]

Aight 👍

[midnight path]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQctoORQwLE&ab_channel=TwoMinutePapers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k50Y0b3g5WY&ab_channel=chocofur

[eager hill]

This way you end up with a lot more geometry than you need. It doesn't seem to be much, but with bevels you can easily double the amount of verts your lowpoly model has. It's unnecessary

[woven swallow]

This is true Plus you can always go back and readjust.

[tacit eagle]

with how reforger has 30k for weapons im more than fine with that. 3 sided bevels for most.

[thorny rivet]

Can i use models from Arma 2 for Reforger? Will am be banned?

[glossy lynx]

You can use arma 2 models

[burnt thunder]

Isn't the MH60 an Arma 2 model?

[glossy lynx]

Not anymore

[woven swallow]

Not anymore? who modeled the new version?

[glossy lynx]

It’s a purchased model, it has not been the arma 2 model for quite a lone time

[woven swallow]

cool

[minor crystal]

but why, just get used to bevel mod so you can easily separate high-low and then bake into a normal map

it looks just as good while being more efficient

could even set it just have 1 bevel in the game model while 3 or 5 for the high poly

[tacit eagle]

my base mesh is separated between a few clicks of the modifier and a few deleted edges

[minor crystal]

if it works it works ig

[plain galleon]

awesome, can I have this for reforger scripting? 🙂

[covert dune]

I think the second AI will start making scripts, models, textures etc. for games, I'll no longer be able to appreciate games the same. Then it's just lazy money making at that point with no love behind it.

[delicate condor]

You'll appreciate games more, but likely the ones made by people.

#other_games_chat though

[covert dune]

Wasn't planning to discuss, just adding my 2 cents. I understand however! 👍

[delicate condor]

All gud, just steering any further related stuff there.

[quaint ridge]

Hello does anyone know how to make structures like modern homes and modern buildings like banks?

[covert dune]

In terms of 3D modelling, or implementing into Enfusion ? That'd be good to know

[shell hedge]

modern houses are just cubes with holes for windows in them

I'd say texturing is much harder than making the model

[quaint ridge]

yes in the enfusion engine

[delicate condor]

im sure many people know. but Im sensing you are not lookinf for information on how to make stuff but you are looking for someone to make stuff for you

which again is the #creators_recruiting

[quaint ridge]

Yes exactly

[delicate condor]

and as a tip, do provide more information of what you want instead of make people ask you.

not here though

at #creators_recruiting

[quaint ridge]

Yea I just seen the template I will make one thanks for the tip.

[young shard]

The Pew Pew Stryker.

[buoyant nymph]

Am I in trouble rn?

[glossy lynx]

It was good knowing you

👋

[autumn ledge]

Lmao

[last parcel]

Made a drum magazine that be used by all sort of ak's

[autumn ledge]

Siiick!!

Been waiting for drum mags
I hate reloading lol

[misty solstice]

Very nice

[sly bridge]

i have searched your contribution in this channel, there were none, as such i suggest you read this pinned message once again - #enfusion_model message

wrong channel, see above

[sly bridge]

same as above -> this is model makers channel, emphasis on makers

last nice warning before i start issuing formal warnings once again

[sly bridge]

read the #rules of this server in relation to cussing, also read the pinned messages

[autumn ledge]

Query if I'm being hopeful in regards to a post, is that the same thing as an idea or unrelated opinion? Or even pressure on a community?

[sly bridge]

how do you contribute to this particular channel? please show me where you posted any pointers, or any models of your own, or asked any questions on the topic
How have you contributed to this particular channel? i searched through all of your post in this particular channel, i haven’t seen any that would fit the bill. You either post on topic, or don’t post at all.

[shell hedge]

hmm i have a weird issue in workbench, every time I reimport a texture it loads a low quality mip into the object until I restart workbench

[misty solstice]

I complimented the guys mod

[autumn ledge]

December 5th @ 5:13pm regarding transmission of the MRAP . I do ask questions but i apologize for my enthusiasm on the channel from the creative minds making me want to jump into modding myself.

[zenith quartz]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/872868903334858803/1055847971146711100/image.png

Danger cookie.

[autumn ledge]

Landmine or Vehicle Mine?

Will there be an option to delay the triggered explosion?

[burnt thunder]

Looks like a TM-46

May be wrong though

[steady birch]

Apologies

[sly bridge]

!mute 379787998402838528 7d - spam in #enfusion_model channel + failing to listen to a moderator

[wet sky]

Silence!! ò_ó
...
I keel u, @autumn ledge!! Ò_Ó

[zenith quartz]

It's vaguely based on different Italian mines and some concept art.

[willow sage]

So it must be a some kind of Pizza mine, or at least foccacia.

Jk,
VS1 looks like yours one here so I think this is a good direction, visually accurate.

[burnt thunder]

Ahhhhh

[tacit eagle]

Guys bad news no tubes until criminally negligent evil omni
utility corp fix powa

[sly bridge]

@midnight path - don’t

[midnight path]

what?

[sly bridge]

this is makers channel, not where do i find free models channel

[midnight path]

im pretty new to all this, i model stuff for 3d printing and people make free models all the time, i didnt know i couldnt ask that sorry

[vast crystal]

in progress

@thorny rivet

[quiet fog]

does somebody know how i can align the selected faces parallel to the Z axis? (so up/down) I have seen the command S+X,Y, Z+0 but because the selection is a circle it explodes 😄

https://imgur.com/B5x5AEI

[hot pumice]

there is probably a faster way but try to select all edges individually and then do s+x s+y

or turn on vertex snapping while only moving the bottom vetrexes on the z plane until it aligns with the top one

[quiet fog]

that worked, thanks 🙂

[vast crystal]

M142 Himars,in progress.

[burnt thunder]

Imagine bringing that thing to Conflict lmao

[woven swallow]

Finally back to my shotgun.

[daring condor]

that shroud is very rough, you should add more geo or use a shrinkwrap to keep it from deforming with SubD

or use this method

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=5&v=A8CWIHtUQW0&feature=emb_logo

[midnight path]

i need some help with importing a vehicle if you have some free time can i ask you some questions in dm?

[vast crystal]

I prepared the model itself, my friend is importing cars.

[midnight path]

yes sorry, to prepare the model. there is a tutorial for importing but not for preparing the model

theres only one video on youtube about preparing a car model and its for arma 3

[midnight path]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDcq7t80nog&list=LL&index=15&ab_channel=Urbanized

is this the same for reforger?

[vast crystal]

I honestly don't know, my friend will figure it out.

[woven swallow]

Yeah I wasn't happy with it so I decided to redo the heat shield and it looks much better. I'll check out your recommendation thanks!

[midnight path]

i fucking hate blender

[delicate condor]

less hating

[midnight path]

moving the camera is such a pain in the ass

[delicate condor]

maybe you just do it wrong

[midnight path]

nothing about the controls are intuitive

my camera keeps panning around a centerpoint

[delicate condor]

always found them to be very clear myself

[midnight path]

and i cant change that on the fly

[delicate condor]

you have enabled a thing

dont remember where that was exactly but Im fairly sure you have to enable that

[midnight path]

oof

https://tenor.com/view/help-me-emotional-meme-whastapp-gif-20742704

is there a plugin for custom camera controls or something or what

[delicate condor]

pretty much all controls are cusomizable by default

[midnight path]

i figured it out -.-

[delicate condor]

what was it?

[midnight path]

'orbit around selection' box was ticked

[delicate condor]

there we go

[light vault]

Sure would make up for Soviet's AK-74 full auto 45 round mags! LOL!

[sly bridge]

@vast crystal + @midnight path
fair warning here - unless you made that vehicle yourself, or bought it from some trustworthy website, you might be in a bit of unnecessary headache, and unless you provide some proof of ownership it might be removed from BI’s workshop/ you own account banned

[midnight path]

honestly thats probably the only 2 ways to even get vehicles.. ive found some free files but they never contain interiors
and that youtube video isnt mine and its from about 6 years ago

[sly bridge]

I said it is fair warning, i wasn’t accusing anyone of anything, but there were several such imported cars removed since reforger was released, with the users being blocked from further uploading and their accounts banned

[vast crystal]

Did I say that I stole the model, or did I personally make it?
I just want to transfer the model from A3, I took it from RHS, for the test.

[sly bridge]

you took what from RHS? The himars model shown above?

[vast crystal]

Of course Himars, and I do not hide it.

[sly bridge]

did you get permission to do that from anyone from RHS? because having that model in blender means reversed engineering

[calm rune]

You did not hide it but you also did not say you stole it until you were just confronted. Big no, no lol

[vast crystal]

I will not publish this model anywhere, except to check whether the model itself will work after conversion and registration of scripts.

[vast crystal]

Not stolen, but borrowed.

[calm rune]

IP theft does not work like that. Only thing that is going to save you is if you got permission. Or if the IP owner decides to give you a chance to quit whatever you are doing with it.

[vast crystal]

So I quit a long time ago, I didn’t manage to do anything with her)

In a word, I will wait for the RHS equipment in the arma reforger

[calm rune]

Long time ago, as in “in progress” pictures 2 days ago? Lol. Anyway, I’ve said all I had to say on the subject.

[vast crystal]

yes, exactly 2 days ago, after trying to revive the model in the game, I didn’t succeed, and I quit this business.

[sly bridge]

you won’t be around here to wait for anything

reverse engineering is prohibited around here, i, as part of RHS, do not condone any of our models being ripped and then called borrowed

[glossy lynx]

I feel like a perma ban is a bit harsh and emotionally driven but whatever

[shell hedge]

valk's messages are kinda mean wow

[willow sage]

I was quite worried when i saw that pink nomaterial found status on model.

[sly bridge]

feel free to read the #rules of this discord

[glossy lynx]

Again even there it says risks and may receive a ban

My point still stands

[thorny cobalt]

I would've banned too, and I'm not from RHS. If you want a second opinion

Zero tolerance for content theft.
Bonus points for posting it in "model makers" and as "in progress" to pretend the stolen model was made by himself.

[sick shard]

I can't for whatever reason figure out why adding memory points to the model breaks the animations this is maya autodesk I do most of my rigging in this and I have had it work in the past so I know that's not the issue as i exported it from blender same thing
just stop working I also don't have some bones painted I doubt that's the issue I'm also inheriting from the vanilla ak74 base so i'm following all the bones from the ak74 model

[shell hedge]

how exactly are the animations broken

[tidal latch]

If you want to use existing weapon animations then bones need to have exactly same location as the original model

[sick shard]

movement animations are fine weapon animations stop working reverts back to like have no bones bolt position returns back to default models

this would be it not working

this woukld be it working

[calm rune]

When I was fooling around with weapons when it came to the magazine location all I did was adjust the magazine memory point and it worked perfect.

[sick shard]

not the magazine it's the weapon animation breaks when adding memory points

[calm rune]

No idea. When I was messing with it that was like 6 months ago.

[tidal latch]

There is answer above already

If bones are not at exactly same location then you need to create new animations from scratch

[sick shard]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGC70laHuiM

[tacit eagle]

Imagine if people learned blender instead of ninjariper they would actually make good stuff

[willow sage]

use bone for "eye" instead of memory point

actually, I would use only bones, they behave like memory points too.
just take a look

[sick shard]

For whatever reason the issue resolved itself I literally did nothing to fix it lol but yea I'll keep that in mind for using bones as memory points I wasn't aware you could do that

[willow sage]

100 mistakes and only one success can sometimes learn a lesson

Sorry, need to do that

[sick shard]

actual fix for this issue was simply restarting workbench exporting it to fbx and having it automatically update in world editor breaks the animation good ot know

but so far I got this bad boi in and working just need to make attachments now

[willow sage]

😉

[tacit eagle]

Make hand pose to hold mag

[last parcel]

working on an M16

[burnt thunder]

That an A1?

[last parcel]

yep

[tacit eagle]

Nice but make the inside a tube out of a separate mesh, don't extrude the outside in

Also the inside carrying handle has a draft angle to it and a very slight noticeable flat step In the middle

The webbed section of the carry handle is also beveled with a large radius and not very flat

[willow sage]

Probably you've right, Wolf can i suggest you to import this hp model just to see if stanag fits magwell?

I'm kinda 83% sure that beside fact you've done impressive and outstanding work model is too narrow.

And also there is chance that I'm wrong.

[last parcel]

it's wide enough but to long

[midnight path]

ok so i made a house in blender, what do i need to do for colliders and doors and stuff?

[calm rune]

Make sure you have the proper prefix names (LODs, UBX_, UTM_, etc) then press “Sort Objects”. The collider collection will be made for you. Then you can proceed with Colliders Setup.

[midnight path]

prefix names for what

[calm rune]

https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Arma_Reforger:Enfusion_Blender_Tools:_Objects_Tools

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

[midnight path]

thank you!

[midnight path]

where is the 'addon folders' field

[tacit eagle]

for what blender?

its in the blender install directory

[midnight path]

https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Arma_Reforger:Enfusion_Blender_Tools:_Objects_Tools

is that like a translation??

"In Addon Folders field please select folder where you have checked out Reforger data."

1: where is the addon folders field it is speaking of and 2: what is checked out reforger data?

[tacit eagle]

did you put the addon in the blender addon folder?

go on youtube and look up how install external blender addons

[midnight path]

when i go to blender directory there is no addon folder @tacit eagle

and which addon? i thought it just wants the reforger gproj

[tacit eagle]

https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Arma_Reforger:Enfusion_Blender_Tools#Installation

[midnight path]

OH i already did that

[delicate condor]

its common courtesy to not call downloaded models "self made" . luckily yours is a free model that can be used for this purpose.

[midnight path]

well it was just planes, i sat there for 4 hours rebuilding the entire thing

still am stuck though... @delicate condor

#enfusion_model message

[delicate condor]

where you have downloaded the reforger data to

[midnight path]

the reforger data that i unzip in the instructions?

or the game data itself?

[delicate condor]

the unzipped data

if I remember right

[midnight path]

yes that is the directory right there

in the screenshot

its all set up correctly by the instructions

but this part is confusing wording "In Addon Folders field please select folder where you have checked out Reforger data."

there is no addon folders 'field'

[delicate condor]

checking out is term related to version control and repositories where you "check out" a branch

I got this. but mine is bit older version still

[midnight path]

wtf

where do you see that

is that under enfusion tools?

[delicate condor]

yes

[midnight path]

i dont understand why mine is different

im using blender 3.3 like tutorial gave me

yours says version 0.95

mine says 0.9.7

[delicate condor]

you will need to wait for someone from BI to wake up and take a look at your error probably.

[midnight path]

dang, thank you for trying

[patent flower]

Some Wip boots I’m working on!

[surreal ore]

Can someone tell me why i can't get a simple pickup action to work. I've done this a million times before and it just won't work lol

[eager hill]

you should ask in #enfusion_scripting. This channel is for model making, so most people here have no experience with user actions. You can also look how other prefabs are made and read docs https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Arma_Reforger:Action_Context_Setup

[surreal ore]

I've done it correctly, It just doesn't work.

Hasn't since like last update

[eager hill]

then I suggest reading into patch notes. See what's been changed

[last parcel]

did some work on my m16

[tacit eagle]

wut tube should i start working on?

[shell hedge]

panzerfaust

[tacit eagle]

which one

[covert dune]

RPG-75 ? Looked pretty interesting on wikipedia

[woven swallow]

I wanna see those tubes textured.

[tacit eagle]

@covert dune we did dat

[midnight path]

any bohemia guys here that can scroll up a little and look at my issue from last night?

[delicate condor]

its about midnight in the bohemia land again

[tacit eagle]

That would go great with the Ww2 German Military mod.

[bright raft]

The tubes you were making, are they part of some mods? Did you texture them?

[calm rune]

I’d like to see some of them textured. I’ve seen you make 10+. Haven’t seen you texture one yet.

[shell hedge]

ok but this is model makers channel not texture makers

also panzerfaust

[calm rune]

Okay let me re-phrase. I'd like to see you(Nyu) work on your existing models(finish them). Is that better Bacon strip? I'm not going to give an answer to his question in a different channel.

[shell hedge]

idk maybe he just likes making models

[delicate condor]

Theres really no need to pressure anyones work here.

[calm rune]

It's not pressure. It's wanting to admire a product in its full. He makes great models so when asked what he tube he should start working on I suggested a current one.

[patent flower]

boot porn

[uneven vessel]

🔥

[prisma delta]

good boot 👌

[willow sage]

Toooooob!

[last parcel]

worked on some smaller parts and started blocking out some parts, like the buttstock is still on a blockout course

[calm rune]

worked on some smaller parts and started

[quiet crystal]

Time to get with the scans

[woven swallow]

Finally had some time to work on the shotgun. re-did the Heat shield.

[sick shard]

just a heads up for anyone getting any issues with importing models and it coming up black in parts in blender remove the color attributes and should fix your issue I don't believe anyone gave a fix so far so here it is

[agile crater]

Why you have 2 models on ones

[shell hedge]

twice the protection

[calm rune]

That’s not your only issue there lol

[shell hedge]

yea lets put the guy down for trying to share a helpful tip about color attributes

[calm rune]

Nobody is putting him down. Literally giving him feedback of clear-cut issues. Suppose to give him feedback and a hug or something? Man you have recently developed some assumption issues or soft skin. Not quite sure but its one or the other.

Maybe it's me, I don't get offended easily so I do not baby people.

[sly bridge]

easy boys

[sly bridge]

develop on the issues noticed, don’t just state it and let it like that

[tidal latch]

As side note, vertex color thing was mentioned here few times

[sick shard]

Oh I see I hadn't looked up vertex color just black model I just recently found out what it was called but good to see people figured it out 😄

[sick shard]

not to worry I was just importing models I haven't started work on it but it will be fixed before I release it haha

[floral olive]

Unrelated but Urban Rescue Ranch smacks

[sick shard]

Love what the guy does he's super funny aswell I hope he gets to accomplish everything he sets out todo 😄

[floral olive]

Indeed, not many people would be able to do it

[sick shard]

very true

and for something no one asked for a nerf blaster in arma

[shell hedge]

the one available in game master FX was a hit, now we have red and blue!

[woven swallow]

latest version of my cannon 😛

[midnight path]

is there anyone here that can import models for me?. they are finished, but my blender isnt communicating with enfusion for some reason

[zenith quartz]

Are you exporting them as FBX?

[midnight path]

yes

[zenith quartz]

Then all you should have to do is right click the file inside Enfusion and import + register.

[midnight path]

i have everything set up correctly

blender will not connect to enfusion tools to grab collider stuff.

[zenith quartz]

Click sort first.

[midnight path]

i did

[zenith quartz]

What is your collider object's name?

[midnight path]

it doesnt give me any

i click sort it says all objects were sorted

[zenith quartz]

So you don't have a collider?

[midnight path]

i thought that colliders setup

added colliders

[zenith quartz]

Nope.

[midnight path]

so what am i doing wrong

[zenith quartz]

It just applies materials. You need to make a collider mesh. Look at the wiki in weapon creation (probably is on other pages too) to see how.

[midnight path]

is there a like a crash course video on colliders

for enfusion

[zenith quartz]

Not that I know of. Its just basic shapes. Wiki shows different kinds of colliders and you can always look in the workbench at BI's stuff to see how they did colliders for whatever you're trying to make.

[midnight path]

when is bohemia making a college style course for their engine

lol

somebody make me a tutorial from start to finish on how to import a object correctly, with all the little nuances, so i can learn this. and i will return the favor by making objects and things for you

im fairly experienced in making 3d models for 3d printing, making stuff for games is a whole new world

[zenith quartz]

Anyone have any useful advice / resources for character art creation? Clothes, vests, helmets, backpacks, etc. I'm using Marvelous Designer, Zbrush, and Blender.

[sick shard]

Anyone know if it's possible to to reduce ads/recoil with attachment slots? been trying to figure this out and can't find anything I see that I can reduce ads walking speed but I'm more looking for faster ads/recoil with attachments getting added on if that makes sense

[midnight path]

i think you would have to make a script where the active attachments edit the values

[surreal ore]

@midnight path https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Arma_Reforger:FBX_Import#General_rules_and_habits

Start with your "visual" lods

Doughnut_LOD0,Doughnut_LOD1,Doughnut_LOD2

Then do your colliders for each

The link shows the different types

UTM_Doughnut_LOD0,UTM_Doughnut_LOD1,UTM_Doughnut_LOD2

Hit sort, then go into the colliders collection select a collider and hit colliders setup

Then choose the material and Layer Preset

[last parcel]

did some more work, only got the handgrip to finish it up.

[minor crystal]

very based work

[last hill]

Is it just the perspective or does the bolt hit on the upper receiver (ie not lined up to the barrel)?

I can foresee a lot of folk running around screaming about different cultures while firing wildly.

[calm rune]

Assuming it is an xm16e1 the whole lower and upper receiver is not quite right. The mistakes are not visible unless you are purposely looking for them but visually the rifle looks beautiful.

[sick shard]

Hello I'm having an issue so I was able to get the m4 stock slot of the buffertube it shows in the prefab menu but as soon as you load into the world the stock doesn't show up it also doesn't show up in the prefab render view first picture is the edit prefab the second picture is prefab viewer any ideas to why it won't show up I think my slots is setup right

[surreal ore]

@sick shardStill Around?

[sick shard]

yea @surreal ore

[surreal ore]

What are you trying to do exactly? Which prefab are you trying to modify?

[sick shard]

basically I want to attach the m4 stock to the buffer tube via slots but it doesn't seem to be that simple

the universal inventory seems to just be a inventory so I scrapped that from the prefab back to square one

[brisk gyro]

@sick shard hope that gave you a laugh 😅

[sick shard]

HA Yea I'm just as confused as you don't worry slots in dayz sa was pretty easy but seems to be way different in reforger

[surreal ore]

Give me a minute and ill see if i can get nested attachments to work

[willow sage]

Just add another attachment storage component don't make it child of existing attachmentstoragecomponent.

Have same issue, check how it was done in Usmc weapons.

[sick shard]

I'll check that out thank you

[willow sage]

No worries, mine basic attachments like a rails that was a child of barrel weren't showing also, same for stock that was child attachment for buffertube.

[midnight path]

so as far i see, the car tutorial gives the most detailed explanation on how to import a model

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

[sick shard]

I'm just going to assume it's not possible to attach my stock to a buffer tube than to the akm till they add such a function I'm going to put it on the back burner

[last hill]

Yeah you can do it. I had the ability to put different butt-stocks on my Block II mod that I released a while back. If the mod still works.

I had to add new classnames, then a snap point on the rifle, snap point on the stock, import the rifle with no stock, then set up the stocks as prefabs, the rifle as a prefab then inherit from the base rifle prefab with the stock attached (or have it as an object that could be hotswapped with a matching stock class).

Bit of fluffing about to get it working but it is definitely possible.

[tidal latch]

why are you not using attachment slot component?

[sick shard]

I was but the outcome was I couldn't attach the m4 stock to the buffer tube since the buffer tube isn't apart of the model the system I want to do is AKM -> Buffertube -> m4 stock I have it right now where you can swap out stocks handguards and dustcovers

my plan is to make a tarkov like modding system if that makes sense

[sick shard]

I'll upload a video showing you what I did maybe it'll clear up some stuff https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAx8xiLIAxc

[quiet fog]

not sure if this channel is intended for questions regarding blender or other 3d software itself as well, so please inform me if it isnt, but I would like to know how i can align the vertex (1) to the edge (2) but only on the X- and Z-Axis? When I enable the snapping to edges, grab the vertex, press shift+Y to disable transformation in the Y-Axis and try to snap it to the edge (2) the vertex ends up somewhere in no mans land 😄

https://imgur.com/ISJ1PMR

https://imgur.com/nnr3532

[tacit eagle]

first turn off that merge on the mirror mod or set it to a very low value

i also never use bisect

make sure the snapping is set correct for what you wanna do

[surreal ore]

@sick shard

I'm working on the same thing

my setup included proc animations,but when the preview is rendered it happens before it animates

[tacit eagle]

@quiet fog shift + x, y, z axis to exclude which ever axis you want and type in 0 to center it

you can also use the 3d cursor ( change to transform pivot point)

[young shard]

Wtf is going on with that front iron sight?

[tacit eagle]

select an edge, vert and press shift + s > cursor to selection and then scale 0 to what ever axis you want

[surreal ore]

@young shard Pay attention to what i said below the image

[young shard]

Ah ok. That's weird.

[surreal ore]

Yeah, here is the rifle in editor