enfusion_model

[delicate condor]

and sometimes you want more control on shape than subdivision gives so you make it more manually

subd can work for sure but all Im saying its not the only way to make stuff

[tacit eagle]

for aircraft and cars i just retopo a lp

[covert dune]

But overall I can handle bevel weights / subdivision fairly okay by now, but it's still hard to get it right 100%. Subdivision does whatever it wants. Shading/stretching issue here ? Well try to fix it and that makes another issue appear somewhere else. It's never happy.

[woven swallow]

that's correct

we all know that can be achieve with substance painter. screws, nails etc etc

but yeah I would add an extra edgeloop if i really have to.

[woven swallow]

you need your high poly almost match the low poly otherwise you'll get weird shading when baking

[covert dune]

Sadly im not even at the baking

Just at making the hp

[tacit eagle]

i am master Boolean modeler 😏

[covert dune]

I like to use booleans aswell. Opinions are mixed though. Some people say booleans are the greatest thing ever, some hate it and want to do the hole/cut by themselves

[tacit eagle]

I just use it to make really complex models... then I retopo it

alot of youtube videos online made by people getting a kick back from selling those boolean tools to people, you spend more time cleaning the mesh than making it right in the first place

not saying booleans are not a good tool, but they are just that a tool, not a technique. really good for concept art and block out and some basic modeling.

[woven swallow]

I don't really use bought addons.

[delicate condor]

sure.. but thats not the only option to make stuff either

[woven swallow]

I think we're going too deep on how haha

[tacit eagle]

90% of the blender paid addons are just shortcuts method of what is possible in normal blender

[woven swallow]

I don't need them for now. I think the only mod i bought was the simply cloth.

just to create this

[tacit eagle]

blender 3.5 is pretty unstable 😦

[midnight path]

i just ask chat gpt to write scripts for me, but i dont use them i just look and see what the ai is doing with the script

(yes u can ask chatgpt for blender scripts)

[midnight path]

thank you @woven swallow

[midnight path]

is there a tutorial on how to make lights\reflectors for headlights and flashlights?

[covert dune]

It's a pretty broad question but I'd say you could take a look at the vanilla ones. The reflectors and bulbs are usually on the model themselves and the glass over it is a seperate model attached to the main body (on vehicles atleast). So it's a covered 3D space instead of the usual 2d texture. But it depends on the type of light really. Take a look in the gamefiles for sure!

[woven swallow]

indeed.

[woven swallow]

hopefully that's enough room for players not to get stuck in stairs. one thing I notice in Vanilla buildings is that everything feels small and that includes stairs.. like players get stock in corners, doors and stairs..

To basement.
Basement access is going to be optional just by blocking the door. for those who are gonna want to place these structures without modifying the terrain lol.

[woven swallow]

Should I add thickness to glass?

[tacit eagle]

no glass is just two panes

[delicate condor]

it can still have thickness

visually it matters where the glass starts inside its frame

and depending how far the detail goes if the glass edge seals and such are in the texture

this stuff

[tacit eagle]

dont you have to make the glass a plane? and as non joined part of the mesh

[delicate condor]

well yes

or well no it could be welded/merged to the frame or whatever

but that has no real use

makes things easier to have it separate mesh

but the glass planes can have space between them

[woven swallow]

I think I'll just make a plane and add some thickness.

currently making a collection of doors for variation.

then I'll do the same for windows

[zenith quartz]

I do subdiv and creases + remesh + corrective smooth.

Easy bevels and means I can clip complex geometry together without actually having to merge them.

[zenith quartz]

Have you thought about doing a kit of all your different beams, boards, doors, etc? Would be quite cool for assembling new structures using stuff that has accurate measurements already.

[woven swallow]

🤔

[woven swallow]

oops..

[bright raft]

Anyone had an issue, where all instanced objects in Blender, get scrambled after saving the blend file?

[willow sage]

Several times

My workaround was.

While having Blender with scene opened.

1. Opening another instance of Blender.
2. Copying stuff simply by copying and pasting objects to instance 2.
3. Setting export settings.
4. Exporting

[bright raft]

Yeah just did exactly that. Weird stuff

[willow sage]

I know, usually i continue work on another instance if the export went well.

[sly bridge]

hard knock life also is in theme…so is ban hammer :))

[daring condor]

yeah, you should really at least know how to do the vanilla workflow for addon functionality once so you know what exactly is going on

[tacit eagle]

hey do you guys ever bake to a higher resolution low poly and then delete the unneeded geometry? or do you just make a lod0 to bake on to?

[sly bridge]

i do, especially for more organics forms where baking to a lower geo lp (game ready mesh) is not gonna bake correctly for things like spheres / cylinders

[woven swallow]

I mean the baking is just to generate your normal map but if you end up deleting more geometry on your low poly you might get weird shading if there's no geometry to support it. If that makes sense.

[woven swallow]

just some doors i made last night

[leaden chasm]

Is there a tool(s)/method(s) to debug model's performance, like drawcalls/memory etc.? Or is it purely empirical, like spawn 10k models and compare to different version?

[tacit eagle]

the home depot collect ™️

[minor crystal]

i'd imagine its in the model viewer itself but ive never really checked tbh

[fluid fern]

hey, If you want to work on these buildings don't hesitate ! I unfortunately don't have the time (3D royalty free, the author has given access to the source files in early January)i cant send link but if you want DM me

[sly bridge]

??

[sly bridge]

1. please do NOT share models directly for files you do not own / you are not the original author, no matter of the license
2. if you really want to share something via some url provide the original link towards the place that also contains the license file
3. this is model makers channel, with an emphasis on makers

[agile crater]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/392728823105323020/1067219217046319124/image.png

[supple fable]

One step closer every day👍

[glossy lynx]

Should be in texture makers now

[midnight path]

how do i make one of those objects where the terrain texture gets cloned on top of it?

what is that even called?

[shell hedge]

There's a material you can put on it, terrain object material or something

[midnight path]

like the new aircraft hangars

[shell hedge]

Just open the hangar xob in preview and look at materials

[midnight path]

thank you

siiiiiiiiiiiiick

[tacit eagle]

not even close for textures

[midnight path]

is there a size limit for models?

[delicate condor]

undiscovered. large things seem to work quite well but there might be issues in rendering etc if you are not looking directly at them

[stark jolt]

What plug-in do I need to install for blender to make my models work with the enfusion engine?

[tacit eagle]

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

[stark jolt]

Thank you so much!

[woven swallow]

Anyone here has done trees or plants in general ?

[chilly dragon]

Yup what’s up?

[agile crater]

@woven swallow do you have problèm with alpha ?

[agile crater]

i seeking somebody for import this charactere in the game, i have the blender file with weight and skeleton 🙂 + textures

[sly bridge]

@calm rune might be able to help you out

[calm rune]

I tried to help him a couple nights ago. It’s a new basebody rather then a piece of clothing. So I’m not 100% sure how to go about it. Not sure if there is some actual scripting involved to override the current basebody or not.

[sly bridge]

not sure if you can change the base prefab, but in theory at least an entire model should be able to be imported as a new "uniform"

not even sure if it is possible to change the basebody...it theory it should

[calm rune]

Just so he could play around and test the model it’s self I did set up a prefab that just uses the jacket slot and I hid the complete vanilla basebody. Like you said I don’t even know if it is possible to change the vanilla basebody.

[sly bridge]

¯_(ツ)_/¯

[calm rune]

I have zero experience in scripting. The only thing that could possibly make any sense to me would be to duplicate the vanilla basebody prefab and duplicate the vanilla head prefab. Insert your model into each one. Then go into whatever script is used for that specific thing and change the prefab name to whatever you named your new basebody prefabs. Hell I don’t know, I’m just spitballing here 🤣

[agile crater]

there the prefab there is the body and the separate head, in my opinion they are just 3ds called according to such and such a "function"

[stark jolt]

So the model of my gun is modeled after the pkm. I have no anims for my model yet and only have the basic design for it. When I put my model into the game the mag likes to sit behind it where the pkm mag would normally sit and I want to change the position of the mag as I have my own model of a magazine. So to clarify how do I change the position of the magazine so that it sits in the correct spot for my model?

[tidal latch]

https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Arma_Reforger:Weapon_Creation#Adding_slots.2Fsnap_points

muzzle component on weapon has also params for magazine placement

[surreal ore]

@agile crater I'll give you a hand

[stark jolt]

So I could simply do this through muzzle comp

@tidal latch

[tacit eagle]

would it be possible to change out the default pkm sight to my own pkm sights?

[tidal latch]

if you want, yes

[stark jolt]

Alright thank you

I just did it and worked no problem

You my friend are my savior

[surreal ore]

@stark jolt The position of the mag depends on the slot_magazine bone in the rifle.

the mag is placed at that slot position based on the mags origin

[stark jolt]

Thank you @surreal ore

[surreal ore]

If you set everything up correctly your magazine will be placed correctly without altering its offset in the muzzle comp

@stark jolt thats the best way to do it as others wont have to alter the position

lmk if you need help

[low leaf]

I can't wait to see the finished product!

[wicked jasper]

Does anyone know what the issue here is? The hood of the engine, doors and other stuff are invisible from outside, but if i look from the inside out, its visible. I have no idea what i possibly did wrong here.

[glossy lynx]

normals are flipped

[wicked jasper]

That was indeed the error. Thank you bud

[zenith quartz]

WIP laser.

Very unfinished.

[shell hedge]

u guys are talented

[zenith quartz]

Stickers are fun.

[shell hedge]

4k texture for laser attachment lets go

[tacit eagle]

hmm which part to press my eye against :S

[zenith quartz]

Oh in the pic that's 2K

gonna reduce to 1K i think

[calm rune]

Call Of Duty all the way 🤣👌🏼

[tacit eagle]

anyone have experience with geo nodes? trying to have randomized points

and by randomized i mean by transformation for the each point

[daring condor]

i have a slightly different setup for welds

hang on

its not the best

but you can mess around with the sizes

forgot i made it more scuffed

this has some random roation too

to fix this

[bright raft]

That looks crazy good

[tacit eagle]

nice thanks, it pretty good, I will have might have to change a lot because the welds beads type 😦 and maybe figure how to join them and create lowpoly

[zenith quartz]

Thank you!

[daring condor]

I do that with a remesh modifier after geo nodes

My welds are based on the same tutorial

Artisans of vaul if I'm not mistaken

I can send the .blend when I'm back on my computer

[pure kayak]

messing with the blender tools and reforgor

some more WIP pics

[minor crystal]

whoa never thought of using geo nodes for that, that's clever. i may steal that

[minor crystal]

tbf they stick to 512,1024 and some 2048 textures
they just use alot of texture sets per weapon

[daring condor]

I envy cod

Having both specgloss and metrough in the same engine is cool

[eager hill]

It doesn't really matter. The only difference between those two models is that specgloss has a texture with colors for reflections and roughmet has grayscale value so the color is calculated.

You can get the same exact results with those 2 pbr workflows

[daring condor]

Yes and no

It works a bit different still

Take wet cloth for example

It'd still have high roughness but also high specularity

Specgloss is way nicer to work with for organic/ non metallic things

And the way it handles reflections is still slightly different

[eager hill]

Specularity is not for amount of light that gets reflected but for its color

Anount of light is decided by glosiness map which is inversed roughness

Really the difference comes down to reading reflection color from the texture and calculating it

[daring condor]

It's both

[eager hill]

Surface with high roughness won't have a specular reflection, but a diffuse reflection

[daring condor]

Specularity is mainly a measure of how much close to a mirror like reflection you get

Wait, I might be getting Pbr and bling thong mixed up here

[eager hill]

That's glosiness, not specularity

[daring condor]

https://youtu.be/FNKQMa5Osr4

Spec does both

Reflection colour is defined by tone, reflectivity by value

Gloss map is just the surface condition, if it's rough or flat

Not the reflectivity of a material which is something completely different

[eager hill]

That's not even possible in rgb colorspace. Such thing would be possible with HSV, but RGB doesn't separate tone and intensity

Specgloss uses 3 maps. Diffuse for diffuse reflection, specular for specular reflections and glossiness to decide whether use specular or diffuse reflection

https://learnopengl.com/Lighting/Lighting-maps

Here you can read how it works from rendering engine's point of view

In COD two different PBR models aren't used because they want to, but because they have to

If one was better than the other, they would use it for everything

[daring condor]

What you linked literally says that the specular map is used to define the intensity of specular highlights

And also isn't pbr specular but old school shaders

https://substance3d.adobe.com/tutorials/courses/the-pbr-guide-part-2

[woven swallow]

You guys really go that far ?

[daring condor]

Don't like people spreading misinformation about a topic that people who visit this channel might want to learn

Re tone and value in the same RGB space, if you greyscale any RGB image you have the values

@tacit eagle @minor crystal

it doesnt really like sharp angles

most of it is taken from a youtube tutorial with some changes i kinda bodged together

the "GeoNodes2" object for the pearls is horribly optimised and barely useable because i do not know how to geo nodes

[minor crystal]

based, thanks

will def take a look

[daring condor]

you can obviously substitute the curve from the boolean intersect with a custom one

its not well made but it kinda almost works

youll probably get better results that way even

by adjusting the twist

i wonder if there is a way to do that by snapping it to the mesh

to get the normals from the intersecting edges

[eager hill]

What you've sent basically confirms what i said. Glosiness is used to decide whether surface is rough (diffuse reflection) or smooth (specular reflection). Specular is used for reflectance value for metals and fresnel value at 0 degrees for dielectrics.
Reflectance corresponds with reflected color, not the intensity, because it's connected to photoelectric effect and amount of energy of photon which gets absorbed

And energy of photon is directly connected to its wavelength and thus color of light

[daring condor]

and the resulting specular highlight will be more or less intense depending on the value of the pixel

its not just the colour but also intensity of the specular highlight

[eager hill]

No, it's not for the intensity

How much light gets reflected is decided by how rough the surface is

If surface was perfectly 100% rough, then there would be no specular reflection at all, but only diffuse

[daring condor]

and if a a surface was 100% gkissy and 0% specular it would not have specular highlights

its not just the colour but also intensity of the specular highlight

yes low gloss will make the specular highlight less intense

but its two different kinds of highlights

[eager hill]

But it's because you put a value which breaks the physics

[daring condor]

what

[eager hill]

You're not supposed to put whatever value you want in specularity

That's even said in the substance article you sent that you can break the rule of conservation of energy by putting wrong value

[daring condor]

yes?

[eager hill]

For different materials there are set values which should be there

[daring condor]

but that image is just an example of the effects

if you want a library for what to use where there is this

https://physicallybased.info/

a spec value of almost 1 is also not unnatural so idk what you want

this would roughly correspond to polymoers

this to metals

they have completely different reflections because of their specular value

[eager hill]

You can't have a specular reflection if material has 0 glosiness

[daring condor]

the glossiness is unrelated to the specularity

glossiness only describes the surface of a material

not the actual optical properties

of that material

[eager hill]

It actually describes physical properties. That's why it's called physical based rendering

[daring condor]

i meant optical

[eager hill]

If object has glosiness equal to 0, then there is no specular reflection, but only diffuse reflection

[daring condor]

no

not if it is metallic

[eager hill]

And specular map decides how specular reflection behaves

[daring condor]

if you have a rough metal surface there will be no diffusion because it is diaelectic

light cannot enter the object

[eager hill]

Just read this, because i'm wasting my time https://www.physicsclassroom.com/class/refln/Lesson-1/Specular-vs-Diffuse-Reflection

[eager hill]

That's not how it works at all

Metal can't be diaelectric

Because diaelectric simply means non-metal

[daring condor]

right lets agree to disagree

yeah i got that wrong

been a while since i had to do with metals in optics

currently used to diffusion in a different context

the point still stands that the value of your specular map will effect the intensity of the specular highlight, not just the colour

[calm rune]

This might want to be moved over too #enfusion_texture

[daring condor]

im just dropping it entirely

[willow sage]

True

[shell hedge]

more like an insulator

[agile crater]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/507943761322442755/1068645577467900005/image.png

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/507943761322442755/1068645818145443870/image.png

[tacit eagle]

dielectrics are complicated, more than just a insulator

[woven swallow]

I'm sorry, What am i supposed to look at here?

[woven swallow]

I'm sorry but that's a terrible welding effect brother haha

[daring condor]

point being?

i know what good and bad welds look like

i wanted it to look like that

its literally only there for it to be baked down into normals

and at the texture resultion itll probably have on the vehicles im working on it probably will only be a few pixels

[stark jolt]

So I imported my model and got all the bones to appear on it but for some reason the mag is flipped 180 and the gun shoots behind me

[glossy lynx]

the muzzle point is backwards

[tacit eagle]

comparing aluminum inverted tig welding to stick welding...

[daring condor]

and imo, on 3d models you always kinda want bad welds

looks more interesting

and since they are baked down into normals you want it to be more noticeable

[last hill]

On the model, what axis your model pointing and what software?

[pure kayak]

has anyone worked out what you need for custom tree models in reforger?

[stark jolt]

@last hill Its on the y axis on Blender

[woven swallow]

Chill out dude. I said the weld was terrible. not the way you're trying to mimic weld.

[tidal latch]

https://community.bistudio.com/wikidata/images/7/7c/armareforger-new-weapon-empty-rotate.png like this?

[stark jolt]

No its exactly on the y-axis in the middle

Ill send a pic

Now it is worth mentioning the model was facing 180 where it is now and I grabbed the model and manually rotated it 180 degrees to where it is now

[tidal latch]

I mean the points (empty objects)

https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Arma_Reforger:Weapon_Creation#Adding_slots.2Fsnap_points

[tidal latch]

Yes, what about their direction

[stark jolt]

the z's of all of them were 180

that might be the problem

That fixed it @tidal latch

[winter magnet]

Is there a guide on how to port clothes?

In arma reforger

[delicate condor]

from where?

[winter magnet]

I want to make a futuristic military uniform, but for a long time I can't find information on how to transfer weights and how to add to the game. I look at other mods, and others have already added other clothes, but I can't

[winter magnet]

Where is there information about this?

[delicate condor]

weight transfers and weight painting are not arma specifc things and you can find tutorials/guides on that for your 3d modeling program online

[zenith quartz]

Laser!

Now to focus on a scope.

[supple fable]

Woah is that a grip i see👀

[zenith quartz]

Yeah I made an RVG too.

Also working on the BCM Gunfighter vertical grip and a Magpul AFG on the side.

[brave sentinel]

i think he asks how to transfer weight from arma model to his model like its working with dayz models

[turbid tendon]

Has anyone tried making a building? I made a bank safe and when I walk in it the walls disappear. Any suggestions?

[shell hedge]

Normals?

[midnight path]

are the walls one single plane with no thickness?

u could either flip the normals in blender, select object, edit, mesh dropdown menu > normals > flip

or solidify the walls of the safe so you will have normals on both sides

u can also select individual planes and flip the normals if that will work better

planes/faces

dm me if you need any more help 🙂

[turbid tendon]

Ahhh thank you!!

[calm rune]

Not trying to sound like a smart ass but you literally have to type in “weight paint transfer in insert application name here” ie: weight painting in blender” and you’ll get everything you need. Really is that simple.

Took me 15 seconds to find this https://youtu.be/yEAvSDrS_n0

[midnight path]

learning the terminology is like 80% of the learning curve -.-

[calm rune]

More like 2% but he uses the proper terminology so.

[midnight path]

yeah but knowing what weight paint transfer is, defies logic in the traditional sense

if you dont know anything about functional 3d models

[tacit eagle]

@winter magnet there are a lot of gate keepers if you need help man I can walk you through some thing

[midnight path]

anyone need highways?

[calm rune]

Im replying to what he asked. Therefor I assumed he doesn’t need a breakdown on the entire concept of modelling.

[calm rune]

Relax bud, In the last 6 months I’ve had about 40+ people ask me for help in my DMs and I’ve gladly helped them. They just got to show some effort on their end. Also the video I just gave him is the same video I’ve been sharing in this discord for months now. Literally shows you all you need to know is under 90 seconds about weight transferring in blender.

[tacit eagle]

changes nothing. Still a fact more people are interested in charging than teaching

[calm rune]

When did money get involved here!?

Doesn’t matter, this isn’t the place for it. If you got an issue you can DM me.

[tacit eagle]

youre the one making this about you man. Im just trying to help the dude. you got defensive. if you took any offense take a look at yourself 🤣

[calm rune]

Wut O.o 🤣

[pure kayak]

oookay then

anyways

highways look cool man

[surreal ore]

And that really was a useful 90 seconds lol

[lethal frigate]

Need a whole Shanghai 😂

[midnight path]

like the city???

[lethal frigate]

Yep

Jk

[midnight path]

thats alottttta modelling lol

[tacit eagle]

😦 i wanted to burn it

[lethal frigate]

Ik

I really like the one from bf4

So was thinking if it's achivable on a bit bigger scale in reforger or a4 ine future

Can we put in reforger bought models from sketchfab or some other site?

[tacit eagle]

your gonna be so bored building such a huge map honestly

[lethal frigate]

No I would not do a huge just like a little deathmach

Who has time to make a city of who knows how many millions of people

[lethal frigate]

Anyone about this?

[surreal ore]

You bought them. Their yours to do as you wish.

I'm having a weird issue trying to help @agile crater. He's made a custom character and rigged it to the vanilla rig.

I can get his model into the game but for whatever reason the root is rotated incorrectly. I've used the same template for importing clothing. So I know it works correctly.

[shell hedge]

incorrectly how

mirrored?

[calm rune]

If the license that they are under allows you too then yes.

[surreal ore]

I just assumed if you bought it for a game then you'd make sure you can use it first lol

[calm rune]

When I was new I made the mistake of not looking at the license 😅

[surreal ore]

vanilla

[calm rune]

Oddly enough that is how everything imports. I feel like it might be a visual bug.

All my items in all my mods are the same. Same with all of our RHS assets.

[surreal ore]

@calm rune

[calm rune]

That’s ah, interesting 🤣

[surreal ore]

Really odd tbh

because ive tested clothing and got them in and they work correctly

[calm rune]

Does it only appear like that in the workbench or also the editor?

[surreal ore]

this is vanilla

The mesh causes world crash too

[calm rune]

Tbh it might not even be possible to replace the basebody in enfusions current state.

[shell hedge]

isnt it just a matter of having the correct skeleton?

scaling settings might mess up animations a lot

[delicate condor]

is the actual attempt to make smaller character?

or taller

[surreal ore]

@shell hedge Nothing has been scaled

[shell hedge]

between your vanilla and new character screenshots I can see different amount and placement of some joints

it might suggest the skeleton is slightly different, maybe different enough to not work

[surreal ore]

if i make him a jacket lol

[shell hedge]

equip chad

[surreal ore]

There's something really weird about all this tbh

If he's a jacket he works. As a character he has 2 bones that are wrong Root and EntityPosition

If I drag the xob on to the map it crashes

if i try to manually create a genericEntity with a MeshObject and set the xob to it. crash

Could Try to just make a new head

I assume that would work

[surreal ore]

I think you're right

[surreal ore]

@shell hedge custom heads would be fine

[young shard]

Lol making the same thing except as a Vietnam Variant.

[pure kayak]

i think that one was the low dome i did there

i had a seperate high dome i made

[agile crater]

@surreal ore with my blender file we can import all heads created in metahuman

[pure kayak]

@young shard you working on vietnam assets?

[light vault]

Hi, Just wondering if there is a way in the Enfusion tools to view the dimensions of a simple object (e.g. a door) or the dimensions of a "building hole" (that a doorset would fit into)? Thanks

[agile crater]

We should ask @bohemia if this is possible and if it is not possible that they agree to make it possible. This would allow players a better immersion in the game. Then I don't know what they want to do for Arma 4

[calm rune]

You can basically use real life dimensions but gameplay wise you like to increase it slightly.

Would be nice to have actual dimensions used by BI themselves though. That way modders could all produce the same scale across the board.

[light vault]

Thanks @calm rune , but my question was more about seeing what the actual dimensions are of an in-game object. Basically, I'm wanting to put Reforger prefab doors and windows into a custom house that I will build the model for in Blender. If I know the door and frame I want to use then what size "wall hole" do I need to create in my model in Blender. So how would I find out what the dimensions are for the door XOB in Enfusion?

I could do this with trial and error, but it would better to just know the dimensions 🙂

[calm rune]

Gotcha. Yeah I’m not 100% sure tbh.

[surreal ore]

@light vault

This is a bi door

on my asset

dimensions i used

[light vault]

Thanks @surreal ore . How did you find what those dimensions were?

[surreal ore]

a lot of manual testing lol

windows are easy though

[light vault]

Right! So that’s what I’m trying to avoid! LOL!

[surreal ore]

they are named with their dimensions

[light vault]

Ok….hmmm…let me check that out. Thanks

[covert dune]

Whoever named them that way; I salute you. ❤️

[surreal ore]

@covert dune No shit lol

[autumn ledge]

I absolutely agree with you

[stark jolt]

Been trying to figure this out but the custom mag keeps going to the middle of the gun

I have one

oh wait a slot_magazine

not a snap_magazine

so my gun model has a slot_magazine

and my magazine model has a snap_magazine

@lucid bridge

Yes the vanilla mag aka the stanag/banana mag is set in the correct spot

[light vault]

Thanks! Really appreciated 🙂

[stark jolt]

The vanilla mag fits perfectly as shown here

The custom mag does this

Nothing was changed between the two accept the MeshObject went from a vanilla mesh to a custom mesh

[woven swallow]

that would be cool, However I don't think they will allow it since Metahumans are just for Unreal Engine projects.

[last hill]

Did you position the snap point of the magazine to the correct point in Blender? When the mag is in the weapon, duplicate the slot_magazine empty and name it snap_magazine and export it again with the snap magazine selected and the model. Then in the workbench do your import settings to import the bones and reimport.

If you did all that show us the positions of the dummy/empty points.

[stark jolt]

@last hill Are you talking about duplicating the slot_magazine in enfusion workbench?

[last hill]

No, in Blender where you create the skeleton bones etc.

I use 3ds Max but the idea is the same.

By duplicating the slot_magazine dummy which is in a pretty close to right position on the model as it gets the standard mag in fine, if you duplicate it and rename it as your snap_weapon (that is what tells your modded mag where it needs to snap to on the weapon) and then export the magazine out with the collider and your newly copied snap_weapon dummy then reimport with skeleton and heirarchy checked on workbench import options for your model file.

It's all covered in the tutorials for weapon creation on the wiki

[stark jolt]

Okay so in my gun model I need a snap_magazine not just a slot_magazine

[willow sage]

You have to change your orgin point of custom magazine - you can easily adjust it in blender.

Check .xbo of stanag - it will show you where you should place the magazine.

Only height correction of object is needed.

[stark jolt]

Thank you @last hill and @willow sage I’m going to look into both of these thoroughly!

[agile crater]

@woven swallow i did a test with metahuman but if its working with meta its will work with charactere creator 4.

[agile crater]

i will not pay 300€ for a soft that will not work in arma 4 ^^

[shell hedge]

Imagine the alignment as if you were screwing things together: slot/pivot in the weapon is a screw hole, slot/pivot/origin in the attachment/magazine is the screw hole of this item - you align things by making sure both screw holes match

not sure if this helps

simplygon has a reputation for being okay, but for most things decimating with uv edge respect, or angle respect is a good start

but I've never seen a fully automatic LOD that was satisfactory without any manual tweaks

I think there was a BI presentation where they mentioned that they do LODs manually a lot of the time by just collapsing vertices

mad respect for anyone doing that on the team

for my stuff I usually collapse by surface angle and by uv first and then go into manual

most of the time it was enough

you can also have blender's decimate respect edges marked as sharp or seam, or material borders

I usually only pay attention to like the first 2-3 LODs, higher ones can be just blobs

but there are more experienced artists here so they might have some cool tips for you

[tacit eagle]

I am trying to attach only one bone to my object. but when i export it it either has entity position or root as a second bone. any help would be great

[tidal latch]

Most likely some vertices are not skinned to spine5

[calm rune]

#creators_recruiting Keep in mind that you can not legally pay someone to inject it into the engine its self. Everything outside of engine is fair game.

[inner girder]

Thank you 🙏🏼 @calm rune

[tidal latch]

In console log you will see error that some the vertexes are skinned to root

[tacit eagle]

yeah thats it. any solutions?

[tidal latch]

Skin all vertices to some bone

In object which have armature modifier

[tacit eagle]

thanks

[woven swallow]

this shape has been a grind for me.. I'm surprise to be honest lol

[midnight path]

why does the engine use Y as height

and not Z

[woven swallow]

because they want to be different 😉

[shell hedge]

you mean the proper coordinate

unlike blender

[midnight path]

what

in every industry z is vertical

[woven swallow]

Explain yourself

[shell hedge]

Y is up on a chart

[midnight path]

not in cad

or 3d printing

[shell hedge]

then they are wrong obviously

[midnight path]

Z is vert

[shell hedge]

of course I'm just messing with you, different tools use either system

[midnight path]

LOL u did have me

[shell hedge]

Y is up in unity, Z is up in unreal engine

[midnight path]

i dont get it tho

when i export from blender i tell it Y+ front and Z up

[shell hedge]

it's not standardized / software developers choose the one they prefer

[midnight path]

and it comes into enfusion correctly

even tho its reversed

[woven swallow]

Bohemia recommends blender for 3D modeling. they even made a tool for it. so why not have it the same same so the process is less tedious ?

[shell hedge]

is that why you need to export to an autodesk format to load it up in the engine?

[midnight path]

"FBX is a popular 3D file format that was originally developed by Kaydara for MotionBuilder, acquired by Autodesk Inc in 2006."

[woven swallow]

wait whats? I don't use Autodesk at all and most of the modders use blender..

[midnight path]

he means fbx format

[shell hedge]

I have no idea why some projects use Y and other use Z

[pure kayak]

Blender does export fbx

[midnight path]

yes

[shell hedge]

but you only need to worry about this once, when you are setting up your export settings

[midnight path]

not even.. i tell it z up and enfusion knows that z means y

[shell hedge]

even if you could convince everyone to use Up/Forward/Right there's going to be someone that will start using Up/Forward/Left

[pure kayak]

speaking of all this, is there a way to export my say, headgear facing the right way?

atm it faces backwards

[shell hedge]

rotate it 180 haha

[young shard]

Yeah.

[woven swallow]

lol

[midnight path]

yeah either mirror it or spin it around

[pure kayak]

hmm

then it wouldnt be on the position of the head in blender, odd

ah well

[midnight path]

after you do that reposition it

hit ctrl+a and apply transforms

[pure kayak]

Oh i mean

it'd be reversed on th head

[midnight path]

what are your export settings

[pure kayak]

these are what i normally use

[pure kayak]

ah

[midnight path]

when i use that it comes out correct

[pure kayak]

alrighty, i'll try that

thank ya

[brave sentinel]

how can i add proxy to character body? Or what i need to make clothes fit normally

[calm rune]

If you need to clothing to fit I'd suggest using the Lattis modifier in blender to make slight adjustments.

[brave sentinel]

i mean, i created character body and now clothing not connecting to it

[woven swallow]

it would be nice if people could create their character and be able to upload it to the server and play with it in game.

[calm rune]

You need to add weights and rig the clothing to the skeleton.

[brave sentinel]

its done, but arma clothes not working with my character body

[calm rune]

So you imported your own basebody? Im not sure what you are saying tbh.

[woven swallow]

@calm rune you or BIS should make a video step by step on how things like this are done. a tutorial series.

[brave sentinel]

yes

[calm rune]

You will not get vanilla clothing to fit onto your own base body unless it has the exact or smaller dimensions as the vanilla one. IF you have everything set up correctly you might be able to override certain meshes but other then that it is not possible. Nobody to my knowledge has successfully gotten there own base body in engine yet and everything working how it is suppose to. You may very well be the first.

[calm rune]

I could literally do a 90 seconds or less speed tutorial on how to weight, rig, and import into Enfusion but as for doing a complete tutorial that explains the entire process in detail? yeah I don't like hearing my own voice long enough for that 🤣

[surreal ore]

@brave sentinel You successfully imported a base body that works?

[woven swallow]

I hear ya. but I think it would be very nice if they had a tutorial series since they want to support modding.

[brave sentinel]

yes, but for some reason head and other arma clothes not attaching to it

[surreal ore]

That's odd because I wasn't able to get it working as my armature was coming in at an offset

@brave sentinel Do you mind getting in voice?

[brave sentinel]

i'm going sleep right now

[surreal ore]

That's fine maybe tomorrow i can help you out

[pure kayak]

primarily an A3 project, but i am messing with the idea of a reforger version, at the very least i wish to share this

[fathom bolt]

Did you find a solution ?

[tacit eagle]

@fathom bolt haven't tried recently, I wanted to just have random deviation with just a curve but I dont think thats possible without creating a face for it to use

[zenith quartz]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/981269316609667172/1069668693904195684/image.png

H o l o .

[agile crater]

@sick dirge do you know if your Team will give the possibility too player too creat them own charactere in blender and export it in Enfusion engine ?

[surreal ore]

@agile crater

[bright raft]

lookin good 🙂

[zenith quartz]

Thanks!

[fathom bolt]

So you just do it with sculpting ?

[pure kayak]

Cober

[tacit eagle]

not good 😦

[pure kayak]

clay welded

[tacit eagle]

made L bracket mesh that goes around the two mesh
geonode randomly placed points on face with random scale and aligned to normal
voxel remesh and smooth using sculpting and verts

[delicate condor]

is geonode the method you want to use or are you open to other ideas? (might not be as automatic )

[tacit eagle]

well I can sculpt it by hand, but that takes like 15 to 20 min per section so its not very quick. the method does not matter too much but I am trying to learn more about geonode since its pretty good just really hard to tell it what you want to do

slightly better I just inflated the bead, remesh curvy

[delicate condor]

how about array of blobs on a curve?

[pure kayak]

and perhaps just add some randomization to that ^?

[delicate condor]

actually was pretty simple with adding a displacement node in the mix

[delicate condor]

this produced pretty neat results

the above is with remesh modifier added on top

[tacit eagle]

they all look terrible or too clean 😦

[delicate condor]

well might get better with experimenting with it

Id say dont obsess with it too much.

when baked into a texture it will be mush anyway

xD pro welders are puking now

def gonna experiment with this later

[pure kayak]

uniform will probably be changed

[burnt thunder]

What helmet is that

[tacit eagle]

it looks like a m59

[pure kayak]

Chinese GK80A

similar ish to the yugoslav helmet

[pure kayak]

last pic for a while, i grunged the textures up, how does this look?

[autumn ledge]

Looks good

[pure kayak]

question, for trees

Im trying to use blenders "particle hair" system to put planes on branches for the leaves, but they spawn weirdly, like rotated the wrong way around. how can i get them to follow the branch nicely?

[delicate condor]

rotate them in the object maybe

it has to face right way (dont remember what that was) to align right with the hair particles

[pure kayak]

alrighty, will try that out

right so i tried a few rotations

the "thinner" bits are the stems, some face the right way the others dont

kinda lost at this point

[delicate condor]

I recommend reduce the praticle count so you can see easier until you fix it

it can take some practice to get the hang of it

dont remeber all the settings off the top of my head unfortunately

[pure kayak]

wait one

i may have just got it

[delicate condor]

the object you want to place on particle needs to be built with its connection point at the origin of the object and it has to point along axis Y if I remember right

[pure kayak]

yup that was it

thank you!

[delicate condor]

also you want to use the particle instance on it

[pure kayak]

the scale is way off obviously but ya know lmao

[delicate condor]

does reforger do each leaf ?

[tacit eagle]

do banzai trees yell out banzai at random?

[delicate condor]

you probably wont want single leafs 🤔

[pure kayak]

hmm, good point

[delicate condor]

that would be crazy amount of polies

[pure kayak]

surprisingly only about 8k tris

the tree is about 11k tris

like total

[delicate condor]

typically one would make a bunch of branch models that are then spread around

[pure kayak]

i see i see

i'll check that

[delicate condor]

this is absolutley crazy amount of trsi for a tiny tree like that 😅

[pure kayak]

good point

I bought a megascans license for access to atlas textures and such so i will dig through lmao

right, taking a look at reforger trees i get what they've done

i'll give another go

[tacit eagle]

is there a lot of planes on them?

[pure kayak]

No

well kind of

The leaves and branches are large planes

like goat said

less planes more l eaves

[leaden chasm]

This is ~800k triangles, each leaf is a mesh, ~30mins of model import, Enfusion can handle ~5 of these without significant fps drop. Absolutely not practical, but was fun to mess with.

[pure kayak]

hmm

Would you be able to give some advice on how i should handle branches and leaves if i only have a texture of leaves?

[leaden chasm]

Well, i'm still learning myself. But in general there is no universal solution. The way you construct tree is heavily dependent on it's size and shape and features of species. SpeedTree can make prototyping easier.

[leaden chasm]

The most common procedure is to assemble hi poly branch with each individual leaf as a mesh, then render it to "polyplane" texture and then use that polyplane to assemble the final tree.

Main difficulty is to use as little unique polyplane textures as possible to get better texel density but still manage to achieve desired tree shape. If you plan to do versions of same species or different ages you would want your polyplane to fit them all, or at least to have all branches for the species within a single atlas.

[pure kayak]

i see

i had some made atlas's from megascans which i purchased, but it only came with leaves

i might use thme as reference and model some new ones with branches

[leaden chasm]

There are atlases with isolated leaves on megascans

[pure kayak]

Oh thats what i meant

[leaden chasm]

There are some branches as well, but less, and you would probably still want to assemble branches yourself

[delicate condor]

yeah make a few leaf models with the textures you got and create highpoly branches and render textures out of those

something to keep an eye out too is unnecessary transparent surface

[pure kayak]

aha

I had a big square for those, that helps a bunch

thank you!

[light eagle]

I have not worked with Speedtree since ST 7/8 Do they have a subscription version that allows FBX export yet?

[leaden chasm]

yes

[light eagle]

Oh nice. No more locked to export to engine specific formats.

[agile crater]

Horriblegoat best painter in microsoft paint

[daring condor]

pretty sure the chinese helmets were based on the imperial japanese ones

[daring condor]

coom

[tacit eagle]

yes I did

[tacit eagle]

so I have been trying to figure this out. sorry to bug you again.
how do I skin all the verticles to the single bone?

[tacit eagle]

@tidal latch nevermind I got it!!!!!!!!

All one piece goes over vest

[last hill]

I recognise those models, out of the AAA uniform pack on cgtrader yea?

[tacit eagle]

Yup the ones I've been asking for your help with for over a month lol. I got it though thanks

@last hill

[last hill]

I did explain as best I could what to do and pointed at the tutorials I learnt from. Sorry I couldn't do more

[tacit eagle]

you left me on read

wrong guy lol

no big deal though

this will be the sight picture if its to smol get some skill and a higher res monitor

debating on adding the Panzershrek 54-1 last days of ww2 in berlin launcher or the model 1, 3 and 4 sights for this thing

[minor crystal]

procedural using the nodes setup you were messing with? or did you just manually end up sculpting it

[young shard]

That's the nicest bad weld I've ever seen.

[chilly dragon]

M1 Garand hi poly. Interior is modeled, not too accurately but its not like you will really see it. Also a few different parts for a early and late variation.

[zenith quartz]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1042723550110425119/1070444311872802886/image.png https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1042723550110425119/1070444163411234936/image.png

High poly finished.

I'm not sure how I should do the actual optic / reticle, ignoring the collimator aspect.

[woven swallow]

any inputs? Ithaca Model 37

[covert dune]

This 'bottom plate piece' on the stock seems flatter on the real deal than you have it. (If this is the kind of input you're looking for. 😅 )

[woven swallow]

to be honest with you I notice that but I wasn't sure if it was worth fixing it but now that you actually notice it I will. thanks! 🙂

[woven swallow]

@covert dune Working on a more accurate buttstock. 😛

[covert dune]

[pure kayak]

since you legends can do great hard surface stuff, what would be some advice for tryin out a weapon model?

[tacit eagle]

know topology, forget booleantrash "workflow", make good block out, understand how general LP and HP work, have enough geometry to work with but not so much where you struggle

[rain wadi]

One of my colleague uses Fusion 360 for weapons and his workflow is really awesome (he can produce high quality and optimized stuff very very fast)

[fathom bolt]

Only for HP right ?

[rain wadi]

HP is done using fusion and zbrush and then he retopo everything and do all the traditional stuff that we know

NOT MINE

Fusion

[fathom bolt]

Fusion too but I need to do the LP now…

[rain wadi]

That's cool

[fathom bolt]

3M faces 😂

[rain wadi]

Do you use zbrush to help with that?

I mean the topo

[fathom bolt]

Nop i need to learn it

[rain wadi]

This is an incredible piece of software

[fathom bolt]

Yes i know but in my school I need to learn 3DS first and I love blender so 😅

[rain wadi]

It's worth it for Zremesher and Decimation Master

I'm not a huge fan of 3DS

Blender

[fathom bolt]

But first I need to do a LP cause the interior is modeled too

It’s a huge work I think

[pure kayak]

i cant afford anything but blender and MD

[rain wadi]

Blender is great, you can do anything with it 🙂

[pure kayak]

indeed, just gotta learn to do things better 😄

[bright raft]

I gotta ask, is modeling in Fusion and remeshing it in Zbrush later easier than normal modeling?
Honestly asking as I might later try it, but seem like a bit of a hassle

[zenith quartz]

Both are very clunky software. You need Moi3d as an intermediary too.

[zenith quartz]

I'm settling on Blender for all of my modelling at this point. Zbrush has a better remesh function but the software itself feels like it was made by aliens. I use boolean workflow and establish a good block-out first, then detail one part at a time generally. Then remesh / corrective smooth / decimate at the end. I can give you a demo if you want too.

[pure kayak]

that'd be cool sometime

i just want to dip my toes into some weapons

[zenith quartz]

And despite Nyu_Veles protest, Boolean workflow for weapons or other hard surface assets is great. It's non destructive meaning you can tweak any angle until you eventually apply them once you're happy with it. Especially useful if you are modelling from photos instead of patents.

Another thing is to get good at using Google patents and espacenet.

Since you can find a lot of very good reference on there searching by company name and then digging for a bit.

[pure kayak]

sadly i doubt theres a patent for the chinese type 81

though it is basically a weird ak

[zenith quartz]

Oh yeah no. :D

But sometimes there's Russian stuff even.

[pure kayak]

Mmh, will take a look

atm im focusing on getting basic character art in for my little project

[zenith quartz]

For your first weapon I would recommend something simple. I actually probably might have something you could model whenever we can call and I can show ya
Would today but I'm doing the low poly for my Holo today

[pure kayak]

all good!

that'd be awesome to give a go at doing it with guidance

[rain wadi]

also, there some interesting non destructive addons for blender

I tried Fluent, it's pretty cool but I think there is another "better" non destructive addon

[chilly dragon]

Rifle grenades, might make the signal and purpose built smoke grenade later. Hopefully the rifle mortar will make do for now...

🥴

[zenith quartz]

Blood sacrifices bring the bestest bakes.

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/837451638272032860/1070744843392909424/image.png

[tacit eagle]

Why not just buy moi3d or rhino it's a one time purchase it can also do auto retopolgy pretty well and is nurbs and mesh

https://youtu.be/lrfY6qP8Mik

[bright raft]

Look awesome. What's final polycount?

[zenith quartz]

7.3K 😄

[bright raft]

Nice, and this is one UV?

[zenith quartz]

Yup!

Excluding the glass of course.

[upper torrent]

Is that going towards modern optics pack or standalone?

[zenith quartz]

It's for my own project.

[rain wadi]

Pretty. Good job

[zenith quartz]

Thanks!

[wary inlet]

hey i am wanting to do some modeling some assets based off of ones in game as a base, in the VFX trailer the man imports the character mesh, how do i get the mesh as a .fbx?

[pure kayak]

through the samples page

https://github.com/BohemiaInteractive/Arma-Reforger-Samples

@wary inlet

should be in new character

[wary inlet]

thanks mate

[woven swallow]

Feels good to make your own models from scratch. I enjoy it.

[burnt thunder]

Bote 👍

[woven swallow]

SI

[gilded jewel]

how can i reshape a binarized addon template?

[delicate condor]

wrong channel perhaps?

[gilded jewel]

which is the right channel, i'm layman with it

[delicate condor]

Arma 3 channels maybe

[zenith quartz]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/872868903334858803/1071617255495979168/image.png

Romeo 5X as a quick break from texturing the UH-1.

(Haven't finished the actual lens yet.)

[woven swallow]

Some progress 😛

[zenith quartz]

Textured and finished.

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/872868903334858803/1071851672508321852/image.png

Can't wait for Collimator support. 😄

[midnight path]

made some much needed road signs

[shell hedge]

those confuse my anti dazzle high beam assist car thinks it's traffic

[midnight path]

they have a layer of this holo film that is super reflective

[brave sentinel]

What is the best way to do LODs in blender?

[bright raft]

Simplygon or simple Blender Decimate modifier

[tacit eagle]

deleting edges and stuff

make sure you have your uv open while reducing lod because sometimes you can break your uv 😦

[brave sentinel]

Thanks!

[shell hedge]

decimate is really powerful, especially when you ask it to preserve uv edges and stuff

[tacit eagle]

Also a good reason to do seams only where necessary because you will also break uv trying to reduce features with seams

[zenith quartz]

Quick gun light.

[woven swallow]

Damn you're spitting models like nothing I wish I had more time to finish mine haha

[zenith quartz]

Thank you!

I had to backpedal a little. But about to start texturing.

Added the LED. 😄

[brave sentinel]

is there a way to move detach point in weapon?

[supple fable]

E11 right?

[tacit eagle]

https://tenor.com/view/if-i-dont-see-it-its-not-illegal-gif-21572951

[misty solstice]

Nah I bet it’s just a goof

[sharp dirge]

whats it for 👀

[tacit eagle]

I dont think you understand what you doing

[misty solstice]

Yep

[keen wing]

Wait what was that all I saw was E11 and how the message was deleted

[misty solstice]

It was somethin that looked like it nothin serious

[keen wing]

Now I wanna see it

[shell hedge]

I didn't see anything

[misty solstice]

Nope

[young shard]

Oh looks like my cat was stepping on my keyboard. Oops.

[misty solstice]

Loves cats

[sly bridge]

keep it on topic or don’t post at all..

if it isn’t modeling related it is spam, and spam gets you infractions

[surreal ore]

Speaking of, I'm doing some testing lol

[chilly dragon]

M1C Garand, 10 and 16 inch bayonets as well as the Enbloc.

[tacit eagle]

i think that is a rubber eye cup

[chilly dragon]

you think right

[tacit eagle]

it just doesnt look smooth, soft.

[chilly dragon]

Very good point it was just a hard edge but I've smoothed it out now, thanks for that

[light vault]

Hi, I have a question about using "slots" in buildings to include doorsets and windows, etc.

I'm looking at BI's "FarmHouse_E_1L01.et" as a pre-fab example which uses the "Slots Autogeneration" component under "SCR_DestructibleBuildingEntity" to manage many doorsets and windows, etc. The "generate slots" check box in unchecked and "Entity Slots" is 0. It does not use "SlotManagerComponent".

When I try to use the same approach on my pre-fab, I have no problem setting up the "SlotBoneMappingObject" with the pre-fabs I want. However, these entities do not then visually appear on my house pre-fab that is in the viewer at that time. But if I check "Generate Slots" checkbox on and off, then the door and window entities will appear in place ("Entity Slots" remains 0).

However, If I then save the pre-fab and then place it in the world, the door and window will __not __appear as part of the pre-fab.

As far as I see, I'm following the "FarmHouse_E_1L01.et" example - I can't see any differences. There must be something I'm missing here, but I can't find anything. Any help to explain what I'm doing wrong would be greatly appreciated! Thanks.

[distant pewter]

Hey guys, I was wondering if there are any tutorials anywhere for making buildings in reforger with multimat materials? thank you

[fluid fern]

yes a kind of video like that :
The script for explicative video would be:
1 -Creation of a cube on blender (or exemple of fbx)
2- Import on substance
3- Modfiication in substance (mask etc)
4- Export
5- Import of the object and creation of the multi pbr in reforger
@shell hedge You had sent me an example but I didn't understand everything about the substance + the way you exported the mask

[shell hedge]

I just used user channels for it

[fluid fern]

Yes but I didn't understand how you did it

[tacit eagle]

da overkill

[willow sage]

Say henlo to long range radio 😄

[zenith quartz]

Henlo

[placid sage]

Henlo!

[summer sierra]

Henlo

[covert dune]

[tacit eagle]

Henlo

[neon night]

Henlo

[sly bridge]

https://tenor.com/view/enough-stop-im-done-overwhelmed-stop-it-gif-15320521

[zenith quartz]

🫡

[bright raft]

Love it. Especially the close ups

[zenith quartz]

Thank you!

[glossy lynx]

Can I ask what the plan for these models is?

[zenith quartz]

They're for Calamity, a mod I'm working on intended for Arma 4.

Calamity is a homebrew, near futuristic setting situated during a global environmental calamity. Decades of armed conflict, economic paralysis, social unrest, and environmental disaster harbor a new Cold War, where remaining world powers vie for control over usable land, valuable resources, and regional influence. Cutting-edge technology, artificial intelligence, and ultramodern weapon systems have reshaped society and the battlefield alike, enabling unique and interesting set pieces, engagements, and scenarios unique to our 2048 setting.

[tacit eagle]

is based

[shell hedge]

I don't have enough courage to think that far ahead, anything I make now would probably go through 51532 revisions by the time arma 4 is out

[zenith quartz]

I'm just dumb and ambitious. 😉 👍

[pure kayak]

camping chair inspired by A3s camping chair

[near bear]

Does anyone here know how to get and port arma 3 p3d files to reforger and If so dm me cause most of the stuff on the enfusion wiki is very confusing

[light eagle]

What arma 3 stuff?

[near bear]

Some guy on a milsim community server was telling me that you can port mods from arma 3 to enfusion with this plugin and sent me this link https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Arma_Reforger:Enfusion_Blender_Tools:_P3D_Conversion

It is kinda vague in how you do it

[light eagle]

So first things first, porting assets meant for RV isn't a simple task.

Second, you can't port other people work. P3D import is only meant for non binarized P3Ds

[near bear]

What is a non binarized p3d if you don't mind me asking

[light eagle]

Packed mods are generally binarized. You can't view or edit the models. You can only play with them.

[near bear]

Ok thanks for letting me know and is there a way to check if a mod is binarized or is it safe to assume it probably is

[light eagle]

Besides nearly all mods being binarized in a2 and a3, you again can not use assets from them anyway.

[near bear]

Alright thanks for clearing it up. Last question I promise could I port things from vanilla arma 3 or naw

[light eagle]

nah

[near bear]

Alright thanks hind mod very cool btw cant wait

[light eagle]

FYI, the porting of P3D's to Reforger is meant for people to a) port their own work from A2/A3, or b) port over the Arma 2 Data Pack assets. We don't have an Arma 3 Data pack yet, so it's just the A2 stuff.

[near bear]

Ok that clears up alot thank you

[delicate condor]

In case someone were to try to take someone elses work like that they are likely to end up banned from the workshop.

[tacit eagle]

I cant wait for plasticity 3d to come out so I can buy it. hopefully its on the steamos. I dont know how it compares to moi3d

[sly bridge]

@pseudo kelp - please keep this channel for model related questions, with an emphasis on makers.

[tacit eagle]

Guys, do you know how to make clothes for arma character models?

[fathom bolt]

The best software is Marvelous Designer with the base character model

[pure kayak]

this ^, though blender i'd suggest is needed for retopology

and substance painter for texturing

blender is free on steam, and substance painte has perpetual licenses for steam too, but Marvelous designer is a monthly cost

[thorny rivet]

Why is only uaz got doors attached via slotmaneger and will be in future all vehicles has system that uaz have with doors? Because this new system completely destroys my better vehicles mod, but its make possible make door armor, wich is good, but i dont really want to expose 50 metal sheets one by one to the coordinates again

[glossy lynx]

I would recommend you duplicate the UAZ with everything on it, that way you can delete the slots you don't need

[shell hedge]

Marvelous Designer makes quite a few things easier than in Blender but ultimately getting a more expensive tool doesn't automatically make you a better artist

I've spent a lot of time making models in the past and I still suck at it, so yeah

[thorny rivet]

thats the problem

i dont know how i can attach my slots to new uaz with "one click"

[tidal latch]

i would recommend using inheritance then

[glossy lynx]

I guess if you inherit you can just disable the doors

[thorny rivet]

this prefabs cant be inherited

[pure kayak]

It did help me a lot though, i suck at uniforms but with MD i can make them acceptable quality

[tidal latch]

https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Arma_Reforger:Data_Modding_Basics#Using_.22Inherit_in....22_function

it can be

https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Arma_Reforger:Data_Modding_Basics#Using_.22Inherit_Prefab_in_Addon.22_function sorry, it was supposed to be this link

[thorny rivet]

i cant see inherit button on any uaz (_base too)

[tidal latch]

read the paragraph

especially the part about World Editor

on your pic I see Resource Manager

[thorny rivet]

Got it, thank you

is it possible now to copy slots that i made for previous uaz and paste them into new one?

[tidal latch]

the easiest way would be in text editor

[woven swallow]

still gotta add some thickness to the walls.

[delicate condor]

cool!

[woven swallow]

thanks

[woven swallow]

lol I found a screenshot of the RV i was making but I lost the files..

[surreal ore]

@woven swallow You looked at how portals and probes work?

[woven swallow]

lol what are you talking about? refresh my mind ?

[surreal ore]

You need them for buildings in Reforger

[woven swallow]

ah lol, No I haven't touched the tools. I want to have content and a clear roadmap for what i want to achieve. which still a new map with new assets. I will though.

Quick updated version of my sailboat.

[glossy lynx]

Ask in #creators_recruiting

[tacit eagle]

@shell hedge old one ive made

[zenith quartz]

It's that optic.

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1042723550110425119/1074784457564897390/image.png https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1042723550110425119/1074784543711699014/image.png

[burnt thunder]

I like that weird little sight it's got style

[zenith quartz]

It's... Funky. A fun sight but definitely weird.

[burnt thunder]

True

[shell hedge]

big gun

been looking at adding a ZU-23 to the game

[sand pagoda]

[zenith quartz]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/924001393369563147/1075054895947853966/image.png

Placeholder reticle.

[shell hedge]

cute

let me scan the qr code doesnt let me 😦 enhance?

[zenith quartz]

It's a data matrix.

Not sure if this will work but here.

[shell hedge]

ohhh I thought it's a qr code that would send me to never gonna give you up

[placid sage]

What did it actually send you to?

[little kayak]

data matrixes do contain data, but are not compatible with QR data codes (which always have 3 large and 1 small markers), so most apps can't read them

[shell hedge]

I can't scan it with barcode reader also

[tacit eagle]

The wheels are probably the only thing salvageable on my zu 23

[shell hedge]

what if we use it as the wrecked model

[tacit eagle]

its really bab

[shell hedge]

just voronoi fracture it and put burned metal/rust texture over it

ez

the wreck model I was looking at costs $30

[tacit eagle]

maybe I make 👉 👈

[daring condor]

there are apps for phones that can scan those, look for scandit. they have links on their website to their demo apps on both playstore and appstore

[late swan]

Atac pweez

[sly bridge]

please don’t. read #rules and pins

[pure kayak]

guys whats wrong with my reforger (joke)

[tacit eagle]

Is this the raven security mod from awhile ago?

[knotty ledge]

Please delete if not allowed. This is literally my first 3d model (WIP) creation based on tutorials. My plan is to implement the donut in game somehow as something silly for people to have fun with. Just wanted to share 🤙 I have a whole list of ideas Id like to put in game for this community just right now learning the tools and how to make them do what I want 🙏

[woven swallow]

That's how I started with Donuts. Tutorial from blender guru. Keep practicing.

[thorny cobalt]

Donut grenades XD

[bleak yew]

the most Deadly weapon Yes

[thorny cobalt]

long-term deadly, short term very enjoyable XD

[bleak yew]

It sounds like my last relationship

[willow sage]

If you are following BG tutorial make sure that you are watching Donut 3.0, you will probably get lost somewhere while watching previous versions.
Arma Reforger has actually some consumables in files, so since it's your start with 3d modelling go for it.

[woven swallow]

Lol

[delicate condor]

Depends a lot on the model in question and how much automated reduction can be used

[tacit eagle]

Is that an aa cannon

[shell hedge]

took about an hour for the gun I've released today: gun, mag, scope, suppressor

I messed up with LOD1 so add a few minutes to it

[sly bridge]

@spark onyx #creators_recruiting

[plush shard]

any good tutorials on importing clothing

[livid gate]

What is a good texture resolution for Reforger? Particuarlly for small items like Grenades

[sly bridge]

1k i assume

it’s all about texel density rather than tex resolution

[delicate condor]

pimped up A2 SUV? 👍

[midnight path]

yeah, new suburban model, made a bunch of variations, civilian, police, armored, minigun

[midnight path]

for lights and glass and stuff do i use prop_base ?

[surreal ore]

@midnight path do the doors open? The main reason we haven't released and SUV is that very reason

[midnight path]

havent gotten to that part yet

[delicate condor]

theres maybe some wrong shading happening in the door openings but good start

[shell hedge]

just edge breaks, looks dope

vantablack

[summer sierra]

For the ranger MP group?

[light eagle]

FYI, if you want a better interior than A2 version, the Take On Helicopters version is much better.

[midnight path]

this is not the a2 suburban, its a new model

[light eagle]

Ahh. Thought someone mentioned the A2 model.

[sly bridge]

is it? who made this new model?

[midnight path]

David Holiday

i redid all the textures for enfusion

[sly bridge]

send me a dm with the link for the original files if you don’t mind

[midnight path]

done

[shell hedge]

is that color?

[livid apex]

I'm wondering if it's possible to nest weapon attachments with the slot system? Could I for example have a rail that slots onto a weapon, that I can then attach further attachments to?

[fathom bolt]

If you put an attachment component in another attachment component maybe

[shell hedge]

I think this is possible but I haven't tried it

[zenith quartz]

Yes it's possible.

I don't know how it'll work with player customization but you can 100% do it in prefabs.

[shell hedge]

I would actually love to add this to my RIS attachments mod so that you could add a RIS adapter to an AK or whatever

I'm worried the game might not detect a scope in a nested scheme like this, I'll check it out right now

[shell hedge]

nah the attachment storage slot is not recognized

only on guns

[livid apex]

Ahhhh RIP

Still would have been a very interesting concept!

[surreal ore]

@shell hedge Yeah, sadly found that out when working on procedural weapons

Tried making my attachments guns, but that broke the inspection ui

[fathom bolt]

i've made a ticket for the proc anim and baseclothcomponent

[surreal ore]

You modify the material on it in workbench.

[light eagle]

You can change the material class in workshop to MatPBRBasicGlass. it has the transparency functions in it.

[stark jolt]

Two things I am looking to fix in this screenshot. Firstly how do I prevent the clipping of the gun through the vest, is this simply solved through adding colliders to the vest model? Secondly how do I prevent the mag in the pouch from becoming warped (as seen in the screenshot), does this have to do with setting proper weights up in blender?

[tidal latch]

you cannot 😦

[tacit eagle]

Wrapping mag is do to bone weight.

[shell hedge]

if you have multiple joints weighted to the mags then they will deform yea

or mags weighted to multiple joints, however you're supposed to say it

[light eagle]

I'm gonna go out on a limb here and suggest he meant "Warping mag is due to weighting it to the bones.

Mag should all be the same bone weight paint as the pouch they are in.

[buoyant nymph]

I feel like the vest may have its own animated adjustment? I'd move the placement of how he holds his gun outward.

[delicate condor]

What do you think of an extensions of the animation IK system. So that also vests could also have a point on the front that would alter the weapon resting animation to keep the hands and weapon at the front of the vest and whatever bags etc is added on it.
Or possibly some configuration value to blend rest arm pose between 2 near and extreme far poses that could be set per vest to control the clipping
Probably not the easiest thing to implement at this stage but maybe something to pass on for consideration for the future.
Animation adaptivity with worn gear would be amazing

[livid apex]

Is the a tutorial on how to animate a weapon? I understand getting the bones in on blender and skinning. But when importing to enfusion it doesn't seem to have registered the bones on the model? They're all parented to a root bone aswell

[tidal latch]

well, it is already possible to move weapon procedural - i.e. weapon obstruction is using it. I'm not exactly what are the plans though but since there are already some properties on ClothComponent controlling how weapon is placed on back depending whether certain vest is worn or not, I hope this issue will be addressed

[tidal latch]

There will be some official one soon. As for bones - are you sure you have set this param? https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Arma_Reforger:Weapon_Creation#Skeleton_.26_hierarchy

[livid apex]

Yeah I've selected those two. Do you need to reimport the asset after u do?

[tidal latch]

yes

[livid apex]

Ahhhhh ok thanks!

[kindred grove]

i dont know if thats the right channel, but is there a tutorial on how to make custom uniforms? or clothing in general?

[sly bridge]

google has more options for all your particular software package

[midnight path]

for some reason the colliders keep getting combined into UTM_FG_body

this hasnt happened before

[shell hedge]

turn off the merge thing

merge trimeshes or whatever it was