enfusion_model

[surreal ore]

No need for an addon, pretty sure that could be done with geometry nodes

[woven swallow]

I don't know how to use those. I'll have to check them out.

I wanted to create a library of every part

[surreal ore]

No need for an addon to make a library. You just use a blend file that has all of your models split into collections. Then use geo nodes to mix and match based on a seed or whatever.

[woven swallow]

okay. I'll look into it. thanks

[woven swallow]

just messing around with UV's and textures to see how we're looking

[sly bridge]

@woven swallow considering these suicide windows, do you plan doing some particular type of of buildings?

[daring condor]

well the main draw to blender would be procedural textures, and then copying those node setups into unreal or unity like i said

having textures not constrained by texture maps can be a great boon

[quartz crypt]

this was my idea

but i may have stole his

[woven swallow]

Yeah, I was working on country style houses but i needed windows and doors.. so now I'm making a whole pack of windows, doors, knobs, and some other miscellaneous stuff.

[covert dune]

I wonder if doorknobs could be attached to the door via SlotManagerComponent. Tried yesterday but it didn't work. Was pretty sleepy at the time though. 😛

Then frame, door and knob could be switched and swapped

[sand compass]

can somebody explain to me like im 5 how to create collisions? i've used the blender addons in an attempt to generate the colliders but i can still walk through the walls in my building

[calm rune]

Make sure model geo has a check in the box.

[sand compass]

I think I have done this before but I will try again just to be sure

yeah i dont know i feel like im missing a huge step here

[astral hull]

Do you have the enfusion plugin setup in blender?

[sand compass]

yes

[tidal latch]

Do you have correct layer presets assigned to geo?

[sand compass]

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

are you talking about this?

[astral hull]

Yes

Generally fireview and firegeo are used for collisions

Set the layer to one of those

Also make sure you make a prefab, the xob by itself will have no colliders

[tidal latch]

Fire view is for fire geometry (bullets) and view (ai), not for character collision

[sand compass]

so it should have 2 collision models for both?

[tidal latch]

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

You can use building fire view for both character and bullet collision

[astral hull]

What can also help is looking into the .xob of the vanilla files to see what they are using for colliders

It says vehicle cast for wheels but all the vehicles use firegeo

🤨

[sand compass]

this all worked, thank you for the help fellas @tidal latch @astral hull ❤️

[shell hedge]

finally my favorite call of duty weapon

[tacit eagle]

what woods floating head in black ops2

[tacit eagle]

oh boy commission warrant officer how about rank of I dont care dot fullstop

[spare burrow]

Sorry you feel this way wasn’t trying to offend anyone

[tacit eagle]

not the place for advertising units plus most of us have our own groups or are not interested

[spare burrow]

My bad I honestly didn’t know. I will take it down

[glossy lynx]

If you never figured this out I think the square colliders you have on the wheels might be the problem

[slim knoll]

So should I get rid of them then?

[cursive lava]

Is anyone working on anything like this for vanilla m16

[shell hedge]

creating trimesh colliders using voxel fields to meshes is underrated

probably doesnt work well for all shapes though

[tacit eagle]

why dont they use it for weapons?

[sand pagoda]

why you want to have such complex collider for such small asset?

[shell hedge]

just wanted firegeo to be more accurate, the vehicle layer collider is actually just a cylinder

[deft owl]

Intersecting geo is bad for performance i believe

[shell hedge]

there's some automatic merge going on with trimesh if you have that on

[sand pagoda]

yes, exactly

[sand pagoda]

it merges meshes

not verticles on meshes

[shell hedge]

oh interesting I didn't know that, yeah so I also didn't want intersecting geo in my firegeo

does the intersecting thing only matter for multiple colliders? not relevant to multiple meshes?

[sand pagoda]

absolutely nothing bad

especially in context of small 10 x 10 cm drone that will be oneshoted at hit

you dont even need those blade holders

just cube

more then enough

[shell hedge]

yes I don't need them, but I want them

[sand pagoda]

well, go ahead then

[shell hedge]

I will measure performance with it later to see what the performance difference is

[sand pagoda]

perfomance will change only when there will be a swarm of those drones

and based on my own experience, bad(overdetailed) colliders not affecting any perfomance (at least on client side), but they make ballistic calculations wrong

[shell hedge]

if the collider shape is closer to the actual shape then the ballistics should be more accurate

[sand pagoda]

well

you dont need nanometers in your ballistic

you need a solid good hitbox

[sand pagoda]

more details -> more chance that something like this will happen ^

and this is not a feature

this is a bug

[shell hedge]

yes it's a bug so I don't need to worry about it

[sand pagoda]

well, this aint a bug if you using colliders wrong

im not stopping you, but just saying

[shell hedge]

my collider having more polygons than you like does not automatically make my collider "wrong"

[sand pagoda]

weeeeeelll

it doesnt work like this :)

[shell hedge]

from my testing so far the collider works correctly therefore it's fine

it could have a few less triangles though

[sand pagoda]

it could have 12

a nothing will change

but yea, im not trying to be a teacher or something

just saying things based on my experience

i could be wrong

[shell hedge]

I posted it to highlight potential use of voxel fields for colliders

I thought it's interesting

[sand pagoda]

it is!

[shell hedge]

the only problem with going low poly with something like this is it might not preserve the flat shape on top for example

my tiny drone like you said could just use a few boxes you'd make in 30 seconds, so I wonder about bigger things

I think I will need to use boxes anyway for the arms if I want them to move? I think UTM can't be weighted (but you can use colliders as children of joints)

[sand pagoda]

i dont think any of colliders can be weighted

you can attach any type of collider to bone, but not weight them

[shell hedge]

right, thank you

[surreal ore]

Funnily enough, the wiki used to say that the only collider that could be weighted was the Trimesh

[last hill]

Isn't that the one for doors etc? Hence being able to be weighted? Been a while since I read the wiki.

[fluid fern]

Has anyone tested this addon for blender?
https://topguides.gumroad.com/l/gpt-blender

[woven swallow]

I've been messing around with AI but never seen this addon. I'll check it out.

[woven swallow]

I am using AI to generate illustrations of houses to use a reference.

[covert dune]

Not too fond of AI, but that's actually not a bad idea ngl

[tacit eagle]

Which ai you use?

[stoic torrent]

I think its Midjourney

[shell hedge]

yep

looks like it at least

[lavish vigil]

I present ze falschirmjäger

😄

[calm rune]

Finally some NA style homes. No offense to my Euro friends but I am so sick of seeing maps centered around Europe and its housing style lol

[tacit eagle]

because europe, asia and africa are most common places for war zones

US is just fictional red dawn schiet

or life servers

also most houses and even some commercial buildings are made out of stick frame wood construction. so you get no cover from boolits. and in the future when destruction is a thing it will be easier to do stone / concrete destruction than plywood/ sheetrock and 2x4s.

[calm rune]

I know why. It's just boring.

[covert dune]

US stuff is really rare in general. Even in DayZ people are filling their US based maps with european housing. 🥴

So it's good to finally have someone working on some

[slim knoll]

Is someone here willing to help me out with a car creation project. Help me grasp stuff that dont really work.. the wiki is nice but I dont get everything thats said there.. if yes.. please DM me. I feel like modding in circles.m

[burnt thunder]

Tbh US towns would be hell to fight in considering zoning

[woven swallow]

midjourney

[tacit eagle]

you pay for it?

I saw the cheapest option does not have a relaxed mode which is unlimited in the higher options

[woven swallow]

thing is I don't care about military stuff or conflicts. there's plenty of people doing military stuff. So why would i make weapons, helicopters or planes when there's a ton of people already doing that? I'm looking at a DayZ 2.0 in America, walking dead type of theme.. even last of us. or what about modern civil war in america? like vergy was saying. I'm tired of seeing european assets. so let's take the game to another environment or theme.

[woven swallow]

yes and $10 bucks a month

I don't really need to pay for unlimited because i don't really use it that much and you can cancel any time.

[tacit eagle]

so how many images you get a month its like .4 of hour and you get like 10 hours right?

[woven swallow]

I think it was 200

[unborn wagon]

reference image I took on a hike vs final game asset products. cant wait til I have the full terrain done!

[unborn wagon]

Really great stuff. Going to look epic in game. Might ask you some questions (specifically on making complex interior lighting probes) when I get back on creating the structures for my terrain.

[woven swallow]

thank you. yeah sure why not.

[leaden trench]

Stuck gold searching for an M242 model; it's free with higher quality than most of what you could find for sale https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/model522-m242-bushmaster-b377b22480de49cd8d8680383de7ad04

[slim knoll]

Where is the Camera position inside a car? Its too high and I need it to be lower. Where can I set it?

[leaden trench]

You could change the driver animation or seat position, such that the eyes are physically lower in the car.

[slim knoll]

Could you say what components are those?

[shell hedge]

suspiciously high quality

there's also a RIM-116 by the same guy, also looks good

[leaden trench]

yea, I just ignored the RIM-116 for now because I'm not a rocket scientist; I don't know know how to code a damn homing missle.

[shell hedge]

I think the targeting part would be harder especially from a vehicle

it doesn't look like the thing has a seat with a monitor

[slim knoll]

Can I find the character to download somewhere? I need to scale it a bit but dont want to trial and error it.

[tidal latch]

#enfusion_model message

[slim knoll]

Thanks.

[stark jolt]

What bone should I have belts on?

[surreal ore]

@stark jolt Hips? Lol

[stark jolt]

Didn’t have to do me like that Zelik 😫

[tacit eagle]

I prefer the toe bone myself

it swings a little more than the hip

[frigid wedge]

Is there any way to export the base game models to blender if we wanted to modify them? I.e. a rifle for example

[shell hedge]

No, not allowed

[sand compass]

do big objects usually take a long time to import into reforger?

[tidal latch]

if by big objects do you mean over 500k verts then yes. There are some improvements prepared though

[tacit eagle]

my handgun is only 499k

[stark jolt]

wtf

[tacit eagle]

its made out of nanobot a new enfusion feature 😂

[covert dune]

Had the idea of adding a rubber eyepiece to the PSO scope. Very basic model for now, but I may persue this further.

Looks proper like this. Vertice count is through the roof though..

[tacit eagle]

what you mean? how much did you add

the law rocket has like 8k...

post pics of it in fpv

[covert dune]

1.4k vertices for that eyepiece. I used the same 30 vertices for a loop just like the scope. And with blockier shape you're looking at 1.2k

Has to be pretty detaield though with how close it is to the player's eye

[tacit eagle]

not much...

I dont know why they didnt go with eye cups

probably be a good weapon to force 2d view on to

[covert dune]

I think they went with the DayZ-like PSO. In older DayZ it had the eyecup, then new 1.0 update had bare scope. Reforger followed this trend likely

[tacit eagle]

it looks wrong 😦 ArmA plz fix

[covert dune]

Yeah might aswell just force 2d view with how this looks

[tacit eagle]

hmmm what if you turn up the roughness on the inside and darken it

[covert dune]

It's a very basic model. Auto smooth turned up really high and T62 rubber material applied. If I were to do this properly I'd probably do that and add the missing detail aswell

[tacit eagle]

but you bake than down onto uv maps right?

[covert dune]

Ofc, this was just quick and dirty to see if I'd like it

And well, could be worth it

[tacit eagle]

it might still be possible in with a 3d scope

try to color the inside part white for the roughness so its less reflective, and darken the co and maybe the AO a little

I also dont remember the pso also showed the front sight. maybe its the camera is too far forwards

[covert dune]

With correct shading, it'd probably look right. Maybe also with some FOV tweaks. But I'm not sure if that can be done per scope.

I'll keep this on my list.

[tacit eagle]

😦

nope

the front sight is still there

maybe in the future they will have away to disable seeing it. I imagine it would be when they add in vehicle viewports

[covert dune]

Huh, true. In pictures of PSO scope view you cannot actually see the front sight.

[tacit eagle]

irl you still see perfectly fine with this

its only during low light where it become hard to see with

[covert dune]

Ya, due to the zoom

[young shard]

I keep coming back to this image because it just looks so clean in Marmoset.

[zenith quartz]

[eager zephyr]

Would anyone be able to help me with creating slot and snap points on a weapon model in blender?

[shell hedge]

I like it, its basically 2d scopes but useful, since the 2d scopes dont allow for precise adjustments

[shell hedge]

Its mostly just normals or a bake right?

the stuff on your artstation is really good

it's missing a lot of stuff you've made I think but the stuff that's in there is amazing

[zenith quartz]

Thank you! And yes that one is a bake.

[slim knoll]

How do I assign a car to a faction?

[shell hedge]

FactionAffiliationComponent, however that faction changes when a character gets inside

if you're talking about the game master entity list then there's another one under Editable Vehicle Component (or editable entity component depending on entity)

[slim knoll]

Thanks, I'll try it.

[slim knoll]

Doesnt work.

[tidal latch]

#enfusion_configuration

[frigid wedge]

Can someone explain to me why when I import my textures they look so washed out like this? I have matched every other setting to other textures in the game and fiddled with the sliders but I can't get rid of this weird washed out appearance

[delicate condor]

texture colorspace thingy

[frigid wedge]

Sorry can you elaborate on that?

Even if I darken the texture it has this weird glossy finish on it like its covered in a glaze and the metalness scale / dialectic reflectance doesn't change it

[delicate condor]

there is a import color space setting somewhere in there

not related to hwo the texture actually is colored but it changes how its handled

[frigid wedge]

In the .emat? I'm not seeing any options that say color space

[delicate condor]

oor something like that anyway. dont remeber what it was exactly

[tidal latch]

Are you sure your texture is correct? How is your roughness set?

[frigid wedge]

Everything is set to default, adjusting the sliders doesn't help. Roughness is at 1.0, if I bring it down to Zero it looks like this: (left) and to maximum this: (right)

[tidal latch]

I mean in texture

Are you using bcr suffix?

[frigid wedge]

You mean in Blender itself?

[tidal latch]

No, in tiff

[frigid wedge]

I'm importing the .png image to the mission itself then placing it on the .emat - Not sure what tiff is

[tidal latch]

Tiff is texture format

Is your PNG texture with suffix?

I assume no and I guess you don't have roughness set in texture itself (PNG)

https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Arma_Reforger:Weapon_Modding#Retexturing_asset you can read about textures here

[last hill]

As Reyhard said, make sure you give your texture a Roughness map on the Alpha channel of the texture and when you name it, add _BCR at the end so for instance merc_example_BCR.tif or in your case .png

The game will automatically know your texture is a Base Color Roughness texture and look for the Roughness in your alpha channel.

What program are you texturing in? There is an Enfusion profile on the wiki for Substance Painter.

The profile can export your BCR and NMO (Base Color Roughness and Normal Metallic AmbientOcclusion) (including your Roughness on Alpha and AO on Alpha).

[frigid wedge]

It does not have a suffix on the texture name no, Does it need to be Name_BCR.png ?

[calm rune]

Some commission work for a Reforger community. Modelling work is about 85% completed.

[tidal latch]

yes, it need. As was mentioned above, make sure that you put Roughness in Alpha channel. Open it in photoshop/gimp and modify it properly. https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Arma_Reforger:Textures

[tacit eagle]

Bump? Color? Roughness?

[last hill]

Base color on RGB, Roughness in Alpha.

[frigid wedge]

Output from GIMP in the suggested .Tiff file and compression set to LZW with the _BCR suffix set in the name. Keep getting this error when importing, do textures need to be perfectly square?

[tidal latch]

They indeed need to be power of 2 https://gamedev.stackexchange.com/questions/26187/why-are-textures-always-square-powers-of-two-what-if-they-arent

so 128x512, 256x64,512x512 etc

[frigid wedge]

Hm. It's still failing to register into the mission, I have it going into an "images" folder. 1024x1024, .tiff format. Seems to upload just fine under .png

[tidal latch]

Is your tiff 8bit?

[fluid fern]

A2 object with retexturing

[sand pagoda]

still looks like a2 object

[fluid fern]

ik, It was useless to start from 0 for supporting walls, create a building from 0 ok but for that it is not worth it

[last hill]

~~Hi guys, I bit the bullet and am learning to do all my mods via Blender, however am running into an issue doing a basic armature on a pair of NVG. I have followed along with a few different tutorials, however once created and applied as a modifier and weighted to the bones in my armature, on rotation, the mesh inside the specific bone armature is being scaled down and up as well as rotating? Is there something I am doing wrong? I tried to search armature rotation scaling etc on search here on Discord and couldn't find my issue so apologies if covered.

This is inside Blender AND workbench once skinning is imported~~

Sorted - When I weighted to my bones, I didn't realise that unlike 3ds Max, Blender doesn't automatically paint out the root bone as you move across the vertex groups painting them in. So it was still painted 1.0 on root, as well as the rest.

[surreal ore]

@last hill For simple hard surface things, it's easier in blender to just select the faces/verts and add them to a vertex group with the name of the bone you want to paint them to.

Hope that makes sense.

[woven swallow]

Anyone here knows how many textures a house in arma reforger has? just to get an idea of how many textures I need lol

[calm rune]

Looks like it ranges between 4-9

[woven swallow]

Would you mind taking a screenshot of how the UV looks like? if you can if not. that's fine. thank you anyways.

[woven swallow]

damn that looks very low quality haha

thank you bro

[woven swallow]

First Window. testing textures and UVs.

[woven swallow]

Different texture

[glossy lynx]

The textures look low quality because it’s using pbrmulti
Those textures are just large color changes like sunspots or water damage

[zenith quartz]

Texturing...

[tacit eagle]

does the github samples have stuff like pic rails or more importantly rails for the AK/ RPG

[zenith quartz]

You can find exact metric measurements of picatinny / NATO rails online.

[woven swallow]

Another test. UV's and textures.
Bake from High Poly to Low Poly: Not yet.

[woven swallow]

More worn lol

[tacit eagle]

there is no ak rail dimensions

[fathom bolt]

Cause it’s the same, they made it for compatibility with accessory it’s like Russian version and NATO version

The only difference is the hole accros the middle

[tacit eagle]

this is only thing That i could find

[daring condor]

ak-74n dovetail mount

[nocturne sparrow]

AK rails are changing by years and even weapon model. It might be hard to dig up the correct bar.
This is the version you want (prod. 1978-1989) for AK74N in Reforger era.

[woven swallow]

Aight. don't mean to spam but here are my first two window variables. I'll be making more with different colors and shapes.

[delicate condor]

looks great! really like the subtle wear. not too much to be like totally run down, but looks like it has seen a few years in the rain

[woven swallow]

Thank you. there's always room for tweaking.

[dire estuary]

Ahh thats a friggin great idea!

[tacit eagle]

why is the sigu so popular all the sudden

[sly bridge]

guess because it is the fielded us army sidearm?

[tacit eagle]

in the 90s and 2000 it was the 92fs, later it was glock, now its this

[sly bridge]

glock was never issued, some special branches use glock 19 because reasons, but nope the m9 was the sidearm of choice until 2 years ago or so

[covert dune]

Blows me away everytime you post. If I didn't know any better, this'd be a real picture from some wiki article. 🥴

[tacit eagle]

are you gonna add in wear?

[sly bridge]

i already did :)) not gonna add more for now no

[sly bridge]

much appreciated

[tacit eagle]

im used to wear like dis

[sly bridge]

¯_(ツ)_/¯

here is a sig that had 25.000 rounds through it...not really fallout wear levels
https://soldiersystems.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/m17-s-left.jpg

[unborn wagon]

dont ever feel bad about spamming dude your shit is dope

[fathom elbow]

25k rounds on the range vs 25k rounds in some african bush war are different kind of levels of wear though 😉

[nocturne sparrow]

Many modelers overdo their wear and grime... especially edge wear.

[sly bridge]

while true, military doesn’t really treat their weapons with a lot of care - the above is fielded weapon that has seen (trials that is true) deployment outside US according to article. also 25k is bound to come from range fire drills, no one actually fires that many shots with a sidearm in the military :))

[sly bridge]

mainly because smartmasks, but that tends to be sooo overused (fingerprints included btw)

[tacit eagle]

no like finger prints 😦

[woven swallow]

Haha thanks dude, I'm glad you like what I'm doing

[woven swallow]

😂 agree. People be like. crank that shit up! Haha

[leaden trench]

It takes seconds to put down some plausible looking wear-and-tear in Substance Painter, but to actually match reference photos you need to put in hours of manual painting. So understandable.

[fathom elbow]

"real reference photos" ... of which half of them are artificially aged with sandpaper or whatever other polishing method, because people think it just looks cool.
Actual wear is really uneaven. If there is rubbing somewhere, that area will be completely blank, but nothing else is.

[last parcel]

Large Red Barn from Arma 2, still gotta make doors, staircase and ladders and railing on the catwalk above

[fathom bolt]

You take the old one model from A2 and you re-do some parts ?

[last parcel]

redid it from the ground up just messured it and started from there

[fathom bolt]

Why you don’t take it from A2 to « remaster it » ?

[last parcel]

kinda wanted to challenge myself, + found it to be more fun to recreate it from the ground up.

[zenith quartz]

Test renders.

[shell hedge]

quality, btw there are contacts on the rail for like, powering an attachment?

I know nothing about guns

[zenith quartz]

Yeah, they're powered rails.

Inspired by BF2042 and Tworx's real life I-rail system.

[shell hedge]

that is super cool

[zenith quartz]

thanks! :D

[tacit eagle]

need MP7 think with micro grenade launcher

[last parcel]

finished up the railings inside today.

[tacit eagle]

I don't remember could we go on top of it?

[covert dune]

You're able to use the catwalks normally, but not on the roof

[tacit eagle]

would be nice to see a version of it not neglected

[covert dune]

I thought previously it would be neat if you could blow off the scrap metal plates with explosives, but that's totally unnecessary. 😛

[tacit eagle]

throws single hand grenade all the panels fall off

[sand pagoda]

it is possible

[shell hedge]

possible but it wouldn't look seamless

[shell hedge]

nvm looks fine

we crysis physics now

sorry for not posting this in physics channel

so yea let's just voronoi fracture everything into debris

[stray bridge]

metal barn with theses physics, 1 bomb or 2 grenades = fps 📉

[shell hedge]

ill stress test and let you know

I have no fps loss when I damage like 100 of those at a time, so xbox series s might lose like 1 or 2 fps

[stuck notch]

You're getting me excited for squishy houses update

[tacit eagle]

BFBC2 reloaded

[blazing agate]

Does this influence on my model?

is it an error?

[shell hedge]

it is a warning that you do not have a specific layer preset selected for your collider

[blazing agate]

Oh how can I solve it? It is inside of blender?

[stray bridge]

you got the blender addon?

this one?

if not, install it. Here you can find the colliders setup. You set the layers + the game material

if you dont wanna do it in blender which is the best way do it in tool with the rigidbody" component -> check the boxes needed for your prop

[waxen mango]

probably should have it do this with small arms though, not very realistic.

[calm karma]

Having an issue getting collision to animate properly for some armor. I've tried linking to the bone and using vertex groups but the collider is stuck to the root when it gets in game

Is there some other way to link them to the correct bone that I'm missing or is there something I have to do in enfusion?

I took a copy of the visual geometry that animates properly and just slapped the UTM tag on it hoping it would translate to animated collision

[slim knoll]

Karosa C734 Bus

[near bear]

I guess this is the best place to ask has anyone tried ai generated 3d models for this shit I signed up on a wait list to try something out was curious if it would work for mod making

[shell hedge]

There's probably no AI model capable of making quality game ready assets YET

[lavish vigil]

time for A new Vehicle the Kubelwagen

[calm rune]

Are all these assets in Post Scriptum?

[lavish vigil]

nop

[calm karma]

can anybody help with this? Still can't get collision to animate

[leaden trench]

Will be interesting to see what Nvidia Picasso can do. From videos looks good for organic scenery stuf, if not hard-surface.

[shut bloom]

all the 3D ones are trained on scanned data. I doubt that any of these models will reach the quality of professional 3D artists since there is just not enough data to train on.

[near bear]

I signed up for the waiting list on 3DFY so I'm curious to see how it works I will see if they have any pics

[near bear]

Honestly they don't look that bad although idk how effective it will be at making actual real life shit cause from experience with ai art it always looks abit off

[shut bloom]

iam 99% sure that that website is pure fake if you look at what big Developers are working on they are years away from what these dudes say they achived

[near bear]

Definitely possible that its fake but only time will tell I guess I haven't given any money so no harm in seeing

[shut bloom]

nah not possible it is fake most of the stuff there makes 0 sense esp because all of what they show are a Bad uvs b bad Subdiv models and super weird Geometry in general

[near bear]

Yeah

[shut bloom]

also with the sword you can see that its just the model but decimated and then undecimated the topology or in general everything about that model makes 0 sense

[near bear]

Yeah you right I will let ya know if i ever get the email tho

[shut bloom]

you prob wont but if so youll prob get a virus or something kekw

[near bear]

Probably lol

[sly bridge]

the topic is model makers with an emphasis in makers
feel free to discuss AI things in offtopic channels

[near bear]

Ok

[shell hedge]

let's see how good the topology is when something does get made

[analog zenith]

what's your mod even called or is it upcoming ? curious

[lavish vigil]

There will be a video when and were you can play it

[analog zenith]

ahh yes

[zenith quartz]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/976838825202556988/1099456102397124689/image.png

PK-122 WIP.

About 90% done on the high poly.

[shell hedge]

anyone know of any kitbash mesh pack intended for assembling firearms?

[sly bridge]

considering not two guns are the same, the ones i am aware of are for sci fi stuff (modular type)

[shell hedge]

perfect, scifi is actually what I'm after

[sly bridge]

https://flippednormals.com/creator/oleg-ushenok

pick you poison

[shell hedge]

yea I'll get some of his stuff I'm sure, you think he built all the kitbash guns out of the same pieces he has in the packs?

[sly bridge]

no idea but you can ask the bloke, I remember seeing another dude doing similar stuff on artstation but can't find him right now (this lad sells stuff via cgtrader/artstation and flipped)

[shell hedge]

closest thing to what I want is something like this https://cubebrush.co/tunagulsen/products/pb59eq/mega-compact-kitbash-library-sci-fi-weapon-arsenal

but this is not easily usable in games because the topology is all over the place, some pieces are like 300k polys as well

but I like those designs

[sly bridge]

ahh, zbrush kitbash....oh well, you can always decimated these down (zbrush or another software)

[shell hedge]

some of them I can yeah, I'll use whatever I can out of that one

[sly bridge]

to be honest, i never got a proper use out of a kitbash (i do own a couple building ones, but i always end up using my own stuff)

[shell hedge]

I use it a lot to speed things up

for a scifi gun it will make it take less time than modeling the whole thing myself (since it doesnt have to be realistic)

[sly bridge]

i always found it to be more work somehow

[shell hedge]

I think if you are experienced with hard surface then you can create way faster than me, but for me it doesn't really make sense

[patent flower]

very pretty, nice one

[tacit eagle]

probably better to just asset lib a few primitive shapes and just use Booleans to make something

not a fan of kit bashing

these are a bunch of tank concepts im working on

you can do general concepting like that until you find a few that you like

and ive ended up with something like this.

[last parcel]

another building i am working on,

[misty solstice]

Working on actual jets or just kinda more for Cosmetic place around type of thing?

[tacit eagle]

those are space planes on a project I am working on, its some early concepts I cant show anything more than that

[misty solstice]

Understandable it’s lookin good

[zenith quartz]

Familiar. 👀

I like the idea of taking these old buildings and up-resing for Enfusion.

[summer sierra]

Looks like the Dayz mili barracks

[fathom bolt]

That it

[last parcel]

now ingame just need to fix stuff, optimize it and of course texture it 😄

[deft owl]

Is it possible to make a material translucent without any textures? I just have a debug shape that I want to see through

[shell hedge]

I think so with alpha blend and the sliders next to it

[last hill]

Yup, set your material to translucent and then alpha blend and sliders.

Alternatively, change your material type to basic glass up the top.

[agile crater]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/507943761322442755/1099943640157130752/image.png

[zenith quartz]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1042723550110425119/1100146019250999406/image.png

Aaaand now the PK-122's high poly is finished.

:)

[last parcel]

very nice model 😄

[covert dune]

smoof

[lucid crystal]

Would a high-poly asset be viable for a clothing mod on arma? how would the game handle that on the lowest denominator such as an Xbox?

[tacit eagle]

what you mean by high poly

[shell hedge]

not very good, as seen by high poly assets modded into the game currently

[agile crater]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/507943761322442755/1100172661553905744/image.png

[lucid crystal]

Ah, so lowpoly would be the way to go for clothing mods? Reasoning being that i have a highpoly shirt i wanted to use for a mod, evertything else would be pretty-much low-poly.

Then again, multiple users wearing the asset might cause some performance issues.

[shell hedge]

try to aim for similar poly count as vanilla assets would be my best guess

[sly bridge]

what is everything else? what is the polycount?

how many individual textures, on how many uv sets

otherwise what bacon suggested - open workbench -> look over vanilla content and aim for a similar polycount

[wicked dirge]

very cool

[fathom elbow]

it's the turret of babel

[quiet fog]

Hi, im not sure if anyone has done this but i havent seen it so far.
I made a chart for most of the vanilla doors dimensions. The measurements are meant not for the doors themselfs but rather for the cutout they will be placed in (if made with those numbers, there will be a couple of cm overlap between the building walls and the doorframe so that you wont have a to align both 100% perfect).
Let me know if you are missing some Prefabs and I will add them when i have time.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vTEmJm7IP9mUCblz-nsNV2WXErk9cMQcc_pdFzD6bQEXqANkij9jC6CsbAep8E5mqK21e6og3ORetpU/pubhtml

[leaden trench]

measurements

[last parcel]

Next Wip Building

[lucid crystal]

Where would i find that information? Was able to reduce the amount of polygons on the model.

[shell hedge]

open a model in workbench and it should have number of faces somewhere

[last parcel]

it's underneath the materials of each model

[arctic hatch]

It has a two-floor turret, I believe it needs a four-floor 😄

[shut bloom]

this smells like someone is remaking Chernarus 0.o

[lavish vigil]

i finished some models for the weapons pack

[delicate condor]

cool set! 👍 well done

[tacit eagle]

what size textures are you using?

[agile crater]

8k i think

[last parcel]

couple of props i made for my building

[tacit eagle]

@agile crater I think thats gonna melt those fancy dvd players

[last parcel]

finally getting around testing out mask texturing on the school entrance and i must say its mighty useful

[lucid crystal]

So question since i'm new to Arma workbench. So is there a system/option that is used to render different variations of items at different distances? (Example; Let's say i create a helmet, i want it to look as intended from up-close, but from afar i want it to be an extremely lowpoly item on the character; blocky almost.) Is there something to designate the spawning of both variations of this item?

[last parcel]

yes there is a system for Level of details

[lucid crystal]

Excellent, are there any guides out there in-order to designate that?

[last parcel]

there is the bohemia wiki for it

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

[lucid crystal]

Thanks babe.

[lucid crystal]

So I'm guessing i'll have to create each variation of the LOD in blender then huh?

[shut bloom]

have you been trying out the VFX Textures aswell ?

[last parcel]

not yet

[shut bloom]

try them same principle but you can break them up with other alphas ingame and they are super usefull for Dirt grime etc.

[last parcel]

ok

[last parcel]

Yea you would need todo that

[lucid crystal]

ez

[iron galleon]

hey yall , i got a question , i got my base model made in blender , and want to make it into a full working car in reforger what is all the parts i need aswel moddeld for that ? currently have my body/doors/wheels

[sly bridge]

there is a template for vehicles afaik. best thing to do is check the existing vehicles in workbench

[iron galleon]

i have my model indeed in the workbench but im sure i need a mesh and such right to get it anything on it ?

i tryd to follow the wiki but its hard to follow it ngl

[sly bridge]

no idea what the question is

[iron galleon]

i cant seem to get a working model in to attach actions to / make it a useable object

[sly bridge]

need a mesh for what - general answer for anything that you model - model it like the real life counterpart works\

[glossy lynx]

Make sure you have geometry
https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Arma_Reforger:FBX_Import

[iron galleon]

i will give that a good read

[covert eagle]

does anyone know where to get the old arma 2 arrow head assets ? working on an middle east map

[sly bridge]

https://www.bohemia.net/community/licenses/licensed-data-packages

[sly bridge]

different shapes + rig / skinning, just saying

[zenith quartz]

Some finishing touches and I gotta slap a logo on the side. 👀

[fringe horizon]

Beautiful!

[zenith quartz]

Thankya!

[fringe horizon]

How many hours?:p

[zenith quartz]

Not actually sure.

Textures are probably about 8 so far.

At most.

[shell hedge]

8 hours to texture the optic?

sight

[zenith quartz]

Yeah between being distracted with other things lol.

[shell hedge]

still, I admire your patience

[zenith quartz]

Cheers!

Model itself maybe took...

4 days total including HP / LP stuff.

Oh gosh my consistency is awful.

I spent one of those days just doing the cord and aluminum cage around the housing.

And then another day I'll spend like doing half the rest of the model in one go.

I also made a PK-120, but I haven't unwrapped it yet.

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1042723550110425119/1100496253684547635/image.png

[fringe horizon]

😍

Hours well spent thats for sure

[lavish vigil]

4k

[covert eagle]

If I wanted to take some stuff form these released files and put it in to the Enfusion workbench whats the easiest way to do so https://www.bohemia.net/community/licenses/licensed-data-packages

or a video that might help

[covert eagle]

nvm figured it out with a bit more digging found the blender tool for it

[fathom bolt]

Open p3d with object builder from Arma 3 tools then export un fbx

If p3d isn’t binarized

[lost bloom]

hey can i ask, can i paint on imported models, like custom buildings in the enfusion using texture paint. (i know you can paint on the terrain)

[sly bridge]

nope

[covert eagle]

@fathom bolt yeah I got it figured out im more stuck now on how to get the RVMATs textures in to Workbench it doesnt seem to take RVMATs so gotta figure out how to get them to Emat ? or edds?

or maybe im confused and need the something else for the texture for this house lol

[fathom bolt]

RVMATS are the old material system and texture used has non-PBR so you need to convert them for RE

[turbid moss]

https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Arma_Reforger:Textures @covert eagle

[covert eagle]

thank you

[zenith quartz]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1042723550110425119/1101522009546051745/image.png

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/800569931359060039/1101522070673821818/image.png

Finished.

[covert eagle]

@zenith quartz that looks amazing

[zenith quartz]

Thanks!

[covert eagle]

@turbid moss looking through that now does it have a place explaining how to convert them ?

sorry pretty new to this so just trying to figure out how to convert it to a usable file lol

[turbid moss]

You need to make new textures, test programs what suit to you.
https://www.slant.co/options/12609/alternatives/~substance-bitmap2material-alternatives

[covert eagle]

ah so the RVMAT files wont help me at all? I have adobe substance 3d painter

but Ill download this as well since its free

[delicate condor]

no very little of older data is really usable without rework

[covert eagle]

@delicate condor okay seems I have some learning to do haha im GFX freelancer but mainly work with Photoshop and aftereffects so this is a whole other playing field lol

[sly bridge]

RVMAT stands for Real Virtually Material & ATributes - and is the material file, that links towards the existing texture

what @delicate condor is trying to say is that the available textures are completely different from what you would need for the enfusion's PBR workflow

[covert eagle]

ah so pretty much the only thing that is helpful in the released files is the model for the house and for the textures I would have to start from scratch

guess they went through a lot to get the arma 2 arrow head buildings and stuff in to the Kunar Region map mod

was just trying to get some of the other buildings in to the map

it just looked like all the old textures

[delicate condor]

old textures need rework to and be set up with the new enfusion materials

so yes it is a lot of work to do

[sly bridge]

you could be using the base diffuse maps as base, but even that one is not albedo as required by PBR workflow

[dire estuary]

Amazing work

[tacit eagle]

https://youtu.be/HZd4hQJ2MfA

its pretty interesting video, maybe we can do the something similar

[lethal frigate]

Render of project im working on

[leaden trench]

Remind's me of Tomi's mansion from Vice City.

[lethal frigate]

kinda looks like it 😄

[surreal ore]

@lethal frigate Have you got buildings in working correctly before?

[lethal frigate]

they had collision and stuff just have to learn to define material to the collision

and that multitextures i still have to learn

[surreal ore]

I suggest you take a look at this

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

[lethal frigate]

I will

[surreal ore]

Required stuff for proper lighting and sounds

[last parcel]

has anyone tried to import a model i with Portals ?, I have tried it several times now, and it just keeps crashing

[delicate condor]

what is portals?

[last parcel]

Portals are this according to the Wiki
"Define openings in the geometry through which light and sound can be propagated from the outside of the model to the inside and even between inside rooms in the model"

[delicate condor]

oh

when you wrote it with P I though it was a name of some program

[last parcel]

ah ok

[delicate condor]

openings will not affect importing. your model has some other type of issue that prevents it from importing

is it super high poly for example?

[last parcel]

well it imports fine without the portals, it just when i go and press on the Generate BSP that makes it crash

[delicate condor]

how do you make the portals?

what do you model with?

is it something big?

is it triangulated?

[last parcel]

Blender, so i just make a plane place it in the middle of the widows,

according to the wiki it should be without triangulated

[delicate condor]

is it big?

[last parcel]

if i read the sentence right that is "They are specified as plane primitive with 4 vertices w/o triangulation"

[delicate condor]

is it high poly?

[last parcel]

nop, its just 14k building with normal size windows that Reforger use

[delicate condor]

so you mean you have the holes for the windows

and you create the glass for them and that crashes?

[last parcel]

oh wait, is the Portals not for the main model is it just for windows/ glass that i create on my own ?

[delicate condor]

I have a bit hard time understanding what exactly you are doing

[last parcel]

i have my house model, with holes in it for the windows, i created the sockets so I can use the arma reforger window models, and if i read the wiki correctly i still need light portals. even with the arma reforger windows

[fathom elbow]

unreal engine market place will fuse with sketchfab, quixel bridge and artstation market place ... more monopolisation, just what the world needs

[covert dune]

Oh god

[surreal ore]

He's making portals for light and sound to propagate correctly for his building.

@last parcel You need a probe volume

[last parcel]

Ah. Will try that when I get home is it just a simple box with all the same holes or is it multiple boxes ?

[surreal ore]

Reference the link i sent you before

Probes and Probe Volumes

[last parcel]

Will do

[surreal ore]

oops, not you my bad

#enfusion_model message

[tacit eagle]

8k kinda low

[delicate condor]

Optimized. 👍

Why have more if you don't need any

[tacit eagle]

I think a3 had more

[plush shard]

https://tenor.com/view/south-pak-the-wise-one-its-the-wise-one-gif-26256589

[cold rune]

once my model of lets say a stone is imported to the reforger tools how do i go about being able to pick it up in the world editor?

[covert dune]

I would look at how vanilla items do it. For example a handheld radio, and then removing the radio functionality later on.
Here's a flower for you. Simple mesh change. 😛

[surreal ore]

@covert dune iirc there is a base prefab for inventory items

[covert dune]

Even better!

Ah yes, you can find that in Prefabs>Items>Core>Item_Base.et

That seems to be it atleast. If you duplicate it, add a mesh component and tweak the weight you can already pick it up.

[surreal ore]

Inherit from it

[cold rune]

Thanks i was messing around with that, but if i was to place a canteen and change only the mesh the prompt to pick it up goes away

i can still drag it in inv tho

[surreal ore]

What were you doing exactly?

nvm

it needs a mesh object and rigid body

Make it small enough to pick up

Rigid body has to have Model Geo checked

@cold rune

[cold rune]

im able to pick it up but only by dragging how would i go about picking it up like this

by looking at it

[iron brook]

you need to add an ActionManager, set up you context, meaning where the action is going to show up, and then set up the action.

generic actions like this can be found here

[tribal onyx]

Is there a proccess / method of porting an existing Arma 3 Vehicle over to Reforger?

[sly bridge]

if you are the owner of said a3 vehicle, then there is a blender plugin that can sort of kind of do that, but it is advisable to redo the model + textures specifically for reforger

it is a different workflow

[tribal onyx]

I am yeah, I have seen Reforger doesn't use RVMats now does it?

Where can I find the plugin as well plz

[sly bridge]

#enfusion_blender_tools seem it on the biki, you’ll need to do a search but don’t expect proper results with it

[cold rune]

Iv seem to of run into another problem XD, The pickup action is showing but its saying its too heavy even tho iv turned the weight down

oops nvm just found out why

was on scaler and not manual

[tacit eagle]

Anyone know how I can change the origin of my tac-vest model so it actually sits on the character and not just floating above?

[delicate condor]

is it weighted properly?

blender has a set origin tool

[covert eagle]

is there a write up or something on how to add collision to your model? sorry for ignorance still learning

I have the model in to the world im making but walk right through walls lol

[tacit eagle]

The origin looks correct in blender, but as soon as I add it into the game world it's a mile away when I equip. Very strange

[delicate condor]

is the scale and rotation also applied

[lyric hedge]

Palm Trees 🙂

[astral hull]

I can help you later tonight when I get home

[tacit eagle]

It all looks correct to me, everything has been applied so I think maybe it's an export issue. I made progress at least, now it's on my feet 😂

[delicate condor]

you may need to check your uv mapping though. the leaves seem broken

[tacit eagle]

thats me irl

[covert eagle]

oh awesome okay just let me know

[lyric hedge]

yea the textures are not correct will fix

[surreal ore]

@tacit eagle

[lyric hedge]

also still need to add colliders

[feral oar]

looking for someone to make my unit a personal body Armour and belt with pouches

will pay good money for it

DM me for more info if you're interested

[dusty plume]

#creators_recruiting

[last parcel]

closing in on that good texturing on the building

[zenith quartz]

Lighting feels off on the inside.

Looks good though. Love the paint on the walls.

[last parcel]

still missing the portal to make light pass through more natural so hopefully after that is done it works better, but thanks 🙂

[zenith quartz]

👍makes sense!

[covert eagle]

ready when you are I feel like im 90% there just the part of making it where enfusion recognizes it

[tacit eagle]

Apologies for the silly questions but where do I find those options? I appreciate the help

[surreal ore]

in the xob Import settings

open your xob, click import settings

[tacit eagle]

Awesome, thanks!

[surreal ore]

No worries

[astral hull]

Look at your dms

[slim knoll]

Is there a way to export embeded textures from blender into Enfusion?

[sand pagoda]

try to add some dirt/leaks to outside walls using VFX mask

[sly bridge]

unlikely - also i thought that is an fbx feature

[tacit eagle]

There's an option to embed textures when you export the fbx, though I'm not sure on the best path mode to use. I'm pretty new so I haven't figure it out, but maybe that'll help

[slim knoll]

Tried

Doesnt work..

[tacit eagle]

It's tricky, I use substance painter as I couldn't get it to work straight from blender. Have you tried this?: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0BfD3Ri8L0

[slim knoll]

The model I have is missing the seperate texture PNGs. They are just in the Blender. I do not know how to get the PNGS

[calm karma]

Go to the material in blender and expand the texture option that has the file in it. Should be an option to unpack the file which essentially exports it to an external file

[delicate condor]

Where is the model from?

[slim knoll]

https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/low-poly-m16a4-remade-from-scratch-ccfef9f2093c46ba95e71d4a0f417c74

[cold rune]

Anyone know a way to rotate a item image/icon in the inventory?

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/975868702174101544/1102594171140833290/Capture1.PNG

[shell hedge]

in the inventory component there should be a preview render attribute that has settings for it

[cold rune]

Thanks, messing around with it now. is there a way to mess with the setting live? or is it tweek load, tweak load repeat?

[shell hedge]

actually for me it's tweak and restart world editor because I forgot how to clear the cache

[cold rune]

Thanks another thing i was trying to understand hopfully you know, was stacking items on top of each other, say i have 1 gold bar but want it to stack to 10 in my inventory and not 15 how would i go about changing that

[shell hedge]

write a script that won't allow the player to pick up more than 10 gold bars at a time

[shell hedge]

those are product photos you can't fool me

[cold rune]

Would scripting be the only way to do something like that im not that savy with writing scripts?

[shell hedge]

I don't know of a built-in functionality to limit amount of particular item in inventory (outside of just fiddling with weight but that's not as reliable) so I would try script

[cold rune]

ok thanks will have to look at it, cant be to hard

[quiet fog]

good lord how are you guys so good with this? 😄

[delicate condor]

Practise practise practise and then ||practise||

[stray bridge]

+1

[last parcel]

Added an VFX dirt map, looks slightly better, and still got issues with portals making the workbench crash :S

[shell hedge]

you've done a great job on this

are the details on the dials/knobs/whatever baked from hp or painted later?

[sly bridge]

if geo then baked if planar then textured :))

[covert dune]

Btw I've been meaning to ask, did you follow any guides or bought tutorials to get a workflow down for such results ? Or is it all self taught ? I respect the stuff you post here and as someone who's struggling I'd love to know. 🥴

[sand pagoda]

why front part have 4 times more polys then rear

[sly bridge]

it's pretty much the same, i have just removed some of these chamfers. i'll see if i can reduce some things further, while keeping the ADS picture jagged free

[sly bridge]

not in a long while, nope. Just a lot of real steal refs, and just try not to overdo it when texturing. For modelling things are pretty straight forwards anyways, but i have been doing this for a long while now.

[covert dune]

Do you think it'd be wise to get some payed courses though ? I never did so and always taught things to myself, while also feeling like I'm severely lacking compared to others. As if I'm missing out and buying courses is conventional.

[delicate condor]

a course can have 50/50 chance to be useful or not.

there probably are useful ones out there too

but there is also a lot of information about this stuff out there in free tutorials and guides and articles

[daring condor]

https://vinylobscura.notion.site/Fundamentals-of-Texturing-89adcc7e19174342b6fbc5f994a7192f

this is not a tutorial

but i think its a decent guide

[tacit eagle]

what is la texture size?

[sly bridge]

2k

[covert dune]

Oh I meant for modelling actually, should've specified sorry. 😅
I'll bookmark this for the inevitable though, thanks.

I often find that I do things vastly different and often less efficient than most people. They all work with these industry standard workflows where everything is neat and shiny, whereas with me it all feels clunky and totally wrong. So I keep searching for a workflow to grasp and go by, I just can't really find it. I'm sort of getting by and making okay-ish models, but in the end I realize it could've been much easier, more optimized etc. if I would've simply known how.
I have a lot of ideas for models I'd love to realize, especially for Reforger, but it often fails due to lack of know-how, aside from the very basics of 3D Art.

[sly bridge]

nope, or the vast generic courses you can buy have some sort of similar alternative on youtube, with very few exceptions

i think everyone needs to go through some fundamentals first.
Any sort of small prop thing (boxes, scopes, suppressors etc) are a great thing to try and improve your skills

[daring condor]

or stuff you have lying around irl

[sly bridge]

when it comes to modeling, although i am aware these days you can easily make game ready models in more ways than back in 2003/4 when i got properly into 3ds max, everyone would ideally know how to work with subd, opensub etc - things that are software agnostic anyways. If you don’t know how things can be quickly subdivided in quads, then that’s one thing to work on for instance

anyhow, i could give you some very generic feedback and pointers, but i would rather post it here, maybe someone else can use that info too

the purpose of this channel is to provide your models for feedback as well, so make use of it

[covert dune]

I currently don't have anything to receive feedback for, but the coffee cup on my desk could be something to thing to try I suppose. I think I get it though. Before I mess around with trying to understand things from a reference picture, being secure with my skills by simply modelling things I can easily measure sounds like a plan.
Nonetheless, if there's any helpful links, I'd appreciate those of course. 🙏

[thin radish]

im trying to make a tree, but when i import it i can walk though it. im new to this

how do i make it solid?

trying add collision to my tree

[tacit eagle]

toob

[tacit eagle]

Spud gun

[slim knoll]

Are you modelllng in blender?

[thin radish]

Yeab

[slim knoll]

Do you have the Blender addon "Enfusion" installed?

[slim knoll]

If not.. https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Arma_Reforger:Enfusion_Blender_Tools

Download it and then Ping me.

Or message me in PMs, your discretion

[fathom bolt]

Fusion 360 ?

[sly bridge]

3ds max OpenSubDiv

[fathom bolt]

Nice

[agile crater]

amazing Scar H 🙂

[zenith quartz]

TOP NOTCH stuff!

[shut bloom]

So I got a weird problem with the Blender tools if I try to setup the collider the Surface works fine but as soon as I want tho choose a layer the Mesh vanishes.

[sly bridge]

#enfusion_blender_tools

[zenith quartz]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/176680739314597889/1103133163791847504/image.png

Some ironsights, finally.

Not the ones I wanted to do but the 2020 AK-12 ones won't work with this rail, and I'd like more reference to come out for the newest AK-12M1 ones.

[prisma delta]

Is it alright if I add you and send a message regarding modeling? I tried posting it here but it was so long it pushed Avery's post off the page lol.

[covert dune]

Sure, no problem. 👍

[sly bridge]

considering the amount of tubes you have produces already (is any sort of RPG missing?) i am waiting to see some of these tubes baked and textured :))

[tacit eagle]

yes

half

i still need to make 😭

[sly bridge]

what are the models already done if you don't minds me asking

or what is the full list of what you are trying to achieve

[sly bridge]

https://tenor.com/view/tiny-text-cant-see-ken-jeong-gif-5957945

[sly bridge]

so besides the obvious why (answered with why not) don't you feel like actually texturing and injecting any of these would do you some good? Honestly i think i would blow my own knee cap if i had to model cylinder after cylinder after cylinder of similar looking RPGs

[shell hedge]

hmm something about pressuring people / requests

don't remember how the usual message goes

[sly bridge]

Not sure if you are trolling or actually serious. does it look like i was pressuring anyone or requesting anything, but i honestly don't find it funny
Unlike most gamepad jockeys requesting stuff, i can surely make my own tubes if i want to.

[glossy lynx]

It seemed to me like you were pushing him to release stuff

[shut bloom]

well still gives you a taste of your own medicin funny how you are now pissed that someone called you out kekw

[sly bridge]

surely not pissed, is fine, point taken. enjoy. btw, injection <> releasing

[leaden trench]

If I understood Nyu correctly, his plan is to sell all the launchers for $5 a pop on some hypothetical Arma 4 DLC store that may never exist. But I may have misinterpreted. Is this it Nyu?

[fathom elbow]

not putting 1 model to completion means, you wont learn for the next modell... for example detail being so shallow, that it would be near invisible on normal, and therefore "smart texturing" will not produce good results either

[woven swallow]

Back to my country style church. any inputs ?
No window cut outs yet.

[burnt thunder]

Looks really good, reminds me of the church by my home

[delicate condor]

moody. it has seen things.

[tacit eagle]

paint your church <:^)

[woven swallow]

I have plans on making houses and many more structures but American country style.
one of my reference.

testing textures for the floor

[tacit eagle]

you should make it when you enter you have to pay a "donation"

you use real images for the floor?

[woven swallow]

I use Quixel mixer or I buy textures from poligon

Still gotta do the cut outs and position the windows in place.

[cold rune]

Does anyone know why my head Gear is not following the player around and seems to be floating and faced the wrong way?

i think my bones are not set up right but they should be

[iron brook]

looks like its not skinned to any bones.

[surreal ore]

Yeah, nothing is weighted to any bone

[cold rune]

ahh ok thanks i was following this video https://youtu.be/8o3WnGLIQ_4?t=323 but he never included the arma3 sample head gear.

[surreal ore]

@cold rune Download the samples from github

[cold rune]

Thank you

[surreal ore]

@cold rune If you look into my character mod you could separate that into separate pieces

[tacit eagle]

I'm struggling to get my vest attachments to stay in place, is there a particular way to rig them? I tried to follow the Bohemia example file and use the weight paints etc. but it all flies away still

[surreal ore]

images

need to see what you mean by all of that

[tacit eagle]

I assume it's something really simple I'm missing, I had it working at one point

[surreal ore]

It's not weighted correctly

[harsh oriole]

Maybe anyone can help me out why my collider is not working ingame (player can walk through):
..beeing a little bit stucked

[iron brook]

do the colliders import? How does it look in enfusion?

[glossy lake]

I'm trying to setup some scale reference meshes in Blender. What units should I be using? For example a vehicle wheel has a radius of "0.4" in workbench. I'm assuming it's in metres but I want to be sure before I start putting too much time in.

[delicate condor]

1 unit in blender is 1 meter in game

[glossy lake]

Thanks that's perfect.

[delicate condor]

easiest if you set the scene to use metrics

[delicate condor]

all edits need to be done in edit mode or scale/roation applied in blender prior to export

[iron brook]

Looks good i think, how does the entity look when you place it in the world. You got RigidBody on it right?

[harsh oriole]

...wait will check entity

[last parcel]

you are missing a rigidbody

press + add componet and add a rigid body

then scroll down and check on model geometry and static

[harsh oriole]

ahh thx

working ^^

[tacit eagle]

Hello everyone, I have a question. I am looking to animate my trees, to give them the wind effect. But I am unsure of how to go about it in blender, to export it to enfusion.

[delicate condor]

you could check how its set up in the vanilla trees in the workbench

[tacit eagle]

Okay ill check it out again. But do you add animation from blender, or is it done in enfusion anim?

[surreal ore]

That's all material related iirc

yep

[tacit eagle]

I'm so stupid.. It was under tree crown in materials..

[surreal ore]

Your prefab should also be class Tree

with rigid body and meshobject

[tacit eagle]

Yes, i have it as class tree, and rigid body, and meshobject. I added the simple colliders in blender. I just been bashing my head on my desk trying to figure it out the past few days. lol

[tacit eagle]

Went back through and weighted it properly. Is there a way to stop the arms clipping? I'm happy with it if not, or I could drop some of the pouches

[shell hedge]

not really, its just 3d meshes moving around

[tacit eagle]

Ah ok, I'll just mess with the size to make it less noticeable

[tacit eagle]

Managed to finish it, though the textures are really washed out for some reason

[glossy lynx]

Maybe change your textures from linear to rgb

Make sure you have the _BCR suffix

[spice topaz]

Jungle map?

👀

[tacit eagle]

That was exactly the issue, thanks

[iron galleon]

did they remove the arsenal spawn files ?

[stray bridge]

hey bois, do any of you know a way Items dont collide with e.g trees or bushes?
Is it depending on just the size of the item?

[surreal ore]

It has to do with the layers the rigidbody interacts with

[slender yew]

More than question of possibility than a question on how to do something

Would you think it’s possible to see the implantation of Star Wars, halo, war hammer, etc etc models

and equipment

[misty solstice]

Some can’t due to IP reasoning others you can but need to be done in certain ways like everything from pure Scratch

[delicate condor]

All someone elses IP use start from what kind of licenses that IP has and even if a permission to use some IP is obtained or publicly announced all models and textures and whatnot has to be self made. Nothing can be taken from other games.
Out of your examples StarWars is owned by Disney and there is very strict licensing on that which prevents its use on other than Disney platforms. One would have to obtain a persmission to use it separately.
Halo on the other hand enjoys a very lenient licensing and fan work is allowed to be made and even encouraged (as long as again work is self made all the way)
For Warhammer GW is generally been ok with self made material but mods with ripped assets get usually hammered down on hard and often can bring down fire on legit mods too. In GWs case I would ask what kind of "this is unofficial stuff" clause they like you to add to your fan work

[astral hull]

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

[glacial helm]

Any advice on how to create patches?

[tacit eagle]

Do you use Substance software? It's very easy if so

[glacial helm]

Not really. We've recently started using the tools, we've managed to retexture a uniform and we can also retexture already existing patches, but we have a rounded one we would like to create, i don't know if it's possible through the editor.

[tacit eagle]

Ah ok, sorry I can't help in that case. Hope you find your answer

[tacit eagle]

Yes, I am working on a jungle map.

[spice topaz]

https://tenor.com/view/leonardo-dicaprio-clapping-clap-applause-amazing-gif-16384995

[tacit eagle]

I had to go back and redo my colliders. I just now got 4 done. On to the 60 other trees. lol

[spice topaz]

You doing a veitnam them or something different

[tacit eagle]

Something different

[sly bridge]

wrong channel - read description

[stray bridge]

Not new to me

[thorny hollow]

Messing around with procedural

[lethal frigate]

Holy smoke man if you work on this this can be crazy good

Imagine procedural maps

[tacit eagle]

we already have procedural maps.

blender, gaea, world creator and few other exist

I also dont think geonode buildings are practical. example those walls would be done in the terrain editor

and you could make a number of buildings doing them by hand.

[woven swallow]

everyone is making cool shit and here I am making structures

[thorny hollow]

this IS cool

[delicate condor]

👆 what SoLo said

[woven swallow]

haha thank you guys! Still working on that old Church. learning the proper pipeline. after this I hope to make more structures faster and better. plus I got distracted for a couple of weeks with something else.

[delicate condor]

spicy! 👍

[thorny hollow]

I worked on the framework, there are 4 other bp like that one, all modular, for structure, stairs, road layout (not tought for arma), and yes the "pretty" stuff have to come, but first my next inferno is internal distribution

[woven swallow]

Inputs?

[delicate condor]

will there be any beams on the corners?

the wall frames only slightly touch right now at the corners

[woven swallow]

this is the inside frame of the church.

[delicate condor]

aa right 👍

[woven swallow]

I wasn't gonna let players to get up there but that makes it a boring church lol

[delicate condor]

accessibility is always great

[woven swallow]

yeah

[delicate condor]

also you could make the bell ringable

[woven swallow]

that would be epic

I also have plans to add spider webs

door access

[long fossil]

any ideas on why my mesh looks like this when imported into the workbench?

[delicate condor]

bad normals maybe

or faces pointing wrong directions

where is it made in?

[sly bridge]

did you make that? if answer is yes, what did you export it with/from

[woven swallow]

Flipped normals 🙃

[glossy lynx]

Try to clear any custom split normal data
It's done in the mesh tab in blender

[delicate condor]

oh could be vertex colors too

[sly bridge]

it isn’t, but it is not model makers related with an emphasis on makers either.

wrong #channel, please read description/ pinned

[tacit eagle]

debating on using my textures at 8k. is that above the limit of what the xbox can handle?

[delicate condor]

usually that is just waste of resources

people gaming in 4K might get something out of it or it would just eat their framerate too

it would most likely also mipmap very aggressively

[leaden trench]

Add up the file sizes of all the .edds files in a model's data folder; this is how much VRAM the model's textures will consume. The weapons in the game are looking pretty nice with less than 30MB. 8k textures will use 100s of Megabytes. Don't worry about Xbox; Series S has 10GB VRAM while most PC users are on 8GB. If you need more detail, use masks with Multi shader and decals

[sly bridge]

have you even tested 8k ingame?

[sly bridge]

that is shared vram afaik, not dedicated

[woven swallow]

4096X4096 for a gun should be good enough.

[tacit eagle]

me joking :C

because xboxs cant handle such demanding content

[woven swallow]

lol

[shell hedge]

sure it can

[tacit eagle]

pain 😦

[shell hedge]

especially since at least series s (the weaker one) will default to the second mip level, which cuts resolution in half

I think my m4 has four 2k textures and it runs fine

[tacit eagle]

all the MGs have 3

[frigid wedge]

Is paper no longer a working collider? Had an object that would allow bullet holes with a paper collider now after the patch there are no holes

[frigid wedge]

Probably wouldn't anyway as anyone using the gun is likely to spend more time looking down the optic than at the gun itself and people passing with it likely wouldn't be close enough for it to matter.

[tacit eagle]

@shell hedge FYI.... When I run RIS laser attachments, Suppressor System, and M4A1 Block II and URG-1 on my server I get this error. Remove them from the json, and no issues.

09:09:33.717 rpl::Pip::ProcessNetToGame
09:09:33.717  RPL       (E): IReplication::JIPError: Inconsistent item table on Slave connection. Item is missing or different item was loaded in its place. (con=0x0)
09:09:33.751 rpl::Pip::ProcessNetToGame
09:09:33.751  RPL       (E): IReplication::JIPError: Terminating connection. (identity=0x00000000)
09:09:33.751  DEFAULT      : BattlEye Server: Disconnect player identity=0x00000000
09:09:33.751  DEFAULT      : BattlEye Server: 'Player #0 Blackheart_Six disconnected'
09:09:33.752 BACKEND   (W): REMOVE PLAYER - was not authenticated !!! [-1]
09:09:33.759 NETWORK      : Player disconnected: connectionID=0
09:09:33.759 NETWORK      : Total number of players: 0

[shell hedge]

thanks but the log doesn't say anything about the mod, also why is this in the model makers channel?

[tacit eagle]

@soft pawn ok....well of the hundred channels on this discord, this seem the best. Thanks.

[sly bridge]

it isn't, please use the appropriate channels (either author's post in #1049297536617291827 if available or #enf_mods_feedback )

[frigid wedge]

Does anyone know how to fix this error when importing from blender?

  MATERIAL  (E): Object @"Prefabs/TestItems/item.xob" - cannot create material @"Prefabs/TestItems/data/Material.emat" for creation flags 0xA00, using default (class MatPBRBasic)```

[frigid wedge]

Getting the following error on importing my vehicle model and adjusting the actionmanager slots Any ideas?

[astral hull]

Rename materials on blender

And make sure they are actually assigned to the mesh

[frigid wedge]

Thanks I'll do that. Unrelated follow up question, can FBX files be deleted from the mission set once xob's are created?

[astral hull]

Yes

[astral hull]

Does it have rigid body component

[frigid wedge]

Yeah, I was building it off of the deuce and a half model

[fossil veldt]

thank you, this random file from 3 months ago saved my project

[bleak depot]

i have this issue when i load my 3d model into reforger. This come from my BOXVOL_01 (is a building)

[tacit eagle]

hmm try resetting the location, rotation and scale in object mode

[bleak depot]

i work with maya. but the BOXVOL_01 is in all value 0

[versed escarp]

Structures are just as needed as the rest. And not many people put the time in on them.

[sly bridge]

:)) why isn’t this cool shit

[woven swallow]

I was just saying 🙃

[tacit eagle]

what is this? barnacle man?

[proven finch]

?

[autumn ledge]

The flesh that hates SCP?!

[stray bridge]

how my parents describe their way to school

[chrome steeple]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tTHn2tHhcI

[vague wind]

thats either gotta be a flood model or a new corpse type

[plush shard]

corpse

[covert dune]

Oh damn, the czech Mosin 👀

Very nice

[shell hedge]

looks real nice, yeah

[bleak depot]

anyone has the same issue after import the model? Warning - "Cannot load preset settings file "$profile:ResourceViewerPresets/"

[fringe cradle]

Anyone had this problems after re-importing model in enfusion? Its first time actually happening, cannot find the problem

[stray bridge]

fliped normals?

how does the 3d model look like, not in the game?

[stray bridge]

you checked your normals?

did you mirror anything?

[fringe cradle]

totally normal, they are even normal when imported, they get that problematic after reimport for bones and rest

let me check normals, i guess they are totally okay

nothing mirrored all done by hand

All normals are okay

just checked

here it is just imported, without reimport option

all normal, model looks totally fine

after reimporting again, same problems, I am kinda lost soo if anyone knows whats the problem, I would be more than glad to accept help. Topology is done allright, all fine, and it just simply starts to go crazy, will try with my other models too

I see that after reimport , engine just created some engons , hmm maybe any lead to problem

[tacit eagle]

did you tri the faces?

[fringe cradle]

myself in modelling program yes

[tacit eagle]

maybe you have some hidden geometry inside

[fringe cradle]

hmm cant be, i have checked that 3 times already, will see to check again

testing right now different modle

model

now model is just imported into enfusion and all looks fine

lets see with reimport

these are settings in enfusion

same thing

deormations and merging my traiangulation into engons

the thing is, I have been making models and importing them without problem till now haha, my helmets just doesnt wanna work

[tacit eagle]

what does merge meshes do?

[fringe cradle]

tried with and without, no changes 😦

[calm rune]

After you figure it out I'd recommend lowering the polycount on that strap. Pretty dense.

[fringe cradle]

yeah yeah, this is just a test phase

[covert dune]

Wasn't there an issue if you import small things that the engine merges some vertices together ? I remember some people imported an upscaled version and downscaled it in the engine.

I could be wrong, but I remember something like that faintly.

[fringe cradle]

huh didnt think about that

[tacit eagle]

tubers almost ready for texturing 😦

45k

[fringe cradle]

when enabling this, thats what makes problem, but without that, bones are not applied to model

[fringe cradle]

looks good

[fringe cradle]

still fighting with this... At the end, it didnt touch my trinagl's

it only got some of the vertexes higher than others

and at the end, I dont know why

[tacit eagle]

when real cz pistolí like cz 99?

[rancid silo]

Did you mean Zastava CZ99?

CZ - "Crvena Zastava" no "Česka Zbrojovka"

[tacit eagle]

what if Česka Zastava?

[autumn ledge]

What in Gods holy name is that?!

[tacit eagle]

its the tubes taking over

he who has the most tubes rules the world

[rancid silo]

https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pancéřovka_27 I wrote on wiki

Again "i wrote"

[autumn ledge]

Thank you for the information and good read

[rancid silo]

But only in czech .

[autumn ledge]

Good thing Google can translate (somewhat)

[tacit eagle]

I can read it

[surreal ore]

Proper bolt cycle animation?

[leaden trench]

The projection on the wood grain pattern is a bit funky. Check at the rear of the stock; the pattern on the side has vertical lines perpendicular to the lines on the top.

[rancid silo]

And normal language.

[rancid silo]

And lines is ok, this not airsoft rifle 😉 From year 1940 is used plywood and no wood

Sorry wood is too dark on foto (60 years service in Ethiopia 😄 ).

[leaden trench]

This part confuses me. The lines don't match your photo. But if you are happy with it, then whatever.

[tacit eagle]

man just remove that ugly red color

make it a gold redish color

[calm rune]

I use to fall victim to not being able to accept good constructive criticism. I slowly overcame it and because of it my work became that much better. It’s the small things like Steve pointed out that will separate you from 90% of other modders. I still do this as a hobby but because I try to make my work as accurate as possible I’ve even had studios like Void Interactive(Ready Or Not game)reach out to me for freelance work.

[leaden trench]

I'm probably not always the best critic. I can be somewhat harsh and abrasive; not intentionally just bad at writing and lazy to find kinder words.

[tacit eagle]

nothing wrong. I hate all the sugar. like when I see sci fi boxes with about a billion features and cut operations it just looks dumb, I call it out when I see it.

[magic mirage]

Is there an easy way to re-scale a collider box inside Workbench without going back into blender and re-exporting the whole FBX?

[delicate condor]

Im gonna guess no, such things usually are done in the source material

[rancid silo]

And? 😄 this model is me and old 10 years 😄 . This same model use IFA3, RHS and more 😆 , i use this model for test now . I work with ArmA 20 years.

[calm rune]

The model 😆 is fine 😄 the textures 😧 are lacking realism 😫

[rancid silo]

How many this weapons do you have?

[calm rune]

Models? None. Real life, 2 shotguns and 3 rifles.

[rancid silo]

Again how many THIS weapons do you have

[calm rune]

not sure how that is relevant though.

Nobody needs to own a rifle to know how wood grain works.

[rancid silo]

it is . Last year i repair and clean 100 Kar98k from last WW2 production and czechoslovak 1945 production