enfusion_model

[rancid silo]

THIS NOT WOOD!! BUT PLYWOOD!!

Therefore i wrote how many this weapons do you have.

[calm rune]

Show me a plywood stock where the grain stops then continues in a completely opposite direction.

[rancid silo]

What. Still do know what do you write.

[calm rune]

You do not even understand me so I am not going to continue this lol.

[rancid silo]

😉 this same i wantet write. But you write as Kid. If you have problem is problem make picture with problem?

[calm rune]

https://tenor.com/view/huh-rabbit-cute-gif-15676652

[rancid silo]

I am 40 years old. I love pictures 😄

[calm rune]

Thank you for showing a picture that proves my point lol

Anyway.

[rancid silo]

I know what do you mean. 😉

But when do you have problem is more better send pictures.

And again. It is only test 😀 . Textures etc. is from A3 old model.

[pure kayak]

petrlacht being petrlacht as usual it seems

[eager hill]

I'll just leave this here. https://80.lv/articles/sks-hard-surface-texturing-in-weapons-art/

[sand pagoda]

plywood might have different direction of grains. BUT only on different layers

but in this case, stock has wrong "layering". it should match form of the stock

[sand pagoda]

it can be easily fixed by using Simon's guide above^

[shell hedge]

I love the stripes trick

[calm rune]

Exactly. The texture on that rifle doesn’t look like a plywood stock at all. Doesn’t show any layering.

[sand pagoda]

it does show layering, but with some bugs

[calm rune]

I don’t see it.

[rancid silo]

😄 this not this same wood

😄 😄

kids

🤣

[rancid silo]

YOU KNOW READ? ME NAME IS PETRTLACH

[vague wind]

Rename this guy petrlacht

[rancid silo]

SKS wood is another as Kar98k wood. Another layers in plywood 😉

[rancid silo]

Why do you have still problem? I wrote "it is only test". I test port and this is 10 years old models. 😀

[calm rune]

Sorry guy but I do not understand your broken English and you clearly do not understand me so this discussion is over.

[rancid silo]

How many mods or models you released in ArmA series?

[rancid silo]

If Do you have problem with me EN, dont react!

SKS and K98k use anothe plywood

[rancid silo]

How many kar 98k do you have at home? SKS use plywood with changeover layes (therefore dark and lights layers). Kar98 use direct layers and dark is only glue 😉

[sand pagoda]

not enough to judge about how layers work probably

[rancid silo]

But why you send about SKS?

[sand pagoda]

because you can apply same method on kar98 ?

even though it has slightly different layering, you still can apply same method to avoid weird pattern behaviour

[rancid silo]

It is only about scale layer 😉 and i wrote ,it is only test for model.

This is original production. Think Brno

[eager hill]

Don't bother. You're wasting your time on a person that can't accept constructive criticism

[sand pagoda]

no, dont start this

[rancid silo]

But i this know. I just don't understand that they are insulting me here.

This channel is about model 😉 texturing is another level and another channel

[sand pagoda]

this channel is about assets i guess :)

texture is about procedural stuff

[rancid silo]

Nop. This is about models 😉

[sand pagoda]

as you wish, sir

[rancid silo]

yes.

[grizzled pivot]

Where’s PUFU when you need him

[tacit eagle]

why?

[rancid silo]

About me 😄 Pufu (about IFA3, RHS etc.) 🙂 another work is when people make mod and singl addon with one model. RHS use me SA61, Kar98k, F1 etc. IFA3 use me more models too.

[versed escarp]

https://tenor.com/view/arnold-schwarzenegger-looking-bc-peep-gif-12672555

[tacit eagle]

is milkman also pizzaman and plumber?

[rancid silo]

And this made only layers scale 😉

[versed escarp]

Nope. I only handle milk and occasionally pop in to make sure everyone is acting civil.

[rancid silo]

@calm rune Do you mean layers with glue?

[tacit eagle]

the glue is not gonna be seen since they compress the layers together so tightly

[rancid silo]

nop, red line is glue.

[tacit eagle]

and when they shape the stock on shaper lathe it will look even better

[rancid silo]

What?

[calm rune]

Im not talking about that. Im talking about here.

[rancid silo]

Still not know what do you mean. Really.

[rancid silo]

This layers or what do you mean?

[delicate condor]

As far as I can understand they mean these parts.
Now this conversation is likely now run through all its constructive parts and much over to the non constructive passive aggressive shit so lets conclude this and move forward to other model making related matters.

be better people. thanks.

[rancid silo]

edge?

[delicate condor]

doesn look like that to me but in anycase, I dont think there is point continuing this further.

[rancid silo]

i use another camera position

[delicate condor]

that makes more sense then. Case concluded. Now in the future, lets keep the chat respectful for one another even if its sometimes difficult to understand what someone else says or means.

[rancid silo]

Tnaks mate. I now know what people mean.

[sly bridge]

what?
some people want feedback, some don’t. Both is fine, as long as it all done in a civil manner (expect feedback if you post here either way)

[bleak depot]

I create a house and i have a probe, LOD0, UTM_collidor, and Portal with socket. but when i import the model in workbench, i have a workbench crash. i import without UTM_collidor, my game running. any idea?

[tacit eagle]

doesnt the collider need have volume?

[bleak depot]

yeah, BOXVOL_01

[tacit eagle]

no the mesh itself

[bleak depot]

what you mean with collider and volume?

with "Force Create Portal" worked... i dont know why...

[bleak depot]

ah no... my prob isnt working ingame.. i dont know why.

[rancid silo]

Quick test

Original before port

[surreal ore]

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

You've overlooked something.

[vocal forge]

Is there an MD reforger sample avatar uploaded anywhere?

[delicate condor]

pinned messages

[vocal forge]

Sorry if I'm missing it but I don't see anything like that pinned, just collider meshes. I know of the sample mods on github but I don't think that's exactly what I'm looking for

[delicate condor]

What exactly are you looking for then?

[vocal forge]

I guess a reforger body set up for use in marvelous designer with arrangement points placed etc.

[delicate condor]

Ah no such things are not ready made.

[vocal forge]

Gotcha, thank you

[rancid silo]

Setting for SP, export materials.

😉

[bleak depot]

Yeah but doesn’t work. Look at the last post from me. Worked only with force to portals. I dont know why. But Probe worked

[calm rune]

#enfusion_blender_tools message

I just import the one from the blend file into MD.

[vocal forge]

Ah okay I was doing the same except I set the scale to 1000 when importing just now and the boundings/arrangement points added automatically

Dude's got a nasty nipple injury btw

[rancid silo]

Scale 1:1 in 3d

[vocal forge]

Incase any aspiring marvelous designers are looking for the same thing I was. Someone more experienced might wanna double check this to make sure I didn't fuck anything up though

[willow sage]

You have alpha opacity for BCR, or I'm wrong ?

[surreal ore]

If you're that bored I have a survival framework that would love some clothing to add to it's loot pool lol. Looks great btw

[plush shard]

sure man, drop me a dm

[vocal forge]

Running into clipping like this quite a bit in md. Any other way to go about fixing this than just grabbing the piece that's inside and kind of teasing it out?

[vocal forge]

Nvm. Just discovered layers

[tidal latch]

It should work if you would sort first, so collider is in collider section

as for your initial situation - there is glitch in EBT which will be fixed in upcoming versions

[willow sage]

One of RHS buddies encouraged me to Plasticity.

[blazing agate]

you guys make retopo by hand, or use zbrush for example?

[stray bridge]

rename the collection to "colliders" restart blender now try again, now it should work

sometimes if you dont restart it trys to sort it in and it just disappears, restart fixes that

[plush shard]

Retopo by hand

[plush shard]

Is it a stacked layer?

[vocal forge]

As in both patterns being on the same layer? Yeah

[plush shard]

symmetric pattern

[vocal forge]

Yeah

[plush shard]

if you pause the sim then double click on it an arrow should pop up pull it outwards a bit then try unpausing the sim

[calm rune]

Make sure your simulation is set to normal as well.

[vocal forge]

Starting to get the hang of it I think. Found a nice free resource of some crye gear that I've messed around with to try and recreate the marine BDUs from halo infinite on the right

Just need to figure out how to make kneepads

[calm rune]

Looking good!

[covert eagle]

is there any documentation for rigging and setting up a vehicle for ingame use

[glossy lynx]

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

[pure kayak]

would it be possible to straighten the arms on the reforger body to sculpt a uniform, rig it then move it back to the "Bent" position?

[delicate condor]

yes

animate the reference model pose to T-pose, model around it, weight the mesh to it, change pose back to the default pose

[tacit eagle]

Anyone know of any resources available on creating a ghillie suit? I've tried a few different methods and nothing is quite working out

how are you making them?

its like combination of making a tree and clothes. if you can do both you can make la ghillie

[tacit eagle]

Ah I see, I've been doing it wrong then. I've been trying to use the particle system in blender to make a physical ghillie mesh but it always leave way too much data

[tacit eagle]

its just billboard planes with alpha opacity

I think you can also make it double sided

[agile crater]

@vocal forge dont forget close meshs but its very nice work congrate

[vocal forge]

Thanks man

Still have to figure out how to make textures that don't look like ass

[agile crater]

lol

[tacit eagle]

That was my main issue with the flat planes not showing up in enfusion, I'll give that method a go. Thanks!

[versed escarp]

These light portal may be the death of me

[surreal ore]

@versed escarp Do you do any blender script writing?

[versed escarp]

No. Is that needed for the proper use of the portals? I just have it set up like the biki

[surreal ore]

no no, I just have a script laying around that might make things a little easier

[versed escarp]

Ah gotcha. Thanks.

[surreal ore]

I wrote a script a while back where i could select an empty and create an object at it's location

could be useful creating the planes for portals

[versed escarp]

Must be something dumb I’m missing because I can’t even get the entryway sockets to show when I import

[surreal ore]

I think i have a working example laying around

give me a sec

[versed escarp]

Sweet. That would be much appreciated

[surreal ore]

heres the sorted view

[last parcel]

Do you import with skinning on milkman ?

[surreal ore]

are you reimporting with skinning and such?

jinx

[last parcel]

[versed escarp]

Well now I’m not sure haha. I had to run out. But I’ll check and report back shortly 🤣
Thanks!

[versed escarp]

This is the setup in blender

[last parcel]

And when importing into the workbench ? Do you check on skinning?

[versed escarp]

Yea I gotta check that part out. I didn’t see where that option was but unfortunately as soon as I uploaded that pic I had to run back out again LOL. I’ll check when I get back

[versed escarp]

ok maybe im blind...where does it say import with skinning

[last parcel]

I can put up a picture in 30 mins.

[last parcel]

i think you may need to click on Generate BSP too to make portals fully work

[versed escarp]

Ahh. Ok. Ive done that. It crashes the workbench.

[last parcel]

yea, welcome to the world of portals i got the same issue

but if you just export with skinning then the sockets will show up atleast

[versed escarp]

LOL. Thanks. I thought it was something I was doing. I’ll give that a go and just proceed with the other models

[surreal ore]

what material do you have on the portal

[calm rune]

Addicting isn't it?

[vocal forge]

Man I've been doing nothing else for like 3 days lol

[tall plinth]

Gotta ask since I see it, but might we be seeing UNSC assets/uniforms or was the logo just placed on there for the fun of it?

[vocal forge]

They actually are UNSC things, with the exception of the 8-point cover I guess. I recreated the Marine BDU's from Infinite though only the arms are visible in game and I don't think UNSC uniforms are ever shown without armor covering the chest, so I improvised a bit. Also the ballcap is my attempt at making the hat that Cutter wears in Halo Wars

For reference this is the Marine model from Infinite (not mine)

Focusing on clothing right now, armor is gonna be a whole different ballgame

[tall plinth]

Understandable, keep it up can't wait for this tho

[calm rune]

You are learning quickly! I love it.

[vocal forge]

Gotta learn before MDs 30 day trial runs out lol

[willow sage]

Nah, you will probably run another trial. It's never end like this

[vague wind]

I'll just dm the question

[tacit eagle]

do you know about our lard and flavor? blender?

is MD buy and own or is it bend over and say AHHH?

[calm rune]

For every monthly payment you get a complementary bottle of K-Y

[tacit eagle]

yeah that you pay for 😦

[plush blaze]

yo guys, quick question, I want to try making new buildings for reforger, how would one even start ? Is Blender a good tool to use ?

[delicate condor]

Blender is a good tool for that

[plush blaze]

ok thanks

[tacit eagle]

I make 4k?

[vocal forge]

https://tenor.com/view/do-it-get-to-work-gif-21630516

[eager hill]

Have you used "smart" uv unwrapping?

[last hill]

That looks to me like hand unwrap. Smart isn't so smart. Or I just do it wrong.. 🤷

[eager hill]

Smart uwrap isn't smart and that's why I suspect it's been used here. It is known for creating a lot of tiny uv islands and that's exactly what we can see above. There is a lot of wasted spaces and some parts don't have uniform scale of the islands

[shell hedge]

relatively smart

[last hill]

I have never seen one that clean, those little islands are full components. The margins could be smaller and packed a bit better but if that is an auto unwrap, tell me the unwrapper because I want it.

[shell hedge]

tiny islands is a common theme in those

I don't think there's an auto unwrapper that will do everything correctly, thankfully you can use it on a selection of polygons and then adjust it

[calm rune]

ZenUV and Packmaster 3. Worth every damn penny.

[woven swallow]

I manually UV unwrap all my garbage..

I got really good at it by doing it manually

[topaz willow]

I have bones assigned to the parts needing to be animated, and they get imported into WB, but when testing, none of them move. I also notice w_bolt_end and w_trigger_end get added in WB for some reason

What could I be doing wrong? (Using vanilla AK74 anims, mixed with vanilla M16 mag reload anims)

I am able to grab the bone in both Blender and WB and move bolt mesh as well

[tidal latch]

https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Arma_Reforger:Weapon_Creation/Asset_Preparation#FBX_Export_Settings check export settings. You are adding leaf bones

Using vanilla weapon anims is not going to work very well unless bones or your weapon skeleton are located at same location

[topaz willow]

ohhhhhhhhhhh, I completely glanced over the "turned off" part and thought the highlight in red and exclamation points was meaning to turn it on lmao. That's on me for not reading

[topaz willow]

And I guess, since coming from DayZ modding weapons, using vanilla anims works, hand positions may just not line up the best.

Guess that's not the case with Reforger

[shell hedge]

I'm using vanilla anims for all my guns relatively successfully

[topaz willow]

hmmmm, I must be missing something still then, because it's still not animating 🤔

[shell hedge]

maybe something is up with the blender side of things, but I can't help you with that as I don't use blender

[topaz willow]

might be a weighting issue in Blender, I'll peak at it again

actually, shouldnt be a weighting issue

small difference I notice that I'm not sure if it matters or not, the vanilla AK74 bones (1st image) have everything, including the mem points, under w_root. My weapon (2nd image) has the mem points above the w_root, does that matter?

[delicate condor]

wrong bone hierarchy in your source perhaps

[topaz willow]

How would I go about fixing that?

[tacit eagle]

Do I have to add arms to things like tshirts? Or is there something I'm missing

[shell hedge]

There's a hide meshes thing in the cloth component where body meshes are setup to be hidden

[tacit eagle]

Ahhh, I knew there was a pesky setting I was missing. Thanks!

[bright raft]

I suggest UVPackmaster

[willow sage]

If you still facing a problem just try replacing mem points with bones, i know that is no official solution but it works.

[agile crater]

@tacit eagle no arms no chocolat

[tidal latch]

you can do it via relations if you want. It doesn't affect in game behavior but such setup is useful for creating animations in animation software like Blender https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Arma_Reforger:Weapon_Animation/Basic_Tutorial#Adding_magazine_to_the_Scene

[unreal sable]

Hello, I'm currently working on designing doors and I have a few queries and concerns that I hope you can help me with:

Should the door's animation be incorporated within the file itself or is it the responsibility of the Enfusion engine to manage the door's movement?
Is it necessary for me to create just one door and then situate it within a prefab?
Is the glass collider capable of responding to and simulating glass shattering upon impact?
Could you provide guidance on how to integrate door functionalities and actions within the Enfusion environment?
I apologize for the numerous questions. I find the existing wiki documentation to be quite nebulous and user-unfriendly. Unfortunately, there seems to be a lack of any instructive videos online pertaining to building creation in Enfusion. The learning curve has been steep, to say the least, and at times it feels rather exasperating.

Thank you for your time and assistance.

[covert dune]

I'd recommend looking into a prefab inside the workbench. There's a doorframe prefab, a door prefab, and a prefab with both combined. The door prefab carries the DoorComponent which handles which way it opens etc. (as far as I can see here), and the frame holds the DoorSlotComponent to attach the door prefab to the doorframe prefab in your new combined prefab. There's some other components aswell, but it seems pretty straight forward. 👍

[fluid jacinth]

Hello Comunity, I gave the prop creation a shot but have a problem wiht my geno not interacting with the player. He can walk right trough.
I sadly cant send pictures for some reason. It is a wooden shed.
In blender I have UBX_ colliders set to the preset BuildingFireView.
This also gets properly imported into the .xob there the objects habe the following Layer Presets:

BuildingFireView
TreeFireView

and the Interaction layers:
Static
FireGeometry
ViewGeometry
Navmesh
NavmeshVehicle

The origin seem to be a bit funcy could that be the problem?

Thanks for helping out

Could it be that I have to many coliders? I have 13 UBX boxes

[tidal latch]

From which prefab do you inherit?

[fluid jacinth]

Props Base and then I set the MeshObject

[tidal latch]

And is model geometry enabled In rigid body component?

[fluid jacinth]

Ahhh that could be the Problem thanks.
Should I use a difrent Base Prefab for Buildings?

[fluid jacinth]

Used building base now and it works 🙂

[fringe cradle]

anyone got shoes model so I can use it as reference on my reference body, so when making pants model, it doesnt overalp in game. To do it precise

[calm rune]

shoot house?

[buoyant nymph]

Yooooo

[summer sierra]

Yea

[turbid tendon]

Has anyone had issues with colliders on their object. I have them added and they pop up when i look into the .xob, however the object just floats and can be shot through in the world editor

[last parcel]

that's becuse you need add a rigid body

[turbid tendon]

Thank you so much!

[fringe cradle]

hey vergy, you got plenty experience with clothing, I got question , simply i have this problem, my clothing models are overlaping with boots , and I cannot find and proper presentation of boots model to fit it in 3d program so i can use ti as reference for height overall shape of boots. Any idea or tips on doing it right? Using MD for clothing

this is the problem

more than happy to take any tips

[calm rune]

You could use the boots that is attached the the character animation sample. That might work. Other then that a lot of it is just trial and error.

[fringe cradle]

you are genius

i will give a try

cuz doing a free hand "try" to fit its always horible ending 🥲

[woven swallow]

Enjoying this..

[sand pagoda]

just saying, that you use trim sheets for this kind of assets

[shell hedge]

is that just a fancy way of saying one texture for multiple objects?

[delicate condor]

Also such textures can be used through multimaterial

[shell hedge]

pbrmulti is the most fun part of workbench, fight me

[sand pagoda]

yes :)

[brisk timber]

are there any guides for getting geo to work in reforger?

[fluid jacinth]

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

[proven finch]

Is this license allowed to make mods from?

[delicate condor]

where is it at?

@proven finch

[proven finch]

CG Trader

[delicate condor]

well cant click the [i] so dunno

[proven finch]

https://www.cgtrader.com/3d-models/character/clothing/nbc-s10

Just wanted to make sure so I won’t have any problems

[delicate condor]

looks alright

[proven finch]

Ok, thank you for the check

[tacit eagle]

why no save the 20 and make it yo self 😦

[delicate condor]

One might need to spend more than 20$ worth of time to learn how to

[tacit eagle]

the life time of b learnt

[surreal ore]

One might also not want to learn how.

[willow sage]

Udemy times past by very quickly.

[shut bloom]

Question does someone have the Arma Reforger Character as a A pose or T pose making garmints for the one that is in the Samples is a bit tricky.

[sly bridge]

A pose should be in samples

[shut bloom]

but the one in samples has his Forearms twisted forward

[sly bridge]

There is one that is rigged, so you can adjust the pose as needed

[shut bloom]

yea ofcourse its possible but it causes unessesary problems xD

[plush shard]

what

[shut bloom]

I thought you were referencing to the question I posted sorry xD

[plush shard]

lmao

[shut bloom]

confusion 100

[plush shard]

it should just register in the sofware as A pose

[shut bloom]

yeah it works fine in Marvelous but the bend in the arms is not great because it creates folds that could be problematic later

[plush shard]

true you can move them with the rig provided in arma samples i think

[shut bloom]

problem is that the base Character mesh is not in there so you only have the basic clothing and I will probably start causing problems if I Parent the Body to the Rig

bit annoying ngl

[plush shard]

i feel ya

[shut bloom]

absolute pain xD

[shut bloom]

btw question do you use patterns if so where do you get them cant find any good patterns for clothing ?

[tacit eagle]

what kind of patterns

camo?

@shut bloom

[last hill]

Probably MD sewing patterns as they were discussing MD I believe

[shut bloom]

yes this

[calm rune]

How would it create problematic folds?

Unless you are extremely good at sculpting details then the A or T pose is horrible for clothing creation. The bent arms helps aid you in creating realistic folds. Not sure how any folds could be problematic. If anything it just adds realism to the clothing.

[heavy orchid]

Hey guys, any idea why this vehicle is importing with these messed up rainbow textures? The textures overwrite everything and there is no way to undo it. It looks fine in blender and substance painter, this only happens when importing into reforger

[tidal latch]

vertex color in model itself

[heavy orchid]

I'll check that out, thanks!

[delicate condor]

no using Forza models

[sly bridge]

where is that model from?

[agile crater]

Ripping start

[lethal frigate]

Is there a way to make neon tubes or somethung like that for modern skyscapers

Can it be just like one line or does it have to have some shape

[bleak depot]

Any idea why the model on the roof is brighter? This is not the case with the farmhouse...

is this a problem with the texture "AO" ?

found the solution

[last parcel]

what was the solution if i may ask ? got a similare problem with some of my buildings

[shut bloom]

first ever Garment

[delicate condor]

Sweet

👍

[last hill]

Is that in engine or just in MD so far (looks like MD at least)?

[leaden trench]

Emmisive materials emit specular light. For diffuse you can put a point light with a custom cookie to shape it.

[shut bloom]

Thats in marmoset baked and textured ready for ingame

[light vault]

@last parcel, @versed escarp Did you guys work out the issue for the workbench crashing when you reimport a model after checking the box for "Generate BSP"?

I'm trying to reimport a test model that I had made previously which had imported fine before with "Generate BSP" checked (this was before the latest update). But now workbench crashes when I'm trying to reimport the same model using "Generate BSP".

[calm rune]

If you use blender I would add a weighted normal to it to fix the shading issues.

[shut bloom]

no that was due to me being dumb and having the normals reversed since marmo uses Opengl and the thextures were in Direct X kekw

[faint scarab]

Awesome. When it's time to import in Enfusion could you tell me please how to rig and weigth paint it? Cause i'm following some tutorial but have always the same issue and I can't get out from that!

[shut bloom]

welp iam not doing the importing sadly so I couldnt tell you. but I think what we do is Weight transfer from the Reforger Character

[last parcel]

nop have not gotten it to work.

[calm rune]

#enfusion_blender_tools message

[light vault]

Thanks - I'll see what I can work out. Was definitely working for me before something changed

[woven swallow]

I spent a couple of minutes creating this painted wood with peeling off paint effect smart material.
Any Inputs?

[calm rune]

Looks fantastic. Only suggestion I could make is the edges is completely worn which makes it looks a little too procedural. If that could be broken up then I’d say perfect. That being said the user could go in a manually bring back the paint on the edges himself.

[woven swallow]

Yeah I could adjust that but normally the edges are like that due to weather and rain coming from above plus other factors like gravity, wood stretching with temperature changes I've looked at many references but yeah I created this material in 30 mins after messing around with grunges and generators in substance painter

https://tenor.com/view/sleep-time-gif-25989081

Tomorrow I'll tweak it a bit more but now time to hit the sack

Thanks for your input @calm rune

[knotty rapids]

does anyone know how i can make a collider for a helmet that moves with the characfter?

iam using ucx

[calm rune]

The collider will automatically move with the helmet. That being said there is no armour in game yet to my knowledge so the only collider needed would be for the ground model.

[knotty rapids]

i one time actually managed to have working armor but i forgot how 😮‍💨

[turbid tendon]

Has anyone dove into modding in weapons? Looking to see if their is a better tutoirla than the Wiki

[last hill]

Lot of folk have. I have, bacon has, river has, rhs have, shadow has. The tutorial on the wiki has more information now than it did when we all learnt how, start at the first one and work from there.

[calm rune]

How? I know for plate carriers, helmets, etc BI has not implemented ballistic armour yet.

[knotty rapids]

made it myself

[knotty rapids]

only problem know is that i cant keep it on body height

[cinder hornet]

hello, do you people have any documentation that i can use in regards to creating custom character models? thanks

[fathom bolt]

No but you can find the skeleton for it in tools. You need to have your character duplicate on itself cause one need basic textures and other one need wounded textures

You can check in workbench

Heads models are separate too

[bleak depot]

I have the same issue. I import it with force to portals or something. Then it’s okay 👍🏼

[surreal ore]

ive gotten armor to work as well with plates, but it's not convenient as to how it works

[knotty rapids]

what do you mean? I used custom game mats that represent the german armor classes

[calm rune]

Yeah ballistic armor is suppose to come in the Air Assault update but god knows when that is gonna drop now. So if anyone has working armor its not the way BI intended.

[knotty rapids]

i mean everything for working armor is in the engine atm

[calm rune]

For vehicles yes.

[knotty rapids]

same for clothing

[calm rune]

No. You can make colliders and assign the material but it doens't work.

[knotty rapids]

what do you mean?

[knotty rapids]

and?

you can make your own

[calm rune]

exactly. You can jerry rig something but it doesn't work the same way BI will impliment there own.

[knotty rapids]

i mean i dont think they use german armor classes but the rest should be similiar

[knotty rapids]

and you also have that

if i see smth wrong here im sorry

[surreal ore]

Did that actually work?

I did mine with attachable plates

[knotty rapids]

it did

but i forgot to what i parented it to

[knotty rapids]

thats why it now looks like this

dont mind the form of the plates tried tthis beccause i thought using two broke smth

[uneven vessel]

Very Lynch Dune Esque

[knotty rapids]

?

[knotty rapids]

ah

[knotty rapids]

btw the blue coll on the bottom is my plate collider

[surreal ore]

Oh you couldn't get it properly rigged

[knotty rapids]

exactly

i dont know what i did wrong

[surreal ore]

You have to read the docs about FBX importation

[knotty rapids]

i did xD

using ucx

but they never wrote about where to parent too i think

[surreal ore]

Yeah they explain how to do it

I think I tried it your way the first go around and could never get to parent correctly

[woeful hollow]

did you try to make a geometry fire add a "reinforcement" modifier and attach it to some body bone?

[knotty rapids]

i guess not because i never heard of a reinforcement mopdifier

but ill try that thank you

but a lot of modifiers make the collider invalid

[knotty rapids]

do i find this under the normal modifier tab in blender?

[woeful hollow]

yep

[knotty rapids]

this?

[woeful hollow]

yep

[knotty rapids]

not working unfortunately

[surreal ore]

That's not how colliders work

[knotty rapids]

i mean it works on their default vests somehow

[woeful hollow]

you can try to add a selection to the fire geometry object itself with a name similar to some kind of bone in the torso

[woeful hollow]

[woeful hollow]

It turns out that the helmet does not work in the game?

[knotty rapids]

i guess so

i mean they have a collider

[surreal ore]

im looking on the wiki, to find what i'm refering to and can't seem to find it now

[knotty rapids]

i know

i thought i read smth like that to but i dont find it anymore

[surreal ore]

colliders are "weighted" by Relations

though i don't see any mention in the wiki anymore

[knotty rapids]

it magically disappears

neveermind

didnt disappeared just got one nanometer big

[light vault]

Thanks @bleak depot. Yes, this does stop the workbench from crashing. Not sure what's happened with this - something must've changed. My previous models with light portals used to import correctly without using "Force Create Portals".

Also, another observation, it looks like importing models with box volumes (e.g. BOXVOL_01) for probe volume in Enfusion now get automatically managed on import? You used to have to assign "dummymaterial.emat" to the box volume material slot on the model, but that material slot doesn't seem to get created anymore, however, the probe volume does look like its working OK.

[bleak depot]

@light vault you need a dummymaterial.emat. BOXVOL_01 is active after import with material. but you need to change it with the vanilla one. not with yours. change it in "import settings" from model. i can see all my materials -> dummymaterial.emat and MatLightPortal.emat

But yeah, the BOXVOL_01 function is in Enfusion buggy... i dont know... maybe its a problem from alternative 3d software (Maya, 3ds max or so)

[knotty rapids]

it still doesnt work

but ill just wait until reforger release their vests

[surreal ore]

i've actually never been able to get that to work. My bear traps didn't have animated collision because it just never worked for me. Other people have been able to get it to work though. Maybe not for clothing but for other things.

[woeful hollow]

try use vanilla Vest_PASGT.xob

[knotty rapids]

i dont know how they parented it

[woeful hollow]

I mean that you should try to connect it as a model in your prefab.

Still, you need to check whether helmets work at all as a means of protection 😄

[surreal ore]

they don't

[calm rune]

They don’t because like I said earlier BI has not implemented ballistic protection yet.

[surreal ore]

We know they haven't, that's why I (i can't speak for anyone else) have done tests for my own implimentation.

[last hill]

In theory, the utm (triangulated collider) says it can be skinned to a bone like a piece of clothing, on the wiki, I don't know if that is accurate but there you go, it's the only type that can be weighted to a bone.

[surreal ore]

And the other collider types can (or at least used to be) weighted to a single bone using the relations settings in blender.

I don't know if that was removed or what, I was unable to find it on the wiki, though it used to be there.

found it, https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Arma_Reforger:Car_Creation#Setting_skeleton_.26_rigging_mesh

[knotty rapids]

nice

[karmic adder]

I'm using Vergys Military Gear as a dependency and having issues with material overrides.
Essentially, the mod has a base model of each equipment type which is then used in prefabs that have different material override parameters, to give the model different appearances.
The issue is that for some reason, the Worn Material Overrides do not appear to be working, it will just show the model with its base materials for me - the item override works though.
It also works when looking at the prefab in the Resource Viewer (instead of the World Editor), when looking at a character wearing it in the RV it again doesn't.
It also looks as it should when directly opening the VMG addon, just not in my own one. Temporarily this issue also disappeared before it came back, but I hadn't made any changes.
This is a really weird issue I have no idea how to approach anymore, I hope someone more familiar with material overrides can help.

[knotty rapids]

i may have made a mistake

it seems like it still doesnt work

[surreal ore]

Lol after seeing your video I'm pretty sure I had similar results

[knotty rapids]

when i disable the layer for stepping up on it in the rrigid body just lays on the ground

so

[surreal ore]

Try changing the layers in the rigid body

[knotty rapids]

yep

[surreal ore]

Try character no collide

Or whatever it's called

[knotty rapids]

iam not stepping up on it anymore

but it just stays on the ground

doesnt come up to the bone

[surreal ore]

What are your layer presets?

[knotty rapids]

just interaction aand projectile

[surreal ore]

#enfusion_texture message

Should try with a prefab for worn, that uses layer presets that differ from the item

[knotty rapids]

me?

[surreal ore]

Yes

[knotty rapids]

i think you can only use xobs for this

[surreal ore]

The screenshot would suggest otherwise

[knotty rapids]

true

ill try that

[knotty rapids]

does anyone know why my clothing is just flying and not moving with the characterr animation?

i only have 61 assigned bones and 101 not assigned ones

[blazing agate]

Hey I have my model imported in enfusion, all bones look like are working fine:

I prepared the prefab using an existing one, duplicating it to my project

and replacing their pants for mine

but when i wear them

they don't work

any ideas of what's going on?

(The skeleton is the one from the samples)

[tidal latch]

how many bones do you have exactly?

[blazing agate]

25+133

[tidal latch]

can you post screenshot from workbench with bones section visible?

[tidal latch]

you are missing something then - Reforger character has 161 bones

[blazing agate]

okey, i'll chek it

[tidal latch]

25+133 = 158

[blazing agate]

thanks! I'll let you know if it's solved

[blazing agate]

Solved, you were right, It was some missing bones

[last hill]

Yep, 163 total bones including entityposition and collision. Any more or less and it breaks everything

[alpine thorn]

Hey guys ! I just finish my first helmet for Reforger, and then go to test it inside the World Editor. Everything work fine, expect 1 thing, it is visible in viewpilot (or LOD0) 😅

[surreal ore]

@alpine thorn for your helmet to work correctly it has to have everything that the vanilla helmets have

ParametricMaterialInstanceComponent

has to be set up correctly for hiding in first person

[alpine thorn]

I have setup everything exactly like the SampleMod_NewCharacter

In the Prefab right ?

[surreal ore]

do you have an opacity mask on your material?

[alpine thorn]

You mean on the entire mesh ?

[alpine thorn]

Yes

[surreal ore]

it's best to just duplicate a vanilla material and change the textures

[alpine thorn]

I have _A on every piece

[surreal ore]

is also needed

[alpine thorn]

hmm I didn't got it ! Will try 🙂

[surreal ore]

with everything set up correctly, you can test without going into the game

[alpine thorn]

Thank you that was it !

[alpine thorn]

.

[alpine thorn]

Yeah I'm using the World Editor

[surreal ore]

You can test with the prefab opened by sliding "User Param Alpha"

[alpine thorn]

Oh didn't know, thank you !

[surreal ore]

That's what i was meaning by not going into the game xD

[alpine thorn]

Okay

😅

[woven swallow]

I made the texture from scratch.

[shell hedge]

I see what you did there, scratched wood and all

[stone terrace]

Any idea why is bug ?

[shell hedge]

Mesh normals

[stone terrace]

What do you mean ? in blender? I'm completely new to 3d and especially to blender.

[shell hedge]

Well if you are using a material with ccw culling then mesh normals facing away from you arent rendered

Or something

[stone terrace]

ahhhhhh ok i understand better thanks a lot for the info i'll try to modify it! (i don't know how, but i'll figure it out 😅 )

[shell hedge]

I dont know blender but maybe this helps https://docs.blender.org/manual/en/2.79/modeling/meshes/editing/normals.html

[stone terrace]

I'll take a look at it, thank you very much.

[tacit eagle]

in the viewport settings there is a option to toggle face normal direction

[delicate condor]

and backface culling

[tacit eagle]

face orintation

gudder

babber 😠

[delicate condor]

👍

[drowsy gulch]

What would be the max polygon count for vehicles? Im just at 92,000 on my model right now and would like to know if i have to load my turret in separate to the hull (hull is 51,353 and turret is 40,731, total is 92,084)

[tacit eagle]

what are you making

[drowsy gulch]

an armoured vehicle

[tacit eagle]

still doesnt tell us anything

show us

the game can handle a lot

[glossy lynx]

You should make the turret and cannon seperate anyway

[light eagle]

You make your gun, it will be it's own prefab
https://i.gyazo.com/19cbd5fca8fd4bf0d6353feb0cc51147.png

Then you make your turret prefab. The gun prefab gets added to it using the weaponslotcomponent
https://gyazo.com/10b51f69dd6af7fd9f3213f86646bdc0

The gun/turret combo prefab gets added to your vehicle prefab using the slotmanagercomponent
https://gyazo.com/ffd5756d588b5abe22bcf7976563a574

[drowsy gulch]

thank you

[light eagle]

and your poly count is fine. Just make sure to create LODs.

[drowsy gulch]

i have stuff separated, i nave a fully modeled interior for the most part, just need to add a few more things

[tacit eagle]

For a vehicle like this maybe you can push an extra 50 k. There is no limit. I like to use warthunder as a base of reference.

So you can afford to bevel somethings. in my opinion for the most part if you can see those angle steps at a reasonable distance it's not enough. Just look at how bad they made the inside of the btr 70. The closest thing to the gunners view is that stupid 12 sided cone they called an optic which easily have been 24 at a minimum.

[shell hedge]

LOD0 of the BTR body is 173k, you're fine

[alpine thorn]

Hi guys ! I'm currently working on a vest (plate carrier) for Reforger. I'm in the phase of the configuration and rigging, and tried to use what we can find with the sample helmet on the github. But as I can't find any vest example or tutorial, I don't know exactly how to setup it, and so the rig is barely bizare 😅

[sly bridge]

IRC the chestrig needs to contain all the sample file bones

[alpine thorn]

Yes it is

But I think it's more a problem of weight to the vertex groupe

But I have to manage to make it as real for not deforming like the character_animationrig_example

[sly bridge]

you could transfer weighting info from one mesh to another then adjust where/if needed

[alpine thorn]

Hmm yeah

And what is the most important vertex group for a rigid plate carrier ? Does they need to be all here ?

[alpine thorn]

I think I forgot to make the platecarrier parent with the Character, I'll test

[last hill]

Did you enable the import options for skinning and hierarchy in your xob and hit reimport?

[alpine thorn]

Yes, let me finish the reimport and I tell you how many ^^

[last hill]

Character animation rig is the wrong model to be using for creating clothing. You need to transfer the weights from the weightref model that Vergy posted for us. Do a search for weighting tutorial from vergy on youtube.

[alpine thorn]

Thank you I go take a look 🙂

[alpine thorn]

9+150

So Ihave to use which rig ?

I don't find the one of Vergy, I only have "Character_animationRig" and "Character_Template"

[last hill]

Stand by for a link to his post

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_95zijAgj2E

There is links in his description to the weightref blend file and full instructions on how to use it.

Follow that and you will be good to go.

[alpine thorn]

Yeah I saw the video ^^

I already know about it

I will check for the good rig

[alpine thorn]

I tried with the same rig of Vergy and still have the problem link before

[tidal latch]

you should have 163 bones in total

[alpine thorn]

I have 9+149 (158) 😕 So I think I still not have the good one

And maybe in the prefab I put the wrong value but I double check it

[tidal latch]

try using Character_Template then

Empty objects that are in the scene also need to be present

[alpine thorn]

Thank you all ! I got it working ! Now it's just some tweaks ! Next step, importing my old uniforms 🙂

[sweet mist]

Hi all, i am working on importing a car model from blender to enfusion, i started adding bones in blender but when i import it i dont see any bones in enfusion, i guess i am missing something obvious but i don't know what is it (leaf bones are unchecked during export) any idea?
thank you for the help.

[leaden trench]

in the import options on the fbx file in Enfusion, check you have checked the "Export Skinning" box.

[sweet mist]

I do it but same problems :/

i am not sure how to properly configure import settings, right now i am exporting my blender .fbx file into the addon project folder, then in workbench resource browser i double click ont it and there is a import settings tab, that is right now bugged and i dont even see same options as i had last time, is this the proper workflow to do ?

[covert dune]

Have you looked at the sample car or some of the guides ? In the weapon creation tutorial some things are explained about skinning and naming of bones, and the sample car downloadable from github shows the vehicle equivalent aswell.
I never did this myself, but I could imagine it could be good to look into. Especially the bone structure like v_root, v_body etc.

[sweet mist]

Hmmm ok ! I have looked at the guides but i was a little lost 😅 i try again later 🙂 thx 🙂

[tacit eagle]

Vbl thingy

[woeful hollow]

try to put these checkboxes in the model view in xob format and click button "reimport resource" (top button)

[sweet mist]

no bones again :/

I try to follow the guides but nothing more. Maybe i do something wrong

[tidal latch]

are you exporting it correctly?

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

Missing Armature might be the culprit

Use default, Blender FBX export and not the EBT FBX one

[sweet mist]

Yes check that :/

Maybe a problem with my parent ? Object parent with armature bone or armature bone parent with object ?

[tidal latch]

what is this structure? 😮

in any case, Workbench imports only one (1) Armature, what you have is definitely not going to work

https://github.com/BohemiaInteractive/Arma-Reforger-Samples/tree/main/SampleMod_NewCar download it and check how sample car looks like

on https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Arma_Reforger:Weapon_Creation/Asset_Preparation page you have few more details about skeletons and mesh preparation

creating vehicles is a complex task so it is better to grab some experience with creating some simpler things as listed here https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Category:Arma_Reforger/Modding/Tutorials/Assets

[sweet mist]

Ok thx for all the infos 🙂

[sweet mist]

it's true that it looks a little more like what we see in the guide ^^ @tidal latch

[woven swallow]

amazing work!

[zenith quartz]

Thank you!

[woven swallow]

Any inputs?

[last parcel]

does someone know how to remove the shading the boxvolum does to roof when it needs to go outside it to cover everything inside ? see example

[shut bloom]

I would breakup the Edge damage it seems to constant and that makes it look unrealistic.

[sly bridge]

yeah, the wood edge wear is way way too consistent, you need to randomize it a lot more

= not all edges needs to be darker (paint chipped)

[woven swallow]

thanks, I'll tweak those later when I'm ready for export. right now I'm just making a bunch of assets. I might do a Pirate open world type of game mode. so... these subjects are welcome to join. no money tho 😦 but lots of fun creating an open world for piracy 🏴‍☠️ ¡Raise the flag!..

• Clothing makers
• Miscellaneous Modelers
• Scipters..

[lavish vigil]

^^

[woven swallow]

[woven swallow]

Lets work together

[woven swallow]

those are awesome!

[woven swallow]

Gallow Preview.
Inputs are very welcome!

aight. time to do the cannon ship version

[covert dune]

I think the boards are maybe a little bit too neat. Could make the odd one a bit longer or shorter.

Would give it a more rustic look imo

[woven swallow]

damn it! you're right on that! quick fix 🙂 thank you!

[uneven vessel]

I'm trying to animate the bullets disappearing in a magazine as it's fired in the same manner as the M60/M249 belts ('bullet meshes to hide' via MagazineAnimationComponent), I'm getting hung up on not being able to import separate meshes - I've got each bullet set up as a separate model in Blender (see pic 1) but then on import it doesn't seem to respect that structure, and instead splits meshes by material - am I doing something wrong here, or do I need a separate material per mesh?

[uneven vessel]

Aha figured it out!

Turns out ticking 'Merge Meshes' does not help with importing separate meshes 😅

[bleak depot]

Hm… I Write it tonight. I’m not on the pc yet

[uneven vessel]

success!

[last hill]

This is something I couldn't figure out myself until recently-ish when I did the MK48 for TFM. I look forward to revisiting and setting it up for my PMAG's for any future content that's for sure. Adds that bit of immersion. Now if you figure out how to make the magazine drop on the ground when it's empty that would be awesome too as at the moment empty magazines just disappear.

[uneven vessel]

Oh grand, yeah if there's anything I can share to assist lmk - 1 trick is I needed to assign an animation (workspace? Instance? One or something else) to get the bullet hiding to work, even if it didn't need/use the animation

[lucid crystal]

Is there a means to edit current buildings in Arma-reforger? I want to edit a few of the vanilla buildings, mostly textures and take off the roof's of some for a horror mod i'm working on.

[last hill]

If they are modular prefabs then to a degree yes. Editing the actual models of the vanilla stuff, no.

[agile crater]

no skeleton on your model

[midnight path]

v_root > v_body > v_door_l01
v_door_l02
v_door_r01
v_door_r02
v_axle_01 > v_suspension* > v_rotator* > v_wheel*
v_axle_02>v_suspension* > v_wheel*

suspension, rotator and wheel will be same as doors _l01, _l02, _r01, _r02

take a look at the bones section in the uaz469.xob

it should give you a good idea on how to structure your bones

feel free to pm me if you need more help @sweet mist

rotator bone on roughly the pivot point for where the front tires will turn for steering

[spice topaz]

I wonder what this could be?

[midnight path]

thats the gatoma

[spice topaz]

Oh alright great work on that BTW

[midnight path]

Thank you :)))

got many many more to come

soon™

[tacit eagle]

Fuck that's awesome 💪

[zenith quartz]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/176680739314597889/1120382161338519593/image.png

Pew pew pew.

[surreal ore]

@zenith quartz looks good

[covert dune]

Very nice

[fathom elbow]

Gloch? 😄

[tacit eagle]

Block

[dire estuary]

That is as hot as a ghost pepper shit! 👌 how did you make the text go inward? Actually looks like it’s affecting normals?

[zenith quartz]

Copyright avoiding Glock. 😄

[fathom elbow]

isnt the design also copyrighted itself?

[zenith quartz]

Probably, but picatinny rail makes it a bit different. I think. Haha.

[fathom elbow]

Guess it worked for BI so far... so you could say you are just "continuing the tradition"

[zenith quartz]

Hahaha.

[zenith quartz]

It's an object that's being booleaned into the model and then a remesh / corrective smooth pass on top.

It's not very time efficient but it looks neat.

[nocturne sparrow]

BI convention is actually "Mlock" 💀

https://dayz.fandom.com/wiki/Mlock-91

[fathom elbow]

i would use Glonk

[zenith quartz]

Glonk woulda been good.

[sand pagoda]

glonk is good

[covert dune]

We weren't ready when austrian clockmakers hit us with the Clock-19

[shut bloom]

Blok-21

[steel tapir]

Amazing 🤩

[fickle knot]

thx 🙂

[spice topaz]

This out yet

[steel tapir]

@fickle knot do you have a modding discord ?

[fickle knot]

Nop 🙂

[spice topaz]

Alr cool tho

[steel tapir]

Are you going to make blue and green variations of the bands ?

Like this?

[fickle knot]

Yeah all is possibel 😉

[steel tapir]

Hell yeah

May I say something @fickle knot

[fickle knot]

Yeh ?

[steel tapir]

Maybe make the camo a bit more yellow cause it kinda looks like UCP

[fickle knot]

yeh of course . I just test for import on enfusion

I make the better texture later

when all is imported

[sly bridge]

@steel tapir + @spice topaz this channel is for people who create models for enfusion. if you can’t contribute in a meaningful way please don’t post at all..:

[woeful hollow]

Did Bohemia give permission to port clothes from DayZ to Arma Reforger?

[last parcel]

no

[woeful hollow]

then why is his character wearing DayZ pants?
to be more precise, these pants are called USMCPants in DayZ Standalone

[thorny cobalt]

It isn't. No they aren't.
Similar yes, but they are not the DayZ ones

[woeful hollow]

so similar that they are exactly the same

[thorny cobalt]

That's not the DayZ pants shown on DayZ wiki

🤔

[woeful hollow]

in the game files, these pants are called bdu_pants_woodland_co.paa

so maybe I made a mistake in the classname, but I was not mistaken in where they came from

[thorny cobalt]

Ah the wiki has two pages, one is from old dayz 0.59 from before engine switch

[woeful hollow]

BDU Pants in DayZ on current patch

and pouches on body armor and warbelt are most likely from CODMW2019

[thorny cobalt]

#enfusion_configuration message
And this looks like the DayZ "Combat Jacket" with different texture

@fickle knot Well content theft is clearly illegal and forbidden, anything else you want to say about that?

[feral jolt]

see https://www.bohemia.net/community/licenses/ 🙂

[thorny cobalt]

Also for your information, the model MAKERS channel is for model MAKERS.
Not for rippers/thieves taking other peoples stuff and pretending that they made it.

[shell hedge]

model makers everyone post donuts

[sand pagoda]

[zenith quartz]

I can't wait for the first in-game edible donut mod.

[tacit eagle]

COMBAT DONUT

[tacit eagle]

Those look really nice and matte

Rather than being a jagged, one colour bland thing like I see some uniforms

[tacit eagle]

which game is the pants from?

[woeful hollow]

looks like it's not from any game...

maybe u mean UF PRO?

[tidal latch]

In which program did you made that clothing?

[tidal latch]

A3m? What is this?

[covert dune]

Probably Autodesk 3ds Max

[sand pagoda]

can you send screenshot how it looks in substance painter?

[sly bridge]

unlikely…

[covert dune]

Oh I'm not saying they definetly made it themselves, A3M just sounds like Autodesk 3ds Max.

[sly bridge]

as a daily max user for the past 15 years or so, this is the first time i see / hear someone call max a3m…

[covert dune]

As a Blender user, I wouldn't know. 👍

[shell hedge]

you've just been using it wrong then, clearly it's a3m

[last hill]

Can you show us the raw model in your 3D software?

It looks like Marvelous Designer with those puffy seams etc but I could be wrong, the low detail could be from ripping and porting (the first image has disconnected verts which I see in crap rips hence my question).

[calm rune]

Your credibility is on rocky ground right now so when you post images of clothing that you say you made but doesn't look like it fits the model then questions will be asked.

[little kayak]

That as well, however ripped (even not directly by the uploader) content is not something new in Arma.
And to protect the original content creators we, as a community, have to be harsh at times to prevent people getting banned (or worse) for using illegal content.

If its all self made, I'm sure you understand that and shouldn't it be an issue to provide some proof (eg. screenshots of your work process, or source files) to one of the orange guys (moderators).

[calm rune]

Not at all. You posted ripped content so now questions are being asked. Everyone would be treated the same.

[sly bridge]

I would thread very carefully if i were you.
You still have the ban hammer above your head...

i am serious yes

!purgeban 639387590411157506 0 ripping content, including Bi games = 0 tolerance

[wet sky]

*fires them railguns at @fickle knot* Ò_Ó
c.o.r.s.o#0000 now has 2 infractions.

[sly bridge]

¯_(ツ)_/¯

[steel tapir]

What did he do lol

Steal assets ?

[sly bridge]

why is it relevant to you? going offtopic in a channel where i prefer to stay 100% on topic

[steel tapir]

Ok☹️

[late spear]

I am thinking of doing my Gulfcoast Islands terrian for Reforger but I have alot of assests that I created like roads, bridges, and structures. Am I going to need to rebuild every one of them to add them to the terrain. Sorry if this has been answered before but searching discord and the web is not really giving me any relevant a answers.

[surreal ore]

wdym by rebuild? @late spear

[late spear]

Like redo all the doors and windows axis points, redo all the textures

[surreal ore]

if they're p3ds then you can open them with the addon for blender and it may handle most of it for you

[delicate condor]

A lot will need to be refitted yes

[surreal ore]

afaik. I haven't ported any of my stuff though

@light eagle can tell you what all is involved though

[late spear]

Well that is what I thought but was hoping for a easier solution.

[sand pagoda]

Donut!

[delicate condor]

There is likely a lot you can reuse too. But I don't think there are any one click solutions

[light eagle]

No one click solutions. But a bunch of things to speed up your work.

[late spear]

Not really needing a one click solution, but a few of my structures I lost the blend files to.

[surreal ore]

if you have the p3ds then you should be fine, assuming you're coming from alternate Arma titles

[late spear]

What do you mean alternate Arma titles

[light eagle]

a2/a3

[late spear]

Yes it is from A3

[delicate condor]

If you have the original P3d that works yes

[late spear]

Okthats what I was hoping

[light eagle]

If you don't want to create new textures from scratch, I did a write up on converting the spec/gloss non pbr textures from a2/a3 to the current metal/rough pbr packed textures Reforger uses.

This could help you as well. it's a blender script to convert your memory points to named empties.

import bpy

# Get the "Memory Points" collection
collection_name = "Memory Points"
collection = bpy.data.collections.get(collection_name)

if collection is not None:
    # Create a list to hold objects for deletion
    objects_to_delete = []

    # Iterate over each object in the collection
    for obj in collection.objects:
        # Check if the object is a mesh
        if obj.type == 'MESH':
            # Go to object mode and select the object
            bpy.ops.object.mode_set(mode='OBJECT')
            bpy.context.view_layer.objects.active = obj
            obj.select_set(True)

            # Enter Edit Mode, select all vertices, and go back to Object Mode
            bpy.ops.object.mode_set(mode='EDIT')
            bpy.ops.mesh.select_all(action='SELECT')
            bpy.ops.object.mode_set(mode='OBJECT')

            # Create an empty for each vertex
            for vert in obj.data.vertices:
                # Create new empty and link to the collection
                empty = bpy.data.objects.new(f'{obj.name}_{vert.index}', None)
                empty.location = obj.matrix_world @ vert.co
                bpy.context.collection.objects.link(empty)
            
            # Add the object to the deletion list
            objects_to_delete.append(obj)

    # Delete the original objects
    bpy.ops.object.select_all(action='DESELECT')
    for obj in objects_to_delete:
        obj.select_set(True)
    bpy.ops.object.delete()

    # Deselect all objects
    bpy.ops.object.select_all(action='DESELECT')```

So you don't need to manually recreate your action points.

https://www.mod-fusion.com/post/converting-a2-a3-dayz-textures-to-pbr-for-reforger

[late spear]

That is what I was hoping for. I did not have the files for color_id or the blend files to recreate them. I had a drive failure couple years ago that had them on it.

Thanks @light eagle and @delicate condor for the information

[delicate condor]

👍Good luck!

[shut bloom]

So seems like that Light portals still are not able to be implemented since the workbench crashes as soon as you reimport with generate BSP sadge

[wary inlet]

oh god i knew this was coming 🤦‍♂️, now you jut need to throw it like a frisbee

[covert dune]

[woven swallow]

Does it look good ? haha

[covert dune]

It's a nice wood finish, and I like the little indents.

Although most of the examples I see on google have an iron ring in the center, likely to aid stability and assure smooth steering.

[woven swallow]

I will be adding those details later. I'm not just making the wheel. I'm modeling a whole ship

[covert dune]

Gotcha! Was wondering if you would, since you talked of the pirate stuff a while ago. I'm sure it'll turn out great with how you handled wood so far.

[woven swallow]

Thank you!

[midnight path]

i need this

❤️

[wary inlet]

all aboard!

[wary inlet]

tbh i would absolutely love a mod that includes weapons and vehicles from the colonial ages!

[woven swallow]

That's the idea so far..

[shell hedge]

I'll do the blunderbuss

[woven swallow]

Getting there... a lot of work in this ships..

[plush shard]

i remade this becasue i got bored haha

[woven swallow]

Haha looks very nice and similar to mine

[wary inlet]

shiver me timbers 😆

[tacit eagle]

Blenderbus and also this need to have rockets on the bottom of it like in Todd Howard's game failout 4

[stone terrace]

hi any idea of what grid size and comparison object we have to make a 3d object on blender for effusion

[delicate condor]

Enfusion uses same metric system

1 blender unit is 1 meter

[stone terrace]

ok I managed to find the reforger chimera to do my size comparison.

[stone terrace]

Hello, little question on blender I have 2 well dissociated texture, one red and one blue, but when I import it on reforger I have only 1 texture displayed on the right and complete white. any idea?

[karmic adder]

Did you use the Enfusion Blender Tools plugin?

[stone terrace]

Yes for exporte and importe

[delicate condor]

you have blender materials not actual textures

blender materials have no direct connection to game (practically any game)

you will need to create actual texture files (tga/png) that get converted to fitting Reforger textures

[stone terrace]

so, do I add a PNG image in the material? or instead?

[karmic adder]

That's not the issue, Blender material slots will carry over to Enfusion.
I suspect the issue is rather related to you having multiple different objects with only one material each - try merging them into one object with multiple materials.
Also make sure your objects are exported properly: You need to name them right (e. g. Laptop_LOD0, UTM_Laptop) and then sort using the EBT.

[surreal ore]

Could simply untick merge meshes in the import settings but having the proper naming conventions will be more sufficient

[proven pulsar]

I have a questions regarding materials. I quite don't understand the reason for using multiple materials, when one could just additionally use the opacity and emissive map. I am a noob, but maybe with materials the rendering is more customizable?

[surreal ore]

Using multiple materials allows for better looking models. Not every piece of the model can get the correct texture detail if the entire model shares the same uv space.

[proven pulsar]

Well than the argument is just about the size of the UV map. With a bigger resolution, details will be more visible and you can chose a fitting size inside the UV map for each part of the model.

[surreal ore]

Yeah and the bigger the resolution the more graphically intensive

Gotta balance quality and performance

[karmic adder]

You might also want different materials not just in terms of what's on the texture but also in terms of material type or PBR parameters.

[surreal ore]

Yes

Like a render target material or something

I think multi-materials are still better as opposed to actually multiple material slots (depending)

Anyone know how many draw calls for a multi-materials?

I'd assume they're less performance intensive

[thorny cobalt]

For one? I'd say one

one call per material

[upper iron]

Now many things get clearer. Thx

[upper iron]

Question, if i dont know exactly, where the 3D models are coming from, better delete?

[sly bridge]

yes

you are resposible for what you get into game, and you need to own the models / textures in order to get them into mods

[upper iron]

Ok

[summer sierra]

Not sure if the correct channel, anyone have any tutorial videos on creating a placeable GM prop. I have a hard time interpreting the wiki normally.

[surreal ore]

@stone terrace

[stone terrace]

Ok ! i see thx

[stone terrace]

So, I did as you said, when the pc is in the initial 0 position it works fine (first photo) and when I move it a few degrees (second photo) it doesn't manage to put itself in the right place (and yes I haven't put it perfectly in the port yet, it's just for testing). any idea ?

[surreal ore]

there is an offset because of the origin of the usb drive

that's why i said to import it into blender and adjust accordingly

[stone terrace]

that's what I did in this case

[surreal ore]

is there an offset in the prefab?

[stone terrace]

My bone is perfectly on the usb drive like this

[surreal ore]

in the prefab in workbench

[stone terrace]

Offset 0 0 0

[surreal ore]

try unticking Inherit Parent Skeleton

not too sure

[surreal ore]

let me see the usb model in blender

[stone terrace]

The problem isn't that it's in the wrong place - I can fix that by changing the position of the bone - but, as shown in the video, when the PC is in the Initial position (beginning of the video) the USB flash drive clicks into place, but as soon as the PC is in a different position, the flash drive doesn't click into the right place at all.

[crisp musk]

Have you tried maybe just setting the pivot ID to a bone that already attached to the computer and not the USB itself? For example let’s say you had a bone in the center of the computer and you set the power pivot ID of the USB to that, then just edit the offset of the USB and then see what it does.

Idk maybe I’m just spitting out something you’ve already tried.

[stone terrace]

This is already the case, the bone and attached to the pc

[last hill]

So it seems to be not recognising the computer orientation, is that what you are trying to find out about? What is your bone set up? Assuming you have the computer itself weighted to a bone so the engine knows it is being rotated?

[stone terrace]

Yes it is

[last hill]

Collider is also weighted so it is being recognised?

[stone terrace]

so I'm not colliding...

[last hill]

I don't do a lot with items in the world, mostly taking stabs at things

[last hill]

I know for item pickup models for uniforms it needs to have a collider to let the world know it is there

Could you try rigging a standard box, as a UBX collider and exporting with that set up as a itemfireview layer preset in the blender tools? Just to see if that is possibly the cause of the engine not realising it is there?

[stone terrace]

so colliders are important...

[last hill]

In anything interactive, yes, they are very important from my knowledge I have learnt in my time with Enfusion/Reforger, they literally tell the engine what is there and what isn't.

It may not be the issue, just another idea for you to try mate, don't get your hopes up

Assuming you are already aware of how to set up the collider mesh?

Sort Objects in Blender Enfusion Tools > Collider Setup when mesh is selected for your collider?

[stone terrace]

a friend is helping me set up the colliders i'm going to test and see if it works thanks for the idea to explore

[last hill]

Good luck, feel free to ping me with the outcome, or a simple reply directly to me so I know if I was of any help, I'll be in Blender setting up a boot model for uvmapping.

[stone terrace]

After setting up the colliders it doesn't work any better, but thanks for the helping hand 😅

[last hill]

Alright, can you show the shot of your configuration for the laptop itself and the usb?

Also your bones are showing 0+7 in the shot above, did you weight the mesh model in Blender? @stone terrace It should say 1+6 etc once you weight your mesh to the bone. Again, not sure if that is the problem either, but it's definitely showing there no weights are applied to the model itself, just the empties are there

Can I suggest you make an empty, calling it usb_slot on the laptop, weighting the slot as 1.0, then reimport your laptop. Then make your empty in the same spot on the usb stick, calling it usb_stick weighting the stick as 1.0 and then reimport, setting it as your connection position in the prefab?

This is only a suggestion as I had issues when I was building my MK48, the top cover had to be weighted, to allow it to flip the scope/sights up and down when open and closed. Just an idea from a modder who has had issues with what I would call similar problems

[stone terrace]

or the bones, I don't really know how to do it because I followed a tuto ^^', and what do you mean by configuration, blender or my enfusion with the script? Okay, I see, making empty on blender at the connection point, but what do you mean by "weighting the slot as 1.0" in blender?

[last hill]

Also, quickly, is your laptop itself weighted to a bone? Or is it showing 0/?

[last hill]

Stand by one sec

[last hill]

Same issue as your usb, nothing is actually weighted to anything. Let me see if I can get you a screenshot of what I am trying to explain

[stone terrace]

I agree, but my usb has no bone at all, but I'm not sure it's the problem.

[last hill]

Let me just get you a screenshot, see if it will help at all, if you make a slot on the usb, it may then be able to figure out where to attach to specifically on your laptop model

You probably won't need to weight your empty on the laptop. You might not need to weight it on the usb. I'm just not sure.

[stone terrace]

a slot like this on your mk18 you talk to me ?

[last hill]

Slot yes. They don't need weighting.

My mk48 lmg had to be weighted as it was animated.

Can you do me a favor, create yourself an empty on your usb mesh and give it a name. Then import on the workbench with skinning and hierarchy checked, reimport, then in your workbench usb prefab itself, set that new empty as your child bone. Then in your laptop, create a slot empty and reimport. Without weighting as none of it is animated.

[stone terrace]

If I understand, I'll make a bone point on the tip of my USB to link them, and when it's put into the SlotManagerComponent it will align X, Y, Z and angles.

[last hill]

Hopefully.

The laptop and usb itself may need to be weighted to something for the engine to recognise where it is, but that I am not sure of as I don't do those kind of mods - yet.

[stone terrace]

Okay, do you have a tutorial for weighting a bone? Because I haven't figured out how to do it, I'm new to blender.

[last hill]

I'm going to direct message you real fast and show you on a quick video stream

[woven swallow]

A lot of work but getting there

[zenith quartz]

Old pistol vs new pistol.

Textures aren't quite where I want them yet (mainly the dirt) but I consider it an improvement overall.

New one is also about half the tri count.

[tacit eagle]

Looks like a real pistol

[turbid crow]

i just finished my model in blender, just wondering which file do i put in enfusion to put out for the workshop?

[uneven vessel]

.fbx

what are you creating? have you followed one of the official guides?

[turbid crow]

i am doing some props for operations. Im trying something really simple i hope. I just want the avatar to be able to pick up and put the entity in its storage

can you point me in the right direction of the official guides? Something that explains how to make the object interactive with said player

[hazy crane]

There is a Prop Guide in the wiky. (https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Arma_Reforger:Prop_Creation)

If you want them to be used in the inventory then you should follow the same procedure but using item_base prefab instead of a prop_base + some aditional configuration

[tacit eagle]

Is there a way I can get a better inventory icon for these props I'm making? They're so small you can't really tell what they are

[covert dune]

Have a look at InventoryItemComponent > Custom Attributes > PreviewRenderAttributes

[tacit eagle]

Perfect, thanks

[slim knoll]

How do I hide the headgear from 1st Person?

[tacit eagle]

Watch from 13:08 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8o3WnGLIQ_4&t=800s

[broken path]

Is this a released mod??

Hella long ago but this is wanted by many

[sly bridge]

wrong channel for these sort of questions…(read description + pinned)

[broken path]

Ahh well zelik, if you actually read this @ me somewhere with a response, don’t wanna double ping you

[surreal ore]

@broken path no I haven't released it. It will be a part of my survival framework more than likely

[mighty quartz]

Anyone got a tutorial on animated doors that move verticial like a garage door? Trying to import some of my old assets and want to keep the doors sliding and lifting.

[tacit eagle]

My models have randomly started wobbling when placed

[shell hedge]

COM or center of mass issue?

[tacit eagle]

That was the issue, thanks 🔥

[distant pewter]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1122476149969264662/1125868260970221728/image.png

Hey guys Im having this problem with splits and holes in the model. Does anyone know how to fix it please?

[sly bridge]

can you show the wireframe of the imported file?

[distant pewter]

https://imgur.com/a/jUsxwHr

Like this?

https://imgur.com/a/LUvZIIC

This maybe clearer

@sly bridge Does this help?

[sly bridge]

weird, how do you import it?

[covert dune]

I think it's notable that it happens on all spots where lots of vertices come together. Wasn't there an issue where the game merged vertices too close together ?

I remember someone had this issue with bullets on an LMG belt
#enfusion_model message

[distant pewter]

@covert dune Thank you I think I might be able to solve the issue now.

[distant pewter]

Yep the scaling was the issue lie @sick shard discovered.

[calm rune]

what do you set the partical distance too when exporting from MD?

[plush shard]

Around 5

[wary inlet]

i leave for a while but the workbench keeps dragging me back, ssh-60 i modeled and textured

[kindred thistle]

In a model, should the socket be located where the center of the object is supposed to be, or rather where the origin is supposed to be?

[sly bridge]

socket = pivot?

[inner girder]

My normals/face orientation is messed up and I can’t seem to find any info on flipping normals in any arma stuff

[delicate condor]

you would fix that in the source model

[inner girder]

So flip the normal in blender to be backwards to show the right orientation in reforger tools? @delicate condor

The model in blender is all in the right orientation but not once it’s imported over

[covert dune]

You're checking with the Face Orientation option Blender, right ?

[inner girder]

The view in blender

Oops not blender

[delicate condor]

yep not blender

and blender by defauls draws both front and back of a face

where games typically draw only front

[inner girder]

Sent wrong pic

[delicate condor]

so it might look right in blender if you have not set it up to no draw backfaces (backface culling)

but its likely not

[inner girder]

Is it because one mesh goes inside the other, the algorithm that figures it out recomputed the normals and flipped it?

[delicate condor]

or you have negative scaling which when applied on export flips the faces

[delicate condor]

should not be

[inner girder]

Ok I’ll try both tips

[covert dune]

Import model into Blender, click on the magazine, go into edit mode, alt+N, recalculate Outside, export back to fbx, fixed.

[delicate condor]

no need to reimport if its already made in blender

[covert dune]

Wasn't sure. But yeah. 😛

[inner girder]

So flip the normals backwards in blender for it to show up correctly in tools?

[delicate condor]

check if the magazines scale is negative first

then turn on backface culling so you see what way faces point at (will be useful in the future)

then go flip or recalculate normals on anything that is the wrong way

[covert dune]

you can check the orientation with this aswell

anything red is the wrong way around

[inner girder]

Thanks guys trying now

[inner girder]

Rookie mistake forgot to apply transformations 😅 thank you guys for the help

[inner girder]

I cant figure out how to export my model with the textures and UVs in place so that carries over to Arma Reforger.
I’ve tried the tutorials and whatever my issue is it’s not covered in those vids 😅.
I know this is going to be possibly a super silly easy fix but I can’t wrap@my head around it

[last hill]

If you created the UVmaps yourself, then you export the fbx out, then the materials in enfusion/reforger are where you'd plug in your textures, created or imported by you, into enfusion/reforger as png/tif/tga.

Otherwise you'd have to uvmap your model/mesh first.

[stray bridge]

Make sure your Material names are not eg xy.001

[tacit eagle]

Does anyone know why changing the model of a mine in the MeshObject data might stop the mine from being armed? All the animations and everything works, it just won't stay armed and it defaults back to its original state after a few seconds

[last hill]

Is there multiple positions it is called to? Checked the xob file and prefab of the original mine to ensure you have all of the colliders etc built? If it's a mine, it might have multiple prefab positions that are called

[tacit eagle]

@last hill Ah that makes sense, I didn't bother with any of that I literally just changed the mesh data so I'm not surprised it doesn't work properly haha

Thank you, that's a good place to start, I'll take a look at all the colliders. Just on a side not, do you happen to know what MineFuze_M15AT_M603.et does? I'm assuming it's the collision for detonating the mine

[noble ravine]

I'm trying to export a model from Blender to the Workbench, following the tutorial on the Wiki, I've used Enfusion Tools plugin in Blender to export my .fbx file into my Models folder located in my project.
After the export, WB creates a .txo and .xob files.
The model is correctly imported but the textures aren't and everything is white.
Does the textures needs to be exported/imported separately?

[leaden trench]

Yes

[kindred thistle]

I think so, yeah. For doors and such

[surreal ore]

@kindred thistle the socket is the origin of the attached object

[young flame]

Perhaps someone can educate me a little, does anyone know the poly limit? currently importing a weapon 29k LOD0, what is everyones practices for setting up extra LODs? do you have a polycount for each lod? also what are the distances for rendering each LOD? i know sometimes its takes more resources to load each lod than it does to load all faces.

[shell hedge]

you could try to aim to be near vanilla poly counts

[kindred thistle]

thanks 🖤

[noble ravine]

Any tooltips or documentations to get started on that front?
I've found these links:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0BfD3Ri8L0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5IC4uIvZfA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEP34CbPWUo
But I can't find a way to export the Materials/Textures from Blender to Substance Painter, only thing I've managed to extract was using UV Editing view:

[tacit eagle]

You can just drop them into substance as textures, and then when you drag/drop them onto your object you can tell substance what it is. Match the size to your UV, then bake and export

[noble ravine]

I tried that with the following link between SP and Blender:
Leaf:

• color -> BC
• metal -> nothing
• rough -> ORS
• nrm -> NM
  Bark:
• color -> BC
• metal -> ORM
• roughness -> ORM
• nrm -> NM
  But Bark is a little weird lol

[surreal ore]

Wtf are orm and ors?

[shell hedge]

occlusion roughness metallic, not reforger workflow I guess

[surreal ore]

And occlusion, roughness, spec? I assume

[shell hedge]

ORM has three channels, occlusion in R, roughness in G, metallic in B, looks like you applied the whole image instead of just the channel

you need to get a grasp on what channels in an image are before proceeding

[surreal ore]

"But Bark is a little weird lol"

I can totally see normal data from the leaves in the bark

[noble ravine]

Ok I need to use the unpack program for that thanks

[surreal ore]

Or just open the images in Photoshop and export the channels and their own textures

Or use Blender compositing to separate them and save that way

@noble ravine where's the model come from?

Never even heard of orm,ors standards before

[noble ravine]

https://www.blenderkit.com/asset-gallery?search_text=Tree+Banana+Palm+A2&query=+order%3A_score

[surreal ore]

Wonder if that all use packed textures like that?

[noble ravine]

what do you mean?

[surreal ore]

This image

I think that's just how the plant grows from the looks of it actually

[tacit eagle]

Does anyone know what ProximityTriggerComponent does? I thought it would make my mine blow up when I walk close to it but it doesn't seem to do anything

[last parcel]

just look how they setup the mine they have ingame and just do it like they do.

[tacit eagle]

I made a few with that method, I was trying to make a proximity based one but not sure if that's even possible

[stray bridge]

this would probably be the "hard" way, depending on what you wanna achieve but you can make use of the spheres and write ur own script to execute it when a player (chimeraCharacter) is inside the "zone"

[fluid fern]

Hi all,
I wanted to know if anyone had worked on train tracks?
If so, are they flexible?
Because I made some 1 year ago but I don't have the source anymore (because they're still ugly).
https://reforger.armaplatform.com/workshop/59E74A971B88D82B-Rail_Enfusion
What I'm also looking for is whether anyone has managed to make generators out of them? like the wall? I can make them but the rails are too big or not really aligned.

[karmic adder]

For straight lines, it should be easy, but I'm pretty sure you'd have to script an entirely custom generator type if you want smooth curves to be possible.

If you tried making a curve using an existing generator, this would be about as good as it gets: #enfusion_terrain message

So unless you want to spend a significant amount of time writing an entirely new generator type, you're probably best off just using the existing prefab generator for long straight lines and then manually connecting them with curves.

[shell hedge]

align them by a bone or joint

like hot wheels tracks