enfusion_model

[sand pagoda]

is it really?

or its only lod distance and not culling distance

[shell hedge]

both, sort of

one for lod distance and one for culling distance

[sand pagoda]

can you please point where the culling distance setting is?

[shell hedge]

It's not in meters, but pixel size scale will control how soon the whole mesh is culled

In mesh object component

[light vault]

Could you please explain more about how to modify the bullet impact decals? Where do I find that? For context I'm asking in relation to creating a building mod. Wood, stone, etc should have different bullet impact decals when in the same mesh

[last hill]

Impact decals are set up in the collider materials, you can change them inside your custom material, duplicate one of the default collider materials (aramid, metal etc etc.)

[lethal frigate]

Can i buy kitbash models to import into reforger?

They are bit more expensive so im asking if its possible to get them into game

[karmic adder]

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

[lethal frigate]

So i can buy them?

[karmic adder]

I haven't read the license but very likely yes

You will have to do some steps before importing as described in the wiki page

[light vault]

Thanks. Are you OK if I DM you?

[last hill]

Go for it, might not answer for a bit, big day today of appointments for my toddler and teenager.

[wicked dirge]

all depends on the license of the models. You have to read carefully what you can and cannot do.

[stuck notch]

Children cannot use their own LOD factors when in hierarchy.
Expected behaviour?

[shell hedge]

not sure if this applies but in my loadout editor I have to explicitly set all children to lod0 because everything except the gun becomes lod2 or something

but this might be coming from the inventory item component's preview item lod setting

[stuck notch]

All transition at the same distance regardless of LOD configuration on the child

[stuck notch]

Yeah, I noticed that the LOD settings for mesh objects for gadgets are different when they are being held in hands

There is always the possibility at least

[woven swallow]

any inputs?

WIP: Bow

[stuck kraken]

Hi,
I have not a feedback for the model itself because I am not so expierenced in archery. 😉 But I am asking me something like that: For which scenario is this model planned?

[woven swallow]

We're planning on open world 1800's life, survival..

[stuck kraken]

I would say the bow looks a bit too "fancy" for a survival scenario: The wood part is too worked out perfect. I would go for the design more in the direction "form fits function": Made from a wood stick (with some imperfections), rougher edges (it was made with more primitive tools in a short of time). If you have a "level system" for tools, this would be more higher end in your scenario.

[woven swallow]

I agree. that's why I put WIP "Work in Progress" plus those imperfections can be done with textures.. but yeah.. I'm still messing around with the shape. thanks for the input.

[surreal ore]

Bows weren't used if the wood had imperfections. If the wood had grain run off or a knot in it, it would have been simply tossed out and a new one would have been made. Bows making was perfected because for a bow to perform correctly it had to be perfect. It also takes months to make a bow and yes the simplest of tools were used and still are today.

[stuck kraken]

Maybe I used the wrong word: more "organic". Also the post of Zelik supports my statement: A bow from an amateur survivor would look more imperfect. 😛

[surreal ore]

It also wouldn't work, at least not well enough to shoot at range, with power.

[woven swallow]

I still gotta work on the shape a little bit. just because im not happy with it.

[woven swallow]

Don't worry dude. I get what you're saying.

[flint ivy]

Is it possible to use Bohemia's stanag mag in my AR platform gun when I import it into Enfusion? Like could I animate a placeholder mag in Blender for exporting and then when importing it all into Enfusion, use Bohemias mag model?

Im hoping to make an M723 and an M16A1 and try match them in size and quality as close as possible to the Reforger A2 and Carbine/727 and if it would help me on time a little if I only need to make a 20rnd mag model.

[surreal ore]

For an 1800s European bow the Back should be flatter and the Face(Belly) should be more round. I'd use a European longbow as a reference.

[woven swallow]

I'm using the Plains indian bows as an example

[hoary steppe]

Does anyone by chance have a simple unit helmet patch model laying around I could use? will credit of course

[woven swallow]

this is the final shape

[surreal ore]

Since that's the example you're going with. The first model was accurate. They are about that thin.

For that type the riser and the limbs are indistinguishable in thickness.

[flint ivy]

New work begins!

[livid apex]

being driven a little nutty by this. any idea how to make bullet meshes selectable?

I've tried working as close to the base game magazines that have them as possible and somehow im only getting one or ocasionally 2 bullet meshes able to be selected in the magazine animation component?

[shell hedge]

they may have been merged in import

[livid apex]

ah yes thats it

[shell hedge]

you can see if they are merged by viewing your mesh in workbench

[livid apex]

how do u prevent that?

[shell hedge]

you can try ticking do not merge for the meshes you do not want to merge

[livid apex]

thats in bender?

[shell hedge]

no, its in workbench because you import your mesh to workbench and not to blender

[livid apex]

ah ffound what ur talking about thanks!

[quasi furnace]

Does anyone have a Game Ready asset from the G36? No matter which variant of the G36

[sick shard]

From cgtrader?

[sly bridge]

#creators_offers

[sly bridge]

#creators_recruiting

keep on topic please

with an emphasis on makers

[obsidian pine]

is 75k polygons, 75k vertice ok for an helmet ?

[surreal ore]

No

[karmic adder]

To elaborate, the vanilla helmets mostly have 5k to 15k faces.
You can get away with some more, but what's arguably more important is that you have good LODs.

[obsidian pine]

so its more than enough, i dont want it to be too much too. Also i forgot those LODs things..

[karmic adder]

It would be good if you were able to at least get that LOD0 number down to 30k.
As for the other LODs, they should go down into the low hundreds, ideally.

Some people use a Decimate modifier for the first LODs, but I'd usually recommend to model at least the final 1-2 LODs from scratch.

[shell hedge]

probably not from scratch, but from LOD0

[obsidian pine]

i'll follow the doc on how to do all that, thank you mate, even to add an helmet is complicated 😄 so i have to downgrade on blender ?

[indigo halo]

I’ve been reading docs about that but it still escapes. What’s the function of different LODs?

[obsidian pine]

from what i read i think its level of details, it tell how to render the model from a distance ? I guess

[tidal latch]

https://community.bistudio.com/wiki?title=Arma_Reforger:Level_Of_Detail

[indigo halo]

Mmm I see, maybe it’s my migraine but it seems clearer now. Overall what poly count should I aim for for jackets and pants? 70k would be ok for LOD0?

[karmic adder]

IMO with the final, very low poly LODs, it's easier to make a new one from basic shapes than to simplify a high poly one.

[karmic adder]

Having a look at the official Reforger assets will give you a pretty good idea.

[shell hedge]

Depends on the asset I guess. Been doing LODs for a mod past few weeks (weapon parts) and I feel making them from scratch would take more time

[faint scarab]

Hi, could anyone tell me if there are mods with ghillie suits? Or maybe where to find 3D models?

[lament solar]

Type in the word ghillie into CGtrader, Artstation, Sketchfab or TurboSquid

[tawdry nest]

Anybody know how I would go about making my own custom patches from scratch for Reforger?

[obsidian pine]

Why do i keep having this error ? Even if i export from blender as an other name, and import in enfusion i keep have it, i dont understand. At first it was working but then i changed the model size, reimport and then i had that problem

[last hill]

Delete the model and start the import process again if you haven't already.

[obsidian pine]

yeah i completly deleted both the file and its "meta" brother in the project files, even after that i still have the issue

its for a helmet, i even tried to make a new project and the ground fbx cant be imported 🤔

[last hill]

What is the model size in MB and poly count etc?

[obsidian pine]

After deleting the fbx file and totally and making it again, change name and import it worked. 129ko &

[last hill]

Could have been an issue in the filename etc - glad you figured it out and yeah that file size and vertice count is perfectly fine.

[obsidian pine]

Maybe, but if i wanna do a change i have to redo all that, i cant just reimport, i'll see, thanks for your help

[surreal ore]

What's it say in the log when the reimport fails?

[last hill]

Keep the filename the same and you should be able to export your fbx directly from Blender to your project assets folder (where-ever your model xob and fbx are located [right click and show in explorer on the fbx in workbench]).

Will allow you to make changes, export your fbx from blender, bring Workbench back to the front and it will do a reimport automatically and update live in your workbench. Only does it automatically if you have your Workbench open when you export so keep that in mind.

[obsidian pine]

Now i managed to make it work so i dont know but if it happen again i'll check it

[obsidian pine]

I had the same name. For exemple. I export M15Ground of blender. Import it in enfusion. I notice the model is waaaay too big in enfusion. I go in blender. Import that model again. Scale it down. Export it, reimport and boom "reimport failed"

[obsidian pine]

Ooooh so if i want modify. I go in the project file. Import my model from it. Modify and export in the same spot. I will not have to click the reimport button it will automatically take effect ? I'll try that. That make sense but for a purpose of "security" i had a file on my desktop and i used this one to modify and then reimport on the project

[shell hedge]

3600 rifles with LODs - 47 fps
240 rifles with no LODs - 45 fps

[calm rune]

Just shows the drastic importance of LODs/

[inland sentinel]

I am trying to import my first weapon into arma reforger however i am running into an issue. My UCX collider is saying it is invalid and not importing. Here are some pictures of what I have.

I'm a novice with blender so I could definitley have messed something up. I miss the bad but simple Object Builder from DayZ 😂

[covert dune]

What happens if you go into vertice selection, press A while in viewport, right click, press merge vertices and then by distance ?

I believe I can see doubled vertices

Also make sure those two squares do not have faces where they meet eachother

it has to becompletely hollow

[inland sentinel]

I believe you found the problem, I actually used the convex hull feature and think it fixed that as well

it now imported but the layer presets aren't working for some reason

I see you have to set that in the tools also after import

got it working now, thank you 🙂

[last hill]

You can do it in Blender before exporting, just have to make sure you enable the net framework part in Workbench and set up Enfusion Tools, while using Blender 3.6 or below. Then you click on your collider mesh, hit N to expand the menu on the right, tap Enfusion Tools and hot Collider Sstup. Find the ones in the drop down that you need and click OK.

[shell hedge]

on the topic of LODs I don't think I understand how MeshObject's LOD Factors work, I just keep slapping random decreasing values until I get what I want, how do I convert distance to lod factors given I know the triangle count for each level?

[inland sentinel]

I believe i did do that however it might not have worked becasue i am using blender 4.0

[last hill]

The tools don't support 4.0, drop back to 3.6 LTS version for working with Reforger until the support is added for 4.0

[inland sentinel]

Ok, thanks!

That would make more sense now

[lethal frigate]

Thats gonna be huge issue with all the mods coming for the game

Alot of models usualy miss lod models

Lods

[shell hedge]

It already is. Some most popular mods have a lot of content without LODs

[lethal frigate]

Oof

Get ready for new arma with 23 fps

If you load more than 30 mods

[calm rune]

Some popular mods give you just 60FPS when you can be getting over 100. That is just one mod. So add on another 20-30 with no LODs and all that shit on the map at one time. Oof.

[shell hedge]

It's easy to get into my 240 assets when you factor in clothing as well

Vest, pants, jacket, backpack, rifle times 50 players or/and AI

[lethal frigate]

I think that there should be atleast some regulations with mods

So people cant upload every scrub they get from Internet or else

[shell hedge]

I would support a big warning but not prevention. Sometimes I upload no LOD to test and wouldn't want this ability to go away

[lethal frigate]

Well ofcourse no prevention just as you said

Warning

If its continued like this it would be like cs2, where the game loads each individual teeth from npc 20 km away

[last hill]

I am in the process of making LODs for all of my currently released and accessible mods. Just so folks are aware.

All of my WIP stuff already has them but not the ones that I have moved on from.

[lethal frigate]

Thats great stuff to hear i wish others who dont do it look upon you

I wish to one day put some objects in the game they are simple enought for me, i just like to do level design and sometimes i need specific objects for it, thats why i would like to do them good and to have lods on every each of them.

[obsidian pine]

What is the bone group for an armband ?

[surreal ore]

Just transfer weights from the character sample to your armband.

[obsidian pine]

I'll try that, im very new to that im confused, thank you

[obsidian pine]

doesnt seem to work either, i used sample character and transfered weight, added armature with root thing, exported, imported with skinning idk 🤔s

[calm rune]

if its wrapped around the tricep or bicep area then set 100% weight to either RightArm or LeftArm and 0 weight on everything else.

make sure when exporting to check off custom settings and uncheck leaf bones.

[obsidian pine]

I'll try that, for now i had this in my group after the transfer, but i'll put 100% on LeftArm then thanks

and this in modifier

So custom Properties need to be uncheck ?

[obsidian pine]

Oh ok so i was good on that, i already did an helmet that works like a charm, but for whatever reason the armband dont wanna stick to the body

here what happen

[obsidian pine]

still does the same, wait i'll take a video of all my components

[tacit eagle]

on the video i see that you have 162 bones you must have 163 in total

[obsidian pine]

i'll try to do again the armature

[obsidian pine]

For whatever reason that fixed the problem, that's crazy how a little thing can break everything, thanks you and thanks guys for helping me, you are kind

[sly bridge]

@serene yarrow#creators_recruiting

[faint scarab]

Hi everyone, I was making a modification to an object, it worked perfectly but I must have forgotten to do a weight paint on a loader, so I reopened the file, made the necessary changes and brought the objects back to the skeleton, but now when I do parent with empty groups completely overturns all objects, except the belt! I haven't changed anything other than doing weight paint on a magazine! Can you help me?

[blazing siren]

I have a model I exported to fbx, but when importing to enfusion, is showing up white without the materials on it. Anyone know what might be happening here?

[silk glen]

I had to import the textures into enfusion and apply them to materials in the engine

[blazing siren]

Thanks! It seems you answered this next one, but am hoping to gain a bit more clarity. Is there an easy way to save the material nodes in blender or do you have to save them as a texture and apply them to a material?

[silk glen]

A tutorial i followed before said to click the BCR and or NMO node depending on which map your saving and save the texture so you can import them into enfusion

Whatever you gotta do to get the texture file into enfusion because thats the only way ive been able to apply them to materials so far

file types ive seen so far are PNG, TGA, anf TIFF

Those seem to be the best for enfusion to convert to .edds

[blazing siren]

Thanks again! I'm gonna give this a whirl tomorrow when I have time.

[silk glen]

Best of luck 🍺

[blazing siren]

Do you happen to have that tutorial handy? Everything I'm coming across saves the materials into various libraries for future blender use, but nothing for png tga or tiff yet.

[silk glen]

1 sec

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rn69fmxhC78&list=PLW_2sDEfasH1FfrJgHpyUviFuC15CP_Ih&index=2

1:39

https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Arma_Reforger:Weapon_Creation/Asset_Preparation#Textures_Preparation

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

In this third link it can tell you what the properties of your files need to be in order to import into enfusion

[blazing siren]

Thanks! I think I found the gap. Still sort of new to blender, but it I think I need to convert the materials to textures and then follow the tutorials.

[silk glen]

hope it works out ^.^

[silk glen]

How many LODs should I make for my rifle and magazine?

I saw the STANAG mag has 5

[sly bridge]

ideally until you end up with under 500 polygon for the last LOD

[stuck kraken]

It make sense to look in the examples. If make a magazine you should look into a magazine. Also important as the number of LODs is the number of polygons itself. You should have around the same numbers of polygons as the examples for each level of detail.
(as PuFu had said) 🙂

[silk glen]

Okay new to all this how do I identify my poly count?

[sly bridge]

You should have around the same numbers of polygons as the examples for each level of detail.
not really. Because in an ideal world each lower LOD should be 1/2 of the previous one. exactly 50% of the previous one is not possible, but that would be the aim. So it is about the ration between LODs more than anything else

[stuck kraken]

I am sure you can see it in blender.

[sly bridge]

in reforger or in your 3d software (blender or something else)?

[silk glen]

I use blender

Pretty sure I could Google this question my bad

[stuck kraken]

Yeah I agree. But to have AROUND the same polycount for level 0 should be also a goal for the mod maker.

[sly bridge]

top right side, there is a statistic toggle - also this channel is not really for blender help. blender org has their own discord server, there is also google in the mix

[shell hedge]

it's not as simple as "under 500 for last LOD", simple shapes like pants can be 100, but its not even about a hard poly count - you keep reducing as long as you cant tell the difference at the distance you want, then stop just before it becomes too obvious, repeat with next level and next distance increase

[sly bridge]

have a look over the m16a2 and the newer carbine that was added in

[silk glen]

Nice I'll keep that in mind

[shell hedge]

it will depend on how many triangles you started with, LOD0 can be optimized even before you do LOD1, for example some models will have triangles you never see that can be removed

[sly bridge]

i am quoting microsoft developer page in regards to DX - for anything under 500 polygons the number and size of the textures is what counts, not polycount. So if you have a 500 polygon object or less, is not even worth adding lods to it

[silk glen]

It makes sense why you said LODs take up most of your time then

[sly bridge]

i'll see if i can find that particular doc

[shell hedge]

for example triangles on the inside of this m4 handguard are unnecessary, nobody will see them

[stuck kraken]

If BI makes models with more polycount then this is the new "standard" . I don't see a problem. 🙂

[silk glen]

It's also the first iteration. It could be changed in another update like anything else tbh

[shell hedge]

textures aside, 500 triangles close to camera are less expensive than 500 triangles away from camera

because of quad rendering

[silk glen]

Is this because of all other objects being rendered as you move around the map?

[silk glen]

Oh whats this

[sly bridge]

define quad rendering? DX splits everything into triangles anyways (and so does openGL)

[stuck kraken]

I would love to see an automatic mechanism for generation of LODs if not present (something like for the MIPS).

[shell hedge]

if my memory is correct, the pixel shader processes pixels in groups of 2 x 2 - imagine this as a grid in which meshes are rendered - if your vertex appears in 2 pixels out of 4, the GPU will discard half of the render

many small triangles mean that a lot of pixels from those "quads" are wasted because at best each triangle occupies one or "half" of a pixel

so, rendering LOD0 at a big distance is a bigger cost even with just one object in the scene, because a huge amount of the pixel shader's work is thrown away, making the gpu do more work for the tiny parts of the screen that matter this is incorrect, sure, bigger ratio of used vs trashed workload, but total workload in terms of 2x2 quads on screen is smaller, probably

so, go as low as you possibly can while maintaining the shape of the object and you'll be fine

also even inefficient LODs are better than no LODs

[sly bridge]

https://polycount.com/discussion/89241/lods-from-how-many-tris-does-it-make-sense @shell hedge

[shell hedge]

also for the final LODs some shapes allow you to simply not bother and create a basic outline shape like this handguard, where the final LOD is just a cylinder with some extrusion

I'm sure we have hardware strong enough for 500 triangles to be extremely cheap, all I'm saying is my preference for making LODs is going to be guided by how they look instead of what the number of triangles is - I'd go down for as long as it makes sense, until it starts looking ugly

[sly bridge]

this is a good example. because this particular part will never be used individually on its own, but with a bunch of other parts. Considering the engine handles each xob as a separate file, it is worth lodding further down than 500 than some other xob that is lodded on its own

[leaden trench]

So what's the secret to LOD factors? I didn't exactly figure out how the numbers work with trail and error

[shell hedge]

the engine tries to be smart and compute its LOD switch levels based on the number of triangles of each respective LOD (I think)

factors relative to each other either delay or speed up the switch

there has to be a formula to translate the triangle difference to distance but I am not smart enough to come up with one so I just wing it

here's some reading that includes information about the 2x2 pixel "quads" https://developer.nvidia.com/content/life-triangle-nvidias-logical-pipeline

[sly bridge]

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

[shell hedge]

and here's a video that explains it better than I ever could https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hf27qsQPRLQ

[sly bridge]

there is also a manual way to control the lods switch distance

[shell hedge]

I'm a dummy so I would probably prefer if the LOD Factor numbers were actually distance and not some multiplier

like, switch it out 2 meters away

[leaden trench]

Usual way is size on screen

[sly bridge]

agreed, which isn't the case

[shell hedge]

ok yeah that's better

that rail I just posted has LOD3 with like 1500 faces and LOD4 is 80 faces, and the engine switches it out way too early so I have to do the silly LOD factor sliders

[sly bridge]

the size on screen is from what i know correlated to pixel size, so you end up with slower lodding on higher resolution screens than with lower resolution screens.

[shell hedge]

the pixel size scale multiplier looks like something that would affect the LODs but all it controls is when the mesh is culled

[sly bridge]

:))) you are missing the 750 faces lod, the 320 lod and the 160 lod between that lod 3 and lod 4

[shell hedge]

nah, it's fine

[sly bridge]

¯_(ツ)_/¯

i for one would have stoped that that 320 poly lod and generally speaking i don't see the benefit of lodding things under 500-400 range, unless for instance i use a multimat and i actually collapse the multi to a normal shader so from 24 maps to just 3-4

[shell hedge]

I want to preserve the holes and rails for as long as it visually makes sense and then just wreck it when it no longer matters

[sly bridge]

i'll have a looky over reforger's files, see if BI has done that to get some more perf on the consoles

maybe @fossil crater can pitch in here if he pleases

[shell hedge]

80 triangles renders faster than 500 triangles, in my case the cylinder looks better at a distance than the collapsed rail model anyway

[sly bridge]

have you tested that?

[shell hedge]

no, but I should, I will get back to you

seems like it's worth testing

[eager hill]

Nowadays it's not uncommon to have a few millions of polygons in the camera's field of view. So going so low with LODs is basically a waste of time usually because differences are virtually impossible to notice

[shell hedge]

I'll test it and then I'll know for sure how much the pixel shader pipeline waste of work matters

if it doesn't matter then that's good news

means I can be even lazier

first issue I hit with this is that copy pasting like a thousand entities instantly crashes workbench

lol I can't even get to a point where my fps goes down while copy pasting the entities, it crashes and undos my previous pastes

[barren nexus]

Proper noob question! If I download a 3d model from, say Turbosquid, then import it into blender and export it as .fbx so as to be able to add it into the Enfusion tools.... Is it the texturing of the 3d model that gives it substance? i.e. make it solid. If so, can it be textured in blender or should it be done in the tools?

[sly bridge]

the workbench is not a 3d package,. you can neither create 3d model or texture meshes in it. You can however use other software to create your textures, blender is one of these software than can do that.

a game asset quality is made up of both model and textures, not just one or another

[sly bridge]

had a look over BI assets, some weird lodding on these as well (same sort of poly jumps)

also some assets are lodded below 500, but not by a lot

[shell hedge]

almost done comparing the rendering but now I can't load my world anymore

ok so if the question is "is 80 triangles cheaper than 450 triangles" then the answer is yes, but I had to make 35000 meshes to bring down my fps from 60 to 40 using the 450 triangle meshes, on my gpu anyway

I mean kinda obvious that it's cheaper, since it's less triangles

[karmic adder]

You'd probably have to test it on multiple GPUs to make any definitive statements

[shell hedge]

well, less triangles = better, I see no reason not to get my LODs as low as possible without sacrificing excess time

[karmic adder]

Yeah that's true. I meant the performance impact.

[shell hedge]

my silly cylinder looks better and takes less time to do than a decimated rail, so ez win

2.8 million triangles

16.8 million

[karmic adder]

What GPU are you using btw?

[shell hedge]

3080

cpu is ryzen 7950

task manager with the 16.8 mil scene open

[karmic adder]

I could get my old 1060 that I still have lying around in the corner and test with that, but I think I'm too lazy

[shell hedge]

eh it seems a bit moot

[sly bridge]

fair enough, thanks for checking

[shell hedge]

14 workbench crashes

[karmic adder]

Did you also check if the performance difference increases as you go further away?

Because of the small triangles thing I mean.

[shell hedge]

yeah I was being kinda stupid, less screen space means less 2x2 quads are being rendered so the workload is smaller regardless of how much work is wasted

sorry about that

[barren nexus]

I get that, I think what I was trying to say is, I have a model, it's white and when placed in a map it's not solid, I can walk through it, does solidity come from texturing a model or will it still be ghostlike. Is there a switch (somewhere) that says, make solid. If you catch my drift.

[sly bridge]

you need to make and assign collision meshes for your model

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

[barren nexus]

Thank you, just needed to know the starting point, save me searching in vain. Much appreciated.

[leaden trench]

can anyone confirm "Generate BSP" currently does nothing? it gives me this message: RESOURCES (W): No suitable BSP geometry found! Skipping BSP & portal creation. RESOURCES (W): Generate BSP is checked but no BSP geometry or portals were supplied, skipping?

[last parcel]

yep same

[surreal ore]

What causes a part of a mesh to disappear at a particular angle?

[sly bridge]

pic?

inverted normals generally

[surreal ore]

Normals are fine

It maybe be because the material for the screen is a using a rendertarget

?

[indigo halo]

When I built a screen with a render target material it looked black. Everytime I had transparency it was because of normals being flipped

What kind of material did you put in there? Something like the PIP material of the base game or something different?

[surreal ore]

I got it sorted

It was just too small on screen so it got occluded at certain angles

I added some depth to it, so it's not s single plane

a*

[indigo halo]

Gotcha 😊

[shell hedge]

pixel size scale slider?

[surreal ore]

I tried and could never get it to work out

it would still pop in and out when walking around it at certain angles

[stoic torrent]

Thats a bow and an arrow

[finite dagger]

Are there any people busy with Russian weapons like bolt action snipers

[indigo halo]

Hi all, I have a doubt about retopology. I have e my normal map baked from my high poly. While doing retopo should I take care of covering correctly bumping parts or I just redo the topology and then the normal map baked onto the LP will do the rest? In other words: If I have a pocket do I have e to retopo following it’s shape also in terms of height or I just don’t care and normal will give me this detail?

[faint scarab]

Can anyone help me with this problem? If so, write me a DM! Thank you very much!

[sly bridge]

why?

[sly bridge]

depends on the distance. for pockets that are not protruding outwards a lot, you don’t need to follow the hp topology

[indigo halo]

Standard uniform pockets I’d say

Like a few mm outwards in real life for chest pockets and arm pockets in my case

[dim pier]

Can I use multiple cubes as my ubx collision mesh?

[indigo halo]

If you use them separately yes, not sure if you join them

[sly bridge]

yes, see here (they should not overlap) - https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Arma_Reforger:FBX_Import

[sly bridge]

the LP mesh should be on top of the HP, or close to it (the larger the distance for rays on bake, the more distortion youțll have - unless you double bake - normalized and perpendicular)

[indigo halo]

I’m trying to keep it as close as possible avoiding overlaps. Using the polytool with surface snapping

Relaxing it here and there when it seems too stretched

[sly bridge]

not everyone is using blender btw 🙂 but yeah that sound like an option

[indigo halo]

Thank you 😊

[real dome]

Crazy question maybe. I use Chief Architect software to make buildings and know how to import to blender I have also imported to arma as far as the basic structure of them. I was just experimenting and I still have a lot to learn about collision and LODs and getting the textures, correct. my question is … converting my chief architect buildings for use in Arma is it worth it or am I creating more work for myself in the long run?

[dim pier]

Any idea why the UV map works in the material preview window but not in the object preview window?

[sly bridge]

no idea what chief arhitect is, but to get you some perspective, getting my revit files into max for my business is decent (usually a lot needs to be remodeled) for game assets it is a big no no. Get the basic shapes in and do it in blender or whatever else. Same for textures

[surreal ore]

Switch it to UV set 2

[shell hedge]

idk about the shouldnt overlap thing about colliders, there are assets in the game that have overlapping box colliders like m249 bipod

[surreal ore]

Perhaps the guy that made it didn't get the memo

Non-overlapping colliders have been a thing for B.I. for years iirc

[last parcel]

well according to the wiki it only words it like this " avoid overlapping colliders as much as possible "

[surreal ore]

I was pretty sure I heard mention of it back when modding A2

[flint ivy]

Slow progress but getting there! 🙂

Is it possible to make use of Bohemia's magazine and M203 models as attachments in Enfusion? Trying to make M723's that are as close a match as I can get to Reforgers AR platform guns. If I can use the existing mag and M203, it would help with that!

[shell hedge]

yes

[lusty nebula]

pretty sure you can also use the birdcage and handguard if you want I think. Its separated prefabs

[flint ivy]

Oh awesome!

[hollow bluff]

Dose anybody know how to make props like a sign I keep seeing all these groups that have Custom signs that they can place via gm and really want to make one for my unit

Nothing on YouTube so turning to the community for help

And if anyone knows how to put a logo on the side of a humvee any help is appreciated:)

[shell hedge]

you can open their mods and see how they did it

[indigo halo]

Guys an advice: in a uniform are you sculpting pockets or you just “draw” them using texture and then leveraging the height or displacement?

[past lava]

Just a question, isnt the ingame carbine already a m723?

[hollow bluff]

How?

If I may ask

Thx for reply I love your load out mod 🙂

[sly bridge]

create a new project, right click > open with addons > select addon you wanna check

[sly bridge]

either way works, i feel there is more control if you model the outside of the pocket rather than depend on a displacement texture

[indigo halo]

Mmm I need to get a hold of this technique it looks like a 3 years old drawing everytime I try 😂

[lusty nebula]

no, M723 has a A1 upper

[past lava]

ah

[shell hedge]

is there a max number of materials per meshobject?

[surreal ore]

I was able to get like 300+.

[shell hedge]

Sweet

[surreal ore]

When I tried 3k it crashed upon import

Actually

Stopped responding on import

Hardware issue

You could probably do more lol

[shell hedge]

The only limit is your imagination INT_MAX

[surreal ore]

#enfusion_texture message

Took awhile to find

[cloud rampart]

Is there any way (Without modifying animations) to change the position of a weapon on the back? I needed to change the position of a launcher and when I put it on the back, is almost on the waist

[shell hedge]

it is taken from the slot

I guess a pivot/joint on your weapon mesh is aligned by the slot to some spot

[cloud rampart]

I have it like this

[flint ivy]

No that one is the M727, the "M16A2 Carbine". M723 has most notably an A1 upper and either a pencil barrel or the heavier, M203 cut barrel which later became standard for the M4 onwards. 🙂 The M723's used by the US Military were mostly commercial bought by special units such as Delta but the Rangers did have them too.

[past lava]

cant you just add the a1 upper on the existing m16a2 carbine or is that not allowed

[deft owl]

Is there anything from v1.0 -> v1.1 that may have affected render targets? I'm not sure why but my render targets are now just rendering as white since the update. No errors or warnings in console, no code changes, no material changes. Not sure what could be causing it and its hard to diagnose

[surreal ore]

@deft owl vc?

[deft owl]

well, of course after I ask we figure it out. The opacity on the RT texture widget color must be set to zero for the background to not be white

[hybrid mountain]

When importing my model, after building as an .xob - there are no bones... not sure what I am doing wrong lol.

[light eagle]

Check your import settings in the xob and make sure "Export Skinning" is checked then click re-import.
https://i.gyazo.com/41606bafa40bce68ef73fc111a776ce7.png

[hybrid mountain]

Of course it was the last thing that I decided to skip lol. Thanks for the assist.

[pastel edge]

hmm my models are not attaching to the armature

it the same prossess it\s just a static model

the bones are not attached

ignore the direction

fixing that

[neat canopy]

Am I right in doing it like this?
Till now i was doing the MLOD, in case I used the collor Pallet and not a low res baked texture, by scaling the UV area of my object very small and place it at the UVs colors position it fits with my actual model colors texture. I just want to have some clearyfication if thats the right workflow or if theres any other option/way it is intended to be used. 🙂
Thx

[hollow bluff]

How do you open someone’s project?

[sly bridge]

how is this relevant to this particular channel?

[hollow bluff]

I’m trying to figure out how to open it so I can learn to re model something like a sign for my unit my apologies

I’m just really confused

[hollow bluff]

How exactly?

[hollow bluff]

I tried doing this when I right click it doesn’t do anything and there is no add on section on the top just workbench editor view edit window utilities and plugins

[shell hedge]

check log console for errors

[hollow bluff]

How do I do that? I’m sorry this is just so new I have been trying to learn for weeks and nothing is really on YouTube I’m just so confused

[shell hedge]

theres a panel on your workbench screen that is named log console

[hollow bluff]

I opened it and see alot of code

I just don’t know how to open a modded project I’m trying to open this flag mod pack to figure out how to make my own flag

[shell hedge]

there may have been an error while opening it in which case it will be in the log console and you will have to correct it to open it

[hollow bluff]

We’re do you click to do that?

[shell hedge]

the errors will be logged into the log console

[hollow bluff]

Is it pluggins?

[hollow bluff]

I mean to open it

It says everything is running ok in logs

[shell hedge]

it should be on the bottom of the screen when you open workbench

[sly bridge]

no worries, wasn't sure what you meant in the context

[hollow bluff]

When I open tools I see projects which is blank and see add project

[shell hedge]

ok so open the project (or try to) first

[hollow bluff]

It dose not let me for some reason it just says scan add existing and create there is no open option

[shell hedge]

how about using the add project option to add the project you want to open

[hollow bluff]

That’s what I’m in rn

Do I do create new?

[shell hedge]

what do you mean? you said you wanted to open a project, therefore we assume it already exists

you create projects if you want to create projects

[hollow bluff]

Here my bad I’m pretty much asking how I pull a mod from the workshop and open it in my engine to look at how it was made

[shell hedge]

you download the mod in the game and then open it in workbench

they are saved in documents/my games/armareforger/addons

[hollow bluff]

But I do create a new project to do that correct?

[shell hedge]

create means "make new", add means "add existing"

[hollow bluff]

I just mean how do I open a mods file

Do I do scan?

[shell hedge]

1. download the mod in the game
2. add it in workbench
3. open

[hollow bluff]

How do I download mods in enfusion? I didn’t know you could do that

[shell hedge]

I've already said twice that it happens in the game

[hollow bluff]

I opened the launcher I downloaded the mod from the launcher what do I click?

[shell hedge]

game; as in, start the game, go to workshop, find the mod, click download

[hollow bluff]

I did that yes

I’m now in enfusion

[shell hedge]

so now open workbench and add the mod you downloaded earlier

[hollow bluff]

I clicked on workbench I see save save all options publish and exit

[shell hedge]

sounds like you are in some project now, so there you go

[hollow bluff]

So how do I open that person’s mod or is that not possible

[sly bridge]

define open a person's mod?

[hollow bluff]

I’m trying to learn how to make custom flags and signs that I can place in gm

So props

I think

[sly bridge]

you can load someone's elses mod in a project of your own

[shell hedge]

so add the project to the launcher and double click it to open, then hopefully workbench opens with the project loaded

[hollow bluff]

Where would I go to do that?

I don’t see load anywhere is what is confusing me

I’m in a project currently

[shell hedge]

so you opened the project, that's it

[hollow bluff]

Yes

Like a project

There is nothing here

[shell hedge]

so now you can look into how things work there

nothing in the folders?

can you show a screenshot?

[hollow bluff]

Yea

[shell hedge]

I don't see your project open with the downloaded addon, so you need to either:

• right click your project, then "open with addons" and select the mod you downloaded
  or if you did the above, check log console to see why the project didnt open

[sly bridge]

from the Enfusion Workbench Launcher - you create your new Project, you then right click it >Open with Addons > you pick the mod you want to load (or more than one), you tick the want you want and then you click open

[hollow bluff]

i dont see any mods those were just all the attmepts i made to try to learn

[shell hedge]

then ADD it

[hollow bluff]

how

[shell hedge]

press the Add Project button

[hollow bluff]

i just says create new scan and add existing

[shell hedge]

so, add it?

[hollow bluff]

i dont know how to

[shell hedge]

you just said it says "add existing"

[hollow bluff]

oh ok thank you

[shell hedge]

scan also works, as it will add all mods from a folder

[hollow bluff]

its add existing then you redrict to my games

[shell hedge]

it's also explained here https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Arma_Reforger:Mod_Project_Setup

[hollow bluff]

thank you

[shell hedge]

no thank you

[hollow bluff]

do you know anyone who would i just cant understand this by myself

its to confusing to me

[shell hedge]

I don't think it's even allowed to get paid for something like this

[hollow bluff]

oh

[shell hedge]

the wiki has a lot of information about this, it should cover most of the basics, all you need is time and patience

[hollow bluff]

i have tried the wiki the only problem is when i put police on the side of my vic it didnt stay when i downloaded my mod the only thing different about the uaz was the fact of it being blue so whenever i try to retexture it dose not stay

[shell hedge]

did you use a decal or was it part of the texture?

in both cases you'll probably need a good grasp on this:
https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Arma_Reforger:Prefabs_Basics
https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Arma_Reforger:Data_Modding_Basics

[hollow bluff]

my problem is i dont have photoshop so i use the microsft paint thing

[shell hedge]

doesnt matter how you create your texture, as long as it's correctly applied, see above links

[hollow bluff]

thx bacon

[ember obsidian]

Im currently learning how to add guns to Reforger and everytime I replace the M-16 3D model in my prefab with my 3D model I have no Reload sound but everything else works

[surreal ore]

@ember obsidian Show your xobs skeleton

Not sure but, i think you may be missing a "bone" that is the location the sound is supposed to play from

[ember obsidian]

That could be the issue yeah

Yeah pretty sure thats it

[surreal ore]

Show your rig

[ember obsidian]

The bones?

[surreal ore]

yes

[ember obsidian]

I have to note I bought that 3D model and I have no clue about 3D modeling so I tried to make it myself till my friend, wich has more clue about 3D modeling, gets online. So im pretty sure i did something wrong

[surreal ore]

This is what your rig should look like if you're planning on using the M16 prefab

[ember obsidian]

Copy

[wraith sundial]

Anyone have an idea where I would start to learn how to reskin weapons in reforger, I did some modding in arma 3 but I have no clue how to use enfusion. I’m trying to turn the rpg-7 into the pslr-2.

[steel hare]

Hello everyone, I got a short question regarding modelling a ladder.
I read through the Wiki with the environment metrics (https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Arma_Reforger:Environment_Metrics) and it says the first step should be in the height of 34 cm (above the ground / surface I recon) followed by the next step with a distance of 32 cm. Can one rely on the measurements which one sees in Blender?

[flint ivy]

Do we have the ability in Refrogger to change hand position based on attachment?

I know weapon lights arent in the base game yet and I dont know if the behaviour with grenade launchers would work the same?

Just wondering if for now I'll need to sidemount the weapon light to stop hand clipping?

[shell hedge]

yesn't

[covert gull]

hey, can anybody tell me how to add a collision to a prop. I can phase right through it on the world editor. I have a collider on and it's working as far as I can tell...

[last parcel]

if you have a collison model on it in the editor you need to add a rigid body

that has these settnings

[covert gull]

K thank you. I have added a rigid body component in blender so that was my confusion.

[thorny cobalt]

@slow tangle your'e posting in the wrong channels. Also you are crossposting and violating our #rules
This is the channel that you want.

If you have the source files for models, you can import them to Arma reforger

[slow tangle]

okay thank you and sorry

[slow tangle]

is it any tutorial how to do it?

[dry garnet]

simply change left hand to magazine grab like Specfor on the right https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2Fspeaking-of-neglected-cdlcs-any-love-for-csla-iron-curtain-v0-ut37874j2ujb1.jpg%3Fwidth%3D1920%26format%3Dpjpg%26auto%3Dwebp%26s%3D2a7615f27f1e404119660a85a75fda6131b6e380

[thorny cobalt]

https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Arma_Reforger:Enfusion_Blender_Tools:_P3D_Conversion

[flint ivy]

That works, but its not the feel I'd like to aim for. Will have a play around.

[flint vale]

I’m over here in blender trying to make a fast helmet for my mod but I’ve never used blender before and I have restarted multiple times and don’t know where to start, Amy tips?

[sly bridge]

yes. start with a box

and some tutorials. there is a blender discord if you want want that

[tacit eagle]

WIP

[faint fractal]

Hi, I have an issue where when I import my model it is missing a face even though it is showing in blender. any help would be appreciated 🙂 https://i.imgur.com/9XOzuET.jpeg https://i.imgur.com/T2aph9z.png https://i.imgur.com/Auhg3fk.jpeg

[tacit eagle]

Check for Flipped normals.

[light eagle]

You also may need to triangulate your mesh before exporting. Workbench will triangulate for you on import, but can sometimes delete faces.

[stuck kraken]

A rock solid "maybe". 🙂

[upper nebula]

Hello ! Im searching for a good video tutorial, about blender modelling > to Lods > to Enfusion engine , does anyone have some ressources ?

[sly bridge]

about LODs? or about importing LODs or what?

[upper nebula]

I was wondering about the LOD workflow, if this is something like "automatic" or have to be manually made, and if yes what are the rules about this

a good video tutorial from start to finish would be great, there is one on youtube that ive found but all the things are already ready on blender

[shell hedge]

decimate in blender or instalod, and so on are helpful

there is no fully automatic process for making LODs that is both efficient and good looking at the same time

[upper nebula]

thats clear ! thanks a lot

[surreal ore]

Unreal Engine does a great job

[shell hedge]

I believe you, but likely not good enough to not require any manual work to be quality

[surreal ore]

Manually creating them is always the best bet.

[calm rune]

It does but a 30GB application just for LODs isn't appealing. InstaLOD works great and it has a free license.

[shell hedge]

is it really a big deal? you download it once

[calm rune]

30GB application just for LODs 🤔

[shell hedge]

I mean, if it was good it would be worth it for me, 30GB is nothing either way

[calm rune]

lol

[shell hedge]

if a 30 GB tool worked better for me than a 1 GB tool then the additional space is justified

[calm rune]

what are you doing in InstaLOD that isn't giving you the results you want? If its a complex hard surface model then only way to get best results is manual LODs. Even unreal isn't going to solve your issues.

[shell hedge]

I'm not saying it's worse, I'm saying I'd use a 30GB tool over a 1GB tool if it was better for me

[calm rune]

I've used simplygon(no longer avaible), InstaLOD and Unreal. I didn't see a difference between the 3 for my work.

[shell hedge]

I am not discussing which one is the best, I am saying I would use the one that works best for me, not the one that takes the least amount of space

I don't know how to explain it differently, it's really simple

[calm rune]

I get it and im saying I didn't see different results that would put one better then the other on multiple different objects from HS to organic so I do not see the justification in 30gb applicaiton over a 1gb.

[shell hedge]

ok, I will decide this for myself on my own the next time I evaluate the software, currently I don't use either of the two but I'm sure a lot of people do

[sly bridge]

unreal used to use simplygon anyways

[calm rune]

Indeed

[stray bridge]

Anyone got a clue why I still cant hear the "interior" sound when e.g shooting inside the building?

got the EnvironmentProbeEntity set up (maybe setted it up wrong)

[upper nebula]

hello guys ! Im struggling to find a good youtube video for blender to Enfusion, trying to settup for example a collider with the UBX_ prefix, but thats not really working

when i import them on a map, no collisions

[covert dune]

Did you add a RigidBody component to the prefab ?

[upper nebula]

I dont think so !

never heard about this

[covert dune]

If you take a look at the other .et prefab files in the game you will notice a RigidBody, try setting one up

[upper nebula]

mhh lets check that ! thanks !

[last parcel]

Also an ubx collider is just a box more polygons makes it an utm

So make sure that you use the correct namning of it to

[upper nebula]

Like UTM_Collider ?

im a bit lost, my model is a .xob file, not an .et

[last parcel]

.et is just an prefab

In pinned there is an example of colliders

[upper nebula]

aaah ok !

didnt found that infos on the bohemia wiki

finally worked ! for those who ask , i had to add component rigid body + check Model Geometry , thanks a lot @covert dune and @last parcel

[karmic adder]

You might also want to check "Static" unless you want it to react to forces

Like e. g. driving into it or a bullet

[upper nebula]

Oh ok ! Thanks for the tip, didnt knew that

[half edge]

Hello everybody. I would like to create a patch bearing the image of my team that I could apply to the RHS Status Quo uniforms and helmet. Do you think it's possible? If so, does anyone know where I can find a patch preset? Thanks !

[deft rivet]

Hello, whenever I tick the check box "export skinning" and reimport my model from source it throws this skinning error. If I import it into an existing .et file for the S1203 the bones go all messed up. Any idea what this could be?

[wicked dirge]

to avoid having to figure out what component your prefab should have its highly advisable that you simply find a vanilla prefab most closely related to what you want to make. Then either inherit from it directly, or look for an appropriate parent of it to inherit from. Then change the references to the xob, name description etc. This also means that if BI updates their base prefab, yours will also be updated automatically

[midnight path]

ucx is convex hull, change it to utm and retry, also i would name it what ever object it is a collider of instead of collider itself

like UTM_mainbody_01

[deft rivet]

Did you read what error I asked about?

[deft rivet]

my main error is the upper skinning one

Thats what I'm trying to figure out rn

[midnight path]

the skinning weights or the geometry is not convex

[deft rivet]

what could that be?

Since if I tick the "import skinning" box

[midnight path]

im asking which one

[deft rivet]

skinning weights

body_main

[midnight path]

is what you are importing animated?

[deft rivet]

it has skeletons yes

it's a vehicle model

[midnight path]

body_main has a vertex group but its not assigned

thats what that error means

[deft rivet]

So I need to apply vertices to the v_root bone?

[midnight path]

if that specific part needs to be animated then yes

[deft rivet]

the v_root doesn't need to be animated

[midnight path]

usually i dont weight the body of the car

[deft rivet]

it's only connected to the main body

[midnight path]

just remove the vertex group from it and it should work

it should work regardless of that error though

i think your main problem is the naming of your collider

[deft rivet]

I can show you what my problem is in a second

[midnight path]

ok

[deft rivet]

@midnight path took a bit sorry

If I import the model into the s1203 mesh everything that has a bone rigged up to it is not in the correct place

you can see the doors floating and stuff

I don't know wether or not it has anything to do with that skinning error

[midnight path]

are you applying your imported mesh to the s1203 .et?

[deft rivet]

duplicated s1203 et yes

[midnight path]

disable the procanim component, save and re load and tell me if its still the same

best practice is to create your own car from the wheeled_vehicle_base.et

[deft rivet]

Thats what I originally wanted to do

But it would seem way too much work for a beginner project

[midnight path]

the workaround to make what you are doing, work, is alot harder

you will learn alot more if u make one yourself

[deft rivet]

The question is if I do all that will it fix my skeleton issue?

[midnight path]

yes

the issue is you are trying to use the animation and rigging setup that does not go with the bones you have

[deft rivet]

I'll take your word for it for now I guess. The collider is a blender naming issue right?

[midnight path]

the animations and everything for the s1203 is only for the armature it has, unless your bones are in the exact same orientation as the original vehicle, they will be all out of whack like you have

[deft rivet]

They shouldn't be in the same orientation

[midnight path]

thats what im saying

its expecting s1203 bones

but its getting your custom ones

[deft rivet]

right

what about the collider issues?

[midnight path]

UCX is for convex hull, if the mesh isnt convex just use UTM

and dont name it 'collider' name it off what it coincides with

[deft rivet]

So I should rename UCX_collider to UTM_Body_main?

[midnight path]

u can just put UCL_MT_TIRE_L01

dont have to have collider

[deft rivet]

yeah I know

[midnight path]

yes

[deft rivet]

alright

I'll give it a try

thanks so much for your help!

[midnight path]

no prob, i know how to do all the car stuff so if u run into anything else just ask

[deft rivet]

Yeah it's my first ever mod so

I'm still learning

[midnight path]

my first car took me like 5 weeks, now i can do them in a few hours

[deft rivet]

little more than a week in so far

many times where I wanted to shoot myself but it went okay enough to get to this stage

[surreal ore]

UCX*

[midnight path]

woops ty

[deft rivet]

@midnight path Hey, sorry to annoy you again. I tried to get rid of this skinning error but I can't find whats wrong, I added the missing v_body bone but it's still throwing the error

[tidal latch]

https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Arma_Reforger:Car_Creation#Setting_skeleton_&_rigging_mesh

in Body_main object you have some some vertex group which is assigned to only part of vertices

if you have skinning on object, then all vertices need to be skinned to at least one vertex group (max 5 I think)

[deft rivet]

having to do that would set me back by literal hours

What does it even do when I select all the body vertices to the root?

and what happens if I choose to ignore it?

[tidal latch]

having to do that would set me back by literal hours
impossible - it is fairly easy to do. If you are using Blender, you can edit mode start selecting vertices via Vertex Group menu and then invert selection and assign it to i.e. v_body

What does it even do when I select all the body vertices to the root?
some of the vertices will be influenced by two bones probably. For instance if door would be influenced by two bones and animation is trying to rotate single bone by 90 degrees, then influence on that bone would be split, meaning that door would only rotate by 45 degrees for instance

[deft rivet]

Thank you so much! That just saved me so much time

That also just fixed my error

Thank you alot!

[shut bloom]

Why are you using a stolen model from My Summer Car?

[clear stump]

my arma car

[deft rivet]

Developer does not care about his models being used in other games as mods

• going to stay private anyway

[thorny cobalt]

You posted screenshots of it here. With that it is already not private anymore

[deft rivet]

the developer literally does not give a single fuck about his models being used

not going to be uploaded to the workshop

Im just doing this for my personal enjoyment out of both games

[thorny cobalt]

I don't care what you do in private. But if you don't keep it private then its not private

[deft rivet]

I was just asking for help?

[covert dune]

Don't mean to get involved but, I mean if the developer doesn't care.

[silk glen]

oops

[sly bridge]

@timid swan #creators_recruiting

[wary inlet]

that looks quite... normals

[calm rune]

thats ah, quite the boolean cut you have there 😅

[uneven vessel]

the thousand edge blade

[silk glen]

why thank you sir

Moses subdivided the seas

[woven finch]

Anyone no where I can get some models from or does anyone make models.

[topaz willow]

CGTrader, TurboSquid, Sketchfab, and ArtStation Marketplace all come to mind

[woven finch]

Thx

[light vault]

I'm having problems in Workbench using the "Create/Update Selected Editable Prefabs" plug-in. When I run it it does nothing at all. It doesn't even write to the log. Any suggestions to get this working would be highly appreciated

[neat canopy]

I tryed to import my BSP, at first it gave me some face manifold errors but after I fixed that, my workbench just keeps crashing when I try to import my building :/ Has someone any advice? I followed the FBX Import documentation.

Or should I try to separate the first and second floor in one BSP each?

[light vault]

What's the BSP terminology? I've imported a building with portals successfully, but not used "BSP" under portals

[neat canopy]

I didn´t reply to your question, it was a question on my own sorry 🙂

[light vault]

...I know...I'm trying to help you out 😉

If you remove the BSP_House02 does it work?

[neat canopy]

It works without, but I want to make it work with the BSP, thx for your reply by the way 😁

They updated the Wiki article, BSP is a part of Portals and Probes that BI uses allready on there buildings, but now they relesed a proper documentation on how to do it

That´s what the wiki says to BSP:
BSP geometry is used in conjunction with portals for volume analysis, i.e., room placement, connectivity. The geometry should represent simplified sketch of the building with walls, openings, etc.

I think it also plays a role in indoor audio etc

[light vault]

OK. I've gotten probe volumes and portals to work (as far as I can tell) not using "BSP" ...maybe I'm missing something. Can you send me the documentation link refering to BSP?

[neat canopy]

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

[light vault]

Thanks

I'll try it out and see if I get the same problem

[neat canopy]

Sounds good, let me know if it works for you 🙂

[neat canopy]

That´s what it says shortly before crashing 😅

[covert gull]

anybody has any idea why this happens? every time i try to move it after placing in gm

[last hill]

Depends on how you have the model set up, skeleton, bones, animation workspace etc.

[little galleon]

Wow Are you making these Jets? 😮

[covert gull]

its just a staatic model, no bones or anims

[covert gull]

props for now. adams model is too complex.

[little galleon]

Ohhh Honestly it still looks cool 😄 Good work 🙂

[slim knoll]

Self explanatory but how do I hide the model from FP?

[covert gull]

fixed it I think. apparently vehicle collider layers don't like to mingle with Glass layers...

[last hill]

Opacity map set to a specific texture map which the name of alludes me, if you check a vanilla helmet it will be on their material. Then you have the two checkboxes near the alpha sliders. Again, alluding my brain right now.

[uneven vessel]

I had this same problem, found the solution here: #enfusion_model message

[surreal ore]

And it needs the ParametricMaterialInstanceComponet

[indigo halo]

morning guys, anybody is having troubles with the material overrides to retexture items? No matter what I try as soon as I save the prefab it shows the "original" texture

[shell hedge]

like this? #reforger_workbench message

[light vault]

I DM'ed you

[indigo halo]

Precisely. I tried to change the material in the mesh object, the usual oldmethod of putting material ovverides, no way it can work

[shell hedge]

this bug has been annoying me for months

but replacing the material in text editor and reimporting the prefab works

[indigo halo]

Ah! guess i'm going to give it a go

[shell hedge]

I also know that the clothes specific material overrides are even more buggy and using prefabs with meshobjects as worn models is the way to go

[surreal ore]

I can get it to work no problem

Other than sometimes, world editor shows the old material.

Not sure the exact order of operations.

[indigo halo]

My text editor seems fine, it shows the right material

[surreal ore]

But I literally just showed @topaz willow the other day

[indigo halo]

Might try to restart it and see if maybe it went kaboom for some reason

[surreal ore]

And I sent him an example mod.

[shell hedge]

ok then in my video I am the only one cursed with this random bug

[surreal ore]

No you're not.

[shell hedge]

YES I AM

[surreal ore]

Cashew had a far weirder bug

[indigo halo]

Gotta say the preview appears to be correct, but then when i place it on my unit it fails badly and shows the original thing

[shell hedge]

oh yea then its the worn override bug

just use a prefab with a meshobject itll work

as the worn model

[indigo halo]

did they plug the worn model into the _base prefab too? ok gotta investigate that. Brb

ok so, my prefab has the mesh object, the only solution i can think of is re-importing the xob to effectively duplicate it and assign it another material

less than optimal though

[shell hedge]

inside the cloth component

in worn item mesh

place your prefab

[indigo halo]

can not be registered at ModelSwitchManger because it doesn't have valid mesh object

when i put my prefab into the Worn Model

that's weird

in the BaseClothComponent

[shell hedge]

then make sure your prefab has a valid mesh object

[indigo halo]

It has, the same model with basic material shows up correctly 😦

I mean i'm doing a MARPAT combat shirt

the desert version (original material) works just fine

[shell hedge]

https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Arma_Reforger:Faction_Creation#Creating_retextures_using_overrides

its all in here

or rather here https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Arma_Reforger:Faction_Creation#Creating_retextures_using_prefabs

a bit up

[indigo halo]

ah I see

so it means, if i'm getting this correctly: I create a prefab for the recolor then I create another prefab which is going to be my final object which will have inside the previously created prefab

[shell hedge]

just read the wiki man, so much stuff is in there

[indigo halo]

i owe you a beer man

[silk glen]

i think most of us owe him a beer

[gloomy fable]

Does anyone else has an error when installing the enfusion plugin into blender?

[last hill]

Make sure you are running 3.6 LTS not the latest version of Blender.

[gloomy fable]

Thank you!

[indigo halo]

A caravan of beer then, so be it 😊

[slim knoll]

Are there any good clothing (jackets, vest, pants) tutorials?

[spiral hedge]

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

[tacit eagle]

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[slim knoll]

If you are just making a uniform, it doesnt need a faction. Just yeet it into a box you want or into all.

Or you can make a new faction for it if you really want.

[tacit eagle]

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@sly bridge can we get a channel for showcasing our models?

[past lava]

there is its #enf_showroom

[tacit eagle]

That's not for models that's for mods

[slim knoll]

Your best bet (aside from asking another modder) is to follow the tutorial on the wiki. Its above your original question.

[sly bridge]

here is fine…or artstation i suppose 😉

[upper nebula]

What do you think is the best way to model interiors in 3D while still having exterior walls that are regular in size (without going modular)? I'm not really used to making interiors for games, so I'm wondering about your workflow. the blender modifier solidify does the trick on simple interiors, but when the base is complex, the walls lose their regular depth, any idea or ressource or youtube video ? Thanks

[lament solar]

Solidify modifier and then some manual merging

[leaden trench]

you can start with a 2D floorplan and extrude walls up from it; the walls have whatever thickness they have in the floorplan.

[gusty needle]

Maybe start with Autodesk. Make the floorplan and then extrude walls up.
Then export it to blender for entity placement and then export everything to enfusion

[stray bridge]

everyone got his/her own workflow (kinda) tbh. Some are more "professional" some are less. There are many roads leading towards rome

[last parcel]

^ true you gotta find the workflow that works best for you.

[upper nebula]

@leaden trench , @gusty needle , @lament solar , @stray bridge , @last parcel , Thank you for your answers, I've tested quite a few things since I asked this question, on Blender, the integrated addon called Archimesh is interesting and for a simple house shape for example, it can be a speed gain on the workflow, although it's not my main goal, I finally understood that my shape wasn't acting correctly with the Solidify modifier because the scale transformation wasn't being applied, so it seems to be working fine for me, for the moment, until I hit a dead end again .

[turbid crow]

@sly bridge sorry to bother you, but is it possible to build a map to play on in blender and then have the files transported over to enfusion?

[sly bridge]

no

[shell hedge]

depends on the definition of the map, but probably not worth it for anything other than height and satmap

[raw grove]

You could make tools to do it most likely.

[turbid crow]

I don't have a pc, i have a mac and i have blender

[sly bridge]

i don't think you can actually 100% negate the need of the terrain editor in workbench altogether. At least for publisher you would still need it running, and it doesn't on OSX

[shell hedge]

just install windows on it

virtualization may or may not work, but none of it is worth it

[light vault]

Has anyone else tried importing a "BSP" mesh into Workbench with a FBX building model? This seems to always result in Workbench crash if "Force Create Portals" import option is NOT checked (which is required to be unchecked according to the documentation). Seems like it's broken

[last hill]

Did you do a search? I recall this issue being reported and a fix was explained at some earlier date. I could be mistaken though, just rings a bell.

[light vault]

Yeah, I searched back, but there doesn’t seem to be a resolution as far as I can see.

@leaden trench did you get BSP import to work with “Force Create Portals” unchecked and without Workbench crashing?

[brisk tangle]

not sure if this was posted before but this is neat!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EemmDmGaLyg

[leaden trench]

I will try it soon. reyhard updated the fbx import wiki page recently with info on how to build the mesh and name etc.

[willow sage]

Nice ones!

[light vault]

Thanks. Yes, that’s what I’ve been looking at. I’ve built a test model using BSP mesh plus portals as documented and unless “Force Create Portals” is checked (which is supposed not to be) Workbench crashes

[brisk tangle]

how do i make the uk-59L sights fold down when i attach a red dot, its got a bone to do it but idk how to make it do that

[leaden trench]

It crashes for me too. I was getting errors because it wants perfect topology, so I fixed the topology and now it crashes.

[shell hedge]

now topology too good

[minor sable]

Does anyone know how to hide helmet in FPV, I added HeadClipping_A.edds to the opacity map checked "Allow User Alpha Bias" and "Disable User Apha In Shadow " already had ParametricMaterialInstanceComponent in the prefab which is GameEntity. I have 3 material, did all material stuff on all of them. Does anyone know what I am doing wrong?

[light vault]

Exactly. Thanks. Needs to be logged as a bug.

On a seperate topic. Do you have issues with the “Create / Update Selected Editable Prefab” plugin? It used to work, now it seems to do nothing. Not even write to the log. Would you mind testing it?

[leaden trench]

I never used it so I wouldn't even know what expected behaviour to look for.

[light vault]

The plug-in creates an “editable” version of the prefab. Adds a couple of components and places a copy of the prefab (with an “E_” prefix) in the “PrefabsEditable” folder. Apparently this is required for having mods appear in Game Master mode

When I run the plug-in, it doesn’t even write to the log. Does nothing.

[last hill]

Make sure you are using the headgear slot, safest method is to inherit from the helmet_base prefab and input your stuff.

[wicked dirge]

great models!

[tacit eagle]

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[surreal ore]

Add socks lol or make sure that your shoes actually cover the feet completely. If they cover the feet completely then you can remove the hiding of the feet from the prefab .

[tacit eagle]

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[surreal ore]

It's there.

[tacit eagle]

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[surreal ore]

If you can't find it, then you might want to do some more studying before trying to make mods.

[tacit eagle]

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[surreal ore]

That's because I changed what I typed to be as polite as I was gonna be.

[wicked jasper]

In BaseLoadoutClothComponent

[tacit eagle]

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[wicked jasper]

What you fill/remove in the array can be found in the xob of the character xob. Go to the LODs tab and then extend the "Meshes" thing

[tacit eagle]

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[minor sable]

Thanks that fixed it, I was inheriting from the headgear_base.et instead of headgear_helmet_base.et.

[uneven vessel]

hey friends, I've got an issue with my weapons where when I use sights when prone they move back and the eye point clips through the rear sight/pip scope plane - I don't see this happening with vanilla guns.

I'm pretty sure it's something petty like my colliders being wrong or the eye point being behind where the head can go when prone or something, but I'm not sure what I'd need to do to fix it - has anyone else seen this?

I've added a video showing the same movement through the M21 vs my FAL

(aware this might be a configuration issue but this seemed like the first best place to ask)

[last hill]

It is actually present on vanilla weapons just not as often, shadow has been complaining to BI about the issue. Try using the M21 as your base - duplicate and adjust the m21 workspace for your anims and see if that helps.

Multiple weapons have the issue, its not you.

[uneven vessel]

Ok cool - yeah the FAL is based on a dupliacte of M21_base

I will say it's a lot more prone to happening on the things I make than the vanilla ones

[last hill]

The animation workspace is from the M21 as well?

[uneven vessel]

yup

[last hill]

You can take a look through your workspace at the prone ik blend stuff in the graph, there are multiple settings inside the workspace directly now.

[uneven vessel]

hmm ok I'll take a peek and see if I can figure anything out - thanks!

[last hill]

Share anything you discover if it helps, a lot of other folks would appreciate it. pop any follow up on the animation channel 😉

[uneven vessel]

👍

[barren nexus]

Does anyone have to share or is willing to write a quick bullet point guide that shows how to give a model solidity? PuFu gave me some info and links to BI forums but TBH I'm floundering.
I have a building, I can walk though it... the walls.
Using the Enfusion Workbench and Blender 3.6 as directed by BI.

[surreal ore]

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

This explains how to create colliders.

Once you import your fbx and register it. Drop it into your world and add a rigidbody component to it. In the rigidbody component tick model geometry

[barren nexus]

Thank you, Zelik, I've taken an existing model, a garage, and copied (mimicked) the configuration. I must have missed something in relation to the colliders. Again thank you.

[tepid relic]

Out of curiosity, does the 50m geometry bug still exist in Reforger?

[leaden trench]

What's "the 50m geometry bug"?

If it's some wierd Arma 3 quirk then the answer is most definitely no.

[surreal ore]

I've imported a cube that was 1 mile x 1 mile x 1 mile and there seemed to be no issues.

[stray bridge]

Basic Import Tutorial for a model

• create a colliders mesh
• Rename the default folder to Colliders (screenshot 3)
• rename it with the fitting collider name (https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/File:armareforger-fbx-import-colliders-all.jpg)
• review screenshot 1
• in this case I used BuildingFireView (for a building) (screenshot 2) using the addon that comes with AR tools (install it in blender)
• export everything as fbx
• drag and drop into your mod project inside tools
• add rigidbody component to the mesh object (screenshot 4)
• set it up correctly / how you want it to be
• this is set up so it got collision (model geometry) e.g. static for a building (screenshot 4)
• create a prefab (.et) by drag and drop the entity from ur gameworld into a folder. Name it

I may forgot something or described it wrong / missleading

[barren nexus]

Thanks Ben, I'll continue to look at this in the morning. Cheers for taking the time to respond.

[violet smelt]

Hey there imported FBX w/ baked mats from my blender file my mats arent showing
any help?

my emats aren't importing

[violet smelt]

Enfusion Tools - FBX Export WARNING - Material Glass_body is not Enfusion material, won't be exported!

mfw when you find out its only used to "assign" textures

[mint summit]

Someone who is really good at making models, I have a model made and everything but now that it’s in game I have to make adjustments I am very new to this so if an experienced person could help me out I’d appreciate it.

[sly bridge]

#creators_recruiting

[mint summit]

Thank you very much for this!

[gloomy fable]

Hey guys, as a beginner I tried to create slung-helmet slot with zeliks mod. Unfortunately I can only link the helmet to one loadoutarea. What would it take to create a second loadoutarea in the helmet prefab?

[rose galleon]

Hi guys, off the top of your heads, is there a correct name or specific word for like those models/objects that sorta blend into terrain, to give it depth, like this object:

I'm trying to google for techniques people use for making this kinda stuff, but searching for "3d modelling the but that goes on top of terrain but is a actually a 3d model" doesn't really help 😂

[fathom bolt]

the hard work here is the texture, for the 3d itself you can to do it by hand in 3dsMax or Blender... For the texture maybe you can find one in internet and apply it on your model or substance designer/painter

check in Workbench without texture for the 3D

not to hard i think

[sly bridge]

hmmm….where is the model from?

[clear stump]

This shit needs to be done using an object or something

So if the terrain is

__/--

You need some object to do the blending

_>-/--

Imagine the -- are on top

[rose galleon]

Yeah I get that

I just mean like do we have a specific name for that type of object

or do we just call it faux terrain thingy

[sly bridge]

@rose galleonwhat it is you want to achieve?

from the image above, it is just a simple model with a texture on top.

[rose galleon]

I just wanted like a good search term in google to see how other people have gone about creating similar objects, in terms of like blender and texturing the lower half

Before I make anything, I obviously just like to see what others are doing to get a vibe to see if the way I am thinking about approaching it would be efficient or not

[sly bridge]

very unlikely to find on google precisely this sort of 3d model, especially since it is not a hero object

[rose galleon]

Yeah fair, understood o7

[uneven vessel]

try looking up megascans & environmental artist / tutorials

[sly bridge]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1227205508671344662/1227206739057971241/IMG_0078.png?ex=66279056&is=66151b56&hm=35c7a7241b78f12185305ce52d180e45e343ad5d5b8a41f9bd825a2849bcbba0&

this is the sort of topology you should be aiming for (density can vary of course), and you can also use a a seamless (at least horizontally) texture

the model should also be larger than the space you want to fill, and you can easilly create a set of such objects for various purposes (different lenghts and sizes)

[rose galleon]

📝 Cheers!

I'll have a crack at it and see what I can come up with

[wary inlet]

terrain-object texture blending would be amazing

[fiery fossil]

how would i go about importing a building from blender to Arma Tools?

[clear stump]

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

[supple gust]

do you want it?

[junior flare]

Anyone have any idea why UCX_VS_body and UCX_VC_body003 arent showing up in the workbench? ive set up the colliders and materials correctly but still doesnt seem to import them. seems like i keep getting this error.

[surreal ore]

Embankment

[deft owl]

For the reason outlined in the error message. Those two bodies are not convex, and therefore workbench won't import them as valid collision with the UCX prefix. In blender you can automatically make a mesh convex. https://docs.blender.org/manual/en/latest/modeling/meshes/editing/mesh/convex_hull.html

[junior flare]

ah sweet ill check it out thanks!

[sly bridge]

did you make it? is the download link free?

[tacit eagle]

and here i am exporting RDR2 models haha

https://tenor.com/view/muahahaha-gif-20097927

[fiery fossil]

how do you set up th colisions the wiki is hella confusing

[tacit eagle]

Brother. he wants to know if you downloaded the model from somewhere or if you made it from scratch or if you stole the model from somewhere.

[junior flare]

its very confusing your right the base of it is copying all the colliders and making sure they all have the right materials and names, when it comes to the convex i just messed around with the convex stuff untill i got it to work

[fiery fossil]

gotcha thanks man ill give it a try

[meager pendant]

Truck M923A1 replace thread

[fiery fossil]

so i have got the collisions done but struggling now with making bullets impact on the walls of my building any tips?

[surreal ore]

Yeah, add a fire geometry

[opaque mural]

I think I'm doing something wrong here, I'm trying to export a car based on the sample mod new car, but when I export I get the xob and that works, but then when replacing the model in the prefab it doesn't have any of the memory points working anymore. am I exporting from blender wrong or something? How do I export and keep all of the memory points and stuff so the doors and windows go where they should be?

[last hill]

In the xob import settings when you double click the xob file in Workbench, check the box export skinning and model hierarchy then hit reimport mesh in Workbench. If it is exported properly, those settings will then populate.

[opaque mural]

Thank you! I think that was part of the issue likely. it seems like exporting through the plugin was also a problem, but exporting through blender's normal file>export worked

[fiery fossil]

is there anywhere where i can get a scale arma character to put in blender to use as scale reference?

maybe a vehicle too

[deft owl]

https://github.com/BohemiaInteractive/Arma-Reforger-Samples/tree/main/SampleMod_NewCharacter/Assets/Characters/SampleCharacter

https://github.com/BohemiaInteractive/Arma-Reforger-Samples/tree/main/SampleMod_NewCar/Assets/Vehicles/Wheeled/SampleCar_01

[fiery fossil]

Legend!!

[lilac condor]

hello! been told to come here for some help?

basically, ive made my mod. confirmed it works in the arsenal but its possitoned to far to the side, has no collisons, and says it has 241 bones.

[sly bridge]

i would assume that is for a character. see the pinned messages in this channels for samples avialable via wiki / github

[rustic quiver]

Does Enfusion have support for RMA textures?

[karmic adder]

No, you will need to change the channel distribution.
The Enfusion materials support:
BCR texure (Base Color in RGB, Roughness in A)
NMO texture (Normal in RG, Metalness in B, AO in A)

There are also some additional formats, but not RMA. More info here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/19VrUpAId4UGjykBw1rTP375Q9l2udNIEHPhTzqEgrSc#heading=h.rmel90eb1clw

[rustic quiver]

Thanks will take a look. I have some assets I bought from cgtrader that have RMA textures.

[karmic adder]

You should be able to convert them using e. g. an advanced image editor.

[arctic cedar]

is there a way to hide the character model? changing the mesh object or disabling it crashes the engine

[drifting cobalt]

is there any tutorial about creating .emat file?

[worthy hinge]

Hey guys, I'm looking for character and head template for blender. The official ones not working for me in blender and I don't know why... Is here somebody who would share his blender project or something? Thank you!

[fiery fossil]

@worthy hinge

try the animation updated one

[worthy hinge]

I will, but as I said, the official ones can't import to the blender 😕

[fiery fossil]

btw do you have something about importing textures too?

[fiery fossil]

once im home and infront of computer ill try to help

[worthy hinge]

thank you!

[worthy hinge]

not at all. Anyway, animation update not working too.....

[surreal ore]

This isn't related to model making, also don't cross post, as per the rules of the server.

[surreal ore]

Right click in resource browser and create a material.

[drifting cobalt]

I see, is there any tutorial about create the material in enfusion

I don’t know how to use these textures

[silk glen]

sorry if its hard to see

Imported my weapon sling into substance painter from blender and for some reason its failing to import all the faces. Any idea why? I googled and found that sometimes the model is "Overcomplicated for the program" so you need to triangluate your faces so i did that and the problem persisted.

its happening to the sling sash and the metal tip

the keeper and the ring are fine

[covert dune]

Are you sure its failing to import them or are maybe the normals just flipped ?

[topaz willow]

In Blender, swap to the 2nd option in the top right of the viewport (can’t remember what it’s called specifically), then press the down arrow on it and check (or maybe uncheck) backface culling to see if the normals need to be flipped or not on the mesh

[silk glen]

roger

[topaz willow]

If the faces disappear, you need to flip normals. If they stay, probably another issue then

[silk glen]

backface culling is unchecked

[topaz willow]

What was it originally? Checked or unchecked?

[silk glen]

orginally unchecked

[topaz willow]

I’d check it then, and see if the faces disappear

[silk glen]

aight

[topaz willow]

I’m just not at my PC at the moment so can’t confidentially say which does which lol

[silk glen]

faces disappear when i tick it. im guessing theyre supposed to lol

[topaz willow]

Yup, so looks like you need to flip your normals for that mesh

Which as far as how to do it, you go into edit mode and select the faces on the mesh (probably all of it), then go to the options at the top, do Mesh > Normals > Flip Normals

[silk glen]

ill give it a go

[covert dune]

yeah go into edit mode, press A, then alt+N and Recalculate Outside

[silk glen]

ill try this

flipping fixed most of it but now these last segments are being wonky

woohoo

@covert dune@topaz willow you are both scholars and saints

[covert dune]

[rancid silo]

Belt?

[nocturne quartz]

I dont think slings ever look good in games

[rancid silo]

Do you know Brother in Arms HH game?

[nocturne quartz]

no but go on

[gloomy fable]

Simple question: Does anyone know how to make backpacks restable for weapons?

[surreal ore]

Wdym by that?

[nocturne quartz]

he wants the ability to rest weapons on the backpack, maybe while still on the player

[gloomy fable]

yes, but only when it is dropped on the ground.

[surreal ore]

I read "nestable" for weapons lol

[nocturne quartz]

I dont think the droppable equipment has collusion

or what ever mesh bipods needs

if you go on the workbench you can see which meshes are used with things that work on resting weapons and see what the dropped uniforms use.

[surreal ore]

You can bring back the collision of the backpack when it's dropped. And set it's layer preset

So I don't see why it wouldn't be possible

[gloomy fable]

I believe you mean to enable the clothnodestoragecomponent, I will try that, thanks.

[surreal ore]

No I don't. Lol

[devout dawn]

Is there a list of model sizes anywhere? Like door width / height etc?
I tried importing a bungalow based on some old A3 settings, an it looks quite small when put next to a reforger house lol.
Or is there a test house like A3 had, that I can import into blender to get measurements?

[neat canopy]

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

[devout dawn]

Oh wow that's a great help, thanks!
Also nice to see this stuff being written down in one place 😄

[tacit eagle]

Flipped normals ?

[silk glen]

yep that and recalculated outsides

[silk glen]

gorgeous work bro

[clear stump]

i dont think so, but can text be added to a player, and that text be changed in game? For example the usual tag with surnamw

[surreal ore]

If you write the functionality then sure.

[clear stump]

Yeah but can the game recognize a textboxt or the only alternative is a hacky script that adds a letter on one texture layer?

[fathom bolt]

Name of players are displayed if i remember so maybe you can tweak it or use it as your own

[gloomy fable]

I ran into a problem with trying to balance ballistic protection of several vanilla cars.
metal1mm.gamemat is changing the vehicle S105 protection and metal3mm.gamemat is changing the uaz452 protection. Changing the thickness to "Value/MIN 1.6mm" and "Value/MIN 4.6mm" have the desired result punching through both steel layers of the vehicle body (I want 556x45 to be stopped by the second layer). The S1205 is even worse, it is also changed by the 1mm.gamemat, but has an effective protection of 50 percent in comparison to the s105 vehicle.
However now the uaz452 is a tank, and has exit holes even when no damage gets transferred. Why do the models have such a big difference in steel thickness and how can I make them evenly protected?

[covert rune]

Hello,
Someone have a good video tutorial for correctly rigging a vehicle in Blender for import inside WB ?

[surreal ore]

That isn't specific for Reforger. Just look up a rigging tutorial for Blender.

[slow turret]

Finally got around to making the powerline cables work for my suspension bridge, and it works great until I try to add the vertical cables ... I guess the twirl from the material is added only with horizontal distance. Any idea?

[nocturne quartz]

yeah maybe you could make a small uv for it and use the negative uv space

[honest pine]

Hello everybody can someone help to make a simple skinning to bone in order to make a hat ? I have my model set bu for any reason it seems I can't skin it well in blender ending in a floating hat not following the head.. thx for any help

[surreal ore]

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

Iirc the samples include a sample helmet. If you don't know how to rig things look up a Blender tutorial.

Also your problem might be in your export settings for Blender or Workbench

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

[slow turret]

Thanks! Scaling it smaller worked!

[honest pine]

Thank you Zelik ! And thanks for your mods !

That helmet sample might just be what I needed

[surreal ore]

No worries, I hope you get it sorted.

[honest pine]

I hope too !

[drifting cobalt]

How do I create a model collision? use the RigidBody

[last hill]

In the samples there is a collider example file, take a look in there.

[drifting cobalt]

thx, I will look at the sample

[surreal ore]

@drifting cobalt this explains proper fbx importing

[honest pine]

Thanks dear Lord Zelik, I figured out I needed not to apply the armature modifier in order to leave the hat skinned

[surreal ore]

Glad you figured it out.

[drifting cobalt]

yep, I read this wiki and leant how to create a collider

[slow turret]

In the end, I could not get the cable-prefab to work vertically even though uv scaling did the trick visually. Ended up making a simple sylinder and adding the material on it instead, but the net result with the cables plus that is pretty cool

[nocturne quartz]

whats cool

[neat canopy]

Awesome!

[torpid flame]

i have a question i am working on it for a long time now. But i can't seem to figure out what the problem is. I want to implement a new weapon with an integrated optic but somehow the optic does not work and i don't know why, i did the same as told in the tutorial on the enfusion wiki, but i just don't want to work. If i use the pip2d scope it is just like looking through a lens without any scope

[torpid flame]

am i allowed to add at the pip2d scope component as a child to the weaponComponent

[surreal ore]

is that what the tutorial said to do?

[torpid flame]

no but am trying to make a the aug a1 and the scope is included in the weapon, that is my problem. If it would be a single scope i would just inherate the prefab of the ARTII optic

[surreal ore]

Then you didn't actually follow a tutorial. You followed most of a tutorial then made up some steps yourself, and then wondered why it didn't work....

[torpid flame]

thats reason i am asking. If i would have found any other source i would have troed it that way

i saw that in the weapons component part is a child called sights component, so i thought i might work in there but i does not. And i kinda lost on how to fix that now

[torpid flame]

If anyone got a solution i would be really thanlfull

[worthy hinge]

Hey guys, I wrote here a week ago about my problem with official sample character or sample headsize import to the blender. I've still this problem with import and with animationRigupdate.blend eather. Is somebody here who can try to export skeleton from blender for me? I've got some pieces of clothing done and I really need bones. Thank you, guys for your help!

I've got blender 3.6 btw

[honest pine]

Maybe you can try to overpass the problem by designing your scope marking as ironsight front and rear ?

[honest pine]

https://www.mediafire.com/file/neiw8xk1f03o9fx/QuebecsSkeletonForStuff.fbx/file maybe try this one

[worthy hinge]

Will do sir, thank you

[torpid flame]

Hm i mean there is a ironsight on top of the scipe and that is working. But i don't think this will work bc u need a texture for the crosshair and thats nit given in the ironsight

[honest pine]

Mmhh yeah I see.. I'm sorry buddy I'm not helping that good

[torpid flame]

I mean you are trying thats all that counts😅😁

[honest pine]

btw, I might be very interested in your work as I am myself trying to import a new bullpup to reforger. I figured out how to get it in the game but don't know how to change animation so hands act like holding an AR-15

[honest pine]

So now I don't know what are the role of snap_hand_right and snap_hand_left . I mean, I would have think at least my character would hold the weapon correctly and act weird only when I use action like aim or reload ?

[torpid flame]

I can help u with that if u want

[honest pine]

It would be a pleasure

[torpid flame]

Rn i am doing some stuff for university but later i csn try

[honest pine]

Shoot me a PM whenever you have some spare time will be just fine !

[last hill]

Can you link to the original issue you mention posting regarding the samples? I have the samples and have zero issues with them with a blank sample character blend file. What is the issue?

[worthy hinge]

This is the issue msg by Blender. It doesnt matter if is the fbx or .blend

Behind the file is just file adress

[last hill]

You're hitting File - Open - navigating to Character_Weights_Template.blend and hitting open?

[worthy hinge]

Ofc I do

And this gonna happen

[last hill]

Did you reinstall Blender?

[worthy hinge]

I tried yesterday

[last hill]

Like fully delete it and reinstall everything including your configurations etc?

[worthy hinge]

Same issue

Hmmm, not at all. Will try

[surreal ore]

@worthy hinge https://discord.com/channels/105462288051380224/360679067395031050