enfusion_model

[loud mist]

tried it on another project aswell it done the same thing game keeps crashing

[leaden chasm]

Is this set in stone forever (Reforger and Arma4) or is there a chance it might change in the future?

[olive fern]

There is many vanilla trimesh colliders in the game, they work but are not the most efficient

[patent flower]

Hi all , is there a way to offset the worn version of a model? im trying to set up some pouches on webbing belt, when in item they line up perfect but when worn they are too high

[leaden chasm]

They don't collide with terrain unfortunately.

[olive fern]

wdym?

[burnt temple]

why does the tree looks blown out in the world than in the asset viewer?

[deft owl]

Different lighting. You can modify the background scene in asset viewer with a different sky so it looks more similar to world view

[faint viper]

Anyone knows why the head collider is giving me this?

[shell hedge]

Hover mouse pointer over the warning icon

Or something

[faint viper]

"fixed, for anyone that will have same issue it wasnt properly set in the reimport settings, you have to put it to FireGeo if its blank"

[shell hedge]

It should be somewhere in there

[faint viper]

yeah managed, thanks bacon

[shell hedge]

The vanilla character uses firegeo there?

[faint viper]

seems

[cunning void]

Can you tell me?
After linking the Bones to the objects, after importing, the model moves away from 0, the coordinates and the chassis detach from the main model and they have a crazy size.

[glossy prairie]

Why is w_fire_mode not working properly?

[remote palm]

Because the location of your bone(s) seem to not be on 0,0,0 - but this is something for #enfusion_animation if you need further help 😄

[void goblet]

Hi, I tried importing a model that has bones but they don't show up at all in Enfusion

[remote palm]

Have you reimported your model?

[leaden trench]

You could fix the shadow under fire selector by removing the switch from high-poly mesh. If you are baking with low-poly continue to but with the selector switch removed.

[mortal marsh]

https://streamable.com/wgdkpb

Got my first ever door anim working 😂 Only a small victory, but Im proud all the same 🙌

[cunning void]

Can't it be opened from the other side?

[mortal marsh]

It does work from the other side, but its a very specific use case for our unit so not really that important either way

[honest pine]

Just tweak the action to be display not onmnidirectional but angle based and define angle

[fluid fern]

Hi all,
Since 1.3, I can't quite figure out the new blender plugin, especially the BSP check. Has anyone tried it out yet?

[astral hull]

Apply transforms in blender

Ctrl+a

[drowsy geode]

Hey there, sorry to bother!

I have been working at adding some models into the game and have fully brought everything over, but it seems certain character models slightly deform the helmet I have created and imported. It works fine with the character model provided in the Sample; but any of the other models slightly differ and certain parts of my helmet such as the front seem to bend upwards, or become distorted in shape.

Anyone experienced this before and knows how to address it?

(I am very inexperienced and have just started this, so I apologize if this is something self explanatory.

[faint wyvern]

i kept unistaling an closing down both workbench an blender untill it finaly let me use it again

[faint wyvern]

i aslo had to switch blender to 4.2

[calm isle]

Anyone know why a rigged mesh won't actually follow the character? It's rigged and the .xob viewer realizes that, I triple checked all my settings and nothing is out of place

[fiery fossil]

My guess is weight painting or it’s not actually linked to the skeleton

[surreal ore]

Scale probably wasn't applied to the mesh before exporting

[calm isle]

Thanks both of you, ok check both those things, they should both be fine but it won't hurt to check

[solar heron]

I used trimesh now for 10 models or so...and cant notice any impact on performance

Any ideas what shader or hack i can use to make the canister more look like thin plastic and not like a solid block. is there a way to make subsurface scattering or similar for models like this?

[leaden chasm]

My take was not performance but not fully supported Dynamic mode. From my experience dynamic trimesh sometimes collides with other objects and never with terrain

[fallow pond]

you cant make your own shaders afaik, so you cant have something like hl alyx vodka bottles. maybe with elements you can try to make something similar to liquid. but to make the container you just have to create the inside part which is easy and use alpha map to give it some transparency

I don't know if SSS is used in arma. maybe if you look at the player mesh you can find something in the materials that suggest its possible or the leaves for the trees but I dont think its in the game.

[solar heron]

The liquid inside isnt important for me...more something like you mentioned second. Hmm i will take a look at the leaves... there is something like sss for sure i think. But dont know if its work correctly in my case

[solar heron]

Hmm i dont know for sure...but my dst (destroyed) meshes for some models are colide also with the terrain.

[wicked dirge]

You can't make your own shaders

[quiet summit]

Why are the faces not rendering, even though they are shown as correctly oriented in Blender?

[solar heron]

Did you apply the transforms. Sometimes when you join some elements and after apply transforms (happens also at the export) some faces are wrong... Try to apply transforms and inspect the faces again.

[fiery fossil]

Go into edit mode and press “a” to select all the press “shift+n” to flip/recalculate normals. That should fix the issue.

[tidal latch]

https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Arma_Reforger:Character_Gear_Creation/Vest/Asset_Preparation#Importing_model
Make sure that you have 🟥 230 bones in total 🟥 and there is at least one skinned bone - i.e. 1 + 229

In Details tab, you can find current amount of bones and dummies in Bones section. First number represents amount of bones and second, number of dummies. By default, bones which are not affecting any mesh (there is no Vertex Group representing it)

[short abyss]

Love the happy shake at the end 😂

[rancid cape]

Do the fbx for watches need to be rigged and weight painted?

[shell hedge]

Just stumbled upon this, it renders thumbnails for fbx and some other formats in Windows Explorer, not sure if useful for anyone https://github.com/EYHN/space-thumbnails

[calm isle]

Appreciate it, I actually found out I was using the old, old skeleton 😂

[strong burrow]

Hey y'all. I have some shoes I am working on. I rigged them up, brought them in and textured them. Everything is working except for the model and emat previews in tools. Is there something I am missing?

Getting this error in the Log Console
Thumbnail request processing timeout in phase 2

[crimson sail]

does anyone know what Enfusion supports for texture resolutions from SP?

Is it just 1024 or can I go to 4k?

[shell hedge]

You can go for 4k but you usually shouldnt

[crimson sail]

Gotcha, my export from SP is creating different texture sets for the materials. Do I have to make one material only in Blender or is there a way I can apply the materials to the individual parts of the model in Workbench?

[stray bridge]

you can apply the textures to the materials in workbench, you should use as less different materials as possible

[cloud rampart]

When I import an asset with the character's armature, it gets imported rotated. Is something wrong? I read that it's no longer necessary to rotate the weight-painted model

[surreal ore]

Then you're using the wrong character template blend file

[cloud rampart]

What is the right one? I'm using the one mentioned in the updated documentation

[river mango]

not sure if this is the right place

has anybody tried fixing some of the oddities with the RHS t14 here?

[livid hull]

I think this happens with the latest template but it should still be fine in the world itself. If not just set a rotation in blender and apply it before you import it

[eternal jewel]

can someone help on why my custom helmet is visible in first person? it blocks the view on certain POVs

[shell hedge]

Go to the material of your helmet and find and enable:

• Enable user alpha bias
• Enable alpha blending

Under general tab

[eternal jewel]

thanks alot!

[faint viper]

what could be the issue? First screenshot is the prefab for the character, 2nd is the actualy prefab used on the actual character, is like the teeths are broken for the skeleton... For now i've tried to link them in the riggin with the spine3-head but didnt work out, and same result while making them 1mesh with the head

i made sure they are linked properly into blender, as even in posemode they follow up perfectly the head, but still this happens

[tidal latch]

what is happening when you try to move spine3 bone in Resource Manager viewport?

[faint viper]

they dont follow up

[tidal latch]

do you have any warnings in Log Console when reimporting this model?

keep in mind number of bones

Export Skinning: loads skinning data (required only if there is skeleton available, maximum 4 bones can affect single vertex)

[faint viper]

bones should be correct, no errors

[tidal latch]

so are you sure teeth are influenced by just one bone?

Missing Armature modifier maybe?

[faint viper]

So i parent it with the spine/head, a before i forgot to add the armature, if i do it actually goes like this @tidal latch...

[fading wren]

Well I got my first model ready and working in Enfusion! Yay! :D🥳

[steel hare]

How can I prevent that all LOD from my model are merged into LOD0 when I import it to workbench?

[last parcel]

by naming them correctly.

object_LOD0
object_LOD01
object_LOD02
and so on

[shell hedge]

Smol correction _LOD0 _LOD1 _LOD2

[steel hare]

ah thanks a lot guys! I had a typo and it was .LOD1, .LOD2 etc

[shell hedge]

But also make sure they are actually different meshes, multiples of the same mesh can be merged automatically

[steel hare]

like that you mean?

[shell hedge]

looks fine

[steel hare]

Thank you!

[last parcel]

LOD01 and LOD02 works fine too.

[shell hedge]

Does it strip out the 0? Automatically

[last parcel]

yea, seems so

[shell hedge]

Oh ok cool I had no idea thank you

[steel hare]

Thanks a lot for today guys! With your help I managed to import two of my models into workbench

[shell hedge]

[remote palm]

Looks really good!

[faint viper]

sorry to bother you reyhard, do you think maybe having them as item could be a solution? because atm i keep having this issue where is just impossible to make it work for some reasons

[tidal latch]

the issue seems to be skinning so thats why I didn't replied any further

perhaps you used before "relations" instead of skinning and thats why you see it misplaced upon import

[faint viper]

what does that mean sorry

[tidal latch]

isolate teeth and try one by one determine which thing is influencing it

my bet is on Relations in Objects tab

[cosmic solstice]

Hi, guys got my tent in. LOD works Collison works. But its red! Should the material be PBR basic, the materials dont show as red (second picture)

[tidal latch]

search for vertex color

[cosmic solstice]

in the material or xob? Off back to work

[tidal latch]

search on discord

vertex color itself is in the model (blend/fbx)

[cosmic solstice]

Thanks @last parcel

[keen folio]

First time reforger model maker here, I made an object, and then textured in SP, Imported into workbench, and i Have a bunch of missing faces. Did a model check in blender, all my normals are correct, kinda at a loss here. Any suggestions or like, tutorial reccomendations?

[fallow pond]

your missing faces is due to inverted normals

[keen folio]

I fixed it by adjusting face smoothing on export!

Got it!

@fallow pond

Apprecaite it.

Now I just have to figure out how to pop a light inside of this thing.

[mighty lodge]

I need a mod team 😂😂 you all are doing amazing work boys🤟🏻🪖

[keen folio]

If anyone knows the best way to put a small light in here to make it a bit brighter on the interior, I would love you forever.

[stuck kraken]

First step would be to change the Emissivity values in your material. Next step would be to add an Emissive Map there.

[inner torrent]

Hi everyone, can someone direct me to a video that explains how to add collaiders to a 3d model, for example, a molitare tent?
Thanks

[honest pine]

add light prefab in slot ?

[faint viper]

check the arma bootcamp modeling 3#, has a little bit of topic for colliders too

[worn plover]

We had tried modeling our own and setting the appropriate emissive and map but it never seemed to interact with the interior. Throwing a spotlight on the ground and shining it at the box does tho

[cosmic solstice]

Is there a issue with the laddercompents ? cannot add the action to my model

[drowsy geode]

Hey folks, sorry to bother.

I am having an issue with helmet models/hat models that consitently seems to happen even when using the Character Weight Template with the 229 + 1 bones; I create a helmet, hat or etc and import it over with the skinning, meshes and bones, but when it comes into the game; the hat, helmet or whatever I add seems to bend whenever I move my head.

It seems to vary per character as to how bad the item bends or disfigures, with some characters making it look absolutely awful while others it doesn't seem to be effected.

I assume this is a weight painting issue, but I can't seem to fix it no matter what approach I take.

I will include a screenshot or two below for reference.

If anyone ends up being able to point me in the right direction, I really appreciate it in advance. I've tried asking around a few times to no avail. Kinda at a loss in terms of setting this up as I can't find any tutorials really covering this portion.

[tidal latch]

can you post pic of actual worn hat, no the item variant without skeleton?

[drowsy geode]

I included a picture of the worn hat in a second screenshot, unless I am misinterpreting what you are asking?

[tidal latch]

pic in resource manager would be useful

[keen folio]

The inside of the machine is it's own mesh and has it's own texture set. I found a video on how top pack and export from substance so I followed that, I don't think an emissive mat was included. So what you are saying is that I should generate an emissive map for that part of the model, and it will allow me to control the light source to bounce off of it in a different manner?

Finding a light source is also my issue, I can only find premade vehicle lights, and things of the sort that are incredibly strong.

[calm rune]

Do you have node wrangler active in the addons area?

Yeah I’m not sure what that’s about.

[mortal marsh]

Evening - Trying to understand how sound attenuation works with BSPs, is that what theyre for? Seems BSPs are in the Light Portals part of the model, so Im a bit confused as to how they determine sounds, like the difference between indoor & outdoor gunshots

Have I misunderstood that, or is this what the BSP is (in part) used for?

Apologies, found what I was looking for here - https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Arma_Reforger:FBX_Import#BSP_Geometry:~:text=Portals %26 BSP Geometry-,BSP Geometry,-BSP geometry is

[elder rune]

What i need todo for correct light on the roof... In default arma reforger we have default Barn with curve roof than working fine. How i can repair my model for correct light?

[strong burrow]

I have custom shirts i rigged and textured but the ground model has player collision, I have checked the universalinventorystoragecomponent, rigid body and other settings

i'm definitely missing something

what gives?

fixed it -- dumb fbx issue

[rancid cape]

Just curious does anyone know if its possible to use the morph target from the RHS patch system on pouches somehow? That way i wouldn't need to make different variant pouches for the front flaps or cummerbunds i could just import one fbx thats straight and curve it as needed, or is there another way to curve stuff inside of the reforger tools?

[wicked dirge]

Morphing is a vanilla concept. You just gotta write some scripts to adjust it when you need it.

[rancid cape]

Is there no sample mag of the 556 stanag?

[livid hull]

nope but there is https://github.com/BohemiaInteractive/Arma-Reforger-Samples/tree/main/SampleMod_NewWeapon/Assets/Weapons/Magazines/SampleWeapon_01

[rancid cape]

Yeah saw that one but wanted a stanag to fit my pouches to, but found one that was pretty close

[glossy prairie]

Sample weapon cannot hold fore_grip?

[distant viper]

@simple quartz @tranquil blade

https://tenor.com/view/couch-potato-southpark-gif-10806771

[tidal latch]

it is left over - it is not functional. I left it in case some good solution would be found to it

[faint viper]

@tidal latch Just wanted to let you know even if prob passed lot of days i managed to make it work. here obv is just a random sphere for test. My mistake was that i totally forgot about weight painting on the other mesh...

[shell hedge]

https://tenor.com/view/stinkface-stink-face-stank-you-gif-18948182

Me when major arma update

[faint viper]

actual face of bacon after the update

[hot kayak]

Hi, been working with a balaclava and what shows up in game isnt anything like what LOD0 is on the .xob. The issue is not another LOD loading early, its like a deformation of the LOD0 im guessing. Is there some issue with the bones on the model or something? Im new to the process of export/import in Enfusion so it could be something very simple. Thanks

Answered ^

[bitter grove]

What’s the answer

[hot kayak]

Issue is due to the weightpaint. Ill update this once i figure out what exactly about the weights needs to be changed

[warm oak]

this looks good dude

[whole epoch]

I have multiple door prefabs attached to a parent building on pivot ids (e.g. DOOR_01, DOOR_02). In the workbench all the doors are placed correctly but in a dedicated server only 1 door of each type is visible. Any ideas?

[elder rune]

What i need todo for correct light on the roof... In default arma reforger we have default Barn with curve roof than working fine. How i can repair my model for correct light?

[warm oak]

How good does topo need to be in order to properly work?

[calm rune]

Like retopology? Your edge flow should be smooth for clean animations. Also prevents odd stretching. Try and use quads only(sometimes very difficult to do). Then lastly keep the tri count relative to the vanilla assets. @warm oak

[warm oak]

Whats the vanilla assets like I'm terms of topo bc my model the one I downloaded sucks for topo

[calm rune]

I do not know it off by heart but just launch the workbench and have a look. They range from 4K-8k for LOD0 for a piece of clothing.

[warm oak]

Ah mine is like 50k faces or something idk also why does it need to be tris anyway

[calm rune]

The game turns your quads into tris. So if you happen to not triangulate inside of whatever modeling application you use(which I recommend for baking and texturing accuracy) the game engine itself with triangulate your model once injected.

Depending on what you are trying to inject 50k might be fine. If it’s clothing then no, NOOOO.

[warm oak]

Ah well my gun doesn't have textures it looks alright it's in the game in a testing phase and the topo is horrible on it like really really bad for the most part it works well tho

[warm oak]

Gun small gun vz 61 specifically

Which is alot for a small machine Pistol but yea can't do much or it'll look weird

Distorted or just glitchy if I try to do anything really

[calm rune]

Would be better if that was around 25-30k tri count.

[warm oak]

It's faces idr the tri count

[shell hedge]

I have had more luck triangulating the mesh before import than letting enfusion do it but that might be my fault

[calm rune]

Inject it and see what happens. Worst case scenario is that it’s not really optimized but may not effect the game negatively in a too harsh of way.

[warm oak]

Mh I might do that idk

[shell hedge]

just try to be within vanilla ranges, dont do shit like this bro

[warm oak]

Works we've had it in the game for a little while no animations or rig I think idr if it does or not for in the game

[shell hedge]

those poly counts start to matter when you have multiples on the screen, especially on lower end systems

[warm oak]

Uh yea 3 of my guns or 4 would be equivalent to that in faces

[warm oak]

Yea true

[shell hedge]

yeah this gopro above has no LOD at all

[warm oak]

But I suck at modeling bro and topo

120k faces for that thing why so many? That seems like way to much but I wouldn't know

[shell hedge]

Yeah it's about 115k too much

[warm oak]

You need lod things?

Yea ngl idk what my model in game is in face count

[shell hedge]

They are optional, but you will ruin people's performance if you don't do LODs, and it generally sends a message that you don't care about optimization and how well your mod runs

[warm oak]

Ah luckily I have 2 different add-ons for that

So that's good

[shell hedge]

Remember even bad LODs like 1k faces in LOD4 for clothing is WAY better than no LOD

[warm oak]

Yea true do you need them by chance?

Or are you good on LODs

[shell hedge]

I'm good

[warm oak]

Alr how do you do them btw just wondering

[shell hedge]

manual + polygon reduction modifier with preserve UV edges checked for LOD1

then LOD2+ depends largely on the result of LOD1 lmao

[warm oak]

Ah that must suck to do manually you sure you don't want the things I use?

[shell hedge]

I also remove a lot of parts of the mesh that are not visible

[warm oak]

Will save time in the long run

[warm oak]

Ah that's a good idea

[shell hedge]

I'm sure, cinema 4d's automatic reduction algorithms are better than anything I've used

[warm oak]

Ah is that free or paid I'm guessing paid cuz ngl idr if I've heard of cinema 4d

[shell hedge]

it's not that popular in games, moreso in VFX and motion graphics

but seeing as I already have a license and no time to bother learning blender

[warm oak]

Also I got 2 people that want to work for me that have no message history on this server at all but joined in Jan and April

[warm oak]

You do use blender tho right?

[shell hedge]

no

dont need it

I use it to export IK poses for weapons, that's about it

[warm oak]

Oh didn't know that so you do all your models on cinema 4d then didn't know you could do that

[warm oak]

Ah

[calm rune]

I always triangulate before importing. Mainly due to the fact that I know my normals will be accurate for baking. I’ve run into a lot of issues with baking if you do not triangulate the mesh beforehand.

Produces a lot of weird artifacts

[shell hedge]

if you google cinema 4d showreel you will see what the typical use case is, it's usually not games but I have no issue using it for games

[warm oak]

Ah also do you make your models or buy them or what

[shell hedge]

if I didnt have experience with any 3d tool I would probably start learning blender since in 2025 it doesn't suck as much as it did 10 years ago

both, usually buy if one is available

[warm oak]

Ngl I tried doing that to my Mag it didn't do anything at all it changes like 2 verts

[warm oak]

Ah ngl I would suggest learning blender for animation

[shell hedge]

if I didnt know cinema 4d I would

[warm oak]

Mh can you do animation on there or not?

[shell hedge]

of course bro you can just google it to see what it is

[warm oak]

Alr I'll Google it later today I would suggest to learn animations bc I'm sure your mods will be like a thousand times better if you did yk

[shell hedge]

I would do animations in mods if I wanted to do them, but I don't

[warm oak]

Ah so you just don't care then about animations per say

[calm rune]

It won’t. You need to go in a dissolve some edges and such. Lower the count. That may in turn mess up the texture. I suggest before buying any new models to look at the try count.

[shell hedge]

for most of my mods they are not even remotely necessary

I dont pick up projects that require me spending a week on animating something

people that enjoy animating can do that

[warm oak]

Ah yea true would be nice tho for some like ravage so they yk don't just look like weird bloody people running at you yk

[warm oak]

Ah makes sense

[shell hedge]

they look fine to me, and the only person they have to look good for is me

but thank you for your concern

[warm oak]

It was a free grabcad model

[warm oak]

Yea true I still like them tho since I do find it fun to spawn like 100s of them and see if I can survive makes it harder that they can track you through walls and open doors too

[shell hedge]

if you avoid them for 5 seconds they should lose track of your position

[warm oak]

Yea I think I noticed that they're also blind in the dark unless you shoot at them

[shell hedge]

BUT

This is not really modeling related anymore

[calm rune]

Well I think my input has ran its course. Imma get back to my rl job now 🤣

[warm oak]

Yea?

Also ngl I gtg I'll be able to talk again in like 6 or so hours idk

[shell hedge]

alr bro cant wait

[warm oak]

Well if you wanna dm me it you can ill see it later

I get no internet where I'm going so yea

[shell hedge]

bro

Lol 1500 faces for a rectangular patch

[fallow pond]

but it free on sketchfab

[calm rune]

?

[bitter grove]

Is this bad for that model?

[shell hedge]

For a rectangular patch model? try 50

[fallow pond]

150k faces for NVG is insane

[sly bridge]

bro why game not optimized bro ^^

[bitter grove]

I read that as 1500. 150k is wild for faces tho

What are the vanilla helmets and uniforms at?

[novel bramble]

I am creating a future mod of the T-72 with an interior for three people

[arctic crow]

Very nice

[warm oak]

That's alot for some gpnvg

[novel bramble]

thanks

[arctic crow]

Holy faces and verts

[novel bramble]

now the model is a carousel of the automatic loading machine and a mechanism for lifting the cassettes

[fallow pond]

you can make that shell holder 32 sided at the very least

[novel bramble]

after creating a mod for the t-72а. plans to make a mod for the m1 abrams with an interior for 4 people

[fallow pond]

16 is a little too low and its in view

[warm oak]

Hey btw I sent you a dm a couple actually

[fallow pond]

yes I saw. im not interested

[novel bramble]

somewhere I use 16 vertices, somewhere 32

[novel bramble]

but in most cases 16, because the interior will eat up a lot of fps

[fallow pond]

nah this cannon can easily be 40 to 60k no problem

[warm oak]

Ah I though someone did say you were tho my bad

[fallow pond]

lod0 for tank in warthunder is around 300k and that is with a simple interior. that's a good amount of density for a vehicle of that size for dx 12 300k to 500k 🙂

you can also bring in the PKT from the base game too

[novel bramble]

I'll probably do that because my PCT isn't that detailed

[warm oak]

Oh yea BG how far is your vz 61 coming along?

[frozen sierra]

does anyone know where i can Get ready to Models pre rigged ready for import and Texturing+configuring?

[novel bramble]

although the PKT in the tank is different from the manual one or are you talking about the PKT from the armored personnel carrier?

[fallow pond]

you can just remove your pkt and use the one from the game instead. no need to make another since the one in the game is very well made by itself

[novel bramble]

I just don't know what kind of PKT you're talking about. If you're talking about a manual PKT, it will be different. The tank PKT has an electronic trigger module built in.

vert 82k

[fallow pond]

you can remove some of the detail from front which wont ever be seen ever.

[novel bramble]

where is it better to create animations in blender or in soft bohemia?

[fallow pond]

in blender...

are you gonna make a hp?

[novel bramble]

for the game I will remove the UZM gun breech

[novel bramble]

no, i want to make something like war thunder

[spiral hedge]

Hey, how i can create a Pool "Water" ? i created a simple box for the water, added Water material and set a Collider with "Water -> Liquids". But i can walk on the ground of the pool and the underWater does not work. Do i miss something?

[leaden trench]

There is some pools of sewage on Everon. Not unlike a swimming pool, you could find those prefabs and inspect how it's done

[spiral hedge]

i can only find ponds which are fixed/created with terrain (no prefab)

[leaden trench]

In north of Everon iirc you can find them. It's like a Square concrete pool.

[spiral hedge]

i will check

[spiral hedge]

Its also no prefab

[leaden trench]

So, copy how this done. Make model in hole in ground and put water polygon there

[spiral hedge]

Yes, but you can not mod terrain.

[leaden trench]

oh, you didn't mention you want to put it on a map you didn't make assumed you wanted put a pool on your own map

[warm oak]

ngl i have no idea how you modeled this bc theres so many small parts that need to be modeled accurately

[short karma]

Hey fellas, is there anyone here that might be able to walk me through rigging/weight painting in a VC? I bought a PCU off of CG Trader, followed a YouTube tutorial on how to rig it/weight paint it from HercPlayz step by step, and for some reason it didnt work. When I import the model into Enfusion, then reimport after selecting export skinning, all of the bones etc appear to be there, however when I put the jacket on in game, it is in a completely different pose from what I setup in blender/appears in Enfusion, and it doesn't like up with the character at all. Thanks in advance for any help.

[surreal ore]

Make sure you're using the correct version of the rig

[short karma]

Do you happen to have a link to it, or know where it might be found? The one I have is

Disregard, the rig one was

[surreal ore]

Don't use it if to doesn't come from Bohemias GitHub

[frozen sierra]

i cant even get the one from thier Github to work for me XD

[surreal ore]

Then you're doing something wrong

If you're following a tutorial

[frozen sierra]

ive spent 4 days on a Single Helmet

[surreal ore]

And have a different outcome then you're missing a step or doing a step wrong

[short karma]

Okay, so for a jacket, which version off of their Github do I want?

[frozen sierra]

like i got the Skeliton to Attache Paints Transported i can Spawn it in but its 1 off center and is in fact not following my head in game

but in Blender it Follows the skeliton just fine

[surreal ore]

I suggest cloning the repository

There's a blend file,

It has the mesh and skeleton

[short karma]

Looks like the Character_Weight_Templates.Blend is what I want, but you suggest just cloning the whole thing, I assume so I have all of the assets if I want to make anything else in the future

[surreal ore]

Cloning the repository with one of the GitHub applications will then allow you to update the repository with a single button click

Doubtful that the character skeleton will get changed again

But, the samples have some good stuff for beginners

And they might update them to include more things

And having the repository cloned will help you in the long run

[short karma]

Okay cool, quick question, using that skeleton, can I move the armature to line up with the jacket I am making, if say for instance the sleeves arent in the same position as the armature, and it still work inside Enfusion?

[surreal ore]

No

The armature has to stay in the position that it is in

Alter your mesh to fit the skeleton, not the other way around.

[short karma]

Copy, was just seeing if there was an easier way, as opposed to dragging vertices/faces around lol

[surreal ore]

You're weight painting the mesh to follow the righ

rig*

Not the other way around.

You should watch some blender tutorials to learn about skeletons, and their relationship with meshes

[short karma]

Yep, I'm tracking. I just was looking to see if there was an easier way to cover up the exposed arms etc, than dragging individual pieces around

[surreal ore]

Yes, but you need to know how to use blender to do such things

So watch Blender tutorials

[surreal ore]

Watch a tutorial

You're missing a single step

Creation of a helmet is literally in the documentation btw

[bitter grove]

https://youtu.be/Y5J5os8P4jg

@short karma I haven’t tried it but probably will in the future. Goes over pose brush and face sets, may be a clean way to move your sleeves

[short karma]

Ill have to check that out, I just went back through the tutorial for the helmets posted by BI, and ended up repositioning my sleeves, but i'm still running into the same issue. The bones all show up in Enfusion, everything looks right in blender, but then my jacket is just floating in space in front of my character once I equip it

[bitter grove]

I’d make sure you’re using this rig

[short karma]

Yeah, thats the one from their Github that i'm using

Do I need to size/adjust the sleeves before throwing it in with the rig?

Or can I use the Body_LOD0 on the rig to adjust it, and then transfer weights/etc after that?

[bitter grove]

Hide the armature and adjust your shirt to the character model and then go through the steps of weight painting after you’re satisfied with how your shirt looks

[short karma]

Okay, thats what I did, just making sure that wasn't causing issues

[bitter grove]

Maybe apply all transforms too after idk. I’m sure there is something missing in between weight painting and exporting

[short karma]

Thats my guess as well, when I move the armature in Blender, the jacket moves with it. So its something between the export, and Enfusion thats giving me issues. I'm sure theres a step or check box i'm missing, Im just not familiar enough to figure out what.

[bitter grove]

You probably did but did you add armature modifier to your LOD0?

[short karma]

Yeah, I added that. Now I didnt name it LOD0, although I do see that in Enfusion as the LOD it detects.

[bitter grove]

Just name it shirt_LOD0. Not sure if that’ll fix anything but that’s the by the book way. Maybe try deleting it from enfusion and just redo everything in blender and try again. Could also maybe be the way you set up your prefab but idk if that would affect it

[short karma]

I just got it

[bitter grove]

I’ve had times where I thought I did everything right and then it would be floating or offset, then I’d just delete it all from enfusion and redo the whole weight paint and rigging process and set up a new prefab and it worked. Idk what I did different to fix it but I did

[bitter grove]

What was it

[short karma]

I changed the name to _LOD0, but I also drilled down and made sure to manually select everything under the Jacket in Blender during the export this time

I'm not sure which fixed it, but one of those two things took care of it, lol

[bitter grove]

Coulda been both I guess we’ll never know! Glad it got fixed tho that stuff can be frustrating when it doesn’t work

[spiral hedge]

@tidal latch any idea how this works?

[fluid fern]

Hi, since 1.3 the new blender pluggin has changed.
I want to validate my BSP, so I went to Model Quality Assurance, selected the BSP preset and clicked on MQA Overlay.
However, it shows me that my object is in error, but compared to before, I don't have a dupplication of this object to see exactly where my non-manifold arretes are.
Do you have an explanation?
Then I can update the tutorial https://wiki.nabla.sh/books/3d-building-creation-tutorial/page/3d-creation

[merry rivet]

Does it makes sense to have box colliders (left) for a garden fence like this (right)?

[fluid fern]

Your collider needs to be as simple as possible - you won't be able to put in a collider with more than 65k trimesh anyway.

[merry rivet]

Yes, that's why I made it like this, with box colliders.

Because box colliders are better than mash colliders

[tidal latch]

one trimesh might be better than 15 convex though

1 trimesh for fireview and few boxes for rest of collision could be good

[merry rivet]

But you can't mix box and trimesh colliders

But that is the question... is 15 box colliders better or worse then creating one complex trimesh collider

[tidal latch]

you can mix

just use different layer presets

[merry rivet]

Okay, yeah, that would work, if it's two different colliders for the same object

[fluid fern]

Nobody add solution? Or else

[tidal latch]

try in #enfusion_blender_tools

[rancid cape]

Anyone able to give me some tips on weight painting? Do i add more to the ForeArm or the ArmTwist to fix this?

[quiet ledge]

Not sure if this will help out but i know you can open Charactor_AnimationRig_Example and maybe look at that shirt for a reference

[rancid cape]

I will check it out tomorrow, thanks!

[bitter grove]

There are also settings in enfusion when you set up your prefab to where you can hide certain body parts while your item is being worn. So you wouldn’t see your arms

But I’d also try getting the model lined up as close as possible to the character weights template

[fallow pond]

red = 100% influences, blue = 0%

[fathom elbow]

you can transfer weight from one object to another, if you have a reference mesh that is weighted to the Skeleton. This should give a good baseline. Secondly, by having the reference imported, and animating it in blender, you can check how they behave, and directly fix errors. Doing it by eye statically, import and check is a nightmare.

[fluid fern]

Hi, is there a solution to correct this problem? I've already cleaned up on blender.

[cosmic solstice]

Anyone know why the "feet" are imcomplete _ where should I look?

[quiet ledge]

Looks like the faces are flipped, in blender edit mode click face orientation, then click the faces that are red and press alt+n,

[cosmic solstice]

Yea they where red, I flipped to outside, they show blue but imported model is still "inside out"

[quiet ledge]

hmm, you could go into the .emat and search for cull and change it to none, thats makes it so 1 face can have textures on both sides

[remote palm]

Well it probably did not import correctly. Delete your model, save your project, close the workbench and import again - that always fixed such issues for me

[cosmic solstice]

Did that three times 🙂

Next question:) LOD's do I need to decimate in Blender or is that what the sliding scale does in enfusion?

[remote palm]

Decimate in blender - but that can look terrible - probably better of making handcrafted LODs or finding a good addon - i have not yet tried „G-Ready“ but that has LOD creation

https://faridmammadov.gumroad.com/l/G-Ready

[shell hedge]

There are no auto LOD tools that produce consistently quality results

But depending on your mesh, decimating with preserving UV boundaries can sometimes be enough for first one or two LODs

Third and further LODs can just progressively turn into a potato

[stray bridge]

personally I use InstaLOD which is free and depending on the mesh produces solid lods

[cosmic solstice]

I was trying to get this in but unfortunalty it is beyond with me. Im going to get back to the terrain!

[stiff reef]

When I'm creating the BSP geometry of a multifloor building I should add the stairs too? Or just the walls with holes for windows and doors? Thanks!

[covert rune]

Hello,
I'm looking for a good tutorial to learn how to rig clothing. I've seen several, but I still haven't managed to get it right.
Does anyone have a solid one on hand that I can follow with complete confidence ?

[hollow hornet]

I don't really model much in blender and only really know the basics, I've been looking into marvelous designer for clothing and wanted to know if anyone had anything (good or bad) to say about it?

[fallow pond]

its good. but if you know tricks with blender you dont need it

substance painter / designer if you wanna make your own pbr materials is something that you need imho.

[sick shard]

I think I use the same thing or something similar and it does the job and saves a lot of time

[fallow pond]

where is instalod free?

its 99$ bend over a month

[calm rune]

You didn’t try very hard to look did you..

Btw 5 clicks. I found the download button in 4.

[calm rune]

Read it again. The pink part lol

[fallow pond]

you right

[lilac badge]

Why are my faces inverted in enfusion, when they are fine according to blender?

[shell hedge]

Normal direction

Make sure they face outwards

[lilac badge]

What's what I'm showing they already are in the second picture (blue color from blender's "Face orientation" feature).

Or are you referring to something else?

[leaden chasm]

Acktchyually

[spice tulip]

Beginning stages of work I’m doing to create the SOKL “leshyy” 4z leaf suit. So far have the base jacket’s fabric modelled and the leaves are on the hood. Shape of the hood definitely needs work

[remote palm]

Totally shit

[rancid glade]

hi, do you guys know if there is still a testing world like that in the tools ?

[stray bridge]

mp_test / mp_test_basic, but they don’t look as „cool“
you can access the „advanced“ tools with pressing win + alt I think

[eternal jewel]

how does the "inflation" of the ALICE vest work when putting on the PASGT. Does the game do that automatically with through weight paint or do you have to create an inflated model manually?

Is there any documentation on this?

[calm rune]

?

[leaden chasm]

It's free

[calm rune]

Yes? That was the whole point of yesturdays discussion lol

[rancid glade]

this is awful

ahah

[stray bridge]

you can just setup ur own debug world and safe it inside the profile folder

[last hill]

If you mirrored or scaled it at all, try applying scale in Blender, see if it reverses the face direction, then just flip the face normal.

If it's not scale related I am not sure.

[honest pine]

👆 apply all transform, then check face orientation again.

[eternal jewel]

bumping this question

[tidal latch]

its part of the samples

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

[tidal latch]

https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Arma_Reforger:Character_Gear_Creation/Vest/Asset_Preparation#General

Right now, those deflated variants of the jackets are created by hand

[eternal jewel]

Thats talking about jackets, im talking about load bearing vests

Ig its the same explanation?

[tidal latch]

Yes

[eternal jewel]

What are good tips and tricks that works well with creating deflated/inflated models in blender?

[abstract horizon]

Hello guys! I trying to understand how works Portals, and still cannot understand why its not working, maybe I lost something 😦 So for test, I make simple room, placed Portals and Portal Volume, Portals have material like PRT_blabla, Volume dummyvolume, and BSP. And after all of that in engine it doesnt work, so maybe I miss something, can anybody help please? Very appreciate

[abstract horizon]

Never mind, I found reason, why it's not appear, just need add component with name "WorldSubsceneComponent", finnaly!

[plush sandal]

why am I going through the prop set even though I have a collider with the prop category

[lament hare]

Hey lads. Where is the player body for equipment modeling?

[sly bridge]

?

[lament hare]

Is there not a template human for Reforger to make uniforms and whatnot

[loud mist]

Use this it is it also has the weights in it https://github.com/BohemiaInteractive/Arma-Reforger-Samples/blob/main/SampleMod_NewCharacter/Assets/Characters/SampleCharacter/Character_Weights_Template.blend

Does anyone know how tweak clothing items to fit with arma body have a combat shirt that dosent fit properly and don’t know how to make it fit onto an Arma character it keeps turning out very wonky

[waxen current]

After opening my imported FBX in workbench, it takes on bright pink/green colors. I assumed once I mapped my textures to the materials it would go away, but instead my materials are tinted whatever color is there. What am I doing wrong?

The textures are correctly packed, and I can see in their preview they look fine.

EDIT: Vertex colors in blender.

[steel hare]

remove the vertex colors in blender before you export the FBX and import it to workbench. Been there, done that 😄

[lament hare]

https://youtu.be/vTrKnRzMAR0?si=cvZso1X1d1nGD9UU

You may find this helpful

[summer sierra]

anyone have any leads what im messing up? this beard only does this getting in and out of cars

[steel hare]

Hej guys, in regards to the upcoming Kolgujev map I started working on a coke plant for map makers. Is there any kind of decent tutorial which explains how I can create a placeable object (prefab) in the world editor? I am following a somewhat modular approach and setting this thing up with all its modules will take a while, that's why I wanted to create a prefab.

[surreal ore]

Yes, the wiki.

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

[cosmic solstice]

Hi all I have a bunker - im applying concrete 100m Collider what layer should it use?

[steel hare]

You could check one of the bunkers in workbench which Bohemia Interactive made. there you can also view theiry colliders and layers

Find the desired XOB model in the resource browser and double-click on it. Then check the details tab on the right part of the viewport and open its Colliders sub-tab

[autumn osprey]

its look amazing, good luck in make mod, can you share blueprints?

[compact scarab]

You guys ever going to have a non-humanoid character example for model / animations?

[surreal oracle]

i have one but the rig is off by abit

[sly bridge]

like what? animals?

[shell hedge]

What I would appreciate is an animation graph compatible with the character movement component that contains ONLY basic locomotion

Since animation editor crashes every 5 seconds it would save me a bunch of time

[remote palm]

What is your guys best „strategy“ for retopology on weapon models? I have gun models that are in the 10-15k poly count, but i want to increase it so it fits the Reforger count of about 70k. Also want to make the model as quad as possible since i heard that is the way to go?

[shell hedge]

Do they really look bad in LOD0?

I guess step 0 is you could try beveling everything but it might ruin some of the baked detail, among other things

but if it works it'll result in a less pointy outline

[remote palm]

So i dont have to „exactly“ match the 70k polys as the vanilla guns? Thats just wasting resources?

[shell hedge]

What gave you the impression that you have to have any specific amount of polygons?

[remote palm]

Well, since the guns on reforger did it like that 🤷🏻‍♂️

[shell hedge]

You decide how many polygons you want

Generally speaking lower = better

So as low as possible while maintaining similar visual quality level

[remote palm]

Copy

[shell hedge]

Would be a good target

If your model looks like it was made for a ps2 game then by all means crank it up, at least for the first LOD

[remote palm]

Any tip for retopology then? I have plenty of tris, even when „removing“ them in Blender with Alt+J

[shell hedge]

Someone here might be able to give some tips but I imagine they'd like to see the model

[mighty bronze]

Most likely going to have to manually convert some tris to quads
not all tris are bad
but generally working with quads is 1000x fucking easier

[shell hedge]

I like melting verts by surface angle (of 0) among other things

I dont hate ngons

[mighty bronze]

I guess that works, never tried it
but then could get rid of ngons by selecting faces with more than 5 sides

[shell hedge]

its not horrible if you trust your tool to triangulate it well afterward

[remote palm]

Damn. That aint too bad.

[shell hedge]

Using something like ZRemesher doesnt apply since it just nukes the UVs

But for example it sucks here

But thats just down to the angle settings

Or just turn off ngons idk

But the good news is you only need it to work well around the areas you intend on modifying

So you can use different settings on different areas I suppose

[mighty bronze]

I forgor
but reforgor has issues rendering ngons right? tbh I've always avoided using them so idk what happens when you try to import a model with ngons

[shell hedge]

There is no such issue because its triangulated

But I prefer triangulating before import because I dont trust it

[mighty bronze]

I usually never run into any issues with my models exporting
but uh, I've never exported with ngons so I can't be sure

[plush sandal]

Hello guys, why can I shoot through the prop and why does the weapon not press against the body when I approach the prop, is there a collider, what to do??

[mighty bronze]

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

[plush sandal]

Thx, i found fireGeo layer and propfireview it works❤️

[mighty bronze]

also if you want to know some more about collider's in particular this one is helpful
https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Arma_Reforger:FBX_Import#Collider_Usage

[compact scarab]

Yep

[surreal oracle]

how do i hide these ive tried Ankle_l Ankle_R AND Shins for the l and r anyideas?

[shell hedge]

Check the mesh list in character model and use correct names

[waxen current]

Is there some method/trick to get the child entities of my Destructible Building to actually fall with the parent? Some entities do, some don't... and there doesn't seem to be any rhyme or reason.

[tidal latch]

hierarchy component + there is small list of excluded object types like StaticModelEntity

[covert rune]

Someone have a solution to fix this. or point me to the right direction ?
on other xob item i dont have this error :/

RESOURCES (E): Trying to create RigidBodyComponent on model @"Assets/Characters/Uniforms/G4_Uniforms/ATM_Pants_v2.xob" without geometry

[honest pine]

missing collider

[worn plover]

Mr. rage what's the purpose of the child entity on the editable entities that players build. I'm just trying to understand more about the process of creating my own entities.

[cerulean patio]

Question: How do you prevent a mask from appearing in first person?

[tidal latch]

https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Arma_Reforger:Character_Gear_Creation/Headgear/Asset_Preparation#Material_preparation

[cerulean patio]

thankss

[burnt mist]

Is it allowed/possible to export modded content models to make adjustments or different prefabs?

[wicked dirge]

You can't export modded content. You can make different prefabs by deriving if the license allows.

[burnt mist]

So its impossible to export this vietnam helmet and add foliage and such?

[wicked dirge]

Export? No. But you could add foliage through a slot in the prefab for example if you make the foliage separate

[torn token]

Would it be against TOS if I made a Barbie jeep with the Barbie logo on it?

I would read the TOS but i'm blind and can't read that well

I don't want to get my mod banned because I violated TOS

[stray bridge]

is the barbie logo licensed? most likely..
do you have permission to use it? probably not..
Should you use licensed Logos you dont have permission to? No

[torn token]

Thanks for clearing that up, what if I make my own Barbie logo in text that isn't a licensed one

[stray bridge]

if its ur own logo you can obv use it inside ur mod

[torn token]

I just submitted an email to mattel about using their barbie logo hopefully they say yes 🙂

[lunar mulch]

Do you think it's clean enough?

[hybrid mountain]

Trademark is still a thing

Just be careful is all

[torn token]

Thanks man 🙂 and yea I'm trying to do my best to be careful. I'm not publishing anything until I know I have permission to use

[burnt temple]

How to set multipler layer presets like this in Blender? I have the Enfusion Blender Tool add on installed but it only allow me to set one layer preset for each mesh.

[tidal latch]

Object can have one layer preset

What you see is a binarized layer preset mask which fits Two layer presets

Once model is binarized, only mask as digit is baked into model - not the string

Due to that, workbench is trying to make educate guess based on that mask - if that mask fits multiple layer presets then you will see all matching presets

[burnt temple]

Thank you!

[calm rune]

Maybe put some folds and seams in the hp to bake into the low? It’s looking a little flat.

[lunar mulch]

Yes, it's the beginning, thank you.

[fallow pond]

you should have more or less the same mesh density as the player model tbh

this way when you weight paint the clothes they deform properly with the player mesh. ofc you do some tricks like making the clothes more loose fitting and hiding parts of the player mesh

[lunar mulch]

My topology looks correct.

Now it's time to highres.

[halcyon dew]

I have set my w_fire_mode correctly in the center of the selector. However, in-game the selector itself changes position, ending up weirdly. What did I do wrong? Mind you, it does look correct in the .xob, but not in the .ent prefab. Using stock M16A2 animations.

[tidal latch]

Create your own animations

If bones are not exactly the same (including location) as on vanilla then you cannot use vanilla weapon anims. You can still use vanilla character weapon anims

[halcyon dew]

Yeah, thanks, already started making my own and that fixed it.

[halcyon agate]

what am i missing when i reimport my blender model scaled down from 1 to .1? it's not applying the rescale at all anymore while 2 days ago this function was working fine

[slow canopy]

hello was woundering if blender is the best tool to use to design buildings in reforger also does anyone know were i can find some videos on how to build buildings been trying to find some but not really found what i looking for

[wary inlet]

blender is indeed the best tool for this, check out the biki, it has a page on asset preparation in blender and goes into extensive detail about building modelling, collisions, and light portals

[rigid mica]

what is biki? blender wiki?! 🤣

btw, does anyone know underrated videos for teaching how to make buildings in blender? Found few, just wondering if there are other good videos.

[wicked dirge]

BI wiki

[rigid mica]

oh bohemia... 🤦

[stuck kraken]

It is not a video but helpful:
https://wiki.nabla.sh/books/3d-building-creation-tutorial

[final vector]

Can anyone explain whats causing the deformation of the right chest?? It isnt present in blender on the model or in substance, only when imported into enfusion

[halcyon dew]

Anybody know how they hide the front sling swivel when the M16 has the M203 mounted?

[stray bridge]

most likely the weight paint is causing it

[final vector]

So should the pectoral be painted red

[dusky shoal]

anyone had this issue my eye memory point is not taking?

[slow canopy]

what would yall recomend for textureing software that is free wanting to try hand at it but there no way i can afford substance painter right now

[quiet ledge]

probably quixel mixer or armor paint

[wary inlet]

No that would be blikie

[harsh lance]

hey guys does anyone know if its possible to extract a mesh from the engine and import it into blender ?

i tried to use the pluging "send to blender" but it doesn work

its says "SCRIPT (W): No blender executable set! Please set one in EBT Config!"

[leaden chasm]

no and it's illegal anyway

[harsh lance]

how are we supposed to see how they made the helicopter ?

[leaden chasm]

what exactly do you want to see in blender that is not in wb?

[harsh lance]

wb ?

[leaden chasm]

they might release a sample aircraft at some point

[leaden chasm]

workbench

[harsh lance]

how they set up interior and exterior mesh

lods , occluder etcc

maybe we can see that into their sample pack ?

[wicked dirge]

You can see all that in workbench

But short answer you cannot export it

[remote palm]

You can toggle to only show (isolate) specific parts of the vehicle. That will be the best you’ll get

[final vector]

Trial of Substance paint

[stuck kraken]

Try Ucupaint. It is a plugin for blender to allow texturing by layers/masks. That is needed for making good enfusion materials.

[strong burrow]

Is there a way for me to fix this trash geometry in this model

[leaden trench]

geometry is fine problem is the weights. Look for the "Smooth" button. iirc it shows in bottom left of viewport in vertex paint mode. Put interations sth high like 50 then click the button.

[strong burrow]

Ill try that

[remote palm]

Geometry is fine? Damn…. 😄

[vagrant plaza]

Does anyone know about some good sites for image references for more obscure/unusual weapons? Im currently modelling the RGM-40, but Im having a hard time finding consitent references to use. Every image and video I find of the thing has slightly different variations to the design. Is there like a hidden magical site that has f.ex. blueprints or something??

Also, Im curious about the process for modelling sights. Obiviously they serve an actual purpose in-game so they need to be somewhat accurately modelled so they can be properly zeroed, but is there a guide or something somewhere that can take me through purpose of how to model it correctly??

[viral knot]

Hello. Is there are any way to create simple model like white banner with text. Without blendor, using onle arma reforger tool?

[remote palm]

No. You will need a 3D modeling software to model… 3d stuff 😐

[noble ravine]

https://youtu.be/1QZBOYwitBM

Cant be simple than this 🙂

you dont need high res img, keep 720-1080p you will be fine for the big billboards sizes.

[stuck kraken]

Maybe you should evaluate your references by the originality to the real weapon:

• There are media of the real weapon
• There are maybe media of knock offs
• there are media of air soft weapons
• there are media of 3d models

All Points except the first are second grade information because they are derived work. If you sort this references out may the picture is more clear.
If this not help here exist a Military Channel for real stuff.

[trail hornet]

What’s the recommended/ upper limits of polys for buildings?

And size, I know for arma 3 you could only have 50x50m

[stuck kraken]

You can view the meshes in the editor by yourself. The number differs by size.

[vagrant plaza]

Thanks for the tips! Its most likely going to end up being a bit of a mix. I see that even on channels showcasing the weapon (for example in usage in Ukraine) it is slightly different from the one in another video where it was tested on a firing range and even the images from official info sites have it looking different. Very confusing indeed lol

[thin ridge]

Hey! I placed down some assets instead of prefabs and they dont have collision enabled, how do I go about re-enabling or setting them to be solid objects?

[stray bridge]

add rigidbody component and tick the boxes

[thin ridge]

I figured that out already but I appreciate it!!

[stray bridge]

yup better make a prefab with the component added and replace the object with it, you can right click the assets and press replace with prefab or smth. Way faster this way. Also if you wanna edit the assets afterwards you just need to edit the one prefab

[thin ridge]

So how I got here was I placed things out of the assets > prefabs instead of the Prefabs direct folder and the assets dont have physics or sub components added to them besides their mesh

[sleek forum]

Can I somehow destroy children objects without having this box ticked? I want children to get destroyed before parent gets fully destroyed if that makes sense...

[tidal latch]

pass damage to children

[sleek forum]

I want child objects to be destroyed before the parent reaches its final destruction phase.

[tidal latch]

or destroy children when parent is destroyed

[sleek forum]

it doesnt work

[tidal latch]

then use pass damage to children

make sure children have less hp than parent

[sleek forum]

they do have less hp, I also have Pass Damage To Children box ticked. Children still get destroyed only after I tick Delete After Final Phase, which leaves no ruins

[tidal latch]

Do you have hierarchy component on children?

[sleek forum]

yes

[tidal latch]

Have you checked with diag if damage is passend at all?

[sleek forum]

no, not even sure how to do that

[sleek forum]

Ok I figured it out, thank you for taking the time and helping out🙏

[tidal latch]

what was the problem?

https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Arma_Reforger:Diag_Menu#Type_of_damage_info as for diag, it is this one I think

[sleek forum]

I have set my ruin prefabs and particles under Destruction Multiphase and not Destruction FX🤦‍♂️

[thin ridge]

Hey on the cargo containers how do you make the doors open? The interiors are modeled so I'd assume there's a way

[lament hare]

Hello, artists! I am experiencing issues.

I have made an Exosuit, and weight painted, rigged, etc. It works fine, HOWEVER, when I go to update the mod with the exosuit in my mod, it refuses to update, giving a 403 (Forbidden) error.

Without the exosuit, I can update the mod just fine.

If anyone is able to help, this would be much appreciated. I am not sure what other information I can share to help explain my issue better, as I am quite new to arma reforger and enfusion

MarioE has deduced there is something wrong with the model (I agree) and it is causing issue when uploading

[halcyon dew]

I currently have a weapon flash hider that is longer than usual. Is there a way to move the barrel_muzzle memory point only when this specific weapon is attached? Can I just add another barrel_muzzle inside the flash hider .fbx/.xob and that will automatically override the default memory point from the weapon itself?

[dusty ember]

question why ?

[lament hare]

backface culling

[halcyon dew]

I believe this do with culling. There should be a setting in the material. Change it from ccw to none

[lament hare]

You can also just model in the seam further

[dusty ember]

where can I find this setting

[halcyon dew]

In the material for the helmet. When you imported it, it should have made an material automatically.

[dusty ember]

i found it thanks

[dusty ember]

its that too mutch for a helmet tris ?

[halcyon dew]

I have no idea unfortunately. Somebody else here might hopefully be able to tell you 😉

[chilly dragon]

Check the tri count in tools. Just open the xob of a vanilla helmet and you'll be able to see the amount of faces used in the top right

[steel hare]

are you using BI textures for you building? How is your workflow if I may ask? Do you model and UV map your model and then only apply one material to your whole model?

[remote palm]

This is completely fine. I believe if i remember correctly you can even triple that and it will still be fine. But make sure to create LODs then. Otherwise it might be impacting performance greatly..

[dusty ember]

thanks

[pine stream]

Does anyone have a step-by-step guide on how to make a fully working model of your car?

[karmic adder]

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

[pine stream]

yes i saw it. i'm more interested in a video or a document that shows step by step how to do it

[wicked dirge]

...that is the step by step document that shows how to do it

[sick shard]

Is there step by step guide on iron sights I've seen small part on the wiki but not actually how to set it up however I did figure it out I just thought it was a little weird that it gets the smallest part out of thr wiki lol

[fluid dragon]

the current car creation tutorial is just to bare bone, there is no way to get a car completly setup with it including suspension and animations for it

[surreal oracle]

ffr fr

[undone flame]

can someone help me? ive already activated rigid body, but it still have no collision

[noble ravine]

check in the xob and the inport setting the collision layer type

[undone flame]

its my first time on mods, where can i check that?

[noble ravine]

Layer setup in blender:
https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Arma_Reforger:FBX_Import#Setting_Layer_Preset_on_colliders_(usage_parameter)

Tools:
https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Arma_Reforger:Prop_Creation#Wrong_Layer_Preset

you need export the visual mesh and a second one (or more) for the colliders

[tropic loom]

my first model am making for arma!

🤑

[molten pawn]

Why do my LOD factors get ignored when my suppressor attachment is on a gun?

I read this on the wiki, but it seems like it's talking about something else:

"An important note is that LOD Factors are inherited from parent prefabs to children prefabs as all the other mesh object component parameters. So it is possible to have some factors setup for the "base" or "core" prefab which fits most of the prefabs inheriting from it; yet there is always the possibility to not inherit and to change the factors for any specific prefab/entity in the prefab hierarchy."

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

Could it be that after attaching, it becomes a child of the gun and therefor uses the gun's factors? If so, how can I avoid this behavior? The LOD lod switching is completely messed up when on the gun, but when off it, it works fine.

[wicked dirge]

That's absolutely what happens

[molten pawn]

unfortunate, im guessing there is no official way to toggle that off and make them independent. I looked and couldn't find any option like that. Since my suppressor has less LODs and different preferred set of LOD factors, it doesn't match up well at all. I could theoretically duplicate some LODs in my model as a hacky solution, but then the file gets bloated... is there a feedback tracker for this?

[wicked dirge]

I think there might be no point in asking for this, the performance benefits of having it unified overall outweigh any benefits of unbloated files. Just make your LODs in similar way to the weapons you target, best way, that way its all uniform

[burnt temple]

What does this foliage height do in the tree class?

[remote palm]

Looking good! Keep going

[heavy cipher]

Hello I've been following along on the tutorial for helmets but when I go to edit and make my prefab it doesn't give me any other options but entity instance in the world editor does anyone know why it might be doing this and what I need to do so I can get to the proper window?

[deft spear]

Can I upload a vehicle with original or real logos?

Or it is forbidden?

[stray bridge]

is the logo licensed? most likely

are you allowed to use this logo even tho its „just“ a modding context?
nope probably not.

should you use it?
no

check the licensing of the brand and if ur not sure or its forbidden its a no

[tacit eagle]

RESOURCES (W): ExtractConvexEnvelope(): AreaPortal 'PRT_01' (0) doesn't have vertices assigned! Check the model, it's leaking.
RESOURCES (W): ProcessAreasAndPortals(): AreaPortal 'PRT_01' (0) doesn't have reachable areas assigned!
RESOURCES : Not all light portals were properly detected, the model is leaking!
RESOURCES : UpdateAreaPortals(): AreaPortal 'PRT_01' (0) has 4 orphaned fragments out of 4. Check the model, it may be leaking.

any one can explain this annoying error

[undone flame]

How can I figure out the correct door measurements for the game? I made a building and left openings in the walls sized 90x210 cm, but the doors didn’t fit properly. I know I can scale the door by pressing R, but I don’t think it lets me adjust X and Y separately — it only scales everything together. So the door never fits quite right.

[steel hare]

Did you check the correct metrics in the Wiki? https://community.bohemia.net/wiki/Arma_Reforger:Environment_Metrics

[dawn cargo]

Does anyone know how to fix this

[primal cedar]

is there a quick model tutorial for how to just import model with colision ?

using the blender tools.

[severe bolt]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAqKio7wTvs I followed this guide few months ago worked for me, covers collision & lod.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFOgsRc_E-s - straight forward how to make sure your object is set up correctly with object properties.

[fading wren]

Heey heey, small general question.
Do you guys usely give assets 1k or 2k?(textures)

[stray bridge]

both depending on the usecase

[viral knot]

Hello. I have created one model with 3 copies(separate material name). One working for PS5 and PC, others working only on PC and on PS5 its a glass. Why?
How to enable it or fix on PS5? Or where I can find config for few platforms for model

[remote palm]

2K for 1P Assets - at least that is what bohemia uses for their guns

[sinful musk]

Would anyone have any recommendations for hard surface modeling tutorials for games?

Paid or otherwise.

Thanks in advance.

[dusty ember]

Hello, I have a question about the collider. My first question is why do I need two different colliders: "Collider with Weapon Layer Preset" and "Collider with FireGeo Layer Preset."

My second question concerns the material. Is it possible to assign the material directly from Blender? Or, as you can see in the screenshot, there are two materials for your collider.

[tidal latch]

Weapon requires at least one collider with Weapon layer preset - if you don't have it, then weapon actions like equip will be missing from it. If your geometry is simple enough, it is possible to just use one collider for both weapon & fire geometry collision. Otherwise it might be necessary to have two colliders:

One for Weapon collision - should be very simple collider (i.e. convex)
Another for FireGeo collision - can be more detailed, trimesh can be used to provide best experience available.

https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Arma_Reforger:Weapon_Creation/Asset_Preparation#Colliders_&_Material_Names

[dusty ember]

whats the problem of this collieder

[tidal latch]

Inverted normals

[dusty ember]

and why two materials ?

[tidal latch]

it can be even 5 materials

it should match materials of the weapon

metal parts are metal

wood parts are wooden

etc

[dusty ember]

How can you have two meshes or types in one object? Or how can I understand this?

[remote palm]

Give all the parts you want to have in one LOD (what you see there should be your LOD0) the ending “_LOD0”

[cyan girder]

in blender, just don't combine the meshes in to one, and uncheck "combine meshes" in the import settings in workbench

[dusty ember]

okay thanks

[dusty ember]

What is the difference between firegeo and itemfireview?

Is it described somewhere what they do?

[dusty ember]

Can you explain to me a little more what you mean by that?

same problem here

[surreal ore]

https://youtu.be/cn5BC3Vzcsc?si=OBoGS_HTrEQ_YJ8o

[stray bridge]

display face orientation in blender and flip the normals which are being displayed in red

[tidal latch]

Yes, there is wiki page for it

[rare sundial]

I am currently writing script for a three stage process on a rp server, but i am having issues converting them from .fbx to .et it's not even giving me the option. Can anyone help?

[stray bridge]

if you import a .fbx it turns into .xob which can be used inside a meshcomponent on a .et

[rare sundial]

@stray bridge it still has it listed as a .fbx in my viewer

[remote palm]

Well, showing some screenshots would certainly help

[rare sundial]

@remote palm I apologize but I am currently away from my pc

Ill post some tomorrow

[stray bridge]

if you only have the .fbx even tho you tried to import it (either import directly or drag and drop the file) smth. is wrong with the model which leads to an error not converting most likely. The console might tell us more about it

[dusty ember]

i understand thank you so mutch

[faint viper]

So if i wanted to have my colliders to be applied with a scale modifier how would that work? Do i have just have to make them bigger in blender or is there a way that they will adjust to the scale applied in enfusion?

[shell hedge]

No collision only works for initial scale

If you have a character that gets scaled then collision only works within the original sized bounding box

[faint viper]

So the job has to be done in blender right?

Means that i'll make my colliders bigger so that they fit almost the scaled up version into enfusion

[shell hedge]

Yes, if you want colliders to work you must not apply scale in the game

[brazen shoal]

Anyone know of a fix for Blender saying ASCII Fbx unsupported when trying to import an FBX file?

[dusty ember]

why my root bone its not a bone ?

[spiral hedge]

Hi, how can I prevent water from entering a model? I looked at it with the BTR, but the vehicle doesn't have a special collider that prevents this. That means all the colliders are also present on other vehicles. But if you drive the BTR into the water, it doesn't penetrate.

[tidal latch]

its not colliders, it is a plane in visual LOD with special material applied to it

[tidal latch]

its fine - if nothing is skinned to a bone then it is just a point in hierarchy

[dusty ember]

So the root bone has to be skinned to the weapon mesh? No or

[spiral hedge]

TY

[tidal latch]

no, it is not necessary

[spiral hedge]

Rey... i can still swim inside the model, even there is no more water.

[tidal latch]

it is just a visual thing

[spiral hedge]

But you won't drown in the BTR 😄

[tidal latch]

that is a different param

[spiral hedge]

I have the interior of a ship. Here, you should be able to move freely, even if the hull is slightly submerged.

[tidal latch]

I don't think it is possible in engine now

[brazen shoal]

Anyone know any good marketplaces to find good models for vehicles that actually have interiors?

[shell hedge]

Did anyone try applying position delta of vehicle every frame for characters standing on top of vehicles? With a way to disable vehicle collision between the character and the vehicle that is

[silk glen]

i also urgently need an answer for this

[spiral hedge]

https://feedback.bistudio.com/T192762

[silk glen]

thanks I'll check back to it periodically

[sinful musk]

does anyone know a quick way to stop the player from seeing something they're wearing to avoid blocking view?

[tidal latch]

https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Arma_Reforger:Character_Gear_Creation/Headgear/Asset_Preparation#Material_preparation

[sinful musk]

perfect. thank you so much.

[fallow pond]

hey has anyone added the water blocking mesh like what found on the btr to a building? would that even be possible and if so would it stop the player from swimming inside it?

or say a large vehicle, doesnt have to be a building

[fluid fern]

https://youtu.be/sx-m0wRadks
Hi, I created some doors on blender, I put the right pivot etc..
The simple door works well, but as soon as I want to put this door in a building it rotates according to the origin of the building.
The same goes for the prfab doorset, which links my 2 doors.
Any ideas?

[trim bough]

I’m building a map and have added in buildings from 2 different workshop mods and for some reason all of the buildings are not useable, you can walk through them and you’re not able to access other floors or rooftops. Can someone please direct me to a proper fix so these buildings can be used

[whole epoch]

In the building model add a “empty” in blender for each door at the point they pivot on . For example “SOCKET_DOOR_L” and “SOCKET_DOOR_R”. Reimport with skinning enabled. In the building prefab place the doors using the socket, rather than manually moving them to position

[whole epoch]

Is it bad to put entities as a child under a vehicle prefab rather than adding them via the SlotManager?

[karmic adder]

You should use the SlotManager for such things usually

[shell hedge]

Slot manager has some nice stuff like registration

But all it is is a wrapper for addchild

But I think we cant disable physics interaction without using slot manager correct?

[whole epoch]

Thank you

[trim bough]

I’m still having a problem with the models. Every time I place a building down and test play my character walks right through the building likes it’s just a prop. Does anybody know how to make the buildings useable

[faint viper]

You are just missing colliders

[shell hedge]

what if you use hierarchy

instead of slot manager

hierarchy component has a pivot dropdown

[faint viper]

still need to "learn" them and how they properly work, but if you think is better i'll give it a try

[shell hedge]

I have characters with particles but it's all spawned through script, but it is using hierarchy and not slots

[faint viper]

i see, then i'll read the wiki a little bit maybe to understand it better since it gives better results

[untold nexus]

Please tell me how can I remove vanilla trees from a vanilla map? I want to replace them with others

[trim bough]

How do I add colliders? Is there a proper tutorial to watch

[faint viper]

theres a video of bootcamp , https://youtu.be/dUNN_KeyjkQ?t=1345 should be from this minute here, check it, it says everything you need to know for colliders, obv this is made for equipment but the same can be done for a building since its easier because it doesnt move around, otherwise on the wiki i think in the prop creation you can find it https://community.bohemia.net/wiki/Arma_Reforger:Prop_Creation?useskin=darkvector

[trim bough]

Thank you very much. You are appreciated

[neat ocean]

What would I need to know if i wanted to create a composition like Drone Radar Jammer that could be built on bases?

I cant find any tutorials or anything on making buildable prefabs

Sorry if im not in the right channel for it

[faint viper]

You simply have to add the prefab to the building catalog of the faction

[faint viper]

btw managed to make it work thanks, because with the slot manager one thing that was ruining it was not be able to attach it to a bone so if the body goes down the vfx would just stay in the air while like this follows perfectly the body

[shell hedge]

yay

[next crown]

Can anyone help me figure out how to set up new vehicle armature im having a hard time getting things to jive . Also if there is a github that may have a armature i can reference

[dawn cargo]

For some reason the hat not moving with the person and when lined up properly in blender and I export it over to Enfusion tools it goes off to the left

[tidal latch]

Weights

[stray bridge]

probably weights or not linked with the armature in blender

[dawn cargo]

nah i did all of that

[wicked dirge]

Did you import skinning? How many bones in xob?

[stray bridge]

smth has to be wrong otherwise it would work, would be helpful if you provide screenshots of blender and the xob

[neat ocean]

Which catalogs do you mean?

I only know about config files that relate to buildings in /configs/editor/compositions

[faint viper]

the faction catalog where everything is listed, equipment etc, https://community.bohemia.net/wiki/Arma_Reforger:Faction_Creation?useskin=darkvector , from down here just see and it will explain a little bit how everything works and how you can add stuffs

[neat ocean]

Thank you brother. Will read through this and see what Im missing.

[short compass]

hello thank to everbody help me to my project ,you can see it on server Artillery village assault , if you have question to game or engin tell me , i'm happy to help you , cordialy barnaber

[neat ocean]

Is this placable artillery?

[short compass]

you can do it placebll easy , another 77mm is movable and spawn to small maintenance vehicle try it at Artillery village assault server

[neat ocean]

Can you just give me mod name please? I want to try it out on my server

[short compass]

Yes you can do what you want ! Mod have the Same name , Artillery Village Assault

[neat ocean]

thanks

[short compass]

No problème tell me the result of your work

@neat ocean

[neat ocean]

It's not going well right now 😄 ....i have no idea what im doing wrong but building doesnt show up in build menu on bases

I just need to make edited "ApproachRadar_RPL5_01.et" with one component added appear in build menu on bases and that is basically it

It's probably so simple but I don't understand what im doing wrong

@short compass could you maybe give me some help please

[neat ocean]

I looked through this and still can't find a solution to my problem., because its not faction related.

I got it kinda working once when I duplicated /PrefabsEditable/Auto/Compositions/Slotted/SlotFlatSmall/E_FuelStorage_S_US_01.et then renamed it and added function i wanted, I also tried deleting all prefabs that i didn't need but they reappear. The problem is that in build menu it still shows up as Fuel Storage, also when I place it down it has all the functions of fuel storage on top of jammer function added.

I have been trying everything past 2 days and I just can't get it to work correctly

[faint viper]

Try to create a unique faction duplicating us files, and put it in there just to see. Because i had many issues my first time with faction creation and if you miss just 1 little thing everthing doesnt work, if its just an addition to US example then just overwrite the file and add it there and 100% is gonna show up if you made it right. BE SURE THAT EVERYTHING IS CHECKED AND MADE SAME WAY AS THE WIKI. trust me is something small and stupid that you are missing that fucks your work

[neat ocean]

That's the thing...I probably didn't make it right.

I looked through some other mods adding turrets and hesco walls, to try reverse engineering but it didn't work also. Those mods work fine and they are not touching any faction config at all

[fluid fern]

Wrong channel

https://discord.com/channels/105462288051380224/976591280786276362

[short compass]

ok desoler

[dawn cargo]

Yeah i did

[tidal latch]

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

You can check this tutorial too

[stray bridge]

some screenshots we can actually see stuff like how many bones etc same for blender

[dawn cargo]

i see the problem for some reason I don't have 230 Bones

[lament hare]

Hey lads. I'm importing two models into Enfusion, a Deflated Vest, and a normal Vest. They have the same materials, but for whatever reason, the order they are imported in the materials are flipped...

Fixed it. Dunno how. But I did. Nevermind!

[lament hare]

Makes sure to disable Add Leaf Bones when exporting. Should be under the armature tab

I had some 357 bonse when I forgot to do that once

[dawn cargo]

did that

[lament hare]

Do you have less or more than 230

@dawn cargo

[dawn cargo]

less

[lament hare]

Ahh. Alright. When you import the rigged model, does it say that there are weights missing, and it weights them to Root?

[dawn cargo]

nope

[lament hare]

Hmmm

Usually the only time I have less than 230 it is because I messed something up on the export/import. If you're certain your weights are correct, and that you are enabling Export Skinning... It is likely that there is something wrong with the armature you are using to export the model with

How many bones does it say your armature has, in Blender? Should be a number by the armature. It should be 224, plus the 5 IK splines, and 1 Entity Position

[lament hare]

Not sure if you still need help. If you still do, let me know

[neat ocean]

Anyone knows how to properly create prefabs to be buildable on the base. I was trying to do it for 2 days and managed to get it kind od working, but its not how i would like it to be. I want to create cool looking Antenna for Jamming Drones, but when I added antena to prefab i cant move it around. I would really appreciate if someone can help me with this.

This is my mod currently.
https://reforger.armaplatform.com/workshop/65B332B45D9FC9A5-RealisticDroneJammingAntena

Any guides related to this would be highly appreciated too.

[narrow chasm]

Hello

🙂

Got a question, does somebody know why my faces flip when i export to Enfusion?

[stray bridge]

applied all transforms?

[narrow chasm]

Its just a static mesh

and yes

[stray bridge]

you got any modifiers?
try importing the fbx you export and have a look if theres smth flipped

[narrow chasm]

all modifiers applied

[stray bridge]

puh

[stray bridge]

had this case before and just flipped the face so its „wrong“ in blender but works in game lol

[narrow chasm]

Thanks riva tuner xd

[narrow chasm]

ye i figured but whyyyy

xd

Happened to me yesturday

[stray bridge]

there must be a reason but tbf I didnt bother

[narrow chasm]

with another model, relaunched everything then it works, but it does not work on this model

Got it!

Too many verts loose

i got double faces

god i need to learn how to use blender properly xddd

Ah yes

[narrow chasm]

Redone it, works now. i think i somewhere reversed something on the first model wich Enfusion did not like

[idle talon]

Let me know how you go with this

[noble ravine]

Anyone has made a picture showing the names and what part of base character mesh to hidde for the clothing?

[shell hedge]

just open character xob and look at the list

[terse gyro]

Hi everyone, I have a question. I have a 3d model, and there are textures and materials for it in png format, is there any way to export the model to an arma reforger, so that I don't have to manually assign textures and materials for this model in the workshop itself. I would be grateful if someone knows how to do this.

[real arch]

I exported a model with colliders, but two of them, the UTM_FGs for the model itself, didnt export correctly

They dont appear in the Colliders tab or my Import Settings

[stray bridge]

no on import tools creates the .emat files. You have to drag and drop the .edds files which are also created on import into it

you could probably write a script that does the „link“ for you editing these files directly

[stray bridge]

what does the console say on import?

[real arch]

Nothing, no errors
It just doesnt import those two specific colliders

[tidal latch]

Maybe you have some filters enabled in Log Console? Are you sure those colliders are in exported FBX?

[real arch]

I had selected them in my BLEND project for export

Perhaps it could be cause theyre a little too large?

[tidal latch]

can you check by importing FBX to clean Blender instance?

[real arch]

Yeah I went through, reopened everything, unfiltered my Logs from errors only, and it said the UTMs were just a little too big

I decimated them until they were a good size

[tidal latch]

alright, though so it is problem with Log Console filters

sometimes you can also stop seeing thing after changing context settings

or Log Level Filter

[real arch]

Thanks for the help man

[tidal latch]

no problem 🙂

[devout dune]

Hello guys, I have a problem with my flyby animation, basically the model disappears at certain angles, do you know how to fix this issue ? Thanks in advance

I put this here because I think this is mainly a model issue

[tidal latch]

its more of animation issue

your model is animated but the entity center remains at same place. Object will be only visible within original bounding box of object

[devout dune]

Ok makes sense! Any idea on how to fix it ?

Can I just fix it with a huge dummy box in blender ?😂

[tidal latch]

in RHS it was solved by creating another object and then animating bone over there

then plane is connected to that bone via i.e. SlotManagerComponent and Pivot ID

[devout dune]

Thanks a lot!

[next minnow]

can someone explain to me why my colliders arent exporting ? its just a helmet.

[faint viper]

photos or anything else helps, in case this is what you are looking for https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Arma_Reforger:Character_Gear_Creation/Headgear/Asset_Preparation

[next minnow]

yeah i read that from tip to butt, hold up ill get pics

[faint viper]

because remember even just 1 small things ruins everything else, just make sure sometimes to read it like backwords helps a lot

[next minnow]

read it in piglatin tbh lmao. i cant even count on two feet how many times i read it. two screenshots. need some specific lmk cause tbh not sure. but before someone says, remove this or that. i have done it every possible way, changed the names of the colliders from UTM to UCX and back. removed the entity positons, wasnt sure wich one it needed. thanks for incite tho!

[tidal latch]

you are missing empty objects

like IK targets, compare it with samples or what is in Wiki

you also have EntityPosition duplicated - that will also cause error

[faint viper]

Advice if you dont want to read again something that helped me on pretty much all the modelling i did in arma in terms of custom characters with custom parts added to them with weights, colliders or anything else, this video that is perfect for you because is for the helmet says everything you need to do or make to make anything else functional. Sending it to the right minute you should check out but even watching it full or just skipping like UVs is fine. https://youtu.be/dUNN_KeyjkQ?t=1344

[next minnow]

thanks dude this really did help alot, i figured out what i was doing

[neat ocean]

Is it allowed or possible to edit base game model?

My new project is going to be small camo net that you can put into backpack and then drop it on the ground and assemble it. Something like what Squad has

[wicked dirge]

no and no

[neat ocean]

okay thanks for information. So that means I have to make my own model? Is that #3 modelling guide still relevant to what I need? Is there any other way of acquiring models?

I found this camo net model in game files, would it be possible to just make it so half of it is under ground when you try placing it down?

[stray bridge]

You can buy models of various websites, just make sure its not a ripped asset.
Important to know, you cant pay someone to do work for you using the reforger tools

[neat ocean]

I know about 2nd one

[stray bridge]

just go with a proper camo net, its not worth the hustle to make this one work

[neat ocean]

how hard would it be for a noob like me to make something like this from scratch?

[faint viper]

im not a master in 3d but i would say is pretty much few planes with colliders and the texture like this, then you just make the sustains thats it, pretty simple at the end

[neat ocean]

https://tenor.com/view/i-know-some-of-these-words-mhmm-clueless-words-i-know-gif-5609882

[faint viper]

Basically just to let you understand the squares are the planes, then you make the sustains like cylinders and just scale them on the Y, then colliders so people cant walk through and in adobe substance or whateever you use , you apply a texture of a net

[stray bridge]

model and script when ur a complete noob, forget about it and start with smth smaller which actually leads to progress and a steeper learning curve

[neat ocean]

Im not complete noob to AR Tools but to modeling yes. What did you mean by proper camo net before?

[neat ocean]

I would then only need 2 planes and 3 cylinders. Do you need to make your own texture or how do you make it see through?

It would be like a hiding spot where you can crawl in

[faint viper]

if you want it like that sure, you can find them online or see how to make one with substance, for sure theres gonna be a tutorial only for a net texture using some alphas

[neat ocean]

Improved picture😅 got carried away in paint

[stray bridge]

its not easy as creating 2 planes and 3 cylinders and calling it a day

[neat ocean]

It never is🥲 ... i will give it a try and we will see if anything comes out of it

[velvet falcon]

this iraq weapon mod has no colliders on their xob mesh / model. I assume that's why the weapon floats when "dropped" from uncon character

[wary inlet]

There should be placement anchor settings in the prefab

[fading temple]

Ok.... please dont roast me too hard. this is my first attempt at this kinda thing. Im working on a radio packpack to go with a existing radio mod i have. This is the first time that i am actually creating a model though thats worn and its giving me some serious headaches. Ive given it LOD's, Ive given it colliders, and ive weight painted it. imported the bones(at least thats what ive seen talked about on a video involving clothing mods). yet... it seems to be doing this. Im at a total loss. and like i said. Im new to this portion of the modding side. and any help would be greatly appreciated

[faint viper]

have you checked the modelling bootcamp video? thats the best thing has all the things to be done and shown, try to look at it, it will help for sure

[fading temple]

I thought I did. But I’m a bit of a squirrel brain. And I may have missed or miss understood something when I was trying to watch it.

[rare topaz]

Hello .Have anyone a blender example of simple house model ? it only to check how is the doors and windows .Thanks

[stray bridge]

doors and windows are separate

WindowExample

add a socket (empty) to your main Building Window Frame, to the bottom left (basically where the origin is on the window) to use the socket inside the hierachy to put the window in the right spot.
Lol that sentence is confusing as hell

^ this only if you want separate windows that can break, otherwise just assign glass material to the mesh you want to be glass as well as the glass collider + fireview.
This will look like regular glass but doesnt break

• for the doors, best to look at the prefab setup of the base game doors to copy that.
  The "hinge" basically is the origin in blender.

you have to child ur doors to a frame, the frame needs to be childed to the house prefab

[wooden wolf]

Okay gents any idea why my rifle isn’t importing into tools

Any help would be appreciated

[glossy prairie]

rename scar_l. x-y-z coordination make zero

[tidal latch]

Probably scale

Apply all transforms on armature

[tropic kayak]

Anyone find a Fix to this trying to fix my Shirt

[tropic kayak]

I’m trying to get my Arms to show it’s my custom shirt not RHS

[lost jackal]

https://www.youtube.com/live/j1Whal0_frw?si=UgE3y7x4tbYEjmPj

Posted my first how to mod video yesterday. Lmk what y’all think. Advice/feedback is very welcome

[lyric granite]

I am trying to export a weapon made up of different objects and for some reason one of the objects exports black and my textures do not appear on it after I set up my textures for it. Everything I can find on this issue tells me it must be a UV mapping error, but I just can't seem to see how that is possible. It is correctly UV unwrapped with no overlap. All objects are using the same UV map. I've tried making a new UV map and just export the problem object, but it still shows up black. In Blender the texturing looks correct. Once I export it over to workbench the .xob file is it's usual white except for that same one object. Any help on identifying the issue would be greatly appreciated!

[remote palm]

Vertex color in blender

[worn plover]

Hey so we imported a model into infusion before we did we packed our islands for uv but we are unable to get decals to show up when placing them in infusion. Is there something we missed or did wrong?

[shell hedge]

decals on vehicles? I would suggest making decals as part of your mesh

[worn plover]

No sorry, we modeled a tunnel

[shell hedge]

default decals are terrain only maybe you need to change it

in the entity attributes

[worn plover]

Ahh ok

Yea after we set up uv we noticed that the decal would attempt to align but the actual image wouldn't show. Worst comes to worse we'll do it in substance I guess

[scenic gust]

Anyone have any beginner blender tips for modeling ,primarily gonna be working on naval vessels.

[keen folio]

Got some UV/texturing/decal work to complete but @worn plover and myself have been slaving away self teaching on how to make this shit work.

[idle talon]

i want to learn how to import vehicles into the game. wheres the best place to start learning everything

[idle talon]

are you trying to learn how to make caves/tunnels ?

[hot viper]

If a mesh extrudes -Z axis in blender, is there a way for it to automatically alter the terrain? I always thought there was already prefabs achieving this in-game already..

Or does the terrain need to be built around this object?

[keen folio]

I already have my tunnel mesh made, just figuring out how to make an entity splineable and all the texturing etc. Going to import the terrain mesh to blender and block out the chunks that are missing up top and export multiple single face pieces to slap on the terrain so it can look normal.

and not covered up with rocks etc

[neon sorrel]

Guys, does anyone know how to make a patch that can be attached to RHS clothing?

[idle talon]

not without ripping the model from rhs, no

[shell hedge]

What if you download the one they supply and edit it? https://docs.rhsmods.org/rhs-status-quo-user-documentation/arma-reforger/rhs-status-quo/for-developers/patches

[devout dune]

Hello, could you explain this a little more please? I don’t understand if I have to do this in blender or just in enfusion

[hybrid mountain]

False, there are people who have created their own geometries. They just use custom component config to tell the game it’s compatible as a “patch”

[sly bridge]

false, please don't spread false information around this discord, thanks

[idle talon]

It’s not that I’m throwing around false information, the last person I asked said it 🤷🏼‍♀️

It’s just an assumption, you don’t have to get so pressed about it my guy

And you corrected the assumption so all it good now 😎

[idle talon]

Oh yeah fair enough, makes sense now that I think about it

[tidal latch]

I'm away now but if I will not forget, I might write it down on Sunday

[devout dune]

Thank you very much! I’ll remind you on Sunday! Have a great weekend

[lilac badge]

Hello. I am having this exact issue. I am very new to rigging, so can you explain what is meant by "parent the collider to the bone directly"?

[reef sun]

On the collider object

[lilac badge]

Thank you. Can I do this without the collider's transform becoming relative to the bone?

[reef sun]

Maybe with ctrl+p and keep transform?

[lilac badge]

Looks good in blender now. But now the collider is colossal in enfusion for some reason.

hmm. and collider still doesn't move with bone.

Ah got it now. Forgot to remove the armature modifier. Thanks again @reef sun

[tropic kayak]

idk why but my model is coming in like this

this is blender

[remote palm]

Look at the normals. Most likely inverted

[stray bridge]

check face orientation

[next crown]

is there a github that has sample mod helicopters ive been told there is and i cant find anything only the sample mod new car

[quiet ledge]

I know theres sample player anims for helos i dont think there's a actual helicopter sample

[next crown]

rgr that thank you

[keen folio]

1600m+ Bridge and tunnel pretty much completed. Just needs some fine tuning.

[waxen current]

Is there a good resource everyone is referencing for preparing building/structure assets for enfusion?

[keen folio]

I've been looking myself, particularly for the texturing aspect.

Not a whole lot out there.

[fallow pond]

that bridge look mega skinny

[lost jackal]

In case anyone is modeling buildings for destruction:

https://youtu.be/dg-tWMRvITM?si=xvMDNztXHw7Xek2u

[lost jackal]

I’m putting together a playlist. LMK if you have any specific questions to cover. I have made a bridge, and yes, texturing it is a pain…

[waxen current]

Sweet! Yeah, mostly I want to take paid assets (cgtrader; etc) and prep them for the engine, including all facets like destruction, navmesh, portals, collision, and everything else. I'm not GREAT at modeling but I can figure my way around.

[lost jackal]

I haven’t messed with portals or navmesh, but I know the rest pretty well

[keen fossil]

I hope this is the right channel and an easy answer. My knowledge in blender and texuting is .01% right now, and im wanting to learn. I've managed to watch PIano_Mans videos and piece mealed some information together, and have download this football/socerball, and have succesfully (best i can tell) imported it into the game and have it in a world. The main question I have, is these textures on the right, do i have to do anything with them, or name them the BCR and other proper names?

[hasty condor]

this is a model i imported from blender for terrain, how do i add collisions?

[worn plover]

trying to make a double door rn but when i import the frame everything but the sockets seems to go in

[sick shard]

what's in charge of the side to side recoil like head bob like in the video I thought it was Angular Z but doesn't seem todo anything noticeable when i change it to zero just seems very jarring when shooting

think my curves are to aggressive on the linear side I'll adjust and see if that improves

[spiral hedge]

Morning, question the Attachment LOD render: I added different type of handguard for a weapon. Like the M16 Vanilla. The preview of the weapon renders in LOD1 to look good. But the attachment Handguard always renders in LOD2 or 3 and looks dump in the preview. How can i change this? I already tryed to add InventoryComp and set PreviewRender to LOD1, but it does not change anything. Thanks

[shell hedge]

Its in item component attributes under preview render attributes, it might also be taking lod level from the parent maybe?

[spiral hedge]

Like written, even if you set this to LOD0, the Handguard is rendered on LOD2. If you take a look onto the original M16 Handguard, BIS does not even use ItemComp on it.

[shell hedge]

I'm telling you 2 options where LOD comes from, either that preview render attribute or parent entity.

I always set preview entity lod to lod0 in loadout editor to avoid any such nonsense.

[spiral hedge]

Handguard / Weapon

[shell hedge]

so when you enable the inventory item component attributes it doesnt change anything?

[spiral hedge]

Nope 😦 i already tryed and set LOD0 there. But does not change anything

[shell hedge]

one other person had a similar issue in #enfusion_generic

idk if he fixed it

[spiral hedge]

Maybe @tidal latch knows anthing about this? TY

[tidal latch]

no pings pls

[bold briar]

What setting is it so that helis will snap to this rather than try and place on the ground? more often than not, trying place a heli wont be allowed (red model) because it's trying to place inside the heli pad on the floor, not above the heli pad

[faint viper]

So copy your model then decimate it to around 250/500 poli and rename the duplicated with UCM or UCX_nameofuritem, check the guide to be sure, once you imported them, into the import settings select the collider and give it FireBuilding collision. Then create the prefab with a rigid body with collision. I’m not home but hope it helped even if it’s written badly

[waxen current]

That is the building mode snap-to-terrain. Essentially, in Building and Game Master mode, all objects placed snap to terrain by default- the only difference is that in game master you can use vertical editing to raise/lower by some offset. There is code for snap-to-objects (so you can stack things) but it's turned off completely with a comment about it being broken.

I wrote a mod that tries to correct this, but it's a bit buggy because placing an object in the build mode goes through several phases (preview -> placed preview -> built object).

[bold briar]

Figured. I was kinda hoping changing flags of the heli base to terrain would solve that but didn't work

Grim

[idle talon]

does arma tools have vanilla armor vests ?

[tidal latch]

helipads are using very hacky way of solving it - there is some array of prefabs on this asset (or some placement prefab) which whitelist prefabs which shouldn't be checked for collisions

toooook me quite a long to figure it out how to set up it in RHS

click on helicopter prefab which is used in conflict and use Find References functionality to pinpoint file holding this configuration