enfusion_model

[dense thicket]

Unfortunately that did not help

[lost jackal]

Is there an offset applied to it in your prefab or something?

[dense thicket]

None, it works perfectly fine when placed in the workbench

It's a radio replacement idk if that would effect it

[thick cloak]

I need help - can someone tell me where I am making a mistake? While transferring the car, when I want to adjust the steering axis, I move the bone to one side and the steering wheel moves in a completely different direction, I don't know why 😅 . Similarly, when I move the handbrake bone forward, the handbrake goes backwards instead of forwards. For example, the driver’s door bone I moved to the correct place and it's fine, but with some others, I don't know why there's a problem. All elements are assigned correctly, I must have done something wrong in Blender, but I don't know where 🙂 I tried to first move the bones and then assign them to the elements... the same... some work and some move the entire element like the steering wheel to another direction, for example.

🤷‍♂️

[hot viper]

Maybe bone roll? Not sure if this would affect inverted movement

[thick cloak]

the steering wheel turns normally when I set it in the middle. then the center is set correctly and the steering wheel turns good on the axis. however, it is then 20cm lower... or if I move the bone forward - the steering wheel goes back (still rotating correctly on the axis) When I want to lift her, I have to move the bone LOWER, but then the steering wheel no longer has a center axis 🤣

[rotund pelican]

Literally speaking, this tool is used to assign materials for geometry, here you can choose the material that you need, personally I am only familiar with this from the BuildingFireView preset, as I use it to create buildings, after you have assigned the preset, export the model to FBX and import it to the workbench, then in the import settings For the xob model, set the preset you need. I noticed that when exporting, for some reason, the geometry preset crashes and needs to be reset, but its material remains the same, I hope this information will help you somehow, just as your videos once helped me.

[thick cloak]

no, I tried rolling, I tried mirroring bone, I tried disconnecting the steering wheel from the bone, moving bone, reconnecting it, and moving .... nothing, when i move it up, steering wheel is going down xD, when the bone is positioned so that the proper steering wheel rotation works, steeringwheel in game is at the legs 🤷‍♂️ 😄

[keen fossil]

I’m happy to hear I was able to help you at some point. Thanks for the reply I’ll take a look when I try again.

[bitter grove]

Is this not the right way for memory points/snaps/slots? when imported into the game they are backwards

[remote palm]

Backwards? Question would be why your muzzle is the root and not the handguard like all the other guns. And apply the rotation transform. Thats your issue

[kind cobalt]

transformations apply automatically if you do them in edit mode right?
think thats true, neat little tip if im remembering correctly

[bitter grove]

Muzzles not the root, that’s just highlighting barrel_chamber

But I’ll give that a shot. I see that it is rotated 180 in rotation

[languid mesa]

how to import a model in xob format into blend?
pleas help

[karmic adder]

there are no tools that can convert back from xob afaik

[stray bridge]

you dont

[thick cloak]

ok, never mind, done well 🙂

[last hill]

If nobody answered this, point the weapon forward to the Y+ due to the way it orients in engine

[bitter grove]

Is that not in the y+ ?

[rotund pelican]

Hi guys, I wanted to ask you a question. I'm studying building creation for the reforger arma, and I'm currently creating portals, and as I understand it, they should also change the sounds of the environment, that is, there should be a sound of you being indoors, but for some reason the sound doesn't change for me, I decided to add a few prefabs from the vanilla game, but I noticed that There are also no changes in the sounds when entering and exiting the building. Could this mean that there is no sound change in arma reforger when you are indoors and outdoors? In dayz, for example, as far as I know, special roadway materials were assigned for this purpose, which were responsible for what sound would be produced on a particular surface when the player moves on it, int and ext textures, but how is this done in arma reforger does anyone know?

[surreal ore]

If shooting sounds don't sound different in your building, then they aren't properly setup.

[rotund pelican]

The bottom line is that I've also spawned the vanilla buildings of the game, but there are no sound changes inside or outside the room either.

[surreal ore]

So shooting in a vanilla building sounds the same as shooting outside the building?

Because I can clearly hear a difference.

[last hill]

Load up into one of the GM Test worlds rather than MPTEST map to ensure it is doing the audio engine properly too. The vanilla buildings definitely have different audio effects for gunfire with vanilla weapons (some modded guns don't). If you aren't hearing a difference try the gm worlds.

[rotund pelican]

Hmm, you're really right, the sound on my map and the GM_Arland map is different indoors, and it changes on the arland map, but not on mine. What could be the problem?

[last hill]

You are probably missing the sound engine stuff, I am not sure how it is all set up but I would look at the base maps or the map tutorial stuff for what is needed for a functional terrain.

If your map is having issues, I would recommend asking over on the terrain section on the discord, rather than here. Sort that side out first, then move back to the model stuff.

[hasty palm]

I'm new to blender so pardon my ignorance but no matter what guide I follow I can't seem to get the bones to show within Workbench after exporting it from blender. I've used youtube videos and the bohemia wiki. Not sure what I'm doing wrong

[hasty palm]

Found my issue. Here's the fix for anyone else who has issues with bones not appearing after import. After importing your FBX, on the bottom right, next to the Details tab click Import Settings. Scroll down to Export Skinning and make sure that is ENABLED. After that hit Reimport Resource and the bones should show

[rotund pelican]

Yes, I figured it out, I needed to add a config to the SoundWorld Base, now there is a sound change in vanilla rooms, but still not in mine, what can I do wrong?

[worn plover]

Make sure you tick scene hierarchy also

[keen fossil]

should opening with NET API enabled happen automatically?

[lucid moat]

You should make sure you have it checked off but should be automatically or you won’t be able to export too enfusion anyway

Are you porting everything over at once?Im curious because I have so many doors on this building and scaling the arma reforger to fit has been hell

I think all my doors has animations to open and close but no sockets.Do I need to put the sockets on my self or just rename,

[neon badge]

Hello guys 👋

I asking for some help, because of a random-looking problem with interior probe.

I created a ship-hold ( with BSP, BOXVOL, PRT ), which is contained inside a Prefab with premade House_Probe ( default setting ).
Depending on where i'm looking, the Probe is turned ON or OFF. Its pretty confusing then.. No lerp is set during the import.

Does someone already had this case, or solved it ?

( both screenshots were taken at the same time, with 1° delta angle )

[lucid moat]

Is that available without redmount city haha

May not be able to finish though 🤣 A bunch of doors I have no clue on what to do about.

If all my doors have memory points and animations,how do I get them to register to be exported to enfusion?Do I need to bring in every door separate?

[toxic stone]

Hi guys! Does anyone know a mod with a really long external staircase? I'm taking a custom tall building with no interior textures and trying to make it more playable at least on the top floor

[stray crater]

Hi ! Yes, you need to make a prefab out of the door and define it as a door (watch how the devs made a door in the game).

The best thing to do is to set a memory point at your door frame on the building so you can snap the door’s prefab right away.

What do you mean about animation ?

[lucid moat]

Have you got the link for that video?I may have it saved but I got a lot saved now.If I can figure out how to get the door off the frame which seems to not what to do.Its a model through Urbanic so the doors have the sockets and animations.as I think the Urbanic addon can open the doors.Im assuming that don’t matter for me,I could send you a screenshot after work to show you what I’m working with door wise if that’s okay.

[stray crater]

I don’t know if there’s any video. I just learned that you need to separate the door from the building and create a prefab with it. Then you can add the prefab to the building.

Watch how the doors are made in enfusion by the devs. Just put a prefab on a map and watch how the config it

And do the exact same

[lucid moat]

Yea,I know the gist of that.You just throw the model into a door entity and put in the slot management of the building.Im just wondering how to get it to work from blender haha.Im assuming I need to add LODO context to it?

[stray crater]

I don’t think you can do that from Blender

Unless I’m wrong

[lucid moat]

Well you can do the lod in blender but I don’t think that’s what I need after just looking.I’ll keep working at it.

[stray bridge]

if its eg 15x the same model of a door, export/import it seperate once with the blender origin being the hinge.
To setup the door prefab orientate on base game.
For the positions use sockets.
Use hierarchy component on the pd / on the door prefabs to slot them to the correct socket after you parented the door to the pd

if its not the same model everytime you would need to seperate every door one by one and slot them with the sockets and hierachy

[livid apex]

Does anyone have any idea what might cause this?

[lucid moat]

Most of the doors are connected to a key which the sockets are attached too.Should I just go about making my own sockets not connected to the key.

Okay,My fault.They have drivers and not sockets.

[lucid moat]

How do I get the doors separated from the frame?

[keen fossil]

what programs/addons for blender anyone using for making houses models?

[plush torrent]

what exactly?

the shadows?

[livid apex]

Yes

[plush torrent]

I believe meshes have a option to cast shadows or not

[livid apex]

Ok, but it's not something that should be causing shadows. The faces are all flat

[plush torrent]

Oh I see, maybe normals?

Are all the normals properly facing?

[livid apex]

Yeah I've checked in blender and they all are facing correctly

[plush torrent]

Is cull set properly? To not have some planes invisible?

I believe ccw to none

Or vice versa

I forgot

[livid apex]

Will look thank you

[stray bridge]

you dont need any animations on the doors for basic reforger doors, you might wanna remove them.
I dont know how your model looks but in general you can separate object by pressing p

[dull phoenix]

Hello. Where can I find a original sample for helicopters? Like here https://github.com/BohemiaInteractive/Arma-Reforger-Samples or like here (look image)

[hybrid mountain]

Define what type of sample

[dull phoenix]

i need Huey

[hybrid mountain]

Most of what you need can be found via inspecting the models in workbench. There is a rotor sample there, but you won’t be able to look at the Huey in blender

[dull phoenix]

kk, thank u!

[solar heron]

I want to make some things for ballistic tests. i have a 10mm Woodboard. For the right behave should i use the 10mm wood game Material or is it calced per face? so i would end up with 20 if it calcs the front and backface.

[olive fern]

From my understanding, yes it calculates the front and the back face and therefore you ll be having 20mm, but don’t pin me on it

[solar heron]

Hmm. What happens if i choose just metal? will it calculate the thickness using the meshface distance itself? so many questions 😄

[lucid moat]

Does anyone got a link to a good door rigging tutorial?

[faint viper]

There was guy a made a video, can’t remember the name but for sure was something about procedural animation

[lucid moat]

Yea,They either go to fast or years old seems like.I get the gist of it but don’t want to put in the work just for it to be wrong.

I do wonder,do I set memory points on the frame and bring it in with the base building?I know reforger has the door sets so not sure.

[steel hare]

They mention some information on this Wiki page https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Arma_Reforger:Prop_Creation#Colliders_&_material_names
"For this example prop, Plastic_6mm game materials is used, since it is assumed that single wall is 3mm thick and due to to geometry is a simple box, those walls are counted twice. "
Hope this helps?

[dark geyser]

Hello dose anyone know of a some vidoes thats good to use and look at when im gonna do a modell?

I have modell done but need to add some other enfusen stuff to it. and get in in ( Backpack)

[faint viper]

check the wiki for the equipment of the vest, if pretty much the same for weights and rigging, just make it so you have it for your backpack

[tidal latch]

I might actually change that sentence - it will be 6mm if faces less than 10mm apart from itself (or something like that)

[shell hedge]

Make sure you include "(or something like that)"

[loud mist]

have an issue when i export a collider to reforger tools it never has any faces or vertices anyone know how to fix

[lucid moat]

Question,Do you need colliders on clothing and why is the object turned the other way then intended?

[lucid moat]

What kind of object are you exporting?

[lucid moat]

Also I have the material for the object in blender.You can’t export the material?

I flipped it so it ain’t backwards but having this issue

[torn pollen]

Hi!
I created a bridge and added collision to it in Blender.
It was my first time.
So far, the character crashes into it and climbs, so great.
But!
The grenades and shots don't have collision with those cubes I added.
I used "UBX_" and "UCX_"

Do you have any idea why this happens?

[keen fossil]

what is the layer preset you used?

[torn pollen]

this?

[loud mist]

A prop vehicle

[loud mist]

Have u done the weighting for it

[lucid moat]

Yea,I figured it out.

[loud mist]

do u know how to fix colliders not having any vertices or faces when exported?

[keen fossil]

Yeah the layer preset needs to have FireView in it to best of my knowledge. Try whichever prefix you feel is best. It’s a lot of trial and error.

So hours would be BuildingFireView. That fixed my bullets not colliding. But bullet holes would disappear after being a few feet away from object. Still not sure what causes that. Vanilla objects them disappear after a much larger distance.

[loud mist]

no idea what im doing wrong anyone know how to fix

[onyx lodge]

What does your blender scene look like?

Especially the hierarchy on the right hand side

[surreal ore]

https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Arma_Reforger:FBX_Import
You clearly need to read this.

[fluid moat]

Quick question

I want my 3d object ( rock ) stop shore map pas through

[heady gust]

Request for Help – Importing Pants/Uniform into Arma Reforger (French Modder)

Hello everyone,

I’m a French modder (a very noob one, totally “éclaté au sol” 😅) and I’m trying to import a pair of pants (or a full uniform) into Arma Reforger using the Enfusion tools. I’ve watched several YouTube tutorials, but I still can’t manage to make it work.

Could anyone explain the right steps, or share a simple guide/example? It would really help me figure out what I’m doing wrong.

Thanks a lot in advance for your patience and help!

[lucid moat]

Anyone know why my imported model material can’t be duplicated and why in the workshop it’s got the right material but in game it’s a whole different color?

[surreal ore]

Your model probably have vertex painting.

[surreal ore]

Weight the clothing to the Reforger armature, give it an armature modifier and target the Reforger armature. Export.

If you don't understand what all of that means, then I'd suggest watching Blender tutorials.

[lucid moat]

How do I get rid of the vertex painting?

I created the model,I know I created a whole material and color and all that but not sure how to even bring that over as I exported it out as FBX to import it back into weight sample blender file.

[surreal ore]

If you created it and didn't do any vertex painting then there shouldn't be any.

[lucid moat]

Left is in game right is workshop lol

[surreal ore]

Workbench != Workshop

[lucid moat]

Work bench oops

[surreal ore]

Regardless, the red checkered texture is what is showed when the texture that its supposed to be doesn't exist.

[lucid moat]

Maybe,I isolated the material ?

[surreal ore]

I don't even know what you mean by that.

[lucid moat]

All the material for my model says is Material.emat and I can change it but not able to duplicate it or anything.

[surreal ore]

That's because the material you gave them in Blender is named "Material"

[lucid moat]

Well I’ll see but I don’t recall.I’ll figure it out.I know I created a bunch of nodes and what not for the color and texture in blender but it got cut out somewhere along the line.

[surreal ore]

The material in blender has nothing to do with the material in reforger

the only correlation is the name

[edgy cedar]

Hi, could someone help me out? On Bohemia’s website it says I should have 230 bones, but in Blender I only see 224. Any idea how to fix this?

[wicked dirge]

224 bones and 6 memory points that need to be part of the export

[edgy cedar]

no, i have 44+180 :/

[clever gyro]

Does anyone know how I get the sights zoom to work from a vehicle? I've configured the 2DSightsComponent but that doesn't seem to work

[honest pine]

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

[clever gyro]

Thank you, i'll have a look at that 🙂

[honest pine]

should be under "Settings base sight properties"

[edgy cedar]

Does anyone have the correct template so I can get the full 230 bones? :/

[worn plover]

Did you use the char weights template?

[edgy cedar]

a char template for helmet ?

[worn plover]

Arma-Reforger-Samples/SampleMod_NewCharacter/Assets/Characters/SampleCharacter at main · BohemiaInteractive/Arma-Reforger-Samples · GitHub https://share.google/aWG0yulxWMXUxP0eU

[clever gyro]

It seems that I did everything this states but the freelook function activates in the sight, I think thats the issue

[edgy cedar]

yes i use it

[edgy cedar]

i take the Head_Template.fbx and i have 223 bones

[honest pine]

head template is juste meant for you to make your model fit on it, not to import it

I think you need to use a file called character_weight_template.blend, open it copy the 6 meomry point and paste them into your gear blender to add the 6 memomry point + the armature linked to it containing 224 bones

[edgy cedar]

Do you have any screenshots to help me do the process? :/ I'm starting to get a headache from trying 🙁

[edgy cedar]

Do I need to copy the 224 bones plus the 6 memory points that are at the top of my screenshot?

[worn plover]

Open char weights template. Import your fbx. Click character model then shift click helmet model then go to weight mode, weights, transfer weights (nearest face interpolated, 5m, assign by name) then go back to object mode. Modifiers add armature set object armature. Do your LODs export without leaf bones.

[honest pine]

https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Arma_Reforger:Character_Gear_Creation/Headgear/Asset_Preparation rigging section or do as Dusty told you

[sullen sable]

Not sure if this is the right place or not but Im trying to rig a harness similar to the vanilla alice harness. I have 16 bones assigned in blender but when I import into workbench its ranging anywhere from 4 to 9. Any ideas what Im doing wrong?

[normal raft]

Hi everyone,

I’m trying to figure out how to make an object invisible only when the player is in first-person view, but still visible in third-person. For example, something like sunglasses that should be hidden in FPS but shown in TPS.

Is there a recommended way to do this in Arma Reforger / Enfusion? Should I use a scripted component to check the active camera, or is there a built-in property/setting for attachments like this?

Thanks in advance for any guidance!

[stray bridge]

alpha bias inside the material

[wicked dirge]

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

[normal raft]

@wicked dirge Thanks to you and your assets, I'm having a bit of fun 🙂

[wicked dirge]

I dont know what that means but 👍🏻 😄

[normal raft]

I'm learning a lot about modding little by little abev rhs, your work is super substantial and allows beginners like me to understand a lot of things and make assets like this helmet quite easily ^^

little by little with*

[lucid moat]

Why is in game regular gm mode it’s showing up like this when workbench it’s showing up correct?

[coral wasp]

Anyone know how I can prevent the doors from teleporting to 0, 0 when opened on my prefab? Works fine in Tools but when live on the server the doors teleport.

[keen fossil]

I’m sure the is isn’t the answer your looking for, but first Is it custom doors you made? Or vanilla asset?

[coral wasp]

Tried with both custom and vanilla

[coral wasp]

So the doors will always teleport to the location of the object at the top of the hierarchy.

[worn plover]

Doors need to be childed to the frame they will pivot at the socket place on the frame model

[coral wasp]

It is a child to the frame, I even put in a reforger door set prefab with its frame, same issue with the door teleporting

Issue only happens on a dedicated server, in reforger tools and local host the doors work fine.

[sand pollen]

I made a custom map using the Arma reforger tools and it works fine in the tools app. I uploaded it to the workshop, put it on my server and when a player hits "m" to view the map the dude holds it up but the map does not open on the screen. Anyone know how to fix this? Ive been searching for days for why this is happening. any help would be much appreciated.

[idle drift]

I have a great YouTube video for rigging helmets if you still need help

[edgy cedar]

Ah I'd like to if you don't mind 🙂

[idle drift]

Sure give me a sec. Need to find it first

[idle drift]

https://youtu.be/Vy4BDi7EP7Q?si=R4nuY7QpF8I1QUp5

Here you go

I can send you the file for the weight transfer and the bone files if you need

In that case I’ll do it when I come home

[edgy cedar]

Thank you so much, oh, yes 🙂 that would be nice

[keen fossil]

I’ve seen this asked before and I’m sorry I can’t recall what fixed it. But I’ll ask a few basic trouble shooting questions: do you still have a layer named default?

[keen fossil]

Ask this over in the terrain channel and tag me

[idle drift]

@edgy cedar Sent you the Files

[keen fossil]

Is anyone willing to share a Blender file they have with proper BSP, BOXVOL, and Portals set up for a building? I'd like to "reverse engineer" it, and see what I am doing wrong. If there is a way to suggest BI to upload that type of file like they do weapon and vehicle, that'd be great too.

[worn plover]

so the enfusion blender tools have some QA tools that will help make your building air tight for the bsp to generate

[coral wasp]

Yes, the prefab had the layer named as 'default' I'll change it and see if its a fix.

[rotund pelican]

I can see what you're doing wrong by showing the screen.

[floral ember]

Is there an character model I can use from base game to make sure things fit on correctly? E.g putting glasses on, so it doesnt float

Nvm got it

[keen fossil]

That would be great.Ill dm you

[floral ember]

Nvm they are hidden on Github

[keen fossil]

It passes the QA test but the portals still leak, and the sound doesn’t change. I got it to work on a house shape I made as a cube with one door one window. I’m trying to repeat process with using a program for making house building and can’t get it to work.

[ornate walrus]

Anyone have any videos or wikis i can go through on adding portals , sockets and whatever else goes into rigging up buildings in enfusion?

[shell hedge]

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

Its not a tutorial but you can extrapolate from the provided terms

[ornate walrus]

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

thanks also found this

[keen fossil]

I finally have enough of an idea on the BSP, boxvol, and portals to try and put a video together. I can’t promise it’ll cover everything, or that it will be completely accurate. However I’ll try.

[grizzled mural]

Hello, were you able to find the file to understand the logic of the portals? I have the same problem with them🥲

[keen fossil]

I’m taking care of couple personal things then will be starting to record a tutorial. If all goes well and I don’t screw up a lot, I will hopefully have it postered in few hours. It will be very basic but should hopefully get those that were struggling like I was on the right path.

[visual breach]

does anyone do porting in here that can do a project for me, blender ain't my forte plus near enough every video I watch the binds/keys they all use are complete opposite from me just finding it a nightmare, my bad if this sort of question ain't allowed just a super pain I can do everything on tools except blender😂

just needs rigged, fit to character, weighted essentially just ready and setup so no problems when I go on tools

[keen fossil]

When it comes to texturing a building is it more appropriate to do texturing in blender, then exporting the textures (bcr,non) to workbench? Or is it more appropriate to do it in substance painter if you have it?

[solar heron]

Hello Guys. I build a crane for my Map. i want to have the ladder working to climb up. The most things are working but i cant climb down the ladder. the is no "climb ladder" shown when i stand at the top. At the bottom it works fine. Anyone knows what i forgot to setup?

[thick cloak]

is it possible for somebody to send me armature with bones (to blender) for the reforger 6wheel truck ?

[keen fossil]

i am posting the video

This video ended up being ALOT longer than I anticipated, but there was alot of information I wanted to go over. For how basic this item is, it took me a while to learn these functions. I give a great big thank you to everyone that helped me get to even this very basic point. Most of my knowledge is in this video, so please don't expect me to be able to answer most questions. Hopefully someone elese is able to, as I still have several questions myself. https://youtu.be/G50Pk-D_Liw

[ornate walrus]

2 hours 🤯

Thank you for your dedication 🫡

[solar heron]

Anyone knows how i set up the memory lod for my model? Is there any documentation beside of this?

I mean...how i setup this points...are they emptys or vertex groups in a mesh?

[turbid moss]

Empty plain axes, name those socket_whatever.

[keen fossil]

Hahaha I know. I guess I rambled a lot more than I realized. I broke down time line pretty good, so hopefully people can really choose what they get out of it.

[turbid moss]

Good video, if you want easier to add windows/doors, you can use prefab bone-snapping tool "cat icon".
One problem is at windows dont have hierarchy so if building get destroyed they dont destroy. I have make new et file from window and added hierarchy to it.

[keen fossil]

I believe I understand some of what you are saying. Would you be able to take couple screenshots to show me?

[lucid moat]

Any tutorials on how to bring a car model in?

[keen fossil]

Thank you! As i get more into the modeling process, I will look back to this message. My next goal is to learn the proper texturing process.

[lilac stag]

Ey, so i made an occluder object - but I want it to occlude only when far away (like an reverse LOD) only appear when at a specific distance but Occluder (the OCC_ prefix) only appears when "close" and disappears when semi far away - is this somehow durable?

[surreal ore]

I would assume it's working exactly as it's intended to work.

[lilac stag]

Fixable was a strong word yea

[normal raft]

Hi everyone, I can't get the skeleton to be recognized in Enfusion, does anyone have an idea?

[surreal ore]

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

[normal raft]

I followed these steps, but the weight transfer doesn't work...

[surreal ore]

You didn't, I can clearly see the issue in your screenshot.

Wrong link, my bad

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

[normal raft]

thx you for help bro ^^

[solar heron]

My Top Entry of my ladder stil not work. is there another thing beside of the Ladder Top and Bottom Position Info? Maybe for the "Climb Ladder" UI Symbol. I dont know how i set up this.

[turbid moss]

Check how bi ladders are configured.

[solar heron]

Yes. i checked this. i also used the deer stand entity for my mesh... changed the mesh and tweaked the ladder lenght and sockets for my model. I think it has someone to do with the actions manager...and i dont know how to change the positions of the ui action triggers "climb ladder" for the Bottom one i just placed my mesh in this position. but the top is much hihger then the deer stand.

[turbid moss]

This config worked for me, i dont use sockets. Just added offsets.

[solar heron]

Hm. i also did this before. and because it doesnt worked i tried this sockets like in vanilla. Maybe its because i dont have enough space... this is my collider.
Did you used a vanilla entity or a complete new one?

[turbid moss]

Building entity, try to make more room to collider.

[solar heron]

OMG iam Stupid AF.... i didnt see the dropdown for position in the actions manager. thats so brainrott. now it works

[hollow creek]

Can you take existing Arma 3 models and import/convert them for Reforger?

[wicked dirge]

No

[devout dune]

@tidal latch hello kind sir, I am working again on the flyby mod, would you be willing to explain this to me ?

[stiff reef]

I get this info when I import my model in Workbench, but the BSP geometry is verified without errors and the BOXVOL don't have any splitting plane. Any idea? Thanks! RESOURCES : r_BuildBspTree(): Found 2 faces that were incident with selected split plane!
Check model, it possibly has many almost coplanar faces producing too many similar split planes.
RESOURCES : Build successful

[dusky dagger]

Hi guys, i have a question , is there any tutorial, or web pages about the creation of a new prefabs caracter in enfusion?

I mean I would like to replace the base Character like an FIA on for exemple , by a monster or a zombie .

I import my fbx from blender , and the rigging is ok . I've imported skinne and rigged correctly.

My .xob recognize bones , materials , LODS and colliders.

Then I try to get an .et from my .xob so I've loaded the caracter basic, generic entity , duplicate it . And change the xob by my one.

For me that's part have worked.

Buy after that I try to load and duplicate any character , and change in the identity the body of the caracter by my fresh created .et and then I ve got always a crash of enfusion.

Is my idea not possible ?
The files of arma reforger even duplicated have some protection to prevent us to make any change on the visual of a character ?

Thanks a lot for ppl who will taking some time to light my may 😀

[keen fossil]

This may not seem like much, but after about 16 hours of grinding this project, this is what i've achieved. From nothing, to making walls, roof, ceiling, floors, materials, masks (using multi PBR) however they aren't fully used and manipulated. It doesn't look like much, but I've learned alot past couple days. Shoutout to Realzx for helping me out. Learning how to not only build, but mask, UV unwrap, set up BSP, but still having issues with BOXVOL and probes.

[remote palm]

Congrats 👍🏻

[turbid moss]

Making houses takes a lot of time, I've probably spent 50 hours on my project and there's still all sorts of things to fix 😄

[remote palm]

It looks amazing! I would be happy to be able to create such a house…

[keen fossil]

That looks great!!!! Thats the quality I want to get to. You by chance know why my probe makes the couch pitch black?

[turbid moss]

How it look ingame, maybe env probe settings are wrong? Look settings from bi house.

[keen fossil]

Houston, there's a problem. You use the ProbeHouse_Base right? Do i need to go in and change anything?

[turbid moss]

Texture house first, no need to worry about it yet. You can copy probe settings from bi house but like i say, it will be last thing to config it.

[keen fossil]

I tried that it still didn't work unfortunately. I agree with you, however knowing this isnt working properly is going to bug me and now I need to figure it out lol.

[keen fossil]

I’m looking at BI building with its probe, it looks like one BOXVOL is used to cover whole building. I was under impression each room was its own vol. my current test is only one room, but another test I’m doing is multi rooms. Does each room, or even each floor need its own vol? What about BSP? Is each floor its own BSP?

[turbid moss]

I only have one boxvol cause house is square. You need two boxvol to cover whole building.

[keen fossil]

Okay thank you for clarifying. Do you by chance know about BSP as well?

[turbid moss]

One BSP, adjust it to fill all rooms.

[keen fossil]

I hope im not bothering you too much with all the questions. The last image (yellow item) is my BSP for this house. The inside of the BSP walls sits just inside the farthest interior walls, and the outside the BSP goes to just outside the exterior walls.

[turbid moss]

You can make it one piece or add walls to it to get better sounds.

[keen fossil]

Okay thank you for all the help, i'll leave you alone now haha

[fallow pond]

how would you make bsp portal volume for non square rooms? arched and n gon.

[hoary gazelle]

How did you fix it? struggling with the same steering wheel issue

[thick cloak]

i did it again from 0, better fit to original

[hoary gazelle]

yeah i dont get whats happening or where i cant change the wheel offset poistion, ive got the same bone setup and belive correct skinning and parenting with meshes since the wheel is also turning but in a wrong direction and i cant seem to move the wheel from here

[honest pine]

make sure you have custom anim in all instance rows

[keen fossil]

what does it mean when it generates "raycast_temp" when it still generates portals (PRT_). I've only seen it generate that when it doesnt generate any portals.

[sonic tree]

u need to apply rotation and scale

[keen fossil]

Bohemia, can you please, i beg you, upload a couple sample buildings that show how a building is properly set up in Blender. Like how there is samples of other objects like vehicles, weapons, etc.

[fallow pond]

if it failed it probably means your portals are not placed properly. meaning too far, or incorrect normals or even wrong geometry

[keen fossil]

this is what it looks like in blender. I resorted to doing a basic cube again to try, and still no luck. There has got to be something so minor im doing it wrong.l

sorry not sure why those videos did not post properly

[fallow pond]

cause its not mp4

mkv doesnt work with discord

[keen fossil]

yeah unfortunately i have issues with audio going into a video editor so i leave it at MKV. You know how to get an item from blender into workbench with a probe properly by chance? if so, mind if i screenshare to show blender and workbench?

[pine stream]

Wow nice

[turbid moss]

Test great Enfusion Model Quality Assurance for your BSP. It maybe shown problems.

[sonic tree]

meanwhile car creation wiki 💀

[keen fossil]

haha maybe i jinxed it?

[keen fossil]

Does BSP only control sound, or light too? I've used that tool, and it failed my BSP, but my sound still worked inside (muffled gunshots)

[fluid dragon]

Waiting so long on this 😟

[eternal jewel]

how is it possible that a collider can have 2 layer presets at once??

[sonic tree]

weaponfire = firegeo and weapon

u can also select buildingfire and it will be building + firegeo

or buildingfireview

[eternal jewel]

i see, thanks!

[uneven fern]

Hi all! Please help me. I cant add *.xob file to my project. How I can do this? 🙏

[upbeat sinew]

You can import .fbx

.xob is what the workbench/engine converts .fbx too

Moving or duplicating .xob to your own mod is impossible and in my opinion against EULA agreements, this is so that people don't steal other people's work.

[uneven fern]

Ok! I will only import *.fbx.

[upbeat sinew]

This has been posted many times before but it is good tutorial on what is required.

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

[solar heron]

This same question about Boxvol, BSP and Portals are also in my head these days. The bohemia documentation is a joke

[solar heron]

Any ideas why this is happen with my door? if the door prefab alone is placed it doesnt happen. But nested in my windmill prefab the door snaps to zero at use.. Why is this?

[sonic tree]

looks like u are using root socket for axis

make custom socket for door on frame and make door origin in same spot

in blender ofc

.

then select for door hierrarchy socket that u created and should work

[solar heron]

is the axis at pivot id?

[sonic tree]

noo

take door .et

go to hierrarchy

component

and select socket

u need to place socket in perfect cords

cuz door component use socket for rotating

and axis must be in good rotation

look at some vanila assets

how door socket are placed

most off them are in left corner

and doors uses hierrarchy as axis

[solar heron]

yes. iam in the door ent but dont know where i put the socket in. cant find anything like door angle pivot id or so

ah okay. in the hierrarchy okay... but cant select my empty there. nothing is shown.

[sonic tree]

yes, place windmill entity

make door as parent

just drag door on windmill et on list to the left

and shouldnt be empty anymore

[solar heron]

ah okay not in the door ent...?

[sonic tree]

yup

in door et in hierrarchy should be windmill sockets

[solar heron]

i dont get it with the rotation. the door is always turned horizontaly

[sonic tree]

look in xob of windmill how socket are rotated

green axis should be rotated to inside

[sonic tree]

in bones

[solar heron]

if i make the door frame a sepperate ent and make the door the child i can place the socket in the frame? and put the doorframe with the door child in the windmill ent?

[solar heron]

Thanks for your patience. so it looks for me. i will now try to make the socket in the windwill xob and export

[keen fossil]

I believe I have the BSP and portals figured out, atleast on a basic level. My issue is the boxvol isn’t working properly with the probe I’m game. Not sure if it’s an issue with how I have it set up in blender, or during setting up after import in workbench.

[solar heron]

Its like you said. we need more detailed documentations and example files...all xob, blend and so on.

[keen fossil]

Yup. That’s why I’m trying to get it figured out so I can atleast get something out there. I can message you what I currently have with a building in blender if you’d like.

[solar heron]

Yes that sounds nice. I have a little special Situation with my Windmill...the cylindrical tower makes it more complictated for BOXVOLS...dont know how i can Cover this area correctly. Without bsp and portal stuff i have some light leaks and not so nice lighting in the tower and the machine room.

[sonic tree]

when i will be back in house i will show u how to setup door

correct

tommorow earliest

[solar heron]

Thanks man. For now i let it outside the Windmill ent...there it works. But it will be much cleaner when everything is sitting inside it.
I also will study some vanilla xob files. When the doors work i will start a easy little shed to learn about the Boxvol, Portal, BSP stuff like SwampFox. If its work somehow i try to get this also for the Windmill...because now the lighting inside is realy flat.

[white lichen]

if I want to put trees and sticks on vehicles. what do I need to search or where do I need to ask that cause idek what catregory modding that fits in. Im trying to reverse engineer this BTR70 covered in bushes and Im not seeing an option to add more anything.

nvm

[lilac stag]

So here is a weird issue: my snow weather system works as intended for Binoculars but if using an M14 with scope this happens (rain-like drops appear).

• I tried removing the "Rain" section under the SCR_2DPIPSightsComponent But to no luck - also tried adding in another emat but still no luck.
• I also tried making an script to make all scopes with the SCR_2DPIPSightsComponent direct it to another place but still not working..

Anyone have any idea how to remove this weird "Rain" in the distance when scoping?

[shell hedge]

Anti-camp system

[lilac stag]

lol yea

[shell hedge]

Rain PP effect has distance etc, does changing those apply to the scopes?

[lilac stag]

Already tried that - turned everything off

[sonic tree]

its not a bug its a feature

[lilac stag]

lol fixed it kinda - I found a way to override textures (.edds files) and just "replaced" the distance rain edds. with a blank one

• Didnt know you could just edit the meta file (paste the original path and name and then it just overrides stuff)

[lilac stag]

lol yea, was starting to think I had to go that way 😅

[grizzled mural]

Hello, can anyone tell me what the problem is? I made light portals on the turret, but now the shadow covers the outside of the turret. How can I make it work only on the inside?

[sonic tree]

ngl but this ss says nothin

[white lichen]

I feel like im making a lot progress

[fallow pond]

new katamari game

[stone verge]

How can I use the FIM-92 Stinger to lock onto a helicopter? My AI is currently using the FIM-92 Stinger, but it cannot lock onto a helicopter.

[surreal ore]

That has absolutely nothing to do with models or model making.

[solar heron]

i end up with the result that its nearly impossible to cover up the inner of my wind turbine with boxvols to get proper lighting. Maybe someone has ideas for round objects like this? a utmvol would be nice 😄

[austere jewel]

Love the German TV in the background 😂✌️

[solar heron]

Yes 😄 its Radio RSA a Saxony Radio station. 😄 i every time forget to turn it off. 🤣

[austere jewel]

I love RSA (fellow german here) 😂

[sullen sable]

Whats causing the velcro to turn black on import in Enfusion?

[surreal ore]

Vertex painting

[sullen sable]

How do I fix it?

[fossil crater]

That is what I mentioned in the past as hard override.

[lilac stag]

Ah I see, its pretty useful actually - is it possible to make it inherit instead of a hard override by same method?

[remote palm]

In your 3D software. Just look it up on YT

[spiral hedge]

Hello, question: A friend is working on a new Vehicle (Big truck). We created 5 LODs as usual. Now we have the Problem, that the LOD is switching to 5 if we are 15m away from the Vehicle and this looks verry bad. We now tryed to increase the LOD on MeshObject, but whatever we set there does not care on Dedicated. Any Tips? Thanks

[cold flume]

how do i setup a intraction with a plant

[fossil crater]

Yeah

It's all set on the meta file

[lilac stag]

Gotcha thanks Mario🙏

[clever gyro]

I've ran into the issue that my models don't have textures on PS5, does anyone know what could be the culprit?

[stray bridge]

you wanna use naming conventions, so for ur case call the texture gold_BCR and normal maps gold_NMO, and reimport

not sure if it fixes ur problem but let alone the colors are different because they getting imported/processed differently with correct namings

[clever gyro]

You are absolutely right regarding naming conventions, I love that personally too.

It's very odd but after a server restart it started working...

[stone verge]

How to replace zombies in a group？

[white garden]

It's just like setting up a normal group

Top right of your screen, you need to find the icon with a green square with a darker circle in it

I think

[hearty creek]

anyone knows which component moves base body?

[wicked dirge]

that is not a thing

[hearty creek]

welp so how do i move it?

[wicked dirge]

you dont move it, you create your assets to fit the body and then skin them on the same skeleton

[hearty creek]

any other variants? cuse i found this mode on workshop to use it and its quite buggy i thoght i could move it somehow

[wicked dirge]

you cant edit the models of some other mod you did not create

[hearty creek]

welp thanks

[wicked dirge]

most likely its using the old skeleton and the original author would need to update it

[austere jewel]

Hey im not sure if this is the right channel, but can somebody tell me what this Asset is? Or what its used for? Its from the nem Map.

[white garden]

#enfusion_terrain it holds the cable for the mining buckets to travel on

[torn pollen]

Once the .edds is created, can I delete the .png I used?

[wary crest]

Hi everyone I am planning to make the my stalker server sci-fi, so if anyone has suggestions where I should look for assets for clothing, weapons, and vehicles , along with enemies let me know please. It would be really awesome if you can help!!! Hope you guys have awesome day.!!

[delicate condor]

#reforger_questions

this channel is about making 3d models and putting them into mods

[delicate condor]

Do note that you must not upload real life photos into your mods.

#workshop_admin message

[stray bridge]

you can delete it but theres no reason tbh, users downloading the mod wont download the png but the edds file

and you might need the .png later on again

[surreal ore]

So no in game posters or pictures on the wall?

[delicate condor]

Got more specific example? if we do generalization then no

[surreal ore]

Like the picture of some girl that exits in one of the new buildings

It's a real life photo used as a texture in a picture frame model.

[delicate condor]

so vanilla content?

[surreal ore]

Yes, that is just the example i'm using.

[delicate condor]

so you want to do the same?

or are you talking about that specific image?

[surreal ore]

No, I'm just wondering if "we" can.

[delicate condor]

then no

generally speaking no

[surreal ore]

wow

Is that updated to the TOS and EULA?

[delicate condor]

no

if you can bring up compelling case where you have the rights to the picture and person/people in the picture agree that you can post them online we can talk about it

but generally no

since generally covers the use of random peoples photos of random people (or specific people)

[surreal ore]

I understand the thoughts on the "not allowed" portion because, images do belong to someone.

[shell hedge]

just say its ai generated

[delicate condor]

lets not encourage lying as getting caught in such will result in permanent ban

[shell hedge]

just use ai generated images?

[delicate condor]

I will be taking that under scrutiny at some point as well. As "generative AI" usually is using source material it has no rights to either

[shell hedge]

just give up then idk

[midnight verge]

So basically so many mods will be getting warnings for AI?

[shell hedge]

Will you use AI to detect if it's AI generated

[midnight verge]

Correct me if I’m wrong nearly half of all mods use AI for the pics of them

[shell hedge]

Those are funny, picture of a dude with a gun with bent barrel and a mag that splits into two

[midnight verge]

Yeah lol

[delicate condor]

There are no current rules about that.

However everyone is responsible for what they upload into the workshop

AI generated images included

[midnight verge]

I just truly don’t see the problem with AI generated

[delicate condor]

that is part of the problem

as people dont know the issues

[midnight verge]

So what’s the problem with AI images

[delicate condor]

which revolve around the AI using source material it has no rights to

it does not draw anything

it does not invent anything

it combined pictures

pictures made by people

[midnight verge]

Ok?

[delicate condor]

often scrubbed from internet without permission

if you did the same your image would be removed

since you have no right to the material you used

[tepid cloak]

@rich dew let me know if you have any ideas why he stands their with weird arms happy to send weights eg 🙂 when in game he runs and arms move etc. can melee with his arms etc. just stands their like a odd fella

[rich dew]

Sen a video when you move with the character in game lets see

[tepid cloak]

ive got him weighted right but i think i should be modifying my rig to match the scale and size of the default character before i transfer weights maybe and have it in a closer resting pose to default;

[shell hedge]

IF you want to do it fast use the rig the model came with to position the arms to match vanilla skeleton then weight it to vanilla skeleton

[tepid cloak]

thanks chief

ive got him rigged already I can use that to position him and try again 🙂

[shell hedge]

Yeah just apply/bake that into the mesh once positioned properly

Try using as little joints as possible to achieve it

You can do one side then copy paste and invert the values for the other side to make sure there's symmetry

[tepid cloak]

my rig is pretty similar

[surreal ore]

Because of #enfusion_model message

[surreal ore]

That is wrong, the bones should be in the middle of the mesh the are weighted to.

[mighty steppe]

i did all the weights but somehow it still doesn't move with the body, do i need specific blender version bc bones, collision all works but somehow the weighting gets ignored, are there some tips i miss out on exporting from blender to enfusion? kinda new to this but i followed step by step the documentation

(blender log)

[stray bridge]

how many bones? Also did you add the armature modifier go the helmet?

[mighty steppe]

and 2 + 372 bones

[stray bridge]

you did smth wrong then, it must be a total of 230 after import

I made a quick text tutorial on clothing, this does not include everything but basic steps:

short text tutorial on how to import custom clothing, maybe it helps someone out:

**Setup in Blender: **
Rigged Basebody of Arma reforger + your clothing mesh (you can get the basebody by the samples (eg. vest sample) from the ArmaReforger official GIT)

• make the clothing fit the character (proportional editing, sculpting mode)

• select AR-Body and then select you Clothing-Mesh

• go into weight paint mode

• transfer weights from AR-Body to Clothing-Mesh

bottom left of ur screen when after clicked transfer weight's:

• put "source layers se..." to "By Name" (vertex groups should pop up on the mesh)

• make sure armature modifier is on the Clothing-Mesh and the armature is selected

• export the Clothing-Mesh + the Armature (and the Ik-targets, as well as the EntitiyPosition)

• in tools, tick the export skinning box and reimport it

weight paint:

• find the probably right vertex group to modify
• blue = less influenced by the movement of the player
• red = more influenced

**in total the mesh should have 230 bones in total, not more not less **

[mighty steppe]

okay thank you i will double check that

[thick cloak]

You need to be front to Y i think

Helmet is in wrong direction, if I See corrwctly

J

[tidal latch]

I guess Add Leaf Bones is enabled - it shouldn't be

[mighty steppe]

it all works now thx for the help, the issue was the wrong blender version apparently

[tepid cloak]

Got hands working thanks all

[cold zinc]

why are my vehicle's bones all merging on one point.

[cold zinc]

Interesting....
4 new bones work apart from the bones that are attached to those.
and a fixed UTM thats massive and not where it should be (transforms and rotations were applied)

[cold zinc]

I mean atleast the custom bones i setup for the vehicle work,
The utms however since these will be animated just dont size correctly and float off into the neverland.

And the main bones meant for seats, the pilot seat,
stepin and step out positions just all merge onto one point.

[surreal ore]

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

[sacred wyvern]

Is there any documentation on how to build MLODs?

[pseudo bane]

Are you following the structure of the vehicle you’re basing it off of? Or are you doing everything original?

I’ve found that vehicle bones get pretty picky based off its root

If you’re around later i can help

[white hill]

Hey there, just got into the modding scene. Using blender. Im creating a personal server for some of my family members and close friends. Id like to add my own vehicles, clothes etc. I’ve started with the vehicle. Gained some knowledge here n there but im just not sure if im on the right track. Any help in pointing me in the direction of who i can talk to to possibly mitigate this? Thanks

[tender rune]

Is there a reforger character to put gear onto to fit it?

[bitter beacon]

yeah theres samples for all that on the github

[mighty steppe]

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

[white hill]

Is the triangle count for a vehicle, sierra 1500 crew cab, supposed to only be between 20,000-30,000 triangles?

[surreal ore]

The question is, Does it look good?

[cold zinc]

anyone know what component I would need to change to move the position of the door.

for context im using the UH1H prefab as a base and I have the airbrake wings rigged to bones named the same as the doors.
they work however the bones have moved from the back to the front and the door opening animation isnt right.

just tryna figure out where to make these changes.

[white hill]

Absolutely not.

[white hill]

Looks horrible.

[cold zinc]

are convex colliders not valid anymore?

I have a convex collider but it's saying it's not one

[cold zinc]

Ahhh

simple spelling error

nvm i lied

[shell hedge]

It might mean that it is simply not convex

[sonic tree]

just make anim from scratch

[cold zinc]

got it thank you

[white hill]

I guess what I was meaning to say in my original question was if you’re optimizing a premade model is it true that the model has to be between 20,000 and 30,000 triangles to import into the enfusion workbench/ use in arma reforger.

[leaden trench]

If mean some kind of limit like how in War Thunder meshes must be less than 65535 tris, there is no such limit in Enfusion. You can import any mesh.

[white hill]

There’s no lag or processing issue with a high triangle/polygon count? I apologize im a brand new baby to the modding scene. Just a month old. So i have a lot of learning to do. I wasn’t aware of this discord at the time of my beginning and i was using grok to somewhat help me learn these processes. Tho AI is not the savior.

[leaden trench]

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

[subtle solar]

Hey, I am super new to the Arma Reforger Modding community and could use some help. I have a beanie model that is working in-game. I am trying to have 2 different deflated models based on 2 glasses of the same placement type. Currently, if I put any of the glasses on, it goes to the same deflated model, which clips through on the second pair of glasses. Is there any way to have the same area type cue 2 different deflated models?

[surreal ore]

Deflated model is set in the prefab. Not quite sure why you would need one for glasses though.

[subtle solar]

There is a mod of different glasses that goes on the face. This is under the type of ZEL_Face. My beanie has a deflated model for when the glasses are on the face. There is another model where the glasses are on the back of the head to look like they are not in use. But the deflated model is different for where the glasses are actually located on the face so the arms of the glasses dont clip through the beanie

I can try to add some pictures to explain @surreal ore

[surreal ore]

The eye slot should be used for glasses.

Lol

[subtle solar]

These are not base game glasses. They are different. Its a mod that can slot glasses into an NVG or face mask slot.

[surreal ore]

Obviously, all of the ZEL slots are from my mod.

[subtle solar]

Great, my problem resides in only having one deflated model based on glasses type. Do you know of a way to have specificity based on which glasses are equipped despite both going into the same slot.

[surreal ore]

There is no functionality for that. Only a single deflated model per slot type

[subtle solar]

Damn, alright then thank you

[ornate walrus]

any idea how i can attatch my sound acp file to one of these bollards? I have them set up as prefabs tried a sound component and trigger sound component it works in tools but not on a live server

[eager ruin]

I think this is the best spot to toss this little screwball into. You can see that every time I drop the vehicle, the turret in the slot slides. I thought it could've been the truck's slot manager settings, but I also attached it to a LAV chassis and it does the same thing and attaching a LAV turret to the truck it doesnt happen.

This is a remix of the AutoTurretCore to work as a mounted auto turret, and this problem is the last problem to work out. I tried taking the LAV turret and the CIWS side by side lining up the component settings.

https://medal.tv/games/arma-reforger/clips/lg2ZqwcrkkG0fGhDu?invite=cr-MSxLVlEsNDAxODc4NzYz&v=15

[mighty steppe]

Show the whole list how you registered the turret in slot manager component

[mighty steppe]

should it work like this?

[eager ruin]

Yes, I found the component causing the issue at about 3am

It was a component carried over from the converted GM asset

Thank you

[upbeat sinew]

Is there an easier/Better way to do model previewRenderAttributes other than adjusting going into game testing then adjusting again then repeating.

Just spent an hour trying to get the the preview icon to look decent, it is actually a complete waste of time.

[delicate orbit]

Hi there. I have a big problem. I´m creating custom models, but when I use the bovel too in blender, some of the faces in Enfusion after importing the fbx are invisible. When I don´t use the bovel tool for round edges, everything is fine. Any ideas? Next post are images of the model in blender and after importing to Enfusion

Edit: When I watch at my model on a 3DViewer, it shows everything correct

Solution: Found a solution. I added a triangulate modifier and exported it, now it works

[noble ravine]

during the export the triangulation can be different what you see inside of blender with the n-gons. or when the engine imports a non triangulated mesh it will triangulate. If you triangulate before exporting will be consistent.

[fiery fossil]

What you also could have done is select the model go into edit mode and then press A to select all and then shift+N and that will make your normals flip which in this case would have sorted it out. 💪🏼

[delicate orbit]

I did this, didn´t made any change

[hoary gazelle]

Wondering how this is possible, where in the back of the hummer there is a UCX collision box but it seems to not be active, how can one do this? https://i.imgur.com/7KQ0bcW.jpeg

[surreal ore]

Each collider uses a layer present that determines which layers it's "active" on.

[ornate walrus]

Anyone pls

No idea where to go from here

[surreal ore]

When you don't know what to do, look at something in base game that does what you're wanting to do and find out how it does it.

[livid apex]

Does anyone have any idea why armature would be showing up in my skeleton despite nothing parenting to it?

[marble trench]

If I import a model with a morph could I script something to slowly morph the object? For example I have a cig with a morph that shortens it, can I use that morph in enfusion?

[hoary gazelle]

Prefect, thanks!

[thick cloak]

Check face orientation

Blue =good

[hot viper]

If i make changes to my gear im importing (like weights), do I have to always transfer the weights from the example blend file, or can i just "Set Weights"?

[wicked dirge]

you dont even have to transfer weights the first time, its just meant to help you get started. The only requirement is that you model is weighted to the right skeleton, thats itr

[hot viper]

O

Thankyou

[ornate walrus]

Right , I tried looking at how doors are setup copied that added an rplcomponent it works in tools but not on live server, feel like I’m missing something

I even copied all the door components

[stone verge]

How do I delete this foot?

[thick cloak]

😉

[stray bridge]

you can set meshes to hide inside the basecloth component on the prefab

Foot_L, Foot_R

here is a list of possible meshes to hide:

Head
Head_Neck
Torso
Buttocks
Thigh_L
Thigh_R
Arm_L
Arm_R
ArmUpper_L
ArmUpper_R
Hand_L
Hand_R
Leg_L
Leg_R
Groin
Calf_L
Calf_R
CalfLower_L
CalfLower_R
Foot_L
Foot_R

[rancid cape]

Need some help fellas!

So its been a minute since i was messing with this, but i wanted the hood to be hidden in first person, i separated the mesh in blender and and then created a material for the hood and i basically just copied the settings from my gas masks

But why is it hidden in 3D person aswell?

[surreal ore]

Or just inherit from the base footware as intended

[stray bridge]

thats also a possibility

[honest pine]

check log at import it should tell you what's wrong with those faces

[eager ruin]

suggestion idea: adjusting the pose of locked XOB files.
I will say this, if its a thing in there and I can see it, please tell me, but first let me make a fool of myself🤣

so above are the alive and dead models for my vehicle mounted auto turret. Now I do have the original FBX, so I could throw it into Blender, but hear me out, what if we could do mild pose editing to the XOB in Workbench. So for this one, you could simply grab the bone for the barrel and point it down and lock it as the "CIWS_dead_pose.XOB"

Random food for thought☮️

[hot viper]

Anyone come across bones being imprted when they dont exist anywhere? Trying to weight paint some clothing items and every few imports, there is a weird bone that throws me off and stuffs my rig up

Called Armature by the way

[sonic tree]

leaf bones unchecked?

[hot viper]

Yeah, it seems to have fixed itself for now, i found a relation on another bone that wasnt supposed to be there

[white hill]

Does a car rig addon for blender help rig the doors of the vehicle on top of the wheels snd such? Haven’t used any yet and i see no tutorials on such.

[sonic tree]

no?

[red briar]

Hey folks, looking for some help with colliders -

I got a collider mesh configured on the helmet, however bullets just appear to go through as if nothing exists.

Here's rigid body

and mesh object

Am I doing something wrong?

[sonic tree]

where bones

?

[red briar]

No clue, would that be the reason collider is not working?

[surreal ore]

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

[red briar]

Thanks, will take a look into this

[rich dew]

Hello guys, iwant to apply a wiggle physics on humvee antenna how can i make it? if aney one can help, i did the physics

[ornate walrus]

Got this to work in a very unconventional way 🤣

[ripe terrace]

Hey, my collider end up at the wrong position after the export to tools, it does this only when I try to make a capsule, I don't have this issue when I do a simple collider for weapons, any help would be greatly appreciated 🙏

[solar heron]

Where is the origin of the collider in blender? Did you apply scale and Rotation?

[ripe terrace]

Yes, everything is done like for an UBX, the UBX end up at the good position but not the UCS

[marble trench]

is there a way to put a bone into a piece of equipment and not have it cause weird issues where the model wants to movein enfusion somewhere it wasn't in blender

[solar heron]

origin of UCL, UCS or USP colliders need to be at center of the object. Thats what the official documentation says.

[delicate condor]

Where is this model from?

[trail hornet]

Does anyone have any good tips or advice for building modelling in reforger?

[faint viper]

cubes are your friends

[trail hornet]

Wdym?

[faint viper]

I mean that modelling a building is one of the easiest things, if you dont talk about interiors and details placed inside, you can start with a cube or a plane and the job is 80% done, then you make the colliders and its almost finished. And remember use the base template character so that you get the proper scale

[trail hornet]

I mean yeah

I’ve been working on a few buildings but I feel like I can improve them a lot

[faint viper]

i would say in a building textures do a big part of it, dont make them flat with materials, add small decals that to someone playing first person pov can actually feel it and see it, it helps a lot with the realism

[trail hornet]

Yeah, you’re right

[faint viper]

example for the third image, the one closed with woods, add some decals under the roof, maybe around the doors/windows that looks ruined, even maybe scratches on the woods itself like someone tried to break it, and maybe some "mud/dirt" or anything dirty on the ground level

[trail hornet]

Oh actually I did improve the textures on that, I’ll take a screenshot when I can

Textures were one of my weak points but I think I’ve been getting better recently

Substance painter is really expensive but ive been learning ucupaint and texturing in blender

Model wise though does anyone have any general tips?

[eager ruin]

TheBonBon via a model maker, it's noted in the asset and on workshop

[eager ruin]

Or it was, I must've forgot to add it back on when I had the hiccup the night that I lost all the text fields in the publish window

[delicate condor]

TheBonBon?

[eager ruin]

Yes, TheBonBon. He created a really awesome animation pack as well that you've might've seen

[eager ruin]

"Phalanx Ciws" (https://skfb.ly/ooRtH) by MR.KIJIMA is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

and the TheBonBon scripted it to autofire as a GM placeable, I modified the script and made it a vehicle weapon. His original work is AutoTurretCore, mine is PhaToma 4x4.

TheBonBon also is working on IK Core, scripting to make MechWalkers work, that one I'm the most excited about.

[solar heron]

Thanks to the great Community especially @keen fossil that helped me to learn the more efficient Multi PBR workflow and portal,bsp, boxvol stuff...i was able to finish my first buildings. Thanks a lot to this great community. All Buildings has MLOD Mats and 5 LOD Levels

[ripe terrace]

Thanks you! Sorry for my lazyness I should have looked at the docs first

[keen fossil]

Haha thank you for the very kind words my friend. I only know what I know because of this great community as well. I would be tagging too many people in this post but I wish I could give all the credit to them as well.

[keen fossil]

And those look amazing!! Now you’ll need to teach me how you make them! lol

[solar heron]

No Problem. so the origin of the collider has to be at world center? iam also not sure about that 😄

[solar heron]

Yes for sure. iam now working at the next one. if i can help you contact me.

[keen fossil]

Edit: accidental post

[turbid moss]

Great, the new houses bring a nice change and make the map unique. 👍

[fierce kraken]

I just started using Quixel Mixer, its free and has a large selection of free smart materials.

[wary crest]

Hey guys, I am making a mess. I’m literally about to publish it and get it fully uploaded, but I just have this issue in first person. There’s a slight texture bleeding into the eyes. I will send pictures for example, if anyone has a suggestion to fix this, let me know. Mind you it’s not the dreads that’s the issue. It’s the little. Weird line textures that are being able to be seen..

[mighty steppe]

Enable both Allow User Alpha Bias & Disable User Apha in Shadow properties

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

[tepid cloak]

figured id jump into making cars now ive done a few flying things. wip

[ornate walrus]

Is that a bathtub

[tepid cloak]

you know iit baby

[trail hornet]

I don’t understand the poly counts for reforger, I feel like I keep over optimising a lot of my models but then when I look at vanilla or modded stuff I see so many things that suggest I can add a lot more polygons than I think

[solar heron]

Me too. Some Stuff has an crazy amount of polys...for instance the nettle with 3000 or so. But optimizing is never wrong...if the look of the model doesn't get lost to much

[wicked dirge]

always try to benchmark against vanilla assets that of similar stuff

[solar heron]

Is there any tool how you can benchmark things? Or just look at the Framerate?

[wicked dirge]

you can inspect all vanilla assets in Workbench, their polycounts, number of and size of textures etc.

also some assets are built up from multiple xobs, so you need to add up all the parts

[wary inlet]

LODs are the important ones

[pale kestrel]

Yeah models w/o lods seem to be one of the biggest performance killers since game has to keep using high poly model even if it's way off in the distance or player has low graphics settings

[stone verge]

How do I modify the UI icon here?

[dark aspen]

InventoryItemComponent>
Attributes> Custom Attributes> PreviewRenderAttributes>

@stone verge ^

If it’s a weapon then instead of the inventoryItemComponent it’ll be in the SCR_WeaponAttachmentsStorageComponent with everything else the same

[stone verge]

ok

[river heart]

This is a modeling/ texturing question. Would it have been smarter to sculpt the rivets in blender and bake them to the low poly or what I did making them in sp with height mapping?

I’m on vacation atm and literally stayed up half the night thinking about this

[high viper]

crazy to see you here, good work

[wicked dirge]

Either way works fine. You can also see vanilla vehicles the decal the rivets so they can patern them over on separate planes, making them appear a lot higher res than they would appear if they were on the main texture

[river heart]

I don’t think I’ve ever messed with decals I’ll have a gander!

[tacit bloom]

Hey guys, is there a way to add a custom mesh to the override meshes to hide list? The intent is for an item that is over the base model mesh, that can be hidden through this setting under clothing models. For instance, if I had an undershirt that was clipping through the jacket from this screenshot, is there something I can do to hide my custom prefab when this jacket is worn?

[surreal ore]

Meshes to hide are specifically for submeshes of the character model. If you want to hide meshes of a child prefab you'll have to write your own functionality for that.

[tacit bloom]

Thanks!

[fierce kraken]

I have a question about prefabs, pivot ID's, and Hierarchy. I was directed here.
My question is more of a dilemma, I have been tinkering with prefabs and clothing items. I have a backpack I've added a M-18 smoke grenade child to as a test, when I equip the backpack the smoke follows the character but not in the right position, if I use the Hierarchy component and a pivot ID the smoke stays where the bag was when equipped. I've been using Baseloadoutclothcomponent slots to attach other items, and this works but when the parent item is dropped the objects are floating in space.

[dark aspen]

If I understood correctly. When using the baseloadoutclothcomp you’re using the slots parameter to add the smoke to right? And it works when equipped but when it is on the floor the smoke prefab still floats where the backpack would be.

if so, I’d try this: use the smoke particle model and put it onto a new clothing prefab. This way you have create the “worn” model using the smoke and then a floor model using some other model. Don’t know that this will certainly work with smoke, but this is how I’ve gotten other clothes with slots to not float in air.

[fierce kraken]

I might have added some confusion by not stating it was a grenade and not a particle, but yes I was using the slots parameter. When worn the prefabs work as intended, they follow the character how I want them, but when the backpack is dropped the prefabs float. (Dropped bag in picture)

[dark aspen]

Ya so my fix might still work. You can certainly just check to see how the devs for example did the canteens or Alice pouches for vanilla. That could work too

My fix involves creating prefabs just for slots. So instead of using the m18 grenade weapon prefab I’d make a new “clothing” prefab as described above.

[keen fossil]

anyone able to say what direction an object should be facing in blender before export? is it Y+?

[dark aspen]

Yes Y+

[tepid cloak]

I will figure out these friggen bones /physics if it kills me lol

[thin prism]

Hey man any chance you figured out how to setup the rotator for the steering? I completed the importing process of a car but I’m unable to make the wheels steer (car is steering but no animation)

[tepid cloak]

yes i di

hieracy

all hieracy

[tepid cloak]

mesh reduction be like ooof

[shell hedge]

That last one looks like a good LOD0

[grand whale]

why on earth does my patch model look like this in enfusion tools, but in blender it looks fine.

[tepid cloak]

Change Ur emissivity from black to Ur colour increase luminance

[supple gulch]

Hey I have a question, so I'm new to modding and I made a few test models in blender and when I imported them over to the enfusion engine parts of the model vanished as if the engine couldn't render those parts of the models.

Is there any common mistakes that can cause this issue or was it just my PC hating me

I'll see if I can get the error code I was seeing because I believe I still have a screenshot somewhere

[trail hornet]

Oh no way, Northcom is my favourite thing in a3 vanilla

[tepid cloak]

Polys or check Ur normals

[supple gulch]

What do you mean by normals?

[twilit lava]

Hey guys. i d know where to find solution for my problem, i created simple taillight to test smth and some walls are invisible from front and some are invisible form back view did i export this with wrong settings? its my second time i opened arma tools so i have no idea whats wrong.

[sonic tree]

check normals

[twilit lava]

ok i kinda see the problem now 🙂 but how can i fix it

[stuck kraken]

To flip normals in Blender, use the "Mesh" > "Normals" > "Flip" option in the 3D Viewport's edit mode

Thats what google gemini said

[twilit lava]

ok so i think i fixed this right part but still its invisible from front view

[sonic tree]

select this and check where is red

and flip normals

its gonna change to blue

and it will work fine

[twilit lava]

hm i click this option and i only have red parts and normal random color on solid viewport no blue stuff

but i fliped random color parts to red and its working

[sonic tree]

u might have random colors instead of materials

thats why

[twilit lava]

anyway thank u for answers its working fine now 🙂

[tepid cloak]

hmmm

[desert steeple]

do animated ironsights on weapons still need to be collimated manually with the weapon's ballistics like it was in A3 or is that somehow handled by the engine in a more elegant way now? i can see in sightsComponent that there are different offsets and angles used for the various zeroing settings of the guns, do i still have to adjust the 3d mesh itself to make sure it matches with the set zero?

[mighty bronze]

You'll need to use a specific round and the ballistic calculator to calculate the ranges on the weapon
You will then need to make sure that the rear sight is animated (lowest being frame 0, highest being frame 1)
Animation is handled by the weapon's SightsComponent where X is animation state, and Y is range (M60's in the screen shot)

For the animation of the rear sight, 0 is lowest, 1 is highest.

https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Arma_Reforger:Weapon_Creation/Prefab_Configuration#Zeroing Zeroing section
here it somewhat explains how the animation works, and how use the zeroing data script.

[desert steeple]

thanks, appreciated

[mighty bronze]

as a just in case, the sights component pulls from this in the x_weapon.asi

[solar heron]

For a while i wonder what the MCR Texture does in the MultiPBR Material. Maybe someone can explain what this does?

[desert steeple]

i think this is the info i was looking for, thanks 👍

[mighty bronze]

https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Arma_Reforger:Textures#Texture_Properties try this
also seems to deal with masking? Check global mask under Texture types portion, it mentions PBRMulti a lot, not sure if that's the same thing at the MultiPBR you're talkin about

[solar heron]

Hm okay. But dont understand what Global Base Color can be... is it like a color tint for the whole mesh on top? because basecolor gets assigned with the tiled textures.

[mighty bronze]

Global/Macro base color, sounds like what ever is changed here changes the entire texture

[mighty bronze]

Honestly not sure, the most advanced material I've used is NMO :p
and the only mentions of using PBRMulti is in a tutorial that isn't made yet (car creation)

[mighty bronze]

grandpa needs to get to the store, and be back before the next wave of soldiers invade objective Louisiana

[stone verge]

How can I solve this problem? When I upload, I get the following error: BACKEND (E): [RestApi] ID:[13] TYPE:[EBREQ_WORKSHOP_UploadAssetFile] Error Code:403 - Forbidden, apiCode="", uid="", message=""
DEFAULT (E): Uploading failed! Reason: ""

[sonic tree]

spaming on every channel wont give u answer

scroll couple messages and u will find answer

[stone verge]

I'm so sorry, I've looked up a lot of information and I need to solve this problem, can anyone help me?

[white garden]

scroll up, everyone is having this issue, stop asking please

[stone verge]

@white gardenTheir problems have not been addressed, and there are no public solutions.

[white garden]

no duh

you're also asking in the wrong channel, stop spamming it in everything

[primal cedar]

What component i would have to check to disable visibility of the cloth asset in first person.

[cunning void]

What could be the error when importing textures? It started quite recently

[surreal ore]

How about using proper naming conventions?

The suffixes have meaning.

[cunning void]

Got it, thanks

[midnight path]

is there anything like instalod that doesnt cost $1000 a year?

free one has the blender plugin but doesnt provide the pipeline, so you cant even use the plugin. makes no sense.

the license with the pipeline is $100 a month

[compact scarab]

$5 plugin for blender for reforger 1 sec

https://pilotpandatools.gumroad.com/l/pjnoad/pandatools

[fallow pond]

that addon is so cool I think goat would like to see it

[surreal ore]

Or just add the decimate modifier for free? I doubt that addon is actually generating lods and is more than likely just using blender built in functionality. I.E. the decimate modifier.

[compact scarab]

He literally asked for something..

[surreal ore]

I'm aware. What you offered has a free alternative.

Free = Better especially when what you're being charged for does something that can be manually done, for free.

I don't usually condone A.I for scripting but bpy is so well documented that you can feed it a prompt and make your own addon to do whatever you'd like for absolutely free.

[compact scarab]

1 click is better than 7 clicks

but to each their own

[surreal ore]

And one AI prompt will drop the 7 clicks down to 1. If you want the convenience of not having to use ChatGPT(which is free) then give the dude $5. I will never condone taking advantage of people that don't know any better. If you wanna continue the discussion, hop in my DMs.

[compact scarab]

idc

[fallow pond]

besides decimate does a schiet job for lod 1 and has minimal control for complex meshes

[tepid cloak]

if anyonehas a good understanding of bone/setup for steering wheels to work id love to chat please 🙂 I have it setup but am running into issues when it imports to prefab. wheels and steering are fine but when i start weight painting the steering wheel things get wild. love to chat to anyone who knows more please ❤️

[surreal ore]

What's the issue? Only the wheel should spin, the bone should be in the center of the wheel.

[tepid cloak]

Spins in xob fine but when j load prefab my bones are all off what xob says. I've applied all transforms etc correct and only moved bones not scales from sample, I imported and made my xob the mesh and it seems like I got it right this time see fkrst images. Then tools crashed now I'm only getting

Steering wheel works but it's sitting almost in original animation potion as opposed to snapped to bone spot like it should be, I've only weight wheel. Do we have to weight body and rotators *?

[sonic tree]

plugin is applying decimate modifier

[livid apex]

InstaLOD is free? Just export the model and do it in their studio

[midnight path]

you cant

the free one hooks into a few engines and thats how you use it

[livid apex]

This is how I make all of my Lods lol

[midnight path]

i just got instalod studio

and theres no import option

[livid apex]

They have an external studio you can use. I export as fbx, then import to the studio

It's called open scene in their studio

Or something like that

[midnight path]

ooOOOo

ok

where can i get that

[livid apex]

If you download their external studio

[wicked jasper]

Search for instalod pioneer

[tranquil gyro]

How do I make these body parts invisible, I do not know what they are called.

[stray bridge]

Head
Head_Neck
Torso
Buttocks
Thigh_L
Thigh_R
Arm_L
Arm_R
ArmUpper_L
ArmUpper_R
Hand_L
Hand_R
Leg_L
Leg_R
Groin
Calf_L
Calf_R
CalfLower_L
CalfLower_R
Foot_L
Foot_R

[remote palm]

So for you it would most likely be “Head_Neck” and both “CalfLower_X”

[fierce kraken]

I need some ActionManagerComponent help. I'm trying to make a grenade that acts like a Explosive Block, basically a grenade that can be placed and detonates like the explosive blocks. I have copied the properties from the M112, I want the time to default to 4 second. I set it in the component but when I press play its still says 20s until I press F to adjust the time then it goes to 4s, that UI bug wouldn't bother me if when I set the armed with the timed fuse it wasn't 20s long unless I first press F on the time adjust. Is there somewhere else I have to change the default timer on the explosive to get the 4s?

[fierce kraken]

It only explodes in 4s if I click F to adjust the fuze time, which then throws a script error but updates the UI to 4s instead of 20s and the grenade will detonate in 4s if armed with the timed fuze. If I don't adjust the fuze time it takes 20s as if I never changed the default time in the action manager.

Ahh, can I change this without it affecting other timed explosives, or do I live with the 20 second timer?

[fierce kraken]

Thanks for this, it was giving me heart burn.

[white plover]

any one know to make it so my door is hingine from the correct place and not the middle of it https://gyazo.com/b098dc930ebf1ef8f1cf460596a53d1f

[white lichen]

hi can anyone answer real quick either what is a UBX collider or where I can learn about that and other colliders?

[white plover]

wdym by oragin

origin

[finite quartz]

Check the arma wiki, there are all coliders explained

[stone verge]

Any modification in the tool will result in the deduction of experience value when applying for a vehicle

[white plover]

yh that hasent worked for me is there a wiki page on doors or a video out there somewhere covering them?

[remote palm]

Has anyone here imported a vehicle yet? How much was your poly count? Im working on a Rim and cant get it under 15k tris bcs its pretty shape heavy 😄

So with the wheel it would be somewhere around 20-25k tris, which is about four times higher then the vanilla wheels

[fallow pond]

you can post images...

[shell hedge]

Why not open a vanilla vehicle model in workbench to see the poly counts? Could be sort of a guide for you

[wicked dirge]

He seems to know how it compares to vanilla

[rich dew]

Hello, how can i turn of the vanilla vehicle collider without crashing?

[shadow wasp]

hi, trying to learn how to add armor and other things on vehicles, and stumbled upon issue with colliders not working at all. followed tutorial on BIS wiki, but still nothing. Any ideas i could done wrong?

(Colliders was added with tool, then custom property added manually in blender (there was none))

[steel hare]

Hej everyone, for my coke plant I am working on some industrial walkways and wanted to ask for your opinion of what would be the best approach?
I tried to make a modular setup for the walkways (consisting of straight short and longer walkways, stairs, corners, railing etc.).
Would it make more sense to have single elements as single prefabs for terrain makers so they can create their own walkways in the world editor or does it make more sets to create some premade walkways as prefabs which can be reused? The first approach would mean more work for terrain makers but would leave more freedom.
I have not seen yet any modular approach with BI models yet but I wanted to give it a try instead of making whole fully premade models.
What's your take on this?

[stray bridge]

working with many individuals parts especially in world editor can be tedious.
No matter what include premade parts / combos for easy placement.
And maybe all individual parts as prefabs but imo not many will work with them.
Depending on how you wanna publish it for a little more advanced modders you could provide the parts in blender where you can more easily and with snapping tools build your own vision.

[white garden]

You should keep it modular and make prefab compositions with different variations you use

That way they have what you made, and they can make their own

[remote palm]

I wasn’t at my PC at the time. I got the entire rim and wheel down to 14k tris which is about double then the vanilla ones.

But yes, comparing it to a full vehicle would be best.. 🫣
Just wanted to know if someone had already imported vehicles, and if yes, how many tris their vehicle had

[fallow pond]

really depends on the vehicle... and the level of attention someone wants in their model to decide what is a good face count

[flat crown]

Hello, on Arma, is it possible to import an outfit in one ?

like like an outfit that includes a vest and pants

[stuck kraken]

I would say technically yes. There are overalls for example. On the other side I would guess you have only one container for stuff on the other side. And if someone put another vest on (because the vest slot is empty) you have some graphical glitches.
At the end your mod would be considered as faulty.

[flat crown]

on reforger ?

ho ok

ty for anser

[stuck kraken]

You are in an enfusion thread. The only released game that uses enfusion engine at this moment is Arma Reforger. So yes Reforger.

[flat crown]

okay ty , arma 3 don't use ???

[stuck kraken]

No. It uses Real Virtuality 4
https://enfusionengine.com/

[flat crown]

ho ok

[fierce kraken]

Open the XOB in the workbench.

[hollow maple]

can help you with the setvisible command if you need, lmk

[junior wren]

does anyone know how to fix this issue with steering wheel
as you can see when i moved the steering wheel bone suddenly in game the steering wheel snaps to the old location for no reason

[surreal ore]

It does that for a reason. Specifically because the animations.

[midnight path]

for best results make your own steering and door anims, trying to use vanilla ones wont work unless your bones are the exact same orientation and position as the vanila anim

[junior wren]

Thank you I did it @midnight path @surreal ore

[cunning void]

why can't the collider be bound to the correct bone? when exported, the collider shows a completely different bone

[fierce kraken]

Is there a better way to render icons for inventory items? Instead of making a small change and then F5, TAB, ESC after every change?

[honest pine]

bound by parenting ?

[honest pine]

make sure there is no supplementary mesh skinning or armature modifiers, appart from that I wouldn't know

[cunning void]

Okay, I'll double check.

[honest pine]

I know it happens to me especially when I make collider from duplicating a mesh

[cunning void]

Thanks, it helped me to tie it directly to the bone without Armature

[surreal ore]

Colliders are expected to use relations, the wiki explains that somwhere.

[jaunty hearth]

Good evening, can someone help me? I downloaded a 3D model of a police car from the Sketchfab website in fbx format, as shown in the link below. I tried to export the model to Arma Reforger Tools, and when I did, it turned white as shown in the image, not as I expected it to be as shown on the website. Can someone tell me what I need to do to fix this problem?

https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/urban-10-cop-enforcer-low-poly-model-745830362bb342128ef6509345606ffe

[jaunty hearth]

I figured it out, I just don't know exactly how to properly associate each texture.

[surreal ore]

Those textures aren't what is expected by the game.

https://community.bohemia.net/wiki/Arma_Reforger:Textures?useskin=vector

[tacit eagle]

this is pretty complex if you dont know how the engine works but the full tutorial is on the wiki

[boreal skiff]

Does anyone know how i can just completely reskin a vanilla object

[fierce kraken]

As far as I know you take a screenshot of the BCR for the objects EMAT and drop it into a photo editing software and do you best.

[uneven seal]

Does anyone had this error before? Operator "ebt.import_fbx" does not exist

[fierce kraken]

Is there something I have to do to get the materials to pop up after an Update? I have an open isnstance of Enfusion. It allowed me to assign a firegeo preset but the Game Materials list is empty.

[boreal skiff]

start of a 60mm mortar

[eternal jewel]

any of you have any tips and tricks on how to make something like this? It's a bit tricky. im using blender

how the cube transitions into a cylinder and then an inset, and then finally a beveled cube

[long stump]

loop cuts mayb ? 🤔

[eternal jewel]

gonna be a lot of loot cuts then lol

[remote palm]

Best way would be to use loop tools in blender. Have a cube and subdivide. Then extrude as much as you need and then you select the edges that need to be turned into a circle hit right click -> loop tools and “circle” - perfect circle all the time

[noble ravine]

you could use Booleans and later on do a cleanup/retopology

[eternal jewel]

im considering that but the retopo is going to be a nightmare

im just going for a blockout atm

[noble ravine]

Keep the Boolean final mesh and bake the maps in blender or Marmoset Toolbag using Bevel shading.

Will be a "mid" Poly mesh, make the LODs and skip the high poly mesh for baking

[ivory sapphire]

Why can't I drive the car?

I can start its motor, but it doesn't move (but still makes sounds)

[compact scarab]

Press left shift i think it is

To put it in gear

[ivory sapphire]

You mean while sitting in the jeep?

[compact scarab]

Yeah after you start it

[ivory sapphire]

doesn't do anything at all

[compact scarab]

Look in controls for the shift gear keys

[sonic tree]

its custom map

i see

u need to go to terrain

and select terrain

[harsh shore]

https://i.redd.it/womk2crju4lb1.gif

wonder how I can render this into a model

[raw tundra]

Apply a Subdivision Surface Modifier. That will let you maintain the varying hardness of your edges without forcing you to go crazy with supporting edge-loops.

[tawny grail]

Hello all !!
Do you know how to fix that:
ENTITY : Create entity @"ENTITY:3" ('GameEntity') at <0.000000 0.000000 0.000000> RESOURCES (E): Can't remap 'Assets/Characters/Uniforms/Polo_F1/PoloML.xob' material from 'Shirt_Retopo_01_Item' to 'Assets/Characters/Uniforms/Chemise_F1/Data/Chemise_F1_Bleue_Item.emat'. Source material do not exist

[wary inlet]

CAD to blender, no other way unless your are a topology wizard, and even with the cad approach you need good documentation or real reference as well as good mesh cleanup skills and patience

[jagged goblet]

Looking to add onto a mod already on reforger I was to make a T-80bvm by basing it off of the T-72 mod already in the workshop I've tried importing the t-72 tank mod in arms reforger tools and blender yet I have no idea how to do it if anyone knows it would be a huge help

[delicate condor]

you cant take the existing model. youll have to make new model from 0

[jagged goblet]

😭

[delicate condor]

taking someone elses work = stealing

and we dont do that here

and tank is way too complex thing as first mod anyway

start simple

[jagged goblet]

Any recommendations on what to start with? I'm a bit uneducated with this so I didn't know I saw other people add reskins on the T-72 mod so I had assumed it was ok

[delicate condor]

learn 3d modeling without any Arma context first

once you understand 3d modeling the Arma parts become easier to understand

[jagged goblet]

Ok cool thanks man

[delicate condor]

there is no such thing as "render this on a model" you too have to start 3d modeling learning from 0

[grave matrix]

So I'm trying to make a custom armored vest but I cannot for the life of me figure out how to add armor values to it. If someone can point me in the right direction that'd be much appreciated. And yes I've watched the boot camp videos but they don't do much good for me.

[harsh shore]

Figured ..

[steel hare]

Thanks a lot for you valuable inputs! I will make a few prefabs with individual parts from which I create bigger compositions as own prefabs. Just one question though still. I use snap and slot points when creating prefabs. Is there another way in Workbench to snap objects together? Like there is in Blender? Like industrial walkways would be easier to assemble in World Editor if there was a snap function

[steel hare]

Thanks a lot! I will do so 🙂

[stray bridge]

no snapping

not like you got in blender

[compact scarab]

You can hold Ctrl to snap to increments with move tool

[steel hare]

Thanks a lot!
Alright, that's a pity to be honest.
So the most exact way of placing objects is by changing the XYZ coordinates of the entity I assume?

[raw tundra]

I feel like I've forgotten a very important step somewhere. My model is the proper way in Blender; facing the right direction, has colliders applied, and all the needed memory points + materials are attached. I can also reimport it into Blender as an FBX, post export, and see that the export worked properly. However, it's empty in the workbench; no materials, colliders, or LODs detected.

Is it because I used "Metal - Prop" for my colliders?

Haven't had this issue with the cars or hand tools I've made, but it's been a while and I feel like I'm missing something super obvious

[faint viper]

have you tried to export with normal and not any plugin? just regular export as fbx

[raw tundra]

Yeah, I always export using Blender because the export function from the tools never seems to work 😭 or do you mean i shouldn't apply colliders?

[faint viper]

colliders shouldnt be the issue, for sure something is missing in the extract as fbx

[raw tundra]

https://tenor.com/view/spongebob-spongebob-squarepants-think-thinking-hmm-gif-11570469479394618754

[supple gulch]

Okay so ive tried to import a model into arma reforger, all of the faces are orinetated correctly however it still wont display parts of the model, does anyone know a fix#

never mind it looks like it duplicated all of the assets

still broken

[hazy path]

make sure to apply triangulation of faces before export, enfusion can trip up converting quads on import

[supple gulch]

yeah i figured it out

[tacit eagle]

Initial M113 blockout, thoughts?

[supple gulch]

It looks good but isn't the front slope meant to be angled a little more?

[tacit eagle]

How's that?

[supple gulch]

That looks accurate, the M113 has like a 45+⁰ angle on its upper slope and a 30⁰ on its lower slope

https://afvdatabase.com/usa/m113.html

Here's the data sheet on the beautiful box

[fallow pond]

if its a block out why are there normal splits?

[supple gulch]

Wdym?

[tacit eagle]

I have sharps in there on the hard edges, but I havent split any normals that I am aware of.

Just sharps on the armor gaps

[wicked dirge]

BI are almost certainly adding a M113 to vanilla, far be it for me to discourage you from it, but maybe it's best to consider literally any other vehicle

[supple gulch]

Could make the British box

The FV432 Bulldog

[tacit eagle]

Fair enough. This was just something simple for me to get some practice in with the full pipeline. I could actually use some advice from you RHS guys if you are open to it. Working on a UH-60M

[tacit eagle]

All ports and hatches

[surreal ore]

It probably only exports objects using the correct nomenclature.

[raw tundra]

Enfusion Blender Tools? That’d be a bit silly Is that what causes the file path related errors? I can’t remember any of the other errors it’s given me when trying, but most often I get something along the lines of “this destination is not associated with any project”

[surreal ore]

It wouldn't be silly at all being that the game expects the meshes of your model to be named correctly.

[raw tundra]

That'd definitely be silly.

[surreal ore]

Sure

Almost as silly as it allowing exportation of things that aren't even gonna work correctly in the game.

[raw tundra]

You sure are combative, Zelik. I'm allowed to have an opinion, and my opinion is that it's quite silly to base an export or imports failure on a naming convention.

[fallow pond]

zelik is saying the truth

[surreal ore]

I'm not being combative. I'm being logical. It makes perfect sense for it to not export things that aren't gonna work on the engine that they're being exported for.

[raw tundra]

Okay, and I think a naming convention is a really silly way of doing data validation.

[surreal ore]

Well your lods, colliders, center of mass, occluders, box volumes, sphere volumes, BSPs, portals and portals volumes are all validated through a naming conventions.

Even textures require the correct nomenclature.

It would only make perfect sense for the tool to require those naming conversations. As opposed to allowing incorrect things to be exported.

[raw tundra]

I understand that they made the choice to use naming conventions as their method of data validation, but it doesn’t mean it’s not a very crude, nonsensical way of doing it.

This is a cyclical conversation.

[surreal ore]

Crude and nonsensical maybe. It's used by most, if not all game engines though.

[raw tundra]

Unreal Engine(UE4) and Unity (Unity 5) both phased it out over a decade ago, as did Frostbite. All modern engines (UE5, Unity6, Godot 4, etc) use metadata, schemas or type reflection, because its not 2014 anymore.

[supple gulch]

I mean, I doubt it's the only way they have to do it, it's probably rather a hold over from when the game engine entered development back in 2014 or just an extra piece of redundancy

[surreal ore]

I know 110% for a fact that when making colliders for Unreal Engine in Blender you use a prefix for them and for Unity it's a suffix, iirc.

[shell hedge]

wah wah I dont want to be consistent in naming

[surreal ore]

Exactly

[shell hedge]

😠

If it was up to me I would also make it not load textures without suffixes

[surreal ore]

I was gonna say that earlier but, what's the point when names are nonsense?

[keen fossil]

Just fyi in Blender in object mode, with object selected, you can right click in view port then EBTools, then choose what you want item to be. It’ll create prefix for you and apply the proper texture (except portals it seems).

[raw tundra]

https://tenor.com/view/wrong-not-nope-gif-22294097

[surreal ore]

https://dev.epicgames.com/documentation/en-us/unreal-engine/fbx-static-mesh-pipeline-in-unreal-engine?application_version=5.5#collision

[raw tundra]

Might want to actually read that documentation, mate

[topaz willow]

does any of that even matter, your arguing is just cluttering this channel

[raw tundra]

No, he just had an emotional reaction to me having an opinion about something and escalated from there

[supple gulch]

Okay so I'm making my first model for Arma Reforger as a bit of a test to see how far I can push my own skills and the actual game engine.

What is the amount of faces I should aim for for a high quality rifle model?

[surreal ore]

Take a look at any of the base game XOBs and use those as an example.

[supple gulch]

Alright I didn't know I could do that thanks

[little wagon]

Wish I had time to model something instead of just taking free assets and tweaking them to fit Reforger character's proportions

Or knew someone weird enough to be interested in making medieval armor for Reforger

[raw tundra]

Is it just a time issue and you already know a bit about 3D modelling?

[mighty bronze]

Yes.
Don't forget motivation

[raw tundra]

Yeah, I spent atleast a year messing around in blender, not really learning anything, because the amount of stuff I felt like I needed to know before I could really create something was overwhelming

[hollow maple]

not being funny, you guys probably think im an absolute caveman

i made an entire to scale 160m ship that works ingame without defining ANY sharps

what do sharp do ugg ugg

its like the concentration point of the material's effects aka like edge and reflection or?

[supple gulch]

Honestly I'm literally brute forcing my way through blender

I have no idea what I'm doing, I have no idea what a sharp is

[hollow maple]

add me brother and ill share with you my autism

im fully self taught and hate myself en ough to thrive in the blendlands

its nearly done

but my blender tools decided to SHIT it self

and detect 0 ingame armour types now

so its all fucking basegam matgerials hahahaha

all interiors and subfloor vents mapped as well and works nice ingame aaaaaaaaa

im just dogshit at modelling, anyone wanna help out hmu

so i can focus on scri pting mmmmmmm

[supple gulch]

Id drink to that

[hollow maple]

i sent u a message and we can discover sharps together and try to not break all the colliders ingame immediately

[supple gulch]

I've got this fucking thing I'm hacking together that is gonna be fully animated and scripted before I publish

[hollow maple]

im on like version 260 of the ship btw, and my colliders stopped recognising as individual colliders back on build like 180

so im basically cooked

[hollow maple]

noice, it looks almost like a NATO VSS

[silk glen]

Awesome

[little wagon]

A matter of priorities and getting things done

When you have to code/animate/design systems to have a working mod, also modelling/texturing every single bit yourself just isn't worth it

I feel like some parts of our creations can just be good enough or even "tolerable", while we focus on what we can make really great

[raw tundra]

Understandable, I feel that

[jagged goblet]

Yo share your autism with me I'm new to blender

I'm tryna make a functional Sherman

[merry rivet]

If I have a UCX_ - convex collider for a static object, like a street cabinet. Does the collider need to be closed and have a bottom?

[tacit eagle]

3m6+nnnk

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++++j6

[stuck kraken]

If a convex collider had no bottom there it wouldn't convex.

[neat ocean]

Anyone knows where to setup how much time it takes to build something in conflcit?

[keen fossil]

Probably best asked here https://discord.com/channels/105462288051380224/976019350651813948

[merry rivet]

Thank you, so bottom it is

[glacial helm]

hello, I'm trying to make a sort of dive mask, but when the item is weared I would like to not actually have it in my screen 😅 how do I make an Item non visible when going 1st person?

[wicked dirge]

It's described on the wiki in the head gear asset creation tutorial

[stray bridge]

in the material you use on the mask, tick the alpha bias box

inside the .emat

[glacial helm]

I think I've done this already but I still see the shape around the mask ... could it be because i told the game to set it as a vest instead of headgear?

The thing is the object is connected to a diving oxygen gear, and it's both a vest and a headgear. I registered as a vest...

[honest pine]

I am but currently have other plans for now

[little wagon]

Cool, let me know if/when you'd like to cooperate on medieval stuff

[tacit eagle]

Do shade smooth operations in blender carry over to enfusion?

[thick cloak]

hey, What prevents the vehicle from taking in water while floating - if it's the collider, which one?

[thick cloak]

but lav25 doesn't have this and there is no water inside. Its not drowning, simply water is inside, like light 😛 i thing its collider but i did same as original 🤷‍♂️

[calm rune]

Yes but I recommend using the “weighted normal” modifier

[tacit eagle]

Never used that modifier. Still learning things. My goal was to reduce my bevel segments while still achieving thw look of a curved/rounded segments. Will weighted normals achieve this? And should weighted normals be applied to the whole mesh or just certain segments?

[fallow pond]

there are a bunch of ways to do smoothing in blender.

[tacit eagle]

Auto smooth gets the look I am going for. Just worried it wont translate to the engine

[white hill]

Any possible help? I added bones and empties to this vehicle and parented them correctly to each other and to the mesh though when I exported and imported into the workbench, my bones became "nulls" or memory point along with the ones I intentionally set up.

[sonic tree]

unselct leafbones in blender

[white hill]

I had done that I even checked the export, scanning in infusion, and re-imported the model

[sonic tree]

from what i see parent bone are fcked

v_root > v_body > v_axels/rest

another part is v_body is not a bone

u need to properly name vertex groups

take a look at bohemia sample

https://github.com/BohemiaInteractive/Arma-Reforger-Samples/tree/main/SampleMod_NewCar

it should look like this

and thats how it should look in blender

feel free to ask questions

[tawny quiver]

im trying to rotate this fan prop 90 degrees so that it faces front. im struggling to understand how to simply apply the transform

[sonic tree]

u want to rotate head

or whole prop

cuz i dont really understand what u want to do in this prefab preview

[tawny quiver]

afaik its just one unrigged statue, at least what im working with

i wanna rotate the whole thing 90 degrees on y so that it faces the player when placing

[sonic tree]

u dont need to whole rotate prefab

just rotate it on world

[tawny quiver]

im new to using this program, could you explain?

im in world editor currently, i rotated it, then when i save it still appears how it was originally oriented before any edits. its like this ingame when placing and when i view it in the main workbench view

[sonic tree]

yhm

weird

[white hill]

Thank you immensely. Im assuming maybe a wrong naming convention, i had most of the “L”s and “R”s capitalized I’ll deep dive into that sample. Thank you!

[thick cloak]

during animation, opening a door, the door moves to the place of the original bone from the animation... is it possible to turn it off so that it works like the other bones where I assigned them in blender? (new car model with bohemia orig animations)

[wicked dirge]

Rotate it in the xob import setting and then reimport. This will rotate it permanently

[tawny quiver]

aha ok thank you

[clever edge]

Yo..
maybe i put it in "wrong".. But..
Need some help.. brand new to Blender.. Why are some of my faces (ones that ARE there) not visible.. But the collider is working.. So i dont see the Face but the collider is working..
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[remote palm]

In Blender go into edit mode, select everything and hit „Shift + N“ - you probably have flipped normals.

[clever edge]

Thanks... I believe so too. Made the inner side of the walls by copy and scaling them

I noticed in game that the height of a human is huuuuge.. like 3m tall... The import width of the structure is 40m and the door is 3.5m tall 2m wide... Could just get inside... Measured in workbench and saw it was accurate....

[tawny grail]

"Moving on Vehicles - Climb onto the back of a flatbed truck and fire while riding along."
How do I add the "Ride Along" feature to my vehicle, please?

[tawny grail]

Merci !! Thank you 🙂

[clever edge]

Yes, i flipped the face orientation and now it worsks 🙂

[clever edge]

So.. some progress 😄 xD
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[viscid copper]

Hi everyone, does anyone know how to ensure the inside of an amphibious vehicle isn't underwater?

[hybrid mountain]

Sometimes normals can look find in blender but scale is inverted - so it will import flipped lol.

[clever edge]

Thanks! Will check that out to! 🙂

How do you properly make Bones in blender for import in Enfusion, not for animation, for "Rig" i guess.. to put up another f.ex prefab on a model.. That seems.. excessively difficult to setup overall in blender...

[steel hare]

You can work with the object type "Empty" in Blender. Those you will have to rename to either slot_XXXsomething or socket_somethingYYY and in Workbench you check "Export skinning" in the Import settings tab after you added your *.xob file. After you reimported the resources you can open the xob file in the world editor from the Resource Browser and assign the component SlotManagerComponent. In this component you then can enable the slots and add various slots. Choose EntitySlotInfo and give it a name. The PivotID then becomes the place where you can add another prefab / object which should be attached to your object. That's where the "Empty" object from Blender is. You can still rearrange the placement via the offset coordinates there aswell. I hope you undestand what I mean?
Otherwise take a look at the screenshot from BI's tutorial (https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Arma_Reforger:Prop_Creation#Creating_prop_variants) (right hand side). The tutorial is worth a read

[clever edge]

Oh.. so not using "bones"?

[clever edge]

empty stuff didnt work.. but i used bones with that Slot thing and that worked.. 🙂 xD

[clever edge]

ok.... so... Just to try out... just took an ingame buildiong asset that use bones to do the windows f.ex.. then replicated with thye XOB object and added in the BoneSlotMappings.. NOTHING happens......

[devout marlin]

Hey so I am trying to learn how to clothing model dev, and im in the middle of importing when I imported the object into the arsenal/game it doesn't show up as the shirt, just the item model in the arsenal. Anyone know how to fix that?

[uneven vessel]

Set model as 'worn' model on your prefab's BaseLoadoutClothComponent

[devout marlin]

Legendary. Thanks

[devout marlin]

Ended up finding it under SCR_UniversalInventoryStorageComponent —> Custom Attributes—> Preview Worn Model —> Checkmark

[surreal ore]

You have to use the "Export Skinning" in the import settings.