enfusion_generic

[smoky sinew]

I think its important for complex things. which arma 3 doesn't really do all that well

[meager turret]

I agree, would love to see support for custom hlsl shaders.

How else am I supposed to make the Arma Reforger Black Hole mod? https://zongzhengli.github.io/black-hole/

[nova delta]

All he said was that it is not planned at the moment, but this decision could change in the future, or not 🙂

[smoky sinew]

scary uncertainty

[obtuse cliff]

thanks for you guy's reply

I used to create terrain in UE 5. But better like enfusion now

[molten granite]

How do house prefabs handle the furniture inside ? It's not done through SlotManagerComponent, and I cannot find how it's done.

Dragging other .xob into the viewport doesn't save them to the prefab

[empty nexus]

children in hierarchy

[molten granite]

Trying to mess around with that currently but I cannot get it to work.

I can set the house as a parent, but it is not added to the prefab and I cannot save it

[empty nexus]

when making your own prefab, to add an entity as child into your prefab hold alt while dragging it in hierarchy

[molten granite]

Still won't appear in the prefab in the end though

[empty nexus]

it should when you save it

[molten granite]

I cannot save it, thats the problem

option greyed out

Also doesn't show the little * star that lets me know there's unsaved changes

[empty nexus]

notice second column "prefab" in hierarchy window changes to match the parent prefab

[molten granite]

Oh well I'm doing it in the opened prefab, not in an actual world. I guess that's the problem

[empty nexus]

shouldnt matter

[molten granite]

I can add the bench and make it a child, but I cannot save it so it won't appear in the opened prefab later on

[empty nexus]

does the prefab column change from bench to whatever the parent prefab is?

[molten granite]

It goes get moved into the parent dropdown

[empty nexus]

in video it changed at 0:03

because i dragged it in while holding alt

[molten granite]

Before I did it with the right click and parent option, but even the alt way doesn't work.

[empty nexus]

works in the video

[molten granite]

Well it does, but it isn't saveable

[empty nexus]

again does the prefab column change the name of the parent like in the video at 0:03?

[molten granite]

It does

[empty nexus]

this column

okay now click the parent and then click apply to prefab?

or is that grayed out?

[molten granite]

Yep, greyed out

[empty nexus]

its grayed out for me but it works anyway

[molten granite]

The bench just isn't there in the end

[empty nexus]

looks fine on the left, did you press ctrl+s?

[molten granite]

I cannot save the prefab, not even the * is showing I have unsaved changes

[empty nexus]

also try reopen the prefab edit thing and see if really gone

[molten granite]

Alright I reopened it and it's here. Oh well. Should've been obvious to me. 🥴

[empty nexus]

guess it doesnt update that opened tab

[molten granite]

Thanks again. 🙏

[short roost]

Random question, not really to do with any of my current projects

is it possible to make "Sci-fi" weaponry in enfusion/reforger? like, laser rounds and such

[smoky sinew]

yes

[empty nexus]

laser beams are not available in engine but I kinda made them work #1088551349752434798 message

[brittle osprey]

I'm having trouble implementing helmets with NVGs, they work fine in workbench but whenever I place an arsenal in-game it crashes. Any help? I'm using the NVG mod as a dependency.

[atomic grotto]

Are two seperate world instances possible?

like one big world and one small room like world in the same game instance?

[hasty yacht]

I would like to ask is the tutorial on the wiki for the car implementation in Reforger finished? Maybe I am a bozo and again missed something but I got to the end and my car is not drivable. And at the bottom page there it says "Categories: To-do" and in the section for Wheel Positions there is nothing in it

[empty nexus]

compare it with sample car mod

[smoky sinew]

Which channel is best to search for answers pertaining to setting up custom interactions to teleport a player?

[hasty yacht]

@empty nexus I am going through all the object properties but I don't really know what the problem is. I did't have the Pacejka stuff setup that I guess is needed? Is there a video tutorial on the vehicle creation that shows the whole process so I can follow all the steps? (From importing the mesh to hey I can drive this thing)

[empty nexus]

I don't know about video tutorials and other stuff like that when I hit an issue like this I just compare what my prefab doesnt have that the vanilla ones do

[short roost]

righty, so im guessing a "laser" round that looks like a large tracer, like the classic sci fi laser round is possible? same systems different effect?

[empty nexus]

sure but that's not a laser

[short roost]

Yeah i should've specified

[empty nexus]

but yea you can have any model in a projectile

[short roost]

im looking for the classic movie style, glad to know it works though

[crude wasp]

Is it possible to make Feature requests for the Engine? and if so can i see what features have already been requested

[empty nexus]

https://feedback.bistudio.com/

[wary cape]

Hello, I need help and I cant find the right channel to ask my question

[silk swan]

Well, this is the generic channel for modding questions, otherwise #reforger_questions would be a good fit.
And without knowing the question it's hard to tell what the correct channel should be 😉

[wary cape]

my question is do mods need to be published before they can be tested or is there a way to test mods before publishing them. sorry if my question is dumb lol. I'm actually asking for a friend. we are trying to learn together. He is familiar with modding on day z but not arma.

[unborn inlet]

not really

[atomic grotto]

There is a plugin called PeerTool which helps you open multiple game instances on the same local server. There is also a plugin called Dedicated Server Tool which creates a local dedicated server and n amount of client instances. I hope you have plenty of RAM ^^

both in World Editor btw

[keen rune]

https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Arma_Reforger:Startup_Parameters
You can use -addonsDir and -addons

set -addonsDir to the location of the .gproj then -addons to the name of your project

[royal niche]

So, I set out to make something like this, track stats and ranks on a server, and find basically the frontend already implemented in "Career mode". Which leads me to a question, will any server be able to submit stats to the backend? Or unmodded, or Official server only?

[remote bronze]

It is my understanding that the backend api is somewhat available to everyone and simply limited in size. So you can yeet I think it was 512 mb of data to the cloud saves? But this stuff is all undocumented if any how modders should use this. I think a safer assumption is that a mod saves it on the server with local files associated with the player uids if you want to tinker with anything yourself. I do believe that basic persistent stats for official game modes (and probably on official servers) are a goal here though.

[silk swan]

I doubt it would be possible to just send custom data to a "competitive" backend, or at least not intended 😉
Because in that case everyone will be General within a week and have unlimited XP to burn.

[empty nexus]

right I would not allow modders to put data in there hahaha

otherwise bacon becomes level 1337

[obtuse cliff]

have you guys played the Dead island 2? it's gore system is totally totally cool. does ARMA 4 have a plan to do like that? even just improve somehow,comparing with arma 3or refoger.

[hollow rampart]

judging by past intentions no. Arma has never been about the blood and gore

[silk swan]

although with Enfusion it should be possible to create a mod which adds it, to a certain degree

[hollow rampart]

maybe

[smoky sinew]

id rather them focus on more important things than gore.
my Wishlist for arma 4 is.
highly configurable AI with presets
vehicles with warthunder, gunner heatpc, dcs damage model.
more things being offloaded to the GPU like particles
real time terrain deformation for building trenches.
extended view ranges
increase map limit to at least 100km

[agile smelt]

That war thunder damage model is a community want that the majority would agree on

[keen path]

🙏 full screen excluseive 2023 🙏
It's so annoying to change windows resolution every time I wanna play

[smoky sinew]

what do you mean?

boardless Fullscreen works perfectly

[unborn inlet]

not really, especially with multi monitors

[smoky sinew]

I have twin monitors

[silk swan]

borderless is the only way I can play on a dual monitor setup, especially when I need to switch screens during games (checking stuff in browser, running OBS, checking twitch stream, checking Arma discord when unconscious, etc.)

[keen path]

low FPS with borderless fulscreen and same resolution

I have to change my windfows resolution to be lower and then use the same in-game resolution

[smoky sinew]

Usually borderless full screen is the best fps

[keen path]

that's nto even the issue

THe issue is, I get -10 FPS if I don't lower my windows resolution

I don't know exact details, but also borderless windowed is considered worse for input latency always

Maybe that's now how it is on enfusion, I don't have a way to test it

[smoky sinew]

Use windowed mode if you don't like it. I've never had that problem like what you have. I've only set resolution to 1440p and it has stayed that way.

No unexplainable drops in fps either

[keen path]

if you play with windows in 1080p vs 1440p you will definitely see a difference 😄

I do still use a gtx1060, butthat's besides the point that exclusive fullscreen is always considered better 😄
Definitely was better for me in dayz too.
It's not horrible, but I definitely had no problems getting over 100 fps in dayz.

[gloomy vapor]

Reforger is highly GPU demanding compared to any previouse BI game.
To me it was the reason to finally get rid of my GTX 1060.
I was never rly able to enjoy any vanilla map and spend 99% of my time with my super basic test map.
Even now after switching to a new GPU i'm still not able to max. settings on 1440p and get stable 75 FPS.

THe issue is, I get -10 FPS if I don't lower my windows resolution
Isn't this the normal case?
I mean lower res = better FPS.

[limber hazel]

hi all guys thanks again for the advice and help from you to always create more engaging mods and scenarios, thanks, after that I wanted to ask you, I'm adding objects to vehicles such as flags and external protection my question is: how do I do it to enlarge or reduce the object I want to add? currently what i do is go to the prefab slotmanagere add storageitem and what i can do is just tilt the object and move it up down left right but i can't find the command to adjust the volume of the object does anyone have a tutorial to share?or anything else ?thanks have a good day in advance 😄

[empty nexus]

my rtx 3080 is absolutely bored in reforger most of the time

[gloomy vapor]

Yeah from today's point of view i would probably get a 3080 as well.
But back when i was looking for a new GPU 3080s were like 1200€+.
Lucky i've got a 3060Ti FE for MSRP.

[empty nexus]

I'll just get the 4080 ti when it's out probably

[keen path]

Isn't this the normal case?
I mean lower res = better FPS.

I used the same render scale, so in terms of that, no.
I think in refoerger enfusion render scale doesn't control everything, so having the display resolution lower will give more FPS, without losing quality.

Maybe quality of other things (not resolution) are changed as well, somewhere, so that's probably hwy

It's not completely terrible anyawy, just annoying to manually change windows resolution.
The absence of fullscreen exclusive seems so odd 😄

I do appreciate that there is like a lot of graphics to set higher, so the game is more future proof.
Having ultra settigns is good, Also I love that we still have normal AA, most new games don't have it anymore

[empty nexus]

did you keep the render resolution the same percentage when you scaled down the window resolution? because then it also decreases with the window

[keen path]

not the same percentage, but the same value, yes. 1440x810

[empty nexus]

that is a little weird then

[twilit barn]

How are the #1049297536617291827 supposed to work? I just tried posting a scenario and it wouldn't let me post an image, or edit the message, or post on the message. Do I need a special role or something?

Maybe an admin can delete what's remaining of my post, I think that channel is broken?

[unborn inlet]

you don’t need a special role. Your message was deleted by yourself according to logs

There is nothing broken. In order to post images you need to use the verify function of the bot

[twilit barn]

yeah because it didn't come out the way i wanted, would only let me delete, not edit

and it didnt even delete lol

[unborn inlet]

First message of a discord post cannot be altered i think

[twilit barn]

the content did, but not the thread

[unborn inlet]

i deleted the post after you have deleted the message - there are certain limitations with discord forum posts i guess.

[twilit barn]

thanks 🙂

wait what bot do i need to verify with?

[gloomy vapor]

It's called Valkyrja. You have to write !verify

[twilit barn]

I was actually asking because I wanted to know if you were interested in any crash logs for your AI mod? 🙂

[gloomy vapor]

Oh yes sure! 😉
I have a thread for it in enf_showcases: https://discord.com/channels/105462288051380224/1050433454388547644

[twilit barn]

yeah i know, the verify thing is not working so i cant post there

Class:      'CRX_AIDecoFireTeamLeader'
Function: 'CheckFireTeamMembers'
Stack trace:
scripts/Game/CRX_EAIU7B17.Vanilla/CRX_FireTeam.c:90 Function CheckFireTeamMembers
scripts/Game/CRX_EAIU7B17.Vanilla/DecoratorScripted/CRX_AIDecoFireTeamLeader.c:46 Function TestFunction```

[gloomy vapor]

Oh okay.
Did you write !verify inclusive the ! at the beginning?
Well thank's for the report. 👍

[twilit barn]

yes I did, and no problemo! Thanks for the great mod! 🙂

[brittle osprey]

Dumb question, how would I update my mod without having to publish it again?

[royal niche]

If you have already published it once, then publish and update are synonymous; just open the project in Workbench and press the publish button again.

[atomic grotto]

lol

[silk swan]

uses ChatGPT to figure out what it is and how it works

[atomic grotto]

Its the TagManager, and its not exposed I think

[keen flower]

Hey, guys. How would one get into making clothing items?

[unborn inlet]

acquiring and learning a 3d software package - blender is free and has some sculpting capabilities

[twilit barn]

Hey I think that Valkyria bot is broken

[gloomy vapor]

You could try to post your !verify command here:
https://discord.com/channels/105462288051380224/981246678961115147
Maybe the official Valkyria channel work's better at least many post it there.

[twilit barn]

thanks that worked!!! I DM'd it a couple times with no result 🤷‍♂️ says Ill be verified "soon" tho 🙂

[gloomy vapor]

Good! 👍

[twilit barn]

not sure how people are supposed to know that, i saw nothing about it in #info_help_tips

[gloomy vapor]

Can't remember where i posted mine...
But ppl posting it in the discussion channel pretty often as well.
Well at least it worked this time. 😉

[smoky sinew]

Looking through the Bohemia Wiki I'm looking for a section that would explain how to implement things with Generic Entity and all the different components, it seems like a lot could be done simply by manipulating those appropriately without raw code, is there any good documentation I'm missing or a youtube tutorial that goes into more detail about Entities and Components?

So far this page has been somewhat helpful: https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Arma_Reforger:Action_Context_Setup Though I'm trying to see if there is a way to use comment component to get text to appear for at time while a player interacts with a certain static mesh.

[keen rune]

A generic entity is almost self explanatory. It represents something in the world, it could be whatever you want it to be, but the word entity is used for any individual “thing” to remain as generic as possible. A component defines a specific type of behavior. This could be logic for how something moves, or just something to hold data about the entity. You can look up “Entity Component System” and learn more, its not specific to Reforger. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entity_component_system

As for displaying text when looking at something you would need to write your own code with some type of raycast I imagine. Or if you want it to be an actual interaction and press a button to do something just use the ActionsManagerComponent

The actions manager component needs the mesh object to have a collider with the interaction layer set on it. Then you can create a context which defines a position for an action and an “additional action” for each individual thing you can select at that context. If you want to write a custom action you’ll need to make a new script and inherit the ScriptedUserAction base class and override the functions to get your desired result. I believe there is a pin here for it

[crude wasp]

Will there be any kind of Mesh Deformation through splines or Follow spline that will deform the Mesh, like its possible in other big engines Ue,Unity,etc this could be really handy in comparison to the limit the current spline generators have.

[slow shard]

Hey guys, what's a good way to get started modding? Is there anything better than the docs, which seem a bit confusing for me?

[unborn inlet]

modding is very general, depends on what you aim for

[slow shard]

Well adding content is easy with the docs, but adding features is what I aim at

Mainly focusing on SP gameplay

[unborn inlet]

generic question = generic answer ¯_(ツ)_/¯

[slow shard]

Well I'd like to add stuff like for example being able to give AI commands in Conflict

[keen path]

Look at how editor(zeus) gives commands to ai.
You can see all the editor code with workbench script editor

[true ore]

Will Arma 4 modding be the same as in Reforger (will reforger mods/scripts be compatible with Arma 4)

[unborn inlet]

unknown, most likely the script language will remain the same

[true ore]

Thanks^^

[sly forge]

Anyone know how do this on Xbox

[hollow rampart]

its a mod

and might not work on xbox

[unborn inlet]

please do not cross post, you're question has been answered already

[unborn inlet]

#reforger_feedback

[prisma plaza]

I'm a long date Arma 3 scripter, i do everything i want in my missions just using scripts. I would like to try to do the same in Reforger.
Can someone give me a tip where to start?

[paper sandal]

Here is a good list of the difference between SQF and Enforcescript
https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Arma_Reforger:From_SQF_to_Enforce_Script
There are also plenty of tutorials on that same website to help you get into reforger scripting.

[warm mirage]

is there a wiki page about attachments and what they need / to get them to work ?

i know how to add items to it bu i want to make it compatible with rails so you can take on and off

[silk swan]

The only things I could find (within 2 minutes) was: https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Arma_Reforger:Weapon_Components#AttachmentSlotComponent
No idea about the other way around though...

Guess the best way to see how it's configured is to check existing mods which work and open them in the Workbench.

[warm mirage]

wil give that a read i know how to do it for an item but the issue is once you take it off it is bye bye XD

[twilit barn]

I swear I thought I stumbled across a wiki article that gave instructions to test a mod locally before publishing, anyone got a link?

[twilit barn]

got it loaded on server, Im guessing I need to create a BAT file to launch client with the mod as well

[twilit barn]

can't seem to work out how to connect to the local server with the unpublished mod

[empty nexus]

https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Arma_Reforger:Startup_Parameters#client

this should work, assuming your server is really listening on the ip and port

[twilit barn]

thanks! thats exactly what I needed! 🙂

I just had to keep reading one more line down......... lol 🤦‍♂️ 💩

[twilit barn]

can you not test scenarios this way? Im not seeing a parameter for loading a scenario on server start

[stark acorn]

-https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Arma_Reforger:Startup_Parameters#server

[twilit barn]

is it supposed to load my scenario automatically? (I used to load it via my config file, but I guess I cant use that with the addons parameter enabled) It seems to be loading the world, but some of my scripts that work in the workbench/world editor, don't work on a local RPL Server... So I guess Im not too sure what's going on. 🤷‍♂️

and of course, its my scripts im trying to test/troubleshoot. And if they're not running, Im wasting my time

[empty nexus]

-server param is for world not scenario

any reason peertool doesnt work for testing those scripts?

[twilit barn]

I ended up finding a way to trick it into testing on a regular dedicated server, manually patched the files and used the -client param for my client to connect to it, allowing me to use the config file.

[bright sable]

Does anyone know if there's someone working on a Ukraine faction/gear mod?

[untold sonnet]

if i was to use another persons model and follow the liecnse they set like giving credit/ changes to model how would i go about doing that i cant seem to import a .txt file with a list of changes and credit.

[empty nexus]

you mean attribution? note it in mod description

[untold sonnet]

I was wondering about making a pack of clothing but as long as i followed the license it should be ok, so i was worried about crediting makers and changes getting too long. so was wondering if there was anyway i could link to a list of everything.

[empty nexus]

you could, as long as its reachable over time the mod is alive

[untold sonnet]

Yea i dont know how i can link to the license is there a place to embed a link?

[jade current]

@untold sonnet Just write a .c file with attribution to whoever the license holder is.

[cerulean burrow]

is there a QuickStartGuide or something to get into modding arma?

[smoky sinew]

the wiki, the announcement on the website and youtube

[gaunt portal]

How do you get them to stay though? Everytime I restart they are all missing from the resource browser, I have to add them every time manually?

When I go to Workbench>Options, I can see the new dependencies in the list, but they don't show up in the resource browser unless I add them by hand.

shouldn't they automatically get added to the resource browser once you make them a dependency?

[empty nexus]

I think I need to add them to the launcher as well, so add to launcher and to Options then restart

[round arrow]

hey all very new to enfusion and very lost coming from a3 scripting, just wanted to find out what the enfusion equivalent is for the hint command just want to be able to make a pop up message on screen is this possible?

[stark acorn]

https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Category:Arma_Reforger/Modding/Tutorials/Scripting check this category

https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Arma_Reforger:Create_a_Layout here you can create custom layout and present some info

you can also ask for more assistance in #enfusion_scripting - I don't know from top of my head how to utilize vanilla hint system

[round arrow]

thanks for the info mate time for some "light" reading haha

[stark acorn]

I would definitely recommend reading this page https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Arma_Reforger:From_SQF_to_Enforce_Script

[lofty tulip]

Im trying to give reforger tools a try but im having a few problems with it. first i cant hit play to test my maps, and second if i save a map and reopen it, everything is gone and its just a white screen in the viewport.
https://gyazo.com/2449d5cf64e48c59ecb23f685625444a
https://gyazo.com/0c41b1b7862fc04b70f1b4ac7145855c

[warm mirage]

anyone having the same issue where models wont load anymore and it instant crashes the workbench ? happend sinds the update :/

can legit not do anything anymore

[sour anvil]

Read your console output. Your mod probably has compile errors

[warm mirage]

thats the thing it wont show anything

it just instant freezes i can open it in world editor but i need to change some stuff on it but i cant

no errors no nothing

and i know this model works

as its my mp5 thats has been working ofr the last week

[stark acorn]

can you share your logs perhaps? There could be some hint of what is going on

[prime fossil]

im having similar problems here where after i save my map and reopen it, my changes dont carry through

[steel marsh]

I dont have any problems, maybe because i use different folder structure:

[placid meteor]

I'm having a similar issue, have you had any luck?

[lofty tulip]

i think i found a solution. put a folder in your project folder named "Maps" and than put your world in there. though you can name the folder anything

[warm mirage]

@placid meteor no man still have it :/

[weary pilot]

It indeed does blow up In your hands

[placid meteor]

I'm not sure how big your project is but I just started over in a new project with what I was doing and I haven't had any problems.

[warm mirage]

its barley 500kb

so not big at all

[placid meteor]

Yea maybe try opening a new project and starting over. I know its not the best solution but there's not much you can do when the editor just keeps crashing.

[warm mirage]

its not the project

its loading the models that crashes the workbench

[stray grove]

Hi I need help on creating patches, anybody willing to help with a couple of advice?

[faint berry]

Why

[dense gulch]

look fun

@faint berry so is there any groups

[round arrow]

how would i get the value for player health?

[sour anvil]

IEntity player = SCR_PlayerController.GetLocalControlledEntity();
SCR_CharacterDamageManagerComponent dmg = SCR_CharacterDamageManagerComponent.Cast(player.FindComponent( SCR_CharacterDamageManagerComponent ));

Print(dmg.GetHealth())

[warm mirage]

little question i have set my mag to only hold 20 rounds but still it hold 30

[warm mirage]

somehow my gun wont fire anymore after adding it to the arsenal and relaunching it .....

[gritty brook]

I'm completely new to enfusion could anyone give me some info on how i would make a custom gamemode from scratch, I know that's probably an ambiguous question and a huge amount of info could be said about it. I just need a starting point i guess.

[keen rune]

Start with gamemodebase, its a script that has essentially no logic for gamemode handling except basic respawn and stuff I believe

[round arrow]

what is the enfuision equivelent of sleep? ive used Sleep(5000); however that crashes?

[sour anvil]

GetGame().GetCallqueue().CallLater(DoThing, 5000);

[round arrow]

i probably should have been a bit clearer i want to run a for loops but have a slight delay at the start of each cycle

[lime solstice]

Guys, how to create custom entity, for example - GameMode, with custom script parts... Thank you very much in advance

[warm mirage]

man i legit getting hate to the engine ... all was working fine last night now out of no where my gun has 3 scopes and if i try to remove them out of the list it just crashes my game ...

how can i fixt this now ? as i cant delete the components ....

fixt it just took it out with the text editor

[lime solstice]

I`m found 😄

[empty nexus]

do it without sleep, for example create a float variable and increment/decrement it every frame, then do something when it reaches a certain value (if CallLater is not sufficient for your use case)

[round arrow]

ahh yep hadnt though about it like that 🙂 thanks @empty nexus

[lusty badger]

Pretty sure there was a tutorial for how to get started in engine, where is it?

[unborn inlet]

on the bohemia wikipedia

[bright sable]

Has anyone made a specific list of things that the update may have broken / that you should fix?

[stark acorn]

see https://reforger.armaplatform.com/news/modding-update-may-10

[pliant meteor]

🤡 Starting to think this patch wasn't ready

[molten granite]

This may be caused by mods though. I remember some mod caused this issue. 🥴

[pliant meteor]

Not running any mods

[molten granite]

Strange, it's not like this for me

Something fishy is in the air.

[smoky sinew]

probably had some mod installed and never restarted GM

[stark acorn]

for those interested - if object is called switch1, then it is going to break your Workbench upon reimport 🔥 hopefully this issue will be fixed in future

[shell dagger]

If someone has the solution I take, I would like to transfer heavy vehicles to light so that they appear in the selection, I have however changed but it does not change anything ingame

[nova delta]

Relaunch WB after the change

[shell dagger]

I manage to add vehicles in us_campaign.conf it loads ingame but not the light category, heavy, I'll try I make the change via us_campaign I save I restart WB and I publish?

[stark acorn]

perhaps it is vehicle configuration issue? #reforger_conflict message

[shell dagger]

It's good it works thank you 👍

[south creek]

guys sell me on the enfusion engine

i wanna start modding and creating maps and am deciding between this or one of the Unreal 4 games like SQUAD/OH: D/Sandstorm

[faint berry]

Don’t the engine is still early

Also unreal 5 is easier to mod on so I guess wait for something

[remote bronze]

That is two different approaches. If you want to build everything from scratch and heavily customize stuff, go unreal. If you generally like the Arma 3 gameplay and want to build something on top of a modernized version of it in A4 then stick around so you can make some milsim/fps based game mode without all the ground work needed

[south creek]

are there any SDK's for unreal 5 available yet?

i want to really hyper focus on making maps/levels

[faint berry]

Do you own a quest or pc VR

[south creek]

for my portfolio

[faint berry]

Do ya?

[south creek]

i'm not much of an artist so i would just use whatever assets are availalable in-engine

but yeah im generally looking to see if it's intuitive and easy to use

[faint berry]

If you want something for you portfolio then find an unreal 5 game to mod on since half of all AAA games are using it now

It’s really smart to learn it now and get in early

[south creek]

UE5? ok no point in learning the niche engines like enfusion, etc if you wanna break into gamedev?

[faint berry]

Yeah

I mean it’s just smarter bigger companies more options better pay

I feel bad for the company unreal 5 would work perfectly for an Arma game with its light and long distance foliage

Idc tho their choice I got class gtg good luck I recommend unreal 5 though

[remote bronze]

It can be a lot easier to start with modding arma to get into game dev than going straight to a bare engine. you could play around in arma reforger / arma 4 and switch to unity afterwards as they have vaguely comparable concepts when it comes to the entity component approach and the script language is similar syntax wise. You need to know what your goal is to make this decision. enfusion engine is not standalone, you will never release your own standalone game based on top of it unless you work for BI. So if you goal is to put some stuff onto steam some day go UE or unity from the start. if you want to just see if you like programming and asset creation for games and you are an arma player you are in the right place here

[south creek]

Thanks! I have no interest in selling a standalone game atm, more into just creating assets and learning level design concepts.

[unborn inlet]

it wouldn’t

[unborn inlet]

level design is engine agnostic

[south creek]

meaning engine choice does not necessarily matter?

[unborn inlet]

if you want to learn level design, the engine should be irrelevant, at least when it comes to the design part (technical concerns asside)

if you want to mod a game for portfolio, pick one where the modding community is large, active and open.

[south creek]

i guess arma reforger fits the bill 🙂

i was gonna go with OH: D initially but not sure how long that community will last

[empty nexus]

why not?

[unborn inlet]

that’s my 2 cents with having used ue4/5 for quite some time (non game design). ue5 specifically has been prone to various problems (i hear 5.2 is the most stable version tet with tons of bugs squashed it was released this month btw).
An existing commercial engine like ue5 (while great on paper for small game devs making a game around the engine) is not the key for a game like arma (both pvp and pve tactical military sandbox)

[empty nexus]

okay, any specifics as to why it wouldn't work for arma?

[unborn inlet]

ai commanding
ingame mission editor
modding support in general (limited to sdk)
from the top of my head

[empty nexus]

any reason you can't just write all this in like you would in your own engine?

[unborn inlet]

not possible at engine level, nope
the question is - would you use an off the shelf engine where you have no control over or write your own based on what you’re needs are?

[empty nexus]

modding support would benefit from an in-engine implementation, does the license not allow modifying ue5 source code? ai commanding and mission editor are not engine-level features

[unborn inlet]

considering BI has used both unreal and unity in other games outside dayz and arma, i would think they also found of the shelves engines not suitable

[empty nexus]

that's fair so I am interested in why specifically

[unborn inlet]

modding support is kinda possible, but not to the extent of what rv / reforger allows.
modification of source code is not allowed afaik.

[empty nexus]

I didn't see a mention of not being able to ship your game with modified source code in the agreement and on the page that tells you how to do it, but maybe I just missed it

[unborn inlet]

you can add on top of it sure, not change base afaik

[empty nexus]

yeah that's what I can't find in the agreement, they encourage submitting bug fixes as well

[untold sonnet]

When using the mine and adding a BaseSlotComponent is there a way to 1.) make the BaseSlotComponent et. not visible when picked up and 2.) make it keep its collision when placed back down?

[faint berry]

Scary

[short roost]

lord vader has entered reforger

[lofty tulip]

The World Editor is crashing whenever i open the resource browser. instantly crashes, i tried verifying the files through steam and the issue persists. The resource browser 2 however isn't giving me issues.

[gentle jewel]

Are there any admins/GMs on official servers?\

[untold sonnet]

when making melee weapons when i remove the mag it does not let me pick up the weapon is there a way to get rid of the mag?

[jade current]

Any idea why SignalsManagerComponent::FindSignal(), isn't finding my signal since the update?

Actually ive boiled it down to ```c
[RplProp(onRplName: "onRotationUpdated")]
private bool m_bIsRotated = false;

onRotationUpdated not firing.

[royal niche]

UE4 has never been really suitable for large open worlds. PUBG for example launched with many technical woes back in 2016, and even modern AAA+ UE4 games built on the latest versions still all have issues with frame timing and shader compilation stutters.
For example if you imported the world of Arland into UE4, every entity would have its own draw call and you would get like 1 fps. UE4 uses HLOD to mitigate this, but HLOD would not be compatible with destruction, because you would need to rebuild the larger HLOD every time something was destroyed.
Fortnite pushed forward many features in Unreal that now make a game like Reforger more feasible, but these features were added when needed for fortnite not when BI needed them.

[empty nexus]

yea they have a bunch of new tech now, and now with world partition you can go as high as 32 x 32 km (import requirements, on desktop hardware) which is more than enough

[unborn inlet]

that’s UE5 though, which is was anything but stable since very recently

[empty nexus]

yes, that's UE5

not sure if stability is a big factor

[pliant meteor]

Was the Weapon Attachment Radial Menu intentionally disabled on this patch?

[empty nexus]

yes it doesnt work until I make it work

[cosmic mortar]

We miss it, especially with the inspection glitch... anyone else run into that?

[keen path]

Anyone know how to disable the mouse acceleration?

[empty nexus]

fixed it for you

kinda

[cosmic mortar]

https://tenor.com/view/love-heart-gif-26309260

[cosmic mortar]

Hey Fyi not sure if it is my end but select is left stick not right stick on xbox other then that thank you so much love with. especially with that new glitch where you can inspect your weapon sometimes.

[sour willow]

What did they do to mptest in the latest update? The lighting is all kinds of weird now

[royal niche]

Do mines scale? i.e. Will I have problems in my mod if players could deploy from ~2000 to ~10000 mines?

[untold sonnet]

whats the recommended amount of Triangles for a weapon model?

[unborn inlet]

similar to vanilla content

[untold sonnet]

How would i find out the amount on a vanilla gun?

[unborn inlet]

by checking the xob lods in the workbench

[untold sonnet]

Nice, Thanks

[abstract jay]

any arma reforger coders here?

[unborn inlet]

#enfusion_scripting

[digital flicker]

Hey, can we stop putting scopes on the mounted .50's?

[smoky sinew]

I know A3 didn't have any real snow maps apart from one in GM but does Enfusion make it more viable to have snow?

[wise dawn]

How would I make a light entity move with gravity?

I do have rigid body and mesh object components

[wise dawn]

Sorry, still need to get a solution

[smoky sinew]

if you talking about halo you have to make your own asssets, it cant be ripped

[pseudo magnet]

how did you solve it?

[ripe nexus]

anybody knows of a workshop plugin for easier mission making¿?

i would like at least something to make patrols not a pain or defend waypoints

[empty nexus]

is there ever going to be support for having optional dependencies or a way to interact with mods that are not installed? calling functions by name as string, and so on?

[twilit barn]

Can do this with map assets already, but scripting... I wonder if defines can be used like in DayZ?

[blissful heath]

how viable is it to do modding and related practices on a typical laptop? i would like to get into it but i don't have a PC quite yet.

[twilit barn]

search scripts for #define, I see a few being used and many commented out. Set #define at top of a .c file in your mod and then call #ifdef before say a print statement saying TestMod loaded or something

[pallid knot]

You can call functions by name #enfusion_scripting message

[jade current]

Anyone know why my signal wont show in debug? But i can still set it's value and get it and it's working correctly. The signal is for a proc anim. And since the update the animation doesn't work.

[blissful heath]

?

[jade current]

You should read the specs of the game and compare to you laptops specs.

your*

[blissful heath]

aye

[slender jetty]

define typical laptop, i have laptop with i5-1240p + iris iGPU and well, i had to create small test world because everon/arland would crash me (gpu hangs)

[twilit barn]

Yikes, first article I saw says the iris igpu can be playable for games at 900p but you lose mad frames at 1080p. So maybe just drop your resolution down till it works?

[slender jetty]

It was set on everything lowest possible but dont worry, i have very good PC, i use this laptop when i am away from it

[blissful heath]

wow, well i guess i’ll just wait😂

[keen rune]

Sometimes the simplest way to see if something will work is to just try it

[warm mirage]

hey guys to add multiple textures of the same gun (camo black etc) can i somehow do that without needing to add a model for each or do i need to have a model for each prefab to make it diffrent colors ?

[paper sandal]

You can change the material in the meshobject component in the prefab

[warm mirage]

the issue is as soon as i change anything on the mesh objecxt it also changes all myu other prefabs to the same color

fixt it dw 🙂

[tidal umbra]

So if im wanting to create another modded conflict scenario what mods do i need to stray away from since the updates? Are a lot still broken like vehicles and guns or are most of them good to use? sorry im coming off a couple month hiatus from this.

[twilit barn]

Hard to say, prob best to try the ones you want to use before making them dependencies.

[round gorge]

Can someone maybe explain to me in simple terms what the APL-ND license allows?
Example:
I upload a mod, someone uses it as a dependency, modifies, for example, the HUD, and then uses it on a server /+ uploads it to the workshop.
Is that allowed under the APL-ND license?

Thank you ❤️

[remote bronze]

No Derivatives - If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you may not distribute the modified material.
https://www.bohemia.net/community/licenses/arma-public-license-nd

So the answer is NO - they can not publish any customized versions, they need to keep it on their local pc and maybe only show in videos or something. APL-ND makes sense for mods that are total conversions like CUP and say "we do not want anybody to touch our stuff because people come and complain about outdated custom versions we had nothing to do with".

[round gorge]

ok thanks

[keen path]

I couldn't find anything on adding new fonts...
Not possible, right?

[stark acorn]

it should be possible - I think you can import ttf fonts in workbench

[keen path]

Wow cool, it works and there's a font improting tool

[worldly wedge]

Hey Reyhard any links on importing prefabs into the tools? I have a building I’d like to do and not sure where to get started

[stark acorn]

https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Category:Arma_Reforger/Modding/Tutorials/Assets I would start with this and learn first how to use workbench by going through modded weapon tutorial

after that, I guess you could go to Prop Creation tutorial

[worldly wedge]

Thank you!

[opaque wing]

Is it allowed to employ a key or licensing system to prohibit other servers from using my mod?

[hollow rampart]

No

[opaque wing]

so there is no way to do this?

[hollow rampart]

I believe that is the case

You enjoy mods made by others I'm sure. Ain't it right to make yours same?

[opaque wing]

just asked because a lot of people ignore the apl nd

[hollow rampart]

Report such mods and they get removed

[opaque wing]

oh

ok then nvm

is there also a way of reporting 1:1 copied code?

same ofpec tag?

[hollow rampart]

Should be possible through the inworkshop report system

[opaque wing]

ah nice

[opaque wing]

thank you very much and iam sorry for that ⏫

[remote bronze]

Please elaborate why this would not be allowed. Based on what EULA/LICENSE paragraph?

[hollow rampart]

was just my impression. dont have exact paragraphs to back that up

[remote bronze]

Besides the moral standpoint of it being a shitty move, I have never stumbled across any rule that would prohibit a DRM-like restriction on who the mod can use. So if somebody asks if this is allowed or not, please don't put it as a definitive "no" as if you knew this for certain. The rest of the argumentation is of course correct though. DMCA's of license violators are much better and effective than a DRM that can be simply modded out again

[warm mirage]

gotta love the updates that broke eveyrthing a bit ago never noticed the attachment_optic makes it that you can fit others on top.....

[unborn inlet]

which license would you use then?

[remote bronze]

No license, and for AR workshop that asks for one simply text file with all rights reserved 2023 - or actually even the APL-ND works. The workshop EULA + license will allow people to download the mod if they want to - sure - but with an added DRM it won't start, and an edited version to run it without DRM can not be put on the workshop legally. And the drm can be put into clientside code too, so it won't help if you patch it out on the server only download, the client refuses to join any server who is not whitelisted on IP etc. This setup would be working out just fine, its just probably not worth the time 🙂 I have yet to see any mod that is worthy of being DRM protected. Most people who used any of my obfuscation tools used it to "protect" their 99% taw_tonic code with their 1% of edited texts added and suddenly it becomes their ingenious unique life server like nobody else has ever seen 🙂

[unborn inlet]

You can have whatever drm in the mod. You cannot have specific restrictions on a certain license file aimed at specific people or specific groups

[remote bronze]

Of of course you could draft up a legally binding license permitting only the use for certain people, its just difficult to pull it off beause of the conflict with the EULA which you agree to by uploading to the workshop. Not impossible but again impractical.

[silk swan]

For the benefit of the entire User community, You give us an irrevocable permission to use, copy, modify and adapt anything You create using Our game and share with other Users of Our game in multiplayer or as an online download. You also agree that We allow other people to use, copy, modify and adapt Your content under the terms of this license.

If You do not want to accept these rules, do not create and share any content using Our game.
source: https://reforger.armaplatform.com/eula

So technically the EULA forces you to share anything you created for Arma Reforger, and other users must be able to use it. (I don't go into the "copy/modify/adept" discussion here).

[unborn inlet]

Not really, i checked it with a lawyer btw, feel free to do the same

[unborn inlet]

yeah considering the wording of that license, i would consider everything kind of vague

[silk swan]

Although it doesn't say "without limitations" 🤔

[remote bronze]

Yes this is what I am referring to. Over the workshop this applies, and luckily side loading mods is not really a thing anymore. Don't get me wrong, I am all for free mods for all to use without restrictions. But you guys are asking about legal frameworks of when people for what ever reasons have a different opinion on what they want to do with their work.

[silk swan]

Same here, although there are enough reasons why this would be useful to have; eg. a mod/framework which allows you to whitelist/blacklist people (for whatever reason).
It would still require you stay within the Terms/EULA regarding "donations", but when used for community members or prevent known rippers to play your content it should be fine.

[remote bronze]

I don't want to continue it here or else we get bonked for not using #other_ip_topics, but unless I am missing some regulation there is nothing stopping @opaque wing from publishing their mod with a DRM. We explained why its a "bad idea" even if it is allowed, but that is up to them if they want to go for it 🙂

[opaque wing]

xD

[opaque wing]

ok good to know thats its kind of allowed or permitted but iam not going to use it now that i know its possible to let mods removed if they violate the apl nd

[crude wasp]

So as I understand it. There is no way rn to block other people from opening servers that use the Modpack you made? Even though you spend years and allot of money on it and was made for your own server ?

[opaque wing]

Arkensor:
I don't want to continue it here or else we get bonked for not using ⁠other_ip_topics, but unless I am missing some regulation there is nothing stopping @YouAreBamboozled from publishing their mod with a DRM. We explained why its a "bad idea" even if it is allowed, but that is up to them if they want to go for it 🙂

[opaque wing]

.

[remote bronze]

They can't earn any money with it, no donations allowed in AR and even with monetizeation like in A3 only if the mods allow it. And then the can't upload any changes if you use the No Derivatives license. So if your community name is big fat on the loading screens or watermarked Ingame nobody else will use your community specific mod. If you guys want to continue this topic please ping me in #other_ip_topics and I will gladly answe more questions

[crude wasp]

Question Regarding all of this am I allowed to post in Enf_showcase if the mod is gonna be Private like I described in #other_ip_topics or is that place only for mods that are on the Workshop rn or have to be open to everyone ?

[silk swan]

Well, as far as I understand it, it's to show off anything made for/with Enfusion, even when private or never gonna be released.

[pallid knot]

no donations allowed in AR
Donations are allowed. Monetization is not

[keen path]

Does that mean all monetization, such as priuotiy slots, paid memebership only servers?

[silk swan]

https://www.bohemia.net/monetization is a good place to start, however keep in mind this ONLY applies to Arma 3 and DayZ. Any other game (by BI) does not allow any form of monetization (aka ask money to get something in return related to Arma or BI product).

So until BI comes with an approval system for Reforger monetization it's safe to say that it's not allowed, in any way.

Donations however, aka get money but give nothing in return other than gratitude, is and will always be allowed.

[unborn inlet]

yes. monetization is not allowed for servers either

[silk swan]

You could just get a dedicated server (probably same price as a "special" game server), and run more than just Reforger on it. For example your community website, custom Discord bots, Teamspeak, etc.

Eg. we have a dedicated server which runs 2x Arma 3, 3x headless client and Arma Reforger (for testing purposes), for probably the same price as 2 game servers (and still have overhead). And that's for roughly 140 (active) members.

[twilit barn]

that would grind my gears! 80+ on multiple servers and nobody wants to donate to keep the servers alive? ☠️ RIP!

WOW I didnt realize reforger had that large a playerbase now! I guess it's growing from ~200 on the weekends. We've come a long way! game is dead my butt!!! XD

[unborn inlet]

monetized servers are cancer

[unborn inlet]

the idea is ok, the implementation is bs. And if you think hosting a game server is expensive, might wanna see the modding expenses.
Also Dayz monetization is even worse than a3, where more often then not people are cutting corners and using mods without prior approval because money

[digital sluice]

Purchasing models, time commitment, commissioning those to make said mods

[twilit barn]

commissioning those to make said models (fixed!)

time is the biggest cost imho

hourly minimum wage around here would get you around $24K for that! XD

[digital sluice]

I’ve put close to 70 hours into RF Workbench just this past week (probably closer to 40 of actively modding). That 40hrs is a whole week of pay at an hourly job!

Time is the biggest cost, can never get enough of it

[warm mirage]

is there issues atm with textures not uploading ?

[empty nexus]

even on ryzen 7700, and will be the case until the server learns how to use more than 2 cores

[smoky sinew]

how do you set enfusion with modded items, such as the chernarous map?

[keen rune]

Is it possible to override a gamemode in a subscene of a world?

[empty nexus]

not really, outside of overriding the gamemode prefab

[unborn inlet]

purchasing models is something new. real modders make their own :)). it’s software license, build servers for infrastructure etc /end sarcasm - see if you can read it now zelik...

[crude wasp]

What does someone purchasing a model not make them a Modder.... it may not make them a 3D Artist but not everyone is able to make models themselves or does not have the capacity to make the amount of models wanted for a specific mod.

[stark acorn]

making script or tweaking prefabs is also a modding, so you can be modder without 3d skills

[empty nexus]

yes, but not a real modder apparently

[unborn inlet]

i am kidding, relax, sarcasm doesn’t translate over discord, there has been a discussion about it not long ago. But purchasing models is indeed new overall in the arma community, they used to be random free models from sketchup and / or ripped

[keen path]

For me, it's the opposite.

[empty nexus]

donations for servers not allowed?

ah monetization, as in getting something out of the donation

you know, outside of the server being up?

[keen path]

I watched the super bunny hop video on skyrim paid mods.
More on the monetization like skins, yeah
Dayz servers apparently do spawn points for donations and crazy stuff D:

[empty nexus]

pay2win

need to make lootboxes mod

[keen path]

The only negative is premium only servers, which I would love to be allowed.
Like fr example CSGO servers which cost $15 a month
Faceit and ESEA. I've heard from some people that it's the best way to play CSGO

[royal niche]

Nothing wrong with monetization if done fairly and professionally. However on servers in other games, it is usually done as unfairly and unprofessionally as possible. e.g. in GMod/Minecraft for every server doing things right there are 100 servers selling acesss to parts of the base game or mods made by others whilst adding little to no unique value themselves.

[royal niche]

Can see the upsides of monetization of mods done right. e.g. the UH-60 I'm working has taken 100s of hours work and 1k+ USD spent on models, sound recordings etc. I can only justify that because I will sell it in another game and profit from it. Most people don't have that privelidge for a free mod.

[unborn inlet]

Monetization of servers, for both A3 and especially DayZ is completely broken

[royal niche]

I don't actually play those games, so it could worse than Gmod/minecraft for all I know

[unborn inlet]

For models and the like, if you work on a free mod, you won’t get the time invested or money spent back even it you sell some of these

And that is fine…but you can’t have it both ways

[royal niche]

It's what everyone wants though; high quality assets for free 🤣

[unborn inlet]

The average joe has no idea how much time and effort goes into it…and it is fine as long as you don’t do it for the joes

[smoky sinew]

@odd mortar

[steady river]

The game seriously needs to restrict Xbox partys while in a server. Would also help with keeping casual console players from being interested.

[limpid cloak]

why?

[twilit barn]

yeah whats an xbox party, and can we have pc parties? ...wait this is not modding... 🤦‍♂️

[warm mirage]

where can i just change the shot sound of a gun without changing the whole sound setup of a prefab

i want to add a custom sound to it

[stark acorn]

You can try overriding wav files - which ones you will find in acp file. It is not worth it and it's better to replace acp file

[warm mirage]

where in the acp file can i find the wavs?

[stark acorn]

https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Arma_Reforger:Weapon_Modding#Audio_Editor_Basics

[warm mirage]

@stark acorn you got an idea why it still plays the sound of the gun even after deleting all the body files and adding 1 wav in it of my own sound

[stark acorn]

are you sure it is body sound? As I mentioned, gunshot consist of multiple layers. In any case, this discussion belongs to #enfusion_audio

[warm mirage]

i got it dw 🙂

[odd mortar]

This too

[smoky sinew]

can someone test a helmet i made for arma reforger i have shit pc and cant run the world loader properly

[twilit barn]

how does one limit the various modes of ADS? I want to disable ironsight view when a scope is attached.

[empty nexus]

in the sights component there is a checkbox to have it be ignored when an optic is attached

[twilit barn]

Thanks! "Sights Switch Skip" is the name 🙂 Now do you know how to restrict RIS attachments that are too large for the rail they are on? I have it set to RISOptics1913short but your long optics (4.5 X 14) still can be attached.

[empty nexus]

That's probably my fault so don't worry about it

[smoky sinew]

no, no one has. you might be able to fake it by placing a transparent plane Infront of the optic

I dont think you can do it until BI add such capability which they have said they are working on it, but It might not come out for this game

[keen path]

10:07:54.172 SCRIPT    (F): YOU ARE NOT AUTHORIZED TO CREATE A SERVER WITH THIS MOD
10:07:54.172 SCRIPT    (F): YOU ARE NOT AUTHORIZED TO CREATE A SERVER WITH THIS MOD
10:07:54.172 SCRIPT    (F): YOU ARE NOT AUTHORIZED TO CREATE A SERVER WITH THIS MOD
10:07:54.172 SCRIPT    (F): YOU ARE NOT AUTHORIZED TO CREATE A SERVER WITH THIS MOD
10:07:54.172 SCRIPT    (F): YOU ARE NOT AUTHORIZED TO CREATE A SERVER WITH THIS MOD
10:07:54.172 SCRIPT    (F): YOU ARE NOT AUTHORIZED TO CREATE A SERVER WITH THIS MOD
...

It begins

[pallid knot]

I wonder if you can open the mod, find the code that triggers that. And just add whatever makes it think you're legit
Maybe it just checks if a specific file exists or SMTH?

[keen path]

Well, I don't know if there are competence or quality control rules for the workshop?
Because this mod crashes the game

Which can be considered malicious.

[pallid knot]

It is yes

A mod was doing that in the past and was taken down because it was malicious

Report it on the workshop please

[keen path]

Perhaps instead of putting in a script that crashes the game and spams in the console.log
Just staing that one does not wish to share it in the description may be enough 😄

Oh cool, there's an entire report system.
And it like puts it in a new category as well, cool.

[empty nexus]

interesting, gimme

[smoky sinew]

so im guessing this is a life mod?

[crude wasp]

well the thing is you cant really and people will not care. Life communitys this is one of the only ways to keep other people from starting servers with all of their work.

[stark acorn]

i could be also dayz mod - I see some claims already that zombie mod #1 is using stolen scripts from #2 etc

[crude wasp]

I think the above refers to the script that "Team Elan" uses to keep other server owners to use their Mod in any other server than their own.

I think it makes the whole experience unplayable if you use their mod on an server that is not verified by them.

[stark acorn]

might be, what I wanted to say that this thing is not exclusive to life communities

[crude wasp]

ahhh ok then it was me being smoothbrain lul

[empty nexus]

you could say, such is life

[remote bronze]

i think you might want to be specific about what community you talk about, there are multiple life projects. You probably mean team elan, they at least did this at launch

[crude wasp]

team elan I was wrong iam sorry Arkensor didnt mean to insult your project.

but yeah just to make sure so doing what Team Elan did with using scripts to not allow other people to open servers with your mod is not allowed or is it allowed ?

[remote bronze]

I would want to discuss this topic yes, but it might be actually something more of #enfusion_workshop - not sure - mods will let us know 🙂 BI has every right to make a policy that guarantees all mods uploaded to it to be allowed to be used by anyone, and maybe explicitly mention any kind of DRM as in violation of this. However I am not entirely sure if and how this is currently established in writing or if this handling of "we don't want it" is something the workshop admins decide on their current mood. I can see arguments be made for not allowing any kind of DRM, but then again I think if people truly think their content is so special they need to protect it with a DRM then let them be. Nobody is forced to use their mod. If the devs don't want mods to shut down the game they should maybe not offer a script api for that. But it serves a purpose - so I doubt one would want to remove it. And as such they should not complain if a mod uses that functionality to shut down the game. There is no malice in that. Especially as it appears it only tries to prevent a server instance from being created, so its not like it hard crashes the game if you only have the mod loaded. I would only ban people who put file IO code into their mod to wipe the entire profile folder as "punishment" for triggering the DRM mechanism. Even though that does not do any "harm" it sure could be annoying if the user looses some scripted data other mods put there. But just a shut down is fine imo.

I advocate for FOSS where ever I can and all my work will always be accessible to others, but I can not blame people who think differently and want to "protect their work from being used to make other servers more successful"

[crude wasp]

I totally agree with you here but will not further discuss this here to not piss anyone off :)

[pallid knot]

Back when we had that reported mod i mention above.
We were saying blocking who can use the mod is fine, but if you crash/kill the game and create a bad experience for the user, then its malicious and is not fine.

You can turn off features of your mod, such that you just cannot use the feature. But then the game should just behave as if your mod isn't loaded, it shouldn't kill it or cause harm (constant log spam is also harm).

[crude wasp]

ok that makes sense and good news thanks for clearing that up :)

[mossy basalt]

I would only ban people who put file IO code into their mod
Then how do modders will be able to serialize/deserialize data to the disk?

[remote bronze]

Hhahah no no, the sentence has to be read with full context / until it ends. Ban if they do something bad with file io - not just for using it. Then I would ask myself to be banned already hahah

[pallid knot]

!burgerpan @remote bronze User requested ban "ask myself to be banned"

[empty nexus]

if I didn't get banned for sending 7 billion RPCs per second you're good

[merry fog]

Long or short scale? 😅

[twilit barn]

I think I came close! Mario tagged me and told me not to abuse rpcs 😬

[empty nexus]

the guys never actually told me how to find out if what I'm doing has any impact on anything

[twilit barn]

I know I improved my code drastically, went from over 16 array rpcs to a single one that contains only the elements needed. I have a json with 32 loadout slots configurable for whitelisting and number limits, but if youre only whitelisting/limiting one slot, it only sends the info for that one instead of all 32. I also managed to minimize the number of times RPCs were called. Thats about all I could think of to help optimize them 🤷‍♂️ I know a couple milsims are using it for their events and so far Ive had no reports of bad performance!

Id be very interested to see if it still performs well on a 128 player server

[remote bronze]

When you see your vehicles enter "DayZ space program mode" or teleport through 5 bunker walls while you are fetching some info in your badmin-tools then you know you overdid it. BI devs spending weeks to squeeze out every little byte from replication only for some breakfast side dish to come around to blast the replication system with a gazillion requests

[warm mirage]

i mean if you upload a mod under the lisence of people not beeing able to just use it and modify a small thing and calling it your own , i would think its fair to have a counter agaisnt the peopel that just dont give a f

or do i see that wrong ?

lets say you spend 100s ofd hours making your server a 1 of a kind , then 1 day later someone else has the exact same server setup and he never even did a single thing and just changed the name and runs it as his own

[jade current]

What causes factions to not be shown in the SCR_AutomaticRespawnHandlerComponent?

[twilit barn]

I just use the faction index, but you have to know what they are... I feel like it should show you the factions in the drop down to make that easier for sure!

[jade current]

I guess im losing my mind, i thought it used to show "Disabled" and then the factions that exist in the manager

[ornate lake]

Any modders in here?

[worthy scroll]

I imagine there are or will be at some point today

[empty nexus]

I'll keep an eye out but so far no issues, I think y'all might be underestimating the engine

[ornate lake]

Just making sure this is the right place to ask

[worthy scroll]

Well it might be the right place but it depends on what your question is

[ornate lake]

Looking for custom/compensation, i didn’t see any rules about asking

[worthy scroll]

As in you want someone to make a mod for you for money?

[ornate lake]

Not so much as selling a mod, but being compensated for their time and effort, the mod would be open to everyone?

Or is that not okay?

[worthy scroll]

Generally speaking you can't pay people to make mods for you because it's a violation of the terms and conditions of the tools.

[ornate lake]

Ah, I see. Disregard then

[twilit barn]

i feel like sometimes it does show "disabled" but other times (mostly) it just shows -1

[crude wasp]

a License will not keep anyone from stealing

[warm mirage]

thats what i mean

[crude wasp]

the thing is there is no license for that so I thought you were refering to a new License to be made

[nova delta]

We dont know the engine?

Jokes aside, no matter how you try to dress it, doing what you are doing is just bad and you shpuld take advice from the devs of the game

And as a modder you sadly do not have the tools to measure this

That is why we never gave you any

[smoky sinew]

gib tools?

[nova delta]

Testing it just in game like how you do is too oportunistic and not a nice test environment

You will just not get proper tests that way

[merry fog]

I trust your judgement, but I haven't figured out yet how to best replace all my game mode components 😅

[nova delta]

I told you i will check it, wait a bit. I had other things planned for the week

[merry fog]

No worries, I appreciate the help

[merry fog]

Doesn't APL-ND cover that?

[crude wasp]

no Derivatives does not stop anyone just using your mod from the workshop on your server

[merry fog]

True that, my bad

[elfin yoke]

Do you think they will add an inventory slot for gloves like in DayZ? I would definitely be keen to work on some gloves to add. Just think atm they would need to be apart of the torso.

[twilit barn]

theres a mod for that

[elfin yoke]

Thanks

[twilit barn]

zeliks characters or something like that

[jade current]

Yes

[elfin yoke]

Nice just found it

[empty nexus]

I'm not going to spend time fixing something that isn't showing any signs of it being a problem. It doesn't mean I disagree with the advice.

[next ridge]

Our mod is free accesable via workshop under APL-ND license.
But without the web api and the sql structure behind its not possible to host the mod anyway.
We spent for sure over 5000+ hours and a lot of money to create and host our mod...

Sometimes I have the feeling that many people are hoping for a Tonic Arma 3 Life version ported to Reforger.
I personally dont like that, because it leads to all these clone servers where nothing is unique and created with passion.
So why not building your own mod? The Enfusion Engine brings so much potential, opportunity and its pretty fun working with it.
In addition to that the BI Devs needs feedback and reports to make the game even better or fix bugs, what is not possible if nobody is working deeply with Enfusion and just copying others work.

[round gorge]

You can open the mod. You can just not "play" the world. Is that forbidden / against TOS?

[royal niche]

f you scroll up, it has been said that doesn't make the log spam OK. i.e. the log spam is considered harmful, and your mod will be removed from workshop if you don't get rid of the log spam.

My apologies, I thought the above post was about your mod.

[round gorge]

it doesnt spam

the above is about my mod, it prints it like 10-20 times not spamming it all the time

Ill remove anyway until this is resolved, just to make sure its not against any regulations

[crude wasp]

you guys are using a Drm right. lets hope they let you keep that. that would mean we could do the same xD

[next ridge]

There is no real drm. Like dedmen said you always can turn off scripts, search for the trigger and skip it.

[pallid knot]

A mod not working, is not against TOS
If all your init functions just do if (notAllowed) return; at the top, thats fine

You can choose who can run your mod, if you wish.. It only becomes a problem when you do harm to the user running the mod.

[keen rune]

The most effective way would probably be to use the rest api (no updates required to modify your list) to have your acceptable servers defined, if server doesn’t match then set it up so none of your functions behave properly. Slap a no derivative license on and if anyone overrides it to remove the protections you just request their mod be removed for violating your no derivative license. Then nothing malicious is going on and you are within your rights because of the license. And if someone wants to override their hosts file to bypass the list theyd have to have every single user do it, which is probably not effective. (Or just manually define list and update mod for server list updates)

[round gorge]

Its just not letting you play the world, if you wanna play it it requests to close the game and closes it with the YOU ARE NOT AUTHORIZED TO CREATE A SERVER WITH THIS MOD print.

If this is considered "malicious" ill definitly change it asap.

[pallid knot]

Killing game is... eh

Not sure what would be a better solution though

[round gorge]

thats true, but its "only" killing it if you wanna play it. You can open it and look into the files as you want

I dont know tbh if this is considered anything or not. Theres no like "wiki" for that to look up the definitions or smth similiar.
If someone who knows, tells me to change it, I would

[pallid knot]

Ending the mission would be ok, killing the game I'm not sure.
But I think on a server, you cannot end a mission without also killing the server

[round gorge]

Btw messaged the guy who started this convo to help him out. Maybe at least his problems will be resolved.

If someone got a definite yes or no if this kind of thing is allowed pls let me know.
In the end its my responsibility to keep track but I might miss it.

❤️

[opaque wing]

what if instead of closing the game or stopping the mission it just shows a big overlay in the middle of the screen with some message? would that be ok?

would be the least destructive i guess

[twilit barn]

hah like a faction select screen with no option to select any faction?

[opaque wing]

idk i thought of an hud that has a big text in the middle of the screen

[twilit barn]

yeah ideally

[opaque wing]

i could change the code to do that but i didnt thought "killing" the game instance closes the game. i thought it just kicks you back into the main screen. in hindsight this was obvious xD

also didnt knew it maybe tos because it is a callable function

[twilit barn]

maybe the loadout screen, like how they grey out the saved loadout if not available, maybe you can make a custom message there with a loadout that only shows under certain conditions, removing all playable loadouts.

[opaque wing]

thats not hard to do

[twilit barn]

wouldnt look bad either

[opaque wing]

just a custom layout. exactly

btw would be a custom license enough to stop someone hosting a server with. because i saw you could choose APL-SA, APL, APL-ND and Custom license. what are the restrictions for the custom license?

[twilit barn]

good question, another question i had about licenses. Are us modders supposed to be uploading a copy of whatever license we choose in the drop down? Cause Im not seeing any way to find out what license a mod uses otherwise. I know RHS has it on their website and in pins on the discord, but if you just have the mod, how would you know to look for a license? Isn't the non-existence of a license in the mod considered as having the most restrictive license? 🤷‍♂️

[opaque wing]

same question here. i mean its getting uploaded to the workshop ( which license you chose in the dropdown ). but it doesnt seem to appear anywhere

[royal niche]

put license.txt file in root folder of your mod.

[twilit barn]

I figured that would be the way to go, but I have not seen one mod that does that yet

[silk swan]

technically; no license is most restrictive possible (aka nothing allowed except for using the mod in Reforger based on EULA and Workshop Terms)

You could put the specific license (like APL-ND) in the description, or put a text file with the mod.

[smoky sinew]

{ for (int i = 0; i <= 1000; i++) Print("YOU ARE NOT AUTHORIZED TO CREATE A SERVER WITH THIS MOD", LogLevel.FATAL); GetGame().RequestClose(); }

you forgot to mention a couple of hundred times

[round gorge]

actually 1000 but the game quits before

did change it tho, just not updated yet ^^

[round gorge]

It wouldnt quite fall under the category of spamming (imo) since its not a continuous stream of messages. The printing action is finished in a few milliseconds. So, its not quite the same as the typical concept of spamming where messages are sent repetitively over an extended period. Its not really disruptive.

As I mentioned, will be changed. Wont change anything for the not usability of the mod for a server.

[jade current]

id say printing anything more than once would be considered spam. I mean, no need to remind them of what they just read 999 more times.

[round gorge]

if this is printed once in the console you can easily miss it. This way you dont

no need to argue about it tho, already changed as I mentioned like 3x times now

[jade current]

You also said it only prints 10-20 times, glad you changed it though.

[pallid knot]

Displaying licenses on workshop will be done some time

[pallid knot]

If the game exits anyway, and this will be the last line in the log. Then just one print would be enough, 10 very clearly enough, a thousand is clearly spam

[round gorge]

            for (int i = 0; i <= 1; i++)
                Print("YOU ARE NOT AUTHORIZED TO CREATE A SERVER WITH THIS MOD", LogLevel.FATAL);
            GetGame().RequestClose();

[pallid knot]

for loop for one iteration?
One thing you could also think about, don't know if you or someone else. Said that the mod doesn't work without SQL server and stuff.

Instead of making people unhappy by saying "not authorized", how about you say "no SQL server found, cannot start up, exiting..."

Telling people "you can't use this because I don't want you to" usually makes people angry. But if you change the narrative to "you can't use this because you didn't set it up right" is easier

[round gorge]

which is straight up lying to the user, its not even searching for a sql server

[pallid knot]

But without the web api and the sql structure behind its not possible to host the mod anyway.
Ah I thought he was talking about same project

[round gorge]

its elan hes talking about I think ^^

a life server, totally not connected to my mod

[pallid knot]

Well if there is no technical reason, besides "I just don't wanna" then you gotta live with unhappy/angry people I guess

good luck with that

[round gorge]

thank you

[smoky sinew]

can someone make a tutorial on how to mod or create a weapon for arma reforger

[stark acorn]

https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Arma_Reforger:Weapon_Modding take a look here

[harsh raven]

I made my custom faction via modify sample factions mod
How I remove REDFOR,GREENFOR from editor
And change BLUFOR to my custom name?

[fervent flax]

hey, trying to export paths as svg using export geographic but im getting this error:

SCRIPT (E): Unable to open file for writting $profile:export.svg
SCRIPT (E): Unable to initialize the exporter.

anyone know how to fix this? i have tried changing the export location but i get the same error

[twilit barn]

So it turns out the license.txt gets packed and Im not seeing a way to exclude .txt files. But at least it will be there as soon as someone loads it up in workbench and clicks on the root folder! 🙂

[sharp heart]

i need help opening a map downloaded from the worshop in the reforger tools i go to my games/ armareforger/ addones and nothing shows

[pallid wigeon]

Im assuming everything in the editor is read only because they dont want us to touch it

Just want to experiment with retexturing camo on clothing and vehicles

Anybody know if I am able to unlock the stuff in the editor or do they want us to do everything from scratch

[unborn inlet]

you can’t for a good reason

[twilit barn]

they want us to inherit stuff (or override)

[unborn inlet]

you can do that without having access to all the files

[pallid wigeon]

Im used to arma 3 to have to dissect everything down to the mod file

[unborn inlet]

you can preview everything in the workbench

[pallid wigeon]

how does bohemia feel about stuff like D3S Cars?

It was one of the best addons for arma 3, would love to see more IRL Objects in the Reforger Workshop, I'm not sure what the rules are on branding.

[twilit barn]

Nitsubishi, Nercades, DMW, Missan, etc XD

[unborn inlet]

d3s are all ripped afaik, you won’t see these about

[pallid wigeon]

lol

[unborn inlet]

you can brand things as you want (or not) but the content needs to be owned/original

[pallid wigeon]

Ahh so the real issue is it would stealing from another game company. Makes sense

[unborn inlet]

@pallid wigeon you can do them yourself..people who tried to use forza ripped meshes are all perma banned

[pallid wigeon]

If I remember this issue happened on arma 3 too and resulted in the weirdest chokehold on game servers ive ever seen cough doug jumper

If you ripped somethingout of every AAA game and put it into a roleplay server you have anzus

Man has GTA V Cars, Forza Cars, Tarkov Buildings guns and clothes and still takes donations under the table, big time for unbans too even to this day, im surprised its been allowed to stick around for so long.

[undone spruce]

On the Enfusion world editor can anyone tell me how to make a mission I designed Cross Platform

[jade current]

I'm pretty sure nothing special has to be done. As the mods you're making work on both platforms.

[undone spruce]

Thanks. I just wanted to make sure I had everything correct. Yall are a great community.

[empty nexus]

are bullet spread calculations performed in a way that they differ on client and server?

ie. when I fire my gun over a long distance, land my shot on my screen but the target doesn't take damage, did the bullet land somewhere else on the server? (assuming all conditions like sway, position of shooter are perfect)

[worldly wedge]

Pretty sure I can edit the world in the base map like delete things on the base maps and what not etc

[empty nexus]

I mean it doesn't mean you should

[pallid wigeon]

thats exactly what it means

[quaint jay]

why have the showcase channels been so quiet recently ? 🥲

[earnest sundial]

You're welcome to create something to add to the discourse

[gloomy vapor]

During summer time it's kinda normal ppl don't spend all day long sitting at their PC which spits out an additional 70-80°C. 😜

[proud sundial]

Hi, I did a mistake and removed Atmosphere.emat in my 90+ hr project and now it keeps crashing instantly when I try to open it. Any idea how I can fix this? Ways of going back before I removed Atmosphere.emat or any other workarounds?

[twilit barn]

delete your resourceDatabase.rdb and restart workbench

(not liable for anything that goes worng)

[proud sundial]

Nvm, I found a workaround. Found Atmosphere.emat in a different project. Copy pasted it into main project registry on notepad.
@twilit barn Thank you for the suggestion, I'll try that if something similar happens. 🙂

[bright sable]

Is it possible to inherit from a prefab but change the class?
Like to keep all the components and other things, but have the class be e. g, a child of what it originally was?

[jade current]

@bright sable yes but only with external text editor

If you can do it from workbench I haven't found it

[bright sable]

Did you test it, does everything work as expected?

[jade current]

I've done it a million times

It works exactly the same as any other prefab

[bright sable]

Nice to know, thanks

I was trying this an hour ago, but thanks to how the Workbench works, it was still loading from memory instead of disk, which got me very confused.

[jade current]

Oh yeah you gotta close workbench then reopen

[urban iris]

@uncut badger I see you are working on a t90, I wish you the best of luck the turret model looks great but I’m not going to lie you got my hopes up.

[uncut badger]

Thank you. I’m trying to teach myself the tools so I’m just working on swapping out models right now and seeing what works and doesn’t work.

[nova delta]

Start using Git, SVN or anything else for these cases and other things 🙂

[proud sundial]

Thank you! I'll look into it 🙂

[timber laurel]

This is the only place I can upload photos so I’m doing it here but how do I fix this

[jade current]

Redownload the mod

[timber laurel]

Ok

[jade current]

That texture is used when there's a bad path, which is more than likely from a corrupt file

[twilit barn]

How would I go about managing AttachmentSlotComponents? I want to disable one if another is being used. Is that going to require scripting or am I missing something somewhere?

[sharp heart]

does anyone know how i can use assest from the workshop on the reforger tools app? for example bulding assest downloaded from workshop and insert them into a custom map

[twilit barn]

in workbench goto options and add a dependency for the mod with the buildings (you need the number code) and restart workbench (make sure you have that mod in your workbench mods folder)

[sharp heart]

thank you boss

[remote bronze]

And when you have the mod loaded then you can find its prefabs in the Prefabs folder of the mod and drag and drop them into your world

[spark vault]

is it possible to disable SCR_WeaponRackSlotEntity?

[remote bronze]

What do you mean with "disable" an entity? In what context?

[spark vault]

i want to use the E_AmmoStorage_S_US_01.et but there is the WeaponRack that always spawns weapons and i want to disable it. when i override the WeponRack base and disable all SCR_WeaponRackSlotEntity it still spawns weapons and after reloading the map my workbench crashes and cant load back in the world

[remote bronze]

I am unsure if we are able to remove objects from loosely grouped prefab hierarchies. Unless its spawned via slotmanager etc i think the syntax of the prefab override has no way to deleting something only add or replace. You might need to make a prefab without that on your own. Not sure. I at least know of no way to do this. Would be cool if it was possible

[spark vault]

:c

[cerulean walrus]

looking to make some custom patches for a unit i’m in was wondering what the best way to go about it is i do have access to maya but wondering whether just importing a cube into the engine and add the patch as a texture is better

[untold sonnet]

This is the skeleton i got to work with. If i had clothing that was in a T pose how could i move the skeleton to fit the bit of clothing so i can weight paint??? or how would be the best way to get bits of clothing to line up correctly with the skeleton?

[earnest sundial]

rig it to a basic skeleton of its own and move that to the right pose or just use proportional editing to move the vertices

[untold sonnet]

Thank you

[twilit barn]

not sure which channel to ask in, what might cause the weapon here to be held like this? (Its a modded M16A1 from wolf weapon pack) When you ADS its slightly twisted to the right as well

[empty nexus]

what does this mean?

18:29:33.670 UpdateEntities
18:29:33.670  WORLD        : Frame
18:29:33.670   NETWORK      : PerformActions
18:29:33.670    DEFAULT   (E): InputActionManager @"ENTITY:4611686018427388010" ('SCR_ChimeraCharacter') at <127.134003 1.020000 128.500000> @"{976AC400219898FA}Prefabs/Characters/Factions/OPFOR/USSR_Army/Character_USSR_Sharpshooter.et" CharacterControllerComponent: Action: Trying to perform action CharacterAction_UpdateFlags(WR,) which wasn't queued

[earnest sundial]

Animation config - there's a set of player and weapon animations that all need to be set up in the right orientation that can lead to this if they're not all there

[twilit barn]

thanks! I will start comparing a vanilla m16 with this one, figure this out! 🙂

[twilit barn]

yup! turned out to be an easy fix! They had it set to the ak74 ik, I switched to m16 and everythings fine! 🙂 Thanks again!

[tepid leaf]

Hello, I was wondering how you add props to vehicles?

[unborn inlet]

propellers? to what vehicles/

[tepid leaf]

Im trying to add props to the humvee

And by props I meant like the containers, ammo cans, and such

[empty nexus]

you can create your own prefab by inheriting the existing one, then add child prefabs under it

[remote bronze]

For vehicles etc please don't loosely add child prefabs to the hierarchy, use the slotmanager as the existing vehicles do.

[molten granite]

Yeah SlotManager is the way to go

[tepid leaf]

Ok, thank you all for your help

[empty nexus]

is the slot manager generally better for this in all places? referring to this bug #enfusion_configuration message

[keen rune]

whats the advantage?

[cinder dust]

Hello everyone, I'm quite new to all this and would like to get started with some basic addon modifications. I would like to alter the spawn rate of an existing mod, so what would be the required steps to get started? I already created a new Workbench project with the addon I want to modify added as dependency. So far so good I can see the world file etc. but when I save, close and re-open the project nearly all objects are gone from the Hierarchy view of World Editor, even without any modifactions from my side. Am I doing something wrong?

[nova delta]

Can you share the setup?

[empty nexus]

parent: gameentity
child: lightentity

[nova delta]

I meant, code, prefabs, etc

[empty nexus]

I "fixed" this by adding a pointinfo attribute and using set local transform on the child entity because I got impatient

it was fine on server but on clients the child entity was in a way off place

[untold sonnet]

This is my first shirt that i have imported as a test and managed to get working, but im noticing that there is a belt that is present on it? is there a way to get rid of it? or am i going to be forced to sculpt over it?

[stark acorn]

It is an attachment in your prefab

Check base load out component

[untold sonnet]

Thanks, that worked.

[spark vault]

Is there an easy way to edit the Field Manual?

[jade current]

Field Manual only gets loaded at the main menu, correct?

If so then you're out of luck, afaik mods aren't actually loaded in the main menu

[maiden parcel]

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

[smoky sinew]

no the fieldmanual works while in game, you just press escapi and its there

which is actually really cool that you can mod that in as well

[spark vault]

Thank you

[alpine sage]

Searched and didnt see anything but just in case I missed it, does anyone know of any projects working on overhauling/reworking the inventory system?

Something to move from the bucket inventories and more to something similar to dayz/tarkov

[digital sluice]

Haven't seen talk of anything going that in-depth to changing the inventory, no. Would definitely be lots of work

[sterile shoal]

inventory inspect function in vanilla will probably do this in long term, already works with weapons afaik

[sour anvil]

so I understand that you cannot charge money for mods, and completely agree with that, but what would the legalities be around charging money for an external mod-related service.

for example: an app/website that connects to a reforger scenario and allows you to manage some aspects of it remotely as well as check on the status of the scenario with a map and the like

there would be a free tier, just some advanced aspects might be paid in order to support the development.

in my opinion this would be similar to charging money as a hosting service (nitrado etc) so would hope that this would be ok under the TOS, but would like to get an official position before any efforts are undertaken

[pallid knot]

As long as people can use the mod just fine, without using/paying for that external service.
That's fine I would say

[sour anvil]

great, thanks ded

and yes it would be completely optional and external

[pallid knot]

I have seen similar done in A3.

The thing that forbids commercial use, is the EULA of the game and tools.
Anything you create using workbench you cannot monetize.
But you are not creating your website in workbench

[sour anvil]

right, and I wont use any reforger assets ofc

[pallid knot]

I personally would even consider a mod (that is free to download for everyone) which only works (does nothing otherwise, does NOT break the game when it doesn't work) when you pay for a external service, to be fine.

For example a AAR system that records gameplay and then stores it on a website/cloud service where you cna replay it, or where you can watch a live map view of what is going on ingame.
If you don't pay for the cloud service, the mod just does nothing. But the mod itself is still free, it just does nothing.
Preferably with the ability to host your own cloud service

And creating mods that do nothing/are useless, is not violating any rules.
But that is personal opinion, maybe legal has a different view on that

[sour anvil]

ok good to know

[silk swan]

It's still a bit of a grey area if I would create a mod which becomes useless when it can't validate against an API (paid)...

[sour anvil]

well im not personally planning that anyway, but good to mention for others

it would simply be an optional service that server owners can provide for their players if they opt in, with the majority of features being free anyway, but some advanced ones on a subscription basis

[silk swan]

I already have something similar for A3, which is a mod for our community which only works when connected to our database (which only allows access from localhost).

However the is free, even open source, and doesn't break anything when running it elsewhere

[empty nexus]

you sure? if the mod does nothing, meaning it doesnt work, then it works after you throw money at the creator, sounds like monetization

effectively need to pay for the "product" to work

[silk swan]

It would be a (very) grey area if you ask me...

It's like downloading a free app for a paid service...

[pallid knot]

Read

But that is personal opinion, maybe legal has a different view on that

Yes I am sure that what I wrote while saying its my personal opinion, is indeed my personal opinion

[empty nexus]

yes I was asking if you are sure it's your personal opinion, thank you for clarifying

[sour anvil]

I agree that particular situation would be unethical at best and probably should be against TOS

[silk swan]

I believe the "rules" are that you're not allowed to limit functionality for users when not paying.
So if you allow those features when people build/run their own database/application/infrastructure and still works with the mod, it should be fine 😉🫣

[pallid knot]

Probably having option to configure the API URL used would be enough.
Cannot be forced to also provide documentation on how to set up the server 🤔

[remote bronze]

In this situation your mod contains the logic to collect data and interact with the api. but if it fails to connect on game mode init etc it just does nothing, problem solved.
If somebody implements their own thrid party compatible web api they host they could use the code but that is a rather unlikely scenario

[sour anvil]

im happy to open source the free aspects of it and let people run their own copy of it if they so choose

with configurable api endpoint in the mod

[twilit barn]

is RHS the only mod with actual rail mount prefabs?

[torn python]

Is there any way to enable supplies and building on game master game modes?

[lean jacinth]

Hello everyone just joined this discord. I am looking towards a resource with importing existing modded maps into a new reforger workbench so it can be published later on.

[unborn inlet]

#enfusion_terrain

[lean jacinth]

Thanks

[floral brook]

im not sure where to ask this but i keep this error ANIMATION : IAnimSetInstance load @"{79BD98038DD60F88}Assets/Items/Medicine/Workspaces/Gauze_01_player.asi"
RESOURCES : GetResourceObject @"{3542F6F273E03D6B}anims/anm/player/vehicles/Ambulances/anm/p_ambulance_doctor_revive_bandage_L_in.anm"
RESOURCES (E): Failed to open
ANIMATION (E): Cannot load animation anims/anm/player/vehicles/Ambulances/anm/p_ambulance_doctor_revive_bandage_L_in.anm for source VehicleHealingOthers.LeftPatient.In, skipping...
can anyone help

i get it once i try to test a world im making and play it

[red swan]

I have a question relating to adding/ enabling the hunger and thirst components into my arma reforger custom server. which section would be most appropriate?

[covert hare]

I just love how straight-forward it is to port assets from older installments (with use of software like ShaderMap 4 to turn the albedo textures into BCR and NMO textures)

[floral shale]

This is the only place i can send an image that isnt the screen shot channel but posting it here:

Trying to join a server and i keep getting this compile error code. I have deleted and reinstalled both the TFM Weapons Mod and the M4A1 with M320 and M203 mod. I still get this error.

Dont know if maybe i am refreshing the wrong mod or what.

If someone could help me in #reforger_troubleshooting , it would be much appreciated

[covert hare]

Is there a way to make light sources rectangular, like for a fluorescent light tube

[digital sluice]

I’m not sure, but if not, workaround may be emissive map on the light tube model with light point/s within it to appear as though it’s all lit up and rectangular

might even better for performance tbh

[bold nova]

That is the m230, is that a vehicle weapon? I know the m203 and m320 are underbarrel launchers, but m230 is the chain gun is it not.?

[floral shale]

Ah thank you. My dyslexia has foiled me again

[languid apex]

Are there any good rucksack that in modern era in workshop ???

TAN , Black , MTC , OD

[bold nova]

Not on their own, plenty in different mod packs though.

[worn tangle]

impressive results with the new lighting and pbr materials, mesh resolution is pretty inferior still, it would be cool if someone gets these old assets and adds some more high resolution mesh and texture details

[smoky sinew]

yeah its just too old of an asset from 2006 really. 14 sided hanger.

[lucid blaze]

The more tri's the slower the server. Lod's ftw

[plain stump]

sorry completely new here, how do i unlock the world to edit things, or move them?

[twilit barn]

you probably want #enfusion_scenario but you need to create a sub-scene for that.

[smoky sinew]

Consider upscaling with AI

It wont get the best results always but it can make it look more “detailed”

[urban iris]

I’m getting into moding and I’m going to make compositions but I have to know, dose a composition give the same amount of performance issues as if you where to build it in GM with props because other wise I am going to make very complex things that are more modern.

Thank you.

[barren minnow]

How do i add dependencies to a mod ive already created?

[twilit barn]

options menu under file i think

or you can also add the guid via text editor in the gproj file

then restart workbench for it to take effect

[barren minnow]

Thanks

[unborn inlet]

yes and no. Some companies (because mods are non commercial altogether) see it as free promo, some treat it as a trademark infringement. So the best bet is to either contact the company and ask what is their stance or made up some logos. I have experienced various interactions on this subject.

[molten granite]

Is anyone else's depth of field breaking the second you touch the 'Length Far' slider in the cinematic timeline ? It just breaks completely, refusing to work unless I restart workbench

[clear valley]

Hi All, anybody know of a good Tutorial for Buildings ,doors etc , i cant see it for all the M4 tutes 😉 ?

[tribal pike]

Hi guys,
How would a complete noob go about creating a mod?

[digital sluice]

depends, what kind of mod?

[tribal pike]

Aor1 cyre top & pants
Plate carrier

[digital sluice]

Ah, clothing

I'm definitely not the best person to ask for this lol

[bright sable]

Are you asking about asset creation, usage within the game or both?

[tribal pike]

Both

[bright sable]

Well, modelling clothing is not easy, I would not recommend it as your first project.

Vergy has a mod with Crye clothing, maybe you could use it as a dependency and do a retexture.

https://reforger.armaplatform.com/workshop/5D0D6D55399BA251-VergysMilitaryGear

[short roost]

if you have money to spare and time to sit down, clothing can be learnt with MD quite easily

[smoky sinew]

you can just use blender, you dont need MD, MD is just more automated

[short roost]

Yes, but its way easier to use MD

[smoky sinew]

Can MD export low poly mesh?

[stark acorn]

if you are completely noob, I would start with getting familiar with engine first by doing some tutorial like Weapon Modding https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Category:Arma_Reforger/Modding/Tutorials/Assets

then you can move up - adding new character clothing is kind of a lot for a newbie

[short roost]

No, you have to retopologize it

[smoky sinew]

Shame they don't have a tool for it, it's such a pain to do in blender

[twilit barn]

Anyone know what needs to be done to fix this scope? (Im in experimental branch)

[empty nexus]

is this the camera stuff? camera position, far plane stuff

[earnest sundial]

If that’s the front sight blocking the view, adjust the near plane to be further away

[empty nexus]

oh yeah near plane not far plane

[short roost]

they do have their own retopo tools, but its not perfect

[smoky sinew]

Any idea what these errors mean?

trying to bundle but i didnt have this issue last time.

[floral river]

Well it says there "Ressource asset not found", so I would assume some ressource asset was not found.
Would be helpful if it did say which asset

But also says your screenshot doesn't exist, try fixing that maybe that fixes that other thing too?

[smoky sinew]

ok finally found what was missing, seems to be working now phew that was close lol

[floral river]

What was it?

[smoky sinew]

an image file on the last update is no longer in the folder

[split blade]

if you use a mod as a dependency but then at a later stage want to remove that dependency after publishing, can you do that without breaking your own mod?

[twilit barn]

if youre no longer using any of the s=assets in that mod, seems it would be fine. But always make a backup if theres any question about it!

[proud sundial]

Is there anyone making a Wasteland mod? Similar to Arma 2 Wasteland. Vehicles and weapons everywhere and able to build and bunker up villages and compounds. Loved playing the mod on Utes and a small middle eastern inspired map. Chernarus was also a blast.

[bold nova]

Wrong game mate, this is a Reforger channel, ACE is Arma 3.

[pastel ginkgo]

my bad thanks for the help

[smoky sinew]

Has there been any improvement on documentation? I'd like to start modding reforger but, concise tutorials are scarce

[earnest sundial]

What do you want to make? There are plenty of official tutorials

[smoky sinew]

A script mod. Something that doesn’t make new “content”, just modifies the behavior of existing one/the ai/a mission

Like an example being an infinite ammo script. Just trying to navigate what is and isn’t important for that is confusing to me rn

[narrow hazel]

Can someone point to me get started with modding reforger, I have an idea i want an item you can eat with 2 action and then cause kinda trippy effects, now how do I get this done I know how game engine works on kinda beginner level in unreal and unity(enfusion feels like unity)

[paper sandal]

You might be able to take a look at how morphine is done.
You can find all of the official wiki stuff here https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Category:Arma_Reforger/Modding

[narrow hazel]

Thanks

[fleet lotus]

alright, so every damn time i click play from camera angle in the workbench my char spawns high up in the air and just falls to his death. how to fix?

[paper sandal]

Move the camera closer to the ground?

[fleet lotus]

oh man its saving now and takig its time.. dont tell me its the camera angle i watch from and not the thingie mabob i put inxD

looks like im spawning in water now below the surface now

what file type do i use for satelite maps? it crashes everytime i try load one

[split blade]

probs better for #enfusion_terrain but png is the correct format I think, though you may have to open it in a different software first and re-export it as a fresh png

and yeah play from camera position is from the viewport camera 🙂

[fading trail]

Yes you need to use a PNG.

open paint and export the sat map as an actual PNG I was having the same issue till I relazied that the file shows png it is in fact not a PNG and is a jpg make sure you export it again in paint or whatever program of your choice and then import the sat map again.

[fleet lotus]

oh damn alright ty vm

[wet sun]

Did the 0.9.9 update change something major with the input system? I noticed that some values were changed in the chimeraInputCommon.conf, but now, for whatever reason, my custom input context is enabled automatically if its priority is higher than the default context. 0-0

I'm aware that they introduced some system to manage keybinds, but I didn't think that would have such an effect on stuff relating to the ActionManager.

[smoky sinew]

FYI, "Where Am I" mod is broken, same with the mod that shows you on the map.
Great starter projects

[worn tangle]

if BI doesn't add ssh-60/40 into game in another month i am modding one in myself!

[earnest sundial]

Why wait a month? Why not now?

[empty nexus]

alternatively you could wait 2 months

[earnest sundial]

indeed many options

[silk swan]

why use the ssh-60 when you can use the ssh-68 🤔

[worn tangle]

because it was still in use during the period when reforger is set not sure how many though bc there isnt much info on web, it would be a shame if it was left out, especially considering the us has now got the m1

[silk swan]

AFAIK is Reforger set in 1985 (similar to Arma: Cold War Assault), and since the ssh-60 was only produced for a limited time (compared to the ssh-40 and ssh-68), it's most likely only used as an extra or reserve in case other helmets were not available in the field.

But even right now it's still being used, but again very limited amounts are available.

The M1 was still being used in 85 (albeit in the replacement phase to the PASGT), so more common to still see.

[faint berry]

I love the new game engine I love how car don’t despawn quick enough and lag the game out

I also love the ranking system which locks off the med bay so people spawn in medic cars to get gear

If your wondering I had 80 ping

[signal totem]

Pretty bad, but that's the new server authority at work I suppose

[empty nexus]

ouch, surprised nobody experienced this in testing

[languid apex]

Any and portable sandbags to equip or pick up in inventory

Models ?

[fleet lotus]

Bacon, what program do you use for heightmap generation? and satmap?

im just wondering

[empty nexus]

gaea

it's very popular in vfx, a little less in games but nobody is going to stop me

[fleet lotus]

yea ive been using the community version of that xD very good software just my pea brain still needs to wrap itself around it and learn xD

[wheat grove]

I never experience that in Reforger.

And I play on 100+ pings servers usually

[subtle matrix]

*1989

By that point the M1 steel helmet would have been phased out afaik. tho M69 flak vest managed to linger around in circulation to at least the early 90s ( based on a few pics i found) , so that isnt anachronistic ,even with PASGT vest being standard issue by then

[earnest sundial]

Obviously they saw the rampant success of my US forces '83 mod and realised they had to put a stop to it 👀

[languid sail]

um

[lucid dragon]

How do I go about making a rp server rpg type trying to figure it out on my own but been difficult. Want like a banking system cops cartel. Like an Arma Life type but not necessarily

[smoky sinew]

Did he try to ads while resting his weapon on a cloud or what

[fleet lotus]

guys how do make vehicles able to be driven in the editor? i got sound and animation but no movement

[rigid pendant]

Probably packet loss

[topaz imp]

so wondering if anyone has an idea of how to can use other peoples mods as dependencies?, like I would like to try to make a faction mod for different AI units but wanna use some ones clothing mod

[twilit barn]

if you 'open existing' in workbench for the mod you want to require, then close that and 'create new' project. Then the mod you just opened will be at the top of the list for you to check so its a dependency.

other ways include going to options in workbench and adding the guid there. or you can edit the actual gproj file to add the guid there too.

[ivory light]

does anyone know if it is against tos to write a custom game server for reforger?

[topaz imp]

@twilit barn thanks

[twilit barn]

no, but maybe you should be more specific? What do you mean by "custom game server?"

[ivory light]

i wanted to rewrite the Dedicated server to be more flexible for my use case

[twilit barn]

like modding the engine files? the .exe? then yes, im sure that IS against TOS!

[ivory light]

well thats a bummer. i didnt want to "mod" it just rewrite in another language

[floral pulsar]

Any idea why my recoil doesn't work at all? I'm thinking it can have something to do with animations maybe because the recoil setup looks good?

[ivory light]

did u try to use very big values in the magnitudes and scale values?

[floral pulsar]

Yeah tried that, it doesn't even move

[tepid leaf]

Hi, I was wondering if there was a way to restrict or add certain prefabs to a box? For example, if I only wanted a pair of pants to show up in an equipment box

[topaz imp]

@twilit barn how does one load more dependencies once they have already started a project?

[twilit barn]

options menu, or edit the gproj file in a text editor

dont remove the Arma Reforger dependency though 58D0FB3206B6F859 That has to stay

[topaz imp]

will that add the files , like say i added a weapon mod?

[twilit barn]

yes, they will be locked so you cant edit, but you can view and override anything if you like (if the license allows)

after restarting workbench of course

[topaz imp]

alright, yeah im just trying to make a Unit/Faction mods for gm placing

[bold nova]

Does your weapon have animations etc? If no player anims exist for firing etc the weapon won't move.

[pallid knot]

You would have to rebuild the whole engine. That won't work

[ivory light]

at least without decompiling the server which i guess will be very much against tos

[pallid knot]

Also against the law in many countries

You can easily just read the EULA

[remote bronze]

You can create a total conversion for one of the games that use it as a mod. You can change a lot, just not the main menu because mods are not loaded there.

[silk swan]

you should be able to modify the main menu by loading the mod from the command line 🤔

or actually load the custom main menu config from the command line

[remote bronze]

Mods are not active in main menu, they get recompiled when you join a server or start a mission. That is why you can change your mods while in game

[twilit barn]

However theres an issue with joining a server with mods and then switching servers with a different mod list. Your character will freeze and not be able to move (Game restart to fix it). You can also not select a scenario from a loaded mod unless you start and quit a scenario to "refresh" the mod/scenarios loaded. I feel like you shouldnt have to do all that and its intended to refresh but it doesnt?

I literally have to explain this to people who JIP asking why they cant move. 100% of the time they were on another server before switching to mine (with a different set of mods loaded).

[topaz imp]

anyone know how to go about fixing this?, im trying to set up my own custom units to spawn in GM as enemie ai?

[royal niche]

Need more context/information. From what you have posted, everything looks to be working great; you imported a model of some dude without hands and a dislocated foot, and the game is correctly rendering that model as you asked it to.

[topaz imp]

swaping clothing around seems to have fixed it, but they arent showing up as the color it was stated as

[topaz imp]

any of yall know how to take pictures and convert them into .edds yourself? im having trouble with the plugin stuff thats supposed to do it for you

it claims to have made one, but whens nothing at the file location and the image isnt there

[stark acorn]

did you created placeholder images before hand?

Look at the Log Console to see what are the errors @topaz imp

[smoky sinew]

I couldn't figure this system out when I used it, so I just made the images in photoshop, named them with the _UI suffix, imported into enfusion and then it'll convert it to epps.

Not the correct way to do it I think, but I ended up with much better thumbnails

[knotty eagle]

Hey folks - I read you can set your local mod for testing in startup params, but where the hell do you set startup params in Reforger given there is no launcher? Feeling dumb as hell right now

[knotty eagle]

Additionally - when you publish a mod, should you remove a test world? I assume leaving it in increases the mod size?

[topaz imp]

been having this issue where when i spawn my groups down, they spawn two groups or atleast two group icons with different stuff? anyone have this issue

I do have both an entity and group component, not sure if this is the conflicting factor

[topaz imp]

so ended up fixing that, but not for some reason these names are matching up in the editor? what am i missing

[wet furnace]

Is there a way to disable AI budget all together? Don't think I need it for my own server, it gets in a way more then it helps.

[wet furnace]

Found this:

    protected bool IsBudgetCapEnabled()
    {
    #ifdef ENABLE_DIAG
        return DiagMenu.GetBool(SCR_DebugMenuID.DEBUGUI_EDITOR_ENTITIES_BUDGET_CAP);
    #else
        return true;
    #endif
    }

Guess could try to override it with a mod. Or figure out what is this DiagMenu and how to set values there.

[wet furnace]

If anybody is wondering how to do it:

https://reforger.armaplatform.com/workshop/5E02A7DD444FBD2D-ArmAUkraineDisableGMBudgets
https://github.com/arma-ukraine/reforger-mods/tree/master/ArmAUkraine Disable GM Budgets

Seems to work reasonably well. Questions, suggestions and improvements are welcome.

[proud sundial]

Do anyone know how to add mods/ more specifically modded buildings into my terrain? https://reforger.armaplatform.com/workshop/5D84C738432BFE6A-WolfsBuildingPack for example.

So far I've only messed with world building.

[spark vault]

you have to add them as dependency

first you have to download it, then add it to the workbench open it onece then, after that you copy the ID open your project back up and go to workbench Options and under Game Project there is Dependencies there you have to add the id

[proud sundial]

Ah okay, I'll try, ty 🙂

[naive nexus]

Where can i toss up my server details

[topaz imp]

Getting this issue where the texture is not showing up right, like its showing up black but the texture is supposed to be green for this plate carrier, anyone know a fix?

[stark acorn]

Vertex colors

[topaz imp]

@stark acorn is that a option somewhere? I'm pretty new to this still

[stark acorn]

Try to google vertex colors and what they are

those are set in 3d software of your choice

[brave valley]

anyone got any good tutorials to follow on creating my own map?

[spark vault]

#enfusion_terrain message

[topaz imp]

@stark acorn but the clothing isn't mine, and in game it works fine but when setting it on my ai the color is different

[frosty schooner]

Do items need to have manually made and specified LODs?

[unborn inlet]

yes

[stark acorn]

are you retexturing that vest? If yes, are you retexturing it via prefabs?

[topaz imp]

@stark acorn it's already got prefabs, like black , greens, etc.. problem us when I change the prefab to sat a green vest it shows up as black, and if I open up the prefab it shows up as the right color but not when it's been put on my AI Character

[stark acorn]

and how is prefab configured? Is it using material overrides or prefabs?

Perhaps mod is not configured correctly

https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Arma_Reforger:Faction_Creation#Creating_retextures_using_prefabs see this for details how to set retextures

[frozen cypress]

Hello everyone,
Sorry if i am not in the right channel, but I am facing an issue with the localization (aka stringtable) of my mod.
I have followed all the step of the BI tutorial but when I want to test the localization ingame it's not working and only show the #ModTag-abcd.
When i test my mod ingame I copy the Workbench project folder to \Steam\steamapps\common\Arma Reforger\addons (it works well for testing 3D and textures).
In order to confirm or not, it's comming from my configuration, I try to test one of the sample provided by BI on Github, but i am facing the same issue. Localization of BI sample are not working either.
So that'is my question : Is it necessary to publish the mod on Workshop in order for stringtable/localization to work or is there something I am doing wrong ?
Thanks in advance for your help and sorry if i am not clear (english is not my native language).

[remote bronze]

Why do you copy it to the game manually? Copying the source of your mod to the game will not do much for you. What you want to do is test your changes in workbench directly. The game primarily uses published mods, not wip ones. So the question becomes if something does not work for you in the workbench. If it is all doing fine there - publish the mod and subscribe to it via the in game mod manager and it should be working.

[frozen cypress]

I am not sure to understand how can i test my changes regarding localization directly in the workbench ?

[remote bronze]

Well what are your changes? What are you trying to achieve overall. Change existing texts in game or add new texts for your custom dialogs or model names etc?

[lucid blaze]

Can dependencies be added to an already formed MOD?

[pallid knot]

yes

[frozen cypress]

I just replaced local name and description of my mod by translated one using localization.st and wanted to see how it's shown ingame.
In order to avoid publishing the game on Workshop, as we have no longer the "Private option" but only "Public" or "Test", my team and I were use to copy directly the folder of the Project to ArmA Reforger addons directory (it works well to see ingame modification regarding 3D but does not work for localization).

I discover today thanks to a Youtube video (BI documentation is not clear or lacking on this point), a way to launch directly the Game Master in the Workbench without launching the game which allow us to see our modification as it will be once published.
So problem solved.

[stark acorn]

there is also unlisted option again

Are you trying to localize description of the mod, as in workshop? Or do you mean scenarios descriptions?

In any case, neither mod description nor mission scenarios supports localization. Reason behind is fact, that mods and their stringtables are not launched until scenario itself is launched

Main menu is vanilla only - unless you run game with -addons CLI param

[frozen cypress]

No what i have done so far, is (as for ArmA 3) creating a Mod called ABC (not to spoil to much 😉 ) and among this mod I add translation (=localization.st) for the prefabs (such as weapons, vest, pants...) following BI wiki tutorial. In order tot see how it appears ingame, I copy the projet folder of my Mod ABC in the folder \Steam\steamapps\common\Arma Reforger\addons . Then I launch the game, and go to Workshop, then on Download Tab where the mod appears and I tick it. Eventually I just have to launch a game master session in order to playtest the assets but unfortunately the stringtable are not working (show #ABC-assetname instead of translation) in game that way if the project is not compiled.
But do not worry, I found how to launch game master directly in Workbench, with stringtable working.

[frosty schooner]

Damn, aight then.

[sterile shoal]

In the string editor you have to look for Regenerating runtime tables, it's in one of the menus on the top

[topaz imp]

having this issue with my custom faction labels not working properly, anyone know a fix?

Faction labels should be Russian Mercs , and Wagner Group, but just show up as the label above it instead with nothing located inside them

[topaz imp]

<script src="https://pastebin.com/embed_js/cnLnqJWN?theme=dark"></script>

[stark acorn]

and how did you configured your label?

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

[topaz imp]

@stark acorn just like this, did i miss something?

[stark acorn]

yes, you are missing "Info" - first picture. I guess editor used last entry in labels (US - USMC) to fill the name for your new entries

[topaz imp]

@stark acorn how do i go about fixing this

nvm, thank you very much sir

[stark acorn]

no problem, I will mention that on Wiki

[topaz imp]

@stark acorn is there any way to override the names for groups, so that they show custom name i have for them? Like instead of Team it would say Russian Merc Fireteam, etc

[stark acorn]

not right now

I think someone from editor team was planning to make changes to it one day

[topaz imp]

alright cool beans

[topaz imp]

so getting this issue still where the I suppose retexture doesnt work. I get this RESOURCES (E): Can't remap 'Assets/Characters/Uniforms/OTW_Pants/OTW_pants_ground.xob' material from 'Pants_M70_01_Item' to 'Assets/Characters/Uniforms/OTW_Pants/data/OTW_Pants_CADPAT_Temperate.emat'. Source material do not exist. any idea how to fix this?

[stark acorn]

Remove remaps in mesh object component by editing prefab in txt editor

Or change materials again prefab again

[topaz imp]

@stark acorn seemed that worked for a second but when i relaunched my tools it changed back to the Green camo and not the black that it is supposed

[topaz imp]

this is the issue im having, it seems to do it with alot of stuff

[stark acorn]

and how are those helmet configured?

[calm granite]

I've had a similar issue with this where the world editor does't update this I'm not sure if this is a known issue or what but once you load the world it's good my helmets are duplicates of the base I'm going to change this to inherted it might fix the issue with the world edit preview

before and after

[topaz imp]

@stark acorn how exactly do you mean? Dont have a ton of experience around about this stuff

[stark acorn]

how those helmet texture prefabs are created? Using prefabs or overrides? https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Arma_Reforger:Faction_Creation#Creating_retextures_using_prefabs

Overrides are bit... unpredictable in my experience

[topaz imp]

looks to be overrides

[stark acorn]

yea, I guess that is the issue. If you have some solid repro, then you can try filling ticket on feedback tracker

otherwise I would recommend using prefabs

[topaz imp]

got a link or something for retexturing an xob?

[stark acorn]

https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Arma_Reforger:Faction_Creation#Creating_retextures_using_prefabs there is small video there

[topaz imp]

do you have to do something different to get the group pictures to work with the generator?

[twilit barn]

How do I increase the number of vehicles available at vehicle depots? I added too many and supply trucks got bumped off the list.

[twilit barn]

Turns out I just needed to add more actions to the sign! 🙂 (solved)

[cyan sky]

is there a way for me to make mods with a friend in general with the arma reforger design software? Apologies if this is the wrong channel. I am very uneducated on the digital design type of stuff however, I want to learn how to do so with a friend? Is there a way to work on the same model for example at the same time or is that not possible?

[stark acorn]

at some model? Well, it's up to your 3d software if it supports some "coop" mode for model creation. Reforger Tools are used by hundred people at least so I would say, it is possible to develop a project by more than one people. You can use GIT or SVN to share your project with multiple team members but remember, that those programs are not handling merging changes from 2 binary things (like 3d models) very well.

[smoky sinew]

Is it true that bullets disappear after so many seconds of flight?

[earnest sundial]

Projectiles can have a time to live property, but it’s generally either because that’s the case in real life (e.g rpg 7 rounds exploding after about 5 seconds) or over a time that makes it irrelevant to the scale of the game - what’s the issue you’re facing?

Secondary to this, tracer rounds can have their tracer become invisible before they hit their target, which can give this impression incorrectly

[tawdry compass]

Hi, will this commented system be launched in the near future?

[empty nexus]

ok so why are those channels called enfusion_ when they actually are about reforger

as far as I know we can't just grab the engine and make stuff

[stark acorn]

because there might be other enfusion games in the future sharing same engine

like arma 4

[empty nexus]

that's even worse because you'd get one channel for two games?

[wet furnace]

Why not?

[stark acorn]

most likely quite a lot of knowledge will still apply for both enfusion games. Note that there is also referger_workbench channel and in future more, game specific channels might appear

[empty nexus]

yeah I imagine you would have an extra step of asking people which game their question is for when they ask for help

importing a fbx might be the same for both games but collision layers might not be the same

[stark acorn]

creating collider might be also common for all enfusion games and hypothetically some other, non Arma enfusion title, then most likely you would get an answer who has experience with AR or A4

as I mentioned, note that there is already #reforger_workbench channel

[pallid knot]

You can. Look at Hexcavate mod

[empty nexus]

how can I play hexcavate without reforger?

[pallid knot]

Copy paste it into another enfusion game

[empty nexus]

well played

[pallid knot]

But Hexcavate is not reforger.
It is on enfusion, but it uses barely anything from reforger

[twilit barn]

How would I mod the US Truck to be able to get up the hills from a stop on everon? I tried increasing torque which seemed to do nothing at all.

[molten granite]

Is it really that bad ? I always see people talking about it, but for me it goes up hills just fine
I think a lot of people just don't use the full throttle with shift/RT

[twilit barn]

it really is. Some hills if you stop and try to get going again, it just doesn't move and the rear wheels spin in place. And I always hold shift for turbo.

the ussr truck is way better it seems and doesnt have this problem nearly as much

[royal niche]

Lower gear ratios. You may have noticed it's easier to climb hills in reverse, because reverse gear has lower ratio than first, and thus more torque.

[twilit barn]

sweet thanks for the tip! Im not a car guy for sure lol but I had a feeling it was something in the gear ratios! 🙂