enfusion_generic

[twilit barn]

That's now in a config file under configs/core

[robust radish]

Having an issue making a new arsenal box. The tutorial says to use Arsenal overwrite to add a config but there's no option to add my config. Am I missing something?

[stark acorn]

Can you write down which step you are stuck on?

with pics preferable

[robust radish]

Can't figure out how to add the config to this boxx.

"open previously prepared Arsenal Box in i.e. Prefab Edit Mode and assign arsenal config to Arsenal Override Config in SCR_ArsenalComponent."

[stark acorn]

from which page it is?

https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Arma_Reforger:Weapon_Creation/Prefab_Configuration#Arsenal_Crates this one is up to date for sure

ah, you are trying to set faction less variant

[robust radish]

Yes

[stark acorn]

https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Arma_Reforger:Prefabs_Basics#Instancing_config_object_prefab you can do it like this

[robust radish]

I don't see the part about the config?

[stark acorn]

?

in any case, I also updated wiki - Arsenal Override Config was renamed to Overwrite Arsenal Config

[robust radish]

Oh

One sec. Wrapping my head around this.

So if I click on Overwrite Arsenal Config and drag it, it'll create a config for the arsenal? @stark acorn

[stark acorn]

no, you can just drag and drop config without clicking set class

[warm mirage]

what happend with the vihicles_wheeled_graph?

[stark acorn]

#enfusion_animation

[woeful rose]

i want to make it so i can make firing range targets reset my user menu rather than timed?? any have any ideas how i go about it?

[warm mirage]

is there issues with the contributer on a mod ? i add other people and everytime it resets itself

[robust radish]

reimporting is stuck at 18%

[calm granite]

Reforger modding be like

[crisp nacelle]

for some reason when I go to edit my conflict Project it loads all the dependencies but not the main conflict file I made. Anyone able to help It was working fine yesterday and I haven't updated or changed anything?

ENGINE (E): Addon 'TFDWConflict' dependency '5DF14A2FD0C42CC0' can't be added

[stark acorn]

https://reforger.armaplatform.com/workshop/5DF14A2FD0C42CC0-MAKOAK105Zentico seems like you are missing this addon

[crisp nacelle]

wait you saying I need this addon to get it back? that makes no sense why did it work fine before?

yeah that makes no difference

[stark acorn]

and is present in list of addons? Maybe one of the addons that you are using was updated and had changed dependency

and since addons are not automatically added to workbench launcher project list, you would be no longer able to load it

[crisp nacelle]

no its not there but I cant add it if i wanted everything is greyed out

[stark acorn]

I meant this list https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Arma_Reforger:Mod_Project_Setup#/media/File:armareforger-modsetup-open-project.png

[crisp nacelle]

oh is the AK mod in that project list?

no it is not

oh by adding that it appeared wtf thats crazy that can happen 😕

[stark acorn]

as a side note - those are settings for SVD mod. Your mod is not loaded since it cannot be loaded since it is missing one of the dependencies

[crisp nacelle]

thank you that fixed it ❤️

@stark acorn how do I update dependencies for my mod or do they update automatically when they are updated individually on workshop?

[stark acorn]

ah, so TFDWConflict is your project, right?

[crisp nacelle]

yes

[stark acorn]

In this case you probably added that "MAKO AK 105 Zentico" addon as dependency manually

[crisp nacelle]

I did after you said it but I'm on about if a workshop addon updates do I need to manually update it in my dependencies somewhere?

[stark acorn]

I mean in Workbench options

You probably added it to dependencies list in Workbench Options but it was missing in Enfusion Workbench Launcher project list

[crisp nacelle]

I can't post this in the other channel for logs but anyone help me with why my server keeps crasdhing when I build the armoury?

[stark acorn]

I remember RHS had this problem when one of the weapons had Merge Meshes enabled. I guess one of the mods that you have loaded can have similar issue

[crisp nacelle]

the issue has only happened in the past 2 days and I didn't change anything I guess wait for one of the mods to fix it as I'm guessing you cant tell what mod is actually causing the issue from the log?

[stark acorn]

did you submitted crash report?

[crisp nacelle]

I will do that now

[bold bolt]

Lasers/anpeq16 seems to be the entity. So whatever mods that have the anpeq16 laser. Which is attached to the m27iar

[crisp nacelle]

|Thanks

[empty nexus]

your log looks incomplete

I'm fairly positive that last item is not causing a crash

[crisp nacelle]

I get this now

wont even load in at all now

[empty nexus]

this log is also incomplete, please submit full logs not just parts of them

[crisp nacelle]

how is it incomplete i posted all that I have on there or you want the script and error logs too not just console?

[empty nexus]

are you on nitrado?

[crisp nacelle]

no g-portal

[empty nexus]

ok, in any case the log is incomplete

I don't know about g-portal but on nitrado you need to stop the server in order to access most recent complete log, since they are doing their best at making the server management experience torture

[crisp nacelle]

there is all the logs I can find in filezilla on the server for this

[empty nexus]

this console.log at least has your connection issue, anyway it seems the server disagrees on content with your game, I would suggest removing and redownloading mods on both ends (by remove I mean actually physically remove the files, not just remove them from the config since that doesn't do anything to files)

this bug is present in the game for at least 6 months now

[crisp nacelle]

okay so remove from my pc but also the server too got it

[empty nexus]

no guarantee it'll work the first time but after a couple tries eventually it should download correctly

[crisp nacelle]

thanks

[crude horizon]

what was the 1gb update just now?

[humble ivy]

https://reforger.armaplatform.com/news/update-november-22-2023

[crude horizon]

Bohemia... This update is not very effective for users. The biggest problem for us is that after using Arsenal a few times it starts to lag and the game becomes unplayable!!!

[empty nexus]

yeah they have a fix for it just didnt release it lol

[crude horizon]

I really don't know why...why isn't it being released? I was excited to play the game after the update, but was disappointed to see that there were still lags when using Arsenal. The evaluation of Reforger was improving, but I couldn't help but be sad to see it turn negative again.

[bold bolt]

We did not release it, because the patch you had today, was already prepared last week, the same day as the release. Patches are not made the day before release. It takes time to test everything

[solemn thicket]

Anyway it gets tested enough today and a quick update is put out Friday?!? Especially with the holiday weekend it’s going to be a big weekend for Reforger.

I know I want to play but it’s hard with the server issues

[twilit barn]

half the players think its the server crapping itself when its just client side fps drop. Im getting a lot of messages about it and I guess that will continue until the next patch...

[soft sinew]

Is there anyway to see the ingame map inside enfusion?

[soft sinew]

Okay - so ive made a custom scenario. Ive made a missions folder and created a SCR_MissionHeaderCombatOps - ive filled out the information - but it dont show up inside the game ? ive tried to append -addons "xxxxx" to the exe and then it just says it cant find it eventhough the folder is inside " Documents\My Games\ArmaReforger\addons " What am i doing wrong ? everytime i google anything it just shows me Arma 3 stuff....

[nimble mica]

Can someone please explain to me how to add dependencies, because when I try it doesn't work and erases any progress on a project?

[soft sinew]

I would think you should add them before - thats what ive done so far

[nimble mica]

But even then its removes the project

When I add a dependency then restart, my project is gone and I am unable to edit anything, I also cant create anything

[empty nexus]

I think you need to pay attention to the log when you open your project, you might be missing a dependency

[nimble mica]

https://tenor.com/view/tired-confused-wake-up-squinting-gif-4201426486566488898

[soft sinew]

when you can choose your project, right click and choose "open with addons, and then choose the new one you want

in the workbench launcher

[nimble mica]

Got it working

[soft sinew]

what helped ?

[nimble mica]

Just realiszed where I was messing up

[soft sinew]

write your answer so if anyone have the same problem they can find an answer

[nimble mica]

Fair point, I was trying to add the dependacy in the option Tab when the project was open, instead I added it to my projects list then added it wehncreating a new project

[soft sinew]

okay - i need some help from someone. so ive made port of combat ops to the Kunar Region. ive published it to workshop. and ive made some changes . and republished it. but all the changes are not the version thats on the workshop, the version number is changed but all the changes inside the .ent are the old one. and everytime i "download" my mod and play test it, it unsubscribes to it and i have to redownload it everytime ? what am im doing wrong?

[soft sinew]

and now it wont start says World Load Error

[crude horizon]

When I drive a car or fly a helicopter on my dedicated server, it tends to shake from side to side as if it's desynchronized. Is there any workaround for this?

[gentle mountain]

https://reforger.armaplatform.com/news/server-authoritative-vehicles

[strong bay]

Does anyone have info on vanilla radios and potential mods that increase their transmission distance? If any mod chads are available to make a mod that increases vanilla radios like the manpack to 8km and handheld to 5km) I’d love you very much.

[warm mirage]

@stark acorn any news on the contributer stuff ?

[stark acorn]

I haven't received response yet

[warm mirage]

no worrys 🙂

[fluid turtle]

Guys... i messed up something... i played arround with the Debug Tools.. now my Freelook is inverted and i can't any setting for this. So, if i go in Freelook (ALT) the camera turns left if i move the mouse up and this in all axis.

[bright rune]

Heyho,
does anyone know how if it can be realized to adjust the exit position info of a compartment through a script? I didnt find anything besides the Get-Method to retrieve the PointInfo of the ExitPosition 🥲

Or maybe someone can point out where this is actually used within the compartment/vehicle realm that i can see if there is something that can be done there

[keen rune]

Alot of native components only have get methods unfortunately, hopefully this changes in the future. The code to do this is gonna be c++ side. One thing you could do is an event after exiting a compartment and teleport the player. Otherwise its probably impossible to set the new exit pointinfo via script

[bright rune]

Yeah I alreado thought so tbh. I was already thinking about the way you described, but that isnt quite fitting for me tbh. Ill just wait and see what the future brings^^

[nimble mica]

So I think I am ready to release the map but I have a feeling I have to set something up first so the map appears in this screen but I don't know what

[humble ivy]

Did create a config anduse Game mode setup

[nimble mica]

override or duplicate?

[humble ivy]

I didnt use duplicate, not sure what override does . Once i saved project, i then ran gamemode setup also create a config file for publishing

[nimble mica]

How do I run the gamemode setup?

[humble ivy]

Did you make a sub world

[nimble mica]

I dont know

[remote bronze]

These are Mission configs. You can find exmaples in the Missions folder in workbench. Make your own one, select your world file and give it a go.
Adding your own as part of your terrain mod will show them automatically in the list

[empty nexus]

make sure you are not using vanilla images for the mission images since it will just fail without telling you what the problem is (unless this was fixed with 1.0)

[nimble mica]

I am still confused

[humble ivy]

watch from this point onwards
https://youtu.be/WNL_oFhlmLU?t=3874

[karmic cobalt]

is it possible to make it so the trouser slot can be enabled whilst wearing the flight suit?

[vagrant basin]

The blocked slot are configured inside each cloth component.

[karmic cobalt]

thank you so much

[smoky sinew]

Can I pay someone to write code for me, so long as I do the whole enfusion project myself? And then inject the paid code where it needs to go

Or is that against the rules?

[bright sable]

I believe that was allowed since you don't really need any BI tools to write code, but I'm not sure.

[twilit barn]

Afaik you can do that as long as you're not using enfusion tools (so you can't test it in script editor/workbench either)

[radiant stream]

Evening all, I'm hoping to be able to add a new action to a keybind, does anyone have a direction they can send me to find the best way to do that?

in my particular case, when hitting G, instead of the Radial menu, I want to 'inspect' the radio instead

think I may have found it, thanks tho

[royal niche]

Coding is a somewhat iterative process of compiling and debugging and there is no external script tooling or documentation. In theory it's possible to do within the TOS, but in practice, it's impossible.

[twilit barn]

...unless it's a very simple/short script and you really know what you're doing. Pros don't need to test their code... 🤡 LOL

[smoky sinew]

Damn that's a shame, would've saved me a lot of time. Suppose I better crack open the wiki 😂

[empty shuttle]

I apologize for my ignorance, but which channel is the proper channel to inquire about locating a mod creator when it comes to making something like unit patches for vests?

[stone ledge]

Hey, is there a way to get a earlier Version of Enfusion / Reforger Tools? BI broke a feature I really need so I need that version from earlier. Is there any way?

[karmic cobalt]

How would i go about creating different textures for one XOB i have emats set up but cannot drag XOB into world veiw to make a duplicate prefab and overiding materials dont work as i thought

[warm mirage]

kinda love that i need to up the humvee up to 0.3 suspension before it even goes over a curb they really broke it with 1.0

[warm mirage]

any fixes for the garbage cleaner keep ignoring the non garbageable items ? like it keeps cleaning my chests without it is allowed to

[unborn inlet]

#creators_recruiting

[unborn inlet]

nope

[empty nexus]

why not? does steam console no longer allow you to download an older manifest?

[nimble mica]

The issues don't stop, what am I doing wrong, it is not showing up in the scenario tab

[empty nexus]

wrong folder name

[nimble mica]

How?

[empty nexus]

vanilla missions are in a folder called Missions, yours is in a folder called Mission, which is incorrect

[nimble mica]

got ya add an s

[empty nexus]

still works, just downloaded an older version

[empty nexus]

you can use steam console to download an older version, try following this article, and you may not need to replace game files https://www.makeuseof.com/how-to-downgrade-steam-games/

you may need to download both arma reforger and the tools to get it to start later

[jaunty frigate]

Hi, is there anything like a general tutorial to reforger modding?

[stark acorn]

https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Category:Arma_Reforger/Modding/Tutorials/Assets start with weapon modding

[gilded panther]

So how do I add a mod as a dependency or to be able to see its insides? I'm trying to work with the Lobby Mod for my mission and I wanted to add some building mods for my map but never figured it out actually

[undone canopy]

What scripting language does enfusion have?

[empty nexus]

Enforce Script

[empty nexus]

Download it, add it to the launcher, then in your existing mod go to File / Options and add the dependency id in. There are other ways but if you just have one or two mods this will be the most straightforward.

[gilded panther]

Ye, figured it out this time, but thanks anyway! 😄

[undone canopy]

that is similar to C# right?

[empty nexus]

Looks a little bit similar

[undone canopy]

does it have any unique quirks?

[empty nexus]

Yes

[undone canopy]

Is it documented anywhere? My internet is slow right now, I can't really load the wiki.

[tiny basin]

Hello !
I'm new to Enfusion modding.
I'm a PHP developer (don't judge :p) and i wanna try out some modding.
I want to start by setting a limit of grenade for grenade launcher. Where can i do this ? I guessed in script editor

Tell me if i'm not in the right channel and i'll move my subject elsewhere ♥

[undone canopy]

Check out the Arma Reforger modding wiki.

[tiny basin]

Thanks ! Do you know which section i should go ? Scripting ?

[undone canopy]

I would think so, I myself am not really experienced in modding.

[bright sable]

You should start by inspecting the grenades prefab, look what components it has and what they appear to be doing.
Either you find some option in these components, or you have a look at the relevant ones in the scripting editor. If there's is no such option, you will have to use scripting to modify the component and add one.

[tiny basin]

Thanks a lot ! I'll take a look later that day

I was thinking about changing weight at first but i think it can cause many unwanted side effects. I may have to use scripting

[fluid turtle]

Hi, is there a way to disable the secondary (primary) weapon slot?

[karmic cobalt]

Hi just wanted to ask is there anyway to fix my enfusion, ive tried reinstalling and validating files. it gets stuck on logging in and does not recognise my arma reforger ( ive re downloaded and revalidated this as well). and keep getting the message cannot initialize the game

[jade current]

@karmic cobalt For the tools to work you must run the game at least once.

[karmic cobalt]

thanks mate in the end i dleted everything completley and just started fresh

[obtuse cliff]

hi guys. if you wanna make a effect that when npc is being shot, then create blood decal on ground or wall. how to do it? i researched one way that you can open the collision tag in particle editort then it will keep on ground. but how about the wall?

[remote bronze]

I believe what you might be looking for are WorldDecals (https://enfusionengine.com/api/redirect?to=enfusion://ScriptEditor/scripts/GameLib/entities/Decal.c;8)

[warm mirage]

any heads up about the issue i reported last week someone from BI was looking into about contributers not saving on uploaded mods ? i cant seems to update the mod after one of my team members uploaded it and added me in the contributer list

[rugged path]

@warm mirage can you please describe the issue (logs and screenshots would be great)

[warm mirage]

i have reported it to one of BI

there is no logs there is nothing i get added as cotnributer and it wont stay saved

this happend since 1.0

[rugged path]

what asset is it?

[warm mirage]

my own server stuff , one of the BI was looking into it but i have heard anything back

[rugged path]

@warm mirage DM

[warm mirage]

somehow it crashes when people ether open the shop or they are i na spot where something spawns but it only happend after todays update

17:50:25.069 ENTITY : Init entity @"ENTITY:4611686018427404264" ('GenericEntity','Assets/BaconM110/weapon.xob') at <0.000000 0.000000 0.000000> @"{A8B21B63F4DABD9A}Prefabs/Weapons/Rifles/BaconM110/Rifle_BaconM110_t.et"
17:50:25.069 RPL (E): Attempting to insert an entity with invalid prefab resource GUID @"{A8B21B63F4DABD9A}".
17:50:25.069 SCRIPT : GetResourceName 'Scripts/Game/ShopSystem/ADM_Utils.c,51'
17:50:25.069 RESOURCES (E): Wrong GUID/name for resource @"{A8B21B63F4DABD9A}Prefabs/Weapons/Rifles/BaconM110/Rifle_BaconM110_t.et" in property "<missing-def>"
17:50:25.069 SCRIPT : GetResourceName 'Scripts/Game/ShopSystem/ADM_Utils.c,16'
17:50:25.069 RESOURCES (E): Wrong GUID/name for resource @"{A8B21B63F4DABD9A}Prefabs/Weapons/Rifles/BaconM110/Rifle_BaconM110_t.et" in property "<missing-def>"
17:50:25.069 SCRIPT : GetResourceName 'Scripts/Game/ShopSystem/ADM_Utils.c,51'
17:50:25.069 RESOURCES (E): Wrong GUID/name for resource @"{A8B21B63F4DABD9A}Prefabs/Weapons/Rifles/BaconM110/Rifle_BaconM110_t.et" in property "<missing-def>"
17:50:25.069 GUI (W): Missing string ID = 8008
17:50:25.070 ENTITY : SpawnEntityPrefab @"{A10C966459A5E47C}shadowWaffen/m16a4/Prefabs/Weapons/Rifles/M16/Rifle_M16A4.et"
17:50:25.070 ENTITY : Create entity @"ENTITY:4611686018427404265" ('GenericEntity') at <0.000000 0.000000 0.000000> @"{A10C966459A5E47C}shadowWaffen/m16a4/Prefabs/Weapons/Rifles/M16/Rifle_M16A4.et"
17:50:25.070 AUDIO (W): Invalid input port 21, item Occlusion
17:50:25.070 ENTITY : SpawnEntityPrefab @"{3EB02CDAD5F23C83}shadowWaffen/SVD/Prefabs/Weapons/Rifles/SVD/Rifle_SVD.et"
17:50:25.070 ENTITY : Create entity @"ENTITY:4611686018427404266" ('GenericEntity') at <0.000000 0.000000 0.000000> @"{3EB02CDAD5F23C83}shadowWaffen/SVD/Prefabs/Weapons/Rifles/SVD/Rifle_SVD.et"
17:50:25.070 AUDIO (W): Invalid input port 21, item Occlusion
17:50:25.071 ENTITY : SpawnEntityPrefab @"{A8FEB89061C28419}shadowWaffen/SAW.et"
17:50:25.071 ENTITY : Create entity @"ENTITY:4611686018427404269" ('GenericEntity') at <0.000000 0.000000 0.000000> @"{A8FEB89061C28419}shadowWaffen/SAW.et"
17:50:25.071 AUDIO (W): Invalid input port 21, item Occlusion
17:50:25.071 ENTITY : SpawnEntityPrefab @"{C7612F6651E04AC6}shadowWaffen/SCAR20S/Prefabs/Weapons/Rifles/SVD/scar20.et"
17:50:25.071 ENTITY : Create entity @"ENTITY:4611686018427404270" ('GenericEntity') at <0.000000 0.000000 0.000000> @"{C7612F6651E04AC6}shadowWaffen/SCAR20S/Prefabs/Weapons/Rifles/SVD/scar20.et"
17:50:25.071 AUDIO (W): Invalid input port 21, item Occlusion
17:50:25.073 ENTITY : SpawnEntityPrefab @"{6D283446CD5115E7}shadowWaffen/2.et"
17:50:25.073 WORLD : InitEntities 'world'
17:50:25.073 ENTITY : Init entity @"ENTITY:4611686018427404271" ('GenericEntity','svt/svt.xob') at <0.000000 0.000000 0.000000> @"{6D283446CD5115E7}shadowWaffen/2.et"
17:50:25.073 ENGINE (F): Crashed

next crash

18:02:20.844 ENTITY : SpawnEntityInPrefab @"{5D582264C2C7E9ED}shadowWaffen/mp5-sd/Prefabs/Weapons/Rifles/MP5/mp5 sd t.et"
18:02:20.844 ENTITY : Create entity @"ENTITY:4611686018427398726" ('GenericEntity') at <4955.102051 38.000000 9112.719727> @"{5D582264C2C7E9ED}shadowWaffen/mp5-sd/Prefabs/Weapons/Rifles/MP5/mp5 sd t.et"
18:02:20.844 AUDIO (W): Invalid input port 30, item Bodymanager 3 Dist
18:02:20.844 AUDIO (W): Invalid input port 31, item Bodymanager 3 Dist
18:02:20.844 AUDIO (W): Invalid input port 32, item Bodymanager 3 Dist
18:02:20.844 AUDIO (W): Invalid input port 33, item Bodymanager 3 Dist
18:02:20.844 AUDIO (W): Invalid input port 34, item Bodymanager 3 Dist
18:02:20.844 AUDIO (W): Invalid input port 35, item Bodymanager 3 Dist
18:02:20.844 AUDIO (W): Invalid input port 43, item Bodymanager 3 Dist
18:02:20.844 AUDIO (W): Invalid input port 44, item Bodymanager 3 Dist
18:02:20.844 AUDIO (W): Invalid input port 45, item Bodymanager 3 Dist
18:02:20.844 AUDIO (W): Invalid input port 47, item Bodymanager 3 Dist
18:02:20.844 AUDIO (W): Invalid input port 100, item Bodymanager 3 Dist
18:02:20.844 AUDIO (W): Invalid input port 112, item Bodymanager 3 Dist
18:02:20.844 AUDIO (W): Invalid input port 155, item Bodymanager 3 Dist
18:02:20.844 AUDIO (W): Invalid input port 154, item Bodymanager 3 Dist
18:02:20.844 AUDIO (W): Invalid input port 153, item Bodymanager 3 Dist
18:02:20.844 AUDIO (W): Invalid input port 21, item Occlusion
18:02:20.844 AUDIO (W): Invalid input port 13, item P Cntrl 1P 3P cam
18:02:20.844 AUDIO (W): Invalid input port 14, item P Cntrl 1P 3P cam
18:02:20.844 AUDIO (W): Invalid input port 15, item P Cntrl 1P 3P cam
18:02:20.844 AUDIO (W): Invalid input port 16, item P Cntrl 1P 3P cam
18:02:20.844 AUDIO (W): Invalid input port 20, item P Cntrl 1P 3P cam
18:02:20.844 AUDIO (W): Invalid input port 8, item EnvLayer Manager
18:02:20.844 AUDIO (W): Invalid input port 34, item EnvLayer Manager
18:02:20.845 AUDIO (W): Invalid input port 50, item EnvLayer Manager
18:02:20.845 AUDIO (W): Invalid input port 13, item AddLayer Manager
18:02:20.847 ENTITY : SpawnEntityInPrefab @"{71228710CE223D03}Prefabs/Basebuilding/Buildingparts/Nails.et"
18:02:20.847 ENTITY : Create entity @"ENTITY:4611686018427398733" ('GenericEntity','nailsbox.xob') at <4877.293945 35.900002 9106.956055> @"{71228710CE223D03}Prefabs/Basebuilding/Buildingparts/Nails.et"
18:02:20.847 AUDIO (W): SignalManagerComponent not present, functionality will be limited
18:02:20.929 rpl::Pip::ProcessNetToGame
18:02:20.929 ENGINE (F): Crashed

wth was updated today?? it worked fine till the update ....

[gilded panther]

I got a hold of changing the weapon and loadout of gear like pants to vests, but how can I adjust the items within gear containers such as adding magazines to a vest?

[dusky tide]

Sorry if this is the wrong channel.
Would it ever be possible for someone editing a mission to host it as a mission editor session so others can help?

[undone canopy]

Why cant I launch World Edit?

aparently its something to do with my project but I have no idea what

[obtuse cliff]

MR Arkensor，i cant open the link you notion above。

open it but nothing happened 。could you please help me？Thank you very much

[stark acorn]

check Log Console - I guess it is screaming that your scripts are not compilable

[undone canopy]

it was I fixed it but it seems like the script console doesn't work properly

[stark acorn]

what do you mean by that?

Did you recompilled scripts afterwards?

[undone canopy]

I didn't get the error in the script editor, I got it workbench console.

[stark acorn]

you have to press F7 (I think that is the default shortcut) to validate scripts and get output in script editor

[undone canopy]

thank you I will keep that in mind

[keen perch]

Does anyone know why the Vietcong FIA Replacement mod Crashes on GM? As soon as I place the FIA down everyone gets booted and we get the error code group=1 'REPLICATION', reason=1 'SYSTEM_FAILURE'

[pine lava]

Sames

[remote bronze]

You can manually navigate there if you read the path, howeverr if you want these magic links to work you can open the workbench and go to workbench > options > workbench > register enf protocol

[rare notch]

ayone know why projects (mods that I have deleted) show up in the new project i create?

[vital root]

is it not possible anymore to save a world and make it your own ? like i want to remove machine guns spawned everywhere in the arland conflict how can i copy the world in my mod in order to be able to modify it ?

[remote bronze]

You can not edit parent scenes. Also what do you mean with machine guns spawned everywhere? Do you have an example location screenshot of what you would want to remove?

[empty nexus]

there's no button for it but you can definitely edit vanilla terrains, there are many mods that do it on the workshop and they're fine

I just forgot what the rain dance was to get it to work

[vital root]

Yep same Ive done it once a year ago but can't remember it xD

[vital root]

Roadblocks and stuffs like that almost always are empty and are heavy on vehicle budget (2%)

[vital root]

a lot of those

[bleak kestrel]

I'm new here just purchased the game for the enfusion engine mostly 🙂 . I'm an artist in the vfx industry so I'm really excited to get a good grasp of all things ARMA and start making some worlds and assets.Have a great weekend

[fluid turtle]

Hi, is there a way to create sub-categories in Arsenal Box? Like Color or Caliber?

[dawn lance]

hello

How to change the lobby server banner and how to add a banner within the game?

[dull basalt]

Hi is it possible to make a piece of clothing or equipments weight go into the minuses so your character weighs less than their base weight and therefore moves faster?

[twilit barn]

If not, you could probably script that. I'd imagine just changing the defaults allowed for that variable might work?

[wheat grove]

Can you change controller keybinds on PC in Reforger?

[dull basalt]

Ty for the response

[warm mirage]

is there a way to make inventory of boxes be less range to see in inventory ?

[tight mango]

How do you make mods

[loud pike]

if you mean it as in vicinity. Then the only way is to modify the radius size for vicinity discovery, which you can find on SCR_CharacterVicinityComponent. That component can be found on the base of characters

[warm mirage]

ah so that means it counts for all items right ?

[loud pike]

yes

[warm mirage]

as people abuse looting through walls atm on peoples stuff

will have a go with that comp and see what i can do 😛

[vital root]

https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Category:Arma_Reforger/Modding start reading those and then try, fail and repeat until success

[ripe mantle]

I had this same issue and the only way I could fix it was to make a new BI account. It was a pain but everything worked normally after!

[supple silo]

i hav ea problem launching the server with that error information:

[jade current]

The error is self explanatory.

[supple silo]

I cant find that SCR

[ancient dune]

Ik this is probably a frowned upon question but has anyone started to work on a life server for reforger thats a bit more like arma 3 life? And if not thats cool because i have another question about helos, has anyone made a gunner mod for the in game one’s currently? Just thought i should ask since its on my mind.

[empty nexus]

there's a bunch of life servers

[crude wasp]

Quick question Am I allowed to pay someone for a Generator Script? If I intend to release it to the public?

[empty nexus]

no, can't charge for any work done in reforger mod tools

[crude wasp]

so I cant pay someone to write Code

even if I public release it so everyone can use it.

[remote bronze]

As long as BI tools are involved no commercial operations are allowed. The problem would not be on your side but on his, because he can not accept money for work he does with our tools - if he must use them for it.
Further reading: https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Intellectual_Property

[tidal scaffold]

Hello!
What can delete a character if its deletion on disconnection is disabled? Garbage collector tweaks from last patch? If this is garbage collector: can i disable it entirely?

[tacit stump]

Sometimes I lose the ability to move camera using WASD keys in world editor viewport. What could be done to fix it? World editor window refocus sometimes fix, sometimes not.

[vagrant basin]

Not sure if your problem, for me it was happening when changing language on keyboard. For some reason WASD navigation dont work with greek keyboard.

[tacit stump]

Yeah, seems it is the source of problem - changing language breaks viewport movement

seems that it doesn't work in non-EN-keyboard layouts

[tacit stump]

Is there any way to "detach" from character while playtesting in editor viewport (like in Unreal Engine)?

So you could use free camera while using game mode etc

[bold bolt]

CTRL + ALT + C

[worthy scroll]

I'm trying to load a custom world and GameMaster scenario in Arma Reforger. I don't see anything new Scenarios. I'm using this in Launch Options to load it because I don't want to publish it yet:
ArmaReforgerSteam.exe -addonsDir "C:\Users\user\Documents\My Games\ArmaReforgerWorkbench\publish" -addons Rokostrov,GMRokostrov
It looks like it is trying to load it in the log: https://pastebin.com/efF7XA8Q

But again, I don't see anything. How do I debug this problem?

[tacit stump]

What's the difference between folders and layers?

[vagrant basin]

folder contains layers or other folders. Layers contain entities placed in the world.

[tacit stump]

Oh, it's pretty obvious. I thought that you could use folders with same purpose (grouping entities in left sidebar).
Thanks for answer!

[tacit stump]

Why some of the objects placed in the game world are greyed out and some are not?

[hoary light]

Does anyone know WHY when I open a server on my computer through the game's own host system, when my friends try to join they can't?

[bitter dragon]

Any idea where I can find composition prices? I want to adjust them slightly.

[craggy rapids]

Okay I have never done modding before and wouldn't know how to star, but I play reforger and war thunder and can't get the idea of an Apache out of my head

Ik we had one before but only had dumbfire rocket pods and I like the idea of hellfires so hear me out

Obviously programming a laser guided rocket that tracks the lasers move and flying and hits dead on every time is difficult but in theory could it not be done simply by an explosion being placed on whatever the laser is coming in contact with and just adding a missile firing animation to the helicopter.

Because being able to lock a target and have both the 50. Cal gun and the hellfires track it would be amazing for arma especially because I'm in the milsim community.

So I'm just wondering how difficult something like this would be to achieve based on the engine reforger runs on etc

[empty nexus]

sounds easy, grab workbench and get to work

a fake missile on a timer is an interesting approach

a genius one because you dont have to bother replicating the damn missile over network

[urban ledge]

does anyone know where i can get assets for buildings?

or do i have to make them myself?

[craggy rapids]

Yeah that's what I thought, seems like the best way to do laser designated weapons instead of trying to get missiles to fly and guide properly, especially on a reforger engine

[crude wasp]

It's hard to say, which ones would be usable. The Meshes themselves, from external sites, are quite usable. But you will likely have to redo the Textures. Since a lot of Game ready Environments Are either made with Modularity in mind, meaning they are in pieces and most likely textured using a vertex Shader method- THIS we don't have in Reforger. So remaking the Textures and optimization are inevitable.

[urban ledge]

I found it thank you anyways

[foggy lark]

I believe I’m having this same issue with my terrain . Have you found a solution?

[worthy scroll]

Not yet. I saw your post yesterday and almost replied but realized i didn't have a solution anyway. If I don't get back to you in a 3 days DM me asking about it. Hopefully I'll have it by then.

[foggy lark]

I did some digging on the discord and it might have something to do with folders being named incorrectly. Could be wrong but I’m going to try it tonight

[worthy scroll]

Okay let me know how it goes

[unborn inlet]

@stable ledge #creators_recruiting

[stable ledge]

Tanks

[hoary light]

someone know if there is still a way to use the RHS Radio by typing directly on the radio or due to 1.0 did they remove this function?

[fleet dagger]

https://gpuopen.com/fidelityfx-super-resolution-3/

The source code for FSR3 have been released today, hopefully we can see it added into Arma3 as well in the future, frame gen will be amazing for those of us who play on the steam deck!

[solemn plume]

hardly for Arma 3 as the released code is for DX12 and UE5 only

[fleet dagger]

Damn, so close yet so far 😂

Would it be possible to start implementing motion vectors to A3 in the near future? So when AMD gets their act together, it will be much easier to implement FSR3 frame gen

It will also give us modders the ability to inject FSR into A3 as well

[keen path]

pls fsr3

[keen path]

Pretty cool, I wish we had scripting commands to change screen resolution during gameplay.
As well as allow us to use masks to choose resolution for different parts of the screen.
No need to render what's being blocked by an UI element, as well as render the outside of a PIP scope as lower resolution, it's not important.
Current pip implementation is backwards.

[unborn inlet]

wrong channel - see #enfusion_configuration

[cedar kindle]

TY

[warm mirage]

idk why but for some reason all guns seem to do this if you go prone and it fs up the scopes it happends with basegame and modded and i never had it before on my other guns that i have made in the past its something recent

[worn tangle]

i have noticed this lately, it was present since helicopters exp, such a pain

[loud pike]

it's to compensate for grass, but also for realism. The character stabilises their weapon on using their elbow.

[worthy scroll]

Isn't the head clipping through the rifle and the guy aiming down the barrel of the gun?

[warm mirage]

yes thats the issue with that

[plain wing]

Can one make a dependency of a mod in which is not longer on the workshop?

[loud pike]

Yeah, I am explaining why the gun is clipping through head

[worthy scroll]

Just feels like a problem to me and I feel like you don't see it that way which is a bit concerning from a player perspective

[loud pike]

I do see it as a problem, just not as a problem that I can solve.

And in this case, I believe the benefits of this outweigh the downside

[loud pike]

Also, where did I say that I don't see it as a problem? Please refrain from doing that.

[worthy scroll]

Do you not see it as a problem? Everything in your message seems to be defending its inclusion. No we'll fix it later. No we're working on it. You say it's there for realism but his head is through the rifle. You're under no obligation to say those things obviously but I certainly didn't get the impression it was something you saw a problem with.

[loud pike]

I am speaking on my personal opinion on the issue. Everything I say in here is my personal opinion. It's not something I work on, not even close. As such I will not comment on any development surrounding it.

[worthy scroll]

And your second message you added in before I replied seems to be defending it more. It seems like there is either going to be a problem here with aiming or with fairness of the location of the player's head relative to what the enemy can see

Explaining why the gun is clipping through the head isn't really a personal opinion. It's why you did it as a dev team. You're part of the face of the company while you're on here so people are going to take your comments that way.

[loud pike]

Aight, I get it, no more talking from me then.

[worthy scroll]

Seems like an overcorrection to me but your life. Hope you have a nice winter break! Maybe we'll cross paths somewhere else

[worthy scroll]

In real life, when you're prone, there is grass in your face if there is tall enough grass. In A3, the way around this was to use one of the sitting stances that no longer exists for whatever reason. In AR, the way around this is apparently clipping the gun through the players head. You guys had it right 10 years ago.

[warm mirage]

for me the main issue is that most scopes are now broken if you go prone makes it hard to coutner it

i almost need to put the scope on the front of the gun to have it work correct

[worthy scroll]

Are iron sights not broken? I don't get how a soldier in that stance can see down the sights without there being some "my head isn't actually where it needs to be" trickery that would be unfair for people fighting against them

[warm mirage]

it happends on a everysight

but with sniper scopes you see through the tube only , but with irons it zoom in to your face like 100x

like this

this then happends

[tacit stump]

How to properly remove things from overriden prefabs? I remove this bed from building prefab and then make save, but everytime I reopen prefab - it's still there 🚽 🛏️

[twilit barn]

I'd try duplicating instead of overriding

[empty nexus]

I want that bed

[twilit barn]

perfect hangover bed

[nimble whale]

Now I can sleep better knowing I am able to mod back in "OFP Style" main menu
https://imgur.com/a/w1O1p97

[worn tangle]

why the heck would you want to remove that, that looks like an awesome piece of furniture for gamers, dont let ikea get ahold of this confidential image!

[worn tangle]

EXACTLY!

[worn tangle]

someone will find the tiem to script an animate every OFP main menu sequence eventually, when that day comes i will be very pleased

[worn tangle]

i get that, maybe hand it down to the animation department or smth so they can finetune the weapon mount system so we dont get this issue it is a real pain sometimes and kills the immersion, but i agree that it isnt a massive issue as of current, I would hope that it gets done by the final update though

[twilit barn]

anyone know where the system budget for GM is set in the game files?

[short elm]

What dictates the recoil of the firearms? I did the Weapon Modding tutorial and noticed the gun had more recoil but the tutorial doesn't state what parameter effected that

[stark acorn]

https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Arma_Reforger:Weapon_Creation/Prefab_Configuration#Weapon_Behaviour_Configuration

[crude horizon]

In Arma Reforger, I created a mission in advance through Game Master, and when I load this from my server, the previously played mission file is loaded. Is there any way to solve this?

[snow sandal]

Where is the proper channel to talk about damage models for props and persistent damage models?

[tight tundra]

does anyone know what is going on? My time and weather entity is in bounds but everytime i try and start a game it says this : Virtual Machine Exception

Reason: Index out of bounds.

Class: 'TimeAndWeatherManagerEntity'
Entity id:71

Function: 'Get'
Stack trace:
scripts/GameCode/World/TimeAndWeatherManagerEntity.c:462 Function GetDayTimeUIInfo
scripts/GameCode/World/TimeAndWeatherManagerEntity.c:442 Function GetCurrentDayTimeUIInfoAndPhase
scripts/Game/UI/HUD/AvailableActions/Conditions/Game/SCR_DaytimeCondition.c:24 Function IsAvailable
scripts/Game/UI/HUD/AvailableActions/SCR_AvailableActionsDisplay.c:193 Function IsAvailable
scripts/Game/UI/HUD/AvailableActions/SCR_AvailableActionsDisplay.c:309 Function GetAvailableActions
scripts/Game/UI/HUD/AvailableActions/SCR_AvailableActionsDisplay.c:382 Function DisplayWidgetsUpdate
scripts/Game/UI/HUD/AvailableActions/SCR_AvailableActionsDisplay.c:372 Function DisplayUpdate
scripts/Game/UI/HUD/SCR_InfoDisplayExtended.c:484 Function UpdateValues

[twilit barn]

Has anyone ever edited the gm budgets? Looking like it will take some scripting after a quick look last night. Tried a few things with no luck yet.

[empty nexus]

SCR_BudgetEditorComponent or something has them as an array

I think it's part of Editor Manager entity

Or something, I messed with it for my stupid GM budget delete mod

[twilit barn]

Ah thanks! I'll have to look into this tonight! 😎

[hot spade]

does anyone know if it is possible to mod a radio to be receive only for certain frequencies, on a per player basis?

pointers to docs with functions would be appreciated

[fair spade]

Is there a way to use modded weapons in the game itself (not in the world editor) without making a custom faction?

[ivory ridge]

I got a question yall, is it easy to make uniforms?

[unborn inlet]

depends on your existing/ previous experience

[ivory ridge]

I dont got any, looking to learning tho

[unborn inlet]

then hard would be the answer

[tacit stump]

Is Caught request on locked player log error harmless? Everything works just as normal, the only hurdle I noticed that players spawn instantly each second spawn (respawn timer kicks in only for second spawn in the row, so it's instant-timer-instant-timer for some reason 🤔).

Reason: Caught request on locked player!
Class:      'SCR_PlayerFactionAffiliationComponent'
Function: 'RequestFaction'
Stack trace:
Scripts/Game/Respawn/Factions/SCR_PlayerFactionAffiliationComponent.c:178 Function RequestFaction
...

[remote bronze]

Hello yes this can be generally be ignored by you. But thanks for reporting it - we will look into this and see if it can be moved to a lower severity or removed entirely.

[ivory ridge]

Yo yo

[fluid turtle]

Inventory Pre-Render: Hey BIS, is there a way we can go back to regular Image Icons for the Inventory? Or can we save the already rendered Items as temp? On the most Servers the Arsenal is a complete mess. It takes up to 2 Min until the stuff is rendered in an good visible quality. Most time you enter the Arsenal and just seeing a lot of blured muddy stuff. (Geforce 3080 TI)

[remote bronze]

Item preview rendering should normally be cached after the first time it was rendered. Do you also have issues when you open it again shortly after? I also run a 3080TI and did not notice this so far, however I will pay closer attention. Are you running any mods that might be modifing the arsenal behavior?

[unborn inlet]

the more mods that adds items the more time in takes to cache everything

[empty nexus]

yes it's cached, but it still takes 382423 years to render them

[frail heart]

I’m sorry guys hope that’s the right place to ask. How do I use the file saved be the SaveLoadaComponent on my server to reload mission status after a server restart?

[hoary yoke]

Incredibly confused as to how to download the Enfusion Engine/Reforger Tools/Workbench. I bought Reforger thinking Reforger Tools was still a thing and apparently its delisted from Steam... I tried to find a download link for Enfusion online, to no avail... I don't know what the hell Im doing and the lack of answers online makes me feel like Im crazy. Super thankful to anyone who can point me in a direction that leads me to downloading whatever it is I need to make custom maps for Arma Reforger.

[unborn inlet]

it is still a thing -> search for Arma Reforger Tools in the tools subsection on steam

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1874910

wiki link - https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Category:Arma_Reforger/Modding/Official_Tools

[tacit stump]

How can one test JIP via localhost in workbench? I'm using peer tool, but it seems that Reforger client instance is unable to find workbench server via direct join (127.0.0.1:2001)?

[merry flume]

Hi all. How can i make a prefab for tank model?

[twilit barn]

I would look at SpaceCore mod and one of space striders tank mods to see how he did it.

[keen rune]

You can use the server startup parameter on the client I believe. If you try to direct join through the in game server browser it goes through backend stuff and wont work

sorry, -client 127.0.0.1 is the correct one

[tacit stump]

Thank you for the info! 🙏

[hoary yoke]

Thank you!!

[merry flume]

Well, i downloaded abrams mod, but there were no .fbx files. How can i get them?

[jade current]

You can't. That's not how it works.

[lime zenith]

Until someone makes a tank sample, there is no fbx, only binarized model

[jade current]

There is no need for a sample. They work like every other vehicle other than the tracks. Which all you need to do is have them modeled and UV unwrapped correctly. All of which can be viewed in workbench.

[wintry anvil]

Does anyone know why Sounds/FinalMix.afm override works just fine in the Workbench but not when you load it in the actual game when published? Other overrides I have done in the same mod do work so it is just that file that doesn't want to override.

[wintry anvil]

Tried to create a brand new project just do do a single change in that file and yeah same result. So I guess FinalMix.afm cannot be overriden?

[unborn inlet]

@distant goblet ideally you would make your own. Also #creators_recruiting

[jade current]

https://vimeo.com/899027221?share=copy Someone at B.I. might know why the preview entity breaks upon attaching something, having to use scroll wheel in order to get it to "reload" or something.

It doesn't do it with vanilla attachments btw, only one's i've created. I.E. No need to use scroll wheel in order to force an "update" if attaching the ugl.

[nimble mica]

Trying to make an AP mine, I lowered the pressure the mine needs but it did nothing

[empty nexus]

Players are not physics objects so I'm not sure they have mass

[nimble mica]

how would I get it to trigger from players

[twilit barn]

Good luck on that, I gave up a while back. Probably need to script a trigger for that to work on players.

[empty nexus]

I used an area trigger for my mines

But they are not placeable by characters, since they'd just blow up immediately

[fleet lotus]

i have the same problem, did you find a solution?

[elder osprey]

I havent dived into enfusion yet but, pls no iterating over every player ❤️

[empty nexus]

The amount of character entities in the trigger is usually 1 before the mine blows up

[tight tundra]

Yes. So basically what you do is you grab the weather entity from the prefab gallery on resource browser too. Don't choose the one that ends with .entity though, I believe it ends with .ent or something like that.

[fleet lotus]

hmm everything became more white and my skies/clouds got removed or something

[tight tundra]

Delete the old one

If it happens again delete both of them then do it again, if again restart then donit

[fleet lotus]

i dunno i have another problem, the program crashes when i press play from camera lol.. gonna need to try fix that first now thanks a lot tho

[tacit stump]

Is there any way to reparent prefab? I want to inherit from CompositionBase only as I don't need BuildableComposition_Base functionality.

[jade current]

Manually change the inherited prefab via text editor.

[sage eagle]

hey im new Modding, hopping someone can help me out here. im just trying to make a very simple conflict. when i go to spawn i im in the sea. i have all the points to Can Be HQ on.

Each one has one of the US ,USSR and FIA tag

[sage eagle]

nvm i fixed it

[elder osprey]

How simple was it to set this up?

[sage eagle]

Honestly not hard

First time doing something like this, watched a YouTube video and just worked it out from there

[elder osprey]

Nice

[sharp crow]

any reason the queue system doesnt work on the server browser?

[hollow thorn]

Is there a good way to kill a sound being played from a car on the cars destruction?

I tried using the radio SCRs but it doesn't work as I want. I currently use the new piano/church organ context menu to turn on the sound on but it constantly plays (which is what I want) but I want it to stop when the car blows up

Not exactly sure if there's a way to set what actions happen when the car explodes like how engine noise stops

[remote bronze]

There is no queue system yet

[undone canopy]

Is there a license for mods that doesnt allow you to use it on other servers?

[empty nexus]

You'd have to use your own license

[sage eagle]

Hey, im looking to make a mod that disables AI and radio backpacks in conflict. is anyone able to give me a idea how to do this

[unborn inlet]

nope.

[undone canopy]

that is what I have thought

some people are gate keeping their mods

[unborn inlet]

dm me the details

[undone canopy]

all good

It has nothing to do with me personally

[empty nexus]

To my knowledge you are allowed to restrict your mods to your servers as long as you don't break the game

[undone canopy]

so yes?

[empty nexus]

Yup. As long as it doesnt crash or break people's games if they try to run it.

Depends on your definition of gate keeping

[undone canopy]

lets say I have a server and mod and no one is allow to run a server with a mod expect me

[empty nexus]

They will be able to download it, but you can make your mod deactivate itself if not authorized

Will probably be more effective than a custom license (you should have one as well)

[undone canopy]

Im not asking how to do it hahaha just if its allowed

[empty nexus]

You could double check with a green name guy but there are a bunch of servers running similar ideas for like... forever

[calm granite]

^ though pretty easy to get around if you just look at the script lol but wouldn't recommend this as it's better to keep uniqueness among the servers

[empty nexus]

If someone modifies your script or something like that then all you need to do is report that mod as breaking the license terms

[calm granite]

Intresting I do like this new custom license thing as dayz sa modding well nothing really happened if someone yoinked your mod lol

[nova delta]

The license provided in the workshop can also be used for server and player usage

[nova delta]

Reforger is not dayz, even on workshop enforcement

[crude horizon]

I would like to load the mission file created in GM mode onto my dedicated server before connecting to the server. However, when I try to load the mission file, the mission that was loaded on the server two months ago is loaded. I tried deleting all server files and reinstalling the game, but the same thing still happens. How to solve this?

[elder osprey]

Is the entire reforger game master gamemode implemented with the same scripting we have access to? or is it a lot of deeper stuff that we couldnt do?

[pallid knot]

If you say "The mod requires something special that is only present on my own server, and thus it will not work on any other servers" then thats fine.
If a mod doesn't work it just doesn't work. You don't have to guarantee that your mod works in every case on all servers.

Just turn the "you're forbidden from using it" into a "It's broken when you use it" 🤷

[elder osprey]

Is the meaning of this that if you want to have a closed source addon you'd basically separate them into a client and server mod in order to block clients from getting your stuff?

[pallid knot]

That's the same as it was done in Arma 3 also
Script mods moved to server-only mods to hide them.
But you cannot do that in Reforger, client and server scripts need to match

[elder osprey]

I never modded for a3, just starting to learn refroger

But ok, interesting, for the time being no way to secure your own code i suppose?

Not really a concern for me, anything i make is gonna be open src, but im just curious, especially when a4 comes around

[pallid knot]

There is no way to hide Enforce Script code

[elder osprey]

👍

Ive got one god awful idea that im gonna try spinning up over the weekend. cant come up with anything thats is actually interesting lol 😵

[snow dome]

Not sure if this is the Right place to ask this but How hard would it be to Port Arma 3's ATAK into reforger?

[elder osprey]

Is there documentation (doxygen generated?) for all the built in reforger code?

So confused by how this is all set up lmao

[elder osprey]

So ive just been analyzing existing code trying to think about how to make what I want.
There seems to be no way to programatically create a player loadout?
SCR_LoadoutManager.c operates basically exclusively off of SCR_BasePlayerLoadout classes
But that is really just a wrapper class for a ResourceName, which I think is a prefab consisting of a SCR_ChimeraCharacter with a boat load of components, some of those being weapon and inventory presets.

Even if I could programatically create or customize an instance of SCR_ChimeraCharacter, there would be no way to load this into the loadout manager?

Oh, gamemaster and conflict both have a save option for loadout, there must be a way, gotta go search for how they implement that.

[vital root]

ye afaik all is needed is going through all 'slots' (in a simplified way of speaking)

[elder osprey]

I think thats what ive found

looking at some of the code and yeah it reaches into EquipedWeaponStorageComponent and whatever. So maybe thats where to go

[twilit barn]

what are you trying to do? Create a loadout from script? Why not just create new loadout prefabs and put them in the loadout manager of your scenario using the workbench/world editor?

[elder osprey]

The goal right now is to implement a gun game mode, so yknow deathmatch in an enclosed space, every kill changes your gun on a sequence. I'm pretty sure I could do it with loadout prefabs but I'm trying to do it directly right now

[twilit barn]

ok well characters have CharacterWeaponSlotComponent, which inherits from WeaponSlotCompnoent which contains ```c
proto external InventoryStorageSlot GetSlotInfo();
proto external void SetWeapon(IEntity weaponEntity);
proto external IEntity GetWeaponEntity();
proto external int GetWeaponSlotIndex();

[elder osprey]

Ill let yall know how it goes. Just implementing something to test that functionality right now.

[crude horizon]

Instead of being implemented with any scripting, I literally created a session using in-game game master mode, saved it and tried to import it from a decoded server that hosted it on my personal computer, but three months ago, I tried to import the session file the same way I just said, and it kept getting loaded. The game I'm talking about is arma reforger.

Please help me

[elder osprey]

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

Is this guide accurate?
It just drops off at having a Entity.c file, but that's not how any other entities are? Not sure how to turn it into a prefab

[elder osprey]

Yeah I dont have a darn clue, if anyone knows how to explain this to me pls @ and do. I don't get the paradigm going on here at all. Looking at stuff like the GameMode_Deathmatch_Automatic it just seems like you extend GenericEntity(Class) and boom you should be able to have a prefab entity in your world using the class. But it clearly doesn't work like that since I just have a .c file that does nothing.

It would make perfect sense to me if there was some empty game entity, and I add a component to it that implements the code from that tutorial I linked. But it's just an entity.c file.

[stark acorn]

For prefabs, take a look here https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Arma_Reforger:Prefabs_Basics

[elder osprey]

Ohhh god damnit THAT is the create menu that it was referencing. Thanks!

[elder osprey]

Nice, I finally managed to set weapon on my guy

[fleet lotus]

what component do i add to a genericentity again to make POI markers in the editor?

im trying to layout how the islands gonna be

[bright sable]

If you mean floating text, SCR_EditableCommentComponent.

[fleet lotus]

ah comment ty so much!

[bright sable]

If you want it to appear on the Paper map, there's also SCR_MapDescriptorComponent

[fleet lotus]

yea thats the one i was messing around with 🙂 i'll tackle that problem later tho lol thanks

[elder osprey]

Can you edit code in vscode with autocomplete or is it really recommended to use the built in editor?

[spark vault]

you can code in vscode but you dont have the debug thing and not the code of the game itself the reference and stuff like that

[elder osprey]

mm thats too bad

built in code editor is kinda bad

[spark vault]

you can make a workbench plugin that might be connect to vscode and use it then. but not sure if its 100% possible

[elder osprey]

eh i aint gonna spend that much effort

[spark vault]

then you have to work with the editor

[elder osprey]

Yeah but oh well

right now writing code is not my limiting factor, it'd just be a bit more convenient

[elder osprey]

How can I kill a player in code?

[elder osprey]

character.GetDamageManager().Kill(Instigator.CreateInstigator(this));
Simple as that!

[elder osprey]

Is there a set implementation in enfusion?

[elder osprey]

Wow, holy shit. If you are developing plugins definitely use a test world instead of Eden or whatever, the load time is probably literally 1000x faster

[royal niche]

I use Arland often; loads much faster than Everon, although obviously slower than a test world.

[elder osprey]

This whole thing is really rough so far lmao

[fleet lotus]

So Reforger stuff will be usable in Arma 4 right?

[unborn inlet]

not directly and implicitly, no

[fleet lotus]

what. wasnt the whole purpose of arma reforger to demo whats possible in arma 4 engine enfusion?

[unborn inlet]

let’s define reforger stuff firstly, maybe i missed the context

vanilla reforger content (assets) will be available for a4 according to existing reforger faq. In what capacity, uncertaint, could be directly available for everyone in A4, or have reforger behave like a dlc for its owners

[fleet lotus]

well i am no developer, this is just a third side hobby or so lol with dabbling in editors and such i mean. when i mean arma reforger stuff i mean like what ever gets implemented will have some way or more or less easy way of getting put in to arma 4?

lets say a mod like DayZ for AR will be portable to A4?

i dunno lol

[unborn inlet]

i would say yes. But as i said, just because you make something that works for reforger it doesn’t mean it will work as is in a future tile without changes. It might but the chances are slim hence my previous answer - not directly and implicitly

[fleet lotus]

i get that with the jump from A3 to AR but the video they put out clearly states this like a test/demo for what the enfusion engine is capable of, which A4 will also run on?

but fair enough

[unborn inlet]

it would most likely be more in line with the amount of time and effort required for mods to be made compatible from a2 to a3

even it the base engine is the same (enfusion) i wouldn’t expect things to work in a future title without at least some small changes from the author(s)

[fleet lotus]

i never got in to A2 but A3 i spent 3/4 of all my time in the editor

[fleet lotus]

thats fair and i kinda assumed something a lil like this actually

[unborn inlet]

so as i said, not directly and implicitly. But with some work/ update necessary from the author (i would assume new components, maybe new/updates shaders etc). Direct transition is also never desirable btw

[fleet lotus]

fair fair

[elder osprey]

So I really want to get this force weapon switching thing smooth.
This is all my method is. It's on an entity which sometimes calls this method within EOnFrame

    protected void HandlePlayerInterval()
    {
        IEntity player = GetGame().GetPlayerController().GetControlledEntity();
        IEntity weapon = GetGame().SpawnEntityPrefab(Resource.Load(weaponResourceName), null, null);
        CharacterWeaponSlotComponent weaponSlotComponent = CharacterWeaponSlotComponent.Cast(player.FindComponent(CharacterWeaponSlotComponent));
        weaponSlotComponent.SetWeapon(weapon);
    }

Whenever the method executes, your guy just holds an invisible weapon and the old weapon drops to float mid-air. So you cant actually shoot, the only way to shoot the new set weapon is to switch to a different gun (impossible if you dont have a secondary) and switch back, then it fixes.
Is this a client/server desync weirdness? Or is that just how SetWeapon works? Is there a better solution I can do to switch weapons in a way that makes for a playable weapon?

[remote bronze]

Try going through the character controller to take a weapon to right hand, that should do all the necessary calls. I don't have the workbench open, if you can't figure it out give me a ping tomorrow and I can look at work 🙂

[elder osprey]

Thanks! I'll toy around with that

[elder osprey]

        CharacterWeaponSlotComponent weaponSlotComponent = CharacterWeaponSlotComponent.Cast(player.FindComponent(CharacterWeaponSlotComponent));
        weaponSlotComponent.SetWeapon(weapon);
        SCR_CharacterControllerComponent component = SCR_CharacterControllerComponent.Cast(player.FindComponent(SCR_CharacterControllerComponent));
        component.TryEquipRightHandItem(null, EEquipItemType.EEquipTypeUnarmedContextual, true, null);
        component.TryEquipRightHandItem(weapon, EEquipItemType.EEquipTypeWeapon, false, null);

This is how I ended up solving it, it works pretty well. Still have a floating item though.

Very good so far

[elder osprey]

1st reason=DEATHMATCH_VICTORY_SCORE
2nd reason=FACTION_VICTORY_SCORE
surely DEATHMATCH_VICTORY_SCORE should have a victory image as well

[worldly wedge]

does anyone have any references for setting up vehicle lighting and such? trying to set it up on my helicopter and i cant seem to find WIKI info on it

[tacit stump]

What's the difference between PrefabLibrary, Prefabs and PrefabsEditable prefabs?

[stark acorn]

https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Arma_Reforger:World_Editor#Resource_Browser.2FPrefab_Library

[tacit stump]

Why AI in my scenario/game mode struggles to navigate in the game world? Is it workbench only or I need to add some additional managers so they could properly function?
They just can't go around the wall that separates them from the waypoint (screenshot) and it's strange because I don't remember them acting like that in ordinary gamplay in Conflict on official servers.

[spark vault]

AiWorld.et must be on the map

[tacit stump]

Yeah, it's there (otherwise it wouldn't even let you spawn them via Game Master). Other present managers : FactionManager, HitRegManager, LoadoutManager, PerceptionManager, RadioManager, TagManager, ScriptedChatEntity and Game Mode.

[bright sable]

Is the AIWorld fully configured?

The SCR_AIWorld_Eden / _Arland prefabs do not actually have their file configs set to anything

[tacit stump]

Yeah, it seems that by default NavmeshWorldComponent is not configured (and, honestly, it's pretty strange). I'll copy conflict AI world to see if it fixes the issue.

Yeah, they seem to be be able to navigate in the world now. Thank you for suggestion!

[frail heart]

Folks maybe i'm dumb, but why the Q | E keybind to cycle radio channels is not working and, even if I have AN/PRC 68 and 77 the Talk over long range radio doesn't seem to work?

[worn tangle]

is it possible to change material properties through script?

[gloomy vapor]

Not configurated like the Navmesh file is missing or any other additional settings too?
I have this problem while using a modified Arland map.
I have everything setup using SCR_AIWorldArland and the navmesh has everything incl. A.I. jump indicators.
However A.I. is unable to jump or climb anything.

Some settings of the vanilla SCR_AIWorldArland are modified by default meaning some of them have the arrow to reset them to default.

[tacit stump]

Honestly, I just copied SCR_AIWorld from Campaign (Conflict) world and it seems to work just fine.

[spark vault]

is there a way to search all prefabs that has a specific component?

[spark vault]

DEFAULT (W): Trying to equip as EEquipTypeWeapon, but weapon is not set in WeaponManager
can someone say what i have to do when i get that warning?

[calm granite]

Did you bake the nav mesh? Theres a low res and a high res version

[worn tangle]

it would be amazing if we could get a distortion effect for particles, i really want to make a mod that adds heat distortion above barrle after prolonged firing

[calm granite]

That would be sick same with barrels heating up I'm suprised they haven't all ready done this

[worn tangle]

ok i want to read what the error console is telling me but i cant seem to scale it in any way to see the rest of the messages, quick fix anyone?

[bright sable]

You can drag the separator to the left of 'File'

[worn tangle]

you are a life saver

[worn tangle]

I released my better Flashlights mod and it works, thank you so much Bacon and Til for helping me script in enfusion for first time 👍

[tacit stump]

What's the meaning of this icon type?

[worn tangle]

isnt that what they use for the generators? I am guessing it represents a collection of prefabs that are able to eb generated

[tacit stump]

Seems to be like it - SCR_EditorLinkComponent has list of all present prefabs and guess it generates them somehow into main prefab

Is there any documentation about them?

[worn tangle]

if you find a forest generator prefab you can drag them onto a polyline and it will generate a forest for you based on a config files perameters, i highly suggest playing around with them especially if you plan on making terrains

[abstract crystal]

#reforger_discussion message

[jovial tangle]

looking to setup a safezone at my trader i tried a gm safezone in th eworld file but it didnt work? any fix

[shadow quarry]

Is there a way to make it so if u get hit there's a chance u actually drop your weapon like not going unconscious but like the thing hits u and u drop it on the ground is that possible?

[silk swan]

technically yes, no idea how though 😉

[shadow quarry]

Oh ok

[spring wasp]

looking to create a korean war era mod n map. anyone have suggestions where to begin?

[bright sable]

with something smaller tbh

https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Category:Arma_Reforger/Modding

[worn tangle]

my advice would be to first get some nice height and satmap assets, then once you have set up the world start blocking out the terrain with essential buildings and roads, from then on paint terrain materials and make some forest generators

if you cant get any good height or satmap data i highly recommend a software called L3DT: https://www.bing.com/ck/a?!&&p=86eff9fda5f4455cJmltdHM9MTcwNTE5MDQwMCZpZ3VpZD0zMzg2ZDZhZi0yZjQyLTZmYzYtMDM5Ny1jNTYwMmVhODZlMzUmaW5zaWQ9NTIwMg&ptn=3&ver=2&hsh=3&fclid=3386d6af-2f42-6fc6-0397-c5602ea86e35&psq=l3dt&u=a1aHR0cDovL2J1bmR5c29mdC5jb20vTDNEVC8&ntb=1

[bitter dragon]

Where do I find a way to recolor the ALICE belt? Tried everything, but nothing works.

Steps taken so far at least is that I tried creating a custom duplicate prefab of the belt with a worn / item texture override for the belt using the ALICE texture. Nothing changed.

[jade current]

@bitter dragon You gotta change the material of the mesh object as well

[nimble mica]

I have been curious about this for a while, how does multiple people working on the same project work

[pallid knot]

You put the source files into a git or SVN repository.
And then people work on different things in parallel, and everyone pushes their changes into the repository, and pulls other peoples changes out of it. To keep their files always in sync

[shadow quarry]

If I wanted to use someone's mod as a dependency would I have to ask them?

[snow fable]

if it is on the workshop u should be free to do so

[pallid knot]

If their license doesn't allow derivatives, you might have to ask.
Like APL-ND license.
APL(-SA) would already give you permission so no need to ask

[unborn inlet]

false. see above ^^

[snow fable]

thanks for the heads up did not know this 👌

[sacred canyon]

hey guys im having problems to test the weapon that im making after adding the prefab base, I place it in a world but it wouldnt let me use, any advice?

[jade current]

Then you're prefab is missing components/isn't set up correctly

[agile tapir]

Hey everyone, I am new to this discord and I am looking for help with developing custom "unit patches" in arma reforger... I am looking for a "how to" guide or someone who can help me out to get started... thank you

[jade current]

I'd suggest you start by watching tutorials on how to use Blender.

[worn tangle]

if you have a patch in mind ensure you have a texture or a basic layout of what the patch should look like ready, then you could ask some existing patch modders if they would spare you a premade patch model, would spare you a lot of time, and there would most likely be someone friendly enough here to let you borrow there patch model with credit

[red island]

Yooo

[tacit stump]

I have a couple questions about Enscript's reference counting system and ref keyword.

A strong reference is a reference to an object that increments the reference counter. The referenced object cannot become null during the program's lifetime unless manually deleted (with the delete keyword).
So, what's the program's lifetime here - is it full Reforger executable lifetime or just gamemode lifetime (so, ref's would still exist even after player gets back into main menu, so he will get memory leak and crash eventually)? And should refs be cleared in destructor, something like

protected ref array<TAG_MyEntity> m_aEntities = {};
protected ref array<ref TAG_MyClass> m_aClasses = {};

~SomeClass()
{
    m_aClasses.Clear();
    delete m_aClasses;

    delete m_aEntities;
}

?

Also, what's the point of ref array<ref... and when it should be used? The only thing I noticed that you can't make ref array of refs if it has some entity as type.

[vagrant basin]

Maybe this ? https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Arma_Reforger:Scripting:_Automatic_Reference_Counting

[remote bronze]

You can think of ref as as short form for "reference-counting". That means that managed memory will be freed once there are 0 remaining references to the data. Besides the link posted above by @vagrant basin I'd like to answer your question example: The first array<T> will only keep weak pointers to your data. Unless the instance is managed somewhere else and kept alive your array will be full of NULL entries afer existing the method where you filled it. The second example is what is most often the correct usage, you have your array<ref T> which means your array is the one who at the very leas is holding the TAG_MyClass instances alive and if the array is destoryed all the instances inside will be destoryed too - unless they are being strong references somewhere else. Variables inside functions/methods are also a strong reference, that is why your data will not suddenly disappear mid method. You do not need to clear the array or call delete on it, both will be done automatically when the parent class destructs. All the references it held will be removed, and any memory which reference count is 0 because of that will be freed.

[tacit stump]

Thank you detailed explanation, it became a lot clearer to my mind!😅

[worn tangle]

Arkensor now officially holds record for most text in one message! May that be a challenge to the other Devs!

[thorny relic]

so I am new to modding and scripting in general, and I am wondering if there is any way for a program to read out the Header of a given mission loaded on a server, as in if a mission is running on a server, the script can automatically find the mission header and return its values, has anyone tried doing this before or could help me with it

[red island]

Yooooooo

[vocal gazelle]

Anyone have a procedure for setting up prefabs to actually work with the building system? The one mod that adds more buildable items doesn't actually charge resources or require a building action so trying to reverse engineer their method doesn't help.

[elder osprey]

maybe i can look into that 👀

[vocal gazelle]

If you mean the building thing, the mod that I was looking at that's supposed to add more items is "morecampaignbuildingassets". Iirc it did used to charge supplies in a past version. Don't think it ever worked with the layout and building system though as it never overrode the gamemode_campaign.et file to associate the layouts and dictate build times.

[elder osprey]

mmm id have to learn a lot more about the system

ive only toyed with modding a tiny bit i dont get a lot of it still

[vocal gazelle]

Poking around with that mod'll get you halfway there. I think I'm still missing some registry or prefab that'll make it all work. Spent days looking though.

[vital jasper]

Help with adding mods to server
I just uploaded a server and was trying to add some vehicle mods in it but the vehicles don't appear at the depots. I tried to open the modded vehicles in the reforger tools to assign them to the faction manager thinking that it would fix that, but when i open the reforger tools the folders of the modded vehicles prefab dont even appear at the list of avaible assets. Can someone explain me what could i do to fix that???

[twilit barn]

I tried to update that mod and spent like half a day messing with it with no result. Would have been nice to get some sort of notes on how to update that kinda stuff but I was just left to guess, so I left the mod as is for now until there's some sort of documentation on how to set all that up.

[vocal gazelle]

Yeah, I wish we had that documentation because getting that working would unlock so many cool mod ideas.

I've spent the better half of a week messing with it and can sometimes get the layout to show up. but when built it leaves behind the preview prefab. I've been changing so much of it that I don't even know specifically what it is that cause those changes.

I'm sure the reason we don't have it yet is the planned building system changes would make it obsolete.

[twilit barn]

Yeah probably, I couldnt get a preview to show up at all, just the finished product and if I remember correctly it was like an instant action.

[vocal gazelle]

Figured it out. Gonna do some more tinkering to see if it works with different types of prefabs (Ie: things you can interact with/ or not)

[twilit barn]

very nice! 🙂

[ancient badger]

anyone know how to give a custome faction a loadout to spawn with? ive followed the tutorial but the component it shows dosent exist

[stark acorn]

which component doesn't exist?

[ancient badger]

idk if it exsists or has a new name

but ive searched all over and cant find it

[stark acorn]

ah, I see. You can skip this step

[ancient badger]

oh is this not needed for the loadout?

[stark acorn]

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

not anymore

I will update the wiki later today

[ancient badger]

thank you this has helped me from pulling my hair our hahaha

[wicked trail]

https://tenor.com/view/arma3-gif-22622192

[crude wasp]

is the missing Door in the GuardHouse_03 Artistic Choice or is this a error in the prefab?

[vocal gazelle]

Some items in the resource browser don't show up because of how they are set up in the prefab. If you hit edit prefab it should be there.

[crude wasp]

its also not there ingame thats how i found it.

[vocal gazelle]

Just looked at it. The door is just oriented 180 in the wrong direction so it's inside the wall

select the other door in the editor and the left door will be right next to it.

[crude wasp]

I doubt that that is intended

[ancient badger]

back again ive tried doing a loadout to spawn with my custom faction and i dosent a appear in the respawn menu

[unkempt fjord]

does anyone have a pre made skeleton for character?

[stark acorn]

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

[unkempt fjord]

thx

[sharp crow]

I have a question. We are running a server and are continuously running into the problem of using a mod as a dependency and then it being moved or modified in such a huge way it breaks the server every time. This is a huge issue when using dependencies. Is there a way to prevent this from happening besides making everything in house?

This wasn’t an issue on Arma 3 because when you joined you downloaded all the mods from the server not the workshop

[stark acorn]

Cannot you define in server config which mod version are you using? Not sure if that is going to work also for dependencies but it might be worth trying

[sharp crow]

You could, but what about when a mod gets banned from the workshop. It’ll immediately be gone until one of the owners gets on and fixes a number of broken things.

[stark acorn]

That is bit different from "moved or modified in such a huge way it breaks the server every time"

when mod is banned then you will have to remove it from server

[sharp crow]

Well I get that. What I’m saying is, the mod creators can literally shut down a server if they even delete there mod from the workshop.

Like there should be some system in place for this so server owners have time to come up with an update

Like how scripting works and obsolete methods are being removed

[stark acorn]

That probably doesn't happen to much unless someone selects some shaddy mods

[sharp crow]

I guess one fix would be by setting all the versions of each mod. And just hope they don’t get removed. But damn I wish they downloaded like Arma 3

[sharp crow]

Thank you for the quick response.

[twilit barn]

I suggested a fix for that. If a mod gets banned, the server sees it in the config but doesnt load it so it doesnt make those servers unplayable (who may not know a mod was stolen assets or whatever reason it was banned).

I think it was JSOC that got banned and did the same to one of my servers. How am I, as an innocent and unrelated server owner, to know its a bad mod? I don't, so then my server and community also gets punished for using a banned mod that I had no idea they were up to shady business.

[empty nexus]

What if it's banned while the server is running? It already won't start with a banned mod I think

[twilit barn]

no it does. I restarted the server and the server loaded the banned mod but wouldnt let anyone join

if its already running, IDK if they can send some kind of shutdown from the backend or not, but it shouldnt start with a banned mod creating this issue.

[empty nexus]

oof

[twilit barn]

yeah big oof

[sharp crow]

If it’s running you can’t join

[sharp crow]

It’ll just make people unable to join. It’ll say the mod name and that it’s banned

[empty nexus]

yea I wasn't aware that it will start with a banned mod

[elder osprey]

Any idea why I can't open my project's map? Untouched for about a week.

Virtual Machine Exception

Reason: NULL pointer to instance

Class:      'SCR_CallsignManagerComponent'
Function: 'SCR_BaseGameModeComponent'
Stack trace:
scripts/Game/GameMode/SCR_BaseGameModeComponent.c:286 Function SCR_BaseGameModeComponent

It does a bunch of errors, one more I'll give

Virtual Machine Exception

Reason: NULL pointer to instance

Class:      'SCR_EntityCatalogManagerComponent'
Function: 'SCR_BaseGameModeComponent'
Stack trace:
scripts/Game/GameMode/SCR_BaseGameModeComponent.c:286 Function SCR_BaseGameModeComponent

[sharp crow]

You’re probably missing managers

[empty nexus]

I don't miss my manager

[elder osprey]

Hitting debug on the error lets me actually read the log instead of instantly full crashing.
Apparently I have 2 game modes.
Problem is I cant remove one, if there even really is 2, becaues it instant crashes

And I dont know wtf caused this. It was working, I add some code that does a findComponent, casts it, calls a function, then it crashes. Deleting that code still doesn't fix it.

[empty nexus]

you can open the log in the workbench folder in documents / my games

and you can edit your layers in a text editor, remove an entity or something

[elder osprey]

Oh I had no idea map layers were human readable, I can clear out all my new stuff, thanks!

[bright sable]

A lot of things are, from prefabs to materials.

[elder osprey]

very cool 🤠

oh damn my error was super obvious, but the entire editor crashing was extremely annoying lol

[twilit barn]

why does my world editor (stable branch) show all white instead of the world? Keeps flashing between a black oval and the border of a black oval where I should be seeing my world (edited everon). I can move around, but all Im seeing are the numbers changing, everything is still white... 🤷‍♂️ So much for working on mods! 🤦‍♂️

[elder osprey]

So so, is there any way to run local mods on a dedicated server? I want to deploy it in a real-ish world scenario before I put something to the workshop.

[sharp crow]

Set up a dedicated server or use peer tool

I recommend dedi

[elder osprey]

How do you provide it with local mod files instead of workshop stuff

[twilit barn]

check the wiki, thats where I figured it out. Pretty much you have to set up a dedi instance using -server parameter and your client must use -client parameter and of course assign directories for your mods, profile, config etc

[stuck birch]

any video tutorial on how to retexture vanila equipment and put it in arsenal? i have try many thing none is working :/

even following the wiki..

not sure what i did wrong except an error code 400 "resources asset not found" when trying to publish the mod

[snow fable]

there was another guy having the same issue on here the other day did u fix this gramps ?

[twilit barn]

no, world editor keeps showing everything bright white, i can only see outlines of objects in prefabs/worlds

Ive pushed an update like a week ago too, no update since then... IDK 🤷‍♂️

[snow fable]

very curious what this is saw some post this yesterday to let me dig a minut

#reforger_workbench message

@twilit barn dont know if he ever solved it

[twilit barn]

thanks!

[stark acorn]

That is a valid point, did you created perhaps feedback tracker ticket for it?

[twilit barn]

I did not, currently in bed with work tomorrow, maybe in like 20hrs I can do that if I remember.

[warm mirage]

does anyone know why with even turning uncon off , ai still goes uncon ?

[snow fable]

turning uncon off inside game mode u mean does this even count for the ai ?

[warm mirage]

no on the ai itself

[snow fable]

actualy never tried this will test in a minute

i kinda like the idea of needing to doubletap the mofos

[smoky sinew]

is there a way to reset the windows in enfusion to dock back into the editor after popping them out?

[smoky sinew]

Also, any reason I'm not able to change parameters in my object properties? They're blanked out but were working earlier

and it's not limited to just terrain, trying to build a road with a spline is giving me issues too

[smoky sinew]

Im expecting this but I get the above

https://feedback.bistudio.com/T178691

[elder osprey]

So

So for dedicated server local mods do you simply provide -addons and -addonsDir

[tawdry owl]

What kind of content is inside of this “local” mod that you can not simply just use the workshop? 🤔

[elder osprey]

an in-development mod game mode. I don't want to upload half broken POS content to the workshop and need to update it every time i test on a dedicated server

[elder osprey]

gonna reply to this incase you actually know the answer

[tawdry owl]

I dont know the anwser. Only thing I know is that 95% of the time local mods usually have a lot of stollen content inside.

[elder osprey]

Right yeah I figured that's what you were getting at. No worries, no models or artwork of any kind, just code, and it's all mine 🙂

[twilit barn]

https://feedback.bistudio.com/T178708

[jade current]

Currently I have been able to replicate a problem that @eager scarab is having.

{DE17AC501F0CD5EB}Configs/Core/EditableEntityCore.conf doesn't update to include Label Types added by modding the EEditableEntityLabel enum.

Obviously we've been able to add to the enum for awhile, as many people have but for whatever reason it doesn't work currently.

[twilit barn]

Sooo nobody has a fix for this? 😦

[teal monolith]

Hello, I hope that this is an ok place to ask this.
Is there anybody here who would be willing to teach a complete beginner how to create mods in Arma Reforger?
I understand that is a huge thing to ask.
So if that isn’t possible could someone point me in the direction of in-depth video tutorials so that could try and teach myself?
Thank you in advance.

[bright sable]

It really depends on what you want to create, exactly.
https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Category:Arma_Reforger/Modding

I recommend you choose a topic and read about it specifically. There's really no way to "learn modding" in one step.

[teal monolith]

Ok I appreciate the recommendation and I will definitely start there.
I’m looking to create/edit weapons and clothing/gear.

[bright sable]

Then have a look in here: https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Category:Arma_Reforger/Modding/Tutorials/Assets

[smoky sinew]

A lot of trial and error in reverse engineering. There’s also a Github actually just go and get hub and search Arma reforger. You can see the samples that Bohemia puts up there. You can take those apart try those and then just go along a few. YouTube tutorials depends on what you wanna learn exactly because it’s a pretty wide spread of knowledge some people specialize in terrain other people specialize in making things like weapons, others do clothing others do vehicles people like me I’m more interested in learning functional interactive gameplay mechanics stuff editing, game modes, like conflict. It is definitely a marathon, not a sprint to learning it. Personally, I think the easiest thing to learn is terrains, but if you go step-by-step through the weapons tutorial on the Bohemia wiki documentation I think that’ll teach you about how a lot of things in the engine work as well

[teal monolith]

Thank you so much for the information I can’t tell you how much I appreciate it!

I’d like to eventually be able to do a range of things. I don’t know if that’s just wishful thinking but Ive always want to be a part of the scene and I decided it’s finally time to just go for it. I realize now that I’m actually researching and trying to get my foot in that it’s definitely not an easy task but one that I believe is worth the effort and time.

[solemn dune]

Hi, is possible to make standalone games with Enfusion Engine, and is possible to download it without buying Arma Reforger

[young pebble]

Just a quick one, had anyone tried putting the radio component into an antenna prefab that can be attached to a radio body prefab? As I'm looking at making one that can use quite a number of different frequencies depending on the antenna attached and it would be really cool to get them all in

[bright sable]

Technically it is of course possible, but BI does not currently plan to license it to 3rd parties.
Source: https://enfusionengine.com/

[remote bronze]

You can not download the engine as a standalone SDK like you would with unity or unreal. And usage for it comes through games we publish. If you would like to create a standalone game, I would personally recommend making a total conversion as a mod as a prototype (like we did with https://reforger.armaplatform.com/workshop/59029E176ED5A202 as an example) and then get in touch with us to learn more about the incubator program where you can present and get support for a game you want to publish: https://incubator.bohemia.net

[solemn dune]

thankss!

[solemn dune]

thxx

[worn tangle]

Honest question, who would like modded weapons dated pre 1900s? what I am getting at is a martini Henry mod

[lethal tulip]

@clever ermine if you look at current things like e.g. gta rp servers are built, there is serverside (which takes care of the database, player transactions, actually almost everything that doesn't concern the UI) and clientside (which only takes care of things like UI stuff)

[clever ermine]

please check the other link I sent and this https://github.com/Arkensor/EnfusionPersistenceFramework and see if this answers your questions, because to me it looks like it is capable of doing what you're writing about except there is no need for special server-side mods like in Arma 3, the netcode is different

[lethal tulip]

i think for many people it's more about keeping the code private and not about whether it's being executed on the server or on the client

[clever ermine]

you asked about extensions and client/server communication, not obfuscation.

code can be obfuscated in Reforger as long as it's not behaving as malware.

[lethal tulip]

personally, I think it's nice to clearly separate both sides, but that's not how enfusion is apparently structured

[lethal tulip]

after today's chat I'm not so sure anymore 😄 , obfuscation isn't safe 100% either, but strict separation of client and server side code is

it's not that important, it's just my personal opinion, the foundations of enfusion have already been laid anyway, so nothing fundamentally changing will change i think

[clever ermine]

if you want your code to be 100% safe, write your own game, carefully select the people who can play it and meet in a quarantined environment with no access to the rest of the world. :P

even with what Arma 3 provided with extensions, databases etc, it still was more than doable to extract data and code. All you can do is having an obfuscation, proper license and a well-paid lawyer

[lethal tulip]

how was it possible to get code from the server mod? this code is only on the server and never reaches the client.
all gta 5 servers work like this and it works pretty well

strict separation is enough and 100% safe

[pallid knot]

how was it possible to get code from the server mod?
People had bugs that allowed malicious players to execute scripts on the server.
If you can run script on server, you can run a script that collects all server data and sends it back out to you

Enfusion doesn't make it easy to separate, but it does seem like its possible #enfusion_scripting message

[icy sonnet]

Bumping this

[keen rune]

#enfusion_workshop message
I think obfuscation is also discouraged it seems

[clever ermine]

no, obfuscation that's supposed to crash the client or behave as malware is discouraged.

you can obfuscate content without such "features". But distributing malware for "security" is discouraged. That's what that message says.

[twilit barn]

I read that differently so you may want to ask in the thread Mario created

[valid fjord]

Hey I don't know if anyone can help but our server for our milsim keeps shutting down automatically and we can't figure out why any ideas?

[dire seal]

has anyone found a good tutorial/video that actually shows how to limit/alter what appears in the arsenal? I'm struggling to find any documentation on how that process works

[empty nexus]

why bother obfuscating anyway

[keen rune]

For the same reasons any other software does. You have something you consider unique and dont want someone to host another server to benefit from it by taking it and modifying it or reusing it, and or taking player base from your server. It doesnt make sense for any asset mods, but it makes sense for some gamemodes/servers. Common in dayz servers I believe

[empty nexus]

is it worth it? seems like all it does is add some inconvenience for whomever wants to learn how your thing works (in context of reforger mods anyway)

[keen rune]

To someone who is competent? Its just a delay, to someone who has no idea what they’re doing? Pretty big hinderance

[empty nexus]

hmm ok

[unborn inlet]

but what is there to earn? where is the upside?

[keen rune]

Keeping player base of a gamemode to yourself. Its to eliminate competition

[unborn inlet]

what's this shit i keep hearing about competition? what is there to compete for?

[empty nexus]

internet points

[keen rune]

Im just answering why, not advocating for or against.

[unborn inlet]

so, dayz is a wild west unfortunately, there is a lot of stuff that is paid for when it shouldn't be. from my own experience with obfuscated mods, it brings nothing to the table, it 8/10 cases it hides stolen stuff

[keen rune]

If there are 1000 servers offering the same features nothing stands out among any individual server. If you have something unique no one can replicate because they cant read your code you stand out in the masses

You are competing for players

[unborn inlet]

why?

[keen rune]

Would it not be in the interest of a server to have the most players? Especially pvp/survival game modes? Rust servers have hundreds of people

[unborn inlet]

not sure, would it be? what is there to win or earn (besides internet points)

[empty nexus]

donation potential?

[unborn inlet]

especially considering reforger doesn't allow monetization schemes

dayz is an awful example

[unborn inlet]

yeah, donation potential

[bright sable]

I dislike obfuscation, but I agree with Adam. Most server owners probably just like it when people play on their server, same as e. g. modders like it when many people use and enjoy their mods. It justifies putting time and effort into it.

[unborn inlet]

while i agree with that, copy pasting can be limited by license. There are so many other way to keep people at bay than obfuscation

[stark acorn]

one could argue, why not give ability to export XOB in Workbench, so others could learn how to model things nicely?

[unborn inlet]

fair point, yet, you can surely have a look at how things are done and modelled directly in workbench. I know for anything text, you can copy paste easier hence your export XOB comparisson, i get that

in that case why not provide an obfuscation method directly in the tools? Things seems to be on the bench, it's either yes to obfuscation, or no, not obfuscation (and then maybe obfuscate everything anyways)

[sterile rover]

Everyone knows the main point of hosting a personal server is so that no one plays on it.

[silk swan]

I create stuff because "I" like it, and if others do too they can use it; for free without limitations.

I have nothing to gain from it, and neither do others when they try to rip it.

And I also made stuff in the past which can't be used by others, but even then it's open source (not free to copy&paste!) so others may learn from it.

So unless your only goal is to make money (which isn't allowed), there's no real reason to hide what you have made...

[keen path]

Jealousy, envy and such are genetic, you wouldn't get it.

[silk swan]

I also envy people who make things I can't, and therefore they get my respect (something that a lot of people don't get)

[pallid knot]

The life scene is well known for stealing other peoples stuff and pretending they made it themselves.
You might not gain much by creating your content. But just because you have no "gain" doesn't mean you need to accept that other people get fame for what you did.

Yes. You can waste days of your time, policing the workshop and checking other peoples stuff to identify if they have stolen stuff from you. But you might just aswell not, if its as easy as obfuscating your code

[twilit barn]

I made a scenario that 30+ servers use and I welcome others to use it. But my servers are the most populated of those 30+. Just make a good server and you'll get the players! Trying to hide things just seems selfish to me. Those are the people i'd rather not use my mods.

[elder osprey]

gpl license go brrr

[red island]

Yo

I have mods tha need to be added in arma reforger models already purchased

[jade current]

That's not how it works dude.

[red island]

I’m just askin mate

[jade current]

You didn't even ask. You made a statement.

[autumn vale]

My Appologies if this is the wrong place to ask. On my Dedicated Server, i cannot get my Custom Made Mod/Scenario to Show up in "listscenarios" command on the dedicated server. the MissionHeader is there, i have followed two tutorials but cannot get the dedicated server to see/load my mission/scenario, I Imagine im missing some step in the editor. Any Idea?

[jade current]

is it in a folder called "Missions"?

[autumn vale]

yup, Mission.conf is in Missions Folder, in my Project folder

after publishing and downloading to my dedicated server, i can see my two conf files in the ServerData.json

[jade current]

unrelated but it's bad practice to name your mission header "Mission"

[autumn vale]

Fully understandable but i tried custom DIR names, and then reverted thinking it was bohemia being that way...

[jade current]

upload your mod, download it, then enable it and see if your mission is in the list of scenarios

[autumn vale]

you mean in the actual game right, and not the dedicated. --- ok understandable, i published it *unlisted, ill have to find where to throw the GUID

[jade current]

If it's unlisted the only way to download it is to join a server that has it iirc

If you get it downloaded though, you can just enable it in the game and check the available scenarios. If yours is there then it's a server issue, if it's not it's a problem with your mission header

[autumn vale]

ok, ty, ill keep trying, about to load it now in standalone vanilla game

[red island]

Ok umm so anyone do mods for arma reforger

[jade current]

https://discord.com/channels/105462288051380224/292271129303842817

[red island]

Ik

But thx for telling me the Chanel

[jade current]

That's the only channel you should be soliciting in.

[jade current]

Any luck?

[autumn vale]

no im going to have to turn it public i think to make it easier, before i do, The Specific Error is "Failed to Open" like my path is wrong, could it be caused by somthing else, like a field ?

the GUID befor Missions/GSG.conf is the Mod ID, im assuming thats correct, and its not the SceneID that i see in the serverdata.json

[jade current]

Try removing "Path" from your mission header. I've literally never used it and I've never had a problem with any of my scenarios

[autumn vale]

ive tried it with path blank, and with missions just to see

currently publishing public ¯_(ツ)_/¯ we'll see what it does in normal game but i dont expect it to work

[jade current]

Right click the mission header and copy it's resource name.

That's what's used in the server config

[autumn vale]

roger that will try momentarily

appreciate the feedback support ty, rackin my head for a couple hrs

[jade current]

I do find it odd that quite a few people have problems with the mission headers for some reason

When you created it, did you create a SCR_MissionHeader or just a MissionHeader

[autumn vale]

SCR_MissionHeader 100%

[autumn vale]

So i have published public - Well Over 15 Minutes ago, Ensured my filters are on All, and i cannot find the mod in The workshop in game or are armaplatform. --- I have confirmed my dedicated server is downloading and using the newest Versions of my Mod, By Deleting the Addons Directory, Deleting one of the Mission.conf files from my project, re-publishing, downloading on dedicated, and verifying that only one scenario Exists in the ServerData.json. So i know its updating i know its correct. Thanks to Zelik, i have ensured the ScenarioID, in my config.json to load is the same and matches the serverdata.json AND the copied value of the mission.conf file (Right click copy resource name) as he suggested, and still i get an error when booting my dedicated server "Failed to Open" -- Im out of ideas, it looks like a simple DIR Path Error, but its not - i Have put togather a image showing all the main Areas of Config, hopfully some one can see somthing

gunna give it an hour, while i take a break maybe it will come on workshop and can download it and try running it in a standalone standard game, ive looked for a config file or some where for the standalone, where to add the MOD ID so it would download without having to find it on the workshop -- cant find that config file/location, --- gunna give it a bit of time i geuss, -- for complete disclosure aswell, everytime i did a publish i changed the version number in my dedicated server config, so im not making that noob mistake. -- honestly donno where im wrong, appreciate any insight, ty!

[remote bronze]

Things I would check:

1. Rightclick copy the resource name of the GSG.conf and see if it is still the same leading GUID - maybe the file was moved some time and is not properly updated
2. Check that your mod guid is the correct one in case you published multiple mods. if you ever only published this one variant and then updated it, then that should be fine.
3. Download and open your mod packed mod in workbench to see if the config is where it should be.

[autumn vale]

Thank you for your help, Always Appreciate it. 1. Just double checked the Mission GUID by right clicking and copy resource names in editor, its deffinitly a match.
2. This is my first published mod, so i dont see it getting mixed up, and based on me updating it, re-downloading it, and confirming things change on the packaged mod, i verify it is updating properly when i publish.
3. Re-Downloaded verified Version, opened packed mod in workbench, verified GSG.Conf, and its location, and Re-Copieied resource name and verified,

4. Side Note: checked this morning still cant find my mod in public workshop ---

Just woke up so, ill tackle this issue in a couple hours. I do greatly appreciate the assistance everyone, thank you very much

[remote bronze]

maybe you published it under test and need to check that box on the workshop client ui?

[autumn vale]

ill give it a shot, i originally published it, unlisted, but changed it to public to give it a shot --- but deffinitly didnt publish as a test

[autumn vale]

May i please Ask.... --- Once a New Workshop Mod has been downloaded, (Assuming its a MP Senario of course) --- will it show up under -listscenarios on the dedicated server? -- there is no additional step to register the scenario or somthing? -- i Started this troubleshooting stating that my workshop scenario is not listed. -- this to me is a clear indicator that somthing in the mod is not correct? because its not scanning+listing the scenario --- does that train of thought make sense?

[autumn vale]

i feel ive exhausted everything and im creating a blank mod, verifying the scenario works, and transfering everything over as ive exhausted my alternatives

[autumn vale]

Ive been able to create a new mod, had it blank and up and running on dedicated server within an hour, im in the process of transfering everything in my mod, to the new one, and finding out where it breaks, -- i got a hunch its a dependancy or somthing --- i noticed the new mod, when published, was instant on the dashboard,

[empty nexus]

what is the actual issue? set your scenario resource name in the config, if it's in your mod it'll work

[autumn vale]

dedi wont load senario, log msgs are shit, somthing in mod is doing it, having to rebuild entire mod to find it

[empty nexus]

if you'd like some help consider posting server console.log and the GUID of the mod you are trying to use

[autumn vale]

#enfusion_generic message

all good man, im rebuilding a massive mod from scratch peice by peice... till be a couple days, but thanks

[empty nexus]

version 0.0.10 of that mod does not exist

[autumn vale]

i removed it this morning

[empty nexus]

ok, then consider posting up to date information

[autumn vale]

lol

[crimson latch]

Not sure what channel to put this in. I've been trying for a couple of days to replicate something like these map markers from A3 in Reforger. Am I missing something super super obvious? Like, really just missing it? I've been playing around with the 'LocationBase' settings but just can't get them to look right. Any help would be appreciated! Also attached my current best attempt. (Moving this from another channel)

[jade current]

Would anyone be interested in a mod jam perhaps? lol

[elder osprey]

👀

perchance

[short roost]

what kind of modjam? any kind of mod?

if character art is included maybe on my part, havent touched reforger in a long time

[wintry pond]

If you aren’t aware of it, the base game has map markers built into it. They’re pretty extensive. Released right around 1.0

[red island]

Yoo I have a question

[twilit barn]

Dang, you gonna leave us hanging like that? LOL

[red island]

Who

But anyway do anyone knows to get make mod scopes

[unborn inlet]

rephrase?

[red island]

Dm me

[unborn inlet]

no

[red island]

Igh

[north vault]

I'm trying to pick up Enfusion to look and see what it would take to learn so I could make some mods, where the fuck do I download it from 😭

[bright sable]

Steam Library under Tools

[north vault]

Arma Reforger Tools?

[bright sable]

Yes

[north vault]

Bless you

[sharp knoll]

dumb q, can you rebind exiting out of world editor? default is escape

[remote bronze]

Yes you can change it in the workbench settings if you go to the world editor tab 🙂

[sharp knoll]

Ah thanks

[tacit stump]

Small feature request - add subscribers count to ScriptInvoker 🙃

[crimson latch]

Sorry didn't see this! I was playing around them a little with I think the right ones? The same ones that have say 'airport' in floating text in the editor right? But I couldn't get them to look like well anything, so kinda assumed I wasn't on the right track?

[wintry pond]

Don’t mind me. We’re talking about two very different things. lol. I was referring to the in game markers. Sounds like you’re trying to customize the map itself.

[orchid stag]

How are folks collecting performance metrics of their servers for Arma? Are there tools for us to monitor reforger stats?

1. Trying to deduce if my dedicated server is lacking appropriate resources for hosting the game, or if it's a scenario/enfusion problem

2. GameMode is technically spawning loot in ~17k containers - so perhaps stress testing replication? Using the override approach where furniture and what not are containers.

3. We're able to achieve 60+ FPS as clients. Have only seen the server FPS error on the top right once as admin.

So.... having something to help deduce where bottlenecks are would be nice!

[dry flare]

I can edit default base radio range, but how can I edit radio range increased with installed anthena?

[empty nexus]

I collect metrics from Server Admin Tools into Prometheus and display them in Grafana and my server admin panels

For hardware usage metrics like CPU, Memory, Network, Disk I collect them from Docker stats

[orchid stag]

May end up mimicking you then.

[dusty hamlet]

I'm pretty new to enfusion and let me know if I've missed an FAQ channel and this shouldn't be here (there's quite a bit going on within the discord server).

When I go to load in prefabs or worlds, I'm getting a black screen right off the bat. I've tried messing with some settings but nothings really coming out of it. Tutorials I've watched show the items and worlds should be displayed as is.

Is there something up with my particular install or is there something I need to do?

[orchid stag]

well that is certainly strange. Should definitely see "something" there. Have noticed weird things which require me to restart the workbench, but can't say I've seen this black screen on eden before.

There is a world that doesn't have lighting, where you can change the shading to see things.

[dusty hamlet]

It shows up as lit, I messed with that too. Not just the world. Here's an arsenal box:
I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling.
If this is definitely not normal I may scapel it out and try again.

[orchid stag]

yeah none of that seems normal. I assume you have a GPU? I tried on a laptop before without a GPU and it didn't work well.

(I just wanted to script remotely)

[dusty hamlet]

I mean I hope not, it's a 3060. I'll report back when I slice this thing out

[orchid stag]

geez, yeah that should work fine. I'm on 3080 right now. If you can PLAY the game on that machine it should freaking work lol.

Driver update?

[dusty hamlet]

That's a good call. something I always forget. I do show I have an update, let's find out

[orchid stag]

Would be weird if it fixes the problem, but I'm out of ideas lol

[dusty hamlet]

I mean, it probably won't, but it's good practice to always have the thing your running be up to date.

[dusty hamlet]

Ok so doing a full remove and install didn't do anything.
Digging a bit I see an error in the logs:
RENDER (E): Invalid shader vs engine version (shader version 80 != engine version 91), validation failed

Anyone know how I can update that?

[stark acorn]

you are using experimental tools with non experimental data

[dusty hamlet]

You, are a hero

[stark acorn]

https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Arma_Reforger:Mod_Project_Setup#Adding_Arma_Reforger_Project follow this but add Arma Reforger Experimental gproj

[dusty hamlet]

Thanks! I was stumped!

[orchid stag]

that makes sense in hindsight with the error. Glad you got it figured out!

[surreal sparrow]

Hello what channel do i go to for asking help with a mod

[silk swan]

Depends on your question 🤷
There are a lot of specialisations below this channel

[young pebble]

Is it possible to make only a specific part of a reticle glow? So fqr i've managed to get the whole thing to glow but I only need one bit to glow?

[red island]

#creators_recruiting

[snow dome]

Would anyone be able to help me or guide me in the direction of being able to export The Game Maps and putting them in a browser to use them on a 2nd monitor or a phone. Mainly for personal preplanning so on so forth like mapgenie.io Here is some of the work already done but it is in 4 different browsers instead of one https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2816709014.. It would be nice if you could just export the whole Map UI/Json file and upload it to a URL page. Please and Thank you in advance

[tacit stump]

I constantly encounter this error after pressing play in workbench since the new patch. 😦

138 line is if condition in AddSupportStation function

//~ Make sure it is added near the at priority in the array
if (supportStation.GetSupportStationPriority() >= supportStations[i].GetSupportStationPriority())
{
    //~ Insert in list at the correct location
    m_mSupportStations[supportStation.GetSupportStationType()].InsertAt(supportStation, i);
    return;
}

Happens on at very least CTI_Campaign_Arland.ent world.

[jade current]

It's illegal to export the data from the game. You have to screenshot and stitch it together like that guy did. Or ya know, just use his images...

[snow dome]

How is it illegal? Isn't this under the Consumer act one you buy something you can do with it what you like as long as you don't turn a profit on it

[snow dome]

But I get it I guess I'll figure it out. Also Athena is a Mod that allows you to do that for Arma 3 and even gives updated in game info. I don't know why Reforger would be any different

[unborn inlet]

but you don't buy a product, it is licensed to you.

[jade current]

If you want to question the legality of ripping assets from a game i'd suggest contacting a lawyer, go ahead and contact the B.I. legal department while you're at it.

[pallid knot]

Athena is a second screen app where you can watch game information. Its not a texture ripping tool??
Maybe you missunderstood what he meant by "export". Sending data from the game to other applications is not the same as ripping/extracting game assets out of it

Also Arma 3 offers official tools to unpack game files and get textures. Enfusion does not.

[warm mirage]

Is there a way to use 2 different reticals in 1 sight ? Like once zoom it changes ?

[empty nexus]

swap the texture with zoom from script

[keen path]

At what point does it become illegal?
If I take a screenshot of the game, it has the texture in it.
If I take a screenshot of the game and put it in photoshop and make it into a texture, it still has the texture in it.

If I don't unpack the texture illegalyly, I can use the texture as I please?

[hollow rampart]

no

depends what is allowed in the TOS/EULA of the game

usually any kind of reverse engineering is forbidden

even in Arma 3

in A3 the textures are however unpackable and with BIs own tools and for main game content they have silently allowed use of vanilla textures in context of Arma mods. (not taking them out and using elsewhere)

in reforger the textures in mods are not unpackable like that and what you may or may not do with them depends on the license of a mod (or the game itself)

[empty nexus]

How does this work when a mod is licensed using APL which allows remixing and you unpack the textures to publish in your own mod? You need to use third party tools to unpack (though for textures it only gets you the .edds, not the source file)

[keen path]

Does the license permit using the texture for a picture, such as uploading the screenshot to the steam community content page?
This means the texture is on a vehicle which is in-game on the picture.

It only restricts using the texture as a texture?
Not allowed to use the texture to derive a texture no matter what the means?

If I see the texture with my eyes, process it with my mind and then draw it from memory,
then create it into a texture to use in a unity game that I wish to sell on steam, it is illegal?

[hollow rampart]

ask BI

[empty nexus]

ok

[hollow rampart]

youre uploading picture of the thing on another thing. screenshot of the game is not the same thing as taking the originl file

[hollow rampart]

yes if its a copy

is your questions intended to find some sort of loophole or out of genuine usecase?

[hollow rampart]

MarioE is likely the right contact point for such questions

[keen path]

Wondering if retextures are illegal 😆

Because by the sounds of it, any mods and textures must manually opt-in for allowing re-textures

Which is horrible for moddability and moddability of mods.
Waste of time and resources, space when every modder will be forced to create the same model and texture from scratch

I'm honestly wondering if I should make mods for reforger/enfusion.
So that's my geniuine usecase

I unironically assumed that all mods by default are meant to be upgraded and retextures are supported

[hollow rampart]

it depends on license the mod maker puts on their work.

however the means to do some things may not properly exist yet

like retexturing

it is rather difficult

at least if you need the original texture

one can of course paint a texture without ever seeing the original

[keen path]

I've retextured abunch of vanilla stuff just by making it in a photo editing software and trying stuff.
Trial and error reverse engineering, illegal

[royal niche]

Mods default to APL-ND; forbidden to retexture or publish other derivatives

[keen path]

Ahh, I had the complete opposite first impression.
I thought that's what the removal obsfucation and stuff was about

[hollow rampart]

obfuscation is not a vanilla thing at all

Arma tools themselves have never done such

[keen path]

Like open modding scene, so it's not that by default.
Technically modders have to redistribute the source files manually for retextures and stuff
Makes sense now

[royal niche]

Anything published without specifiying a license can be considered "all rights reserved", it's not limited to mods. i.e. the default is no.

[hollow rampart]

in case someone wants retexturing to be done it does make sense to also have the files to do that somewhere available

[keen path]

Ahh, I see. That's kind of a bummer in the sense that I can see a mod on the workshop.
Notice a issue in the texture and unable to publish a fix on the workshop as it would be illegal.
I'll have to look into loading mods without the workshop as once was discussed in #enfusion_workshop

[hollow rampart]

in such cases the author should be notified

[unborn inlet]

what would that accomplish? What is the relevance from a legal POV?

[unborn inlet]

you kind of confuse what reverse engineering is in this particular case. It surely isn't that

[keen path]

Legal POV is that workshop is responsibility of BI now fully.
If I want to play with ~5 people in a coop with custom mods, I am unable to use star wars mods or a retexture of a mod from the workshop without permission.

Players have been doing that in arma 3 for example.
Since the mods are not distributed on steam workshop and on bohemia servers,
both steam and BI are not responsible for them

I would NEVER illegaly use a star wars mod in arma, by the way just saying

[empty nexus]

With regards to mods the default license is APL which means copy paste anything you want, with attribution.

[royal niche]

huh

[keen path]

I think this is an improtant topic in terms of future of modding, so I appreciate the info
Thanks

[unborn inlet]

If you were to use a mod outside of its legal binding EULA, no matter of the means of distribution, you would still be breaching that EULA (any ND license for instance)

[keen path]

Yes, but such would not be responsibility of BI 🙂

[empty nexus]

Yes this is selected by default and I think you cannot upload without a license (sans selecting custom and not filling in any info)

[unborn inlet]

There is no place i know where you can upload something without actually owning the content you are uploading (talking about gdrive, mega, dropbox etc)

[unborn inlet]

you cannot upload without a license anymore

[royal niche]

Right, I didn't publish anything for a while; there was no license selection box originally.

[unborn inlet]

what is the relevance?

[empty nexus]

Yeah now there is a license box

[keen path]

1. Workshop is bi responsbility

• based on workshop license workshop content can be modified/dervied/improved
• cannot retexture models from ANY mods, even if the texture is made from memory (creating a fitting texture is illegal)
• mods that allow it in the license and/or manuallly distribute source files outside of workshop can be retextured

2. clearly copyrighted stuff liek star wars is clearly not allowed on workshop

I know the 5th one, but was wondering about how the modding is in terms of content created specfiically for reforger.
It makes sense

Since vanilla does not license the textures, even creating them from memory or trial and error is not allowed ont he workshop

So if I want a snow colored humvee, I have to create my own humvee
(exception of changing the .emat)

But I can't have a new texture.

[unborn inlet]

1. yes, i see no relevance
2. that is up to each individual creator. Even if such license exists, the current reforger tool does NOT allow extraction of content (example textures like A3 tools allowed), and any other means = reverse engineering (screenshots excluded of course)
3. why? what/who is stopping you?
4. yes, templates can be distributed is the creator deems necessary - it has been happening for A3 as well, hell, even BI did that
5. not allowed for reforger, workshop independent

[keen path]

3:
If a mod adds a new car, I can add a texture that fits that?

Because to fit a texture to a certain model, it would require either using the original texture or reverse engineering the fit

[unborn inlet]

depends on the license associated with the said car

[keen path]

I can only do that to the mods that ALLOW it in ttheir license. Yes 👌

[unborn inlet]

and you can either screenshot said texture and/or use the one provided by the original creator and/or ask for such texture from said creator

question - how does anything at all change if a mod is hosted someplace else - so not on BI's workshop

there are 2 separate license files (actually 3). One for the workshop, another for the workbench

both are relevant

[keen path]

I will host my mod outside of earth in a country where there are no copyright laws.
I can even host star wars mods there

It makes sense all in all.
I was wodnering because of the obsfucation, there were some discussions about mods that people want to limit to their community or such.

It's fair to say enfusion modding is where a modders personal decisiosn and rights are respected, as well as open nature.

Obsfucated code can be dangerous or malicious.
But if the license/choices of the creators are enforced, it is not required.

[silk swan]

Actually, the EULA of Reforger itself has this clause:

User-created Content
If You create any content ("content") using the game or make it available through the game, You may do so, but there are rules.

• This content must not infringe anyone's copyrights or author rights, it must not be offensive to people or illegal in any other way.

So even if you manage to host it somewhere, and being able to make it available through the game, it's still breaking the EULA (and therefore your license for the game can be revoked)

[jade current]

No 3rd party software is required to export content from mods.

[empty nexus]

Hmm Workbench doesnt let me export most content out of a downloaded mod

Actually maybe not most, but definitely a good bunch

[warm mirage]

anyone knows how i can fix the issue of this when prone

it happends with scopes since that change they did where your character hold the m16 2 miles above the ground

[lusty sapphire]

omg I just started loving the enfusion prefab system, adding a simple gun to the uaz only takes like 10 clicks

muh guntruck

[forest robin]

new enfusion feature?

it was fine before exp hit the stable

[molten granite]

Yeah that's the great thing, anybody can make a simple mod with just a few clicks. 👍

[nimble mica]

So I am trying to rebind the console controls for the Helicopters weapons, I have the fire button Rebound to RB however I cant find where the Bind for switching the weapons are at, currently its RB but I want it to Y, How can I Rebind this?

[keen perch]

Are we allowed to use assets purchased from CG Trader?

[lusty sapphire]

You're allowed to buy models etc, you arent allowed to pay someone to import them into arme though

Not sure about CG Trader specifically

[keen perch]

cool. thanks!

[wintry anvil]

Is there any way to completely disable automatic garbage collection? Only thing I have found so far is to increase the timer

[keen path]

the patch notes said they reverted to the old system and yea

[wintry anvil]

Yeah right, but it probably only works for now until they change it again.

Oh well, lets see how the new system plays out then.

[remote bronze]

Right now you can deactivate the garbage manager entity on your map, then nothing will be collected. The new garbage system is already finished so I can tell you how it will work there. Configuration will be via the systems config file (changelog will mention where to find it) where you can deactivate it if needed. You can also make a lot finer and easier adjustments now to the rules as they include prefabs now. There have also been some tweaks in how the effect of players on entities lifetime is handled and you can now pause the timer or reset it to a % of the inserted lifetime. So vehicles disappearing right as you wanted to go back and grab a wrench will be a thing of the past.
Most importantly you have two new powerful script callbacks where you can manipulate the lifetime on insertion and choose to kick out the item there. And you can handle deletion of the entity as well and ignore it to destruct it manually later or just use the garbage system as tracking even if you never intended to remove that entity 🙂
And we added a scripted backlist so items that shall never be inserted can be toggled on or off once during a component init for example and then you never need to worry about it after. Based on needs and feedback we have some more improvement ideas but first we want to see that the updated system does its job as it should and then we can talk about adding more things to it here and there 🙂

[empty nexus]

hope it can get released quickly as the garbage manager does not cleanup anything when I set the lifetime to 1 in all fields for me

[remote bronze]

The vanilla garbage manager works as intended with the default configs shipped, I checked that last week after a feedback ticket about it rolled in. Not sure if there is some case where too short of a lifetime will break it.
The new system is part of the next major update

[empty nexus]

also on a side note hopefully you can fix the helmets not being garbaged as well

you're right I must have fudged something in my override, it does work (except the helmets)

[pallid knot]

You cannot unpack the texture because BI doesn't let you do that.
BI however doesn't prevent you from taking a screenshot. You can take a screenshot of the texture if you want.
But how you can use that screenshot afterwards, depends on the license of the content you took the screenshot of.

If I don't unpack the texture illegalyly, I can use the texture as I please?
No.

Metaphor:
Saying "You're not allowed to break into a car and steal it" doesn't mean that you can steal a car if the door was already open.

[pallid knot]

based on workshop license workshop content can be modified/dervied/improved
Quoting the workshop terms
Any User who downloads the Content may use the Content only in compliance with these Terms of Use and in compliance with the license terms under which the Content was uploaded to this ARMA REFORGER Workshop.

[keen path]

BI however doesn't prevent you from taking a screenshot. You can take a screenshot of the texture if you want.

This is what I meant about bi stuff.
It's not unpacking the texuture illegally.
But either taking a screenshot in-game or in-editor or reverse enegineering the texture to fit is necessary

As it's the way to make retextures to avoid having to create a humvee from scratch just to add our own texture

[wintry anvil]

Thanks for the explanations 🙂
If I recall correctly when I removed the garbage manager entity, the game master clear entities button stops working.
This is an ok tradeoff as I run game master scenarios for a small group but I would like the game master to be in control of all garbage collection.

[remote bronze]

That button also still works as it should, I tested both on 1.0.0.95

[wintry anvil]

Oh well this was a while back. Let me go test it right away

[pallid knot]

In that case, the screenshot of the texture. Is like you recording a movie at the cinema, or copying a DVD you bought.
You can certainly do that, and for purely personal use it miiiight not be illegal. But once you share it, it usually becomes a problem if you don't actually have permission to do that.

[keen path]

Yea, so I can add a custom texture in arma reforger and upload it to the arma reforger workshop.
As long as I don't reverse engineer it and test if it fits on the humvee

The texture made 100% from scratch

[pallid knot]

yeah sure

[keen path]

But as soon as I make 5 versions of my 100% custom made texture to test which one fits on the humvee.
It's illegal to uplaod to the arma reforger wrokshop

[empty nexus]

does unpack here mean export out of a mod (or the game) or does it mean uncompress (I think edds is one way compression isnt it?)?

[pallid knot]

You can also screenshot the existing one, and use it as a guide of where parts are when drawing your own

[keen path]

So we are allowed reverse engineering like that for arma reforger assets?
That's good. That's what we want 😆

[pallid knot]

Thats not reverse engineering

[keen path]

It's not? I was unde the impresssion it was 😖

[empty nexus]

taking a photo of a street sign is not the same as taking the street sign

[keen path]

The design of the street sign is technicalyl copyrighted.
That's why I was wondering where's the line 😄

[empty nexus]

I don't have a better example

screenshots do not get you the original texture

[keen path]

IF we screenshot the texture and make a unreal engine asset with it, then sell it for $4.99.
It would be illegal

[remote bronze]

IP rights are not concerned if you use the original texture bytes from the file or a photo taken with your shaky hands via phone. You either created the texture or not. You can produce a UV mapping compatible texture without any ip right violations by not including anything from the original one

[keen path]

But I think BI has to give explicit permission to allow textures to be used as a base for custom textures

[pallid knot]

That gets into complicated territory.
A painting someone makes, is their copyright.
You taking a picture of that painting... gets complicated.

But if you only take that picture, so you can measure the size of the paintings frame.

[keen path]

That's the perfect example

[wintry anvil]

You were correct, the button does work for everything else except for helmets that are dropped on the ground 😄

Not a big issue though but a funny thing I noticed.

[empty nexus]

yea helmets have a damage manager and I guess it doesnt collect them because its not destroyed or something

[wintry anvil]

Oh so they are like vehicles in garbage collectors mind

[pallid knot]

Its like these
https://mp1st.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/the-day-before-the-division.png
https://mp1st.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/the-day-before-snowrunner.png

Its not a copy, copyright wise thats okey. But its the same "measurements" so to say.

[empty nexus]

not exactly and I dont know if thats actually the case, just a guess as I patched this out weeks ago with a mod

[keen path]

🤔
Fun easter eggs and salute to the culture
or
Lazy copy

[wintry anvil]

Yeah lol disabling SCR_ArmorDamageManagerComponent makes it work 😄

[empty nexus]

thats what my mod did, at the expense of helmets not having armor I guess

[wintry anvil]

I have never looked into this but now I noticed vests don't have that component so they have no added armor value or its done somehwere else?

Oh its definitely done somewhere else

[keen path]

It's a physical plate with a game mat

Open the vest .xob file

Some vests have those.
Undewr the hitboxes in .xob file you can see the armor plates.
You will have to overrirde the gamemat file

[wintry anvil]

Oh thats how its done, thanks!

[smoky sinew]

Is it possible to open a Game Session Save file in Enfusion, add some objects, and export it to a new save file to load on the server?

[remote bronze]

In theory yes, practically it will require deep understanding of the system and file format, so realistically no

[empty nexus]

I had a plugin that loads the stuff into your world but I lost it it seems nvm the plugin was for session saves not gm saves

[smoky sinew]

Is there some way between enfusion and game master to modify the mission? Game Master dosn´t save everything and is too basic, and enfusion is to complicated

[smoky sinew]

sorry , it is a session file im talking about

[empty nexus]

like a session save from a server?

[smoky sinew]

when saving in game master mode, it saves the file in the session folder... right?

[empty nexus]

no idea

[smoky sinew]

yes, server or local server... its the file in the session folder i want to modify

so if you still have the plugin, im willing to try it

[empty nexus]

it was an import to the open scene in workbench, it will not help you if you don't know workbench

[smoky sinew]

i have started to learn workbench, so this could be a good addon to learn more

[warm mirage]

qeustion , for some reason 1 of my items spawns as the basegame items once i relog on my server , i broke the prefab to test that and it still happends . i tryd 5 diffrent versions of it all going back to the basegame item once i relog

[jade current]

In the US at least, street signs are in the public domain

[hardy light]

I have a general question, where can I download the EnfusionEngine and create my own game with it? (with my team)

[bright sable]

#enfusion_generic message

[distant idol]

anyone got a working start.bat for a local reforger server i can peek at

[elder osprey]

This is for my linux server, but im pretty sure it's the same, just add a .exe
start.sh
./ArmaReforgerServer -config "/path/to/config.json" -profile ArmaReforgerServer -maxFPS 60
config.json

{
  "bindAddress": "0.0.0.0",
  "bindPort": 2001,
  "publicAddress": "my public ip",
  "publicPort": 2001,
  "a2s": {
    "address": "my public ip",
    "port": 17777
  },
  "rcon": {
    "address": "my public ip",
    "port": 19999,
    "password": "prob just disable this",
    "permission": "monitor"
  },
  "game": {
    "name": "Rugg's Gun Game",
    "scenarioId": "{843F1D5DEFA6A7C3}Missions/GungameMinimal.conf",
    "password": "",
    "passwordAdmin": "456",
    "admins": [],
    "maxPlayers": 32,
    "visible": true,
    "crossPlatform": false,
    "supportedPlatforms": ["PLATFORM_PC", "PLATFORM_XBL"],
    "gameProperties": {
      "serverMaxViewDistance": 2500,
      "serverMinGrassDistance": 50,
      "networkViewDistance": 1000,
      "disableThirdPerson": true,
      "fastValidation": true,
      "battlEye": true,
      "VONDisableUI": true,
      "VONDisableDirectSpeechUI": true,
      "missionHeader": {
        "m_iPlayerCount": 40,
        "m_eEditableGameFlags": 6,
        "m_eDefaultGameFlags": 6,
        "other": "values"
      }
    },
    "mods": [
      {
        "modId": "604C30B1720985A9",
        "name": "Gun Game - Base"
      },
      {
        "modId": "604E5A887DC76562",
        "name": "Gun Game - Minimal Scenario"
      }
    ]
  },
  "operating": {
    "lobbyPlayerSynchronise": true
  }
}

[tacit stump]

What to do with this kind of error (Assertion failed, cannot be execute outside the main thread)?
I rolled back my commits that could cause that but the message is still there

[pallid knot]

Its probably an engine bug.
If you press abort or repeat, it might crash and send a crash report?

[tacit stump]

nothing unusual happens after pressing repeat/abort

also, for some reason it started to appear in other projects too

seems that removing profile folder in Documents/ArmaReforgerWorkbench fixed the problem

[remote bronze]

I got reported something similar a few days ago, are you using any of my mods? EDF or EPF?

[tacit stump]

I have them in workbench addons folder (both persistence and database), but I'm not using them in the current project where error occured

[remote bronze]

Ok interesting, good to know thx