MonsterKings Mods

[silver otter]

Here we will show MonsterKing mods and show stuff we are working on.
Thanks for looking 🤘🏼

I wonder if a looping video could be possible?

[little dagger]

Can they play family guy

[silver otter]

Lol if we can figure out how to make it work yes lol

But we probably won’t do family guy lol

[idle thorn]

How about older tvs and tvs with broken screens

[rustic turret]

@rich nova

[silver otter]

We havent got that far yet.

[cedar trail]

Not bad!

[little dagger]

I remember there were mods for gmod minecraft and a couple other games where you could put in a link to a gif and the TV could play it is that possible to add with this or naw

[silver otter]

Not sure yet but open to ideas 💡 I feel like @dull narwhal would know this answer for sure😂 🙏🏼

[little dagger]

I wouldn't be surprised if bacon was able to that man can work magic with this games engine

[gaunt fulcrum]

will it be possible to put your own picture on screen? For briefing like?

example, picture of HVT , picture of area, edited in photoshop than putted on tv screen?

This way its cool mod for props purpose just to be there, but I would like to see real use of it 😄

[ivory cliff]

Using the Workbench, it should be easy. Not possible in GM though.

[cedar trail]

Will be using this in some ops thanks @silver otter

[mellow furnace]

Any modder can inherit the screen and override the image if they wanted

[gaunt fulcrum]

perfect

[mellow furnace]

TFBB Patches & Props Modpack is the name of the mod

[dull narwhal]

I wish I had the resources to keep modding man

[little dagger]

Damn what happened just no more time?

[dull narwhal]

yep, mostly exactly this

[little dagger]

I get ya

Is this mod out?

[plucky radish]

Doesn't look like it's published

[onyx jewel]

Now we can finally have movie night in reforger

[unique turtle]

mod is called TFBB patches and props

[silver otter]

MonsterKings Mods

[silver otter]

And the grind begins!

[simple oar]

Have the Tvs or screens been added to the TFBB mod pack? Because i don't see them, also looks very nice what your working on

[silver otter]

Yes they are in the pack. Was just on a dedicated server and worked for us. Let me know if you continue to have issues

[simple oar]

I might have to redownload the mod or something because everything shows just not the screens, are they able to be placed from GM or is it a map editor thing?

[silver otter]

Yes able to be placed in GM

[mellow furnace]

Check the last couple of pages of objects

They are called wallmaps because I inherited that pre-fab. But I guess I should rename them to make them easier to search 😄

[silver otter]

King is steady chipping away at the weight painting and sculpting.

[subtle solar]

What’s the name of this mod?

[mellow furnace]

There will be two mods when all is said and done. The one that is released is called TFBB Patches & Props Modpack (does not have uniforms in it yet)

This will likely become the GM pack with just Vehicles and Props, and I will make a new mod for the unforms, move the patches there and eventually weapons too @subtle solar

[gloomy ibex]

https://tenor.com/view/deion-sanders-dancing-gif-27279191

[mellow furnace]

I got most of this pilot model aligned - need to redo the boots and jump on the gloves next.

[gloomy ibex]

it's very good

[clever cloud]

Cant wait!!

[finite forge]

Amazing

[clever cloud]

With the A-10 now here, the pilot set will be great 🙏

[mellow furnace]

Thanks for the encouragement. Tedious work this is, dialing in the textures now.

[mellow furnace]

still adjusting the old school texture files to the new PBR standards, some more tweaking needs to be done to call it done... 😄

[gloomy ibex]

what a great job

[clever cloud]

Oh you are the TFBB giys

[mellow furnace]

Welcome! I'm still figuring out the game engine here, been modding on Space Engineers for the past couple years with @silver otter... and just like then he still either acquires models and/or makes the art and I make it work in game.

[vast rose]

What kind of vehicles?

[mellow furnace]

nothing too serious yet, just playing with textures at the moment (the vehicles are in the background) but when I figure out that part of the engine I will likely bring in an amphibious assault vehicle or something like that

[vast rose]

Nice, can’t wait to see what you guys do.

[cursive glacier]

What is the tactical screen mod called? Just seen this showcase

[mellow furnace]

TFBB Patches & Props

[mellow furnace]

coming out soon...for testing

[clever cloud]

Ooooo, pilot harness bwahah

[ebon nebula]

any timelines?

[mellow furnace]

all I can say is soon... any day now. Just need to dot some i's and cross some t's... 😄

[mellow furnace]

Just released to 'test mods' - be sure to enable that in your filters when looking for TFBB Uniforms

[mellow furnace]

texturing is still way off from where it needs to be - I will be spending a good deal of time this week dialing that in

[gloomy ibex]

I didn't understand, can the mod already be used?

[mellow furnace]

yes it can, but it doesn't look as good as it should yet as I am still finalizing the texturing

[mellow furnace]

Updated textures for the pilot today... I may be moving on to other uniforms now, and may come back to this one when I get a bit more under my belt and learn a few more tricks...

TFBB Uniforms v1.0.2 - Pilot uniform only atm, consists of Helmet, Visor, Jacket, Vest, Pants, Gloves and Boots (and a 'modder' arm patch for a placeholder)

[gloomy ibex]

amazing work brother

[mellow furnace]

I noticed the neck was weight painted to a bone it should not have (in the pic above) so 1.0.3 is now the current version 😄

[rose ice]

Love these mods

[cedar trail]

What is that a part of again?

[rose ice]

This

[ancient briar]

Is this out?

[cedar trail]

Thanks

[hollow hearth]

Apparently

[ancient briar]

Wikid

[rose ice]

Wait so can’t you play stuff on it? Is there a tutorial on how to do that?

[mellow furnace]

not yet, these are just props atm

one day though... 🙂

[rose ice]

Can’t wait I make briefing videos and if I can play that on the screen that would be revolutionary for this game

[mellow furnace]

indeed!

[cedar trail]

hey any plans to release the props without the 104th dependency?

[hollow hearth]

Please!

[rose ice]

What’s wrong with 104th

[hollow hearth]

Log spam and possible crashing

[rose ice]

Ah

[cedar trail]

Or just a GB of a mod that you may not need, I just really want the props lol

[mellow furnace]

There were no plans to split them up but this is the first I've heard about the 104th mod having issues. There are a number of arm patches I created in that mod inheriting their arm patch model. If what you say is true I will indeed eliminate from my mod eventually. I will talk to the milsim and see if they are cool with splitting out the props to a separate mod in the meantime.

[rustic turret]

I haven't had any issues with 104th on my end. I have heard it causes crashes on some servers

[mellow furnace]

Now that I can successfully rig models I plan on only using my own going forward and not inheriting whenever possible... For now I will split this one into two mods TFBB Patches / TFBB Props. The plan is to create a new TFBB Patches mod and when the milsim adds it to the server I will update Patches and Props and remove the patches and other mod dependencies from the original.

[cedar trail]

Thank you King!

[mellow furnace]

You're welcome, TFBB Patches has been created and the old mod with the patches & props in it will be renamed to TFBB Props (also the patches and old dependencies will be removed) after the milsim updates the server.

[mellow furnace]

TFBB Uniforms v1.0.4 now in public - Just the pilot for now

[mellow furnace]

Updated today with the following arm patches

[clever cloud]

Niceeeeee

[rose ice]

Dude your actually amazing

[mellow furnace]

Thank you so much, @silver otter deserves credit for the art (logos/patches/signs/etc), and buying the uniform models we started with! I put time into creating the mod itself, sculpting the pieces to fit and rigging them for Arma, plus tweaking textures until he was happy with it 😄

[mellow furnace]

the original mod that started this thread (formerly TFBB Patches & Props) is now called TFBB Props and no longer has dependencies on any other mods @hollow hearth @cedar trail @grim stag eventually I will remove the 104th dependency from TFBB Uniforms also, waiting on some questions to be answered

[finite forge]

@iron sun

[iron sun]

104th being removed allows us to utilize it such a massive dependency full of gear we don’t use

[mellow furnace]

as of now, Zelik Character is the only dependency in TFBB Uniforms

[stiff storm]

Dubskii

[rose ice]

Finna add now

[silver otter]

Stable mod is under test mods and called TFBB uniforms test mod and is without the 104th and TFM dependencies.
Patches are under TFBB test patches and fit like a glove 🧤

(TFM vest and radio pack pictured here)

[silver otter]

If your a fan of the TFM vests and helmets check out the fit of the TFBB patches on that gear! Perfecto! Let us know how you guys like the stuff.

[ionic basin]

Does the suit come with the patches? Or is there one with no patches?

[ionic basin]

Regards to this

[mellow furnace]

This suit comes with 4 patches currently (Pilot, Co-Pilot, Flightcrew & Modder)

[ionic basin]

Sorry i mean the arm patch on the suit with the milsim logo on 🙂

[mellow furnace]

it is built-in atm - monster paid good money for those models 😄

TFBB Patches updated to remove dependencies to other mods, now Zelik Character is the only one here too!

[mellow furnace]

So I did a little more digging and it seem this (script mismatch error) is a widespread problem so sounds like something broke in the last update regarding syncing mods with servers... now it's a waiting game. But in the mean time, if you get script mismatch errors delete any significant mod and it should let you back in the server.

[mellow furnace]

The latest update seems to have fixed the script mismatch error
And all TFBB production mods are stable and errors cleaned up....

TFBB Props TFBB Patches TFBB Uniforms

[clever cloud]

Yuhhh

[mellow furnace]

TFBB Patches just got an update with newly minted right shoulder flag patches (Using Extra3 slot from Zelik)
[compatible with Mattock Uniforms]

[clever cloud]

🙏🙏🙏

[mellow furnace]

coming soon to patches!!

[gloomy ibex]

Do you have this in mind?

[mellow furnace]

not until you showed me 😄

bodies are a bit easier because everyone has the same shape... faces are unique however, so this would not work as well

[mellow furnace]

publishing today, look for the update!

Because it is breast cancer awareness month, and I need to put these tats in the same slot as the BCA flag, I am attaching the BCA flag along with the tats for October 2023, after which the BCA flag will be removed from the tats so you can choose between them.... for now if you want to support BCA you have options - with or without the tats.

[silver otter]

New refined suit textures

[burnt mango]

Custom UVmapped arm mesh that equips to the patch slot which can be changed to different tatts?

[mellow furnace]

Yes, I clipped the arms from the character weights body,. Re UV mapped them, and made opacity maps to have them blend with any skin

[silver otter]

Full sleeve tattoos coming soon!

[mellow furnace]

correct, the current custom arm mesh covers the forearm/bicep area only - did this as a proof of concept

[silver otter]

Teaser- (mock up)

[clever cloud]

As someone who is Pacific Islander/Chamorro. I love the Tribal Design:))

[cedar trail]

https://tenor.com/view/baby-pointing-look-at-them-cute-finger-gif-15395248

[polar canyon]

@tulip valve

[rustic turret]

ooooooooo hot

[silver otter]

Still messing with textures for these but getting closer each day

[burnt mango]

I went another route and it was a lot harder to keep the textures matching, doing a full repaint of the body might end up being what I do as well to avoid the clear seam mismatches on my tattoo setup.

Looks good though, for sure.

[silver otter]

King got me a repaint of it with the seam following the inside arm to the armpit and merged the arms,chest and back as one piece and my art program I can either draw on the model in 3D or 2D to place best I can.

[burnt mango]

Ah yeah that works too

[silver otter]

I usually start off with my originals like this in 3d and then make my final design on the 2d

Which turns into this WIP

[grizzled breach]

Sick art

[remote musk]

Are u taking requests for tattoos 😂

[mellow furnace]

My man @silver otter is a real tattoo artist with his own shop, this is how he makes a living... he daily provides tats on requests to paying customers, I don't see any reason why he couldn't make you a custom digital tat if you wanna pay the man for his art... 😎

[cedar trail]

Was talking with monster! Used your guys version of an fx mod for my event going on currently, real cool stuff

And I may take up offering to get some art from monster if Aussie goes the same route for the tattoos!

[remote musk]

Same I may have to get booked in for some ink work 😂

[silver otter]

King knocking out some more props

[remote musk]

https://tenor.com/view/oh-damn-will-smith-oh-dang-oh-shit-gif-16023649

[mellow furnace]

TFBB_Props updated... now includes the new helipad (Work in process)

[clever cloud]

Gives me Oil Rig Motherbase vibes

[rose ice]

Looks great

[timber lagoon]

you need to sort these UVs....on the yellow rusted metal mate. Also the repetitive pattern on the concrete

[mellow furnace]

very rough WIP, I'm aware... but thank you 🫡 Appreciate the heads-up all the same.

[silver otter]

That is the first LOD that is displaying. The main model is quite a bit higher quality we just haven’t got it sorted yet.

[timber lagoon]

well aware its wip, didn’t mean no offense. are you using multi shader?

[silver otter]

Blender

[mellow furnace]

you're good, I appreciate you looking out for us 🙂

[silver otter]

We decimated the model a bit too much and the UVs got wacky lol

[mellow furnace]

started with over 1m triangles

[timber lagoon]

reforger shader…

[silver otter]

I misunderstood my bad

Man collisions with helicopters are insane I can’t wait till vanilla and maybe it’ll be a tad bit better.

[mellow furnace]

Using the default material shader MatPBRBasic... I didn't get multiple layers to work with on this model monster purchased from turbosquid

[silver otter]

@timber lagoon you might be able to answer this maybe…we are trying to get it to where it’ll be able to be lowered into the ground a bit but the collisions (colliders?) seem to be making it not go below ground level. Is there a way to get the model to be able to be placed at different heights if we wanted to?

[mellow furnace]

like, do different collision types allow for being submerged into the ground?

[timber lagoon]

not to my knowledge. You can however make the collision shorter. Have a llok over the existing structures

[timber lagoon]

i assumed it was made not purchased in which case that shader would have been the one to work with

[mellow furnace]

actually, turns out the models origin controls the point it can submerge.... I lowered the model below the world origin and that is how far it lets me move it now [in GM mode]... when I have the model on top of the world origin it cannot be submerged

[mellow furnace]

yeah, I was pretty shocked that it was in this shape as detailed as it was

[mellow furnace]

I've been painstakingly creating and recreating the UVs and creating custom materials to get it to look as good as possible... still have a way to go, but it's getting better.... Models you pay for shouldn't be this difficult to work with 😄

and in some cases I had to replace the mesh altogether, also created 4 LODs to help with performance

[silver otter]

Started a custom model for the Apache helmet hud eyepiece

[clever cloud]

Woahhhhh.

Is it cosmetic or do you plan on it being somewhat functional

[mellow furnace]

eventually it will be, but first it will be cosmetic

[clever cloud]

https://tenor.com/view/leonardo-dicaprio-clapping-clap-applause-amazing-gif-16078907558888063471

[rose ice]

Looks awesome

[mellow furnace]

thanks, still have some cleaning up to do on the textures and we will be adding landing lights as well... this is round 2 of bit of a long road, but I want to keep updating as I go... please, by no means, don't think we're done just because we update it. Still very much a work in progress... I do appreciate the feedback, just don't expect perfection... lol

[clever cloud]

Landing lights? Wym

[mellow furnace]

something along these lines - so you can see it when you're doing night ops

[clever cloud]

Ooooh for that. For some reason i was paring that with the apache sight

[mellow furnace]

that text was about the pictures of the helipad above

[silver otter]

Not too bad for a crash course in Nomad Sculpt in one day 😅

[silver otter]

Almost done! It’s not exact copy but it’s close

[stiff storm]

Sexy as shit bro

[remote musk]

Vehicles seem to sink into the floor slightly
Other then that they look Awesome

[mellow furnace]

Thanks for the support, I will check the collisions... but if you can stand on top and the vehicle doesn't, says more about the vehicle or game engine being able to deal with it properly... I know different modded choppers behave differently here. Guess we will see what vanilla does very soon! 😄

[silver otter]

NEW Low poly version 😅

[mellow furnace]

turns out I was using the wrong collision after all, mb... update on it's way

[mellow furnace]

Now they stay on top at least 😄 - collisions are still a bit wonky, but before they were just wrong. I had UCX collisions on the landing pad and vehicles just ignore it, no traction for tires either 🤣... It appears UTM is what the engine needs for vehicle support... If anyone else out there has expertise in this area feel free to offer up your input.

[mellow furnace]

TFBB Patches just updated - hotfix to correct the carrier patch issue and added some more original tattoo artwork from @silver otter

[remote musk]

Have u tried ure hand at creating some camo face paints yet?
These look brilliant 👌

[silver otter]

Great idea 💡

[remote musk]

https://tenor.com/view/the-office-michael-scott-go-on-sarcastic-listening-gif-7666830

[devout turtle]

There is one that is made on the ai factions but no one has made it as like and equippable item

[remote musk]

Yeh I tried that mod u speak of but theres no spawn point for them so only GM can be one of the characters lol

[devout turtle]

Yes

So sounds like he can make a better version 😉

[remote musk]

I'm sure he can and will 😂

[mellow furnace]

The only issue with making them equipable is not all faces are the same shape so to make a generic face paint that works with any procedurally generated face shape may be a tall order... Or it just may look like hell 😂

[remote musk]

Can u Make it so there permanently covered?

[mellow furnace]

then you run into the problem of your permanent face it needs to be attached to a permanent body and that's where the fun stops... so we are sticking with this plan, it works great... neck tats can be a thing for sure but full on face tats will take some experimenting on a proof of concept level to see if it is worth it

[remote musk]

Yeh no worries mate

Oooh

[simple oar]

Is this out?

[mellow furnace]

is

[mellow furnace]

that is not our mod

[finite forge]

What mod?

[devout turtle]

No

[devout turtle]

Sorry for confusion was in point to how he said it was hard to do it for multiple faces, this is not their mod this is just the only thing similar to what is available

Only works on ai not equippable

[gloomy ibex]

Brazilian army mod

you find it in testing

[finite forge]

🙏

[devout turtle]

The tattoos look sick btw king

[mellow furnace]

To clarify, it is hard to make a face paint that would look good on all the variety of faces that would try to equip it... if there was only one shape of face in the game it would be no more difficult than the arm sleeves we just put out.

[devout turtle]

Oh yeah totally understand, kinda like the masks

[mellow furnace]

I just created the mechanic and brought to life the work of the true artist: @silver otter

[devout turtle]

Either way yall did a great job

[mellow furnace]

tysm 🙏

[crystal dune]

@clear bloom

[mellow furnace]

No need to ping anyone here to a picture that has nothing to do with our mods 😜

[mellow furnace]

would you kindly remove these pics because it is misleading to have them in our showcase and they are confusing people

[devout turtle]

Oh yeah

Done

My bad didn’t mean for it to be misleading

[mellow furnace]

no worries man, just trying to avoid confusion and potentially let down 😄

[mellow furnace]

Coming soon... in TFBB Uniforms all 3 NVG colors, balanced and adjustable for most lighting situations

[clever cloud]

Ooooooo

[dim phoenix]

What’s up with the like the uav screens

[mellow furnace]

Wdym?

[dim phoenix]

Like what pack are they in

[mellow furnace]

Tfbb props

[nimble wing]

Whats that?

[crystal dune]

Thing

[silver otter]

A piece of a Russian Pantsir

[unreal ravine]

oooooo nooooooooooooo

[nimble wing]

This one correct?

[silver otter]

Yuppers but it’s going to be a stationary object like the ones they put on the kremlin

[nimble wing]

NICE

[clever cloud]

Even just stationary would be dope

[clever cloud]

https://tenor.com/view/lights-colors-red-green-stoplight-gif-17180692

[clever cloud]

It looks good asf

MI-8s and Hueys are going to have a fun time

[nimble wing]

How would it work in-game?

[silver otter]

Probably just rockets and the 30mm guns till a legit AAM can be scripted. It’s starting it’s life as a destructible prop and then controllability will come next

[jovial nest]

When you destroy it, is it gonna be like the AA tank in project nomad where it just blows up and disappears, or is it gonna have a destroyed model?

[silver otter]

I’m making destruction models

[jovial nest]

Ight

[mellow furnace]

I know everyone has bigger fish to fry, so we are focusing on the only mod we have that is not dependent on anything else, and that is TFBB Props... It will be updated as soon as I work any errors from re-engineering a couple things. Speaking of which, the helipad should work as well as vanilla going forward as I setup the same collider and interaction layers it has.

[mellow furnace]

TFBB Props has been updated for 1.0 - (patches will be next now that Zelik has updated his mod)

[mellow furnace]

TFBB Patches have been updated for 1.0

[grizzled breach]

[clever cloud]

Sheeeesh

[clever cloud]

https://tenor.com/view/summer-heat-beat-the-heat-fan-gif-17339253

[mellow furnace]

TFBB Uniforms has been Updated to support 1.0 now

[mellow furnace]

(it probably won't appear until Aussie get's TF Mattock Uniforms updated though)

[burnt mango]

Working on them

[dull narwhal]

does bb stand for blunderbuss

[silver otter]

😂 now I wish it did lol

[mellow furnace]

Hi Bacon, the only mod not working for me is my GM FX mod that I inherit from yours... for some reason it doesn't want to play nice 😄

[dull narwhal]

Report the bug with a video or something https://discord.com/channels/105462288051380224/1110586149740748890

[mellow furnace]

Will do when I get back home

[mellow furnace]

actually, it turns out none of my duplicated .acp files work, so if I reduplicate them and replace the samples with my own then everything works.

[dull narwhal]

so no bug?

[mellow furnace]

no, I think something just changed in the way the .acp is structured (or needing to be) did you have to change anything in there on your end to get that mod to work for 1.0?

[dull narwhal]

I've made changes to the siren ACP and one of the explosions

[mellow furnace]

that's it then. no worries, thanks man... great mod, as usual!!

our milsim really loves the sounds I added, thanks to your mod

[mellow furnace]

I updated TFBB GM FX for 1.0, but the volume levels have not been set yet so some sounds will be way louder than they need to be. This update is intended for my GMs to test with and give me feedback, the next update will be more ready for primetime.

[clever cloud]

I know you said this will be a stationary weapon system but will that change to mobile at any point?

[silver otter]

It could for sure

Needs a good paint and texture still.

[clever cloud]

So far it is looking amazing. I like the level of detail that is going into this!

[devout turtle]

That on the back of a truck would be interesting

[devout turtle]

Yes

[clever cloud]

Where is the best place to put the helipad to where it doesnt look out of place?

[silver otter]

Depends on map for sure but It works well with airfields and near lots of concrete or asphalt

[mellow furnace]

TFBB Props has been updated

[clever cloud]

Would look great on a MGSV Motherbase

[mellow furnace]

Just published to TFBB Props

[rose ice]

Hey is it possible to get a sound effect on the TFBB sound GM effects like car horns and stuff for border missions? Would make it awesome and cinematic and prob a great match with the food market audio

[rose ice]

Also make a phone ringing one that would be awesome also

[crystal dune]

Yo fone linging

[unborn knoll]

Pick up ta fone big boy, yo fone linging

[mellow furnace]

I'll keep it in mind when I get in there to fix the sound levels after the 1.0 update.

[rose ice]

Awesome man thanks

[rose ice]

@mellow furnace your the goat my man

I saw gm sounds you added, you’re actually the goat! Love it!

[mellow furnace]

still dialing in the sounds, another update is uploading now... a couple new sounds as well, thanks man

[silver otter]

Daytime jungle GM placed sounds

[cedar trail]

I love you guys

[silver otter]

Nighttime jungle sounds

[clever cloud]

This is amazinf

[quaint musk]

This looks cool af.

[clever cloud]

Would be the dream for it to be on the back of the truck in the background

[mellow furnace]

@clever cloud

[tawdry fossil]

This thing scares me when playing War Thunder. It will scare me still in ARMA Reforger

[clever cloud]

Yes that

But tbh either mobile or stationary. It’ll still be cool to use!

[silver otter]

Same lol

[silver otter]

Started work on the control cabin

[clever cloud]

Ooooo

[clever cloud]

The level of detail has me starving

[silver otter]

All textures are just there to get a picture of it. Still need to run it through a good UV plug-in and learn baking hq multi textures 😅

Can’t wait to paint this!

[jovial nest]

Gyat

[unreal ravine]

Bros making fat plays

[clever cloud]

Im loving these constant updates!

[clever cloud]

How big is it compared to a player model

[silver otter]

Here is the scale of the control compartment @clever cloud

[unborn knoll]

👀

[silver otter]

Looks like it lines up pretty good scale wise I just need to scale the launcher and start on the stationary lower ,and then make the truck part at a later date.

[clever cloud]

Whut da troopa doin

[silver otter]

Extra size comparison

[quaint musk]

I like that you are using a plastic model instructions guide to assist you.

[silver otter]

It has actually helped a lot

[quaint musk]

Yea I bet, its a scale model at the end of the day.

[mellow furnace]

uploading an update to TFBB Props now

destructible pallet, 3 new skin tones for the TFBB UH1s plus a surprise other game inspired UH1

[clever cloud]

That pallet looks sick

[mellow furnace]

This is still a WIP, we are working on unique destruction sequences for each piece of the pallet, and each thing will have it's own particle effect as well.. currently they all just poof into pieces of wood... 😄

[clever cloud]

Are they just props or will they eventually be reskin supplies

[mellow furnace]

currently they are targeted to be destructible props, it's a common theme we have in our ops and food pallets are not that exciting, lol - turning them into supplies works out nicely in our roadmap and will likely end up there in some form or another down the road

[clever cloud]

https://tenor.com/view/shocked-shocked-cat-silly-cat-cat-kitten-gif-7414586676150300212

[rose ice]

Dude this is sick

[nimble wing]

https://tenor.com/view/holy-moly-holy-moly-gif-25041694

[tawdry fossil]

Destructible and interactable props will make me love you even more.

[rose ice]

Awesome

[mellow furnace]

We bought a Blackhawk as an experiment to see if I can bring it to life in the new 1.0 engine. It's an editorial license, but the author (luisbcompany on sketchfab) gave us permission to put her in game as a proof of concept to see if I can actually pull it off 😄 This will be a background learning expedition, so it will take a while before anything comes of it. I'll post updates as I go.

[rose ice]

That model looks sick

[clever cloud]

Which button to launch the nukes

[clever cloud]

https://tenor.com/view/shocked-shocked-cat-silly-cat-cat-kitten-gif-7414586676150300212

[silver otter]

Future goal is the MH-60 that the 160th nightstalkers use

[hollow hearth]

Is that also the DAP version?

[silver otter]

Not sure can you explain the difference? @hollow hearth

[clever cloud]

@cedar trail

[clever cloud]

DAP is essentially the CAS version of the MH-60. Holds weapon Pylons while trading off the ability to transport troops

[finite forge]

DAP has weapon systems on the side, Hellfires and such I think

Any goals for a MH-47?

[silver otter]

Possibly in the future

[cedar trail]

Oh nice yea

[nimble wing]

@jovial nest

[jovial nest]

We don’t use the night stalker helo cuh

[hollow hearth]

It can still carry 4 troops iirc

[grizzled breach]

Now that is sexy

[silver otter]

The first iteration is obviously the one minus the truck frame 😅

[clever cloud]

https://tenor.com/view/dog-bark-gif-20068634

[mellow furnace]

TFBB Uniforms uploading now, with new 4 new Crye helmet variations and a tanker uniform!

[clever cloud]

Whats the tanker uniform look like (im not at my console to check)

[clever cloud]

Oooo

Feel like that would also be a good base layer for the pilot uniform with a rig over it

[rose ice]

Ohhhhhhh

[clever cloud]

Razr

[solar vector]

Oooh. What’s that?

[silver otter]

Gepard

[solar vector]

Looks great!

[silver otter]

Still learning substance painter

[clever cloud]

First the Anti-Air

Now a Gepard

You tease me so 😫

[quaint musk]

Been wondering why no one has made a shilka but this will do nicely.

[silver otter]

Working on some destruction models for destructible props

[clever cloud]

Great for Search and Destroy missions

[rose ice]

For real would love to see more destruction in the game

[silver otter]

The BI roadmap is going to have a lot of destruction as far as they have said. Can’t wait to arty a whole village

[rapid osprey]

I'm so excited for the Pantsir(?)

[silver otter]

Getting there slowly! I’m looking forward to seeing it used by people.

[rapid osprey]

Yeah, I can wait. It's torture but I can wait

[silver otter]

Lol

[frosty reef]

tf is that a stunt ramp? lol

[silver otter]

Lol maybe

[unreal ravine]

im curious about the AA's still

[silver otter]

We have a huge plate for only 2 people and like 20 projects in the works with another 20 on top that we wanna do,
so basically what I’m saying is our modding workflow method can be best described as ADHD lol

[unreal ravine]

fair enough man lol

[mellow furnace]

thanks to @dull narwhal for the inspiration to make stunt ramps for that cool sleigh of his

[snow smelt]

Fuck yeah!!! LMAO

Whoever was rocking out with the snare on that cover went ape shit. LOL

[mellow furnace]

that was my old worship team, he's the pastor's son. played in a metal band with the lead guitarist, I played 2nd guitar, and an 18 year old girl on bass (worship leader's daughter) 😄

[mellow furnace]

the whole song and video is on youtube if interested

[snow smelt]

Oh no shit! I’ll have to check it out!

[mellow furnace]

search "Bethany august burns"

[mellow furnace]

TFBB Props has been updated with a couple new WIPs:
Stunt ramps and and upgraded vans
Pallets now explode
Hotfix to address de-sync issue with flags

[unreal ravine]

im guessing the AA's will be there own pack

[clever cloud]

Im starving hereeeee

[quaint musk]

How will these be operated?

[frosty reef]

I am sure you have seen the guidance scripts around. will you implemented them to this lil thing? https://discord.com/channels/105462288051380224/1186711462626992269 in case you have not

[silver otter]

Thanks for the link I was not aware of this but it’s definitely something to look into for our AA equipment.

[silver otter]

Working on a few ideas 💡

[frosty reef]

awesome man! hope to see the pantsir and gepard working someday

[quaint musk]

OK cool, look forward to seeing it in action

[silver otter]

WIP 🚧 Working on the destructible model left behind after you blow it up.

[hollow hearth]

This is going to be sick!

[silver otter]

New destruction model for Hawk

[clever cloud]

Oooooooooooo

[clever cloud]

Been using the command tent as a scenery prop for photos.

[rose ice]

@clever cloud what mod is that?

The tents

[mellow furnace]

TFBB Props

[rose ice]

Thx

[silver otter]

Looks legit

[rose ice]

Love the mods y’all make, really can’t wait to see what else crazy things y’all come with.

[silver otter]

Nice got all the Hercules in the background

[clever cloud]

I would suggest maybe darkening the tents from the light color it is to maybe a darker tan

Kinda like this

[silver otter]

Yea I was seeing the same in the pics…we were talking about it earlier of darkening and adding a olive tone too

Enfusion washes tones out pretty good lol

[iron sun]

Only way the C-130 is getting off that strip is with JATO

[rose ice]

https://tenor.com/view/the-matrix-neo-keanu-reeves-come-at-me-gif-16815495436626973721

[pale ocean]

Excuse me but C-130s have literally been proven to be able to land and take off from aircraft carriers. Look it up lol.

[iron sun]

That’s a elevated position over an ocean

As for take off that’s how it’s made easy, as for landing that thing has to hit near stall to land it’s because it can fly extremely slow that’s the only benefit

But Jet assisted take off makes things 100% easier the thing can take off instantly

What’s impressive is its artic capabilities

It has skis designed for it to slide and take off that’s some bada** stuff

[rose ice]

Nah vape is right, I do aviation stuff in real life and definitely would not be enough runway for a plane of that size to takeoff, though my piper cherokee could clear it easily

Also those videos with the jets slamming into the carriers at fast speeds is insane. Ik it’s the only method to land but dang lol, lucky those wires catches those jets.

[cyan night]

Surely it could with JATO?

@silver otter sorry for ping, I saw u mention about the lock on missile maybe being added to a Sam site you were making, are u serious about it because I would fucking love having a Sam site shoot at me while I fly

[tawny wyvern]

So is TFBB props and Gamemaster FX for public use?

[mellow furnace]

all our mods are for anyone to use, Gamemaster FX is bacon's mod, but I use it as a dependency for TFBB GM FX.... but feel free to use any mod on the workshop, no mods should be exclusive @tawny wyvern

[tawny wyvern]

Alright thanks!

[tawny wyvern]

Hey, whenever I download your FX mod to my server it keeps having fragmentization errors?

[mellow furnace]

first I've heard of anything like that, screen shot or vid?

[tawny wyvern]

Is your mod incompatiable with any of these?

[mellow furnace]

this is not a mod issue, this looks more like reserve space or PC disc space is out of space

[tawny wyvern]

It's a purchased server with 50 gb of disk space

[mellow furnace]

Not that I'm aware of, have you tried using just Gamemaster FX alone? I'm not at my computer rn so I can't test to see if anything changed on that, it is the only dependency I have on our mod. That is the first thing I would do then take it from there. Let me know if you have anything new to report, otherwise I will check this out when I get home.

[tawny wyvern]

All I know is the mod won’t install, game master fx installs but your mod doesn’t.

[tawny wyvern]

Does your mod work with linux?

[mellow furnace]

my mod should work with anything just like anything else, I'm thinking it got corrupted on your server though somehow. Maybe get into file management and manually delete the mod from the addons directory and see if that helps. No one else that uses this mod has reported having trouble like this before, if that doesn't work I will need the full console.log DM'd to me please, and I will see if I can get to the bottom of the problem for you. Sorry you're having trouble

[tawny wyvern]

I’ve deleted it multiple times and installed it, the only other reason I can think of is compatibility

I’ll send you a console log if I can’t figure out what is incompatible

[mellow furnace]

on the server or on the console?

[tawny wyvern]

I’ve went to the servers files and manually deleted it

[mellow furnace]

gotcha... sent a dm, let's work this out

[mellow furnace]

Medevac Huey, can load up to 6 casualties and two medics, WIP coming soon!

[snow smelt]

@cedar trail ^Might be able to help you with your Medevac Blackhawk.

[mellow furnace]

I'm helping him, lol

[frosty reef]

modders help each other <3

[cedar trail]

Yes they’ve helped me greatly @snow smelt

[mellow furnace]

You're a quick study bud 💯

[clever cloud]

@upbeat halo they beat you to the punch

[tawny wyvern]

💀

[mellow furnace]

not so sure about that, I don't have 'ambulance' animations yet either, but you can stack them up in seats for now or use them like regular seats also

[mellow furnace]

TFBB Props 1.0.42 now uploaded, contains new Medevac Huey WIP, and a couple new pre-filled tent WIPs for barracks arrangements, also added a full arsenal to the 'full' helipads

[clever cloud]

Have those tents been darkened, cant tell

[mellow furnace]

yes, but in the test world they are a bit more washed out than in normal worlds, they were almost white in this world before 😄

Known issues with the new Medivac mostly involving animations, I need to learn more about that still:
Doctors face the patients, and when you get out from this position it puts you inside the bird briefly
Patients are sitting up and may be difficult to reach from the same side, putting medic on opposite side helps

[upbeat halo]

Lmao mine was just fucking up every time I did something, and I didn’t want to restart again, atleast someone did it

[upbeat halo]

Is the doctor able to equip medical supplies, I wasn’t able to in mine, also, have you made it a spawnable vehicle because I could not for the life of me get it to work

[mellow furnace]

yes and yes, just spawned it on the server using GM, and you can load six casualties at a time and two medics

[upbeat halo]

So all you need to do is change animations?

[mellow furnace]

I need to spend a lot more time learning more about animations so I can create my own custom ones... that will come in time

just didn't want to hold up the bird, we need it for an op

[upbeat halo]

For mine I just reused some animations like entering aand exiting from the huey animations set, but then used the idle animations from the ambulance

[mellow furnace]

and this is why I responded with "not so sure about that" lol 😄

[upbeat halo]

Here I'll look through mine and then tell you what I did for it

[mellow furnace]

sounds like we both have knowledge the other can use

[upbeat halo]

Yeah, you're further along so I'll just help you

[mellow furnace]

sweet! thanks 🙏

the last pic is where you end up when getting out, but that is just because I chose the wrong animation... still learning that side of things, not my strong suit 😅

[upbeat halo]

Alright so first you want go to ArmaReforger>Assets>Vehicles>UH1H>Workspace
Then you want to dupilcate all of the things, but make sure to have the one named player in it's name to also have player in your rename

Then you'll want to double click the duplicated version of the UH1A_Medvac.aw and go to workspace

[mellow furnace]

this will definitely help me get started... that was my biggest issue, not being able to see what was there. Just duplicating it will help me have a reference, that is truthfully the biggest help here modding for Arma... a good ref of how it's done.

[upbeat halo]

In the animations instances of the workspaces you'll see the normal versions of the animations from there you'll add child animation instances to those which will be your duplicated versions

It should look something like this

This is so It has all the animations of the normal huey, but still allows you to change them

[mellow furnace]

thanks bruh, I'll work on this tonight

[upbeat halo]

when changing the animation sets make sure to double click the child node in the workspace (depends on what you are changing) then go to the animation sets

for the most part it will be the player one

[cedar trail]

https://tenor.com/view/yay-traffic-car-race-gif-14739892 that black minivan

[tawny wyvern]

POV king can’t be cancelled

[mellow furnace]

hey, did you ever get TFBB GM FX to work?? 🤞

[tawny wyvern]

Haven’t got time to work on it 😭

[mellow furnace]

ok, just checking to see if you got past it or not... I'm here when you get time 😉

[tawny wyvern]

❤️🔥

[gilded abyss]

Did u get it working bro

[mellow furnace]

that was me waiting on him to do a test, he needs to try something and get back to me when he gets time

[gilded abyss]

Sorry I mean on the medi huey I replied to wrong one lol

[mellow furnace]

there is a lot to unpack there, it will be a while before I get animations done

[gilded abyss]

Copy that

[tawny wyvern]

Trying again!!

🥺

damnit

[mellow furnace]

you should share your screen shot of what you changed that fixed it 😉

jic someone else runs into the same issue

[tawny wyvern]

it worked

[mellow furnace]

indeed, but not what I meant...

is what was breaking it, fastVaildation must be false evidently, set to true (as in the screenshot) causes the issue @tawny wyvern was having

[tawny wyvern]

^

It’s not set to false in that screenshot lmao, but yeah it’s also been talked about being ass in the past as well.

[mellow furnace]

TFBB Props 1.0.43 just uploaded with pre-assembled med tents

[nimble wing]

Any news on the russian pantsir?

[mellow furnace]

modelling is finished, now it needs to be retopo'd and textured

[rose ice]

Ayyyyy looks good

[mellow furnace]

update coming to TFBB Props - including a new GM Filter to help you sift our 3 pages out of the 80 others! thanks again to @dull narwhalfor the inspiration and answering questions, as well as helping clue me in on the RGB color space when importing images... so much better now, that will help EVERYTHING I've made! Man I love that guy, such a great help and a treasure trove of information 🙂

[clever cloud]

I love you

[mellow furnace]

tent's original back doors are now working. I also fabricated double doors for the front to fill in the gaping tent opening. This version closest will be a command tent when finished, they will all come in this tan color as well as olive (versions: Empty, Barracks on dirt mound, Field Hospital and Command Tent with and without external TFBB Logos)

[shut sparrow]

Hello, where do you find your billboard to make a Custom picture on it ?

[mellow furnace]

I don't have any billboards. I made some signs and flags though, out of vanilla assets.

[mellow furnace]

TFBB Props has been updated

[clever cloud]

https://tenor.com/view/halo-halo2-halo-oorah-gif-15782884

[cedar trail]

is there one without the logo on the ground

[mellow furnace]

but of course!

[mellow furnace]

final testing of new lights happening now, but this tent is already in

[rose ice]

Just a little bug report for the command tent:

Door can’t open

Sign disappears at certain distance

Other than that it looks amazing and great work on it!

[mellow furnace]

It is intentional

Not the the sign disappearing, lol but that door is blocked

Sign will be fixed with lights

[cyan night]

That is shit hot

[mellow furnace]

TFBB Props updated again - tents now have lights!

[little dagger]

Sick

[mellow furnace]

One more update - all tents now occlude grass

thanks @molten dew for pointing out the duck boards and the mighty power they bestowed! 😄

[rapid osprey]

Aw, but I liked doing gardening inside my tent!

[clever cloud]

W

[rose ice]

Anyway for the sound mod you could add a plane sound like a C130? That would be dope

[mellow furnace]

I'll keep it in mind

[snow smelt]

For TFBB GM effects, perhaps adding ambient gunfire?

[mellow furnace]

someone else had asked for that recently as well... I'll add it to the list

[rose ice]

Also just another suggestion I was thinking about a while back, since on like a good few maps their are checkpoints and an Audio like this to go along with a checkpoint would be so immersive. https://youtu.be/UfgGjHdG5zw?si=rdy9TnwLWx5k7hWR

[mellow furnace]

Just need some slick talker with a cool accent to record some compelling, believable, checkpoint rhetoric and we're golden, lol...

[mellow furnace]

Finally giving this guy some more attention, got the custom rotor rigs to work and finished the destroyed rotors and wreck model

[clever cloud]

https://tenor.com/view/yessss-hell-yeah-brother-gif-22960551

[grizzled breach]

https://tenor.com/view/ohhh-chris-pratt-happy-oh-boy-whoa-gif-14308435

[cedar trail]

im working on one of those as well

[mellow furnace]

got tired of getting bitched out in a language I couldn't understand... lol 😄

[snow smelt]

Hell yeah!

[mellow furnace]

This change was not the final product... just a POC, now I am re-recording the voices with a voice-changer mod to sound more like they should, coming from an onboard nag... 😂 Then I will add that to our Mi-8 variants and whatever future bird I put out there using the Mi-8 base.

[hollow hearth]

Would you be opposed to sharing the damage voiceover to Mort Ares for his blackhawk too?

[mellow furnace]

He hasn't asked yet, but if he wants he knows how to find me, we have a private thread going since he started his Blackhawk to help him get through some of the beginning hurdles setting up colliders & rigs for new vics in blender, and some tips on prefabs and such... he's done really well so far! Happy to help however I can.

[mellow furnace]

My wife was kind enough to help me out, when she found out about the Russian bitchin betty she recorded these warnings with me (along with the rest) and called herself naggin' nancy! Man I ❤️ her, once I get this published you can all get bitched out by my wife when you crash our translated Mi-8 😄 (external decal translations are in process as well)

[clever cloud]

W Wife

[rose ice]

@mellow furnace lol she’s an amazing voice actor, she would be great for the checkpoint announcer thing

[mellow furnace]

thank you for saying so, I'll toss around some ideas... no promises 😅

[tulip prism]

is this going to be apart of one of your guys already existing mods or will this be separate?

[mellow furnace]

for now, I'm updating the two Mi-8s in our TFBB Props mod (one with our logo, and the one with the American flag)

When I start adding vics from the models we make and purchased then I will create a new mod (TFBB Vehicles) and move all our vehicles there

[mellow furnace]

TFBB Props has been updated, now the Mi-8s are featuring my wife as Naggin' Nancy, the Americanized voice to replace the Russian warnings... The decals have largely been replaced with English text as well as a new true black paintjob. Hope you all enjoy!

[clever cloud]

Now we need a southernized Huey version lmao

[timber pike]

Nice work King. We used it in our op tonight and our guys were loving the updated sounds

[mellow furnace]

glad you like it 😄 we had fun doing it

[snow smelt]

LOL Dude my girl lost her shit when I read this to her

[little dagger]

How do you equip the tattoos I can't find them in the Arsenal

[mellow furnace]

they are in TFBB Patches and are in the US arsenal

but if you have something in the slot they use, they will just go in your inventory (they use the slot to the right of the wrist watch)

[little dagger]

Oh weird guess I missed them

[jovial nest]

Map?

[rose ice]

Al asad

[mellow furnace]

Map?? No, the pic is showing what the tattoos look like in the arsenal...

[rapid osprey]

He replied to a different message above

[mellow furnace]

mb I looked at it on my phone, must not have clicked the link right, It looked to me like he was replying to the tat pic, lol - just woke up in my defense, didn't have glasses on yet 😄

[rapid osprey]

That's entirely fair

[dim phoenix]

What’s the workshop Id for the mod?

[clever cloud]

1.) Task Force Bad Batch Props

[grizzled breach]

The back door is meant to be closed but the sign disappearing is a known issue

[dim phoenix]

With a picture

[mellow furnace]

{
"modId": "5E0F104A1EAD9922",
"name": "TFBB Props",
"version": "1.0.49"
}

[grizzled breach]

https://tenor.com/view/go-crazy-gif-18929753

[tulip prism]

https://tenor.com/view/chris-pratt-reversed-reverse-shocked-gif-25427726

[grizzled breach]

Oh shit

Is so close I can feel it

[frosty reef]

what happened to the gepard and the pantsir y'all were working on? haven't seen y'all post about it in a while

[mellow furnace]

that is due to nothing new to report, they still need to go through some re-topo stuff and then texturing. We are both going through some IRL crap slowing things down, but thanks for the reminder... we are both ADD 😄

[frosty reef]

hey man thx for the update, was just wondering about it. irl is always more important for sure. love the work y'all are doing. and yeah ADD sucks lol

[silver otter]

https://tenor.com/view/squirrel-gif-27315551

King doing the lords work over here

[gloomy ibex]

What happened to this project?

[hollow hearth]

@mellow furnace is the dashboard/panels functional or interactive? Moreover, does it provide real time info to both pilot/copilot? I have more questions so i do apologize. I'm grateful for the support and time you give

[hollow hearth]

#1134294449816617072 is where you need to be for DAP blackhawk

[gloomy ibex]

oh ok

[glacial vale]

Monster and king are working on one as well iirc. I think the photo that e.4lzh posted is theirs not morts.

[silver otter]

King working magic

[silver otter]

All things are WIP with the intention of working gauges and displays

[molten dew]

Hey @mellow furnace FYI there is no anti-collision light on-top of the fuselage. That’s something to do with IR Counter Measures.

The two red anti-collision lights are on top of the tail and below the drive shaft. The strobe back and forth. I can offer a video of that if you wish

[glacial vale]

Was just about to say that too😅

@mellow furnace if you want help with the lighting lmk, i assisted mortalis with his MH-60 and i still have all the documentation for it

Same goes for the littlebird lighting if you want references for that too, I helped erfue with his

[molten dew]

More detailed outlay of the exterior lights are this:

Red anti-collision lights on the top of the tail and bottom of the drive shaft.

Positional lights are the green and red on the front steps on ether side along with a single white one at the top of tail (In the layout picture I provided)

Then the formation lights show with the number 20 in the picture I provided.

In a civilian use I do believe they use white strobe lights on the bottom (sometimes top) where the anti-collision lights are used.

Just keep in mind the layout pictures I provided are for a UH-60 so the step fairings are not present

[frosty reef]

found the warthunder player

[molten dew]

No, seven months clean of WT. just passion

[frosty reef]

I'm messing with you. (the joke is meant to poke fun at the fact wt players post classified docs online to win over arguments)

[glacial vale]

To further elaborate that civilian use thing ya brought up. The anti collision lights have a day/night mode that makes them flash white or red, and they have modes to activate just the top/bottom collision light or both. It’s present on bith milspec and civilian variants

Iirc the white (day) mode is slowly getting phased out and doesn’t get used much on the current 60’s due to some opinions on safety/practicality.

[molten dew]

That’s for elaborating on that!

[sacred gale]

I was 15 months clean…… send help

[molten dew]

Sorry to hear to relapsed🙏

[mellow furnace]

that is this project... starts with a transport, ends up like this - variants will come, but gotta start somewhere

[mellow furnace]

None of the animations will be 100% until I learn more, I have enough knowledge to get them out the door for testing, sure... but to finish it up with proper anis across the board (gauges, getin/out, etc) I have to study more.

[cedar trail]

this is the document i used for my lights

[mellow furnace]

the devs were kind enough to release the Huey rotors!! yay!! 🥳

In celebration, I put them together in a zip. Each in a new blend to help get anyone else started with these bad bois! 😉

Enjoy!

[timber pike]

@mellow furnace you the man!

[mellow furnace]

thanks to reyhard pushing the UH1H rotors I was able to complete all three model stages for the main and tail rotors last night (static, blur and dst), now the overall wreck model is complete so I'm not dropping huey carcasses anymore when the little bird blows up 😄

[clever cloud]

Oooo

[grizzled breach]

👀 👀 so we are close I suppose

[mellow furnace]

tweaked it a little more

[mellow furnace]

not too far off for LB, just a bit more of the basic things need to be finalized before we can test it on server

[little dagger]

Is this out?

[mellow furnace]

not yet - still need to do some finalizing on that one... and I might start over now that the huey rotors have been released. At this point the little bird will likely be the first one out the gate, but will still be a bit - need to do some server testing before we go public with them.

[little dagger]

Ight cool they both look great

[jovial nest]

Is this out?

[frosty reef]

@jovial nest

[jovial nest]

Oh ight

[silver otter]

Start of our vehicles mod pack: THE TEASER

[frosty reef]

oh wow, looks awesome (also great song choice) but correct me if I'm wrong, does that little bird have a working camera?

[mellow furnace]

not yet, there will be a lot of not yets in the initial release, so if we are not promoting it as a feature, cuz it probably is not one... yet... lol

[frosty reef]

ah sorry, I might've seen the reflection on the screen lol. either way those things look absolutely insane!

[mellow furnace]

thank you so much! 🙂

[timber pike]

🔥

[mellow furnace]

The initial shakedown of the Little Bird has gone very well, just a few more minor adjustments and we will release to the public on the next update. It will still be heavy WIP, mostly with animations, so only elementary rotor animations are in place currently until I figure out the tools better. The AH-6 armed variant is on hold until a good solution for pilot weapon firing has been established. The Blackhawk MH60-M will be next, followed by this guy now that I have the model:

[nimble wing]

https://tenor.com/view/pogled-pas-hm-zloban-gif-19623936

[hardy eagle]

@sinful goblet

[mellow furnace]

Should be ready for public-beta soon

[clever cloud]

I wish rappelling was a thing:((

[mellow furnace]

was that available in Arma 3?

I wish it was too!

[cyan night]

As well as shooting while in a vehicle, imagine shooting off the side of the little bird or Blackhawks

[mellow furnace]

that will come for sure, it's on the roadmap

[sacred gale]

Well my idea for that (I’m not a modder) was to just retexture a latter (you can already slide down them) and then animate the hands to just come closer together, it’s obviously pretty simple but I think it would work

[mellow furnace]

you are thinking logical, however, the bird and the ladder are placeable entities and have to either merge or deactivate physics once attached to each other, outside of the game in the workbench. then you have collisions to deal with and the rope attached to the bird would be a very interesting problem to deal with... this is why I asked if has been done in Arma 3... at least then there would be hope it will make it here also 😄

[clever cloud]

https://forums.bohemia.net/forums/topic/192126-advanced-rappelling/

Here is one mod that does it in A3

[mellow furnace]

then it's just a matter of time before someone figures it out... beyond my current level

[sacred gale]

Ah ok makes sense I was just thinking out loud lol, I’m too stupid for this kind of thing

[simple oar]

U sure?

[mellow furnace]

not anymore 😄 - I was 'told' it was on there, but I just looked and didn't see it sadly... lol

[mellow furnace]

I moved firing to a button combo, testing out HOLD LB+A for now until I find a better combo

[clever cloud]

What about unbinding the view reset button (RB)? That way firing can be RB and the view will not reset

[mellow furnace]

that is not the problem... the problem is everyone's muscle memory is RB to reset view, now it fires a weapon... lol HOLD RB+Y is now currently top of my list

[hollow hearth]

How about a combo prompt being RB+ Y for unbinded controls. LB is used for radios and will be a hassle to remain in contact with friendlies this way

[mellow furnace]

you mean

this is RB+Y to shoot and Y to switch weapons

[hollow hearth]

Does it feel natural?

That looks stable enough to make adjustments not only to the rudder, but also the altitude if need be

[hollow hearth]

Does look fantastic though! Great job man

[mellow furnace]

waaaay more natural than making the bird move right when firing 😄 and not as costly as redefining a well known key like reset view, lol

[hollow hearth]

Amazing! Thanks a TON for being there for us pilots 🙏🏾 these QoL changes are critical to us and our roles. Im grateful to you for all your hard work!

[cyan night]

This was already fixed tho, rt was to fire and rb was to use right rudder

But these look absolutely amazing I can't wait for the full pack to be complete

[hollow hearth]

RB did more than just use right rudder

[clever cloud]

(Ill keep it a stack with you, I have never used View Reset lmaooo)

[charred shadow]

^

[hollow hearth]

Thats surprising
Its automatically used when using/switching weapon pylons (i.e Crobra 1-S, little bird, and kings old hueys) also does so for the current Halo Pelican as well as the Falcon

Then again, would be different if you're using KB&M

[mellow furnace]

thanks, it will be a while... lol. but the little birds won't be long, just need to make sure I don't have any server killers in there still 🤣

and RB to tail rotor sounds super unnatural - it is problematic moving any existing mappings, no need when we got combo options, I'd rather get used to a new way to shoot than completely re-learn how to play and cause every other vic to be changed how they operate... I wanna play nice in this sandbox tyvm

[mellow furnace]

Appreciate it, happy to give it a go... this journey over the past few months has been fun! My dad was an AF pilot, I am not however, I just RP as one in our milsim... we do have real military pilots/engineers/etc in our group and they keep me on my toes 😅

[hollow hearth]

You have a great information network around you. That's very fortunate! I can only imagine the inspiration that'll be driving you going forward in this particular field

[mellow furnace]

The 160th SOAR is the main inspiration behind the core of this modpack because Monster heads the NIghtalkers in our milsim

as such the MH-60M and MH-47G are also on the roadmap, models have been acquired, but I take a long time... 😄

[tulip prism]

i’m most excited for the MH47G, the chinook was my favourite helicopter back when we had one in reforger

[hollow hearth]

Take your time bro 🙏🏾 make it a product you are proud of and the rest will fall into place. We can wait for good quality. Those helos are incredible all around

[mellow furnace]

After much consideration I'm putting the key binding remapping on hold until 1 of 2 things occurs...
1.. BI implements the HelicopterFire bind to allow separate binding for ground and helo vehicles
OR
2.. I learn how to script and do it myself, lol

The problem, and most likely why everyone else has not bothered with another solution, is ground and sky vehicles all use the same signal to fire, likely because helo weapons have not officially made it on the roadmap yet. And I do not want to mess up how gound vics shoot their weapons.

[mellow furnace]

So we came up with a new way to do this, instead of moving the fire button, which messes up the ground crew's ability to aim effectively and kills the AI ability to fire ground vics, we decided to change how the tail rotor works. Instead of moving it, we are requiring a hold of the RB button in order to make the right tail rotor respond (this disables weapons while using it because it is a brand-new button combo, but still give the range intended with the trigger). Consequently, we also added the ability to use the left side with the RB button held (or not, so default still works for left too). We also moved VehicleNextWeapon to Y to avoid unwanted weapon switching while flying.

This is only a work-around until BI fully implements the HelicopterContext mappings.

Unless something else comes up in testing, this will be how we are targeting the initial release of Monster-King Vehicles.

[weary cargo]

When do you expect it to be released

[mellow furnace]

once I have more confidence I'm not gonna break anyone's server, trying to wrap this weekend 😅

still heavy WIP and incomplete, and as I learn more about animations I will add in the gauges and other things that should move like flight controls and doors. Need to still customize the character get in/out animations as well, Still need to learn how to wire up the new bones I added to the huey rig for the extra rotors, but none of that will delay the first beta release.

[weary cargo]

ok thanks your going to make a master piece

[mellow furnace]

my fellow helo makers have set the bar pretty high, each in their own ways, so thanks for the confidence!

[mellow furnace]

Heads-up: TFBB Uniforms has been patched temporarily to remove the dependency to TFM, and therefore NVG... only until Greg gets his NVG working with 1.1

[cedar trail]

Any word on the props mod, good sir?

[mellow furnace]

I've been working on the TFBB Uniforms mod all day, about to call it a night... we are starting a new campaign tomorrow night and I really want to get these finished before that. Having said that, we have the release of Monster-King Vehicles on deck for public-beta release hoping to get out this weekend, which is tied to an update for props: The first update will be to only remove the vehicles from props, and create a new TFBB Vehicles mod for the TFBB decorated vics, the rest go in to Monster-King Vehicles. After the dust settles on that I plan on addressing performance issue(s) in props. 😅

[cyan night]

TFBB GM fx is fucking amazing I am in love, only one bug/suggestion is the sounds need to be ever so slightly louder at least some of them not all

[rose ice]

^ yeah they seem to be too quiet, also a cool audio suggestion would be to add whistles and war cries for raids and stuff, would be so dope lol.

[mortal swan]

Yep

[mellow furnace]

Do you have a list you would like to suggest for volume increasing?

[cyan night]

No, but I can happily create one for you

[mellow furnace]

I appreciate it, they guy that did the original testing left our group, then 1.0 happened and I had to rebuild it... so I didn't have the same feedback, lol... thanks for your help! @cyan night

[cyan night]

No problem man I'll get right on it

[cyan night]

Music list:
•TFBB Ambient jungle (day, night1, night2) - louder

•TFBB Bush Sound Effect - louder and wider radius

•TFBB Footsteps sound effect - louder

•TFBB Monkey sound Effect - increase radius

•TFBB Object Dropping sound Effect - little louder

• TFBB Please Help sound effect - not too loud because the quiet is creepy but currently can't hear it

•TFBB Stairs Descend sound effect -slightly Louder

•TFBB Timber Tree Falling 1,2 Sound Effect - way louder can't even hear it

•TFBB Wendigo Hush Sound Effect - slightly louder

All of the ones in this list could do with extending radius by like 10m.

[cyan night]

If there is anything else you want testing or owt just lmk man

[mellow furnace]

solid copy, thx... the volume is how I increase the radius

I have a couple other mods in the queue, once those are out of the way - or if I get a good break in between stuff - I will get these dialed in a little better

[mellow furnace]

Removing the vehicles from the TFBB Props mod, this is a necessary growing pain so we can split our vics out to other mods. They will be back in a new mod shortly! No props performance enhancements yet, just pulling vics.

if you rely on these vehicles, use TFBB Props v1.0.49 until the new mod(s) are published

[mellow furnace]

TFBB Vehicles is now released, but if you want the Gold Jeep or the Medevac Huey, stick with TFBB Props 1.0.49 for now... They will come back in the Monster-King vehicles mod after we get some permission issues sorted.

[mellow furnace]

We are officially launching our new Monster-King Mods discord:
https://discord.gg/monster-king-mods
Please feel free to stop by the mess hall and say hello!

Some settling may occur as we polish it up and continue to add more content, feel free to showcase your stuff there too... Choose if you want to discover the wonders of modding, choose if you prefer to remain in the simulation 😄 We hope you like it!

[mellow furnace]

That was fast!!! Already tier three, big thanks to TFBB!!

[burnt mango]

Which version of the 60 is that? Looks like the more modern one based on the sensor and camera setup/electronics

[mellow furnace]

It's a kitbash of 4 diff models, I'll send you the links when I get up, lol

[mellow furnace]

https://www.cgtrader.com/3d-models/aircraft/helicopter/uh60-black-hawk
https://www.cgtrader.com/3d-print-models/miniatures/vehicles/mh60-m-blackhawk-scale-model
https://www.cgtrader.com/3d-models/aircraft/helicopter/uh-60-helicopter-cockpit
https://www.cgtrader.com/3d-models/aircraft/helicopter/black-hawk-uh-60-cockpit

putting them here to make sure no one has claim to these guys before I invest hundreds of more hours to finish this guy up!! 😄

[molten dew]

What’s used where? Like what do you use from the MH60M and what from the UH60

[mellow furnace]

the top model is the main bird, I specifically pulled off the MH60-M DAP parts off the 3D Print model, that will require re-topo and texturing, the other two are just cockpits and I will end up using the best of what's in those two, plus probably redo a lot of the textures because it is literally a photograph of a real cockpit 😄

[molten dew]

Why use the UH-60? Not just use the MH-60M as a whole?

[mellow furnace]

I didn't see the mh-60m version when I first looked, don't know if that is new or not but I've seen it since, not much I can do about it now. There was not one when I was looking for one and now there is, lol

I started the blackhawk even before the littlebird

[molten dew]

Ah, yea I was just wonder do you have plan to switch over to the MH-60M model strictly?
I can’t recall fully but the M variant is either the newest or second newest.

Was wonder as a very modern MH-60 and that of one from USASOC is quite different than that of a UH-60.
As you can see there are a lot of small things different with the MH-60M and some big. It’s not as simple as a UH-60.

[mellow furnace]

it is all I have to work with, so that will be it unless by some magic the perfect model appears, is royalty free, and my fans want to donate to a fund for me to buy the best model out there, lol... cuz I can't sure make it from scratch 🤣

[molten dew]

If your wanting to do a older version of the DAP the UH-60 body makes complete since.

[molten dew]

Oh sorry I think a read wrong. Was the reason your using the UH-60 model is because the other one (MH) will require a far more amount of work?

[mellow furnace]

the MH60 is not topo'd well, and is made for 3d printing so no texturing at all... so I only want to use the DAP stuff from it

even then, just the fuel rod, cone and the pylons - not the weapons, those models need to be better... will have to acquire each

[molten dew]

Ah I see. Yea that’s understandable, yea to re topo and texture would be quite difficult.
I love that you still want to make one either way, so thank you so much can’t wait to see what’s instore

[mellow furnace]

I can reuse the mgs and hydras but the hellfires I have only have 2 per launcher, the DAP BH has 4 (assuming I can still use the Little Bird at all)

but tonight is all about @cedar trail DAP Blackhawk... we are going to be getting the weapons going on my new discord tonight at 8pm (about two hours from now)

[cedar trail]

9pm est for anyone wondering

[molten dew]

Do you have pictures of your DAP that are public like in modders lounge?

[cedar trail]

Not currently but since the first time king and I worked on it I decided I’m adding hellfires to the mix and I bought a much better minigun model I’m gonna use instead of my current one

[molten dew]

Oh sweet, so you’ll have M134s, hydras and hellfires? After I suggested have you thought of useing the 30mm from Striders JLTV mod?

[cedar trail]

Not in my first rendition but maybe eventually

[burnt mango]

Where possible we as modders try to not add larger mods as dependency, especially when they are not designed to be plugged to another vehicle type.

That is just my opinion though, may not be shared but more dependency mods result in higher chances of breaking somewhere in the chain.

[mellow furnace]

Aussie is right, whenever possible we try to make our prefabs directly off the vanilla assets. The less dependencies the better! However, as in the case of BGONE, it was written entirely to be used as a core for other mods that need seeker missiles, so they don't have to rewrite the wheel. It is a preference as to what you choose to include to depend on, and modders choose to include BGONE because their is no vanilla alternative.

[mellow furnace]

@winged ice if you got it done while I'm still waiting, hell yeah I will try to make it work brother... got nothing better to do, in the wheel pattern of fate atm... 😄

Figured if we are going to talk about this for MK-Vics we should move the convo here

I already flooded @wise pine's showcase enough, lol

[winged ice]

So like i said i think i can have lod0 whitebox in just few days

[mellow furnace]

thank you for doing it, I appreciate your zest!

[winged ice]

But i've to ask if we would want to bring it up to Reforgers fidelity so working engine door/bay that you can open also working altimeters/speedometers and other things on dashboard. Would that be possible or is that too much of a headache?

[little spade]

Bro a good Blackhawk is needed. Not to mention the freaking DAP. Is there a way to make a pylons selection thing for these aircraft in Reforger? Similar to how they did it in A3

[mellow furnace]

I'm helping @cedar trail get his DAP going, and we have a series of Blackhawks we will do as well.

[little spade]

Wow if I just kept reading I would of seen someone else mention the dap lol my bad

[mellow furnace]

all good, got plenty of time to type... like I said, I'm in the wheel pattern of fate atm, lol - at least it gives me more time to tend to my wife who just got out of surgery couple days ago 🫡

[cedar trail]

lol

[little spade]

Hope she’s doing well, and has a speedy recovery.

[winged ice]

[winged ice]

Okay so my gameplan is to have lod0 model of mh-6 or OH6 Cayuse(literally the same ) in few days

By LOD0 i mean Baked model ready to be textured and other things and on that stage we could also start doing other things

I havent worked on vehicles at all so i'm not familiar with whole process. I guess after lod0 we have to rig everything that moves i.e rotor/tail/stick?

after that it gets hazy for me, i guess we will need LODs 1-5 and blown up version also with LODs ? @mellow furnace

And beyond that its only implementation? like getting it actually working within engine

[mellow furnace]

in order for me to implement, I need the base model, main rotor, tail rotor, skids. don't worry about lods atm, already worked those out on the last one, but that's finishing touches anyway... don't work on LODs until you are finished with main model... like no more changes... otherwise you have to redo all the things you made from it, like LODs and colliders, etc...

[winged ice]

ye, got it

[mellow furnace]

tried to invite you to modder's lounge and message got deleted, lol

[winged ice]

its fine ive got it

[mellow furnace]

https://reforger.armaplatform.com/workshop/610D4311510A5D90-Monster-KingAccessories
New mod - moved the tattoos, glow suit, base patch models and generic patches (like flags and duty patches) from TFBB Patches, added some hats as well... Also now home to the 50k radios for each faction.

[mellow furnace]

https://reforger.armaplatform.com/workshop/5E5F0E052033B5EC-TFBBPatches
TFBB Patches now includes GM and Cadre ballcaps

[tidal gyro]

dumb question, what does the "Monster-King Weapons" mod do?

[mellow furnace]

it only has 1 weapon in it atm, sort of a place holder for things to come... there is a LAW that has 3x damage

[hollow hearth]

I too have a question regarding the dual firing guns. Has that been placed on hold for the upcoming aircraft or something for a later date

[mellow furnace]

the only CAS bird I built so far is up in the air atm due to the model drama, but I'm planning on something special for the meantime

[hollow hearth]

Sick! Definitely looking forward to that

[unreal ravine]

for the stetsons, is it possible to add the regiments above the sabers, like 1 through 8?

[mellow furnace]

Sure it's possible, just not on my list. Feel free to reskin them in your own mod though.

[unreal ravine]

fair enough

[mellow furnace]

ignore the laggy laptop 😄

[hollow hearth]

This is going to be cool for hit n run tactics! The one thing I'd love to see is flight helmets with a onscreen reticle for in line accuracy

I can't wait for technology to gain traction for animated/scripted fly by wire feedback for altitude control and information relay

[lucid sequoia]

👀

[tawny wyvern]

RIP the textures

[mellow furnace]

TFBB GM FX is now known as Monster-King GM FX:
https://reforger.armaplatform.com/workshop/5EB51D581C99E590-Monster-KingGMFX

[tawny wyvern]

Anything else new with it?

[mellow furnace]

Brought the sound levels up on some of the quieter sounds

[tawny wyvern]

any new sounds coming?

[mellow furnace]

not atm, this was a re-brand and fix for sounds too low, no plan for new sounds currently...

I am currently going through cleaning up all my TFBB mods and splitting out anything not specifically branded TFBB into a base Monster-King mod that people can either use as is, or inherit to re-skin for their milsims, without including another milsims stuff and take up all that space.

I also update the TFBB mods to use the MK mod assets and only re-skin where needed, this also makes the TFBB mods a bit more streamline and makes a better example of how others can follow suit.

So all that to say Monster-King Props will be the next new mod, followed by a TFBB Props update once I get this one sorted... There is a lot to fix in there, lol.

[mellow furnace]

Monster-King Vehicles is LIVE!
https://reforger.armaplatform.com/workshop/61377CF4130CDE66-Monster-KingVehicles
Enjoy!

[naive garnet]

If the MQ-9 Reaper were to be incorporated into a tv display with MonsterKing😩

[finite forge]

I think it was you who started this but where did this go?

[hollow hearth]

This helmet targeting system would be amazing for pilots

[mellow furnace]

we were waiting for the apache to come back tbh, now that it has appeared in the workshop we will put this back on the table

[finite forge]

Sweet

[hollow hearth]

Sweeeeet

[junior osprey]

I actually thought that was a scope for seeing around corners😭😭😭

[junior osprey]

yes you read that right

[silver otter]

https://tenor.com/view/nobi-pintu-tokocrypto-nanovest-crypto-gif-26605558

[mortal swan]

@boreal kraken your FX mod is really quiet by any chance are u able up the sound

We really need it for a SCP server

[snow smelt]

Hey boss, your GM FX doesn't seem to function on the Khan Trung map, unless it's not meant to work with another mod. I've also got Phoenix Studios GM FX mod in the JSON as well, any history of these two mods not getting along with eachother? Your mod category does show up for your GM FX, however it's entirely blank.

[silver otter]

We will look into it today

[snow smelt]

Appreciated.

[mellow furnace]

I just put those three mods in a test mod together and everything is fine

1 of 2 things... make sure your filters are reset completely (if anything else is turned on that will stop my stuff from showing)
if that still doesn't show them then you are running out of memory

that's all I can tell you 🤷

[mellow furnace]

or some other mod is conflicting, if you are still having trouble with them DM me your modlist

[mellow furnace]

Please be more specific when talking about which actual effect(s) are too quiet... we have 3 pages of sound effects, they are not all quiet I guarantee you that... lol. Have you used them recently? The quieter sounds were recently enhanced and brought up.

[snow smelt]

Your fast work and response is genuinely appreciated. It must be a mod clashing with it then. I’ll look into it further to see if I can isolate the mod causing the issue and I’ll get back to you immediately.

[mortal swan]

Yes i tested them recently it was the zombie ones that were quiet

[mellow furnace]

roger that, perhaps you just want them louder than we originally intended... but I will give it a double check to make sure I didn't miss anything

[mortal swan]

Ok ty

[silver otter]

Is it specifically the jungle sounds?

[mortal swan]

Idk I for sure the zombie sounds was 1 of them

[ornate goblet]

Hello guys. Since the new 1.2 Update the MonsterKing GMFX mod doesnt seem to work anymore. No sounds at all work for me on local nor on server.

is there an update planned for it? Love and appreciate your work, else I wouldnt be here. Dont wanna go through the hassle of using soundboards again.

[mellow furnace]

All good, yes it is being worked on. Hopefully I can finish it up soon.

[ornate goblet]

my man. mmmaaaa man.

thank you for making my sunday nicer already sir. any rough estimate or better say nuthin?

[mellow furnace]

no promises, I have a couple other things I am working on and that is a complete do over on the sound map for every sound, so it will be some significant effort to finish

[keen crag]

Has the GM FX mod been updated yet?

[mellow furnace]

not yet, been busy IRL and getting our server stabilized, I still have a few mods that need updating

[mellow furnace]

https://reforger.armaplatform.com/workshop/620A525428CC744A-Monster-King1.2Hotfix

This mod will help reduce the errors that occur every time a character gets placed or respawned

[clever cloud]

@keen sparrow

[keen crag]

@meager phoenix

[meager phoenix]

thank you

[keen crag]

Yep

[red ginkgo]

King, do you allow reskins ?

[mellow furnace]

yes, you can reskin the patches... keep in mind they will be updated to fit the uniforms better that they were intended for... atm there are some alignment issues

[red ginkgo]

nice 🙂 thank you a lot !
is it possible to retexture the tats aswell ?

[mellow furnace]

sure, knock yourself out... just give credit for the model I made to make it possible, that one took some time 😄

[red ginkgo]

thanks a ton! I'll honor you in the description. 🙂

[mellow furnace]

Got a couple of irons in the fire so I'm all over the place, but Monster-King GM FX will be coming back soon!

I finally finished getting the new sound map working and it's all in one map now. Makes it easier for me to maintain and balance the levels of the individual sounds as well.

One last step, I will be adding in translations for the other languages Arma supports as well, then I will put out the update.

[rapid osprey]

Oooo, excited to be able to use the GM FX again

[mellow furnace]

Monster-King GM FX 1.2.0 update uploading...

[errant wharf]

https://tenor.com/view/pog-pogfish-fish-openmouth-gif-20357594

[mellow furnace]

https://reforger.armaplatform.com/workshop/5EB51D581C99E590-Monster-KingGMFX ready!

[mellow furnace]

https://reforger.armaplatform.com/workshop/607324BB40CC0E9D-Monster-KingProps Just released 1.2.0 update, complete with localization support!

[ornate goblet]

I think I found a bug if you put in the incoming sound from vanilla and delete it, it will loop indefinitely

It might also be one of the other sound mods conflicting with MKGMFX

[mellow furnace]

I have done extensive testing with the sounds I made and never ran into that before, but I don't have a sound with that name, so there might be very little I can do about it... I believe the incoming sound effect is part of the original Game Master FX, not vanilla. Either way, I'll look into it. That sounds like a horrible side effect... no pun intended 😄

[ornate goblet]

truuuee thats not vanilla, Its also something I've neeever ran into

[mellow furnace]

for now all I can do is recommend not using that effect, please let me know if it happens on anything else. And for now I will do some more rigorous testing of the original mod over the next couple days to see if I can...
1: reproduce the problem

if I can then...
2: determine if it is caused by my mod or already a problem (simple test, you can do to... take my mod out and see if the problem goes away, if it does, put it back and see if it comes back)

if it does...
3: see if I can figure out why...

Please let me know if you do the testing I mentioned here before I report back, you may save me some time

[golden swan]

https://tenor.com/view/mijonju-gif-18000754

[frosty steeple]

or just kiss him literally

[red ginkgo]

king, what is going on here 😄 I've inspected the model with uvchecker and it took both from the same place, so I placed only one texture. it works in the preview but ingame one shoulder patch was blank beige. So I inspected the uv mash and... now I'm even more lost 😄

[mellow furnace]

When replacing textures, it's sometimes necessary to break the prefab instance in order to see the overridden texture(s). Then you have to create a new prefab by dragging it into a prefab directory after breaking it.

[red ginkgo]

I'm sorry I never heard of breaking the instances before. What does it mean?

[mellow furnace]

when editing the prefab, right click on it in the Hierarchy window, then click on Break Prefab Instance

When done with your changes, instead of saving, you will need to drag your prefab somewhere into your prefab directory tree and that will prompt you to name your new prefab

[red ginkgo]

ooohh... thanks a lot 🙂

[glacial briar]

By the way, I can’t find the borderlands inspired Huey in the vehicle pack

[jolly basin]

hey monster would u ever add more tattoos?