Varta Ukraine armore vehicle

[astral furnace]

https://reforger.armaplatform.com/workshop/6110E72AE708A181-Varta-Ukrainearmorvehicle

My first mod in Arma Reforger, and hopefully not the last.
Developing this mod took me 2.5 months of intensive work.
I spent one month learning the engine's functionality, another month developing the model, and the remaining time was spent refining it to completion.
I hope the result justifies these efforts.

[silver fulcrum]

Looks very nice!

[short moth]

Hey brother i have a question?

Could we possibly get a all black version?

[astral furnace]

It's possible.

I can do any camouflage or coloring.

[mossy iron]

That looks great !

[short moth]

The reason i ask is bc my life roleplay community has a SWAT team and we are looking for a Bearcat like vehicle and this perfectly fits the role!!

Sorry for the ping it being glitchy when i try to turn it off

[astral furnace]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytk0Syy6WWI&t=28s

[short moth]

Ooo

[short moth]

Looks sexy

Sadly my community is based of hawaii

[astral furnace]

What is the name of your clan in the game?

[naive sequoia]

Hey looks pretty cool!

[short moth]

Moorea life roleplay community.

Heres our community post #communities_xbox message

That link will take you to the message

[astral furnace]

You participate in tournaments ACL or TGL?

[short moth]

No just partnership with 1 of them

And

Working on getting one going with TGL

[astral furnace]

Interesting, in general, as I understand it, you want me to create a black SWAT coloring book for you?!

[short moth]

Sure lol i ment a black version of the truck but coloring book would br funny

Звичайно, я думаю про чорну версію вантажівки, але книжка-розмальовка була б смішною

Ps pufu its what i said above translated before you get on my rear for not speaking English

[astral furnace]

I understand that I will take it into account, but I cannot promise when I will be able to do this.

[short moth]

Thank you brother ur doing God's work here

[astral furnace]

👍

[scenic oriole]

https://tenor.com/view/republica-de-fifidonia-rick-idk-fake-it-looks-fake-gif-17266845

[astral furnace]

Ye its Fake🙃

[celest epoch]

Will there be VARTA olive and black?

[short moth]

⬆️

[waxen apex]

@astral furnace did you make this model? or are you a dev on squad?

[snow orchid]

? is this model from squad?

[waxen apex]

was showing the mod to some people and they thought it was/looks pretty familiar

[short moth]

There's differences tho

[astral furnace]

I make this model.

[zenith rivet]

Fairly sure this isn't in Squad

[astral furnace]

The squad has bad models, and there is no Urainian faction.

[zenith rivet]

So from my testing, seems pretty solid, textures could use some work, and I am unsure how tanky it's supposed to be but I fired three RPGs into the engine and only by the third did it burn so this is either a catastrophe or working as intended idk

[wanton onyx]

Really nice work @astral furnace, was testing this out today. 👍 Make sure to give it a test in experiemental, lots of things are changing with vehicle components in 1.2

[astral furnace]

I hope for the better😂

[zenith rivet]

Also I presume the speedometer and all that is still WIP?

[astral furnace]

In what way should I work on textures?

[zenith rivet]

I'm no expert so I will refrain from saying but so much but the turret for an example is a bit funky looking, though it could be me

[astral furnace]

The speedometer and tachometer needles are already on the panel, they work, but there is no scale behind them.

[zenith rivet]

Yeah so I saw

[astral furnace]

What exactly is strange? This is a vanilla machine

[zenith rivet]

Honestly looking at it again, I'm now wondering if this isn't just one of those things that looks weirdly low poly and then you see it irl and it still looks like that

Oh my God that's exactly what it is

[astral furnace]

O, nice screenshots!! I like it♥️

[zenith rivet]

Ok nevermind then I'm just dumb. Overall it seems like it'll be very nice for multiplayer stuff, mainly because it has larger windows so you can actually see more than just the road

[astral furnace]

There are quite a few modifications of this machine.
Somewhere I deliberately deviated from references, for the sake of optimization.
A lot has been done here for optimization, the number of points is less than in the vanilla machine of the USSR medical staff, and the texture is 2k with maximum detail.

[zenith rivet]

That's fair

Anyways asides from small things it's a good mod, glad to see some Ukrainian vehicles in the game

[dense elk]

There is some sort of error spam when the vehicle is on fire

Reason: NULL pointer to instance. Variable 'm_FuelTank'

Class:      'SCR_FuelHitZone'
Function: 'GetSecondaryExplosionScale'
Stack trace:
scripts/Game/HitZone/SCR_FuelHitZone.c:94 Function GetSecondaryExplosionScale
scripts/GameCode/Components/SCR_DamageManagerComponent.c:1029 Function GetSecondaryExplosionPosition
scripts/Game/Components/Damage/SCR_VehicleDamageManagerComponent.c:1567 Function UpdateFuelTankFireState
scripts/Game/Components/Damage/SCR_VehicleDamageManagerComponent.c:1455 Function UpdateFireDamage
scripts/Game/Systems/FireDamageSystem.c:19 Function OnUpdate
WORLD        : UpdateEntities

[zenith rivet]

Also is there an ambulance variant of the Varta?

Asking about irl I know it isn't in the mod

[short moth]

Ooo would be cool

[astral furnace]

♥️

[astral furnace]

I've seen this problem.

[astral furnace]

In theory, you can do anything, even make a spaceship.

[dense elk]

Looks really good tho. like one of the best models in the game atm imo 😍

[wanton onyx]

Also this prefab is the old way to add vehicles into the catalog, you dont need to use it, you can delete both the prefab and the Vehicles_varta.conf file
{59EF8ECAE1DCD417}Prefabs/Editor/Modes/EditorModeEdit.et

1. Do this instead, add override for US_Vehicles.conf
2. Open the file and add to the bottom of vehicles list, right click -> insert after -> SCR_EntityCatalogEntry
3. Add Entity Data Lists, SCR_EntityCatalogEditorData, make sure EDIT and BUILDING are selected
4. Add Entity Data Lists, SCR_EntityCatalogSpawnerData, select VEHICLE MEDIUM

can set the name here for how it will show in the catalog on the Varta prefab:

[astral furnace]

This is nice to hear, I wanted to make a decent mod.

[astral furnace]

I'll have to try it.

[wanton onyx]

this hitzone under the vehicle

I think there is a mistake here btw, there is no Differential_03 collider

here sorry

I also agree, very nice work on the mod, I dont think people realise how much work/how difficult it is to make vehicles properly 👍

[astral furnace]

Strange, I don’t have collisions there, there is the name of the lower collision

[astral furnace]

Yes, people just want this and that to be added, but no one wants to know how much is needed for this 🥲

[wanton onyx]

turn on show hitzones in the diag tools

you should be able to see it then, I believe its coming from a misconfigured hitzone somewhere, maybe the gearbox, not sure, I can test it some more

[astral furnace]

Thank you, I'll take it into account and try to find the problem.

[wanton onyx]

let me know if you need any help

[astral furnace]

Yes I need help with SCR_BaseCompartmentManagerComponent

[wanton onyx]

sure, I checked your seats though, they seem to work pretty good, whats the issue?

[astral furnace]

Door R2 is not animated, although it is indicated in the animations, and the door to seat R2 is indicated

There is also a bug when the icons on the door handles disappear, this happens after using certain places in the car.

[wanton onyx]

do you have an example place where this happens?

[astral furnace]

If you put bots in a car and then get out, you may notice this problem.

[wanton onyx]

did you check all the action manager radiuses?

[wanton onyx]

ah ok, I see, probably related to the compartment slot instead

[astral furnace]

Yes, I checked, initially everything works.

I think the problem is in SCR_BaseCompartmentManagerComponent
It is the most buggy component)))

[wanton onyx]

this component is changing a lot in 1.2, the bug might be fixed on experimental

[astral furnace]

I REALLY hope for improvements! I made mods for GTA5, it wasn’t easy either, there was no documentation at all, but there it worked somehow easier😂

[wanton onyx]

@astral furnace very strange bug, I see it now. I think the animation when you exit the door is somehow breaking the action on it

[astral furnace]

Yes it's her)

[heavy drift]

Is this on the workshop or just private testing

[astral furnace]

Didn't understand

[dense elk]

https://reforger.armaplatform.com/workshop/6110E72AE708A181-Varta-Ukrainearmorvehicle

[heavy drift]

Gotcha thank you

[normal otter]

I got this running on my server and everyone loves it

Unfortunately xbox series S players get DCed constantly when we run a full convoy of these filled to the brim with players so hopefully arma fixes that

[wanton geyser]

sounds like doing anything on a series s causes issues, maybe it’s the console itself

[astral furnace]

Disconnection is a common problem even on PC, but it doesn’t depend on us here, unless the mod causes a crash.

Today a couple of errors in the fashion have been corrected, there is still one global error when door handles disappear. But I'm working on it.

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/1252380475817984111/1252630106854396066/Hilux-m-screen-1.jpg?ex=66743bb2&is=6672ea32&hm=a0a79ca81b452187bc812ac4801cd02343d55a38665010742dc963dd93fa8880&

I can also please you with a new transport mod. Toyota Hilux is in closed beta test, you can write in a personal message and get access to it.

[wanton geyser]

will there be a armed version of the hilux?

[astral furnace]

This is not a pickup truck, there is no place to place a gun. I planned a lot of coloring pages for both military and civilian ones. It is also possible to make individual colors for different tasks.

[waxen apex]

@astral furnace will you be spending time refining the Varta and Hilux for now or do you already have more in mind?

[astral furnace]

There are plans to improve this technique to a stable version. There may be other mods, we'll see...

[waxen apex]

Should port in a Chevy Suburban :))

I tried to port over the Arma 2 SUV from Take On but I severely lack the Blender Ability

[late spear]

Whats the arma 2 suv based off of

[astral furnace]

Arma 2 has not beautiful models (textures)

[astral furnace]

Like this? https://images.app.goo.gl/56aNA9PnwM4Gvod98

[waxen apex]

Yup. I was using the more up to date model on it I believe

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Take On pack
"Wheeled_US_H"

[normal otter]

I think the gunner seat of your vic broke

[heavy drift]

Just slightly

[astral furnace]

Perhaps I made updates and something broke, thanks, I'll check.

[vapid girder]

Is it okay if I dm about something regarding the Varta?

[astral furnace]

In what sense?

[vapid girder]

It’s a question about getting a custom version for a milsim if you’re doing that

[astral furnace]

This is possible, but a little later I work on improvement. Significant changes are already ready. Write me a private message what do you want?

[vapid girder]

I’ll drop you a dm in the coming hour had a water leak in the house just need to sort it out

[astral furnace]

👌

[short moth]

Any updates on the hilux

[astral furnace]

Update 0.0.10 will bring some bug fixes, as well as a completely new car damage model. Added version without weapons. Interior elements, information plates, icons and a dashboard also appeared.
The car's power has also been slightly increased.
I hope you enjoy the update🙃

Also now you can support me on Buy Me Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/Mandarinka

[astral furnace]

During execution, you want the finished result too quickly.😄

[short moth]

Ohh noo sorry i ment like on the progress of making it. Sorry for the confusion

[astral furnace]

Update 0.12 improves vehicle damage.

Now the main armor is 15mm, it does not shy away from 7.62 and RPG-7. 4 RPG-7 sets fire to an armored car.

[normal otter]

Is that thicker or thinner?

[astral furnace]

This is close to the real values, before it did not work correctly, after 0.11 it began to work, now the adjustment is taking place, I already have an idea of ​​the final version of the damage.

[vivid yarrow]

so, is it thicker or thinner

[astral furnace]

Thinner, thicker than what?

[vapid girder]

I think they mean is the armour thicker or thinner than it was in the last version of it

[vivid yarrow]

armor

have you added millimeters to it removed millimeters

[astral furnace]

It came in different variations, I don’t know which one did you find? Not only the thickness parameter has changed, it is a completely different behavior.

[astral furnace]

Not only millimeters, there was work done with all the elements, it’s difficult for me to explain in a nutshell how it works. But most likely, in the next damage detection, the car will correspond to its real counterpart.

[silver fulcrum]

btw @astral furnace I dont know if you are aware but reforger v1.2 is now in experimental branch and it will probably go to stable very soon (its been a while) if you are developing on arma stable, most likely a lot will have to be redone, would advise you to move to experimental arma and tools if you havnt done so already. Otherwise on launch the mod will cease to function.

[astral furnace]

I know about the future update, I launched the experimental version, the mod completely stops working. For now I am working on the stable version, my work is not in vain even if I need to redo the components. The most important thing is that I have an understanding of how equipment should be damaged.

Unfortunately, most mods do not have realistic performance, which is why my mod may seem strange in comparison with unbalanced cars.

[silver fulcrum]

understood, just giving a heads up that some stuff you are working on now might be completely throw away in few weeks