Mike's Mods

[topaz quarry]

Hey Everyone, I made a Fallujah PVE and a Chernarus PVE. As well as a Bandana mod and some random other things in the background.

I have now moved this conversation to a new discord to separate out the different mods

https://discord.gg/VXYxGFnpbm

I've got a Fallujah PVE @remote tulip if you are still looking for one

@vapid torrent with update 2.5.0 (or it might have been 2.4.0) i heavily reduced the distance at which AI will spawn.

If you were anywhere inside of the city, the entire city would basically spawn. So Gramps' distance he used for Everon doesn't work great here, especially the 2X mode. This technically might make scouting and sniping not a great experience. I might need to increase the distance a tad so let me know

[stoic geode]

so x1 works good currently?

[topaz quarry]

2X should work great

[stoic geode]

copy but till you update or even now?

[topaz quarry]

tested it with about 20 people on it. 2.5.4 should be perfect

[stoic geode]

oh it just updated copy thanks

[topaz quarry]

vehicles seem to be spawning from too far away is the main issue I'm tracking fyi. looking into that one

[stoic geode]

hey any shot you plan on making a pve for RAMADI IRAQ? that map is as good and it follows the path, after 2004 fallujah...

[remote tulip]

Nice! I was watching the workshop and waiting for your scenario to get out of WIP status.

[topaz quarry]

I'd personally consider it WIP but definitely still fun and chaotic

[grizzled stirrup]

I tried the chenarus one, but has no spawn points?

[topaz quarry]

you tested it recently?

[remote tulip]

Going to threw Fallujah on our test server

[topaz quarry]

But ya with any of Gramps' mod you want to stick in one big group. If you have people too spread out it will still cause lag

@stoic geode https://reforger.armaplatform.com/workshop/620C16F88BFA412E-TalibanConversiontoUSSR

Try this out

[stoic geode]

Damm your good, whats your plan for tali civs?

[vapid torrent]

k thanks... ill take a look. we were just on the edge of the city moving in from the north. Glad i left it loaded on the test server. ill check it out today

[stoic geode]

@topaz quarry you didnt get all ussr, the special forces spawn naked. when you think it would be updated?

[vapid torrent]

was better and im not sure about the LODS on the map itself but i still see a bit of the distance spawn. you can see my icon in blue

not sure if thats the best that can be done distance wise. overall i have a fairly new comp but it struggles with fallujah

[stoic geode]

its a vics thing, also like that in everon 2.0,

[vapid torrent]

vics?

[stoic geode]

the ai that are ment to stay in vics seem to stay even when im distanced

[vapid torrent]

right. but if you look at the tv tower and the forest top left. if possible they should likely be closer... again though... if its running fine for you guys it might just be me... with the same settings i get everon fine but fallujah has a lot of frame drops and low fps for me

[remote tulip]

It's some strange "feature". Last Dallas PvE I put up on the server anytime you spawned in a special forces they would be pants less

[vapid torrent]

whats the point of spending all the time shaving your ankles if you don't show it off

[topaz quarry]

@stoic geode ah gotcha, easy fix, I'll work on that when I get home tnght, the special forces issue

I'll look at tali civs as well

[tough agate]

One reported issue but cannot point towards your mod rn is enemy armor was approached and caused a hard crash. Unknown if it’s yours due to other mods being loaded but thought I’d leave this here

[topaz quarry]

Server crash @tough agate ?

I think I've noticed that too, but wasn't sure. Sorry very new to modding. I am removing Vics until I can test this further. 2.5.5 should have Vics removed

[tough agate]

Had to do with another mod. All good

[topaz quarry]

Gotchaa, I was still getting some weird errors from the vics that could have easily caused crashes, so going to investigate before adding them back

[topaz quarry]

@granite shoal @violet lynx @umbral yoke

[umbral yoke]

Hell yeah

[scenic lotus]

use this for ref

[scenic lotus]

its suppossed to be tht way so they will drive per my knowledge

[grizzled stirrup]

Did anything change with Fallujah? Cant start the scenario puts the server in a crash loop

or its stuck trying to instantiate the scenario

[topaz quarry]

No, running the latest version fine on my end. If you're running other mods might want to start from vanilla with my mod and work up from there

[tough agate]

I think you’ve left global supply usage off.

[topaz quarry]

Yeahhh, still working on setting up supply points and default supply amounts so left it disabled by default for now

[vapid torrent]

have you thought about a Kunar version?

[topaz quarry]

Yeah I want to do a lot of maps, but want to get everything ironed out on this one, still new to this

[normal quarry]

Hello, Fallujah update on the way.

[vapid torrent]

all good... for sure... get a good base... it will make others much smoother

[topaz quarry]

oh sweet!

[topaz quarry]

Anything specifically to look out for?

[topaz quarry]

Fallujah PVE Conflict 2.6.0 has been released - Large vehicle update for the City.

Let me know what you think, this should add a good bit of chaos.

[topaz quarry]

Update has also been pushed for Taliban Mod conversion for Civys and Spetznaz @stoic geode

[topaz quarry]

It appears vehicles in the city are not working as expected. Expect an update for that tonight

[grizzled stirrup]

works now, its pretty good. Are you doing a 2x ai variant like you did for Fallujah?

[topaz quarry]

eventually ya, putting my focus into fallujah right now as it seems to be a bit more popular

[grizzled stirrup]

ah okay, personally really liking chenarus because of its size, so even with many Ai units it does not lag the server too much cause the points are really spaced out. Fallujha with 1X AI and about 30-35 players sent the server fps down to single digits

[topaz quarry]

2.6.2 Fallujah has been released, should completely fix AI Vehicle logic in the city.

I'll give Chernarus a once over

[valid hill]

This must be a mod confliction. As my server runs this since we found it and don't really encounter these issues. We had somewhat of lag until we fucked around w our mods and figured it out

[grizzled stirrup]

Oh interesting, how many players were there in your server?

[valid hill]

Average 20 highest we've gotten on the current game mode is I think 36

Someone might crash every now and then. But it's because they've admitted they have bad wifi , or there caught wondering off by themselves from the group

[grizzled stirrup]

was there any mod in particular that was causing the issues

[valid hill]

I couldn't tell you. My JSON has been changed completely to finally meet proper stability

If you'd like to DM me I can send you server information and you can just compare the mods on my server maybe it could better assist

[topaz quarry]

new update pushed for Chernarus that includes a 2X mode

[spiral rapids]

Any chance of a kunar pve?
would love to see the same vibe of your fallujah Conflict on kunar with the taliban, counter attacks, and the civilians using the taliban mod.

[topaz quarry]

Fallujah is still on the top of the list, probably Worthy Islands next and then Kunar

[topaz quarry]

Fallujah 3.0.0 has been pushed out:

Supply is now turned on by default. Supply points have now been set up.
Fixed more vehicle bugs. Changed some routes.
Added an OBJ at a Mosque in the city.
Many random fixes and optimizations

I may start work on another map, which one would you like to see me work on next?

1️⃣ Kunar
2️⃣ Chernarus
3️⃣ Worthy Islands
4️⃣ Other

[topaz quarry]

3.0.0 might be scuffed, possible server crash. Investigating now, recommend to use 2.5.8 for the time being

[normal quarry]

Bergamo

[stoic geode]

I would suggest ramadi Iraq because it’s 10x10 and fully updated boys are loving the vibe. Plus the time fits from fallujah on 2004 to Iraq 2006….

[tropic orchid]

hi, would you mind to tell me where i can adjust the distance for ai spawn pls?

[topaz quarry]

@tropic orchid With Gramps' mod it is in the AmbientPatrolSystem file

I just added these 2 lines to statically set the spawn distances:

        m_iDespawnDistanceSq = 335000;

3.0.6 has been pushed, it's possible the crashes are fixed. I have also added 2 other scenarios that just remove the vehicles from the mission as a possible fix as well.

Sorry about the chaos grenade here. quite a struggle to troubleshoot this one

[tropic orchid]

thx, i gues it was for me :p, this is another Jason

[tropic orchid]

where those variables comes from? m_iSpawnDistanceSq and m_iDespawnDistanceSq

are these global variables or something? they are not params in the method

[topaz quarry]

it is a part of gramps stuff called elsewhere in his mod

[tropic orchid]

hmm, they are part of the interface patrols

is this distance in meters?

185km to spawn AI?

[topaz quarry]

I believe it is in meters squared. So if you take the square root of the number that should be the meters

[tropic orchid]

ok, thx

[topaz quarry]

FALLUJAH HAS BEEN REVERTED TO 2.5.8
(now 3.5.8)

I'll be posting a Dev project so others can test out my newest changes before pushing

[tropic orchid]

any chance that you know the default vaules of these variables?

[topaz quarry]

It is set somewhat dynamically, but spawn distance is around 1km normally I believe

[tropic orchid]

so spawn is like 1000000 by default, ok, thx

sorry for the spam in your mod thread but is not allowed to create a thread in a message, that would have the forum cleaner

[topaz quarry]

Np

[topaz quarry]

Hey everyone, I'm going to be migrating these discussions to a seperate discord server, please join here to stay up to date https://discord.com/invite/uQWys9qD

[tropic orchid]

@topaz quarry what is missing in your Kunar conflict?

[harsh reef]

@topaz quarry invite link expired!!

[topaz quarry]

@harsh reef

https://discord.gg/WGmyMzn3kZ

[lost pulsar]

Do you plan to go back and modernize the PVE mods/maps after 1.3?

[topaz quarry]

I'm moving all of my PvE mods over to my new Invade and Annex mod and reworking everything

[lost pulsar]

Ok