Takistani Factions

[remote pier]

Making a new thread for @viscid pecan and my mod for the Takistan faction from Arma 2. We published version 1.0 today, with more to come soon: https://reforger.armaplatform.com/workshop/6551071027EBF0B7-TakistaniFactions

We intend the mod to be used with https://discordapp.com/channels/105462288051380224/1283797100462870630, but it should be good to use in any of the desert maps.

[spiral mason]

Love the fact it adds more than just the takistan army, great mod man!!

[remote pier]

After fixing some of the stuff in the army we are going to add more stuff for the insurgents and civilians

[spiral mason]

I see what you mean about some of the textures a lil bit, for sure see the tops turning white after death for some. What other fixes were you talking about?

[remote pier]

I'll take a look at that

We haven't fully tested everything, so I gotta edit some config stuff and I wanted to change some of the textures now that I figured out how to color them and import them into the game correctly

[vestal delta]

Test

[remote pier]

We just tested it and see the issue, going to work on that tonight

[remote pier]

Fixed the shirt, now on to the pants

[remote pier]

while I was at it I adjusted the brightness:

Okay, the pants were easier than the jacket to fix. Let me know if you run into anything else (You will, but I got lots of time to fix stuff on weekdays)

[heady atlas]

Does this mod override the Soviet Faction or is it independent?

[remote pier]

Independent

[spiral mason]

Looks good 👍🏿😊

[remote pier]

also updated the helmets to have a shine to them like they should have

[crude oar]

Great mod with good content, however, the huey seems to have far too bright camo.

[remote pier]

oh, they huey is very very much a WIP currently

I was having all sorts of trouble with that one because it doesn't natively have a camo pattern. I'll be fixing that one tonight.

Also, the MI8's might have an issue where they don't have a missle pod setup on the attack helicopter versions. If that is the case, don't use them for right now until I figure out which mod is causing issues.

I'll be retexturing the mi-24 tonight now that I have gotten permission from the mod owner

Currently I am changing the rest of the codenames for the bases and then I think I am going to sleep

I did push a quick update to fix the blood on the uniforms and the helmet, the rest ill push with tonights fixes/updates

[remote pier]

Made an pretty close copy of Aziz

Aziz's beret*, I made the logo and stars by hand

[remote pier]

fixed the huey finally

[heady atlas]

I'd like to add that your mod screws with the vanilla factions alot, it removes the Arsenals, and changes what's in the arsenals

[remote pier]

ah, well, let me have Saber take a look at that in the morning

I am trying to fix the mi8's, it looks like the WCS armaments mod breaks them

[remote pier]

Okay, figured out the mi8 issue, I must of been loading in an old dependency that was causing issues only on my side. I am going to add a few extra MI8 variants while im at it

[heady atlas]

Oh btw the Takis had BTR-40s too

[remote pier]

That's on the to do list

[remote pier]

looking at the faction arsenal thing to see if I can figure it out

[remote pier]

Where were you seeing those issues? I just took a look in game master and all of the arsenals were fine.

[heady atlas]

Did you look in the arsenal

[remote pier]

I opened it up in game master after I placed one down for each faction.

We are still working on setting this up for conflict

[remote pier]

Can you show me what you mean?

[heady atlas]

I'm sorry, I cannot. It's likely a mod conflict, though idk what. Though you might wanna look at making sure it's compatible with mods like Reforged Army Studios' Mods. And also make sure that it the Factions configured in some weird spaghetti fashion.

[spiral mason]

I know I couldn't find the arsenal for vanilla or ussr, and Fia, just saw Takistan and Takistan militia. I could still change those arsenals into those Factions though, so I wasn't fully tripping about it.

[viscid pecan]

Update is out that fixes that issue

[remote pier]

Started to work on getting config files setup for conflict as well, but my first priority is getting textures fixed. I did add the BTR40, t35, and t55

Apparently there was a btr40 of bmp1 in arma 2 that acted as a mobile hospital, so I might make a variant that comes with med supplies like the ambulance

[remote pier]

Updating the lizard camo and I think I finally got it looking great:

[heady atlas]

I'd like to report the Soviet Arsenal is still bugged, stuff from WZ Uniforms is missing like the Telnyashka, and the TOS-1 is also missing

Also LR Offenders

[viscid pecan]

thanks for letting me know. i'll un-disable it in the next update. i tried to disable things that weren't from the late 80s/early 90s and went a little too overboard.

[remote pier]

Going to update the vehicle textures soon, now I know a few new tricks to make them look better

[heady atlas]

TOS-1 is 80s I'm pretty sure

[remote pier]

Moving this weekend and next, so updates will be a bit slower

[remote pier]

Finally had the time to sit down and give it a good playtest and now we know some things we need to fix asap. Should be working on those over the next few weeks

first off, getting rid of the weird cordoroy texture from the olive drab m88s:

[remote pier]

Pants redone as well

[remote pier]

BMP2, gotta still tweak the colors

[gentle field]

Bmp 2 my beauty 🥰

[heady atlas]

I look forward to the BTR-40

[remote pier]

It's technically in my files, but the texture for it is a rough one to edit, but I'll look at it tonight

Was working on this, earlier. Trying to get the icon to pop better

for example, I don't know why it wants to come out this color, but I might just do a complete retexture by hand:

if someone could get me the model to this thing I could make it look a lot better

I assume the model and textures are from Arma 2 and someone ported it over to reforger

[remote pier]

Well, apparently the BTR40 is going to get updated soonish, so, I will hold off on messing with the model and just do a retexture for the one we have currently

[ashen island]

I like how complete you are making it, the problem I see is that the total to download is too many Gb for only two current factions.

[heady atlas]

In all fairness people downloading this mod likely have alot of the listed mods here installed already

[viscid pecan]

I’m planning on splitting the mod up to a smaller core pack, then an additional two that add more modded vehicles and gear

[ashen island]

Since the release for PS5, I have also been thinking about separating the faces of ToH RC by ethnicity.
They are no longer just the download, but also the maximum capacity of space on PS5.
But it has a bad solution in the end because some factions are multicultural.

[remote pier]

Eventually we will also have a takistani building mod that gives you all of the buildings and stuff needed for conflict

I had some of them in the factions mod, but we learned I did them the wrong way, so I am going to redo it eventually

[remote pier]

Found out how to get the files for the BTR40 from A2, so now I have the texture BI made for takistan. Going to do some clean up on it now

[heady atlas]

Ngl, you two are currently my favorite modders, I am a sucker for good faction mods

[remote pier]

Going to love the fact that I just found the t55, t34, and t72 textures for takistan as well

also, found all the files for the KSVK, so we might be able to have another sniper rifle from arma 2 if I can figure out how to mod a weapon

[remote pier]

Gotta try to find the texture for the cannon and commander turret on this thing, but its looking better

[ashen island]

for the quality of the textures I recommend you to use this program, you multiply x2 and you gain in sharpness and detail.
https://upscayl.org/
What I do recommend is that you use the original MNO and add the Routghness of Reforger to the BCR of ArmA2.

[remote pier]

I'll take a look at that, thanks! I tried to follow https://www.mod-fusion.com/post/converting-a2-a3-dayz-textures-to-pbr-for-reforger and it took some work to make it not look metallic

If I just take the BCR from the A2 files it's as shiny as a mirror and the NMO seems off as well.

[viscid pecan]

We’re planning an update hopefully over the weekend with some fixes and tweaks, then going to reorganize the mod into one main one with a few essential dependencies, and move the majority of the modded vehicles, guns, etc into Takistani Vehicles and Takistani Uniforms. That way you guys can use the core of the mod with less dependencies.

[remote pier]

I'm moving stuff into my new room, so have been busy, but should be back on the mod grind this week

[heady atlas]

Awsmoe

[remote pier]

working on getting the lizard camo stuff done and looking better

the colors like to be a pain in the butt, but I have started to dial down a process for getting them all in the same ballpark

[remote pier]

Got this truck with a MG and no gun variants as well

[crude oar]

Nice! Reforger could use some new technicals.

[bold dragon]

hello, command post has reset to Russian, same with all systems/compositions

[viscid pecan]

i saw that happen once but could not reproduce it. i'll look at it again

[bold dragon]

Hmmm maybe the order mod is in?

[remote pier]

t34 is looking better

[viscid pecan]

i published an update that hopefully fixes the arsenals and command tent. this week i might have some time to reorganize the mods and reduce the number of dependencies for the main mod

[crude oar]

How's the update going?

[viscid pecan]

In progress but I’ve been on vacation. Should be able to finish it this weekend hopefully.

[crude oar]

Hope your vacation was good man.

[wraith walrus]

some good memories

[remote pier]

I have the GRAD already textured and working, i'll see if I can find a recoiless rifle eventually. I have been swamped at work the past 2 weeks, so things have been slow.

[wraith walrus]

recoiless rifle texture or model or?

[remote pier]

Need to find a model and then attach it to the back of the truck

I assume that this is the recoiless rifle right?

[wraith walrus]

I purchased this one and... I've made 0 progress with ithttps://www.cgtrader.com/3d-models/military/gun/spg-9-spear-kopyo

[remote pier]

oh, that's nice! I have been working on modding a VSS Vintorez as a seperate mod. It

it's quite the process to mod a gun*

[viscid pecan]

they have a SPG-9 in WZ turrets

https://reforger.armaplatform.com/workshop/611ABE2F73802440

[crude oar]

WZ vehicles (already a dependency) has SPG-9 mounts too.

[viscid pecan]

update is out which reduces the number of dependencies on the main mod to 7 and about 2GB, 1.2GB of which is character faces/bodies. It sounds like @ashen island is working on a smaller Takistani specific ethnicity pack which hopefully will further reduce dependency size in the future

[remote pier]

https://discordapp.com/channels/105462288051380224/1386670627376599071 decided to just make a vss vintorez myself so we could have multiple sniper options for takistan

[ashen island]

Yes @viscid pecan, I am making the faces that appear in A2OA from the Takistani people and it will be a standalone package, here you will only need the Core and Persian.
I guess it will be around 400Mb between the two mods.

[wraith walrus]

did you get these working?

[remote pier]

Good question, I'll take a look this week. We had put any work on this on pause while I worked on my smokable cigarette mod

[wraith walrus]

have you already uploaded the cig mod? I know there is one, maybe 2 already on the workshop.

[remote pier]

https://reforger.armaplatform.com/workshop/65D050C86106E5BC-SmokeableSmokes

Mine actually work and have particle effects and soon animations.

[wraith walrus]

I love that meme template

thats pretty, 3 options with the pipe too

[remote pier]

Soon to be more, thinking of doing a opium pipe for takistan

We also release a mod that makes all the hookah work on the takistan map

[bold dragon]

https://reforger.armaplatform.com/workshop/6675305211ABC002-ArmaTerrainCoreHookahFix

[remote pier]

Yeah, that's the one

[ivory surge]

Can you add a zil 157 for the takistani army

[viscid pecan]

Anyone got a 3D model?

[remote pier]

I found a zil157, but it doesn't seem like they had them in A2 or did they=?

I only see a VS3

[wheat python]

Ooooh V3S is something that Arma Reforger is missing classic FIA truck from original Operation Flashpoint or Arma 2

[remote pier]

Vs3 doesn't have a free model, but the zil157 does

Ill add that stuff to the todo, but I wanna clean up stuff on this mod and finish the tanks first

[ivory surge]

Yess

[ivory surge]

What about a gaz66

[remote pier]

Only free one I could find:

Are you just looking for an older truck for a specific mission you wanna make or something? If I made that truck I wouldn't put it in this takistan mod since they never used them

I can try to mod some trucks, maybe just make a mod that adds those two trucks in. I haven'

Haven't done a full vehicle yet, so it may take a bit of time to learn the animations and physics side of things*

[ivory surge]

Yes I’m trying to make Iraq war with them and the zil I prob use it for Vietnam

[ivory surge]

Basically want these because takistani are basically Iraq army so imma let them use some of this equipment have a desert storm scenario

[remote pier]

I think out of all the ones you guys have mentioned, the zil157 is the only one that has a free model that is good enough to be able to use

[ivory surge]

Hell yea can’t await to see itt

[ivory surge]

How’s this mod now

[viscid pecan]

still works? last time i checked

[weary sequoia]

Takistani Vehicles is hiding quite a lot of vehicles from WZ Tanks, WZ Vehicles, the T-72 and BMP-1 vehicle mods that otherwise should probably be visible; for instance it cuts out a lot of the miscellaneous vehicles from WZ Tanks/Vehicles, but it's also hiding the desert tan and FIA desert camouflaged variants of the BMP-1. Desert T-72 and all T-72Bs from the T-72 mod are also being hidden. I'm not sure if it's intentional or not but it's not very immersive to use only Soviet green vehicles for Takistani armor

[ivory surge]

Yessss

[remote pier]

We were working on takistani camo for those vehicles, I assume that's why they are hidden currently, but sabersnack can look when he gets a chance

[weary sequoia]

tracking, it struck me as odd because enabling Takistani Vehicles also hides a lot of other vehicles that I can't imagine why it would; like it hides machine gun and unarmed variants of the Yoyota Kilux and Land Rover Offender from WZ Vehicles, and a lot of US-tagged armored vehicles from WZ Tanks. I won't drop the whole list of everything it hides unless y'all really want me to, but it's an unusual amount of vehicles in exchange for the BM-21

[ivory surge]

Thank you

[remote pier]

Ill ask saber today, but we may need a list, we've never played with wz stuff before so I wouldn't be sure what is missing without doing a deep dive into their stuff

[weary sequoia]

Gotcha. I'll make some notes next time I've got a free day to do so and send it y'all's way

[ivory surge]

If your reskining wz stuff wouldn’t you need to play with it since it’s gonna be a dependent on the mod

Also space strider stuff to like bmps and tanks

[remote pier]

nah, we just looked for whomever had the stuff and then used it

we will have some time this week to look at it now that the cig mod is stable and working well

[ivory surge]

Is this still being worked on

[viscid pecan]

Yeah I looked at it once already. Is there still something missing?

[weary sequoia]

Unless there's been an update to the core mod in the last 24 hours I didn't see, this still applies to the mod as it stands

I meant to go through and compile a list of all vehicles the mod hides but I wasn't sure who to DM the info to since it was going to end up as a GDoc or similar

[ivory surge]

Nothing works fr

[near mantle]

Type 63 🥺

On pickup and emplaced 🫣

[viscid pecan]

try this: https://reforger.armaplatform.com/workshop/66A513F0A485B610-TakistaniVehiclesFull\

[ivory surge]

Only some stuff works in that

[viscid pecan]

ok, what's missing? US, USSR, and FIA vehicles?

i literally have every vehicle enabled in the vehicle entity catalog

[weary sequoia]

it looks fine on my end, i'm not noticing anything major missing

[ivory surge]

Is this broken

[remote pier]

a lot of things are, we are waiting for a few of the dependencies to be updated, but we have fixed things on our end.

[viscid pecan]

uploaded a fix for 1.6

[gray gale]

Looks like chungus updated his rifles and there is a confliction between your fix and his update. Took it off and everything else worked fine

[viscid pecan]

should be fixed now

[gray gale]

🙏🏼🙏🏼

[gray gale]

I hate to be the guy pointing at things but this is also happening on the takistan vehicle mod. Again sorry for being that guy our sim is in the process of recreating OA.

[viscid pecan]

i'm not sure what that error means, but it looks like it's probably something to do with the workshop or the fact you're on xbox

[gray gale]

We couldn't figure it out either and couldn't find the author of the mod in here lol

Been playing reforger since release and never seen that on a mod before

[ivory surge]

Did you guys update everything because I’m on pc and shows that

[ivory surge]

It’s not only an Xbox thing

[viscid pecan]

yep, looks like LAV Life non-MANW edition mysteriously disappeared from the workshop. replaced it with MANW edition. hopefully there aren't any imporatnt improvements/bugfixes missing in the MANW edition

[crude oar]

TandemHEAT has a new mod called WZ weapons, it has all the gear the takistan army uses (FAL, AKs, RPKs, etc). It's only 200 mb and it would be a good replace for Chungus's weapons.

[near mantle]

Tandem goated as always

[viscid pecan]

I’ll check it out!

[remote pier]

We noticed a few odd issues caused by 1.6 with the ural and uaz textures, so I am starting to go back and fix a bunch of stuff. We may be changing the colors of the lizard camo to match the vehicles better:

The new vehicle colors and camo

Old on the right, new on the left.

[gray gale]

Has anyone had the issue were when using BLE it doesn't let you edit your load out if you have this mod on? Have used it without this and it works

[viscid pecan]

Not a fan of BLE so I don’t really use it but I can look into it

[gray gale]

It has something to do with faction recognition. We run grs as our plate carrier and it needs BLE to be modular. If you can't fix it no problem.

[viscid pecan]

sounds good. hopefully it's something easy

[ivory surge]

Is anything else coming out for this faction

[viscid pecan]

some bug fixes and 1.6 related vehicle texture fixes are in progress. are you asking about more content? if vanilla gets more content that is applicable to takistan, then we'll probably add it. if you want more modded content, check out https://reforger.armaplatform.com/workshop/655B1C6D21A4BD2B-TakistaniVehicles and https://reforger.armaplatform.com/workshop/652CF18E3B6C7DCD-TakistaniUniforms

[ivory surge]

Ok cool is able to be played I know the update messed up a lot of mods and will this faction get more modded vehicles like th mi 24 or gaz 66

[viscid pecan]

oh is there a GAZ66 mod now? i haven't seen that yet. i think the Mi-24 is on the to do list, but haven't gotten to it yet

[viscid pecan]

it's playable, but the 1.6 update broke all our UAZ and Ural textures. we're working on them

[scarlet hemlock]

@viscid pecan I think there might also be an issue with the BM-21 dependency, I get a script complication error when the vehicles pack is loaded

[gray gale]

It's not the bm-21 we run it on our server and it works

[viscid pecan]

Bummer I’ll take a look

[viscid pecan]

the BM-21 does have a compile error, but for some reason it doesn't crash my server or cause the whole compile to fail in workbench. let me know if your server is having trouble running the vehicles mod. i also tried loading in GM in singleplayer and that was fine too

[remote pier]

Finally getting around to work on stuff again

[ivory surge]

Hell yea I’m excited now

Can’t way to use the Iraqi republican guard

I mean the takistani guard

[viscid pecan]

I’ll fix the broken vehicle textures at some point this week too

[remote pier]

ZSU-23 is looking takistani

Going to see if I can improve on the t-72

[remote pier]

giving the btr52 some love:

[remote pier]

Might be a little bit before I get the t72 done. I am trying to learn a few new things to make it look as good as possible.

[viscid pecan]

recent updates to all 3 Takistani Factions mods:

Takistani Factions
-vehicle texture overhaul for all TKA and MEI/TKM vehicles
-make Takistani Lizard camo match better across M88 uniforms and Lifchik and Type 56 vests
-tweak khaki M70 backpack texture
-temporarily disable Big Chungus bolt guns
-fix some missing UAZ door textures
-remove old radio variable

Takistani Uniforms
-add CZ75
-update inventories

Takistani Vehicles
-update Ural and UAZ textures
-add TKA Mi-24
-add TKA ZSU-23-4
-fix BM-21 and Ural ZU-23 textures
-fix modded UAZ469 textures
-update M113 textures
-update T72 textures
-update BMP textures
-add new TKA BTR-152 texture
-add WZ turret DShKM to BTR-152
-add TKA and MEI NSV, DShKM, SPG-9 variants
-switch to new M880 mod + add DShKM variant and MEI camo patterns
-update TKA and MEI vehicle catalogs

[sick flame]

would you ever do a Chernorussian faction (CDF, NAPA, CHDKZ) There aren't really any mods that add retextures for a lot of the vehicle mods used. Great Work nonetheless!

[ivory surge]

Keep up the good work

[viscid pecan]

There are at least a couple people supposedly working on Chernarussian factions so I’ll probably wait to see what they do

[sick flame]

ah cool! you know where I can find them?

[viscid pecan]

https://discord.com/channels/105462288051380224/1356830353037463642

[viscid pecan]

https://reforger.armaplatform.com/workshop/61FB0DFAF8EA5CCA-ChernarussianFactions

https://reforger.armaplatform.com/workshop/5F396C4F713595DB-Arma2Factions

both of those are still WIP and/or require RHS

[weary sequoia]

some issues I've noticed with the Vehicles update;

• Mi-24 does not appear in Takistani livery even with Takistani Vehicles Full enabled
• Takistani T-72 stowage bins and smoke dischargers are too bright (I think the default tan texture on SpaceStrider's T-72 is still showing)
• M880 PKM's machine gun is too high

tested only with relevant dependencies for Takistani factions and Takistan map

[viscid pecan]

Cool. Thanks for reporting. I’ll look into all those when I get a sec

[viscid pecan]

what do you mean by M880 PKM's machine gun is too high? can you send a screenshot?

[weary sequoia]

Yeah, I'll take one when I get home. When spawned in the PKM floats about a good meter and a half from the truck bed

[weary sequoia]

tested with only dependencies necessary for takistan factions/vehicles and map

i don't think this happened with the .50 cal variant that used to be in but i don't recall for sure

[viscid pecan]

hmm that didn't happen on my test mission. i'll see if i can repro on takistan i guess

[weary sequoia]

I'm starting to think the issue is less with anything you've specifically done and something on the core M880 mod's side. same thing's happening with the FIA variant with a PKM

[viscid pecan]

i was able to reproduce it and yeah it's a problem with the M880 in the M880 mod. there's gotta be a way to fix it though

[weary sequoia]

and of course now i have to report that with the way Gantelya has renamed and divided the BM-21 and its rocket variants, now the BM-21 isn't showing up in the mod 😄 (i've just started rebuilding my group's Takistan campaign so i'm only now noticing all these)

[viscid pecan]

yeah i removed the BM-21 because they got rid of the standalone mod. i'm not going to add a 2+ GB depedency for a single vehicle

[weary sequoia]

very valid, it's still listed on the full vehicles mod which is what tripped me up

[viscid pecan]

oh gotcha. i'll double check that the dependency is removed

[viscid pecan]

think i'm close to a fix for the M880 PKM, but noticed some of the other vehicles have problems with their turrets too. looking into it

[viscid pecan]

M880s and PKM UAZz are fixed

[viscid pecan]

Big Chungus Bolt Guns have been re-enabled

[ivory surge]

Bett

[weary sequoia]

spawning in the Takistani UAZ - NSV crashes the game for all players; tested with only Takistan Factions/Vehicles and its dependencies and the Takistan map

11:45:19.331  RPL          : rpl::Pip::ProcessNetToGame
11:45:19.331   ENTITY       : SpawnEntityPrefab @"{665B11907EBE658F}Prefabs/Vehicles/Wheeled/UAZ469/UAZ469_NSV_TKA.et"
11:45:19.331    ENTITY       : Create entity @"ENTITY:4611686018427388575" ('Vehicle','Assets/Vehicles/Wheeled/UAZ469/UAZ469_base.xob') at <5890.284180 167.007675 6735.029297> @"{665B11907EBE658F}Prefabs/Vehicles/Wheeled/UAZ469/UAZ469_NSV_TKA.et"
11:45:19.331     ENTITY       : SpawnEntityPrefab @"{DBCB221ADCE4F479}Prefabs/Vehicles/Wheeled/UAZ469/VehParts/WeapMounts/UAZ469_weapon_mount_6T5_NSV.et"
11:45:19.331      ENTITY       : Create entity @"ENTITY:4611686018427388611" ('Turret') at <5890.284180 167.007675 6735.029297>
11:45:19.331       RESOURCES    : GetResourceObject @"{04B8863C3023E597}Prefabs/Weapons/HeavyWeapons/HMG_NSV_mounted.et"
11:45:19.331        WORLD        : Entity prefab load @"{04B8863C3023E597}Prefabs/Weapons/HeavyWeapons/HMG_NSV_mounted.et"
11:45:19.331         RESOURCES (E): Wrong GUID/name for resource @"{9F7D1242C002EC47}Prefabs/Weapons/HeavyWeapons/Stock_NSV.et" in property "Prefab"
11:45:19.331         RESOURCES (E): Wrong GUID/name for resource @"{71FB46825FDE0E94}Prefabs/Weapons/HeavyWeapons/Grip_NSV.et" in property "Prefab"
11:45:22.518 RPL          : ServerImpl event: disconnected (identity=0x00000000), group=1, reason=1```

[viscid pecan]

thanks for the report, i'll look into it. is it only the NSV UAZ that has that problem?

[weary sequoia]

as far as i'm aware. i was placing down other vehicles (Urals/T-72s) without issue