Billy Johnsson Development

[late light]

As an experienced 3D modeler/modder for the GTAV modding community I've decided to spread my wings to one of my favourite games- Arma Reforger.

This thread is to keep an eye on the projects I'm working on.

The first WIP I'd like to showcase is a scratch model of the Mi26 helicopter.

Do note, if you have any tips and/or tricks, please let me know!

Very early stages.

[lyric tusk]

Yes 👌🏻❤️

[round swan]

You just doing the models or will you make this a working helicopter too?

[late light]

Plan is to make it a working helicopter with the possibility to drive in vehicles etc. However, I'm still very new to enfusion tools so can't say how long it will take.

[late light]

Working on wheels and landing gear.

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Loading bay, front landgear, side window being worked on.

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Currently looking to convert the base mesh to Arma for QA in-game.

I'm working on creating and importing the bones from Blender to the workbench but can't seem to get them to show. If anyone has any tips or tricks please send me a DM! 😛

[lyric tusk]

Only just saw this, I'll message you soon once I'm home and give you a hand (if it isnt sorted already)

[round swan]

Holy shit that thing is massive

[cinder depot]

Will this be able to hold vehicles just like IRL

[cinder depot]

It can hold up to 90 guys …

It could carry 1 btr-70 or 2 BMDs/BTR-Ds or 1-2 trucks? or 2 BRDM-2s or 2 Gaz tigers and idk how many UAZ…

[late light]

Doing a side project to better understand animations and rigging.

Currently in WIP alongside the Mi26 is the new AK24 for the Swedish Defence Force (Försvarsmakten).

[meager zinc]

Looks incredibly high quality!

[dusk scarab]

Hey love the mod but i have problems to get it into the arsenal??? Dosent want to show in a us arsenal?

[winged barn]

Man you do not realise how big aircraft are until someone stands next to them

[late light]

I'm not dead.

I realised I'd never be able to finish the Mi26 scratch model and conversion with the time I have off work so I decided to purchase a Mi26 model and do edits to that and start converting it.

So far so good!

PSA; I need help with animations so if anyone is good at that please hmu.

An example what I will edit/remodel:

[lyric tusk]

Nice!

[late light]

I'm working hard on getting this to function as intended. However, it is extremely difficult to figure out what means what with very limited documentation and barely any knowledge prior to converting vehicles for Arma.

I won't give up but it's gonna take some time.

Got it working at least! You can now enter the heli and take off about 1m above ground before the yaw gets pointed directly down towards the ground 😂

[winged barn]

That thing is huge good god

[worthy wave]

That’s a big boi

[late light]

Boys, we made it. She's in the skies!!

Main rotor is now fully functional

To do:

• Tail rotor
• Setting up dummies for pilot seat & passengers
• Fixing proper colliders
• Setting up animations for cargo doors

And a lot more... Stay tuned.

[meager tundra]

Will you make a modern skin and Cold War like these

[late light]

They are planned - yes

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For scale reference. Working hard making the rotors look good with fast spin 🙂

[hearty flower]

cant wait to test it out

[late light]

Heavy B

[late light]

Tons of progress made, with lots of help from @empty holly !

[winged barn]

That van legit looks like a loaf of bread in comparison to that steel beast

[late light]

Haha yeah it basically is

[empty holly]

Not saying size matters but it is a bonus

[daring nova]

What's the 2 rotor helicopter?

[empty holly]

Small one is my KA-27
Big one is my Mil Mi-V12

[woeful eagle]

is this usable right now or not ready just yet

the big guy

[empty holly]

Yes look up RMS SLAV LIFE HELICOPTERS

[woeful eagle]

❤️

[empty holly]

https://reforger.armaplatform.com/workshop/66456412CB99DA37-RMSSlavLife-Helicopters

[woeful eagle]

jumping into a server to fly them now thanks

[daring nova]

Will the mi 26 be added to the rms slavlife mod or be it's own separate mod

[late light]

Its gonna be standalone but probably be part of the server if Mark wants it 🙂

[daring nova]

Sweet cant wait for it to be released

[late light]

https://youtu.be/HkFjun0n7Zk?si=WlEsdoMcRseXbGH8

Very early still but for those who want to see it live 👍🏼

[empty holly]

UH SIR BIGGEST? LOL

[hybrid mural]

I remember you talking about this in AussieMercs channel I was so stoked to see it in the work shop this morning I couldn't sling load the Chinook but I tried

[late light]

Haha thats sick man. Plan is to make it work with other helis as well 🙂

[hybrid mural]

That will be sweet man can't wait to see what you have planned for it. It's a killer mod thank you for making it and putting it out there

[round swan]

Will there be a standard and VIV varient? (if VIV is possible even)

[winged barn]

I thought they were both reforger photos lol

[hybrid mural]

The photograph of the Mi-26 helicopter lifting the Chinook was taken in Afghanistan in 2002, during the recovery operation following the Battle of Takur Ghar, or 'Operation Mount Hope III'. A civilian Mi-26 was leased to retrieve a crashed MH-47E Chinook helicopter from a high-altitude mountain in Afghanistan.

[winged barn]

I doubt whoever owned the chinook was very happy

[hybrid mural]

If I remember right Russia posted the picture everywhere so the US recreated it with the Chinook picking up Mi-26 say "We can do that too" but I'm not finding that photo anywhere so that could have just been rumors 😂

[empty holly]

We are setting up heavy lift!

[hybrid mural]

I would absolutely love to recreate a few photos with the Mi-26 and Chinook!

[empty holly]

Workin on Billy's Door animations

[bold oar]

I have no idea what kind of heli is that but it looks good!

[empty holly]

Its Billy's Mi26

[empty holly]

This

[bold oar]

Ooh interesting interesting 🤔

[late light]

Remodeling a lot of the interior.

[late light]

She can hold a bit

[daring nova]

You planning on making a transport varient?

[late light]

It’s gonna be the same variant. You see the fold down chairs on the walls 🙂

[round swan]

Will there be an animation when sitting that makes the chair unfold?

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That is the plan! Not a full entry animation but you will be able to walk in and fold down the chair

Just gotta get my prodedural animator working again

[spark haven]

very cool helicopters 🔥 . For 1.6 update with the passenger being able to stand in the cargo trucks i found the way to add it to other vehicles too so your mod would be perfect . It is so easy to add as well, its just some settings on the character anim component on the base character.

it works by linking the character collision and the collision you can set for the vehicle like in the image on the side here.

Only things that has to be taken into account is the collision box has to be set to vehiclesimple layer so players can pass through.

[empty holly]

Oh yea Billy and I have talked about working this into our big birds!

[hoary kiln]

Hey sorry to bother you but is there a way you k wo of to apply this to vehicle on vehicle like a chinook or ac-130 so that you could have a vehicle inside and it not slide out

Or attempt to incinerate my game

[spark haven]

only works for characters this

[late light]

Finally got properly working gear with suspension etc. Took waaaay longer than expected. Now working on getting the supplies to function. Been overhauling colliders as well with tons new added and configured.

[round swan]

looks awesome dude, love your work

[hybrid mural]

Beautiful bird landing gear is looking good!

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https://youtu.be/yKUBull_HoQ mi26 appears 🙂

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Started experimenting with rivets. The base layer of the heli will be replaced entirely with rivets and details using Bohemias way of doing it on their models. This will be time-consuming and always worked on in the background.

You can tell which ones are part of the original texture and which is the new.

[hybrid mural]

As AussieMerc said this is riveting stuff 🔥🔥

[late light]

This took longer than I care to admit 😂 Nowehere near complete but good enough for now.

[late light]

Oh and btw:

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Working on a custom script 🙂

[hybrid mural]

Man watching this go from a 3d image on AussieMercs page to where it is now has been pretty awesome. Keep killing it man🫡

[late light]

As promised, the entire bodyshell is getting reworked. Im utilizing Bohemias way of doing materials 🙂

Ignore the floating wheels... Working on suspension. 😂

Oh and side note. You can now load vehicles to the cargobay and fly away without collider issues. Even in multiplayer! 😉

[winged barn]

Aight imma be real I didn’t realise the first two pics were different

I was like ‘damn that things hella big. Wait a minute the smaller ones the mi26??’

[late light]

Some decals done!

[hybrid mural]

Duuude you are killing absolutely beautiful camo looks perfect 👌🏼

[blazing ginkgo]

That’s amazing dude

[meager tundra]

Hell yea can you make a Chinese PLA skin to and the grey skin with the red star

[late light]

I will make the gray skin but that is a newer version of the heli with new interior as well I think

[late light]

Mi26 is confirmed to be working in 1.6! Script seems fine as well. Will test further today.

[meager tundra]

PLA to👀and how did the update do with the helicopter im pcs currently so im not on Xbox

[late light]

Nothing really 🙂

[meager tundra]

That’s good glad can’t wait to fly it

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You can already, its in the workshop, ypu just have to enable test

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https://youtu.be/BwNyTBTIcds

[woeful eagle]

@late light question is it just the one vehicle you can load into the heli atm or can you fit 2 in there and it loads both?

[late light]

At the moment its just 1 but I will add another slot

[woeful eagle]

sweet

[hoary kiln]

so will it be compatible with anything that fits or specific vehicles

[late light]

It’s compatible with anything that is a vehicle prefab at the moment

[hoary kiln]

alright

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For those interested: https://discord.gg/TCy2E7UEFf

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The script to load and unload is released standalone 🙂
https://reforger.armaplatform.com/workshop/66BEC1E61EA5BFF7-BillyJohnsson-Core

[late light]

• Material update on details
• Added 31 seats for crew and passengers

[late light]

Fully functioning 🙂

[blazing ginkgo]

Amazing work dude

[shadow glen]

Wait what?
How ?

[lyric tusk]

*2nd, js 😉

[balmy hatch]

I saw this while testing but the parachute seems to disappear when you are looking at from the ground sometimes

[late light]

Yee, working on getting it synced up in MP so will be broken for a minute while I test

[hybrid mural]

You are a mad man Billy keep killing it sir🫡

[balmy hatch]

If we could get a c-130 to airdrop vehicles and logistics this would be a crazier mod then how it is right now

[shadow glen]

True !

[late light]

Planes aren't really my thing unfortunately.

Perhaps in the future 🙂

[late light]

Many new updates since I posted here. Some still in the works.

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Ignore multiple landing lights

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Coming next

[winged barn]

Aight no offence but I though that was a bed

[meager tundra]

Is it that helicopter that picks up things

[late light]

Hahahahah I mean I see what you mean

[strong cave]

My beloved CH-54A

i prayed for times like this

[hybrid mural]

I'm just gonna leave this little gem here🫡 amazing mod billy love seeing people like Wrottz utilizing it already!

https://reforger.armaplatform.com/workshop/66DC82707732C54E

[clear hound]

I pray skyhook bugs get fixed

[hollow yoke]

is there a chance to add it to MI-8 or the US/Nato Helis?

[hybrid mural]

Wrottz will be bringing that out next. The platforms need to be 'walkable' first now that he knows what to change where he said he will look into the MI-8 and Huey. It is currently available for the CH-47 and will be for the CH-53 once he fixes the bugs with the CH-53

[clear hound]

What's up with ch53?

[hybrid mural]

He's reworking the mod from the ground up because actions were being finicky. Wouldn't allow you to active the rope action without almost falling off and or falling off and spamming the action button lol I was just told he thinks the Mi-8 could be done. The Huey will need a walkable interior, and he's not sure how possible that is. He was fiddling around with the MH-6 from WCS last night with making it walkable, but it's VERY wonky, so he's unsure how's to go about it

[clear hound]

It'd be cool if he could make so we can sit on the floor of the huey

[dusk scarab]

https://tenor.com/view/hello-friends-music-on-listening-to-music-you-rock-gif-790718667714090837

[late light]

**A severe issue has occurred with the Mi26. **

When crashing with the helicopter once a vehicle is loaded inside, the logic for the vehicle inside is looped and causes a client and or server crash.

I am aware of this and have (for now) removed the loading and unloading until I have it fixed. At the moment I am extremely busy irl but intend on fixing this asap.

Thank you for using the mod and providing me feedback!

For anyone that still hasn't seen I've made a Discord where you can follow my modding closely, invite can be found in my bio.

[dusk scarab]

⬆️
https://discord.gg/TCy2E7UEFf

[late light]

First work is starting on this (rivets wip).

Been crazy busy lately with my work so haven't been able to work on anything. Have some cool features planned for the Mi26 as well as bug fixing.

[kindred grail]

fire

[blazing ginkgo]

Agree!

[winged barn]

https://tenor.com/view/now-this-is-epic-gif-26777967

[late light]

Coming along, all textures and 95% of the model by me so far 🙂

[winged barn]

https://tenor.com/view/walter-white-let-him-cook-cook-cooking-breaking-bad-gif-27522167

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Scale reference:

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Dashboard getting there

[late light]

Finally made the following updates to the cockpit:

• Scratch made joystick (Rig is also working)
• Scratch made chairs
• Scratch made pedals (not rigged yet)
• Made part of the dashboard dials work (Pilot at the moment)

The helicopter also has a (almost) fully rigged main rotor, hopefully I'll be able to figure out some smaller kinks and issues.

The mod is in a really good general state at the moment, getting close to a alpha release.

[empty pumice]

THIS IS NICE

[empty holly]

Keep up to good work broski

[hexed cape]

Any news on this ?
Swedish Defence Force G-Class

[late light]

Still in progress but fully functional. No interior at the moment.

[hexed cape]

Yea was testing cool looking, just waiting for interion for mil sim. But good job keep it up.

[late light]

Coming along, currently working on handling. Shadow map has been fixed since the photo.

[winged barn]

Holy hell it’s
H U G E

[grim knot]

CH-54 🔥