Marivan, Iran

[spice gulch]

Welcome to Marivan, Iran – Arma Reforger Custom World Thread

Hey everyone! Welcome to the official discussion thread for Marivan, Iran – a custom-built, immersive world crafted specifically for Arma Reforger.

This region is inspired by the rugged terrain, dense valleys, and urban conflict zones of Western Iran, blending realism with tactical depth to support dynamic operations, immersive roleplay, and full-scale Milsim campaigns.

Use this thread to:
• Share feedback and suggestions
• Report bugs or glitches
• Showcase screenshots, videos, or stories from your ops in Marivan

Whether you’re a squad leader, server host, or curious explorer, you’re invited to contribute, test, and help shape the evolution of this map. Your input is valuable in refining and expanding this project for the community.

Thanks for being part of the journey.

[lunar compass]

Looks great dude

[spice gulch]

Thanks buddy! 🔥

[lunar compass]

No problem ☺️

[spice gulch]

Map has been updated. I was able to remove three dependencies. Which helped a lot with the over file size. City is being worked on still to adjust. Tomorrow I will start on random town/villages

[spice gulch]

If you guys load up the map you will need RHS Terrain to load up the buildings. I need to add it as a main dependency.

[spice gulch]

Publishing new updates now. Some of the villages need to be modified. Interior and Doors are out of place. I work on it when I get time.

[warm night]

Looking good!!!

[spice gulch]

Thanks dude!

[spice gulch]

Update:

More villages are placed. I’m aware of one village that is messed up with interior, it’s already been corrected. Waiting to finish some caves up tonight and there will be another update tomorrow.

One Bridge up the road the FOB Heart is placed. Another near outpost 17.

City area has work that need to be done. More building placement along with sidewalks etc.

Coming next update.

Caves with interior lights and prefabs.

More roads getting to these more remote locations.

Adding more small villages and tree outlines.

Started working on a pier near FOB Heart.

Trying to get the map to show roads and location names.

[spice gulch]

Lots of updates.

Map is redone and working. Locations and Roads now show.

Some villages were reworked, New military training ground was made, as well as road getting there and couple more bridges. Going to work in the Moutain valley area next and bring those villages more to life next.

Any suggests please reach out. Thanks

[warm night]

Looking like some great updates!

[spice gulch]

Thank bro! 😎

[spice gulch]

Marivan, Iran

[lunar compass]

Oh wow

[spice gulch]

I would it’s pretty solid to go check it out for a video if you would like. We ran a full OP last night on it and there was almost no hiccups. One of the caves we were seen you can sorta see the red lights from the light side so I need to dim them more and it isn’t fully up against the mountain side so players can slip through. Besides that it’s a solid base. Side walks, terrain placement like grass and gravel etc need to be touched up. Some more villages need to be placed and the mountain valley has a road through it. So little hunts and such will be placed there in the next few days.

[lunar compass]

That’s very good, will do, and I am glad the map works too I just been busy catching up with life and friends I did not talk to for very long time, so I will send u the video when I make it ☺️

[spice gulch]

Started adding grass to the moutains.

Extended the river

Finished the road to Outpost 17

Started working on Outpost 11 but noticed some flaws

Military training area that had all the stumps and rocks in the road have been removed.

A lot of road work.

[spice gulch]

Updates:

More road adjustments. Along with crash barriers.

Started adding rock to areas that were just had painted rock.

Started placing active antenna towers around the map. They do have limited distances in them.

Couple “wrecked” props around the mountains (Blackhawk, Chinook, UAV Reaper Drone.)

Outpost 11 has been fixed and completed.

Bith outpost have from gates and more Hesco

[spice gulch]

Updates:

More street lights have been added.

Rocks have been added to most of the parts that were painted rock.

Surrounding edges of the map have mountains.

Snow caped some of the mountain peaks.

Added a new point of interest.

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Next will be finish placing main towns down.

Redoing most of the city to finally complete it. Sidewalks, walls etc.

[warm night]

Love the sign!!!

[spice gulch]

Thanks dude! I gotta mess with AI a little to make some others. lol

[spice gulch]

Update:

Added a fuel and helo arsenal ranges to FOB Heart.

outpost 17 antenna has been disabled. People were saying they were getting a lot of crashes near that part of the map so I got rid of it and haven’t heard of any complaints.

Working on expanding the village/ town that’s up near that area as well. Once that is complete I will be focusing on two or three other locations before I finally hunker down and get that city how it should be.

[lunar compass]

Looks great dude and btw why did u post it 2 times lol its not bad thing i just find it funny that’s all

[spice gulch]

But have been a loading error. Sometimes it doesn’t load and I have to resend. Thanks for pointing that out

[lunar compass]

Ah makes sense it happens to me too sometimes and no problem lol

[lapis cliff]

Is there an AI script to spawn the AI in this map. Or scenario ID for server owners?

[spice gulch]

Yeah, Navmesh is set. My team has been on this map for about a month. As far as a scenario I haven't made any of my own.

[spice gulch]

I personally have never dabbled with making a scenario so if you go to try and it doesn't work I may need to put that in. Just let me know and Ill get it in there, if you cant.

[spice gulch]

Big update coming tomorrow or Monday. City is getting a make over, some mountains are finally starting to get shaped, rock added to them and terrain added.

Here’s a few shots of the team training on the map

[lunar compass]

https://tenor.com/view/gumball-nuisance-fire-explosion-oil-gif-4472217138917102424

City of black gold (then this happens lol)

[lunar compass]

Looks great dude keep up the great work 🔥

[spice gulch]

Thanks man.

[lunar compass]

No problem 😉

[spice gulch]

City has been 90% redone. Finer details will start to be added in next

Military area got updated, CQB training poster on the entry wall, upper firing platform added. As well as woods. Trench warfare added in that upper area as well.

[spice gulch]

Added a whole underground cave system that leads to a two 4 story buildings within it.

Trees in some areas were removed and fixed. There may be too many lights for night time. still testing. If anyone notices it as well let me know.

[sonic canyon]

[spice gulch]

Areas are getting reworked, I ended up getting rid of 2 dependencies.

I cant make everyone happy but in order to make most happy and to see things everyone wants to see, everyone has to accept the size of the map with its dependencies.

[spice gulch]

@muted summit has motivated me to make an indoor arena for the training base in the mountains 😂 🫡

[muted summit]

👀

Looks great man!
A bit of advice, careful with the lighting - my training map got FPS tanked and had to adjust the lightning setting alot just to make it run smooth

[spice gulch]

I was wondering how that was gonna pan out. 🤣 I seen you had more little lights all over. So I went with bigger with a wider spread. Wonder if that’ll make a differences. But your training map got me motivated. I had to see what warehouse you used.

Question! how did you get rid of the big hanger doors. Like the actual “hanger” doors?

[muted summit]

Ey, glad it can give some motivation 😄

Thats pretty easy actually - select the hangars - go though the properties (the ones in top right corner) until you see the hangars doors highlight, then go to the MeshObject section and disable it (uncheck the Enable option) - Do the same with Rigid and you should be set 🫡

Otherwise ill take some screenshots later if you need more help

[spice gulch]

Copy! When I get off of work I’ll check it out. Vanilla Hanger right?

[muted summit]

Sure man! Yep, you dont even have to override or dupe them - just place and select the one in the world

[spice gulch]

Copy, I’ll keep you update my guy. Thank you 🙏

[spice gulch]

Sorry everyone, I’ve been busy on Highway 80 map. Taking a short break from this one. Trying to get the other one in a good spot to display for the community

[spice gulch]

This is about to get a complete face lift. I got rid of a 2.0g of a Dependence and I about to look into files as to why my map has such a large gigs to it. It shouldnt go past 2gs. So still WIP but 90% gonna get redone in the next month.

[muted summit]

Reduce the size in sat map, normal map and roads, helps with gb reduction

[still cradle]

What’s the size of this map in game? 10km x 10km I hope

[spice gulch]

Idk how to do that. I’m just using seamless. Is there a way to dim it down?

[spice gulch]

6400 x 6400

[muted summit]

When you import your sat map, you can change dimension sizes, same goes for normal maps

I can send you where to find the settings later 🤘

[spice gulch]

It would be much appreciated! 👌

[muted summit]

Sure man 👍

[muted summit]

My settings 👍

[spice gulch]

Ohhh 🤦‍♂️ mines all the way up 🤣🤣👌👌

[spice gulch]

🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤣🤣

@warm night

[muted summit]

Yea, think its common mistake - but mine is really low - because I use alot of fog to cover the bad sat map lol

Here is another trick - put the numbers really low - save and do your mapping thing: Loading, saving and so on is so much faster and when you're done, pump up the numbers again to what you want

[spice gulch]

Okay when I get home from work I’ll put that to the test. Hoping to be under 2gs. And I got rid of a dependency that’s two gigs. So to have my map around 4g “ish” I’ll be pleased

[muted summit]

Do it man 🤘

[spice gulch]

So I got it down 500mb. I’m gonna see what extra textures I have that I’m not using and get rid of those as well. I need to drop 800mb

[spice gulch]

Alright, Figured out my problem. I got the map down to 877mb. Going to redo a lot of the villages and FOB

[muted summit]

Nice man, above looks cool, well donel!

[spice gulch]

thanks buddy!

[spice gulch]

For those who don't know there's a whole cave system leading to a hive under the mountain

[spice gulch]

We went from 3.3g to 881mb 🔥

[rocky heart]

Is there a workshop link?
My dumbass hate scrolling up

[spice gulch]

https://reforger.armaplatform.com/workshop/65D955E510A1FBBE-Iran/scenarios

Keep in mind workshop hasn't updated yet

[rocky heart]

That's find. I'm just expanding the map compatibility of my game mode and i like the atmosphere of this one.

If i do make it a thing it'll likely take a few weeks / a month or two before i get it ready

Thank you btw

[spice gulch]

Like Conflict type of thing?

In the next week or so, all the villages will be places but if you do happen to hope on you'll be able to see where they are going

[rocky heart]

Not conflict at all.
I built my game mode from scratch so to make it compatible with other maps i need to do it all myself.

[spice gulch]

Oh nice a custom thing okay. Def keep me posted on that

[spice gulch]

Map has been published.

Updates:
Map went from 3.3g to 900mb

Arma Terrain Core was removed which removed another 1.9g

Mosque is fully done

All village locations have been redone and completed.

City has been redone. Next will be small stuff (prop, sidewalks etc)

All FOB have been redone. Adding heli pad at Outpoasr 17.

FOB Heart was reworked a little

Military training base CQB & firing range got reworked a little. Added a grenade throwing range. Indoor CQB and firing range are still being worked.

What’s next:

indoor CQB range
City props
Adjusting mountain heights and the landscape/ trees on them.

[spice gulch]

I think I’m gonna dabble with making a PVE. Just haven’t taken the time to learn it yet.

[opaque canopy]

When do you expect this map to be fully polished/finished?

Also, how well do you think ai pathing will be when it comes down to the roads on this map

[spice gulch]

100% unsure. It’s definitely playable and most main point of interest are down. I’m sure I’ll add more as time goes on.

AI works smoothly at least from my knowledge. My team did two months on it with no problems where we operated. I will say they will struggle in the back side of the military training area cause I had to make one really tight turn to make it work

[opaque canopy]

I'll definitely be checking it out, thank you for the reply and have a good one

[spice gulch]

Yeah for sure. Let me know what you think and how it goes. I’m always working this map and my highway 80 map. Try to get on a full day or two per map a week. I try to update in here as much as possible

[spice gulch]

May be to many lights. Anyone on the console side, would love some feedback on the lights in the hanger at FOB Heart

[upper dock]

🔥

[still cradle]

@spice gulch what’s the name of your other map?

[spice gulch]

https://discord.com/channels/105462288051380224/1412961595319128185

but in game it’s gonna be called Kuwait

[spice gulch]

That one is a 16,000 x 16,000. This one is 6,400 x 6,400

[still cradle]

Nice

[spice gulch]

Fixings happening tomorrow,

Floating Rocks & plants

Some roads are to high

Signs I had place when testing and never got rid of; will be deleted.

I noticed some buildings are sitting to high. Some building destroy with one bullet. And some platforms within the city need to have terrain checked, I kept going through them.

Mountains will start being worked on (shaping, adding rocks, and different kinds of brush/trees)

[spice gulch]

Waiting for the workshop to work to publish. There was a lot of corrections

[spice gulch]

Started messing with assets a bit

[spice gulch]

Added some barb wire to the main base and FOB around the map.

Still messing with textures

Started shaping the mountains and adding rocks to them.

Going to start added small random houses and farm land throughout the region.

[lunar compass]

This looks amazing keep up the great work!

[spice gulch]

Thanks dude!

[lunar compass]

No problem 😊

[spice gulch]

Im going to be using some of the buildings from Kuwait in this pack. hopefully it will be a good touch.