Rechambering an existing gun

[khorosho 1]

Hi, I'm looking to find a tutorial or example on how to modify a gun that's already in-game to use a different caliber bullet and magazine. Specifically, I'm trying to make the SDAR fire the 7.62 NATO as the RFB does in real life. It seems like it would be a simple enough task for someone who knows what they're doing but I literally have no idea where to start. Thanks.

[max power 21]

http://forums.bistudio.com/showthread.php?130062-The-Configs-amp-Scripting-Info-Thread-%28WIP%29

That thread may have some helpful links.

What you want to do find the class name, then create a new config for it, and change the ammunition. For that you will also need the magazine classname. You would possibly also want to change the recoil and some other things. You will not be able to alter the appearance of the magazine, unfortunately.

[khorosho 1]

So I've extracted the config.bin from Arma 3\Dta\bin\bin with Eliteness, but when I try to unRap it (http://www.armaholic.com/page.php?id=411) it says "Decode Failed" and "Invalid Rap File". Is there an updated version somewhere or a different tool?

[khorosho 1]

Please ignore that last post. I've finally returned to this with the help of Myke's five-year-old advice and actually gotten something into the game. But right before my soldier spawns with the weapon I get "Error: creating weapon RFB_base with scope=private." I couldn't find anything about this on the webs besides some DayZ troubleshooting stuff.

The soldier acts like he's holding an invisible rifle, and it recoils like a 7.62 but doesn't fire anything. and when I shot at it (the invisible model) with another guy, the game crashed. The display name in the upper right is $STR_DN_RIFLE.

Here's my config.cpp: http://pastebin.com/XkAtKav4

[Sealife 22]

Hi,

First I am on tablet so is diffucult to see pastebin scroll

Scope refers to the define of Scope =

0 = protected (private)

1 = not visable in editor but can be spawned via script or added to unit in config

2 = public means can be seen in editor

I think your config has changed a base class and not a weapon

You need

Base class scope 0 here in this config

Baseclass : weapon scope 1 or 2 here in this config

If you added baseclass to unit with scope 0 , you get this error , game can think it has weapon but soon as interacted with game crash

[khorosho 1]

Thanks for the reply. I'll edit the scope and whatnot and see how it goes from there.