General Discussion (dev branch)

[x3kj 1247]

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Added: "dispersion" now works for rockets / missiles

Thank you so much. The ranges that you could rocket snipe with jets where insane.

[Grumpy Old Man 3546]

11 hours ago, lexx said:

Few weeks ago I asked about code / debugging stuff in here already, but got completely ignored. Scripts that were working fine for two years suddenly started throwing error messages, despite nothing had changed. No idea if it's in any way related, as I don't have enough knowledge in real programming.

 

/edit:

I've fixed most of these issues later with rewriting the code, removing all the spawn{} etc... after that the error messages were gone.

 

Well that's what the feedback tracker is there for.

On 4/11/2013 at 2:45 PM, DnA said:

Actual issue reporting should still happen via the Feedback Tracker of course. Thank you!

 

Doubt the devs scan through every post to find bug reports.

These days I'm not even sure the feedback tracker gets any attention, heh.

 

Cheers

[lexx 1364]

Sure, but if I post in here then also to see if other folks noticed anything weird as well. Like I said, I'm not a good programmer at all, so all these issues could also happen because I just don't know what I'm doing. Making a ticket for such issues then can end up being quite embarrassing. 

Oh yeah, and I don't really feel very motivated to deal with that weird interface...

[pr9inichek 133]

Wounded soldier plays healing animation twice (when lying on the ground)

 

 

 

https://feedback.bistudio.com/T126591

[BIS_Dantes 183]

On 8/28/2017 at 3:14 PM, Grumpy Old Man said:

Getting frequent crashes upon exiting the MP editor in the current devbranch build which updated today.

Always status access violation.

If this keeps up I'll need to revert to stable branch, saved one error report so far if interested.

 

Cheers

Hi, we are not able to reproduce it here, could you please provide repro mission or steps to reproduce? :)

Cheers! 

[Grumpy Old Man 3546]

23 minutes ago, Karloff said:

Hi, we are not able to reproduce it here, could you please provide repro mission or steps to reproduce? :)

Cheers! 

 

Hey thanks for looking into it, fortunately I have been editing for a few hours without a crash now,

tried to replicate the crash for about 15 minutes earlier today in the same mission, didn't happen since.

 

The occurences happened in the MP editor, locally hosted session:

1. Editing mission
2. Test changes during mission
3. Run a few debug scripts
4. Solving π
5. Decide to make a few changes
6. Hit "Abort"
7. Debriefing screen
8. Lobby
9. Hit escape
10. Crash in 1 out of 5 cases just before the editor should pop up again

 

Last crash happened yesterday, no crashes for today even with me trying to force a crash doing the above.

If it happens again I'll post it here.

 

Cheers

 

 

[POLPOX 778]

createSimpleObject will crash the game when you tries to create a weapon(eg "A3\Weapons_F_Exp\Rifles\AKM\AKM_F.p3d")

 

(Am I posting at correct topic?)

[R3vo 2654]

Since today's update one can also set the leaflet type via Pylon settings for all medical drones. Is that intended?

On a further note; Good job on the new SFXs for explosives!

[Jnr4817 215]

6 hours ago, R3vo said:

Since today's update one can also set the leaflet type via Pylon settings for all medical drones. Is that intended?

On a further note; Good job on the new SFXs for explosives!

Eden Editor 
Added: Leaflets can be now equipped for Utility Drones through the "Pylon Settings" tab

Will this change also mean we can drop leaflets from any aircraft that uses pylons?

Grumpys Aircraft Loadout mod allows the ability to use all available weapons on any aircraft with loadout support.

I could picture a Blackfish or GhostHawk dropping propaganda leaflets when a drone isn't available asset depending on scenario.

[DnA 5154]

15 hours ago, R3vo said:

Since today's update one can also set the leaflet type via Pylon settings for all medical drones. Is that intended?

Collateral feature? 

It's not its primary purpose, but perhaps there are situations where it would be desired - like it spreading information about an epidemic over an area (via the custom leaflets)?

[Grumpy Old Man 3546]

9 hours ago, Jnr4817 said:

Eden Editor 
Added: Leaflets can be now equipped for Utility Drones through the "Pylon Settings" tab

Will this change also mean we can drop leaflets from any aircraft that uses pylons?

Grumpys Aircraft Loadout mod allows the ability to use all available weapons on any aircraft with loadout support.

I could picture a Blackfish or GhostHawk dropping propaganda leaflets when a drone isn't available asset depending on scenario.

It already does, my script reads stuff from the config. You only need to set

GOM_fnc_allowAllPylons = true;

in the parameters file.

It's configured as a pylon -> my script will use it.

Simple as that.

 

You probably need to add custom leaflet classes to make it work.

 

Cheers

[tortuosit 486]

On 28.8.2017 at 2:14 PM, Grumpy Old Man said:

Any chance to finally get rid of those annoying "Hand to the face" idle animations?

Good reminder, they annoy me at times... IIRC Koffeinflummi removed the animations with his AGM mod which was before ACE3 came out.

 

Guys I was absent from modding for a longer time and just recognized, in ArmAs main menu there is now room for mod options (settings that can be defined by mods), can you please point me to documentation/keywords for this?

[Imperator[TFD] 444]

On ‎29‎/‎08‎/‎2017 at 8:15 AM, x3kj said:

Thank you so much. The ranges that you could rocket snipe with jets where insane.

 

Have you actually tried this in game yet?  Does it add the dispersion factor to existing rockets already?

 

If so Im super happy about this for the exact reason you mentioned.

[jarrad96 1940]

Is the rocket dispersion based on rocket type?

 

For example, could the larger rocket pods (EG Kajman) have a wide dispersion range to make it easier to saturate a target area, compared to the smaller rocket pods (EG the ones on the A-164) having a tighter spread so are more accurate? 

 

That would mean there were be a reason for choosing to have a smaller pod instead of always using the largest possible.

[reyhard 2082]

Rocket dispersion will be configured after Low Dlc release - right now there is strict data lock engaged & while in theory adding customized dispersion parameters shouldn't cause any issues (since next stable version will be without working dispersion for rockets), it's still safer to keep it as it is.

[Imperator[TFD] 444]

Yeah was just about to come here and report that there's no dispersion as yet for the rockets.  Building the back end.

[.kju 3245]

> since next stable version will be without working dispersion for rockets

 

[BIS_Dantes 183]

On 8/29/2017 at 0:53 PM, pr9inichek said:

Wounded soldier plays healing animation twice (when lying on the ground)

 

 

 

https://feedback.bistudio.com/T126591

Hi, thanks!
We will look on that. :)

Cheers

[EO 11277]

Hello Dev Team,

Will the ticket I raised regarding the clipping of 2 pieces of Laws of War equipment be addressed before official release?...the ticket his currently "acknowledged" but not assigned.

Official release of premium content is days away and these are new assets which clip badly when combined with each other....https://feedback.bistudio.com/T126492

[R3vo 2654]

Can anyone confirm that

add3DENConnection ['Group',get3DENSelected 'Object',player]

isn't working? When "Group" is replaced with "TriggerOwner" it works just as intended...

[x3kj 1247]

18 hours ago, Imperator[TFD] said:

 

Have you actually tried this in game yet?  Does it add the dispersion factor to existing rockets already?

 

If so Im super happy about this for the exact reason you mentioned.

I'm on a different playground, because i can implement stuff right away for my total conversion ;)

[R3vo 2654]

Will there be a fix for the marker text issue coming with the next stable update ?

[lexx 1364]

^ yeah, this is annoying me since weeks now. A mod already fixed that if I remember right, so it can't be such a big deal?

[das attorney 858]

BIS_fnc_vectorDirAndUpRelative is broken.  

 

It returns [array,array]

 

Looks like it's missing the params entry to define the inputs.  It was there some time ago so not sure why it's missing now but anyway:

 

Here is the function:

/*
    Author: 
        Killzone_Kid
    
    Description:
        Returns vectorDirAndUp of object 1 relative to object 2
    
    Parameter(s):
        0: [Object] - object 1
        1: [Object] - object 2
        2: [Boolean] - (Optional) if true - result is in render scope, false - simulation scope. Default: true
    
    Returns:
        [Array] in format [vectorDir, vectorUp]
    
    Example:
        _vectorDirAndUp = [tank, car] call BIS_fnc_vectorDirAndUpRelative;
*/

/// --- validate input
#include "..\paramsCheck.inc"
#define arr [objNull,objNull]
paramsCheck(_this,isEqualTypeParams,arr)
if (_visual isEqualTo true) exitWith
{
    [
        _obj2 vectorWorldToModelVisual vectorDirVisual _obj1,
        _obj2 vectorWorldToModelVisual vectorUpVisual _obj1
    ]
};
[
    _obj2 vectorWorldToModel vectorDir _obj1,
    _obj2 vectorWorldToModel vectorUp _obj1
]

 

This works:

/*
    Author: 
        Killzone_Kid
    
    Description:
        Returns vectorDirAndUp of object 1 relative to object 2
    
    Parameter(s):
        0: [Object] - object 1
        1: [Object] - object 2
        2: [Boolean] - (Optional) if true - result is in render scope, false - simulation scope. Default: true
    
    Returns:
        [Array] in format [vectorDir, vectorUp]
    
    Example:
        _vectorDirAndUp = [tank, car] call BIS_fnc_vectorDirAndUpRelative;
*/

/// --- validate input
#include "..\paramsCheck.inc"
#define arr [objNull,objNull]
paramsCheck(_this,isEqualTypeParams,arr)
params ["_obj1","_obj2",["_visual",true]]; // <====================== this line is missing
if (_visual isEqualTo true) exitWith
{
    [
        _obj2 vectorWorldToModelVisual vectorDirVisual _obj1,
        _obj2 vectorWorldToModelVisual vectorUpVisual _obj1
    ]
};
[
    _obj2 vectorWorldToModel vectorDir _obj1,
    _obj2 vectorWorldToModel vectorUp _obj1
]

 

[DnA 5154]

16 hours ago, Evil Organ said:

Will the ticket I raised regarding the clipping of 2 pieces of Laws of War equipment be addressed before official release?

Hi, very likely not sadly. It's not feasible in A3 character gear tech to avoid all clipping. We've adjusted asset meshes and skinning over the course of development to fit as best as possible together, but there are going to be cases that will not work well together visually. This applies also to combinations between existing vanilla gear. We'll try if it's somehow possible to solve without side effects here. The risk of adjusting them to solve this case is that usually it creates clipping for another combination.