Battledress A3 - Open Source Ports of Arma 2 Uniforms

[theevancat 277]

Welcome to Battledress A3: one man's quest to provide time-honored classic uniforms to the Arma 3 community, free of charge!

I've seen quite a few mods here that have people like African militias wearing the AAF Crye gear. Now, there's nothing wrong with AAF Crye gear, but sometimes there needs to be something a little bit more oldschool for those folks. This is where BDA3 comes in. As I work on it in my free time, I will be focusing on porting and releasing the data so that new uniforms will be available to anyone in a raw format for any of their editing needs. If you want to put them in your mod without any dependencies, go do it! This also removes the need to download all of something like AiA's data: why strangle your Internet with gigabytes upon gigabytes (and a mod dependency), when you can use this instead?

The uniforms are going to be just that: uniforms. A2 vests will be stripped away whenever possible (typically by porting the unarmored officer units) to allow the A3 vest system's customizing to work.

Another thing to note is that these uniforms aren't going to be direct ports, meaning that in the future I plan to add detail to them to better match A3 standards. Pockets on A2 uniforms are often just textured on, for example. Why not make the model a little bit more detailed and add the pockets there?

And, of course, since this is opensource, anyone can help. If you have any contributions, post them here. Go ahead and do so. I'm not stopping you. Take a model and make it better, or port something different.

So thus far, the only thing that I have to prove that I'm not a lazy, procrastinating bum is the USMC MCCUU battledress. It needs to be ironed out, but it's in game:

http://cloud-4.steampowered.com/ugc/577901446698307839/18C38B96147644E6E85EBE519AFAF168A3AAFBB6/

http://cloud-4.steampowered.com/ugc/577901446698825752/77ABA5B38B6DD350FDFEA637DDE7689AD36D8257/

Here's what I've got so far. Includes a config that adds a "model" for the uniform.

USMC MCCUU:

http://www.mediafire.com/download/jm9awenn7fnu9iz/Battledress_A3.zip

Original Author: TheEvanCat

Tweakers: Not yet

Edited July 11, 2014 by TheEvanCat

[Drongo69 117]

This would be a big help to the community. Good luck, I'm looking forward to seeing your work.

[evromalarkey 150]

This could be really welcome, because this is one area which is missing. We have weapons, few vehicles but no proper factions and uniforms from Arma 2. So if you port all of the Arma 2 factions, god bless you!

Also you should consider to share this with CUP project - http://forums.bistudio.com/showthread.php?169933-Community-Upgrade-Project&highlight=community+upgrade+project

[haleks 8212]

That's a mod I'll be following closely! \o/

[bravo93 37]

The BAF stuff would be very nice!!

[alduric 10]

I can share few parts from my Uniforms Ports and helmets & vests. Im waiting for your 1st release.

[Bibou42 10]

Getting more variety in terms of uniform would be very great!!! BTW, are you going to resize them according it the arma3 sample model? To my opinion, that's one of the thing which is often lacking with port: people often just redo basic config work, ignoring that arma2 soldiers models are too "square-shaped" compared to arma3, if you know what I mean... Up for the open source!

[theevancat 277]

Getting more variety in terms of uniform would be very great!!! BTW, are you going to resize them according it the arma3 sample model? To my opinion, that's one of the thing which is often lacking with port: people often just redo basic config work, ignoring that arma2 soldiers models are too "square-shaped" compared to arma3, if you know what I mean... Up for the open source!

Yeah, that's the plan. At the moment my mod tools broke and I'm trying to fix them (things have to be difficult) so I'm not making too much progress.

But I put up what I have thus far.

[Ckrauslo 12]

Can you port The marines uniform from a2 not The officers one, but The one with The boots under The pants, with knee pads, or is not possible to remove The vest and helmet?

[zukov 489]

i used this port to try the old gear in arsenal

http://www.armaholic.com/page.php?id=23989

but only the russian chest rig and some helmets fit it well to A3 model character

the textures quality is clearly low compared to a3 vests and uniforms worth to porting, some stuffs from BAF and ACR

[PolyG 69]

Our mod, (NB_USMC) Has already done the helmets, vest can NOT be removed without completely remodelling the torso, else it would have been done so by someone other than hotshotmike, sorry :(

[theevancat 277]

Our mod, (NB_USMC) Has already done the helmets, vest can NOT be removed without completely remodelling the torso, else it would have been done so by someone other than hotshotmike, sorry :(

However, the selections means that I can copy paste the officer torso onto the soldier pants. It'all be easy.

[Ckrauslo 12]

Nice :)

[theevancat 277]

So if someone could help me path textures better, that'd be great. They show up as black in the materials editor but say they don't load in game?

[LykosMactire 298]

So if someone could help me path textures better, that'd be great. They show up as black in the materials editor but say they don't load in game?

*Points finger at atin* harass him, he should know what to do

[theevancat 277]

Okay, here's some progress on the first release. First off, I went in and smoothed it all out in Blender hoping it would look a bit nicer. It does, sort of. Still showing its age but maybe that can be fixed by some extra faces to weigh around the joints. Anyways, shadows are fixed for the most part. The only issue is that weapons are above the hands, but that can be fixed by moving the proxies down (I think.)

http://cloud-4.steampowered.com/ugc/577901446698307839/18C38B96147644E6E85EBE519AFAF168A3AAFBB6/

http://cloud-4.steampowered.com/ugc/577901446698825752/77ABA5B38B6DD350FDFEA637DDE7689AD36D8257/

Still have no idea what's up with the blank spots. I think it's because those faces haven't been UV mapped to the rest of their neighboring points. Will have to try. Anyways, here's data for the update.

http://www.mediafire.com/download/jm9awenn7fnu9iz/Battledress_A3.zip

Once again, it includes an example unit all set and wearing the uniform if you .pbo it.

[Flemdot Jr 10]

the guy's neck looks funny, but good job anyway

[theevancat 277]

the guy's neck looks funny, but good job anyway

There's a bit poking out but that's an easy fix.

[Ckrauslo 12]

When john from bdf first tried to port arma two uniforms,it looked a lot like this,but he made them look pretty good keep up

[salatschleuder 10]

Do you think of porting the German KSK, too?

[theevancat 277]

Do you think of porting the German KSK, too?

If I can get the KSK vests off then maybe.

[sorophx 25]

I wonder if it would be easier to model your own basic uniform and get a high res texture from one of the artists here :confused:

[theevancat 277]

I wonder if it would be easier to model your own basic uniform and get a high res texture from one of the artists here :confused:

You know, I've done that. The problem is weighting. That's my downfall.

These ones already have the selections ready to go.

[IndeedPete 1038]

Good idea, keep up!