gestures Tactical Hand Signals (THS)

[zgmrvn 95]

THS
Tactical Hand Signals

by Emperias & zgmrvn

 

 

 
When distances are too long for voice communication* and as a quick alternative to radio communication* at short range, we are proud to release the Tactical Hand Signals. The THS provides, in a MilSim vision, some simples an clear hand signals you can use in any situation. All these gestures were made by ourselves to be as clear and natural as possible.

* when using TFAR or ACRE2

 

 

Features

 

- Tap shoulder action to informe your mates without a word
- 8 original animations based on real hand signals, designed to accomodate gameplay as well as aesthetics
- Customisable key bindings to fit your keyboard configuration

 

 

Screens




Video

 

 

 

How it works

 

When THS is enabled, the keys that have been assigned using the CBA system will trigger hand signal animations. You can disable THS by pressing the "enable/disable THS" key.

By default, THS actions are bound to the 1-9 keys, so enabling THS will override the AI command controls. Just disable THS if you need to command AI.

 

 

Default controls

 

- P : enable/disable THS
- 1 : tap shoulder
- 2 : stop
- 3 : get cover
- 4 : forward
- 5 : rally up
- 6 : engage
- 7 : point
- 8 : hold
- 9 : warning

All key bindings can be customized from the CBA key binding menu, which you can find in configure > controls > configure addon.

If you use ALT for Freelook, you will have to bind each key twice in the binding menu. This is because of how the CBA key bindings system handles ALT, CTRL and SHIFT.


Requirements

Community Base addons A3


Download links

THS

THS on armaholic.com

THS on Steam (bikey not included)

bikey only

 

Changelog

 

1.2.4 - december 13 2016
- fixed : what a "soulder" is ?
- enhanced : code optimisation
- enhanced : binarization

1.2.3 - june 07 2016
- fixed : shoulder tap sound didn't worked anymore since 1.60

1.2.2
- fixed : minor script error

1.2.1
- fixed : script error when trying to reload without weapon
- enhanced : some script rework to prevent errors in vehicles

1.2.0
- added : 2 new animations, "hold" and "warning"

1.1.1
- fixed : support for new CBA key binding system

1.1.0
- added : 2 new animations, "point" and "engage"
- fixed : it was possible to thow dozens of shoulder taps by holding key pressed
- fixed : no shoulder tap reception display when THS was disabled
- fixed : error when reloading launchers
- removed : logo when starting mission, it has been considered too instusive so we removed it
- refactored : THS recieves new shaped logo, main logo has been refactored using ths animation

1.0.4
- fixed : shoulder tap sound now works -__-'

1.0.0
- release

[m1n1d0u 29]

Really nice animation i love it !

[enex 11]

What no one has done before with hand signal is making them toggled*.Is that a possibility?

*look at Dayz system.

[galzohar 31]

This would be cool if missions with TFAR didn't generally give absolutely everyone radios. Since if you have a radio, whispering in the radio is perfectly safe and more clear than a hand signal. And I don't know anyone really playing regularly with TFAR without everyone having radios. And even then, it would only be useful in PvP because in COOP you can just switch to yelling.

[kecharles28 197]

New mod v1.0 available at withSIX. Download now by clicking:

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[theevancat 277]

Now can we add hand signals for these? The tactical immersion would be unparallelled.

http://s1.postimg.org/b2v66fhlb/56407_militaryhandsignals.jpg (286 kB)

[Ckrauslo 12]

Perfect, can you just slow down the animation a bit?

---------- Post added at 22:47 ---------- Previous post was at 22:44 ----------

This is for milsim, as most online units like to mirror the training of the real life counterpart

[phronk 898]

Animations aren't bad at all. If you intend to add the other gestures that VTS Gesture adds, I might stop using it and use this instead. ;)

[Guest]

Release frontpaged on the Armaholic homepage.

Tactical Hand Signals (THS) v1.0



Community Base addons A3

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We have also "connected" these pages to your account (Zigomarvin) on Armaholic.

This means soon you will be able to maintain these pages yourself if you wish to do so. Once this new feature is ready we will contact you about it and explain how things work and what options you have.

When you have any questions already feel free to PM or email me!

** Note:

since this is a project on which more people are working we will contact you in the future to discuss how you want this to be setup on Armaholic.

[panimala 25]

Great job on the animations. Some of the hand signal implementation I've seen over the years have had quite wonky animations but these are great. :)

[Ckrauslo 12]

Animations aren't bad at all. If you intend to add the other gestures that VTS Gesture adds, I might stop using it and use this instead. ;)

The animations aren't bad, they are just a bit quick, when you do a hand signal to a your team mates you tend to do this slowly so they can see, the hand signal that tends to be faster in real life is the cease fire

[lynx75 1]

Great mod. Good work. I really appreciate it. Thanks.

[zgmrvn 95]

I don't know anyone really playing regularly with TFAR without everyone having radios

We do, only squad leader and second has short range radios. All depends where you put difficulty cursor.

If you intend to add the other gestures that VTS Gesture adds, I might stop using it and use this instead.

VTS uses default game gestures which aren't really pratical, clear or even necessary. Curently, we reduced animations to essentials.

Thanks to kecharles28 and Foxhound for having relayed it on WithSix and Armaholic ;)

Edited February 15, 2015 by Zigomarvin

[anthariel 165]

With a little delay, here the ArmA France mirror :)

http://arma-france.com/tactical-hand-signals/

[speedygonzales 15]

I love it, finally i can drop vts gestures, never liked the system that you have to stand still and choose your gesture.

With this all runs smooth and in motion, hope that you made some more ;). But your standards are quite good and for me they are long enough, only have to rethink to watch the leader ;).

[sollrmartyn 15]

Heyho, could you a server key for this addon? Would be really nice and useful. We cannot use this mod without a server key (.bikey). Thanks

[zgmrvn 95]

hey, ok, i take a look this week ;)

[stoffl 13]

Really nice addon. One thing though. It seems that the shouldertap always taps the shoulder of the guy closest to you and not the one you're looking at. Would be great if you add that since I like the feedback this shouldertap gives much more compared to any other mod with a shoulder tap function.

[zgmrvn 95]

hi,

thanks for your feedback. Let me explain how this shouldertap has been coded

when static, it shouldertaps the guy which is the most in front of you, distance regardless.

when moving, it's the same but based on velocity vector, that mean if you straf left and there is a guy on your left and another one in front of you, the shouldertaped guy will be the left one.

[zgmrvn 95]

Hey guys, as requested, mod has been signed. Download in first thread

Edited March 18, 2015 by Zigomarvin

[Belbo 462]

Hey guys, as requested, server bikey incuded. Download in first thread

Except that you didn't actually include the bikey, but only the bisign. :D

[zgmrvn 95]

this is actually bisign ;), first time i do this and if the concept is clear for me, words aren't yet

[Belbo 462]

The .bisign is the file that goes where the .pbo is. Thus far this is all correct.

But the .bisign needs a .bikey-file in the server's key-folder to know if the .pbo is the right one. When you created your .bisign-file, you did that with your .biprivatekey. When creating your .biprivatekey-file, you should have created a .bikey-file. That's the one server operators need in order to use the .bisign-file. The .biprivatekey should be in your hands only. Don't give this one away.

Edited March 8, 2015 by Belbo

[lynx75 1]

Hi, this addon is great.

Unfortunately it is not compatible with the task force radio keys binding system using CBA functions.

Could you provide an upgraded version please ?

After retesting, all is fine.;)

Thanks for your work

Edited March 9, 2015 by Lynx75

[zgmrvn 95]

@Belbo, it's fixed, the archive now includes both .bisign and .bikey :rolleyes: