A Mod thats Good

[Danny1412 0]

i do not know how to do nothing for OFP like Addon Making or Island Making but i have an idea for anyone interest in it.

Place: U.S. Border With Mexico

In The Border Theres Alot Of Things Happening i live close to it. Theres a Drug War Going On in Both Sides But Worst in Mexico. ok for this mod you could at Federal U.S Agencies , Local & State. On The Mexican side you could ad the same things like i know a few (A.F.I.) Agencia Federal De Investigaciones (Like F.B.I.) (P.G.R) Special Police (SWAT RURAL) Or THe Sheriffs. Plus The Military on the mexican side (Not The U.S , They Dont Deal WIth Corruption) Any ways on the bad side you could add Gangsters, Mafiosos, Cartel Family, Robbers, bandits and a map based on south texas and northern mexico.

also on the u.s you could add the coast guard to stop drug shipping on by sea. or illegal immigrants .

im sure this would be a good mod .

u could make missions of : Drug Traffiking, Hitman, Robber, gang wars or even worst Cartel Wars, stopping drugs, capturing important Druglords or just taking down the whole cartel . protecting the boss could be a good one, or taking drugs to the u.s in exchange for money. this would certainly be a good mod, dont you people think?

[CanadianTerror 0]

Quote[/b] ]i do not know how to do nothing for OFP

Then you should grab some tutorials and learn.

If you want to see a mod made, start learning a skill and ask people to help you with other parts.

Quote[/b] ]ok for this mod you could at Federal U.S Agencies , Local & State. On The Mexican side you could ad the same things like i know a few (A.F.I.) Agencia Federal De Investigaciones (Like F.B.I.) (P.G.R) Special Police (SWAT RURAL) Or THe Sheriffs. Plus The Military on the mexican side (Not The U.S , They Dont Deal WIth Corruption) Any ways on the bad side you could add Gangsters, Mafiosos, Cartel Family, Robbers, bandits and a map based on south texas and northern mexico.

also on the u.s you could add the coast guard to stop drug shipping on by sea. or illegal immigrants

You think it takes 10 minutes to make all that? Go try.

[Danny1412 0]

which one is easier? building Soldiers or Vehicles

[Marcus4 0]

Cars

[Danny1412 0]

in order to begin i need to know what programs to use.

can someone help me please

[Danny1412 0]

What do you use to re skin?

[Marcus4 0]

Dude, Read a little bit

How to make a addon

That was in this fourm

[CanadianTerror 0]

I guess i should have posted some links but...

Quote[/b] ]What do you use to re skin?

makes me go

[XCess 0]

If you're new to mod making, reskinning would be a good place to start. A god texture job is the most important part of an addon imo.Having an amazing 1,00,000 poly model can still look crap with quake 2 style textures, but have a 4,000 poly model with amazing textures can look almost lifelike (esitmating the numbers slightly as im no expert).

Trying to build a full blown mod from scratch, having no experience.. it's not a great idea. You'll end up with half assed, ugly looking units and boring, buggy missions. First try re texturing a few civilian units. Nothing too amazing, just change the guys shirt or something, and pay attention to the details.

I'd also suggest trying to learn a bit of scripting, a lot of these addons will probably require a few built in scripts. Take a look at snYper's scripting tutorial, and dePBO the BAS Blackhawks to find out how to execute scripts from within an addon.

Remember,OFP is no GTA. Gangsta style fights are not going to be very well executed, the soldiers in fop actually aim, no dual pistol weilding, throwing your arms in the air and spraying a mac fro these guys, the gun's at the shoulder and ready to blow somebodies head into a million fragments with a single shot.

I'd stick with the Cartel's, and move your setting to Columbia or the weed farms of Mexico. OFP is more suited to a rural environment than anything else, and the cartels are a little more organised than bloods and crips.

Or even better, create your own fictional carribean island for the setting. Perhaps producing opium (the general opinion of heroin users is much lower than that of stoners, so fighting against skag pushers won't be as hard to cope with for some people as burning down fields upon fields of weed)

I think I'm rambling a bit now so I'm going to stop. Go for the retexturing, use the search function and google for tools, and good luck.

[x582gr51 0]

You might hit google with these words wich are EVERON and CARTEL

and there is also mods related to mafia and gangsters.

They have cars, protective units (guards) and a whole lot of weapons ranging from broken bottles to clubs and even small firearms and cocktail Molotov.

Sadly i just doesn't remember the name of the mod but i thing it's something like Crime City but i ain't sure bout it.

You can browse at www.ofp.info they have a lot of useful addons for this theme.

They might need a face lift so they can look like being up to date but these are minor.

A women Cartel that heist men and get money to provide surgeries and cosmetics and matchmaking...

*edited*: You might like this lil app called WinPBO that let you browse into a *.pbo without decompressing it. You can read draging and droping updating files without getting in the long process of decompress and compress. It save a tremendous ammount of time.

There is a couples of CTI missions based on Crime City that you can look at for a start. There already is a few coast guards, FBI addons. Just play arround reading scripts in cti Crime City change units and vehicles suiting your taste add and remove scripts. If you are not basicly scripting/programming oriented and have difficulties with synthaxes, like me, it may take a few months to learn but if you get to know an expert an authority into scripting then you may grasp concepts faster. One thing is that your first attempts may not be as fun and enjoyable but keeping the efforts will lead you to progress and then you will just have to read about real world events and work on the gameplay.

One good thing is to take old missions like the one made by BAS staffs and updating them with todays scripts this can train someone to master mission editing. Some of these mission s are very boring from todays point of view but working them with new stuffs can reverse the critics.

Next step will be to find a good and happy server admin to host your stuffs (addons and missions) and beta test (providing that scripts wont be overwrote or deleted making the missions boring as hell).

By the time all this will be done ArmA will be released and you will have to learn more and more about moding.

[x582gr51 0]

*Danny*

Are you saying the army or any military in the US or other over industrialized countries are not corrupted...

Well... it just that they are Criminally Legal or Legaly Criminal but you will never hear (on CNN) about improvised drugs labs and drug shipments if they are covered by a military operation and/or political figures. Another thing who gonna travel in a country where there is a war and hunt for these labs...

But that could be part of a good mod

[JdB 151]

Also, for the Coast Guard bit you could use some of the US Coast Guard mod's addons.

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The download link probably won't work, but it's being worked on, and to see the pics, change the ''ofp.gamezone.cz'' part of the link(s) to "ofp.gamepark.cz".

Would make an interesting mod, but considering that the OFP engine is not exactly ideal for this kind of concept it will provide you with enough time to develop basic addonmaking skills for Armed Assault.

[Danny1412 0]

I Tried Downloading The Necessary Tools to make an addon but some didnt work in the page. could some1 help me find the exact tools to work. Ill Start to dedicate time for doing all this stuff. ill try to have a mod by December or sooner . Cant Some One Help Me on Scripting. I Think That Sounds Difficult. Look If Someone is interest on helping email me to my mail nuevoleonkrew9285@sbcglobal.net

[Marcus4 0]

Those all are the tools, also, check out this site

http://ofp.info/brsseb/

And look at the tutorials

[Danny1412 0]

yeah that site is the one helping me understand the basics of making an addon. But where can i find the tools ofp.info is down, any other website?

[Marco.A.Aguilar1 0]

That seems like a pretty original concept Danny. I especially like the whole map of South Texas and Northern Mexico idea. I am from McAllen / Born and raised in Rio Grande City. It would be interesting to see these cities being implemented. Most conflict are within the borders of Texas-Mexico and California-Mexico.

 

[Marco.A.Aguilar1 0]

I forgot to mention that the news discusses about states utilizing the National Guard on borders. Of course this has been on the news off and on. But it would be legit to add Guardsmen into it. I think Arizona already has some units in action actively. They said that they are even willing to pay them.

Go Fighting 36th!

[soul_assassin 1750]

yeah that site is the one helping me understand the basics of making an addon. But where can i find the tools ofp.info is down, any other website?

Just BREATHE!

[Danny1412 0]

Hey Marco Aguilar, Im From San Juan TX CLose To Mcallen and all them towns. My Parents Are From Nuevo leon Mexico. So What do you think should we began this mod? I Already know How TO Draw and Build Buildings.

I WAS BORN IN MCALLEN AND RAISED IN SAN JUAN.

ANYWAYS I WANT TO ADD ALL THEM THINGS HAPPENING IN OUR BORDER AREA. LIKE LOS ZETAS ,LA MANA,LOS ALCONES.

MAKE THE INTO AN ADDON AND MAKE A GOOD CAMPAING.

WELL GOT TO GO, KEEP IN TOUCH CAMARADA

[Danny1412 0]

hey guys i am enhancing my addon creator. hopefully i will release an addon soon. but i need textures and i cant find some

[XCess 0]

I'm pretty sure the National guard do deal with drugs. I've heard of them flying helos around the southern states (cali, texas, etc) looking for weed farms.

Dunno if it's actually true though.

OO can we play on the drug dealers side? would be much more fun and more stuff to do.

[Marco.A.Aguilar1 0]

Agreed Danny. A lot of stuff happens here that the news does not cover. I used to ride my bike in Rio Grande City in the monte where their were mafia style homicides every other couple of months. My family hasn't gone to Mexico in the past few years because all the activity. The Los Zetas abduct the rich from South Texas and hold them ransom. It is crazy. People don't like Roma and Rio though, from where I was raised. These two cities were predominantly built upon corruption that is why there was never any significant economical growth. Rio is one of the top three oldest cities in the valley next to Roma which predates the exsistence of America.

[Danny1412 0]

Hey ill retexture some units and make them into mafiosos, gangsters,police,etc..but ill need some help, anyways i wont be here this week end im going to monterrey,nuevo leon, mexico so ill be back on sunday, any ways take kare guys , who are syntonizing this mod being born.

laterz , bye

[Danny1412 0]

im back, and im ready to begin building the stuff, first of Units

[Silent N Deadly 0]

Good idea for a mod, could provide some pretty interesting missions. However I'd like to take this moment to point out the "Edit" button next to the "Quote" button...it's pretty useful.

Anyway good luck with it guys, I hope something cool comes out, the idea is cool.