a quick question on the hitpoint system.

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hey guys, i have just been thinking about armA while i waot for my new AMD 64 3800+ 1 gig Of ram and 7800GT videocard. so my question was .. i have played AmericasArmy and cs, with AA being my fav game..and i begain to think that if i shoot a soldier in armA into the leg... will the bullet hole be exactly where i got him or it will be rendered.. as in it detects the hit point on the leg, and it automatically puts a hole and blood in a random position on the leg. =D ..just asking. if the soldiers gets hit in his left side of the brain.. will the bullet hole be exactly rendered there, or will it be just a premade hitpoint on the head..yeah so thats what im trying to get at..because in some screen shots i saw prerendered and real ones.. lol just asking and trying to kill the boredom while i wait for my new pc.. lol and while wer on the topic, can u tell me iff ill be able to run game on high setings, soem low some medium, or everything low etc.. lol thank you for your time. PS if i shoot and the hole appears on the head wherever, they should make it so that if i shoot some one in a head, lets say temple or mouth, the hole should be there. or i shoot some one in the kneecap, the hole should be there. just a request for more interest. lol love the game. another PS LOL im just full of ideas, id be cool to shoot through the cars wondows to get a headshot lol or even a helicopter. but it shouldnt be simple. wind and elevation should play a role also as bohemia said that each bullet is rendered on its own. cars and helis have gas tanks, and like in real life if u hit a gas tanks it goes BOOMM! lol just give me ur opinions

[MehMan 0]

First off, you've already created a topic in the general section, why another one here? I'm just going to quote my previous post:

Quote[/b] ]Please unlearn AOL speak and learn to type normally.

And no to the last question and first.

Also, this might be one of the most useless things in ArmA. Does it matter? Are you going to notice? I'm guessing no, in the middle of a battlefield you're not going to stop and look at what you did to that soldier. You'll be busy shooting or running to cover.

You need to watch less action movies like Delta Force or Rambo.

Car gas tanks will only catch fire with tracers. Besides most of the vehicles in ArmA are armoured and have the gas tank hidden and protected from gunfire.

And another thing, I'll just reply to the half ragdoll thing. People do not fly through the air when hit by bullets.

[HoboWithAK 0]

You can shoot a full gas tank with all the tracers you want, it won't explode. The fuel needs to vaporize and mix with oxygen in order to burn. An explosion would happen with pressurization, for example, if the tank was filled with only a little gas that would turn to vapor and mix with available oxygen. The tank would contain the rapid pressure buildup caused by the combustion until eventually it would rupture/explode.

Hollywood is not real life.

[MehMan 0]

Well they tested it on Mythbusters. The first time around they used regular bullets. Nothing. Second time round they used tracers and it caught on fire. I'd imagine with a low ammount of gas in the tank and if it catches fire it could then expand inside the tank where the large ammount of gas vapor could ignite and expand, causing what we know is an explosion.

But then again, this is just my theory. But something similar did happen to an airliner once. Low ammount of gas, a simple spark and the plane got torn apart. TWA Flight 800 I think it was.

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whats a tracer?

[jackass888 0]

whats a tracer?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tracer_ammunition

[Jackal326 1182]

I'd have thought playing America's Army and CS would have given you all the military and weapon knowledge in the World...

[HoboWithAK 0]

Well they tested it on Mythbusters. The first time around they used regular bullets. Nothing. Second time round they used tracers and it caught on fire. I'd imagine with a low ammount of gas in the tank and if it catches fire it could then expand inside the tank where the large ammount of gas vapor could ignite and expand, causing what we know is an explosion.

But then again, this is just my theory. But something similar did happen to an airliner once. Low ammount of gas, a simple spark and the plane got torn apart. TWA Flight 800 I think it was.

Yeah, it will catch on fire as soon as it mixes with air. Putting a bullet hole into the side of a full gas tank isn't going to do anything but let the gas leak out. It might catch fire as it is spilling out, but you cannot burn liquid gasoline so it won't spread into the tank unless there is empty space for it to mix with air and vaporize.

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whoahh so those are tracers, ive seen them in iraq war videos. cz and bf2 dont have tracers, and i never knew that armA has tracers.....is it lk and option, or a key that you press like the silencer? and are there any screens of tracers in armA. ive seen teh green adn red fire flash thingys that you shoot into the air,.... cznt rememebr the name right now, just had it a while ago. lol

[orson 0]

Weeeeee ! guns !! Weeeeeeee !!

[max power 21]

whoahh so those are tracers, ive seen them in iraq war videos. cz and bf2 dont have tracers, and i never knew that armA has tracers.....is it lk and option, or a key that you press like the silencer? and are there any screens of tracers in armA. ive seen teh green adn red fire flash thingys that you shoot into the air,.... cznt rememebr the name right now, just had it a while ago. lol

In ArmA, as of now, almost every bullet is a tracer.

[avi13 0]

cars, tanks and airplanes do not explode when you fire and hit their gas-tank with assault rifles[from experience], only way to blow them is to use a grenade or a missile, even that alot of times isnt enough, most times they'll just catch fire and burn instead of exploding.

[Col. Faulkner 0]

whoahh so those are tracers, ive seen them in iraq war videos.  cz and bf2 dont have tracers, and i never knew that armA has tracers.....[...]

Please do not be under the impression, though, that using

the ArmA tracers will allow you to ignite vehicles' petrol tanks

in the game.

[Sniperwolf572 758]

Teaser, in future, please use proper English and less "lol"-ing.

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yeah, its the stupid aim addiction.. hate it. lol....i mean ahahhaah oh and i never seen a screen with a rocket launcher in armA, or a movie...ive seen tanks. also how the buildings destroy in a WTC kind of thing..thers not enough pile up..ive seen a screen shot from some game, and when a soldoer shot a shurch tower with a m16 grenade launcher, the church tower blew up in its higher top just where he shot it realistically, and the physics were on the brocs and it was wery reall.. no he has a sniping place in the church. so heres how it went. m16grenadelauncher+church+big boom with individual bricks flying everywhere=sniping place or camping place... i like that idea. it is as if the designers built the building brick by brick in the software, instead lk most games wall by fall, alllowing to destroy parts of buildings eralistically. what do you guys think

[MehMan 0]

It can be implemented but very laggy, imagine a bombing raid on a city. It'd mean a lot of lag. Same reason why ragdoll isn't implemented.

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they could cut it down on the big bombings of airplanes and helicopters, and leave it for the grenades and grenade launchers, ittl add more immerse gameplay... walk into a town, see a building...shoot a rocket..and you have a sniping nest with bricks everywhere lol...btw any of you guys know what game i was talking about.. i looked throught all of my game informed magazines and i could not find it.

[Jackal326 1182]

Quite frankly I have very little idea what you're talking about - too many damn "lol"s.

The damage system used in OFP and Armed Assault is a hiptoints type i.e. a building has a "health" of 500, and a LAW does 100 damage (as an example, I haven't checked the exact values). With these values, it would take 5 LAW rockets to do 500 damage to the building and "kill it". At that time, the building will be destroyed and collapse. To my knowledge there is no way to define different types of destruction for a building depending on what is used to destroy it.

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ughh, seen some screenies where a soldier smokes...any chance for marijuanna? btw if any of you guys played IL-2 then you know that of you get hit in the cock-pit (hehe) you see the bullet holes, id be great to see it on armA or GAME2 by any chance.

[Jackal326 1182]

The SLX mode for OFP managed to incorporate bullet decals, though they were far from perfect. So theoretically it could be possible in ArmA, but not by default.

[Al Simmons 0]

it seems to me that there will be no discussion about any further addons, so could please some mod move it?

[BraTTy 0]

Is there fuel tanks in Arma?

In real life gasoline is flammable, in other words it needs a flame to ignite (of course high temp vapors and pressurized fuel is combustable)

Airplane and racing fuel is combustable and will ignite off just a spark

[Jackal326 1182]

Is there fuel tanks in Arma?

In real life gasoline is flammable, in other words it needs a flame to ignite (of course high temp vapors and pressurized fuel is combustable)

Airplane and racing fuel is combustable and will ignite off just a spark

That question couldn't possibly be answered as that would actually related to ArmA, which the last 2 pages or so of this thread haven't. At all. Its just been a discussion about how combustable fuel is within a gas-tank, with 7 different people saying exactly what the person before them said, only slightly rephrasing it.