ArmA Addon request thread

[ck-claw 1]

Yeah i remember seeing wip chinnock from Afro,looked very promising indeed!

[Messiah 2]

Oh, and nice Land Rover Wimmik in that other thread.

As this is the Addon request thread, I would like to see someone make a Scimitar and a Striker in Household Cavalry flash and some Royal Marines, then with the Landie and RKSL's Merlin and Lynx you have everything you need for a virtual 3 Commando, well, almost.

cheers, its coming along nicely as well - end of the week I'll try and have some more substantial pictures of it.

all those addons, excpet of course for the RKSL stuff, are being made by us (UKF), although the order of release is heavily dictated by how common they are (Thus you'll see a scimitar before a striker) - Royal Marines are part of the infantry pack that will be pretty much the first release.

[Prydain 1]

Can nay wait.

You making the soldier modles from scratch then? It must be a long time coming, I remember PR's British soldiers where a long time in the making.

Have you planned a community update like RKSL, stating what you plan and such? I don't mean to be rude.

Edit: Do you plan to move to Queens Gambit?

[Messiah 2]

no no, I agree we've been quiet.

Soldier models were made from scratch to an extent (heavy modification of existing work we've done and the BIS model - Chris aka Pathy is the man behind that and he'd be able to explain the extent of the work better than me)

We'll update our website when we see fit, and normally once we have something substantial to show. We'll start a forum thread here when that time comes, but our plan has always remained the same, to create british land forces for ArmA - What that includes is normally decided quite late on, but if you just imagine the most common vehicles and weapons in use in the British armed forces, you'll have pretty much what we're planning to or have made.

anyway, this isn't our thread to pimp in, so I'll keep it to that

[edit]

Queens gambit is just an additional few campaigns and some extra addons. Comparable to Red Hammer from the OFP days I reckon. It's not a change of game platform.

[HeadTrauma 0]

Did a search for "Overheating barrels" but couldn't find anything.

Any idea if it would be possible to model this (overheating from sustained high ROF's / having to swop barrels) in ArmA for the M240 and PKM?

And while I'm at it, how about an RPK and/or an RPD?

[Col. Faulkner 0]

Did a search for "Overheating barrels" but couldn't find anything.

Any idea if it would be possible to model this (overheating from sustained high ROF's / having to swop barrels)  in ArmA for the M240 and PKM?

And while I'm at it, how about an RPK and/or an RPD?

That sounds like it'd be horrendous to try to implement.

You'd need to count the rounds fired in a given time period

and factor in any periods of nonfiring and assess how much

the barrel would cool.  On top of that you'd need to adjust

the accuracy of the gun as the barrel heated up.

It also seems a bit OTT, given that in the game you cannot

even hold the guns correctly, your character carries

something like 600 rounds of link plus  the gun and personal

kit, the bipods do not work, there is no notion of a "gun

team", AI enemies cannot be suppressed by fire and there

are no reload animations.

[LoFFeN 0]

Iraqi Republican Guards "1990 - 2003 Era"

Seriously we need them. Is there someone making them btw? If so, let us know!

[ERC-Blackwater 0]

I would like to see incredibly realistic smoke effects. Preferably from the GBU's or Jdams. The explosion is massive and dirt fly's up like crazy. Unlike the un-realistic hollywood version GBU thats in ArmA currently. I want the massive dirt cloud.

An example video :

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=17b_1179246650

[-AIF- Kris 0]

Please can someone make insurgents come on i thing that would be brilliant!!!!!!!

Edit: No screaming please (all caps).

[Col. Faulkner 0]

Kris @ Sep. 14 2007,10:31)]PLEASE CAN SOMEONE MAKE INSURGENTS COME ON I THING THAT WOULD BE BRILLIANT!!!!!!!

Which "insurgents"? Mau Mau? Malayan? Indonesian? Radfani?

Cypriot? Jewish? Irish Republican? etc etc

[-AIF- Kris 0]

Arab

[KorpeN 0]

TOR-M1

[MehMan 0]

An Il-76 would be sweet.

[Guest RKSL-Rock]

An Il-76 would be sweet.

Already in WIP.  There will be some updates on the RKSL Site soon.

[Casimir 0]

can someone make the comanche helecopter??

They are class, but make it the attack variant.

[ck-claw 1]

can someone make the comanche helecopter??

They are class, but make it the attack variant.

? I'm sure i've seen a vid of one? wip?!

Can only assume from RKSL

[VXR 9]

can someone make the comanche helecopter??

They are class, but make it the attack variant.

? I'm sure i've seen a vid of one? wip?!

Can only assume from RKSL

I do not see a Commanche planned at the moment.

[Ezekiel 0]

Did a search for "Overheating barrels" but couldn't find anything.

Any idea if it would be possible to model this (overheating from sustained high ROF's / having to swop barrels) in ArmA for the M240 and PKM?

And while I'm at it, how about an RPK and/or an RPD?

That sounds like it'd be horrendous to try to implement.

You'd need to count the rounds fired in a given time period

and factor in any periods of nonfiring and assess how much

the barrel would cool. On top of that you'd need to adjust

the accuracy of the gun as the barrel heated up.

It also seems a bit OTT, given that in the game you cannot

even hold the guns correctly, your character carries

something like 600 rounds of link plus the gun and personal

kit, the bipods do not work, there is no notion of a "gun

team", AI enemies cannot be suppressed by fire and there

are no reload animations.

Would it really be so hard? I dunno how code intensive counting bullets would be, but if you had a counter that went from 0 (cool) to 100 (overheated), and have it count down 1 per second if 1 or over until it reaches zero and can fire again..... Just random numbers, I dunno. With the right animations you could even simulate changing barrels with an action in the menu, which has the effect of resetting the heat to 0.

I think it'd be my personal dream to see proper weapon crews for machine gun emplacements in ArmA. I know its been done in OFP mods, so it has to be possible now the tools are out in force. Spare barrels could be actual inventory items that take up 2 spaces much like a rocket and the spare ammo boxes.

Also is it possible to make automatic sidearms? I was thinking it'd be nice to see something like a Beretta 93R as an accompaniment for the M9, or an old Russian Stechkin (which have made a comeback in their special forces, but used to be issued to vehicle crews instead of the AKS 74U. Or a nice Glock pack with the 17 and automatic 18 models.

[RN Malboeuf 12]

Quote[/b] ]Would it really be so hard?

yeh, counting bullets is quite simple. i guess it can even work in MP. But changing dispersion ingame... possible with scripts, but will kill MP performance completely.

+you need animations for this, you need several man MG crews (where second man do nothing...) + you don't have that much ammo in Arma with constant fire it will be wasted very soon, no overheating needed to stop bulletrain Thus i guess it won't implemented in Arma although you can see this feature in Red Orchestra

[Guest RKSL-Rock]

can someone make the comanche helecopter??

They are class, but make it the attack variant.

? I'm sure i've seen a vid of one? wip?!

Can only assume from RKSL

I do not see a Commanche planned at the moment.  

Yeah it was our vid... RAH-66 Video

But as VXR said its not on our active project list right now. I'm still debating what to do with it.

[_BARNS_ 0]

Ater building a mission last time i thought it would be nice to have some ot the old CWC objects in ARMA too.

So my request, is somebody out there and can import the combat grave from CWC to ARMA? It is the gun with the helmet on top of it ... i would do it myself but i have no clue because i never did something like that and i do not heve any progs for that ether.

So if somebody could be so nice to do that for me would be awesome!

Plz let me know, thx very much in advance!

[Col. Faulkner 0]

There's a project called "Cold War Rearmed" that is porting

the CWC objects and missions to ArmA. There is a sticky

thread on it in this forum.

[Col. Faulkner 0]

Also is it possible to make automatic sidearms?

Of course it's possible. It's a mere matter of configuration! My

ArmA Walther PPK is fully automatic (mainly because I

couldn't be arsed fixing the config for it - it has a 100 round

magazine too! )  

[xira 0]

well making an At-3 sagger would be awsome.. is anyone working on one?

[snkman 351]

Well very often while trying to capture a base i think "Damn it what would i give for a whire cutter now" so that i can cut the fence and go into the base from the back instead walking throug the main gate.

So my wish is a wire cutter.