BMD 1 Pack

[soul_assassin 1750]

UPDATED!!

So the day has come! For your pleasure I present a BMD 1 pack!!!

As well, our project from now on has a name: CB O915 which stands for Construction Bureau: Object 915 and you can find us at www.o915.com .

Down to business :

BMD1 PACK BETA 0.8.005

MIRRORS

MIRROR @ armed-assault.de <- v0.8.005

MIRROR @ armaholic.com <- v0.8.005

MIRROR @ ePrison.de <- v0.8.005

MIRROR @ armedassault.info <- v0.8.005

Big thnx for everyone for the mirrors!

Version beta 0.8.005 fixes the numerous crashes to desktop people have been having. If you use 0.8.005 and still crash, make sure you have the latest video drivers from your graphics card manufacturer!

Why BETA?

Well this should actually be a fully functional addon. We've tried to iron out all the bugs and and noted all the ones we couldn't fix in the README. The beta status comes from the fact that we didnt include all the features we wanted to in the end and plan to launch the final final version once we have them.

The pack contains two vehicles:

BMD1 early production

BMD1P

Some features:

- innovative cargo placement with periscope views

- vehicle animations such as raising of the nose while at speed and raising/lowering the water shields.

- variable ground clearance

- marking system

- accurate sights

- working hull MGs

- working suspension

- proper operation of the 9M135M1 launcher

- custom damage textures

- and many more...

Authors:

Soul_Assassin - texturing, modeling, animating, skinning, configging etc, etc

Ist - lots of bug and inconsistency testing, scripting

Big thanks goes out to:

    [APS]Gnat - for answering many questions

    Gedis - for great reference material

    GodHammer - for the model and textures of 9M11

    Jarek "Topas" - for great help in the texturing department

    hamis - for some killer sounds

    Kenji - for the sight 9M135M1

    MODUL - for wonderful animations

    Q - for answering many questions

    q1184 - for ballistics calibration

    Raedor  - for answering many questions

    RavenDK  - for proper turret configuration

    ShadowNX - for German translation

    Uralaz - for track textures

    Vilas - for answering many questions

    ...and my girlfriend for being patient with me and helping with the readme

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[mr burns 132]

Awesomeazing!  Thx!

Mirror @ armed-assualt.de  

edit: Mirror Updated  

[manzilla 1]

Good stuff. I've been digging the last version lately. It's a must in my missions. Thanks.

[bospor 0]

VDV pack, now THIS! Wow, the sky is raining with armed Russians lately! Now the capitalist pigs will pay for their crimes!

Thanks Soul_Assassin for this pack.

[buliwyf 4]

Didn`t test this addon so far, but your ReadMe is really nice! Also nice is, that you have keys... not all first releases are of this quality.

[GD Mast 0]

This morning I wanted to write a post to find out how this project was going but stopped myself.  I get home from work and low and behold...you released your pack.     Thanks!

GD Mast

[Guest]

Frontpaged at the Armaholic.com homepage.

The Armaholic.com download page can be found here:

http://www.armaholic.com/page.php?id=4915

[GodHammer 0]

Already in a mission, killer model, full of nice animations, beautifully textured and weathered, a great addon!

Thanks for the good work Sir

[PSYCHOSIM 0]

Great pack

[[asa]oden 0]

this will go straight into my Warfare with 76th VDV

[khayes 0]

great news ! i'm impatient to give it a try, fighting the lobo's mujaheedin close to the afghan village

i looked at the picture in your website, and the render of the spotlight impressed me. i like that level of detail in your units. same for the bump effect on the hull.

the only "negative" comment i could say is regarding to the pics you posted, the edges are too dark (could be the ambiant occlusion you mentionned in previous posts). but that's a matter of personal taste

again, great job on this pack ! and i love your website too

[law-giver 190]

Gorgeous looking addon, but i have a problem. It locks up ArmA when i use it. I removed the addon and ArmA was fine without any addons running, with and without the bmd's. I was driving the vehicle as empty in the editor. Doesn't crash when ai are driving etc.

I gave the ai bmd's a waypoint, left it running for 5 mins and it was fine. But as soon as i put them empty and enter the gunner/turn out, it locks my system up and have to reboot on occasion. But it's fine when i no longer use your bmd's.

Oh and i'm running 1.14 and tried 1.15beta and both the same results. No addons used apart from ArmA itself.

[buliwyf 4]

ArmA crashed with following error in ArmA.RPT:

Error: bin\config.bin/CfgVehicles/sa_bmd_1p/Turrets/MainTurret/Turrets/CommanderOptics/: Turret body at5 not found while initializing the model sa_bmd_pack_1\sa_bmd_1p.p3d

I`m using v1.15

[soul_assassin 1750]

<table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td>Code Sample </td></tr><tr><td id="CODE">Error: bin\config.bin/CfgVehicles/sa_bmd_1p/Turrets/MainTurret/Turrets/CommanderOptics/: Turret body at5 not found while initializing the model sa_bmd_pack_1\sa_bmd_1p.p3d

The error is a result of the configuration of the AT5 turret and I have not found a way to curcuimvent this. However this error has not led to any crashes whatsoever with any tester.

Your chashes are quite unexplainable. What island are you playing on. Are you using any modification files? Can it be your graphics card is overheating?

[buliwyf 4]

I tried it on RAHMADI with ECS Mod and no... my graphic card is fine

*UPDATE*

I gave your addon a second chance, but ArmA chrashed again. Both times i get in gunner and cargo seats... all works fine. But when i get in as driver and drive ~10 meters, the game crashes..  

This time i found no error in my ArmA.RPT.

[law-giver 190]

Yeah mine too crashes, i played arma with FFN mod and loads of others mods for an hour and never crashed. But it crashes with your addon within minutes. I used a temp addon folder with only your bmd and default arma 1.14 & 1.15beta and it locks up when getting in an empty bmd.

Weird! I'm using latest nVidia drivers on an 8800GTX not that it's relevant because it only crashes with your bmd addon. Very nice addon i must say apart from the strange lock ups.

[Stavanger 0]

Mirror by ePrison.de

BMD 1 v0.8 BETA by Soul_Assassin

Regards,

Stav.

[Daniel 0]

Havn't had a crash yet - so excellent addon, thanks!

Hope this worms its way into ACE.

[soul_assassin 1750]

This is super annoying   majority plus all the testers who have done pretty much anything possible with the bmd's have not reported aaany problems, including me who has driven these things up and down mount everest. No lockups, noda.

I'm gonna need more info from u guys if possible. Perhaps anyone had the same deal with other addons?

Can everyone with crashes say what operating systems they use. Same for everyone without crash?

[buliwyf 4]

I can reproduce the crash each time i drive the BMD1 or the other version.

This is what in my ArmA.RPT is included (i deleted it before i tested).

===FROZEN====>>>>>>BEG

Version 1.15.5268

Fault address:  7C91E4F4 01:0000D4F4 C:\WINDOWS\system32\ntdll.dll

Prev. code bytes: 5D C3 8D A4 24 00 00 00 00 8D 49 00 8B D4 0F 34

Fault code bytes: C3 8D A4 24 00 00 00 00 8D 64 24 00 8D 54 24 08

Registers:

EAX:00945A2C EBX:0123D100

ECX:134A0000 EDX:0123A9DC

ESI:00800000 EDI:00000016

CS:EIP:001B:7C91E4F4

SS:ESP:0023:0123CEB0  EBP:0123CF8C

DS:0023  ES:0023  FS:003B  GS:0000

Flags:00000206

===FROZEN====>>>>>>END

My system:

Intel® Core 2 Duo E6850 @3,6 GHz

Asus Striker Extreme

Transcend 2 GB DDR2 1066+

2x Gainward 8800 GT PCX per 1024MB

Soundblaster Live! Platinum

Nvidia Graphic Driver Version 181.20

Before i tested your addon 3rd time, i played 2 hours Domination Map. Then i restarted my computer and started ArmA v1.15b without any addons (only your BMD in an extra addon folder). Started directly mapeditor and placed a BMD on Rahmadi. After a few seconds it crashed while i drove around.

[Gedis 0]

OMFG

i love these boxes of fun    

man, i just had so much fun driving these ingame  

don't you think these should have speed limit?  

btw, after reading readme, i think i know why i send you all the blueprints/drawings/schemes, so that you could make vehicle marking scheme in readme LOL  

Well done!!!

Now we need planes to drop these little bmds with chutes and go pwn those lazy americans online, with REAL airborne  

Ready for war???

P.S. I like the style your bureau 915 website is made, it reminds me soviet-stalinizm times  

[soul_assassin 1750]

Buliwyf:

what version of windows are you running? XP or Vista? Ur system is better than mine so its not performance related. But if it emerges that XP has problems and Vista doesnt then we have a prob.

Gedis, what windows are you running?

[Gedis 0]

windows XP pro sp3, no crashes encountered yet

I    these BMDs!

[CameronMcDonald 146]

Not sure if this is related, but it seemed a little suspect.

I run:

E6600 (usually run it OC'd, but was running stock here today).

EN8800GTX (OC'd, but usually runs fine).

ASUS P5K Deluxe

4 x 1066 Corsair Dominators

I was playing around in the editor for about 5 minutes previously, then I dropped in a BMD1, and within 5 seconds my graphics driver (182.06 WHQL) stopped responding. Maybe check the structure in O2 for issues?

Lovely tank for those 5 seconds, I might add though! Hope you keep up the hard work!

EDIT - Vista 32, I might add.

[buliwyf 4]

I`m running WinXP pro SP3.