What does it take... to use ArmA2 objects in V3

[luki 53]

Install the new tools :) then you see wehre, same like with a1 tools.

[icebreakr 3100]

Tnx, missed that. Will check it out and probably start with a new island soon ;)

[el76 0]

Its out and the problems I have with the ArmA2 plants is still present.

To get the plants working in visitor

you have to create a directory PLANTS2 in your CA directory.

into this directory you have depbo all the plants pbo`s. and remove the plants2_ from the name.

So that it looks like this

CA\plants2\clutter

CA\plants2\plants

CA\plants2\trees

etc...

[[aps]gnat 28]

cool tip thanks el76

[cbfasi 4]

Yippee, thanks el76!!

But boo, no summer tress they all autumn/fall :(

Edited August 18, 2009 by CBFASI

[icebreakr 3100]

Shit, they are all useless boring autumn plants? What are we supposed to do now, wait for a 3rd party addon or use a 450mb file from A1? :o

[cbfasi 4]

Or wait for spring/summer at BiS

[luki 53]

You can recolor them :) I hope someone will do a replacement for them, like it was with arma1 autumn plants.

[Waterman 0]

Yay it works:

Thats from trees folder.

Anyone found the forest sections or worked out how to do them?

Edited August 18, 2009 by Waterman

[icebreakr 3100]

Waterman: afaik BIS dropped out forests with ArmA, you have to "plant" them yourself, copy&paste might help, not to mention great tool(script) named RandomObjectPlacer_V1.1.1.vis ;)

p.s. new autumn trees look like cowshit, I'm postponing the conversion of my island until/if BIS fixes:

1. new hut_old02 (hangar) shadow is bugged, thus making this great A1 object useless, I have a lot of 'em on my map

2. bunch of stuff they removed like: hospoda_mesto (A1 pub/inn) and all army huts(!)

3. bunch of rocks objects missing

4. plants like palms that are cruical for island conversions

5. guide for new clutter configs

etc,etc.

:/

Edited August 18, 2009 by IceBreakr

[Waterman 0]

Ok, so I make them myself. One question I have though is if your placing lots of individual trees next to each other how do you get it to show as a forest on the map (block of green) like on here: Map of Chernarus

[prowler.wolf 0]

Yes how very annoying, why could they not just release the arma1 content for arma2? </hint>

[.kju 3239]

Done automatically:

a) as long as you place objects with Named_Properties 'tree'

b) have enough vegetation next to each other

Configuration in config:

minTreesInForestSquare = 5;

minRocksInRockSquare = 4;

[eenter 0]

Any way to name groups of already placed trees? A script maybe? Or do i have to replace all of them with named ones :o

[El Mariachi 0]

You can create forests in Visitor 3. The only problem is that they're perfectly square (a tree is at same place in every row/column) and kill the heck outta your framerate in buldozer. no randomization at all.

[bushlurker 45]

Hmmm.... thats handy to know... a lot of Scottish forests are actually managed by the Forestry Commission and ARE planted in neat, regular rows... I'll have to experiment with that..... :)

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[[aps]gnat 28]

Use the random placer script, works well enough