SLX Mod WIP

Chris Willocks · November 28, 2009

Can it be used with sound mods?

That's a good question. I've been using the Sounds of War addon. Is this compatible with the SLX mod?

Chris

jackass888 · March 2, 2006

Im using it with Vop and HiFi and it works fine. Just to be sure load them after slx in the game shortcut.

nuggetz · October 24, 2008

I was playing a warfare map against the AI last night and I got wounded pretty bad. After a while, an AI soldier (not of my squad) came to my rescue. He didn't appear to be a medic so he decided to drag my body around. At first I thought it would drag me to safety as we were heading for a tree but he continued to drag me around the map for 5 minutes and never released me. I finally had to manually re-spawned. Any idea why this fool didn't heal me or drag me somewhere and leave me alone? The town was already clear so there was no danger.

Inkompetent · March 2, 2007

It seems from some posts of the higher-ups at TG that the birds are one of the major reasons for lag. Simply that the game spawns so many birds all over the place that it starts becoming quite a burden for the server (much like the reason why practically no single mission ever use the ambient wildlife module I guess).

If it could be optimized to only keep birds close to the players existing I guess it'd be a bonus, and maybe decrease that amount of birds as well.

Solus · July 30, 2005

Sound mods should work fine. The SLX weapon sounds addon replaces some sounds so remove it if you want to make sure the sound mod is using those parts. I did some work on the bounding to use more of the default AI, and it seems to be working ok so far, they split up with one team suppressing, one bounding, and still use the default AI to have one person flank far to the side. I'll see if using doTarget on team members without assigned targets gets the leader to not assign them.

nuggetz: I added a failsafe time limit to make sure that won't happen anymore.

Inkompetent: Ok, I made the birds work in SP only now. Any clues on that crash?

bhaz · June 14, 2006

I don't know if it was compression from Xfire or what, but the SFX seemed to lack definition in this video. Very squishy or scratchy sounding.

I'd say so, XFire brought the original source file from 3.9GB down to 50MB.

I'll probably put some effort into a better video in the future, that was just 3 squads and 6 waypoints placed in under a minute.

Inkompetent · March 2, 2007

Nopes. Still no more clues about that crash, really. I'll try to get updated on what happened after I left, and during Sunday when I couldn't participate in the testing, and hopefully I can even get my hands on peopes' RPT files.

jblack9 · May 20, 2009

Solus,

Great work your doing so far, however, there are major problems with infantry units "warping" in combat.

And a more "personal" thought, is there anyway to split the damage stats from the unit anims in the 'SLX Wounds.pbo' file...

personally i like vanilla damage stats, but want everything else:

i don't want this:

Location based wound effects on people when they are hit.

Arms - Small chance of an accidental discharge of their primary weapon. Small chance of dropping primary and/or secondary weapon when arms are very damaged.

Legs - Good chance of falling down prone if legs are very damaged. No effect when already prone.

Torso - Good chance of getting knocked down and out of breath for a second if damage is over 50%. If the torso is over 80% damaged and overall health is less than 60% then the person is critically wounded.

Head - 30% chance of temporary deafness and a 40% chance of temporary deafness, disorientation, and falling down if head is less than 50% damaged, most likely caused by grenade blasts. 90% chance of temporary deafness and falling if head is over 50% damaged.

but want all this

Critically wounded :

The person drops their primary weapon and lays on the ground writhing and screaming until either they are healed or die. They are unable to shoot any weapons, but can still throw hand grenades, so watch out. Killing wounded people that pose no threat at the moment(haven't thrown a hand grenade) will deduct 450 rating points. So if you have 0 rating points and killing a soldier gets +200 rating points and you kill a wounded soldier you end up with -250 rating points.

Dragging wounded/dead:

Wounded or dead people can be dragged to a safer location for giving first aid, corpse recovery, or item scavenging. Be careful of moving heavily wounded people though, moving them might kill them.

Giving first aid to wounded:

Giving first aid is based on the skill of the person giving first aid. If first aid is unsuccessful in stabilizing the wounded person's condition then you will have to wait for a while before trying again. Giving first aid gives you rating points proportional to the skill of the person first aid is being given to.

Taking captives:

If a wounded enemy is healed they will surrender. They can be taken captive and you can tell them to stay or follow you. If the captive is too far from you they will try to escape and continue fighting. Taking captives gives you rating points proportional to the skill of the person being taken captive. Killing captives suffers the same rating deduction as for killing wounded. For a zero skilled soldier you should get 200 points for giving them first aid and taking them captive, the same as if you had killed them, but if you kill them after giving first aid and taking them captive you still end up losing 50 rating points.

Moving dead/wounded/captives in vehicles:

Wounded, dead, and captives can be moved into vehicles by using the Drag or Follow action when in a vehicle. Make sure the action is in your action menu when entering the vehicle or you won't be able to use it. There must be free cargo space in the vehicle for the person to enter. Try moving the person to the other side of the vehicle from where you enter, then look at the person and the action should show up.

Dropped weapons:

Dropped weapons can be destroyed by using the action menu close to them or by damaging(by shooting, etc) them to 50%. They can only be picked up by the action menu. They are affected by physics and can get thrown into the air from explosions.

AI's helping wounded/dead:

AI's will automatically try and help wounded or dead people. They will attempt to drag them into a safer position before giving first aid or scavenging weapons. AI's immediately go into alert mode when someone is wounded or killed.

AI's taking secondary weapons and machine guns:

If someone with a secondary weapon or a machine gun dies then another AI from their squad will attempt to come and pick up the weapon.

Dismemberment:

If a person is killed with a high explosive and their velocity is high enough then they will be torn apart. Can be disabled by setting number of gibs to zero.

Just curious, but thanks again

CorporalCody · December 1, 2009

Hey Solus and all who work on this mod.

First, I would like to commend you on a fantastic piece of work. I use it on singleplayer in combination with the Zeus AI, and let me tell you, it is an entirely new experience. I absolutely love it.

Now, on to my main "question". I'm a part of the TG community, and as you probably know from previous posts, we've been testing to see whether or not SLX would be a good addition to our "sponsored" mods, per say. However, we had a number of issues (some related to SLX, some possibly, others we probably just blamed on SLX), and thus decided against using the majority of the features.

Now, I am not entirely "in the loop" about what is going to or not going to be done, but there is discussion about adding the AI, but just the AI, into our little "mod pack". However, the big question is...

Will it crash? Every time that someone joined the server without the proper SLX (which was quite often, and frustrating), we all experienced a crash. We would like to use SLX, but it is impossible to do with such constant issues such as the crashes.

I suppose the question on hand then is, will the AI by itself being uploaded cause crashes should someone without the proper version, or without it all together, joins the server?

What .pbo files are the ones in which everyone must have it the same to prevent the crashes?

Anyways, thanks for the excellent mod and your hard work. Your response would be appreciated.

~Cody

Solus · July 30, 2005

bhaz: Thanks, I'll test that situation some more and see if the "target target target" thing is fixed.

Inkompetent: Thank you very much for all of your help and everyone at TG!

Jblack9: Just set SLX_Wounded to a lower value like .2 and people should drop whenever damaged. The warping actually seems to be a default ArmA 2 problem when AIs are redirected to move to another position and the evasive animations make it more visible since they warp a longer distance. I'll look into what I can do.

CorporalCody: Thank you and the TG crew for giving SLX a try! The main and probably only things that are causing crashing is the animations addons, I'm pretty sure those are what cause SLX and ACE to crash servers from config inconsistencies. For just AI, there are different parts to the AI, some tell the AI where to go, and some help the AI get there and some things are integrated by necessity and they all add up to give the sum of the AIs abilities. It's hard to say how valuable each part is, or what they will add up to in different configurations. The addons affecting AI in some way are: SLX_AI, SLX_AI_TurnMove, SLX_AISkill (removed for now in next version, may be added back with some replacements for some of the Zeus values (courage, commanding, general skills)), SLX_FindCover, SLX_GL3, SLX_Mod_Veh_Core, SLX_ModWeapons_c, SLX_Netcode(required utility), SLX_Radar, SLX_ShotEffects (AI evasive moves to help AI get to their destinations faster, used extensively by SLX_AI), SLX_SilentVehicleCommands (faster vehicle AI), SLX_Wounds (make groups run to cover when someone gets hit).

FunkD00BiesT · May 3, 2009

Firstly I'd like to say very nice work indeed!

For this test I used my client with a few mods together with our Dedicated server and a few mods on it as well, I will list both's rpt's filtered to the best of my ability. Client did not have allot of errors and the file size was only 60KB.

Server however was allot bigger, 13.4MB.

Mission I used for this test was DomiA2 AI West 1.20

Also I removed the SLX_AISkill.PBO since I'm using Zeus AI combet Skills. both on server and client.

Hope this helps.

Client RPT:

=====================================================================

== C:\Games\ArmA 2\beta\arma2.exe

== "C:\Games\ArmA 2\beta\arma2.exe" -showScriptErrors -nosplash -world=Chernarus -mod=@BWC;@CBA;@GMJSA;@JTD;@VFAI;@RUG;@VS;@TRSMTV;@RHHeli;@SLX;@zcommon;@Extra;beta -connect=66.8.59.9

=====================================================================

Exe timestamp: 2009/11/27 21:56:13

Current time: 2009/12/01 11:33:57

Cannot register unknown string STR_USRACT_ACTION_CONTEXT

Updating base class Man->, by vfai_controlpanel\config.cpp/CfgVehicles/CaManbase/

Updating base class ->BulletBase, by ca\weapons\config.bin/CfgAmmo/B_77x56_Ball/

Updating base class ->BulletBase, by ca\weapons\config.bin/CfgAmmo/B_127x108_APHE/

Updating base class ->BulletBase, by ca\weapons\config.bin/CfgAmmo/B_145x115_AP/

Updating base class ->RifleCore, by ca\weapons\config.bin/cfgWeapons/Rifle/

Updating base class ->CannonCore, by ca\weapons\config.bin/cfgWeapons/D30/

Updating base class ->Man, by ca\characters\config.bin/CfgVehicles/CAManBase/

Updating base class WeaponCloudsMGun->WeaponCloudsGun, by slx_mod_veh_core\config.cpp/CfgVehicles/Plane/MGunClouds/

Updating base class Turrets->Turrets, by trsm_tracked_vehicles_cfg\config.bin/CfgVehicles/BMP2_Base/Turrets/

Updating base class MainTurret->MainTurret, by trsm_tracked_vehicles_cfg\config.bin/CfgVehicles/BMP2_Base/Turrets/MainTurret/

Updating base class Turrets->Turrets, by trsm_tracked_vehicles_cfg\config.bin/CfgVehicles/BMP2_Base/Turrets/MainTurret/Turrets/

Updating base class MainTurret->MainTurret, by trsm_tracked_vehicles_cfg\config.bin/CfgVehicles/AAV/Turrets/MainTurret/

Updating base class Movement->, by trsm_tracked_vehicles_cfg\config.bin/CfgVehicles/M1A1/Sounds/Movement/

Updating base class ->House, by ca\misc3\config.bin/CfgVehicles/Land_Fire/

Updating base class ->ARTY_Sh_Base, by ca\modules\arty\config.bin/CfgAmmo/ARTY_Sh_122_HE/

Updating base class ->ARTY_Sh_122_HE, by ca\modules\arty\config.bin/CfgAmmo/ARTY_Sh_122_WP/

Updating base class ->ARTY_Sh_122_HE, by ca\modules\arty\config.bin/CfgAmmo/ARTY_Sh_122_ILLUM/

Updating base class ->ARTY_Sh_122_HE, by ca\modules\arty\config.bin/CfgAmmo/ARTY_Sh_122_SMOKE/

Updating base class ->VehicleMagazine, by ca\modules\arty\config.bin/CfgMagazines/ARTY_30Rnd_122mmHE_D30/

Updating base class ->ARTY_30Rnd_122mmHE_D30, by ca\modules\arty\config.bin/CfgMagazines/ARTY_30Rnd_122mmWP_D30/

Updating base class ->ARTY_30Rnd_122mmHE_D30, by ca\modules\arty\config.bin/CfgMagazines/ARTY_30Rnd_122mmSMOKE_D30/

Updating base class ->ARTY_30Rnd_122mmHE_D30, by ca\modules\arty\config.bin/CfgMagazines/ARTY_30Rnd_122mmILLUM_D30/

Updating base class Sounds->, by rhsound_c\config.bin/CfgVehicles/UH1Y/Sounds/

Updating base class Engine->, by rhsound_c\config.bin/CfgVehicles/UH1Y/Sounds/Engine/

Updating base class HeadLimits->HeadLimits, by slx_fov\config.cpp/CfgVehicles/SoldierWB/HeadLimits/

Updating base class HeadLimits->HeadLimits, by slx_fov\config.cpp/CfgVehicles/SoldierEB/HeadLimits/

Updating base class HeadLimits->HeadLimits, by slx_fov\config.cpp/CfgVehicles/SoldierGB/HeadLimits/

Updating base class EventHandlers->EventHandlers, by extended_eventhandlers\config.bin/CfgVehicles/FR_Miles/EventHandlers/

Updating base class EventHandlers->EventHandlers, by extended_eventhandlers\config.bin/CfgVehicles/FR_Cooper/EventHandlers/

Updating base class EventHandlers->EventHandlers, by extended_eventhandlers\config.bin/CfgVehicles/FR_Sykes/EventHandlers/

Updating base class EventHandlers->EventHandlers, by extended_eventhandlers\config.bin/CfgVehicles/FR_OHara/EventHandlers/

Updating base class EventHandlers->EventHandlers, by extended_eventhandlers\config.bin/CfgVehicles/FR_Rodriguez/EventHandlers/

Exe version: 1.04.60588

"############################# co40 Domination #############################"

Error in expression <eOn*camPos*grass*((rpm factor[0.3, 0.6])>

Error position: <>

Error Missing )

Client: Object (id 3:77, type Type_82) is local - update is ignored.

Ref to nonnetwork object 62a3c00# 1055533: usspecialweapons.p3d

Obsolete CfgSkeletons for SLX_DroppedWeaponSkel, move to model.cfg

Unknown action Surrender

Unknown action GetOver

RESCUE2: Getting out while IsMoveOutInProgress

O 2-1-F:1 REMOTE: Getting out while IsMoveOutInProgress

O 2-1-F:2 REMOTE: Getting out while IsMoveOutInProgress

O 2-1-F:3 REMOTE: Getting out while IsMoveOutInProgress

O 2-1-F:4 REMOTE: Getting out while IsMoveOutInProgress

O 2-1-F:5 REMOTE: Getting out while IsMoveOutInProgress

Warning: roadsConnectedTo did not found the input road segment

Ref to nonnetwork object bf77400# 1076711: slx_empty.p3d

Error in expression <unit)||(isplayer leader _unit))&&(count SLX_Groups>0)>

Error position: <SLX_Groups>0)>

Error Undefined variable in expression: slx_groups

Error: cannot load sound 'ca\dubbing\global\radio\male01\en\core\maploc\gvozdno.wss', header cannot be loaded.

Action::Process - No target

Client: Nonnetwork object d8b1c00.

Client: Nonnetwork object 101b7800.

Duplicate weapon ItemMap detected for USMC_Soldier_AT

Duplicate weapon ItemCompass detected for USMC_Soldier_AT

Duplicate weapon ItemWatch detected for USMC_Soldier_AT

Duplicate weapon ItemRadio detected for USMC_Soldier_AT

Action LoadMagazine - wrong magazine 3:45268

Client: Nonnetwork object b411c00.

Ref to nonnetwork object bb25800# 1104035: slx_empty.p3d

Ref to nonnetwork object 8f9c800# 1108409: slx_empty.p3d

User menu description 'BIS_MENU_GroupCommunication' not defined.

Client: Nonnetwork object a996000.

Server RPT:

=====================================================================

== C:\SERVERS\ARMA2_BUSHWARS\ArmA2Server.exe

== ArmA2Server.exe -port=2302 -name=default -config=BW\server.cfg -cfg=BW\Arma2.cfg -profiles=BW\default -mod=@BWC;@EXTRA

=====================================================================

Exe timestamp: 2009/09/10 10:06:22

Current time: 2009/12/01 11:23:03

Unsupported language: 'English'

Unsupported language 'English' in stringtable