adios113

Hello guys. I've recently moved from mission making to actual mod making. I learned a lot during that time, but like everyone, I am still learning. Currently, I am trying to create a new addon which will add new Zeus Modules. Unfortunately, I coudlnt find any documentation on this, so most of the time I end up asking here and there on how to solve the issues on my way. So, I looked up on Ares, trying to reproduce the structure of a Zeus based mod. That's why I decided to share my current build of the addon, hoping that someone could point me in the right direction. Game launches with it fine, no errors on the main screen, as well no errors inside the .rpt log regarding my mod. As soon as i launch the Zeus, i find nothing, besides what already was there - no new modules from my mod. I got a feeling that I am either missing something important, or Its something stupid. Any kind of help will be much appreciated. https://www.dropbox.com/s/ot9qd2z7vmspymk/zeus_addon.rar?dl=0 Additionaly, Could someone explain to me the naming conventions from the class names of various classes tied to each other - I noticed it, when I was creating an Editor module (which works 100%) that some classes have to be named specificaly and I'm having issues understanding it. How to name it and when, because I'd love to know what I am doing, instead of copypaste. Any kind of explanation, or documentation would be cool! Cheers, adi.

BLACK WATCH INTERNATIONAL About us Black Watch International is a tactical Arma 3 unit founded in September, 2014. Currently, our roster consists of over 40 (active!) members. We live up to our name with members hailing from over 17 different countries. Our group hosts sessions daily, around 18:00 GMT. Our philosophy is that real life always takes priority - don’t feel bad if you can’t attend an operation or prefer to play a different game with other friends. We live by our motto, “Bare is the back of a brotherless manâ€, and prefer teamwork and mutual respect over raw skill. We mostly play cooperative missions, which can be made by anyone in the group. Have a great idea for a mission? All you have to do is schedule them, and you’re free to run it, as long as we are content that you understand some basic technical requirements. All missions have at least one active Zeus. The mods we use on the server are mostly focused on creating a realistic feel for the players. A list of the mods we use can be found here. We play various factions. Most of the time we will play as NATO/US troops, however there are plenty of sessions in which we play as different factions. Requirements - We are looking to increase our numbers with respectful, flexible and patient members who don’t mind a sizable download, since our play is very mod-heavy. - While there are no hard quotas for participation, we are looking for active and contributing members for our community. - We value leadership and initiative. We are interested in applicants who are willing to lend us their skills and help our organization grow and improve. - We only accept applicants above the age of 18, though rare exceptions can be made if you can prove to us that your age is a non-issue. - Applicants must have a functioning microphone and the ability to use Teamspeak3. Interested in enlisting? Fill Out the application form. Looking for more info? Send me a private message via forum or contact us via e-mail, and we'll get back to you ASAP! Contact: URL: http://blackwatch-int.com/ Email: blackwatchint@gmail.com Private message: adios113 Steam: adiospl93 Youtube: Black Watch Int.

Black Watch International News #4 It has been a long time, since we have updated our status on BIS' forum. All started more than a year ago, in July 2014. I finaly bought a new PC, being capable of runing Arma 3 (I couldnt even run Arma, not talking about Arma 2 before I bought a new one). After finishing the Singleplayer campaign, trying to learn the game, I started playing on public servers. Altis Life, Wasteland and other known gamemodes, didnt catch me like Invade & Annex, which was suiting my playstyle - COOP and I treated it more like a tool to prepare myself, before I started to think about joining some Arma 3 Units. Almost fully populated server for the majority of the day, became a home for my Arma 3 experiences for about a month. On this server, I got to know a lot of players, which in the future I would call my Friends. I remember my first contact with Cerven - I loved his style of leading a squad so much. The oldschool lining up on the wall, so HQ can sort the teams, making sure each one has a Medic, AT, MG and someone willing to lead those guys. Now this would be strange, not professional, casual for me; but back then it was just a pure fun, awesomeness and it made me wanna play more! Lined up on the wall, I was listening to "HQ", sorting out the squads. Cerven's voice got my attention so i begged in front of my PC, that I will get assigned to his squad. My turn came and as I begged in my thoughs, I got assigned to his squad. Some of the other current Black Watch Members were already in this squad, like: Snakedoctor, Nikolai, Dusty, Jeros and the others. The first "mission" with those guys was awesome and I was really suprised that a game can provide such an environment. We played reguarly on that server, making sure that we always are in the same group. Playing until 4am European Time for me was not a problem. After playing together for a longer period of time, we wanted to create our own environment to play in. Within couple of days it became true and while we were waiting for the dedicated server to be ready, we played together on a server hosted by Dusty. First modpack, making sure everybody we played with knows about our project and we started. We started something what continues to this day, something we are open to share with new players, veterans, anyone, looking for a true community, which Black Watch International certainly is. We wish you a Merry Christmas, hoping that you will find your true community. Thanks for reading, as always! Black Watch Int. signing off.

After reviewing the Module Documentation again and starting from scratch, I got it working. The documentation linked by x39 was the answer for my problem and alltough I based my initial version on it, it didnt work - had to go over it second time. Thanks for the help.

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Hi Silola! Im having great time utilizing your addon and I really appreciate the time you put into making all of this work. Is it possible, to make the xcam_EU compatible with zeus, so that all the objects you defined are also visible in zeus, not xcam/editor only? I have always been looking for a way to access all the hidden objects from the zeus, but Im having issues figuring it out. Your config.cpp looked like zeus compatible, but nothing appears in zeus. I hope you can help me with this, cheers! Adi.

Hello! Im part of a bigger Arma 3 community, called Black Watch International. We are using map templates with many loadouts for different factions and all the maps we are runing ~ 15 maps and for now it is 9 factions, each containing 11 loadout classes. We spawn in 3 different factions, depending on the side we chose to play on and the other loadouts are available trough pedestals with "addAction". Everytime we make a change to the loadouts, we have to copy and replace the script file for every single map. My question is if there is a way, to instead of having all the loadouts in mission files, make them as an addon, so that we only have to commit the changes to the addon and leave the templates for the initial spawn placement, pedestals, and other modules like tfar for example. Thanks for your help and answers! adios113

Yes! I think that's exactly what I am looking for - to make it easier with changes to the equipment and instead of making changes to all loadouts on all the maps, do it once in the addon, so i don't have to save all the mission for every single map over and over again and upload them to the server

There you go, try this: http://www67.zippyshare.com/v/Hn5PFjYV/file.html

Black Watch International - Youtube Channel. There you go, buddy.

Black Watch International News #3 After two weeks of hard work, we are proud to announce our brand new, revamped, Black Watch International modpack. The new modpack is already on the server and a live testing session open to all members will be held on 30th September, with normal operations resuming on 1st October. The new modpack features a number of significant removals and changes. We have replaced the outdated A3MP map pack with AllInArma and the Massi packs have been removed because of their focus on quantity over quality, which we value more. We have added the 3CB BAF and Bundeswehr packs, as well as a number of new maps, including Australia, Esseker and Mogadishu. And of course all of our mods have been updated to the latest versions, introducing many new features to favourites such as ACE, RHS and USAF. The modpack has also undergone an extensive restructuring and review, with many duplicate addon files removed and errors fixed. With the new modpack we are also making our new Arma3Sync repository live. The repository will make it easier for members to download and install the modset, which weights now 14GB less(!) and allow us to more easily distribute updates to our members. If you haven't already, then join us at blackwatch-int.com And as always thanks for reading, good luck finding your unit! Black Watch Int. signing off.

Hi, SGT Fuller. Big fan of your mod. I am a part of a bigger community Arma 3 community and we are going to do some video tutorials for our youtube channel with specific focus on your mod if you're cool with that.

Wow. Found it inside the CST_Infrastructure.pbo -> Objects - > Fuelstations -> config.cpp And indeed it was being overwritten by this wrong config. Deleted the fuel line in both classes, saving and I am about to test it. I'll give you guys some heads up if it works. Problem solved - thanks, cosmic for help! :)

Aight, I'll look for this inside Esseker config files, thanks for you help, buddy. Much appreciated

Aight, found it in AIA's buildings_c.pbo class Land_Benzina_schnell: House { icon="\ca\buildings\icons\i_fuel_ca.paa"; displayName="Fuel Station"; animated=1; armor=400; model="\ca\buildings\benzina_schnell.p3d"; nameSound="building"; accuracy=0.5; cost=0; mapSize=7.5; destrType="destructBuilding"; class DestructionEffects: DestructionEffects class Land_Fuelstation: FuelStation { supplyRadius=3.3; ladders[]= { { "start", "end" } }; }; That's what i found and I really have no clue, what line should i delete from it. Any help is appreciated.

I got AIA 2015-01-01 Hotfix and Esseker 0.7.0.5. Looking more into the mod configs.

Okay! Thanks for a quick response. I understand, but which config file are we talking about?

Hi guys. Im in the middle of creating a modpack for the Arma Community I am a part of. We've stepped on a problem with your map, causing AIA and other maps using Arma 1 content to come up with this error message: http://images.akamai.steamusercontent.com/ugc/423693713849737107/550BD52FAF6A4F0BB6EA066E89A9EC291096A5A3/ http://images.akamai.steamusercontent.com/ugc/423693713849736769/B306489DCFBA74E74ABB531EFD24C1927D658C56/ This problem does not occur with Esseker disabled. It prevents us to use your map in our modpack, because it may cause some crashes while changing the map. The only map outside the AIA on which this errors are coming is Mogadishu. Is there a way to fix it? Am I doing something wrong? I hope that together we can find a solution to this problem. Thanks. PS. I started the game with only AIA and Esseker - same error shows up, while launching Arma 1 maps. It shows only once and after I reload the map, no errors occurs, but still some random crashes while changing the map itself are occuring.

Squad name: Black Watch International Timezone/location: GMT+1 (Germany) Gamemode preference: Tactical CO-OP Contact email: blackwatchint@gmail.com Website address: http://blackwatch-int.com/ Short description: International Arma 3 community focusing on tactical fun in a professional environment. Language: English.

Black Watch International News #2 We are still here and this month we are celebrating our 1 year anniversary! Black Watch International is still growing in numbers and in more professional approach. Yes, professionalism is an attribute we value much, because we believe that only highly organized environment with right people at the right place can make us one of the best Arma communities out here. You won't find here anyone talking to each other per "Sir", you won't have to go trough xx amount of training sessions to even participate in the main operations. All we want you to have is FUN! Fun with other members of Black Watch you can call your friends, which you can rely on. We accept everyone, from a total newbie, to an old stager. If you want to experience our unique way of leading an Arma Community, then visit our website and apply!. We've launched our official Youtube Channel with focus on training videos available for everyone. Visit it and subscribe! Black Watch International - YOUTUBE Channel And as always thanks for reading, good luck finding your unit! Black Watch Int. signing off.

Okey, guys. Problem solved. It was my fault, because I didnt follow the instructions correctly, while instaling the RHS Pack. I merged both USAF and AFRF together into one addon - that was causing the issue and on the official RHS site it says that the addons should be in separate folders.

Hello there. I don't know if this is a RHS bug or just me doing something wrong, but I'm having lately this issue with all the BMPs up to BMP-2k. BMP-3 Family works perfect http://images.akamai.steamusercontent.com/ugc/441701890412707204/14595988200EA807C8B0610E5038F2E97DA6456D/ We just upgraded our pretty big modpack from AGM to ACE, along with some other mod updates. Tried reverting RHS back to 0.3.7 - still happening. Anything I can do to get rid of this problem? //edit: Something i noticed is that the texture will appear for like 0.5s after spawning it.

Black Watch International News #1 We are growing very fast. Due to our recruitment campaign, we have expanded our roster by almost 20 new players. Some of them are complete newbies, but we got some veterans as well and since we aim to provide newbie friendly enviroment, the recruits are already growing into trustworthy, mature and passionate members of our community. Recently we had a modpack update, deleting some outdated mods and maps and replacing them with up to date and stable ones. We are waiting as well for a more stable version of ACE3, since AGM is no longer being under developement. As we mentioned in our recruitment post, we are still hosting events everyday, with the official Black Watch International events being hosted on Saturday and Sunday, so if you want to host a mission - Monday to Friday is yours! Our dedicated webmaster gave our site a new, professional look. Check the album from our ingame footage Thanks for reading, good luck in finding your unit, Your Black Watch International Team.

I LOVE YOU MAN! Thank You! It worked perfectly. Everything loads up properly now. Love your work in the arma scene and I learned a lot from your blog - keep it up! Thank you JShock aswel, your way would probably work aswel, but I dont have the knowledge yet to execute it. I have to say, the scripting in Arma is very complicated, additionaly it is a lot harder for me, since thats the first language im learning, but I like it and its very addictive.

Hello fellow Arma 3 players, scripters, mission makers. Im trying to understand the complex language bohemia created to make missions for my community on a dedicated server. From time, to time im experiencing some issues and with your help i've managed to overpass them. Currently im having a new issue which is: Custom Player Loadouts - I got 12 unique loadouts (12 .sqf files in a seperate folder) - some of the units are using the same loadouts (for example Squad Leader/Fire Team Leader) - I execute the loadouts by placing this command in the unit init field: -squad_leader.sqf : Everytime i test the mission on the dedicated server, there's always couple of units which spawn with default editor placed loadout, or only with a weapon and empty vest,uniform,backpack. I looked into dozens of threads over here, tried multiple ways but either it was not enough, or didnt work at all. If you can help me solve this issue, I will be grateful.