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  2. Posted

    Hi, indeed there are many components and it's true that many of them are not documented externally. I think best options to figure out what a component does is this:
    - Components themselves might have a brief description of what they do if you hover on them in 'Add component' tab.
    - Component properties might have description if you hover on them
    - You can try to open script file of that component, it might be documented there.
    - Look up how it's used on an existing game feature or prefab (although I am not sure what's best way to find prefabs using a specific component).

    Also, the nature of a component is that it can be attached to any entity, but in some cases it might make no sense because it requires some other component. Imagine if you create a component which just moves entity along a line, then you could attach it to anything, not necessarily only to a group or waypoint.

    Another approach is to start with question "what do I want to achieve", instead of looking at a thousand of components, then ask that and one of devs might point at required components or solution.

  5. Posted

    Hi, I needed similar functionality recently and indeed PointInfo crashes for me as well.

    Looking at the scripts, PointInfo as attribute is never used in script, but only as attribute in C++ - defined components. I assume that such usage of it is not supported.
     

    So here is my workaround. Not perfect but at least something with visualization. It renders a helper shape while in workbench at the position of that vector offset.
      

    	// This all is in a component class.
	//But for entity class it is also possible to use same approach.
	
	[Attribute()]
	protected vector m_vDeployablePosition;

	override void _WB_AfterWorldUpdate(IEntity owner, float timeSlice)
	{
		// Visualize the deployable position
		vector deployablePosWorld = GetOwner().CoordToParent(m_vDeployablePosition);
		Shape.CreateSphere(Color.RED, ShapeFlags.ONCE, deployablePosWorld, 0.05);
	}

    Workbench-Offset-Visualization.jpg

  7. Posted

    Hi,
    Please ensure that the preview image of the scenario, the one which is specified in the mission's .conf file, is inside your addon. It must not be some image from another addon or from arma reforger itself.
    Also please check that the mod preview image from the publishing dialog exists. There you can use jpeg or png image.

  8. Posted

    Glad to see Overthrow back!
    I played it a bit with a friend and we liked it so far.

    A few weird bugs I have discovered:
    - There are some ammo boxes in Morton with free weapons (AK-74 and a handgun). I am not sure where they are exactly, since I was able to access them through inventory while being in a fairly large area (hundreds of meters!).

    - I wasn't able to figure out where the items are transferred once you purchase them in a shop (I tried gun shop and general shop so far). The money is withdrawn, but I can't see the items in my inventory.

  12. Posted

    It will, but since current implementation relies on ray casts with one degree direction step (or so, I don't remember), it will just miss most of the air targets at big distance. It's meant to make images of large surfaces, not detect single targets. For that we could just transform every target to local coordinates and plot it in UI.

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  15. Posted

    Hi, I was playing the Extraction scenario and I quite like it.
    Anyway, I have a bug report for you 🙂
    We had an assassination mission (target was the ex-KGB guy) and a clean minefield mission. We decided to clean the minefield first, and then headed to the assassination destination.
    The target was nowhere to be found. We installed a debug console mod and I figured out that the guy... walked all the way from his town to the minefield. 😄
    Tazzarine was the minefield location. And the town at the top-left was the assassination location.
    I am not even sure why he decided to walk there. When we headed for the minefield place, we flew several KM around the assassination place.
    ?imw=5000&imh=5000&ima=fit&impolicy=Lett

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  18. Posted

    Recently a YouTube content creator HzzBo made a great review of Vindicta:
     


    We don't have any video material of our own, but I think that if we were to create one, it would look like this 🙂 . If you ever passed by this page but didn't want to go through the wall of text in the first message, you can check the review to get an impression about our game mode.

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  19. Posted

    This is a fully scripted solution to solve the problems of UI element positioning and size. It's up to you how to set event handlers of your controls and how to decorate them:
    - You can use arma's standard Rsc... config classes and create elements according to them, then register them in the grids.
    - You can create your own GUI element config classes, then create elements in code and do the same.
    - You can also customize the elements (event handlers, color, text size, etc) by SQF code when you create the controls.

    There is no 'export this to config' button, the goal was to get rid of horrible configs for size and positioning :).

  20. Posted

    Hey, so I guess you're the first person to try the test code? I'm glad that you are enjoying it 🙂.

    Thanks for the error report, I've fixed the issue, make sure you update the code from the repository. I didn't notice it because I was testing the code with a call compile ... of the files, instead of spawning the code. In this case the game doesn't report unknown variable names, unfortunately 😕 and I totally forgot that

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  21. Posted

    Hi Andy, I don't know why you decided to cross post here from the steam thread if I have answered there a few days ago.
    If you really want to talk we have a Discord server where we manage most of our comms, the link is in the first page of this thread or at the steam page, and you are certainly welcome to join there to talk to other Vindicta players.
    Anyway, regarding ACE, if anyone else is wondering: it is modular and you can tweak most of the settings. You can also delete lots of .pbos from ACE folder and it will work without these parts. You can certainly delete the stamina and medical parts. Vindicta only needs the ACE Cargo, ACE lockpicks, and ACE gestures, and maybe a few more, but certainly not those which handle how your character behaves.

  22. Posted

    Intro
    The idea of a GUI layout manager is simple: instead of using raw coordinate values we can use sets of rules and let the system calculate UI element positions and sizes for us. Just think about how mobile phones scale their apps for different screen sizes and orientations, or how web browsers manage page layout.
     

    GUI Layout Manager for Arma 3
    This layout manager is written in SQF. It supports several sizing and positioning options for rows, columns and elements inside cells. Just watch the video:

     

    Summary of supported layout rules

    Column/row sizes: absolute and relative
    columnSizes.png

    Cell content sizes: absolute and relative
    contentSizes.png

    Cell content positioning: relative and snapping to borders
    contentPos.png

    Content margins:
    margins.png

     

    Layout Example
    For example, this is how the code for the following GUI looks like:
    https://github.com/Sparker95/Layout-Manager/blob/master/tests/example.sqf
    example.png


    Source code and docs

    Please check the GitHub page to get the code or documentation:
    https://github.com/Sparker95/Layout-Manager

    https://github.com/Sparker95/Layout-Manager/wiki/1-Basic-concepts
     

    I hope this helps someone in GUI adventures. So far I have seen zero people who like to do positioning of GUIs for Arma (including myself), I really hope that this code changes it!

     
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  25. Posted

    Hi!

    How does Matlab generally connect with something else? Through TCP? Or through a named pipe? I am pretty sure that it can use either of these.
    You can't access any of these through SQF natively, but you can write an extension which exposes these interfaces to SQF. Or you can do it with Intercept.

    Info on extensions:
    https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Extensions
    https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/callExtension
     

    Info on Intercept:
    https://github.com/intercept/intercept

    I'd go the extension way, it's extremely easy. Only disadvantage - you will have to convert numbers to text, but it's quite simple. You can write an extension in C++ or C#.

    Now about the simulation part, I am not sure that you can get a lot of information about waves and impact forces at all. These commands are all what is available to you:
    https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Category:Arma_3:_Scripting_Commands

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