BohemiaBeck

Hello, yes you are correct, unfortunately after 1.64 update there is a display issue with the Unit description and squad.xml data on the player info in game. https://feedback.bistudio.com/T120466 The issue is being investigated and it is planned to be resolved soon. Some restrictions to certain characters were made so that the administration of the system would properly function. For your case I will send you a PM so we can discuss it further so I can get more details. This is intended functionality and will likely not change. On the one hand the situation you describe might be troublesome for when you are editing, however on the other hand there are beneficial reasons to separating the view into a new window to see it as a user would see it when they are browsing through the Units system.

Hello, I will send you a PM.

Hello, I will send you a PM.

There is no new announcement on this particular item at this time. squad.xml can continue to be used as it has been in the past and once your BI account is linked to your Steam ID the Arma 3 Units logo displays in your in game profile if you have it tied to that profile. Is their a particular feature or method you are looking for that is not already there? It does not generate an xml, it is automatically linked to the in game profile once you have linked your BI account with Steam ID. We will be taking this in as a feature request and it will be evaluated and considard.

Could you try to re-upload your logo?

There should be no changes to the way regular old squad.xml is used. I just tested and appears working. Did you make any other recent changes related to your squad.xml? I get a 504 error trying to access the URL you listed. That google url is not working for me.

Hello, Thanks for the heads up. The link should now be accessible.

Unlocking this thread. Please send me a PM for anyone that might have any questions about the unlock. Best regards, BohemiaBeck

Hello, The Arma 3 Units web server had a few issues that should now be resolved. Please try again, and let me know if you have any issues. Best regards, BohemiaBeck

Hello, The Arma 3 Units web server had a few issues that should now resolved. Please try again, and let me know if you have any issues. Best regards, BohemiaBeck

Apologies for this. It can happen from time to time when there are lots of new Units created over a short period of time, like over the weekend. We are looking to incorporate some changes to help with this situation but we have no ETA at this time. If there is any truly offensive Unit, it is encouraged to use the "report" button on the Unit page so that the problem Unit can be reviewed by moderation efforts. Best regards, BohemiaBeck

Sending you a PM.

Hello, Did some thread cleanup here. There were some posts discussions trying to compare this model to previous models from other authors. While it is highly appreciated when the community can come together to prevent users from sharing content from other authors without prior permission, lets also keep in mind to be respectful and take care of keeping an authors thread clean and focused. If there is true evidence of someone posting/sharing content without an original authors permission, please first attempt to report this through the thread/post report to moderator functionality. Such discussion can be made in a group private message where evidence can be shared and discussed outside of the thread/post in question. Please use English only on the forums. If there are any questions or concerns, please send me a private message and we can discuss. Best regards, BohemiaBeck

Sending you a PM

Hello, Check back here and provide feedback to this thread for forum issues and updates. Since the forums migration from vBulletin to IPB a couple of weeks ago we have been busy resolving issues and making improvements. I know for some of you it has not been as quick as you want, but thank you for your understanding and patience. Rest assured the web team is continuing to address issues and make improvements. Please know that the main purpose for the migration was for special back end support for the unified BI account system. The unified account system is used in the store, for new games and for all future features and services intended for the community. If you don't see your issue here, provide your detailed feedback in a reply in this thread and we will be sure to address it. Also, if you feel that an issue that now appears in the fixed list is not fixed in the way that you desire, please provide such feedback for discussion. While we cannot guarantee that every request for changes will be implemented, please know that we fully respect all of your viewpoints and concerns of how the forums function and how you like to use the forums. We will make every reasonable effort to review, asses and implement the features and functionality you desire. Here are issues/suggestions we are tracking(not in any particular order): 821. Issue with IE after long inactivity on post edit, logout - constant page refresh 800. Missing ability to state a reason when displaying the "Edited by" text. 760. Email notification per subscribed thread. Currently email is on or off, then per thread is all, daily or weekly. 757. Login takes user to front page, should stay on page user was browsing after login. 680. Search functionality limited to four characters or more only. Looking into performance issues by adding at least three characters or more. 679. Community groups from previous forums, migrate and add functionality to new forums. 678. Go to latest unread post(small blue dot icon) not on locked thread(small lock icon in way) 622. Ability to export PMs as xls. (archive conversation - export PM to email available) 898. Friends list, can hover over name but more clear interaction options, like send PM should be visible. 906. Vote on own thread(stars at top). 573. No inheritance in forums selected via "Filter by forum" in New Content. 584. Set the amount of posts to be displayed per page. Display user signature only once per page. 604. Ignore signature popup is clipped. 570. Missing badge display in posts for supporters. Currently badges are only displayed in the Profile page. 569. Tapatalk functionality / compatibility 581. Mark threads/indication if BI staff have replied. 580. Custom Syntax highlighting of code. 912. Threads with polls light up as unread every time a vote is made. 679. Missing the Community groups from the old forums. 913. Missing bottom panel showing server time, etc. 914. Missing ability to set format of time and date. To 24h, american date formatting, etc. 586. Themes dark / light color UI theme choices 920. Improvements to the mobile version. Navigation of very large threads. 926. post shortcut link not working correctly when add link to a post content(posts in large thread) Have grab page URL + add ?=p(postid) to url manually 927. Import subscriptions users had from old forums 928. Option to create folders for different subscriptions 2053. Notification when someone directly quotes your post Issue/suggestions not repeated or under investigation to gather proper requirements: Links to latest posts are malformed for not logged in users. They lack the ?view=getnewpost parameter. Only the link to the date (such as: Yesterday, 14:50) has that parameter. (- might be related to 926.) Fixed issues/suggestions: lowercase username issue. If your username has become all lowercase, you can resolve this by changing your username at account.bistudio.com after you login, go to account.bistudio.com change your username in the top left corner save changes in the bottom right corner click on logout go to forums.bistudio.com and logout(again) After those steps, after you login again, your username should now have the proper case that you saved it as. Missing button to easily insert videos in posts. There are a couple of ways you can embed videos. 1. Use the blue/green icon between the eraser icon and the "Font" dropdown, to insert media. Select Media and insert the video URL. The following video sites are currently supported:YouTube, MySpace Video, GameTrailers, YouTu.be, Vimeo, Dailymotion 2. use these tags to directly write in the embedded media in your post: Member title editable. Now functions as the rank based on # of posts like previous forums. Group name and member titles dupe display issue. Right-clicking an image displays the picture instead of showing the browser's context menu. Profile: Social links can now be edited by user. Upload of image file for avatar, basic function, limited size and format issues. Missing sub-forums for editing OFP. Users can edit their own ban reason. Legacy url links to forums. Internal server error issue on logins. Page resets to front page in middle of reading posts. The private message limit was way too low, now increased. Width of threads/post and content too narrow, now for x1920 displays. Quotes within post same color as post, not noticeable, now in higher contrast. Font color too light, Font size too small, not enough contrast for reading. Like this on own post. Email notification not properly configured. Private message save draft issue, was high concern when initial PM limit was so low, PM limit now increased. Missing ability to easily create nested lists. To nest a list press the "Increase Indent" button. Inconsistency in the number of the displayed page when browsing through page numbers. It's too easy to get "trapped" inside a quote when editing one. Share page on social media, incorrect meta data and thubnail image. Subscribe to thread functionality. Video player rendering in user signatures. Display of 0 warnings on user profile/avatar. Report a post needs more distinction. Better separation of posts Archive PM conversation link broken, now sends email. Author of thread indication within thread on his/her posts. Profile: social links with proper link(e.g. Twitter username link, not just plain text). Profile: edit social links section clean up, removal of dead services, clean up edit page UI. Signature size limit match previous forums Multiquote limit at 10 quotes, can select more but then get error message, increase limit or display error on 11th quote add. Like button location and discussion on having or not having this functionality.(closed) When writing post, in edit field, font styles and link format bleed into the blank space after the word or line break. As in: underscore strikethrough link etc.(closed) Too much vertical space used at the top of the page. Set the amount of posts to be displayed per page. Display user signature only once per page.(closed) There's a hard limit of 10 maximum images per post. This limit seems a bit too strict. Dailymotion videos Post # and share link icon next to post date and time(ideally on right) Quote or multiquote buttons after "Reply with more options" or "Full editor", while writing post. Login issues with Adblock, Adblock Plus, uBlock must be disabled. Horizontal scroll bar in post from < Code > content in post Removed old no longer used secondary Location field from your user profile. Removed display of own warning points for user.(only moderators can see) Member since display on post bio. Only shows up on the profile card when you hover over username. Emoticons / smileys too limited compared to the previous version. :cheers: Best regards, BohemiaBeck

There is currently an issue with the Units patch in game, changes are being made and it is being tested. I am checking if this is the same related issue.

These issues should now be resolved. Apologies for the situation, there was a change in the message system to suspended Units and for a short while I made some mistakes not using the correct functionality. This is now resolved and all new ones will properly get the message. Please send me a Private Message and I will work with you to resolve this. Same here, please send me a PM when you have a moment. We will look into this, thank you for the suggestion and feedback. You are not doing anything wrong. Currently the forums system is separate from the Units system, however they both do rely on the main BI account system. If those users have not used the BI forums before, they will not have a BI forums profile. We are carefully looking into how to best facilitate communication between members in a Unit members with considerations for the UI and design. Sorry there is no announcement on this on this yet. It is not the ideal solution, but if you are able to speak with your members to ask them to at least set up their BI forums profile, then use the BI forums PM system. As for the application process, if you do set it to private you do have the ability to put in your own website url to handle your own custom application process. We will look into compulsory email address there. You may still use squad.xml if you want. Arma 3 Units does not use the original squad.xml, but instead uses a new method where the the logo in game is from your Units logo. As KevsNoTrev suggested, thank you, there are ways to reduce the image file size in paint programs, or I just found this, used a test image and it reduced the size massively: https://tinypng.com/ Thank you! This will be looked into. Do you mean you are not seeing it on vehicles you get into? The clan tag size did already go through one large increase from the original size in Arma 3 Units of just 3 characters, increased to now 10 characters. Unfortunately there will likely not be another increase to this size as it will affect the UI and design of the Arma 3 Units site. The Unit logo in game: There is not currently a plan to change the Units logo functionality at this time. Thank you for the feedback and suggestions. We will be looking into these suggestions in more detail. We are currently working on an implementation that will allow for some customization of member roles! Soon :)

Hello, going through to follow up on some questions here. Are you still seeing the suspended on your profile? There was issue, now resolved, where the reason/description for the suspension that occurred did not get saved. Any new suspension will get a proper reason/description now. Please feel free to send a private message so I can follow up on your case. Servers: The current limit at 5 was based on a number of factors which include the UI design of the site and the functionality that pings to the server to check the online status. We will need to look closely to the impact of making any changes to the current system the way it is designed. Unfortunately I will not have a quick answer to this. Logo(patch): The system is not a direct replacement for squad.xml which can still be used. We have looked into this before and we will probably look into it again, but there are no current plans to add additional multiple logo's per Unit currently at this time. I can't speak to how it may be setup for the multiplayer servers you visit, I will need to get some more detailed information. Can you send me a private message, and we will see if we can take a closer look at the situation you describe? Thank you! We are looking at possible links between multiple Units, which might be able to achieve what you are describing. This type of functionality is in the longer term plan which is not yet locked down, so please note that its not 100%. Yes! (continuing to more questions in the thread soon)

Hello, response from management: "This is simply not true. Our stance towards these experimental ports has not changed and is explained here: https://dev.arma3.com/ports. The 1.58 version of the ports is in development and testing. It's harder than expected due to BattlEye support, some challenges like HBAO+, and our QA focus needing to be on the primary Windows 1.62 release. After the 1.58 port version is eventually released, we do plan to port a post-Apex version."

Hello community, Make sure to tune into the PC Game Show live stream this evening! DEFCON 1! Clear your schedules, set your alarms, and fire up your rigs to join us for the E3 Expo 2016 PC Gaming Show this Monday June 13th at 11:30 AM PT (18:30 PM UTC). As one of the Show's proud sponsors, Bohemia Interactive will be showcasing the upcoming Arma 3 Apex expansion with a brand new trailer, and announce its final release date. Plus, be sure to stick around for the extended After Show, where Day Z's Creative Director Brian Hicks will be interviewed by PC Gamer editor Tom Marks about the approaching 0.60 update. Watch it all live on https://www.twitch.tv/pcgamer or https://gaming.youtube.com/pcgamer- see you there!

There is no save button at the bottom right(scroll down) of the page for you?

It is not intended. What browser are you using here? Desktop resolution? Send me a PM please. I have not seen this and just checked in multiple different browsers. If possible try shift refresh and/or clear internet cache and see if it is still happening. Sorry for the inconvienience. There was a temporary issue with the back end mail service that occurred for a few days. This should now be resolved. Thank you for the suggestion. We will evaluate the like and rating system in the new forums software update that will be implemented in the near future.

Moving this thread and reply's to: https://forums.bistudio.com/topic/145290-arma-toolbox-for-blender-arma-23-exporter-script/

Thread cleanup has occurred here. Several posts and replies were removed.

Hello saladman2002, Replied to your email on this subject on the 18th. Please let me know if you still have any questions about players joining your Unit. To repeat a bit on it, adding or removing members is currently in development and testing within the Arma 3 Units system internally. It is not currently available in the live external system, so for now keeping track of who is in your group should be done outside the system using your own list or other method. Once members joining is brought to the live system, it should be straight forward and easy to use for Unit owners. Best regards, BohemiaBeck