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Howdy, trying to play "01: war welcome" but not clear about one thing: As commander, how do I tell the troops which target to take? PLEASE NOTE: I am not talking about commanding my personal squad. I am talking about commanding all troops as the commander. Thx in advance. Jeff

when I played the mission, Bardak appeared next to me. my guy started yelling. Then nothing happened. I walked closer to Bardak and then he started yelling don't shoot. my guy kept yelling at him to get down. finally my got shot Bardak and then radioed in to hq to tell them I caught Bardak. The game then goes to cutscene and takes me out to campaign menu. I then have to replay the mission from the exact same spot where I catch Bardak. I restarted the game but this time didn't walk over to Bardak. Instead I told my squad to get into the humvee. They did. When I got in Bardak was the driver. So I just clicked on the map and Bardak started driving. When we came to a stop, he got and ran. So I chased him and the same scenario happend where I ran up to him and then shot him and cutscene. At the moment I don't know how to get past that screen except for let Bardak go. But have not tried it yet.

Folks with custom faces are not able to join my ArmA dedicated server. What do I have to do in order to allow them to join? Thanks, Jeff

Hi, I have a 2.6 ghz pentium processor, 700+ mb of ram, nvidia 5200 fx 256 mb video card. I can't get any more than 10 frames per second. I have the latest drivers and directx for my pc and still no performance boost. Im running arma 1.0.5 When I plug my 9650 ati 128 mb of ram in, I can get 20+ fps. Is there some fix out there to get more fps on the nvidia? Thanks, Jeff

Actually meh, im not sure there is a need to increase any other hardware than the video card. I can run the game with my ati card with at least 20 fps. I get up to 30 fps with medium settings. I get the same results on my (dell xeon dual processor 1 gig ram) on both cards. My friend running an intel pentium core 2 duo with 1 gig of ram and the latest nvidia 8 series. And he is still having to run the game on medium detail settings and is getting about 30fps to 35fps. So it seems to me that getting at least a decent run of arma in my situation has to do more with the video card then anything else. Jeff

A friend of mine brought up an issue regarding arma, so I told him I would post this here for him: When firing guns the recoil sent the gun sight up to the *right* every time. I thought that when one fired a weapon the recoil sent the gun upward, not to the side. Is this a bug? Further more if u study (pay very close attension) to the firing of the weapons ie. M4 and the m4-20, the gun sight will make little circular motions. I realy think the gun should be firing up and down not to the right. I think if you also adjust the recoil to fall back on center fast would help. Thanks, Jeff

<<<The movement of the gun has to do with how you and your body reacts to the recoil, which isn't always straight up. >>> Hi weegee, we don't have any control over that in the game which means that we should be given that control in some way, or else the characteristics of the model should be designed to compensate for our lack of control. Put it this way, what good is it to have a weapon handle realisticly in a game if you are not able to handle it realisticly in the game? Jeff

howdy mchide and thanks for the script. Jeff

What is the exact syntax for placing a unit in a building? I know how to do the getpos player select 0, but how do i reference the building, and then the position # in the building? Could you provide a sample command of putting a unit in a specific location in a specific building? Thanks, Jeff

that is a great idea!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Why not just use the respawnVehicle command and then move the vehicle to get it at the location where you want it? For example you can create an empty marker where the vehicle goes, then every time the vehicle is destroyed, move it as soon as it respawns. Jeff

gassy eeek, When a vehicle respawns, it must respawn with the same name of the vehicle that the ai is commanded to get into. Is jeep1, as you named it, being created a new with that name every time? From a technical standpoint, vehicles don't really respawn, instead we create them new everytime they are destroyed. Since we cannot have two objects with the same name, we delete the first one and then create a new vehicle with the same name. Jeff

Howdy bigshot, If you make the units nonplayable you will still be able to respawn into them as long as they are in your squad. Just make sure you use group as your respawn type. Anyway on a general note, is there any way at all to hide playable units from the roles screen? It would be nice as this would make it unessary for us to have to recreate units in the editor when we want those units to keep respawning. Jeff

nevermind, i think i solved my own problem. It appears that the variable i am using, unitpos, is now a command in arma. Fixed. Jeff

For some reason the following which works good in OFP is not working in arma: gogs = "NVGoggles"; _units3 = units east1; "_x addweapon gogs" foreach _units3; I get the error message: '"_x addweapon gogs" |#| foreach _units3;' Error foreach: type string, expected code What should I be doing differently? Thanks, Jeff

Hi guys, thanks for the help. Yes I tried the brackets and it works fine. However now this statement with brackets is broken, but with quotes it throws no error: unitpos = "UP"; {_x setunitpos unitpos} foreach _units3; Throws the same error that I quoted in my previous post "_x setunitpos unitpos" foreach _units3; Doesn't throw any error. Maybe foreach is inconsistent? Jeff

I put the following line in and still get the error message: MaxCustomFilesize=1600000000; 15:40:18 Player SOMEBODY_JOINING kicked off - invalid custom file 'H:\Documents and Settings\MyUserName\Local Settings\Application Data\ArmA\Tmp5187\players\SOMEBODY_JOINING\face.jpg'. 19:20:05 Player SOMEBODY_JOINING kicked off - invalid custom file 'H:\Documents and Settings\MyUserName\Local Settings\Application Data\ArmA\Tmp5888\players\SOMEBODY_JOINING\sound\allesterben.ogg'. And yes H is my harddrive. Jeff

Well the damage in the eyes of any business that wishes to be sucessful is always the loss of profit. If you can make your software more difficult to hack, i.e., create more buyers, then you increase your profit right? If you increase your profit then you have a level of sucess, but if you lose that profit then you have a level of damage. So it seems obvious to me that BIS is concerned to create buyers of their game. How do you do that? By preventing people from getting it for free. How much or how little is harmful to BIS? That is completely up to them to judge. However my point is, it seems apparent from the design of the demo, and my own understanding as a developer that they are not interested in demo users hacking the demo. The very existence of the demo itself paints that picture. The purpose of it is so that you will buy the game. Not a freebie for the community to toy with. Clearly it is a marketing tool intent on increasing profit. Why go that far and not go the rest of the way to secure that profit? Jeff

howdy, I added that to my arma.cfg file. When I run the server, users with custom faces are still not able to join. Jeff

Hi klavan, If you can modify the mission in the demo, then what's to keep you from making your own mission? If you can make your own missions, then what's to keep you from making more? If you can make more then why buy arma? I don't believe bis would make the demo editable, nor want it to be edited. Go buy the full game and then you have all the editing tools at your finger tips and no need to try to figure out how to hack the demo. Jeff

so u expect a card with 4 pixel shaders and 2 vertex shaders to cope with a game like this? wake up and smell the coffee My 9550 128 runs arma at 20 fps at 800x600 res. {Sadly my nvidia 5200 fx with 256 mb ram only gets 5 fps.} My pc is a 1.5ghz dual zeon. I wonder if that helps. Jeff

Oh yah, I tried running arma demo tonight so I can play this game with my friend who doesnt have arma yet. I setup the server by running a demo copy on a seperate machine. Within 15 minutes I 20 people on. Sheesh I didnt get but 10 people on my full arma server for the whole day, and 15 mins I got 20 people in the demo. However I can't host that many people on cti. The best I can do maybe is 10. So my server lagged so bad that I had too shut it down. To top it off add in to my demo hosting session all the bad glitches that everyone is complaining about here on this forum. And let's not forget the intense cussing and complaining from the players about all the glitches. Perhaps most games experience this, but I have never seen it this bad before.? Then I find in the readme that I can use the -server option. Which of course doesnt work. phtttt. What to expect? Jeff

How can I do a camcreate using a BD grenade? The documentation says that in order to enable a unit to use the grenades you must add this to it's init: [this,0] exec "\BD_GrenadePack\AddNewUnit.sqs". Well if I want to camcreate the grenade, who is the unit that I am to associate with this script? Thanks, Jeff

I am wondering, is it possible for me to host a game and have it show up within the in-game browser without running a dedicated server? I want to host games without using gamespy or giving out my ip. Thanks, Jeff