j-man

UPDATE: 10th August Version 1.00 released! This mission has been a 2 year long project of mine. It's set on the island of Odense (a modified Everon) and has the player take on the role of a regular guy trying to live his life on the island. Your free to do as you please. Your ultimate goal is to improve your status in life (buy a nice car, big house, etc...). Your main source of income will be the farm in which you live on. It's a wierd farm in that it contains cherries, carrots, and cows . But it's up to you to pick the cherries and collect the carrots inorder to sell them at the local farmers market. If farming isn't your thing, you can roam around the entire island and find various jobs that you can do. You can work in a pharmacy and sort the inventory, jump in a fishing boat and go trawling, and about a dozen other things you can do to make a little $$$. For those of you who think it's going to be easy to make the money you need, think again. Your character isn't Rambo and so after a lot of working, he'll need to go home and sleep inorder to regain his strenght and work again. Also, you'll need to eat in order to survive. You can last about 4 days before you'll eventually die of hunger. Another thing, you'll need to periodicaly fill your car with gasoline or she'll stop running. And since your a simple farmer, your car isn't a fancy BMW. It's a piece of junk. It'll break down once in a while. So either get ready to make the long walk to the nearest mechanice, or buy a new car (which is really quite expensive). Features: -Hunger -Cooking (cook up some grub on the stove. But you'll need to buy, or catch your meal first) -Stores (you can buy bandaids, snacks, binoculars, guns,etc...) -Restaurants -Pharmacy (drugs that have various effects on you) -Police force (speeding laws are very strict. And don't even think about killing anyone, cause SWAT isn't very nice) -A transit system (taxi's, buses, ferries) -Airport (you can buy planes, or fly planes for money) -Boats (buy them, steal them. But be careful, the coast guard is on patrol) -Hospital (need an ambulance? Just call 911 and one will be sent to you right away) -Interactive NPC's (talk to almost any random person on the street. Some of the things they say are really quite interesting/funny/informative) -Casino gambling (there may be no Ceaser's Palace. But there is money to be won! ) -Military (don't bother them and they won't bother you. But do something really bad, and... well, you can guess) -Car dealerships (luxery cars, crappy cars, used military vehicles, such a range of choice! ) -Fuel stations and mechanics -Motels (tired, but to drunk to drive home? Check in at your local inn) -Prison (you don't wanna know what goes on in their. Do you?) -Your criminal record (if it gets too high, then you end up six feet under. But there are ways to lower it. It's illegal ofcourse) -MP3 player (one of the few nice things you start with) -Gun range (releave your rage by firing a gun at a static blue target!!! ) -A ton of easter eggs (find them by pure luck, or try talking to the local people for clues) And a ton of other stuff that i'm not going to mention right now. _ MISSION DOWNLOAD: _ DOWNLOAD HERE [4.06 MB] _ Required Addons: _ Real Lights (AEF) [109 KB] Barracks V1.5 (Mapfact) [3.65 MB] Fishing Boats (Col. Klink) [5.22 MB] Nogova Police addon pack V1.1 (DeadMeat) [4.29 MB] Civilian Vehicles pack (Devil) [9.7 MB] Editor Upgrade - Editor's Edition (General Barron) Resistance Editor Addon (Peterle) [180 KB] Project Farmland Objects V1.2 (MiG) [4.1 MB] Updated Mustang GT-R Pack (Cell7) [11.7 MB] Animal Pack (MiG) [914 KB] Gaz-24 (Volga) Beta 2 (Mohax) [4.18 MB] Bell 206B III Jet Ranger *Fixed (Martin) [6.08 MB] Phone Box (Zwadar) [341 KB] Police Bell-206 V1.1 (VIT) [16.7 MB] US Coast Guard Pack: fixed release (USCG mod) [27.9 MB] Go Fast Boats - 2nd Update (USCG mod) [5.4 MB] Project Farmland Civil pack V2.0 (MiG) [2.56 MB] PC Boat2 (Philcommando) [394 KB] SWAT Units (Pops + Jacek) [1.62 MB] SWAT weapon #1 [1.56 MB] SWAT weapon #2 [311 KB] Misc. Objects (Popka) [1.0 MB] (alternative link HERE) Some screenshots: Now we're rockin' in style!! Another lovely day at the beach Your humble home Your base of operations (aka. the farm) Luxery cars (don't expect to be buying these any time soon) The army. ATEN HUT! The airport Local firing range (those targets are in for it now! ) Your dream home (one day, you'll be living their) This is just version 1.00. So there are bound to be a few bugs here and there. Please report any bugs that you find so that I can fix them up for the next version . Finally, I'd like to thank everyone here and over at OFPEC who provided help, ideas, or anything else . Please forgive me for my spelling. I'm Canadian J-man

Is anyone else having problems with the 'setunitpos' command? If I set a unit to "this setunitpos "UP"", he always goes prone when under attack or spot an enemy. Setting the unit to "DOWN" dosn't work either. He just stands there untill someones shoots at him. Am I doing something wrong or is this just a bug?

The setunitpos command seems to be broken. Units automatically switch back to "AUTO" for some reason. I havn't tried the command in a script yet, so try it and see if that helps. You could probably make a soldier crouch by using the switchmove command, but I don't think they'd be able to move or fire. Lets hope they adress the problem in the next patch

try using these commands: <table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td>Code Sample </td></tr><tr><td id="CODE">Soldier1 moveto "watertower" <table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td>Code Sample </td></tr><tr><td id="CODE">Soldier1 Switchmove "Deadstate" when there is an error and it mentions something about arrays, it means something needs to go in quotations. Also, i think you can put the moveto command anywhere you like (trigger, waypoint, etc...), but the switchmove commands only seem to work in waypoints and scripts. I hav'nt tested either of these so i have no idea if it will work. but give it a go.

It seems that when ever I try to apply a texture to my model, the texture wont stay Here's what I do: 1.I select a face 2.I enter texture mode 3.I select the area I want to texture 4.I load my texture (which is a .pac image) 5.I press 'B' My texture apears on the model, but when I exit texture mode, select another face, and enter texture mode again, I cant select another area to texture. When I drag the box around the area I want textured, my previous texture fills the box I just dragged. I hope this dosn't sound too confusing

Thanks you all for you suggestions. The mission does seem to lack action, so mabey some police action would be helpfull. The next version might take some time since i'm reworking all the large scripts to help reduce lag The island is also going to be updated so that it dosn't look so similar to Everon.

Thank you all for your kind words I can see that my mission could using a lot more depth and choice, especially in the work area. For the next version, I'll certainly remove quite a few addons, Also, I plan to rewrite all the scripts so that they as less laggy and are easier on the eyes of other people Hopfully, I'll be able to add career jobs as well

VERSION 1.00 HAS BEEN RELEASED! Check 1st post for more information J-man

**UPDATE ON THE MISSIONS STATUS** The mission WILL be released tomorrow . All work on the mission has been completed and there is nothing else to be done. EDIT: You won't be disappointed Dynamite_cow. Try going to the local inn and ordering a few alcoholic drinks....

Thanks for the scripts cobra. I'm simply adding in easter eggs/secrets and they should be done in one or two days. Other than that, everything else in the mission is finished. The music used in the mission is just regular OFP music. But i'm going to add a tutorial in the readme on how to add your own custom music (it's pretty easy to do). There is one thing I'm having trouble with. I tried creating a sign addon that used the "setobjecttexture" command, but it failed totally. If someone would like to help, please PM me. I have a model setup and everything, but for some reason, the "setobjecttexture" command dosn't work (yes, i've read several tutorials on the subject). Or, if someone would like to create a new sign, that would also be good. Something along the lines of THIS.

EVERYTHING is done except for the breifing. Progress is a little slow, but It will get done very soon. Cobra, I'm waiting for your limo to be released so I can use it in my mission. Do you have an update for us?

It's probably the way you check the variable "_r" at the begining of the script. Try something like this: <table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td>Code Sample </td></tr><tr><td id="CODE"> _r = random 5 ~1 ?( _r <= 5) && (_r > 4) : goto "bluecar" ~0.1 ?( _r <= 4) && (_r > 3) : goto "greencar" ~0.1 ? (_r <= 3) && (_r > 2) : goto "redcar" ~0.1 ? (_r <= 2) && (_r > 1) : goto "truck_c" ~0.1 ?( _r <= 1) && (_r > 0) : goto "Car" exit

Ok, addons used so far: -AEF real lights -US coast guard pack -Go fast boats -Devils civilian vehicles -Deadmeat's police units -Farmland objects & civilians -Pops SWAT units -VIT's bell206B police helicopter -Cell7's Mustang GTR pack -Philcommando's ferry boat -Mohax's GAZ 24 -Col. Klink's fishing boats -Some custom vehicles made by me (included with the mission) this is definatley not a final list. Some of these addons will be removed while some new ones may be added on. J-man

It could be released tommorow, could be in the middle of the night, it could be when you least expect it.... Or probably in about a week. No exact date though.But progress is going along very well

Just gave your mission a quick run through. I like that fact that you need to gather info first, before taking on the bad guys. I got a strange error message after talking to the C/O. The error said someting about a missing objective marker? It also took me a while to find the survivor at Lafayette (spelling?), but not a big problem. All together, a nice mission. Good Job

Thanks pappy for the suggestions. The mission already contains your go-fast boats and your coast guard units. You did some great work on them I've never seen that Mustang pack before. Looks like a good addon to replace those BIS cars. I'll check them out and see how they fit

Thanks for the link POPkA. The car dealer and gun stall are very cool. nice work. I'll be sure to credit you in the mission. @TheCobra: I don't really want the player to focus too much on commiting crimes inorder to make money. But, I am planning the mission so that as the players criminal rating goes up (by doing small crimes like speeding, etc...), he'll get new options to commit petty crimes like mabey robbing a small strore, nothing really big though. @STGN: I choose the name using a the high tech method of closing my eyes and pointing to some random location on a map. Odense is located in Denmark. Official website for the city if you want to read about it for some reason

@D.murphy man: I like the idea of people adding their own music. @maxwellmurder680: My guess is that the mission should be done in about 2 weeks. I just have some more features I want to add and the island needs a few bugs worked out. Here's another video showing the farm that you live/work on: Video (2MB)

Question for everyone: Should custom music be added to the MP3 player? Or should the regular OFP music be used? Please voice your opinion

YAY!! I've been waiting for this release for quite some time. It's about time OFP trees got a make over. Good job

@POPKA: That money addon would be a pretty interesting addition to the mission. Although I tried to make the mission so that criminal acts are discouraged and punished severly, the money might be useful as an easter egg and you find it scatterd around the island. Also, I may add something so that as the your criminal record goes up (by commiting lots of crimes), you get more options, like mugging people or robbing stores. If you could post the link here/send me a PM, that would be great . @D.murphy man: Odense is a custom island (named after a real place) I made for this mission. It's not that different from Everon, it just has a couple new places that would be impossible to create just using the mission editor. It will be released along with the mission. @DBR_ONIX: My skills in creating MP missions are extreamly bad. I have no plans in making this into an MP mission, although mabey one day in the future, i'll sit down and learn some MP scripting, or mabey see if someone would want to help me convert the mission into MP. This mission was created on system running: P 4 - 2 GHz 1024 DDR ATI Radeon 9600 - 128 MB Win XP pro Video setting I use on OFP: 1024 x 768 Visability: 1654 Vis. quality: 7.19 Frame rate: MAX No object/vehicle shadows Ground detail: Low (anything higher messes up the placement of some of the objects. No big deal though) Using these setting, I get about 15 FPS in the most densly populated areas of the game. Also, there are no major gun battles or things of that sort in the game that could cause the FPS to drop dramaticaly. @exigent: I'm currently using an addon for SWAT. SWAT and their eye in the sky I'm also planning to release a "full" version of this mission in the future. "full" just means many many more addons will be put in (like better looking cars). Now, i'll leave you with a short video of the marina on Odense. It's the perfect place to grab a bite to eat, relax in the sun, or joy ride in a power boat! Video Here (8.4Mb) Sorry for my crummy camera work.

Very nice looking units Will d/l and try them out in the morining.

Addons: BAS Deltas/Rangers E&S marines SEBnam vietnam units

Dont think so. Wilco made a good anim pack but it didn't replace ALL the anims. One might be planned for the Unsung mod.

I remember that a plane or pilot addon was released a while ago where if you fly too high, the pilot would black out. Does anybody know what addon this is? Or am I just dreaming this whole thing ?