remo

Hi I played BIS games since Operation Flashpoint in 2001 and one thing I loved was the interest for lively environment and details you never get in other game. There has been a constant progression in there until arma3 : we got more civilians, people and vehicles, civ presence module, women, animals, open building with furniture and then.... all this stop in arma3. we get new but we get far less contents. Having civilian rushing for cover and shouting, old and young civilian create this so particular atmosphere of arma, and in a way reflected the unique humanist and european approach of their conceptor. All of this disappeared with arma3... the engine has great improvement but why losing feature and content added before ? Walking in altis street is great but it is so great than it feel strange that it lacks of people living it. Entering the building is far more disappointing : no bed, no desk, do decoration, nothing we had since 2001. Ok there's the editor, but it contain very few civilian furniture (bed, chair, fridge, cooking etc) and even if we had furniture it's a pain to put it one by one in all the houses of a village. It's a big paradox : we have a huge map but we have to do micromanagement to make it alive. Why not making a "civilian and/or ambient life" DLC ? CONTENTS : - give us more civilians, even if not playable : old young, and why not children ? Nowadays conflicts cause more civilian causalities than military/armed personnel ones. - give us women : half of the world dudes ! even not customisable civilians. - Make the civilian and vehicle site module back, to help us populate the area, with options for altis and tanoan. (same for military site, there's only CSAT !) - more big boats... and vehicles... we had a lot in arma2 (bike bicycle bus trucks boats...) and plenty of nice civilian vehicles in Takeonehelicopters. - less rabits on altis please, and more birds on island : underwater world is fantastic, but so life is so poor on the ground Editing - sounds disappeared with eden editor. (ie battle sound, frogs etc) it will be great to have them back in a easy way : mission maker are not all top programmers. - Same with the camera : we had this great and easy option in OperationFlashpoint in the trigger or waypoint effect, to launch a preset camera view. it disappeared with arma1, too bad for low tech mission makers to make suitable intro and outro Engine - In the last update of Arma2, Helicopters can fly NOE at 15 m above the ground, adapting to topography and objects. This was an other feature that disappeared in arma3 : the flyinheight command became completely weird and same for the new flyInHeightASL. it works when set at less than 10 meters, at more than 50 meter, but impossible to make a bird fly at 25 or 30 m as in A2, whitch is the good height for NOE avoiding buildings and tree TANOA This island is fantastic. But please... make the buildings destructible... we can't destroy a lot of them (ie fuel tank in the harbor, crane etc...), this reduce al lot of sabotage mission possibilities others - would it be possible to put sachel charges in water ? it's a must for a demolition combat diver...

Our "@ofpd realism mini mod" is available here at Ofpd. It just 1.65mb (!) of reconfigurations of cpp (weapon/amo values, speed, fuel, flare etc all details are on our site and in the readme), insertion of some effects (smoke, explosion,recoil) and changed some models (mi24, bmp, mi8), with very few scripts, it keeps most of the original visual and sound and saves download size at the minimum to make MP game easier. We don't claimed it's absolut realism, it just make some ofp features a little better. We enjoy a lot testing it in MP, despite some points that could be upgraded. We make it "public" because I'm sure there're a lot of people who want a "cheap" upgrade without having to dowload 400mb mod, 150mb patch, and have so much script that one can't have big battles. (Credits are inside readme and on our page) Remo

Hi, I have a Visitor crash at the step "importation of satellite+mask". I did the operation using bis sample island (256x256) using my config files+mymask+my sat png and it works but 256x256 map it too small. I need a 2048x2048 map. but when I set one of this size, elevation imporation works well but it leads to a crash when importing sat and mask. I suppose the problem lies in my (bad) the pre-configuration of my map parameters. I put : - terrain grid size : 2048 - terrain cell size 25 - texture layers base at 50 Do anyone could give me some hint to solve the problem and advance in my work ? I'm sure at 110% it's not a mistake in cfg file because mine work with 256 pre-set bis island. Also is there a kind of "size rules" for map (for exemple if you grid size is 2048, your satmap must be > or < at 1024, a kind of convertion board to respect to avoid crash) here's a link with my files : here (30mb) Or if someone could send me a sample *.pew map set at 2048 size.... Thanks by avance (ofpd) Remo www.ofpd.org

Hi, I have a Visitor crash at the step "importation of satellite+mask". I did the operation using bis sample island (using my config files+mymask+my sat png) and it works well, I can use this 256x256 map but it too small for me. I suppose the problem lies in the pre-configuration of my map parameters : - terrain grid size : 2048 - terrain cell size 25 - texture layers base at 50 my elevation png is 2048 as my mask and sat png. Importation of elevation is OK, it just crashed when importing mask and sat. Do anyone could give me some hint to solve the problem and advance in my work ? Is there a kind of "size rules" for map (for exemple if you grid size is 2048, your satmap must be > or < at 1024, a kind of convertion board to respect to avoid crash) here's a link with my files : here (30mb) Thanks by avance (ofpd) Remo www.ofpd.org

taleb.pbo which contains the whole "ofpd" Taliban/Northern Alliance pack is 100% standalone (as long as you have OFP V1.96). Check #1 these missions for CatAfghanistan have been made with ofpd Taleb pack and not another one Check #2 be sure you have the correct version of the pack. the new one has only 1 pbo as the former one a lot of it which HAS to be removed Check #3 There is a very light incompatibiliy between the former and the new pack, check the readme it's explained in french and in english

You may find a small airstrip nera mil. a base south

Hi Miles, it's pleasure to read you like the map, feel free to use part of it if it suits to your works. I chose at the end not to use 3rd party addons and keep BIS in order to to make the pack compatible with mod like FDD, CSLA or @ofpd. (Vehicles of the pack have HD config) @ here's a full mission Great ! Thanks ! by the way you can post missions here :AfghanEveron Mission Depot @ to resemble the region of Afghanistan We aimed at representing NorthEast part of afghanistan where Northern Alliance fought against Taliban until 2001, especialy the area north of Kabul in the Panjshir Valley. We worked using photos, google earth and "La Geographie Universelle" (R.Brunet, dir), Vol. 8, Belin et Reclus, 1995, plus various map of the area found on the net and at the librairy of (french) National Institute of Oriental Languages and Civilisations. We put some of our photographic sources here, have a look

@ and "Toyota" 3 times etc It's because you have the 3 sides available for each taliban unit, but under the same sub group and with the same in game name, consequently, it appears 3 time in the empty group the first in the list is East, then resistance and West, I guess

@ Theres a number of LOD bugs throughout. Well it's not realy "bug", but rather "laziness" not to have made proper low lod textures for each buildings... it also save space. You can "fix it" by setting your level of details high in flashpointpreference and inside game option menu. these low low lod start generaly at 1500 (in O2) so most of the time one is far enough not to see the wrong details. Concerning bugs I just found twinproxy on white medersa, bad ground texture South of NorthernAfrica style area and missing of gunner proxy at second lod of greenMG pickup. Concerning Bm21 the lack of proper view in gunner / commander comes from the diffuculties of getting around engine limitations and was just given up. 'hope you like the stuf anyway.... We'll put soon a 30 mission pack for US MP mission and a convertion of same mission for OFrP French Units We also have a kind of mission depots if some of you made mission for afghaneveron / taleb pack...

AfganEveron V2 (173ko)

OFP-D is on every fronts Afganeveron is near to be released. Here are screenshots of the last version. It will be not more than 13-14mb in a ace file. I try to make it the smallest possible and reduced the number of polys. Also by using the most I could original BIS textures and models. it will come with various objects, trees and sounds. I think it will be easy to use the object pack to make nice Middle-East map fo OFP. I tryed to improve AI move in Medinas (old city-quater of Arab towns) but it's not that great... For MP one will be able to jump from roof to roof or wait behind a wall or a windows. Most of the building are climbable. As buildings are almost ok, I plan to make another (and better) afganmap, I prepared nice textures (20mo), I have the building, I just need a terrain. I have one but it would ask too much work to make it ok. If someone could give me a REAL afgan *.wrp terrain (ie only elevations, making the conversion from real afgan geodata to *.wrp) it would be great. preferably East or North-East or South-East region of Panjshir, TribalZone, ToraBora would be perfect. join me a remo@ofpd.org Taleb soldiers have been upgraded (texture+model+sound+JAM...and no more glasses or vehicles bug :O ) More Screenshots Here

@burroughs : well the OFPD site is not updated if we don't have particular things to post, anyway we added little words this afternoon . Concerning the North Korea update it's still schedule, I don't work straight road because I started in addons making from the 0 level, thus when I learned something by working on a pack, il go back to the other to improve it and "vice et versa". NorthKorean pack is done at 75% including renewed buildings set with the qualificationI acquired working in afghaneveron. Same for "Sector Charlie" mission, I learned a lot by making it and same mistake won't be there, only brand new bugs @Sanctuary (salut) : Jam is great but the choice I made doesn't depend of jam itself but on the way it works. I wanted to reduce dependency at the max, but more of this I wanted it could be play with any mod like CSLA, FDF, ECP, DMA or other. If it was "jammed", it would have been a mess to play it with nojammed units...

More Screenshots Here Afganeveron will be a 26 mb rar file Taleb vs NA less than 14mb rar file We'll put also an "AfghanBonusPack" to play the 35+ missions pack also in bound

Ok thanks for reply and links Remo

Hi I have a question to top addons maker / specialist in 3D etc. When you have a model with a lot of hidden selection not visible, do the engine of OFP take them in account or do it behave as is the model has only the visible poly ? In a other way, concerning the game speed/lag/etc is it better to have more model without hidden selection or is it the same to have only one model declined in 3,4,5 ways (with hat, no hat, ammunition, equipment ect) depending hidden or visible selection ? I hope my question is clear.... and I thanks in advance the one who may answer to it Remo

Some pics of AfganeveronV2, soon to come A small "Northen Africa style" hidden part : Near Taloquan : Main update : - Texture transitions are smother (made with visitor) - more vegetation and rock - more places (instead of just "desert" in the SouthOuest and SouthEast) Fixed : Building have been completly reworked and many useless poly removed, low lod adden, face transition corrected, and above all : - position now available (no more targering the building when ordered to go at position#1 - path added in cities/buildings in order to enable AI soldier to move in narrowstreets (work at 70%) Taleb vs Northern alliance pack update also on the way Remo OFPD PS I checked to a collegue of mine who is a (univ.) professor specialized in pakistanese languages : it's 100% accurate to make the taleb shout in penjabi

Thanks for the hint, I'll have a look on this to improve the system

Your're right, I will try it For distances fire I made it a little longer than the original but I forgot to write it in the details !

that's the best point of OFP...

I don't know how far you this island use afganeveron stuff, but I divided it into textures (induskush.pbo), buildings/object (afgano.pbo) and terrain (afganeveron) in order to be use it by module to make other middle-east / hot-arid area map, maybe only textures or objects are needed ?

Hi, Just to say that afghaneveron' AfghanO.pbo will be soon be updated with few but essential major fixes: - Houses are no more hostile - AI soldiers can be sent in houses positions - Ai soldiers can enter medinas (old part of towns) - most of texture re-smoothed to have better looking (less "cubic" - lot of unecessary 3d models faces removed to reduce lag

Very small update/fix : taliban using standard BIS weapon and cpp bug fixed. note : Only soldier addons is concerned (taleb.pbo). it's compatible with the older except for the sniper included in this new version. Graphic have not been changed download here Remo

@shadow, what is your config ? Lag was one of our concern and we tried to remove it the most we could. did you removed object/vehicle shadows ? try some work in the flashpointpreference advanced option. It lags for me too in the 3 big cities when I fly over it, or with in case of wide view of the whole city but once you're in lag is reduced. Do you have lad in mountain/rural area too ?

Please forget the taleb pack, I know it's not a piece of art "of the map make jeeps go a lot slower" Yes that intentional, it's to force vehicules to stay on the roads, I never drive a Humwe in the afgan moutain but I am sur at 150% one can't climb a 45o steep slope at a speed of 50km\h or more, it's a way to give road a sens and embushes easier

Yes I know that, I tried to fix it but didn't succed I have nothing like this with other building like the one on korean island. The taliban pack is just a interim update, it need a lot of work to be done, but we decided it was worth to provide it with the map. by the way I realize that we forgot to give credits for the Toyota pick up. It's from Lt Damage' toyota hilux Remo