Doomguy

In plain 1.60 LODs were really unstable with flickering even when moving the camera only slightly. There was a beta sometime between 1.60 & 1.61 that has the best LOD handling, but I don't know exactly which one. I guess it was the one right after when LOD were declared 'completely broken' by Suma.

Yeah I ambushed their counter attack - pretty sure I got all of them. My team then moved to the roadblock and held position for at least 30 minutes (with time acceleration on). I didn't get the order to mount the Bradley...

Without a doubt one of the best infantry-fighting experiences I have had in ArmA! Great, great work, thanks bardosy! One minor technical problem: mission "Tank Valley" did not end for me, I had to resort to the ENDMISSION cheat. My mod list for this campaign:

Thanks for the vids. I hardly see any LOD switching or instability. May I ask what video settings you are using?

Does one need the actual 1.62 patch in order to use this beta?

This happens quite reliably in the Flashpoint - Utes mission made by thomsonb. Right at mission start there are firefights and you get this error.

Did you remove the "time skip" for the ground transportation? I tried a mission yesterday and I had to sit out the entire ride across the map...

Fair enough. So what exactly is LOD blending supposed to do?

Is the improved LOD blending also supposed to work for buildings? I'm not seeing much improvement for instance in the menu cutscene where the Czech soldiers are overlooking a town in a valley, with the A10 flying by. The buildings below are constantly switching between high and low LOD while the camera is panning. This happens with Object details set to anything below Very high.

Thanks for the reply! There are not many forums where the company's CEO is responding to customer queries, in fact this is the only one that I know of. Keep up the great work!

Has the improved LOD blending been re-implemented already in the beta patch?

This is one of the best missions/campaigns around! Thanks King Nothing :-) I have one recurring problem with the Ground Transportation though: they never show up at the extraction point. The request extraction command seems to work, I select an extraction point on the map, radio traffic suggest a vehicle should be on its way. However, it never arrives. I can't see any marker on the map moving towards me either (not sure whether that's supposed to be in). Playing with ACE and ASR AI. Please let me know if those are the problem, or anything else you may be aware of. Thanks! Doomguy

They are incompatible? I have been running both alongside for a while and I don't notice any obvious problems. What exactly breaks when you run both ACE and Blastcore?

Hi, here's a Warfare mod I have been working on for quite some time! It's reasonably well tested and stable. Its goal is to give a number of players a challenge when cooperating against an AI commander, and to provide the player with a dynamic 'background war' while he is playing. News [Mar. 31, 2009] WACO development has a new homebase at Dev Heaven: WACO project space. The forums and issue tracker at Dev Heaven will be the primary channel for WACO from now on. This thread will receive only infrequent updates. [Feb. 24, 2009] Version 1.1.7 ACE released. Support for 2nd primary weapon (ACE) and changing the loadout of your AI team members. Download from FileFront. Bhaz also ported the mission to Opteryx' Afghan village; find it here. [Feb 16, 2009] New version v1.1.6e ACE released that is compatible with ACE 1.04. Download from FileFront. [Feb 15, 2009] Version v1.1.6d released. Small fixes for previous version and a new feature: bounty messages are not shown instantly when killing an enemy - instead you get a delayed message showing the bounty you collected during the last minute. Download from FileFront. [Jan 19, 2009] Ripperjk informed me that WACO_Config.pbo is missing from the WACO v1.1.5e (addon version) download. You can still get it from an older version, like WACO V1.1.5a. * gnrnr found a bug in v1.1.5e normal and standalone versions (not ACE) that causes the radios of OPFOR helicopters to be incorrectly configured. A fix is coming in v1.1.5f. * If you get an error containing "M1 SABOT" please download the lastest version Vilas' RACS M1. Downloads are now provided at WACO's Dev Heaven space. Other islands by other authors: WACO v1.1.7 ACE @ Afghan village by bhaz. WACO v1.1.7 ACE @ Isla Barbuda by mazza. Many thanks to all hosts! Required addons for the normal version Since 1.1.4 the following changes were made to the required addon list: - Removed SD_BTR80, - Added Stryker_AA from Xtra Vehicles - Added support for SLX_GL3 as an optional addon. If SLX_GL3 is loaded, the addon version gets equipable field radios and radiomen in barracks. - New version of Vilas' RACS M1. 0. WACO_config - Config tweaks for other addons.  Distributed with WACO. 1. Extended eventhandlers (xeh) by Solus & Killswitch   http://www.armaholic.com/page.php?id=2605 2. RHS T-64 MBT preview pack by Kenji  http://www.armaholic.com/page.php?id=2259 3. M1A1 (HA) and T72 by CH Addons  http://www.armaholic.com/page.php?id=3141  http://www.armaholic.com/page.php?id=4393 4. Xtra Vehicles by Karaya1  http://www.armaholic.com/page.php?id=3034 5. 2k12 kub (SA-6 Gainful) by scars  http://www.armaholic.com/page.php?id=3239 6. Vilas US vehicles pack by Vilas  http://www.armaholic.com/page.php?id=4017 7. US M60A3 NATO camo by Rygugu  http://www.armaholic.com/page.php?id=3081 8. MAP Misc by BadAss / Lester  http://www.mapfact.net/include....0107870 9. MAP Airpack by Marco-Polo-IV  http://www.mapfact.net/include....0107870 10. EricM Hind Pack by EricM & RKSL Studios  http://www.armaholic.com/page.php?id=3390 11. RACS Abrams by Vilas   http://ofp.gamepark.cz/_hosted/vilas/upd/vil_racsm1.7z 12. WIP-M4A1 Pack by Wipman   http://www.armaholic.com/page.php?id=2526 13. Kamov Ka-52 Alligator by EricM   http://www.armaholic.com/page.php?id=3857 Changelog Changes since WACO v1.1.6 ------------------------- - (ACE) Pack mode in the gear menu now allows you to purchase a second primary weapon. - (ALL) Gear menu now allows you to change the loadout of your AI team members. - (ACE) Claymore, POMZ, IR strobes, and some more HK and SCAR variants added. - ACE 1.04 compatability fixes:  * M2 Bradley's disabled until ACE includes them again (AI M2 IFV teams replaced by Strykers.)  * Added Ka-52 Alligator to EAST.  * Re-added SCARS and some more variants as bonus. - (ACE) Rucksack of dead soldiers accessible. - (ALL) New re-arming script. Still no proper re-arm of commander turrets. Seems like an ArmA bug. - (ALL) Fix for respawning as team member: would always respawn as first member. - (ALL) Delayed bounty messages. You no longer get an instant message saying how much bounty you get for killing an enemy. Instead, each minute you the bounty you have collected in the last minute. - (ALL) Fix for broken radio check when player was dead. - (ALL) Higher RACS skills. - (ACE) Added more plane variants: SU27S, A10A with Mk82, SU30 with Kh29. - (ACE) Fixed problem in template. Removed left-over BLUFOR officer. - (ACE) Fixed rucksack packing in gear menu to be compatible with ACE 1.02. - (ACE) Removed SCAR rifles because of issues with textures and ATI videocards. - (ACE) Added some HK416, HK417, G36, and AKM variants. - (ACE) Added Su-30MK with KAB500 laser-guided bombs to OPFOR airport. - (ACE) Added BMP-2D, and BMD-1 to OPFOR heavy factory. - (ACE) Guided anti-tank weapons, ie. Javelin and Dragon more expensive. - (ALL) Team respawn improved with a list of members that can be respawned into. - (ALL) RACS unit skills doubled. - (ALL) Enabled defense contruction at depots. - (ALL) Enabled purchasing of soldiers at depots, if enough supply (>20) and at least 50% of camps on side. AI also reinforces soldiers at depots. - (ALL) Fixed bug where only 5 starting positions would be used. Now all 23 possible positions are used again. Also further tweaks to starting positions randomness. - (ALL) Ammo crates are now cheaper at $300. - (ALL) Added variables that control whether camp respawn is possible (campRespawn), and whether camps and depots have radios (campHasRadio, depotHasRadio). All are true by default. - (ACE) Added all the ACE crew served weapons to the gear menu. Also added the appropriate AI soldiers to the barracks. - (ACE) Changed rucksack packing in gear menu to use ACE sizes. This prevents unrealistic "over packing." Also, equipment such as binoculars can be packed. If ACE makes rocket launchers packable, they could be packed as well. - (ACE) Added UMP's and grenade launchers flares to gear menu. - (ACE) Added SF HMMWV, HMWWV GAU19 and Stryker MSG. - (ALL) The fast time option is available again in the mission  settings menu. Setting fast time means that approximately 24 hours will pass in-game for each hour real-time. Note that clouds are disabled because fast time would make them move super-fast. - (ALL) Search lights were added as a buyable defense structure. - (ALL) A serious race condition was removed that could break mission initialization. - (ALL) Messages for town capture, and others, appear lower on the screen instead of in the middle. - (ALL) Slight change to respawn map. You can now revert back to team member respawn after you have clicked a camp or the base. Just click on the map away from any camp or base. The type of team member you will respawn as (e.g., machinegunner) is now also shown. Changes since WACO v1.1.5 - (ACE) Implemented rucksack support in gear menu. You can now pack your rucksack directly. - (ALL) Implemented support for equipement slots for binoculars, nv goggles, laser designator, etc. in gear menu. - (ALL) AI teams react faster to enemy units close to the base. They no longer wait around at factories when there are enemy units near. - (ALL) It is now required to capture a certain number of camps of a town before the town itself can be captured. The number of camps to be captured is controlled by the constant  MINCAMPRATIOFORTOWNCAPTURE in Common\Init\Init_CommonConstants.sqs. By default, it is set to 0.5, meaning that half of a town's camps must be captured before the town itself can be captured. The AI has been adapted to deal with this new rule. If you want to disable this feature and go back to the old way of capturing towns, set MINCAMPRATIOFORTOWNCAPTURE to 0. - (ACE) Disabled AA tripods. - (ACE) Added SMAW spotting rounds and shotguns from ACE 1.0.1. - (ACE) Replaced default Warfare OPC/D with ACE_sys_network. - (ACE) AI squads should no longer become stuck after respawn. This has been fixed by a work around, which will be replaced by a proper fix one the ACE patch is out. - (ACE) Due to a compatability problem between Warfare UI and Mando Missile HUD, players could no longer buy stuff from factories once they entered a helo or plane. This has been fixed. - (ACE) Soldiers in AI teams that are unconscious are killed during their regular update cycle (between 15 - 30 seconds). This is to prevent AI teams being held up by unconscious men, and also descreases the amount of ammo wasted on injured soldiers. - (ACE) Replaced ACE resistance units by standard BIS because ACE units have config problems. - (ACE) AV8B GBU and AV8B AA were incorrectly swapped in factory menu. - Updated included SPON Core to 0.53. - Fixed problems with various scripts. Error messages should be a thing of the past now. - Attack helicopters and planes are 50% more expensive. - (ACE) Added new ACE weapons to both east and west sides (HK417C's, CAR-L's, MK12SPR SD, M249 para with M135, Skorpion, TT-33, SMAW, Dragon, M3 MAAW, RPG22, RPG27, RPO, and more). - (ACE) Added HuntIR monitor and rounds to West loadout. - (ACE) Medical stuff and rucksacks added to player loadout. - (ACE) Preliminary rucksack support. Rucksack contents are kept when player buys loadout. Can't buy rucksack contents directly from gear menu, but you can put stuff in the rucksack in the normal gear menu ('g' key). - (ACE) Ammo boxes now filled with ACE stuff. - (ACE) Overhauled gear menu to support the way that ACE handles weapon attachments and CQB sights (multiple weapon types). - Baserange for players was reverted back to 150, and a new range variable is used for players for purchasing (25 meters). - Changed configuration of vehicles to use the new M1A1's and T72's from CH Addons. Changes since WACO 1.1.4 - Added communication towers to each town. If a town's comm. tower is destroyed the RACS teams are cut off from their command and will no longer react to camps being captured by the enemy. A player's team will receive a bounty of $500 for destroying a comm. tower (if the town is controlled by RACS). Comm. towers are marked on the map in black. There is no effect of the comm. towers if either BLUFOR or OPFOR controls the town. - The RACS teams have been extended and tweaked. The airport town (Aeroporto), and large towns, can now have heli's in their defense teams. Large towns can also have special command team consisting of an officer and commando troops. Killing them is lucrative. - Addon version: Support for field radio's has been added. For now, to be able to equip field radio's and order radiomen one can (optionally) load Solus' SLX_GL3 addon (available from http://hosted.filefront.com/SLXSolus). Players can order from distant factories if they have a field radio, or there is someone within 2 meters that has a radio, in addition to the old options: within friendly camps, depots, airports, or radio vehicles. - Players can now only purchase gear from a camp if the camp has been re-supplied to 20. In practice this means that a town must be captured and re-supplied before players can purchase gear at that town's camps. - Ammo crates can now be constructed for $500. They contain a selection of ammo for the side that constructs the crate. - Implemented funds and supply caps. Funds: $20000, supply: 5000. This change makes it possible to weaken the enemy AI by taking his towns. Previously he would have build up too much funds/supply. - Tweaked funds/supply bonusses:  Small:  +700 supply,  +2000 funds, 1x income multiplier  Large: +2300 supply,  +6000 funds, 2x income multiplier  Huge:  +3000 supply, +10000 funds, 4x income multiplier  - M113, M113 ambulance, and BMP-2 Ambulance moved to heavy factory. - Build times for buildings increased:  Barracks:  60 s  Light:   120 s  Heavy:   240 s  Aircraft: 300 s - Addon version: Added Stryker AA from Xtra Vehicles By Karaya1 to  West light factory. AI base patrol and defense teams extended with Stryker AA vehicles and SA-6's, and the AA tripods have been removed. - Addon version: BTR-80 by Red Cottage et. al removed. - Implemented return to base behavior for AI teams: if a team has less than 50% of its infantry or vehicles, and it is closer to base than its objective, it will return to base to purchase new stuff. If the player has ordered a team to move somewhere, the team will not automatically return to base for reinforcements. - Implemented team respawn for AI teams. AI squad leaders are respawned as their next-in-line team members until there are none left. Then the AI squad leader respawns at base as usual. - Improved performance due to scripting optimizations. There are less move commands and thus less path finding. - Improved formation keeping for AI teams. - Improved embarking / disembarking behavior for AI teams. Team members should take over driver and gunner roles if needed. AI squad leaders become vehicle commander if possible. - Interface improvements for the commander:  * Added a funds meter that shows the funds of the selected team in the commander menu.  * The selected team's map icon is shown in yellow and is   enlarged. Vehicles belonging to the selected team also get a yellow icon.  * The units also get an icon indicating their role in a vehicle   (driver, gunner, commander, cargo). Units that are out of formation are marked with *. - Changed AI team templates to better cope with low money situations. - Camps owned by the resistance gets the RACS flag instead of no flag. Changes since WACO 1.1.3 - Added a list of live units of the selected team in the "command teams" interface. - Added a team's funds to the transfer funds interface. - Defenses can now only be build at camps if they have at least 20 supply.  In practice, this means that you cannot build defensive structures at camps while the town is still hostile. Furthermore, some towns will have to be re-supplied first before the supply level is high enough. Camps are re-supplied if their town is friendly, and no enemies are near. - Fixed a bug where a server-side script was running on clients. - Fixed a bug where OPFOR could not capture camps from BLUFOR. - Added mission settings: both sides large bonus, and 1000 - 2000 meter side placement (for quick games). - Enabled the use of aircraft in all AI teams. The AI will buy and use aircraft similar to other vehicles. It does not have the same intelligence in using aircraft as the independent air AI,  however. For that reason, the AI commander still uses the independent air AI for one team. The black ops AI teams are now using a helo for transport - this is experimental and may not work as expected. - Tweaks to AI team behavior: increased disembarking range and (hopefully) better resposiveness to move commands. - An attempt to improve the randomness of the starting positions (I'm unsure whether it works). - RACS get Army 4x4 with M2's, OPFOR gets a stronger T64 variant (in the addon version). [no new addons needed] Changes since WACO 1.1.2 - Improved AI commander base construction and re-construction of destroyed buildings. - Disabled artillery until AI can use it. - Tweaked starting supply bonus and income multiplier for huge bonus. - Introduced a medium setting for seperation of starting locations. - Moved "Monte Pesto" starting location to a new location called "Vallejo", because Monte Pesto was too hard for the AI. - Replaced some silenced pistols in loadouts to normal pistols. - Added automatic rifleman for west. - Added detection for stuck teams: not moved at least 10 meters in last 10 minutes: team members are killed. Changes since WACO 1.1.1 - Added a depot (and camps) to the airport, that has to be captured in order to get access to hangar and the ability to purchase airplanes. The AI is also able to capture the airport in this way. If the AI side controls the airport, air teams will purchase airplanes to perform strike and interdiction missions (in addition to the heli's that the air AI purchases already). - AI teams of type Heavy will now move to the locations where enemy units were spotted if they are within one kilometer of the team. If no enemy units are near, and at least three towns are held by the AI side, then Heavy AI teams will always attack the enemy base (if it has been located). - The resistance teams will now actively re-capture camps of the town they are defending. Also, their patrolling behavior has been improved. This change has resulted in a seriously tougher opposition from the resistance. - Town defense teams for BLUFOR and REDFOR spawn at lower supply thresholds, making their occurrence more common and thus having a smaller chance of "ghost towns". Town defense teams also actively re-capture camps of the town their are defending. - Normal AI teams of type infantry will also actively capture enemy camps. - Camps are more difficult to capture, it will take more time (or a bigger force) to capture a camp. - Improved AI team purchasing, formation keeping and embarking behavior. Also team members that are not part of the team's template (like crew members of a tank) are clean-up if they leave their vehicle. - Several performance improvements. - Added EricM's Ka-52 Alligator to the addon version. Changes since BIS Warfare 1.1 - A fully independent air team AI. The air team purchases (rotary wing) aircraft and sends them on recon, interdiction and strike missions. - AI tracking of enemy targets such as vehicles and base structures. These targets are drawn on the map and are used for scheduling interdiction and strike targets for the air and land AI teams. - Ability for players to remotely buy units from the base. In radio-carrying vehicles, and inside camps and depots players can order units from base factories. These units spawn at the base factory and are added to the player's team. - Implemented team respawn. The player has the option of respawning as a next-in-line team member if there is one still alive. Otherwise a player can respawn at nearby camps or base as usual, but then a player is equipped with the default loadout. - Players can save their custom loadouts in the gear menu and recall them at a later time. - Added game options that should allow for faster game play if desired. The enemy AI commander can be given small, large or huge income bonuses, and there are options to place the sides closer together. - Added various vehicle and weapon addons, and tweaked the AI team templates for all sides, including RACS. This allows for tougher opposition. - Added scripts that should help the AI when it is stuck. Vehicles are automatically unflipped, and teleported past base buildings if they loiter too close for too long. - Changed vehicle repair costs at depots. They now depend on the number of vehicles to be repaired, and for each vehicle the cost is the purchase cost of the vehicle scaled by the amount of damage.

Did you perhaps rename one of those markers to StartingPosition_X (where X between 0 and 12), or did you move a StartingPosition_X marker to that location? The starting positions are used by the AI as recon locations, so that may explain why they are sending choppers there. Doomguy

I'm pleasantly surprised people are still interested in old ArmA 1 missions. And to be clear on my end: I fully endorse all editing efforts of my work, which is itself also an edit of the work of BI and many others. Doomguy

Well I would recommend everyone to just install ACE 1.09 and play with that, but some of you stubborn addon-fearing folk might just like Law-Giver's version ;-) Anyway, here's the list of changes since Warface/WACO 1.1.8. Some of the changes are specific to the ACE version, but hey, just to give you an idea of what you are missing out on ;-) ---------- Post added at 09:07 PM ---------- Previous post was at 09:06 PM ---------- Curses, it turns out a stupid mistake was made by me while uploading Warface Infantry 1.1.9. It was not the latest version after all. Re-uploaded to DevHeaven now...here. Sorry Law-Giver and others! Doomguy out.

Hi Carbone, I may have just the Warfare version you are looking for. It's based on my Warfare modification called Warface, thus it has the same ACE 1.09 requirement. The focus of this version is on infantry + light vehicle combat. US Airborne fighting the Russian VDV and Iraqi insurgents in between. Some other minor improvements compared to older Warface versions such as better embarkation and the use of transport choppers by AI. Download here at DevHeaven. Let me know how it works out for you. It's beta-ish but I playtested it myself quite a bit. Doomguy out.

Very welcome. I'm thinking to port some of this stuff over to ArmA 2, especially the AI scripting for AI teams that is mostly in SQF now anyway should be doable. Some hurdles to take though: I don't own ArmA 2 currently, nor the hardware to run it. Doomguy

Hi guys, great to see Warfare is still being modded! Both your solutions to get a tank commander are missing some details. Most importantly, the AI scripting does not cope with AI units being a tank commander except for the AI team's squad leader. So Computica's solution will create an extra crew member but he will not board the tank as commander. Siglar is more close but also the extra crew member will probably disembark at some point. Also, editing only the Server_BuyUnit.sqs will give you three member tanks for the AI teams, not if a player buys a manned tank. What I suggest you do is reconsider whether you really want this ;-) It will be quite a lot of work to make this change and I'm unsure if there are benefits to having AI tank commanders. If there are, let me know and I might look into it more. Doomguy

Hi guys, I uploaded those versions to my DevHeaven space: v117a ACE Afghan Village: http://dev-heaven.net/attachments/download/2809/WACO_v117a_ACE.afghan_village.pbo.zip v117 ACE Isla Barbuda: http://dev-heaven.net/attachments/download/2811/WACO_v117_ACE_Bar.ic_barbuda.pbo.zip I hope the bhaz and mazza are okay with this, otherwise I'll take 'em down. Have fun, Doomguy

Hi Bandito, It's very nice to know that you're playing Warface a lot, thanks! :-) Disabling Mando missiles seems to be easy. You need to place the game logic "Change Defaults: ACE Mando Missiles" on the map using the editor (it's not there yet), and put the following in the initialization field: ACE_SYS_MISSILES_MANDO_ENABLED = false That will disable Mando missiles completely and give you the default Arma "tab-targetting." Doomguy out.

Cool, just found that the guy who ported WACO to Afghan village left a nice text file that describes what he did. Here it is: List of changes made to WACO 1.1.7 ACE. (Bhaz) Common\Config\Config_AITeams.sqs: - ESPECOPSNIPER -> ESNIPER - ESPECOP -> EENGINEER Common\Config\Config_Barracks.sqs: - Changed west units from woodland to desert camo - East units changed to Republican Guard - Resistance changed to various Insurg. units Common\Config\Config_HeavyFactory.sqs: - M1A1 and M1A2 -> Desert models Common\Init\Init_CommonConstants.sqs: - SIDESTARTINGDISTANCE = 2000 Description.ext: - Param1, seperation distances changed from: 3000+, 2000-4000, 1500-3000 - 1000-2000 to: 2000+, 1500-3000, 1000-2000, 800-1800 Mission.sqm: - Switched west group leaders to desert camo - Switched east group leaders to Iraq RG Server\Init\Init_Server.sqs: - Distance values to match param1 So, get Warface 1.1.8a, put in the mission.sqm from WACO 1.1.7 Afghan village, and do changes listed above and you should be set. Doomguy

They say if you put a monkey behind a typewriter and you wait long enough, he will eventually reproduce the entire works of Shakespeare ;-) Just kidding with you. I've been working with Warfare for over a year and I still feek like a monkey sometimes. Updating the Afghan mission shouldn't be too hard to do. I know that the author has tweaked some files apart from the mission.sqm, to account for the smaller distances in the Afghan Village. Also, he put in insurgents and Iraqis. If you used a diff tool (like WinMerge) to compare the Afghan village version with the normal WACO version you would be able to see the differences. I'll try to help out later. Doomguy

Cool, just like Seal Team! What mods are needed? Doomguy