General Barron
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Quote[/b] ]I know there are more but i don't know the exact names for the rest.Can anyone help me complete this list?
Technically, you can write anything here. There just needs to be a corresponding value in a person's config to match what you write.
For example, you could make snow troops, who have footstep sounds configured for "snow". Then, you could make a snow map with surface sounds for "snow".
But, of course, 99% of people addons are going to use the default BIS sounds listed.
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<table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td>Code Sample </td></tr><tr><td id="CODE"> "ca\wheeled\data\detailmapy\brdm2_01.rvmat",
Do you have these RVMAT's applied to your model?
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I believe the mat[] array works as follows:
-It is organized in triplets
-The first rvmat is the one that is currently applied to your model
-The second rvmat is used when the vehicle is damaged. The first rvmat is replaced with this second rvmat
-The third rvmat is used when the vehicle is destroyed, in the same manner as above
-You can have as many of these triplets as you want, but they need to be organized in triplets (even if the second and third rvmat are the same)
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So, to summarize, you need to apply one rvmat to part of your vehicle, then you need to configure TWO replacement rvmats for the rvmat that you applied. Repeat for all the parts you want to have damage textures on.
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The tex[] array work almost identically to the mat[] array; however, it replaces textures, not rvmats.
In your case, you might want to use the tex[] array, not the mat[] array (though you can still add textures via rvmat of course).
I'm not sure how the old dammageHalf[] and dammageFull[] arrays relate to this system. They seem to be similar, only they are organized in pairs, not triplets (texture on your model, texture to replace it with).
There is also the old method of applying a "user value" on your model. This is linked in a hitpoint in the config, under the "material=" property. When that hitpoint is damaged, all textures with the same material number ("user value") will be darkened, in the old OFP style. Ex:
<table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td>Code Sample </td></tr><tr><td id="CODE">class HitEngine {armor=1.2;material=60;name="engine";passThrough=1;}
All textures with "user value" of 60 will darken when the engine is damaged.
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then how does the Mando missiles creat thier effects?I would assume they are scripted, especially since they don't even use an addon, AFAIK.
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From my understanding, the missile smoke is hard-coded to use the "MissileEffects" and "MissileManualEffects" effects classes. That means, ALL missiles use the same effects. I don't know of any way of changing them per-missile/rocket thru the config.
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PS. Strange thing that even if I start armawith shortcut containing my addon as the last mod, it is still
getting overwritten...
Oh no, not this one again...
Your arma shortcut has almost nothing to do with whether an addon gets overwritten or not.
I think I'll need to post this on the wiki so this confusion ends...
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You could display the control as text, then trim the first 9 characters off of the string. Then, use the parsenumber command to turn the string back into a number.
This would also give you the IDD of a display, if you use a display instead of a control.
I'm not sure the easiest way to trim a string though. Haven't played with the new string scripting commands, but I think there are methods for turning it into an array, and then turning an array back into a string.
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Could it be legally possible inside the United States? To non-violently separate a member state from the rest of the USA into an independent country. If like 90 % of the people in one state want it, could they do it legally?Umm... no, obviously not. Like all governments, the US government don't allow succession. That's what the American Civil War was about. Some million people died trying to sort this one out.
I'm sure the confederates thought they had the legal right to succeed, and maybe they did; but of course all laws are enforced with a gun one way or the other.
I wonder, has there ever been a case where a territory non-violently succeeds from a nation? Without intervention or pressure from other countries or groups like the UN, I mean.
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A popular misconception this one.The Fractional Reserve system does not allow you to lend out 10 times what you have in the vault, it requires you to keep 10% of what you lend out in the vault.
There is a very major difference.
They don't "create" money.
They don't get $1 dollar in the vault and lend out $10 on the strength of it.
They get $10 in the vault and lend out only $9 of them.
A fractional reserve of 10% must be kept back at all times so that investors will always be able to make withdrawls.
At no point is money "created", banks may only lend money that they own. Each year at the end of the year they must provide the accounts.
A bank may lend from it's actual cash reserves, or it may lend against it's assets.
Hmm... I had to go re-read some economics textbooks to make sure I didn't totally miss something in that class. You are sorta right, but not fully.
I deposit $10 in the bank. The bank turns around and lends out $9 of it, keeping 10% in reserve with the Fed.
Those $9 dollars are then deposited in another bank. That bank turns around and lends out $8.1 dollars, keeping 10% in reserve.
Those $8.1 dollars are then deposited in another bank, which lends out $7.3 dollars, which is deposited and lent out, and so on.
Money is created, because there are now more dollars in "circulation" (M2 money supply) then there were before the original $10 dollars was deposited and lent out.
I was wrong in that the banks aren't directly creating the money themselves. They are simply following the rules set up by the government / Federal Reserve, and these rules allow the creation of money in this manner. So I suppose its really the Fed that ultimately is creating the money in the first place (and this isn't even considering the other options of the Fed like buying and selling of T-notes, or changing overnight interest rates).
I found a great chart on wikipedia which shows the growth in the US money supply: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped....ly2.svg
If you were to extend this graph to the left, you'd see that the money supply really didn't grow much at all before the 60's. So we truly are in a 'dollar bubble', which is leading to all other sorts of problems.
Quote[/b] ]If like me you have spent the last few years saving up a war chest of cash ready for the next recession, I would advise that you not buy gold, but instead buy what is cheap.I've been buying up bank stock while it is at bargain prices.
My plan is to buy real estate after the bubble fully bursts, as I'd prefer income producing assets to gain my wealth. For protecting my wealth I'd rather have gold until the price gets too much higher.
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Quote[/b] ]It's all lies. Long time ago back in decadent rome people didn't have to lie. People were slaves and masters, and that was it....
With the same terminology the vietnam war was a war on "terror" and for "freedom", but oddly enough the vietnamese people were "terrorists" and didn't want "freedom" when they opposed the US mass-murders, terror bombings and hunger for profit.
Communism is slavery. I'd rather be dead than live like that. Many southern Vietnamese felt the same way as me, and many did die defending their country from the communist invaders.
Quote[/b] ]i get so tired of people who don't live here trying to trash our country. I live in the greatest country in the world. Even with all its faults. God bless America.I'm not trying to trash our country either. Although it does have its faults, I do believe it is still the free-est place on Earth, and I don't have to believe in any god to feel that way.
But it does have flaws, flaws which are shared by every other country (at least, every country with a central bank). I believe these flaws are leading to an economic disaster, possibly on the scale of the 1930's.
Even if the disaster doesn't happen now, we still have millions of baby-boomers waiting to retire on the back of a bankrupt, socialist-welfare system called Social Security. And we aren't the only country with that problem. You think we have a "liquidity crisis" now? What's going to happen when millions of baby-boomers suddenly start selling their stocks to fund their retirement? What will happen social security suddenly needs to pay out far more than it takes in? All the surplus money in that program has already been spent, you know.
Our generation is going to pay for the socialist BS of our grandparent's generation.
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... Incidentally, I got a notice from my bank stating that they were raising my credit limit because I paid my bills and stayed out of debt, proving my ability to live within my means. If that were adopted as habit instead of speculation, that would fix a lot of things.Amen to that. This "credit crisis" is caused by people (both "rich" and "poor") who simply don't know how to manage their money. They are screwing things up for the rest of the world. So are the banks who are lending to them.
But again, if we didn't have a fractional reserve system (where the governments and banks are able to "create" ~10 dollars for every 1 dollar they have in deposits), then the banks wouldn't really be so willing to lend all this money in the first place.
I mean, if someone let you print almost as much money as you wanted, wouldn't YOU lend as much as you can for a nice return?
The governments set up the rules, and these rules are flawed from the start. If those rules were different, we wouldn't have this problem.
The federal reserve system is a hindrance to capitalism. Capitalism is about competition, yet governments outlaw competing currencies. Then, when banks STILL manage to somehow screw themselves up (even though they own the printing presses for the dollars), the government turns around and forces the taxpayer to bail that bank out (like what happened in the UK recently). Maybe we'd be a bit more careful if things weren't so darn "safe". Maybe we'd avoid more disasters if we were a bit more careful.
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Read The Dollar Crisis, by Richard Duncan. The book was written in 2003, and its spooky just how spot-on his predictions have been since then.
This problem has been brewing since World War One, when the
European governments went off the gold standard in order to finance their wars. When they repaid their debts to the US, it led to a massive inflation (the "roaring 20s"), which led to the great depression.
The problem really took off in the 70's after Nixon finally broke Bretton Woods, which was a semi-gold standard.
Today, money isn't backed by anything real like gold, it is only backed by a promise from XYZ government. Since it isn't backed by anything real, the banks / governments can basically print as much of it as they want (not possible under a gold standard).
The problem is, governments (not just the US) like to print these IOUs in order to finance their wars and their massive social welfare programs. The number of dollars in circulation has skyrocketed exponentially throughout the 20th-21st century.
So what we have is a massive "dollar bubble", kinda like the tech bubble of the late 90's. We all know what happens to asset bubbles. The value of the asset will eventually collapse. In this case, that means the value of US property, stocks, bonds, etc etc. This will hurt not only the US but the rest of the world.
Too bad Ron Paul didn't get the presidential nomination, he was the only candidate who was even talking about monetary policy.
To the rest of the country, I suggest you bail out of stocks and bonds, and instead keep your wealth in something real and tangible, such as gold, oil, real-estate, businesses, etc. These are real investments anyway; people don't achieve financial freedom by buying shares in mutual funds.
I blame the education system for teaching us NOTHING about finances or investing.
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I think the major diference here is in the use of the software, thats all.True, but different uses demand different tools.
A gamer's definition of "realism" and the military's definition of "realism" aren't always the same.
For example, many gamers find 3rd person view to be 'unrealistic', while calling 1st person view 'realistic'; therefore many disable it on MP servers.
The military often finds that 1st person view decreases situational awareness so much that it is unrealistic, making 3rd person view necessary and useful.
Gamers often think that things like pressing a key in order to deploy your weapon's bipod would be 'realistic'. To the military, this just be annoying and a waste of time, as it adds nothing to training.
To a gamer, more complicated controls to simulate simple RL tasks is considered 'realistic'. To the military, using a mouse and keyboard to simulate running and shooting is NOT considered realistic. However, there are certain training outcomes they can get in VBS that are either too expensive, too dangerous, or too complicated to train in real life.
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In the end both the military and Arma gamers want the same. Content creation tools, more overall realism/acuracy and even visual recording and spectating options (AAR).The major diference is we (gamers) demand better graphics and playable content (in the shape of missions)
.That isn't quite true.
For the most part, gamers mainly care about "realistic" features relating to blowing stuff up and killing people. Other forms of realism or features aren't really as important.
For the military, blowing stuff up and killing people is just secondary. There is a lot more to mission accomplishment then just that.
Small example: turn signals/indicators are CRUCIAL to military users. Gamers would only regard such a feature as 'oh, thats nice'.
Non-lethal / escalation of force scenarios are also crucial to the military. Most FPS gamers would find it boring to play a mission for an hour and not fire a single shot.
After action review is perhaps THE most important component for the military, and the AAR phase is more important than the actual in-game mission itself. Not so for gamers, hence the lack of AAR in video games, and the limited interest in modding a high-quality AAR.
Inter-sim compatability is also very important for the military; while I've never heard a gamer request that ArmA be able to play MP with Steel Beasts or Close Combat.
Gamers want a 'game', aka an entertaining competition (either pvp or pvAI). The military wants 'training', which is about the process, not the competition.
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I don't think that's even the issue here. The point is more that some people see VBS2 as a magical cure-all for anything wrong with ArmA...
...I never said that the pricing is too high - it makes perfect sense for the market it's aimed at. That market is not the same one as what ArmA is aimed at, obviously, but as I said... I don't think that was ever brought into question in this thread.
Ok, I do see your point. I suppose I was reacting more to other general 'complaints' I've heard about the price of VBS, I do now see that wasn't what you were doing.
Anyway, I'm really not trying to take this thread off track.
This thread should really remain about the new VBS2 features, and their relation to ArmA, not about product pricing or anything else.
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There are many, many features cited in it that can be done in ArmA1 via scripting and mod development.By the same token, about 95% of the "new" features that have been implemented by ArmA mods, could have been implemented in OFP.
Some examples: I had reloading while moving working in OFP, as well as battlefield clearance; tank fire control had already been done; dogs had already been made; destructible buildings were possible; tanks with multiple turrets had been created; VTOL simulated; and on and on.
I dare anyone to find one "feature" that has been modded in ArmA that could not have been done in OFP, one way or the other.
The difference is in the quality of the implementation, which is both what you see in-game, and what goes on 'behind the scenes' in the code.
ArmA added more features to the OFP engine, allowing for things to be modded with much more quality and much less "hacking". The same would be true for VBS2. The same will be true for ArmA2.
Quote[/b] ]Still, at the end of the day, even with all of these improvements, I cannot see how anyone who isn't military could justify spending $1500 for VBS2. $1500 for VBS2, or $30 for ArmA + tons of community content.People don't seem to grasp the economics behind the pricing.
VBS2 and ArmA are sold in different markets. Different markets command different prices.
In the entertainment market, you can sell a million copies of your software, so you can afford to price it at $30.
In the simulations market, you wouldn't even sell a tenth of that, so your price must be set over 10 times as high to still bring in the same profit.
VBS2 also has effectively twice the development team of ArmA (BIS + BIA), and it has to provide much more customer support compared to the entertainment market, so it costs more to produce.
The pricing is set by basic economics, just like the price of everything else in the free world.
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Well, I would assume that the publicVariable needs time to be picked up by other clients.
So, you can't expect that the instant you issue the command, the clients will have the results of the variable. Nor can you assume you know how long it will take for the variable to reach all clients.
I believe there are some exceptions dealing with the briefing, but I don't remember the specifics. I don't think init events fire until after the briefing anyway though.
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Quote[/b] ]only 2 are recognised in game as buildings with pathways etc,you can order AI to moveto building positions.
The other 4 are not recognised in game.
They are visible and have geo lods, roadwys etc
but you can not order AI to moveto the building position and the door animations do not work.
Do they have "class=house" or "class=building" (no spaces!
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Wow, I wasn't aware that you could now use dialog scripting with title resources! That opens up a heck of a lot of opportunities! Basically, the old question of "how to make a dialog where I can still move" seems to be solved...
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Kindof.
The best you can do is modify the explosionEffects or the craterEffects of the ammo. These are the particle effects that run when the ammo explodes. As with the drop command, you can run a script when a particle is destroyed.
So, you could add a particle effect to your explosionEffects, which drops one particle only, and that particle makes a script run. In that script you would get passed the location where the particle destroyed itself (i.e. the location where the ammo was exploded).
The only problem with this method is that (a) you can't tell who threw the ammo, and (b) I don't think it would work on dedicated servers, since they might not actually run particle effects.
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Here's the solution to ensure the last queue place:<table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td>Code Sample </td></tr><tr><td id="CODE">requiredAddons[] = {*.*};
Or maybe not
Then again, haven't tried it, you never know.Nah, I'm afraid the requiredAddons does not refer to an actual filename, but instead it refers to the cfgPatches name used in the addon's config.
Confusing? Yes. But it does make sense, because this way you can rename or merge pbos, and still keep backwards compatibility.
Quote[/b] ]Is my understanding correct that all config files -regardless if they reside in the game addon or @mod addon directories- are loaded in one go and then processed in that mystical order being discussed here?Yes, that is basically what I'm getting at here. The load order of addons is, in a way, written into the addons themselves. Mod folders have very little to do with load order.
Quote[/b] ]Basically I want to define or not define cfgVehicle classes depending on the presence of specific pbo's.Are you aware that it is possible to delete classes? I'm not sure if this will help in your case, but basically you can use addonA to delete classes declared in addonB. An example:
<table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td>Code Sample </td></tr><tr><td id="CODE">
class RscMsgBox
{
delete SubBackground;
delete Background;
class Top
{
delete title;
};
};
You may have to delete all sub-classes of a class first, before you can delete the class itself. Also, the 'access' parameter might influence whether you can delete the class or not. Oh, and one last thing, I don't think you can re-declare a class in the same config that you delete it in.
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@ Mar. 05 2008,15:32)]Didn't think about that "land_" in name can affect something...land_ is also required if you want your visitor-placed objects to have a config.
When you load a map, for every object on the map it will look for a config with the name land_(modelname). If it finds it, the config will be used for that map-placed object.
Note this only happens if the model has simulation=house or building in the named properties, I believe.
Anyway, this is how you can have things like working doors or lights for visitor placed objects (as opposed to only editor-placed objects).
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I had another idea: what if you put a non-existent addon in the "requiredAddons" field? It would throw an error message, but I *think* the addon still loads. In this case, I would assume the engine would have to wait until the very end in order to load it?
It would be dirty, but it could work.
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Okay, I'm about to go off of andersson's original topic and start pursuing UNN's topic:
Quote[/b] ]EXEC is great for passing variables from scripts back to the config.Can you please expand on this? Do you mean, you can get values back from the game in real-time? Can you give some examples?
Quote[/b] ]<table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td>Code Sample </td></tr><tr><td id="CODE">EXEC (ReturnValue=nil)#define MYVALUE = EVAL (ReturnValue);
Then this test would return true, even though it's been passed a nil value from a script.
<table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td>Code Sample </td></tr><tr><td id="CODE">#IfDef MYVALUE
Okay, you seem to have a misunderstanding of what #define is. #define does a find and replace operation in your config. Nothing more.
It does not do any sort of code evaluation, any sort of config evaluation, or anything. All it does is a find/replace operation.
#ifdef only checks if something has been #defined, it doesn't care what it has been defined as. Even this will still result in #ifdef evaluating as true:
<table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td>Code Sample </td></tr><tr><td id="CODE">#define SOMETHING
#ifdef SOMETHING
//this point will be reached
#endif
Preprocessor directives can NOT be used to do any form of runtime evaluation, they are ONLY used for find, replace, and paste operations.
Quote[/b] ]I’ve tried all sorts of combinations using #includes, $Stringtables, Scope and EVAL. But so far no luck
I can't get #IfDef to return true or false depending on the presence of another pbo.What exactly are you after? Are you trying to change addonA's config depending on whether addonB is loaded?
In that case, why not just overwrite / modify addonA's classes, inside of the config of addonB?
If this is for scripting purposes, then there are many easy solutions. For my handsignals system in OFP, I had checks to see if the voices pbo was loaded or not. I'm sure you can think of many ways to do this as well.
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You also need a config for your ruins model, otherwise the engine doesn't know what to do with the model.
The class MUST be land_(modelname).
So, in your case, the classname MUST be "land_OWP_CB_b1_ruins".
Just configure the ruins like any other building, but it MUST use the classname above!
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I came across this in the biki:
Quote[/b] ]Talk:PreProcessor Commands
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Isn't this where we mention EXEC? --Doolittle 18:40, 23 August 2007 (CEST)
No. EXEC are not done by preprocessor, they are evaluated by config parser. Preprocessor is not limited to config files, it is used for scripts as well. However, you have a point that those two should be documented somewhere.--Suma 21:18, 7 January 2008 (CET)
Anyway, I guess all I'm pointing out here is that a different process handles EXEC macros vs handling #include #define / etc.
I don't know if that is in any way relevant to the discussion here.
Max. recommended number of active triggers?
in ARMA - MISSION EDITING & SCRIPTING
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I wouldn't really worry about "how many can run". The answer is basically infinite.
Worry more about what you do "in practice".
What I mean is, if you were to make a mission with hundreds of triggers, chances are it would be far, far easier (on you as the designer) to move some or most of that functionality into scripts.
In practice, I haven't seen any noticeable difference between a map with 0 triggers, and one with 1000 triggers. But this is with no scripted conditions. Of course, if you had 1000 triggers, all running "nearestObject" checks in their condition, then you would have massive problems.
In general, I think people tend to over-worry about the "intensity" of scripts. The vast, vast majority of scripts have zero noticable effect on game speeds. There are only certain commands that cause lag, when used in massive amounts.