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  1. sulman
    Hi all, A quick question, and I think I already know the answer. I really love some of the single-player scenarios in ArmA2, specifically 'Village Sweep' and OA's BAF Single Missions, and I wanted to see if anyone had ported them to ArmA3 using CUPS or AIA, but no dice. So, using the @bardosy incredibly useful guide (and object dictionary), and using CUP assets, I set about learning to do it myself. So far I have 'Village Sweep' working with one or two scripting quirks (replacing some secops scripts) left to fix. My question is, could I share these via Armaholic or the Workshop? I suspect it isn't allowed, but no harm in asking, right?
  2. sulman
    'Tankbusters' is up: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1253176502 The vehicle AI makes this quite a bit harder than in A2, but still achievable as long as you use your supports. It's more of a command mission than anything else. I plan to do 'Concrete Oasis' next as that is a hoot to play.
  3. sulman
    BAF 03 Seek and Destroy is up: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1242980777
  4. sulman
    Hike In The Hills is up: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1237992488 Very few changes. The original missions has the Opfor units move on a trigger and immediately switch to a 'search & destroy' waypoint positioned near the centre of the village, however in A3 this doesn't work very well, Ironically because the AI has got smarter; they will hunker down and find positions as soon as they know about you, which is almost immediately. This led to firefights in the 400-500m range, and the end mission trigger rarely working because there was some pixeltruppen hiding behind a rock somewhere in the hills, so I moved the initial waypoints up a little. Now they move more readily into the fight, like the original.
  5. sulman
    I saw the other chap has ported quite a few since; Interestingly Hike in The Hills took me a while to get working properly as the mission flow is quite complex and uses a considerable amount of FSM with some legacy a2 functions. I think I'll post my version anyway when I'm happy with it. The other person's version didn't have weapon cache trigger (when I tried it, at least) possibly because this trigger is handled in grpMain.fsm which needed a fair bit of editing. The other issue is that in ArmA 3 it plays differently; victory condition is no enemies (or enemies fleeing) within a 450m radius of the village. The problem: Engagement and spotting ranges are way higher in A3, so some enemy units will camp /wait / snipe around 400-500 metres, thus leaving the player to find them. I've not decided on the best solution; I will either include a support unit (a single gunship) allowed after a certain time, or I will change the trigger conditions. Also, default loadout in A2 was MK16 with Holo sights which aren't ideal for this kind of fighting (after initial fight in Village you'll be having 300-500m exchanges of fire) Reluctantly I think I will make some changes to balance it out and bring the flow closer to how it was in A2.
  6. sulman
    I fixed this; the copied over .sqm had 'CARGO' in the 'special' field of their Vehicle section, and the units dutifully spawned correctly, but obviously the vehicle didn't move. So I did it the old-fashioned way and started them outside with 'moveinCargo' statements in the init and it worked absolutely fine. Perhaps ArmA 2 handled this differently, but it works now.
  7. sulman
    I'm porting a mission from Arma 2 and have encountered an unusual problem. Player starts as cargo in an AI Humvee, but the vehicle does not move to its waypoint at the start, unless you get out and get back in again. I can't for the life of me figure it out. Vehicle is placed on the map in Eden with waypoints; it's a simple setup but something is obviously not right. I tried adding some waitUntil checks, but no dice. The game seems satisfied the player is in the vehicle but won't start moving unless the player gets out and in again. I tried setVelocity, engineon, the usual tricks to try and give him a shove, but same result. Vehicle spawns in with the player in there with his two squad mates but won't budge until I select get out and get back in, at which point it's fine. Works okay in ArmA 2.
  8. sulman
    I've started attacking OA's 'Hike in the Hills', which has considerably more complexity than the others (a lot of FSM and the usual initJIPcompatible.sqf malarky legacy calls), but I think I have a handle on what I need to do.
  9. sulman
    Village Sweep is up: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1232739180
  10. sulman
    On the list!
  11. sulman
    Village Sweep should be up over the weekend, just have to tidy up the Objectives and debrief. Going to do a few of these, they're quite good fun. I'm also going to mail some old Armaholic favourite authors to see if they'd let me port some, or point them to these threads if they want to do it themselves.
  12. sulman
    An Eye For An Eye is up: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1231810893
  13. sulman
    I've practically finished two, I'm just in a black hole of endless tinkering and testing now. 'Village Sweep' was quite straightforward; outside of the class name substitutes there was only one piece of Arma 2 code that didn't work. 'An Eye For an Eye' is superficially very simple (played many times down the years, a nice 15 minute mission) but on looking there is a lot going on. Many lines of dialogue, and it took me a while to understand that ArmA 2 single player still runs 'initJIPcompatible.sqf' which contained the majority of the mission scripting. init.sqf by contrast was a zero-length file. There were also numerous calls (I think around 60-70) using 'MPframework' which does not exist anymore, so all the tasks and kbTell dialogue had to be converted to remoteExec, all of which is totally new to me so it was an interesting if frustrating exercise. The other thing is ArmA 3 plays a little differenty, with more aggressive AI, longer spotting distances, and no revive for single player (this is a big second-chance giver) so it makes me think about some balancing, but I've decided to completely leave it alone and unchanged. A single AH1Z included in Village Sweep can win the mission for you singlehandedly, it was never such a killing machine in ArmA 2. 'An Eye For an Eye' has an end trigger if you lose a single squad member, which seems harsh to me and indeed I tested it with a more tolerant limit, however there is so much dialogue with 'waitUntil' dependent on squad members script would not execute when they were dead, so I'm leaving it. I think this was the motivation for this constraint in the first place... I'll try and get these released in the next few days, then I will do some more.
  14. sulman
    You know, I'd never thought to search for OFP stuff in the workshop; and of course, there it is! Now I've got even more distractions... That's good to know, I'll playtest some more and I'll publish some. Thanks for your help, and for the guide, I would not have been able to work it out otherwise. I wrote a little Python script to do what your Notepad++ plugin script does with your CUP class dictionary (I'm a Linux user so needed something different); I will publish it once I'm happier with it.
  15. sulman
    Yes, I played a few of them, I think they were more like reboots on Altis using a similar briefing, but crucially, often used original sound files which I think is a grey area. I think it would be nice for people to have them but I don't want to piss anyone off.
  16. sulman

    Public Beta

    sulman replied to DnA's topic in ARMA 3 - PORTS

    It's a bug. I've got a feedback ticket in and VP are aware. Sure they'll fix it soon enough.
  17. sulman

    Public Beta

    sulman replied to DnA's topic in ARMA 3 - PORTS

    My client is crashing as soon as I try to load any workshop content; I thought this might be a Beta thing but I think it is either something on my system or a problem with parsing images in the workshop - http://pastebin.com/2WNDm3F7
  18. sulman

    Public Beta

    sulman replied to DnA's topic in ARMA 3 - PORTS

    It's about as real as alot of Linux ports - even the Valve Source ports do some manipulation of Direct3d calls... So enjoy what we have. A short while ago it was nothing :)
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    Public Beta

    sulman replied to DnA's topic in ARMA 3 - PORTS

    Knowing little of how the wrapper works, the last few lines suggest a renderer problem; can you try a later driver?
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    Public Beta

    sulman replied to DnA's topic in ARMA 3 - PORTS

    Pretty impressed so far. Worked first time for me on Gentoo Linux; I had some stutters compared to the Windows version early on (sound files loading). It actually reminds me of older windows builds; it doesn't quite look the same (textures are a little different..will try and grab some screens to demonstrate) but performance is adequate. None of the my sync'd workshop missions worked, I'm guessing because the files simply aren't there, so I'll download the missions manually (like the old OFP days!).
  21. sulman

    ARMA3 patch 1.02 discussion

    sulman replied to TGxAethius's topic in ARMA 3 - GENERAL

    Well, this is good news. I'm a little surprised at the hint of negativity towards it. It's an improvement, no?
  22. sulman
    I really don't understand what you mean. The same tactics that work in A2 work in A3, and vice versa. Except that you can use the environment - i.e. low walls - properly now.
  23. sulman
    Some of this reminds me of Red Orchestra: Ostfront vs. Heroes Of Stalingrad, except that the degree of progression between ArmA 2 & 3 is far more nuinanced. Frankly, I don't know what people are complaining about. The game plays and feels better than at any point in its history, and it isn't the least bit 'easier' by any metric you care to mention. For instance, complaining that one can rambo with an LMG may have some validity, but look at the context - CQB wasn't even a thing in previous versions of the game. It's a small price to pay for being able to move with some agility around urban environs.
  24. sulman
    I think it's a weird assertion to make. It is no more forgiving than OFP was. I've been with the series since CWC, and I think this is my favourite release along with Armed Assault (I loved Arma 1 for single player, I still do.)
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    Have Arma 3, is Arma 2 worth it?

    sulman replied to sporkface's topic in ARMA 2 & OA - GENERAL

    Right now, Arma 2 is better. It has far more content, even out of the box. I don't know if this is important to you, but the ability to have two very different environments (desert and Eastern Europe) is a lot of fun. A huuuuge number of missions available, too.
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