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well i wont be the kind of jackass to say... 'use search' so here.. Brrseb 's awesome tutorial site http://ofp.gamepark.cz/_hosted/brsseb/tutorials.htm and colonel_klink's awesome tutorial site http://www.dc3d.co.nz/Tutorials/index.htm ...Now, what i will say.. is if you can't get started from those two sites... Â its probably not worth it.. because on Brsseb's.. he gives step-by-step tutorials with pictures. Â If you can't follow those, or your blind, it might be worth going into knitting or something good luck

To agree with everyone else.. ..thanks for the great jet... love flying it Now it'd be cool if we could somehow get a 'universal' addon pack. that most online server's used... that had all the quality addons in, like this one...

i had seen some videos of people flying harriers onto a carrier in arma... on youtube.. very recently when hunting around for footage to help make my carrier addon - as i've never actually been on a carrier But yeh... on the video it said it was a carrier-addon released for 'private testing' and as mine was already working (sort of - it works just doesnt look pretty) - but as there wasn't a 'released' version, that i could personally use.. i thought i'd make mine.. So i'm curious, have i been beaten to the punch lol? is the other carrier available to download? Also, i've been informed by mandoble that the way i've setup my carrier into seperate addons is wrong, which means i'll be fiddling with a bit of the config.cpp But this should remove any hassle placing it on the map and getting it to line up.. So when i next update it.. very shortly hopefully.. If i have that working placing it into a mission will be the same as placing any other object ..hell maybe i can even turn it into a real 'ship' and give it a wake... and some torpedos.. and a nuke.... ..steady.. But to fix it quickly, if you've loaded up my custom mission, you can simply decrease the '90' -ish figure in the 3 init fields.. which it appears. (Back/Middle/Tower) pieces.. just decrease it by 1, and you will not have a problem.. if not try 2 I did notice it myself, but i think i forgot to move the roadway LOD in place properly.. rushing to release it before i fell asleep.. sorry if this isnt being very specific... If i can ask you guys for help... It'd be this.. If you know of anywhere that's got good photos/information on carriers feel free to post away I'd also really like to get the.. damnit i've forgotten the acronym.. SAVI ? - its called 'the meatball' anyway, i'd like to get a funtional 'meatball' on my carrier... which i think would really add to it... making it much more usable.. i mean it's not that hard to land on at present.. but it'd just be more visually appealing on landing.. anyway definately time to sleep thanks for all the nice comments/suggestions/criticisms ..whoa long post

you see where you've commented out its position as 'navlight' if that's what you've named the vertex in the ... memory lod, then that's what you should name it's name.. if that makes sense.. so instead of calling it whatever it is in czech... blahby-blik ..you just 'name' it navlight .. to correspond with your named vertex.. ...sorry if you've tried this and again im getting the stick wrong end thereof

i've just uploaded some pics also.. Maybe i shouldnt double post.. but eventually when it gets lots of detail i suppose i might need this post space here.. ..and as this is top of the forum atm anyway, i suppose technically this isn't bumping it... maybe.. possibly.. ..hopefully.. *ducks and prepares to get shot* Here are imgs of me splashing down near the carrier.. Failed landing 1939324201 ... Click for larger images :P <a href="http://www.actionjunkie.co.uk/CarrierPic02.jpg" target="_blank"> </a>

you need to have 'sections' defined in the CfgModels.. I don't know what relevance this actually has as to how the light affects it.. but without adding the name of the 0.00 LOD's selection to that area of the config.. my light didn't show up at all. Unless of course yours is showing up.. In which case my info probably doesnt help. <table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td>Code Sample </td></tr><tr><td id="CODE"> class CfgModels { class All {}; class AllVehicles: All {}; class Land: AllVehicles {}; class Static : Land {}; class Building : Static {}; class NonStrategic : Building {}; class Fence : NonStrategic {}; class WireFence: Fence {}; class House: NonStrategic {}; class ViewTower2: House{}; class TcCarrierTower: ViewTower2 { sectionsInherit = ""; sections[] = {  "CarrierTow" }; }; }; That's just an example of what i have above my CfgPatches section.. I'm not saying its right because all my stuff is guesswork and trial and error but mine show up.. so- 0.00 LOD  -  has selection named  CarrierTow hope that helps and i've not got the wrong end of the stick

Hi scars, really appreciate your help here... this also might make me sound stupid but i gotta say it... i have done a fair bit of research and also found another topic where people mentioned a class called MarkerLights which i'm assuming are the same as your 'positional lights' i tried placing a vertex in the memory LOD, giving it a selection group and then fiddling with the config... ...But it is entirely the 'fiddling with the config' part that i manage to complete mess up i think, because often it moans as soon as i hit 'Preview' in the mission editor... Is it possible to get the game to output a script of sorts showing all the available variables for each of these 'classes' I'm far from a programmer, so i don't know if anything above i've said makes sense... But it'd be really great if i could get some reference on how to use the markerlight/positional lights :P on my static object. also, another stupid question.. you say the createvehicle command? does that mean i'd have to use that in the mission editor, or in my config.cpp for the model? - Because what you've written out defiantely looks like a config.cpp sort of snippit.. what is being referenced as it's position in the model? thanks thanks again and again you guys are a great help - i dont know where i'd be without ya

thanks for your  help Gnat / Scars... I have just found the material section bit and have wrote a few for my carrier,  one for the deck and one for the various lights, and it does indeed make them self illumunated... But i'd also like to either have them give off a bit of light,  not in the 'headlight'  fashion... 'campfire' style  so the lights actually light up their surrounding fixtures and such.. Or i'm just going to have to litter my model with spotlights, but i think that'll look terrible... My main concern is i have a radio tower /crows nest of sorts... and you can't really see the red/green 'lights'  that are set to self illuminate/emission until you are flying into it....  Which means they don't really serve their purpose... For example, how do the buildings and Watertower's, etc, static objects with lights on them.. how do they work, i haven't moved my character up to their lights much ingame to see if they actually light your character up... But the campfires sure do. And what about the current BI wing-fixed flashy red/green lights for planes? Surely, with all this config-modding you have to do...  just to get a model into the game...  You're tellin me i can't stick a Proper-light source on an external model?  It just seems so wrong, hehe

ah well thanks for merging the topics... I only posted a 2nd one as this one has a wierd title.. and it wont help when people are searching for anything to do with lighting, if you see my meaning.. ..Not trying to monopolise the forums for my own personal use So, are you saying that the default BI -gear system is pretty much incompatible with carriers?

My aircraft carrier is progressing... I've practically started again making it bigger :-) 2 issues i'm still having problems with are - When i land the BI harriers on the deck... they seem to want to fold up their gear... and sit there on the deck parked, but not on their gear.. which is fine, i mean i can manage to take them off again - But it'd look just silghtly better if they didnt fold the gear up on touching the carrier... What i don't understand is i am also using MAS Beta 0.2 F18.. And i can land this on the carrier (with a hella lot of practice) and it's gear dont crumple up on hitting the carrier, i can drive it around the limited parking area there is on deck. So i'm not sure if this is something i've done.. my inability to fly the harrier, or if it's just something to do with how the BI harriers detect what is solid ground, i've never tried a VTOL landing with a harrier onto a building myself.. my 2nd problem is lighting the deck of my carrier... I have tried lots of variations of lights and i seem to be running into a few problems.. I've searched and checked tutorials but i'm curious - - Is it possible to have a light without having the "spotlight-cone" effect.. because this seems to be the only way to light stuff such as the surroundings.. - if so, how? cheers

Wow thanks for your replies... it's great to hear other peoples experiences and know that i'm not the only person who's come unstuck due to this Well, it's not great, but at least it doesnt make me feel stupid. This does though  -  I don't know what size my 'carrier' is.. because im building it in max,  then i import the 3ds and in the scale settings i have it set to  2  :  1 But i'm really not too clued-up on how to use O2.. i'm sure it tells you the ingame size of your models somewhere but if anyone can point me ot that  cheers for all y'all help everyone, it's really appreicated. [edit much] Also, i have split it up like you suggest Gnat and it works good but i'm curious if there is a better way to have it all connected together at runtime? Because my current way of using the script in the Init is trial and error at best and only works with having the rotation of the FrontDeck as it is, if i were to turn it 90* left i'd have to re-guesstimate that little script..

Wow, was that easier than i thought it'd be... Right now i come to my next problem.. I've been up all night so i got an endurance thingy going on I think because my aircraft carrier was too big, the roadway LOD hit it's limit (i appeared to drop off the end of the runway even though there was roadway polys covering that area) - So after more reading about people are talking about splitting the mesh up and combining it later using scripting.. to get around it.. So i have already sliced my mesh down the middle and seperated the 2 files, and with 2 addons... and i've put them in the editor and used a funky script in the initialization like: <table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td>Code Sample </td></tr><tr><td id="CODE">this setpos [(getpos Tc01F select 0)-63.25,(getpos Tc01F select 1)-3,(getpos Tc01F select 2)+0]; To put the rear of the aircraft carrier offset at the right place compared to whereever i place the Front of it (i suppose this will mess up if i do it this way and rotate it, but for now.) My big problem is, if this is the right way to get around the limit of the roadway LOD /collision size, how exactly do i combine the 2 models, because when i get close to the seam inbetween the 2 statics my character just seems to drop down inbetween the 2 models. There is no 'gap' for him to fall down however, he seems to fall into the model and i have even tried adding extra roadwayLOD's on both sides to give each side an extra cushion near the seam of the 2 giant objects, but i still fall through.. cheers to anyone who knows where im going wrong

a roadway LOD you say... ..time to go read more i guess any references you could point me to ? if you have any at hand (wasnt mentioned in the tutorial i was doing, but i suppose that's for opf, thanks ill start looking there)

Not trying to monopolise the support forums but any official feedback on whether this issue is getting resolved or not would be appreciated.. i dont know if i mentioned before, but id simply check the bug tracking system.. but everytime i see a link for it and try to check it out, the links dont appear to work. cheers

Hi, I was just posting to say that a small bug (i believe its a bug anyway)  i've noticed when playing Evo at night (on ver 1.08, at least)  was that when  putting on the NVG, the viewable area  gets shortened down to one screen... This is not the problem,  the problem is that the night vision googles  still adjust to things displayed on the other 2 screens...  and because of the extremely wide FOV,  the NV keeps bleaching out and going really dark, etc.. [edit to explain further - hope this helps] So, if there is a streetlight on the left of right monitor, it can't be seen on the little NVG viewing circle... but the visible area still becomes very dark because (i think) the lights on left/right monitor are considered to be affecting visibility [/edit] Perhaps it's a feature,  but the fact the other 2 monitors are  blacked out and you cant see anything on them, makes me think they shouldn't really be affected by this. I don't know how many people actually use the triplehead feature, but i imagine it's not a lot..  so i doubt this will be viewed as a bug of massive proportions,  however.. for me personally, it does make playing at night a lot harder than if i had just one screen... i haven't tried the 1.09 patch so for all i know,  someone has already noticed and fixed this (lol, maybe wishful thinking)  - But i thought i should post it anyway.. Also, whilst im here, and slightly related... Is it possible to use  start-parameters on the .exe   to start the game in triplescreen mode like the -x -y params? because sometimes i'd like to run the game,  on just a window, one screen thanks

precisely what andersson said... I understand the NVG is limited to a tiny circle in the middle monitor, but if this is the case, then only that area should be affected by the light sources... and perhaps people with one monitor are being affected by it... but it must be much less of an issue, because whilst we are at the same advantage/disadvantage by the fact the view is limited to the circle on one monitor, all 3 of my screens affect the 'lighting' of the NVG's... so where you might not be getting affected by lights 90degree's to your left... i am. cheers for the replies so far though and merry christmas / boxin day

60 views and no replies.. eek Am i alone in seeing this bug? any feedback would be appreciated especially from people using 3 monitors... if only to confirm that i'm not a madman. i don't expect much though as it's so close to christmas.. but i'd rather not let this sink to the bottom of the pile, especially as i can't see to report it on the bug tracking system.. or even view that?

I have made my custom FN-P90 for Arma, and have it working ingame... (although i am remaking the model and texture as we speak) - i'm incredibly pleased to have got this far... But because of the shape of it and the fact that the magazine sits on top of the gun, the general holding position and reload look extremely 'off' i have downloaded a few addons for Arma but i haven't seen any examples of custom reload/holding animations for guns.. im wondering if anyone would be able to tell me... ..if its possible to make custom animations for Arma? ..what files i'd have to make/edit and if possible ..any tips/links to tutorials about OfpAnim (im assuiming this is what you'd need to use to make them? but yeh any information would be appreciated, even if its just 'not possible at the moment' lol - although that would be dissapointing thanks

thanks a lot, now when i get home from work i can carry on making my addon

i have searched the biki using the 'search' function.. using.. wait for it... animation naming conventions but sadly, sweet f.a came up... ...i cant be the only one to think that the biki is poorly indexed.. like i said on the comments on the biki... ..if you know, would you mind posting where bdfy?

hmmm thats a shame, could i not put something in the weapons cpp so it would only use my own animations for my weapon.. ive extracted all the stock animations as well, from the Anims.pbo - to take a look at them, but the naming convention seems a bit... confusing so if anyone had any idea as to what that was all about as well, apprecaited.. because ill surely be able to have a look at the existing mp5 animations, make my own new ones around what they look like and somehow write that into the config.cpp ...im hoping ..this is all a bit new to me, thanks in advance

YEEESS!!! YESSS! Thank you Suma... i would edit my post, but this needs another post... I went into CMD / Dos prompt... typed what you suggested... and Voila... i have.... MY MODEL! inside the viewer... all working. It now complains about: Cannot load texture standard_1.paa but this is a minor detail, now i have a semi-working bulldozer and i can actually SEE MY MODEL! Suma, i cant say how happy you have made me man, thank you so much for your time... Obviously it'd be great if it worked without all this effort.. but, i suppose like they say... Anything thats easy to do, isnt worth doing at all thank you again

hmmm.... ..sorry to sound like a completely 'noob' here... but i know how to set a working directory in... dos-mode for example? but im a little bit confused as to how you do this in windows.. would this be where it says "Start in" in the shortcut?

hmm... thanks for your help in trying to resolve this.. but still no joy. [edit] At least, im guessing what i have described is a known issue with the tools? and not just me - that is being fixed yeh? - im hoping the fact you have replied is to confirm this, i hope [/edit] I added this:  -window -buldozer -noland P:\FullPathTo\MyModel.p3d as you say, to then end of the shortcut but as i say,  no joy.. it just keeps splitting errors at me,  my shortcut looks like this.. C:\Games\ArmA\arma.exe -buldozer -noland z:\TC_P90.p3d But it now spits up... 2 error boxes before closing the game.. No entry '.CfgWorlds'. and i click ok and get.. a black screen, followed by another error: Shaders not valid (mismatch of exe and data?) -  I thought this may have been as i asked daSquade for his .exe  file to test if it was my sprocket version causing the problems,  but i have since reinstalled the game and have a legitimate version of the game...  So  i have no idea  Once again,  thanks for trying to resolve this,  any answers  are appreciated  p.s:  also,  i think the sprocket version i have is 1.05,  yet i just reinstalled it and it says its 1.08...  which is confusing,  so im going to downlod the patch and apply it again just incase thats what causing it...  But im hopeful as you guys wrote it, you might know if this is not the cause...

Hi, i'm a bit of a 3dsmax man myself.... and i'm currently trying to learn zBrush for making my hi-poly models (without much success if im honest, as its a completely different beast..) i'm doing all this because it's my hobby and it sort-of goes along with my uni course and what career i want to get into... and im applying all this into making models for Doom3... ..But then it dawned on me, i dont even like doom3. so why the hell am i making models for it... ..Because i play Arma so much, i'd love to make models for that instead, i've got Oxygen2 and i've fired it up, loaded up some BI models and even exported them into max... but i can't seem to find any definitive resources/tutorials on where to start and what the process involves in making models for Arma... ...If anyone could point me in the right direction (cus there seem to be a few people who are well on their way here - as you may guess, i haven't made any Ofp models either) it would be appreciated. thanks