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Set your 3d resolution setting to match your interface resolution (screen res) in the options > video options menu. Mine was way off.

I've just got the game and am having some difficulties installing. I've done a search here and google and cannot find and answer. The game was brought from EB games in Aus. CD version in the plastic case. I'm going through the install process and once it starts to install (instantly) it will pop up with an error: 'File not Found D:ARMA2Patch_1_06.exe'. I've checked the files on the CD and there is no 'ARMA2Patch_1_06.exe' file. So it's trying to call a non-existent file. I have googled 'ARMA2Patch_1_06.exe' and found a 445mb file online (just to see if it actually exists). On my CD there is a 445mb file called 'ARMA2PAT.exe'. I believe the setup procedure should be calling this file instead. I've checked the SETUP.DAT file (on the CD), there is a couple of references to 'ARMA2Patch_1_06.exe' (around lines 23-24-ish). My thoughts are that the incorrect SETUP.DAT has been shipped with the CD (maybe from another version/country) and it calling the wrong file names. Long winded, but i wanted to make it clear that i've done some investigation and may have found the issue. I can send you the file list + SETUP.DAT file for you to check is need be. Or maybe you could send me the correct SETUP.DAT file for my version....? if this is the case. Thanks. ..and PC specs are i5, 4g ram, GTX275, Win7 64bit. Edit: copied all CD files to PC, editied the SETUP.DAT - changed all references of 'ARMA2Patch_1_06.exe' to 'ARMA2PAT.exe'. Installation worked for 10 sec or so then failed at 'battleye....something.. blah blah'. Looks like another mis-named file. I'm 99% certain that the incorrect SETUP.DAT file has been shipped with my version.

Yeah, well it's not over yet. We've still got a group of guys who are all set up with the source files. It's just a matter of getting some organizing happening. Aussie was the guy who organised it and it took it's toll, as you can see. He finally got over it and left... which is understandable because he felt like none of the other were pulling their weight... which is often very hard to do when trying to balance RL and 'virtual life', so completely understandable. Apart from organizing, aussies role was dealing with config files/clutter etc, compiling peoples work to the main source map, road, rock and tree placement etc. My department is terrain sculpting and mask/sat generation. Which is basically taking the map at a point in time and generating emf's of all the data and laying those out onto the mask/sat in photoshop, so the mask/sat matches what is on the ground. The rest of the team are assigned with addon creation, city building, object placement and A1-A2 conversion (object swapping)... which is where it all kind of came to a halt because it was such a mammoth task. Anyway, that's the position we're in. I can take over most of aussies tasks but i've been on holiday (out of the country) for the last 3 months, so haven't really had a chance to organize anything or talk with the others. Don't worry just yet. we're still holding on by a thread :o

What he's trying to say is what was originally supposed to be a 6 month project ended up being a 2 year project and many people in the team got too busy in RL in the last 6 months.... and with the release of A2 things came to a halt. In saying that, nobody has left the team apart from aussie, so we're all still here alive and kicking, it's just a matter of getting into gear and finishing it... and we currently have no forums, so it's not easy to keep updated.

Sorry guys, The OGN site's down and I've been on holiday for the last 5-6 weeks, hence the no updates. I've just got home and have had no word yet on the OGN site, and no word from the other boys regarding the progress. I'll figure it all out and post an update soon.

How would i go about getting/setting the size of an object (in %) on the map (eg, a tree). When an object in visitor is placed, it's possible to set the size of that object. I want to know if it's possible to read this size ingame I've done a search and looked in the bis wiki but i cant seem to make any headway. Maybe someone here will know if it's possible or not. Edit1: sizeOf gives me an x-axis size, but it doesnt quite do what i need. Edit2: boundingBox does similar, but not a % of the original size.

haha, that's exactly what i'm trying to do, get the scaled size. What about getting the 'sizeOf' size and comparing it to the 'boundingBox' size? Might give it a go.

Hey Planck, while you're on the subject of scripts... :D... how would i go about exporting the size of an object from visitor. I'm playing with the export/import scripts and they dont maintain the object size. Is there any way of capturing this data?

Everyone works on separate instances of the pew and then Aussie will merge them every so often. It does take a bit of coordination to keep everything in order. I do the sat/mask so i'm not too involved in object placement. Once a new master Pew is made, I'll get it and create a complete new mask/sat for it. Then Aussie will compile it and we'll have a play. I'll get someone to make a beer addon and we can all sit around ingame once it's ready and have one :bounce3: It hasnt been 18 months full time. We've all got pretty busy real life schedules and we do bits at a time.

People of you mindset obviously like to brag about how awesome they are compared to people of my mindset. That's not constructive, it's patronising. We do use 3rd party tools for mostly everything but some specific jobs like object placement, road placement and editing terrain, which is done in visitor. As for blaming others, we've been doing this map for 18 months and have hardly said a word about it. We're getting to the point where it's becoming a real issue. And you come along and tell us we're not allowed to complain....? Can 3DE edit terrain vertices? Can it handle 2 million objects? Can we write our own scripts to generate forests? etc...

Well it's not to scale. It's like 1/100 scale. And, no. never again. :) At least we complain about bugged tools..., you complain about people complaining. :D haha. really though, you need a lot of patience to use theses tools, and what Aussie wrote is nothing compared to what grief the tools are giving us. It would not be a problem to make simple tools such as bin or pbo packers etc... , but to recreate visitor... hmmm, not possible without some source data from bis.

somewhere around 2010-ish...possibly maybe hopefully.

Aussie just sent me another image. The sat/mask surrounding the area is not ready so it looks crap from a wide angle, we'll get you some more later when it's done.

These are the things we're discussing at the moment. Do we swap all A1 trees for A2 trees? Do we include a tree addon pack (with A1 trees included)? Will we even be allowed to distribute A1 trees? etc... In the screenies you see, we're still using A1 trees until we figure out a solution. What we're currently working on is sorting out the clutter, and replacing the A1 roads for A2 roads, all 1000km of them!!. Aussie has been putting in the big hours and doing all the tech work, figuring out the config etc, while i'm playing the map and taking screenies for you all He just sent me some screenies of what he's working on at the moment, and it looks good. I'll see if i can get some shots if it when he's finished :). As IceBreaker stated (cheers mate), it's the entire continent but we've taken a bit of an artistic licence when it comes to.. well, basically everything except the shape....:rolleyes: We've also enlarged all the major coastal inlets (Sydney, Adelaide etc) so they're big enough to build a city around, plus the desert/farmland/tropical areas etc are in the correct places.

Here's the link to the OGN forums where we post everything first: http://forums.ogn.com.au/showthread.php?t=63694 The forums are going pretty slow at the moment, it'll be fixed soon. Also, here's a few more screenies.

I'll get Aussie to re-post those screenies. Or i'll just make some more.

Haha, yeah for sure. I might have to add that into the interaction menu. Instead of the standard greeting being 'How are you today', it'll be 'I'll giv ya a fiver ef ya sho us ya milkers luv'. And as for gum trees, definitely.

This is correct, but we also have to make a bit of content to fit the island. Like windmills, houses, buildngs etc... just a few things that BIS dont have. Nothing too complex, except the Sydney harbour bridge and the opera house, both being made by Bern.

What pics are you guys talking about? The ones i posted on the last page? I can see them ok, anyone else having issues?

Ah i feel for you :( I dont think i'll personally be doing much replacing because i'm in charge of the sat/mask. I'll try and help out if i find some time. It might be a while before its all done. Maybe around Christmas. Anyway, here's another screenie.

The main objective now is to exchange all the A1 addons for the A2 equivalent. This will take some time as we'll basically have to replace most of the building objects on the map. It might take some time, but here's another shot to keep you happy in the mean time.

The Australia map is 40km x 40km, but we've had to use a 2048x2048px height map with a 20m cell size (making the map 40km x 40km, or 1600sqkm). The sat is 20480x20480 because my pc wouldnt run a 40960x40960 image. It's still a 5-8Gb working file which compresses into a 500mb png once flattened. The problem is that having a sat which is half the size of the terrain means V3 stretch it out to make it fit, making it less detailed and causing parts to look crappy (ie, the rocks) If you use 4096x4096px height map with a 10m cell size you'll have issues in V3 where you cant place objects on certain parts of the map... Anyway, with a map that size, you'll spend the next 10 years of your life making it and you'll have about 2-3 million objects and just to make it not look empty. If you want to make a 'big' map, use maybe 1024x1024 at 10m (10km x10km map) or 2048x2048 at 10m (20km x 20km). If you havnt made a map before, make it 128x128 x 10m and see how many hours that takes.

i may be able to get the 3d files of the models/weapons etc used in the movie. I'll let you know if i can.

No, i've just got a separate grass file (grass.psd) which is just all grass, i copy it over to any new maps i make. To create it i just open a blank canvas and start playing with the effects and filters. It's basically a big block of grass which i can use on any island.

For example to make the grass texture, i'll create a layer, render some clouds, add some noise, duplicate the layer and rotate it 180, blend the 2 layers, flatten the image, soften the image, add some more noise etc.... I just keep layering it up until i have the desired effect. Then add colour to it and use it as the grass. If i want sand i'll duplicate the grass layer and flatten the colour right out to sand colour. If i get time (maybe in november...) i'll make photoshop textures for all the sat elements and upload them. Then you can just create a layer and add the texture to it and it's done. I find that building the sat up yourself gives you more control over object placement. I'll generally start with a basic island and make a simple sat/mask with just grass, sand and rocks (so i can see what it looks like when placing objects). Then in visitor i'll add all the objects and then go back to the sat/mask and remake them with more detail once all the objects are placed. Below is an island without any objects, just sand, grass and rock on the sat/mask. note: the rock is crappy looking because it was just a test. You can see the grass and sand look pretty good. Edit: it took maybe 1 hour of work to get to this stage, starting from completely nothing.