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Only BIG planes can carry and drop the MOAB, for obvious reasons. The 1st MOAB that was ever tested was droped from a Hercules C-130. They have to open the ramp and roll out the suporting kart + Â the attached MOAB. I'm not aware if there is other planes carrying this bombs. Coincidence or not, it happens that the C-130 is exactly the plane I'm working on the moment (for the Portuguese Mod), so who knows!? Maybe the Portuguese Hercules can start MOABing the Arma ground! Â

GodHammer I think your texture/model is very well done, and about the holes I don't think you can do much better then that. But again ,it looks excelent, so don't worrie about it. BTW: Are you working on any MOAB ? Saw last night a documentary about it on Discovery Turbo and wonder if anyone made one yet...

I still play once a year Chuckie Egg...And I'm very pround of living the days that passing the level 64 of Chuckie Egg was a great honor to any living human being!

This article at CGChannel is a nice reading for those that ever tried to texture something. "The 10 top tips for texturing"

I would say that any version of XSI would work for you...From what i understand you are just starting in this 3D stuff, so every extra button will only confuse you. So any 3D package of any version would work for you. Just choose one software and go all the way with it. Avoid switching softwares at the middle of the learning. Once you learn the basics of every chapter, then you can change softwares... About the unwrapping, indeed XSI can be a bit laborious, but there are some nifty tricks not so obvious that work wonderful. I've only found them, after dozens of hours around the same difficulties...when i got tired i went to the web and found some great videos explaining the tricks. Now i don't use any 3rd application for the unwrapping.

XSI is a professional tool and o2 is a ofp/arma game content creator/editor. So there are hundreds of features/techniques that you can't do with o2, because that is not its purpose. If i remember the demo version is fully featured for 30 days, but there's also XSI Mod Tool that is a "light" free version of the software. You can model, texture (UV mapping) and animate. The render features are disabled for sure. My advise if you're in the will of trying XSI for serious, is to get the Digital Tutors training kit " Introduction to XSI 6.0". It was free for those who own the software, and it was in the website to, not sure how's it is now. BTW today 7.0 version was released live in the web, but that's another topic...

Yes you can Praelium. Export the mesh from XSI in .obj format. then import it in o2.

I think that is a good suggestion to be posted on the bis "request thread". It is sure that bis artists have a psd file with all the layers displayed, but i presume the copyrights gods won't like that much. Having this psd file made by the community is more then possible to. Maybe some of the skinners out there have some psd files to share.

Thanks for the feedback, I remember a pdf file from Softimage showing the power of Ultimapper, and it was something similar to what you described. The alpha thing is quite impressive indeed, and the results are usually impressive to. What you also confirmed me is that isn't any magic button that does the trick just like that...There's always a lot of manual tweaking to finally adjust the distortions, but yes it works that way. I just have the arma bis soldier loaded, but i'm sure i have the ofp head somewhere to...it would be interesting to try i guess. Thanks for the explanation!

Maybe "bug me" isn't the best adjective. What i mean is that I'm not understanding how to transfer the texture from one mesh to another totally different mesh. I work with XSI, so i'm familiar with Ultimapper ( but maybe not enough) and from what i remember the Ultimaper purpose is to transfer detail from one high mesh to its equivalent low res mesh. So the topology is always very similar, which i suppose it doesn't happen between an Arma head and OFP head (maybe they are, never compared). My workflow is to grab a low res model, then make a clone of it and start modeling all the details at will. When happy you make a nice uv map to the low rez model, and overlap the 2 models on each other. Now with ultimapper, it will create all the diffuse/normal/ao from the high rez to the low rez mesh. I never had great results if the topology isn't very similar,so that was the reason that made ask how to do it, not saying it's impossible or want to sound that I'm a xsi guru. Thanks for the answer anyway.

I was bugged with this tip from plaintiff1, because honestly i didn't knew you can do it. So what we're talking here is : Mesh from ofp with ofp UV layout- Lets call it MeshA with UV(A) Mesh from Arma with diferent UV Layour- call it MeshB with UV(B). What i can easly do in XSI is grab a MeshA with UV(A) and render the texture to a new texture that uses UV(B). Now if you have a MeshA and a different MeshB, i really don't how can it be done. You have any tut on that for Maya? To solve Q issue, maybe i would grab an ofp head, then create a new uv map that fits the best possible to arma's uv layout. Then i would render the old ofp texture to a new arma texture. But just wondering here...all the normal/specular maps that Arma models use would still be missing right? Or you thinking on manually do that? Â

Congrats to "nuestros hermanos" and i hope they can do what we couldn't...win the dam EuroCup ! Couldn't see any vids of the goals, but looking to score seams that Spain gave an harsh lesson to Russia... Also my congrats to Russia, like Turkey they were fun to watch playing! + you build a nice team for the WC... Cya after the final...I want Spain to win, but i dunno why i think German will find a way to win it (clean i hope).

Congrats to Germany for being in the final. To all the Turkish football nation, my sincere respect for the great team you have and you can feel dam proud of your performance! I was totally conquer by the passioned and "suicidal" attacks like some people call it, and it was great for the show. Still wonder how my team did won Turkey so easily...I'm sure they were in a bad day!

You have Synide tool that exports to lwo format. From there you can import in any 3D application.

Ok this is it...I swear in public that i won't ever bet my money on football... I just can't believe Russia smashed Holland!! Congrats to the comrades! OT:Alenishev forever!

Lukemax, the sucessfull experiences i had importing models to o2 is in .obj format. The 3ds always screws something (like textures paths or selections). Other then that duno what else could it be.

Congratulations to Germany, they won the match with justice. This match was really improper for cardiacs, and i'm sure that if we had 5 more min we would score the equalizer... I'm sad for the stupid way that we allow the 2 goals, and the most ridiculous was that the Germans players in the press conference 2 days ago said that Portugal week point was the keeper and the corners/free kicks. Looks like they were totally correct and studied the lesson well. Shame on Paulo Ferreira, Ricardo and Ricardo Carvalho. Schweinsteiger did some great runs. Incredible match from Deco, Bosingwa on the side line, Postiga for the goal in a so difficult time, that totally alone did the possible and impossible. Still can't understand the "spoiled kid " that Simão shows to be, Nani pisses me off to for not passing more often, aldo that in the 2nd goal he did an outstanding job running way from the 3 piranhas he had chasing him. And for the record, that moment in the German goal and Ferreira being pushed is NOT penalty at all. He was pushed, but this is football not ballet. The so full of "I'm better then the best ever" Ronaldo was a disappointment to me... He struggled like hell in this match, but i couldn't see any magic moments like i saw the entire year in Man.United. Maybe next World Cup we can finally get to the final if he stop being so presumptuous. I'm happy for Scolari...the fact that i won't see him again here for a loooooong time is refreshing. We won't be worst served i suppose.. My heart now goes to Holland because they are almost the only team with a perfumed soccer. Van Basten was my fav player of ALL times, and he built a team with the spirit with his playing style. I like Croatia to, so a final between them would be cool. Germany also plays great ( in that famous lethal counter attack), but i'm kind of pissed with them naturally. ANYWAY...FORÇA PORTUGAL FOREVER!

What a disappointment tonight...Scolari really is a dumbass when he thought that we could build a starting 11 with 8 new guys...wtf was he thinking about at the halftime?? lets keep watching this embarrassment? The Portuguese bench was the more expensive bench from the entire Euro08 i suppose.. I give him 3 months in Chelsea... The referee was really bad to, specially by the anti-play whistle paranoia. Not that he really influenced the end result. Funny that Scolary blames and insinuates some conspiracy theory...He's the worst loser i know. no fair play at all. Congrats to les Switzerland for the great match they performed and totally deserved the victory. Sorry for CZ team...have just seen the quick review of the match and it was totally insane. Congrats to Turkey, it seems they deserved it! NBSVieiraPT your wishes for your own nation to lose the next match are really childish ( i don't won't to be more rude to avoid warnings) and makes me really doubt of your nationality.... And pzl don't bother to start a flamewar... Força Portugal!!

ey folks, looks like we won 3-1... however I am a bit disappointed with the overall performance...Maybe i was too demanding but after watching the match against Turkey i thought we were perfectly tuned at last. But somehow our midfield was not working promptly and we had a bad time while was 1-1. I saw so many CZ wasted runs that i got this feeling of being lucky. Watching the end result i shouldn't feel this way, but that's how i feel... We won thanks to Ronaldo talent on that nowhere far kick, the altruist (not normal) pass to Quaresma and Deco great performance. Couple of players kind of disappointed me, but that's normal i guess. I'm sure next match will be an excellent "practice" match to test alternative players, so maybe we can come back to a flawless performance again. Couldn't see Turkey X Switzerland match but i heard they scored in the end. Sincerely hope CZ passes along Portugal to the next round, even that they didn't played that offensive as they used. L8r

Few hours from CZ X Portugal match and i sincerely wish that we have an entertaining match. My guess is 2-0 for Portugal. Due to my support to BIS, the CZ team is one of the few teams i usually support, so this time a victory won't feel so good. If by any chance we draw or lose, it won't be that hard to. So whatever happens i will have a nice sunny afternoon in Porto main avenue, watching the game in a big screen,with fresh beers and hot crazy chicks around ( hope that i catch an angel like that crazy dutch chick! Cya l8r folks!

Congrats to Holand for the amazing performance. So far the best match indeed (one sided but the best so far). As a football fan i wish that we have a PortugalXHoland again, but as a Portuguese i don't want to meet Holand before the final!

Great job hmmwv , those textures are really awsome! What the tris count for the 1st lod? I think you should release it as a stand-alone, and then if the mod-team want it in the pack, make them a version of it.

What a tasty Kebab we had last nigh, and i'm confident this won't be a single exibition from Portugal. I was really amazed with the quality and smart football we did, and those 2 balls on the posts didn't demoralized the team (as it usually does), but worked like a tonic to the team moral. João Moutinho proofed that he deserves a place in the starting 11, Ronaldo did the possible match with all eyes on him and even Nuno Gomes played well. And the fun part is that Quaresma didn't even needed to play! He's saving his internationaly famouse trick shot callled "TRIVELA" to those big matches againsts Germany or France The CZ team was a bit weeker then i thought, but i'm sure they will make Portugal job very hard next Wednesday. Hope that both teams ( Portugal and CZ) passes to the next stage!

Seems that those poly's don't have any texture attached to them. Or eventually the uv's in that area are missing...

Jeeez Synide it wasn't my intention at all to trigger you like that!! But now after reading it all carefully, thank god that i mentioned your name. This was a really nice reading (for me at least), and it's the confirmation that you really know what ur talking about. From your detailed explanations, i realized that it's totally possible to a xsimt only workflow, relating all the aspects involved (p3d,rtm.mtl), which is a great revelation. Not that i did anything for arma so far, and i guess i'll never will, but knowing this is a good premonition for the next game at least. I know real life isn't compatible with the desired/needed free time for all of this, but it's great to hear your 2cents on this subject. Just 1 detail...we didn't helped our buddie here with any animating tutorial for o2.... I hope we didn't scared him!!