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Hey everybody, I have an issue I can't seem to find a solution for. It seems to only happen in the editor, but I cannot confirm this since it seems to coincide with loading times and I do a LOT more loading to preview in the editor than while playing the campaign. When I preview a mission it will perform horribly and then when I try to exit back to the editor map, it lags horribly and the mouse is invisible. I can still click on the menu options if I can manage to navigate the invisible mouse to them. The menus lag as well, much like when computers begin to lock up. Then when I try to close or ctrl+alt+del to close A3 it just goes black and I have to restart my computer. I can usually get a little bit of time and a few previews in before it happens, so it is not right away. By the time it happens I cannot ctrl-alt-del to check system usage because the PC locks up completely... I'm currently running: i5-2550k @ 3.4GHz GTX560ti 2GB 8G Ram Win7 64 Everything is up to date and defragged. This ONLY happens with arma 3 even after two re-installs. This has been happening for at least six months now but I only recently gave the game another try after all the frustration from last time and it's still there. If anyone has a solution I may have missed in my search, please let me know. I really want to enjoy this game for once. :(

It is actually rounded on all sides like the pill.

Ok so I spent the night learning and researching the use of gizmo mapping and all that to finally texture cylinders. The only problem is that the top and bottom of the cylinder still warp a bit. I found a topic that had the same problem but it had no real solution. I have spent about an hour now trying to figure it out myself from breaking it into pieces to different sizes and angles. So what I'm asking is does anyone know how to get the WHOLE cylinder textured properly. (It's a water tower). And please don't point me at the tut, I'm now going through it for the 10th time. Thanks!

Is it possible to add gravity to an object (ammo box) so that it falls rather than just floating in mid air? Thanks.

Title says it all, I go to load a mission to continue editing and the list does not drop down or aknowledge my missions existance. They do exist though and in th propper folders. Ideas? Re-install I suppose...

Yes, the chopper is landing on an invisible helipad. I'm stll working on it but if you figure it out befor eI do that'd be great.

oooh, well then i guess you could spawn them, name them (I forget how, sorry ), THEN set them to the height, that should do the trick.

Perhaps right after they spawn you could give them a set height command. insurgent1 setpos [getpos insurgent1 select 0, getpos insurgent1 select 1, 10] Should work unless my command is wrong. Its been a while since I've done something like that.

Ok, one more quick question. Basically what happens is you escort the unit to the lz, the chopper comes in and lands with a transpo unload waypoint, the guys in the chopper get out (to simmulate securing the lz) the guy who left the group gets in, once he gets in the guys who got out get in and it leaves. Only problem is that the chopper will either let everyone get in and then just sit there or once the escorted unit gets in it will take off a bit and then set down again, which looks stupid. I just want it to stay on the ground untill everyone who is supposed to be in is in. I've tried a lot of things, flyinheight, the next waypoin has a condition that all must be loaded in, even a disableai "move" but I either get one of the two mentioned results. I'll continue to look into it but if someone has the answer before I find it that'd be great, thanks.

Worked great, thanks a ton!

Didn't work, he just stands there. I might just make a dofollow command so he will end up continuing to the waypoint once in the LZ area.

I'll test that out tonight after work, thanks a bunch. Also to be more specific, the vehicle is a chopper that lands after being called on the radio.

Title pretty much says it all. This is one of the very few snags preventing me from completing my first (good) mission. This is whats happening with the question: You reach a unit and they join your group, you take them to a trigger which once activated will remove them from your group. They already had a waypoint elsewere that I want them to go to after leaving the group. I'm good up to this point but I guess once they join the group their waypoint is deleted because of 'senority'? Any suggestions? And I cannot do a domove to a game logic or anything because one of the waypoints is a get in nearest. Thanks in advance.

Thanks, that answered most of them. I do still have one. I have it set so that 3 units join the players group when they exit a vehicle. I don't want them as a group untill they exit. However I do want the play to be able to select the other 3 units gear in the briefing. Any ideas on how I could pull this off?

Awesome, thanks. Another one would be how to set a face/skin for a unit?