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Taviana Island (1.0) Released! About The Map Taviana (Officialy: Tavianska Sovjetskaja Socialističiskaja Respublika - TSSR - The Soviet Socialist Republic of Taviana) is an island country situated in the Baltic Sea approximately 120km off the coast of Lithuania or Kaliningrad. It has a population of approximately 1,500,000 inhabitants, 90% of who are ethnic Slavs called Rustaki, Russians or Poles and 10% ethnic Lithuanians. The capital and second largest city of the republic is Sabina which is located on the Southern coast of lake Umag, has a population of approximately 150,000 and has the republics main international airport. For a complete book about Taviana Island, please refer to the Taviana Island User Guide PDF file contained within the addon archive. Official promotional videos: v_8GAe_zc9E ticC_5JDd9k GiGAOeFxlMQ Taviana Island (1.0) Installer: http://narod.ru/disk/63340015001.7d2d9859f8b669431591d40d9a38e6b4/Taviana%20Island%20(v1.0)%20for%20ArmA%20II.rar.html (~730MB) Official screenshots: Installation: This addon requires ArmA 2 or ArmA 2 Combined Arms, there is no difference in terms of functionality. THIS ADDON IS NOT COMPATIBLE WITH STANDALONE ARMA 2: OPERATION ARROWHEAD, or other standalone versions of ArmA 2! 1) Launch Taviana Island Installer.exe and follow the onscreen instructions. NOTE: If you do not wish to use the installer, right click on Taviana Island Installer.exe and select Open with WinRar, in which case the file will be opened as a standard .rar archive. The default ArmA 2 installation path is: C:\Program Files\Bohemia Interactive\ArmA 2\AddOns BI Signature files are located in: @Tavi\BI Signatures Have you found a bug? Have you found a bug or are you having trouble with this island? Please leave a reply in the official Taviana thread on the BIS forums or PM me! Using This Mod in Other Game & Steam Workshops This mod or any of its components may not be used in/ported to any other video games other than ArmA 2. This mod or any of its components is not authorized for posting on Steam Workshops. Copyright 2010 Martin Bauer.

Hey guys, I just ran in to a little problem while working on Taviana island. Basically I'm making supermarket windows but everywhere the window.paa texture is placed, everything behind it becomes invisible. Here is a screen shot of what I mean: Here are the steps that I have taken to create the texture: 1) The .tga texture was created in Adobe Photoshop CS4, it uses RGB colours and 1 Alpha Channel layer with one colour (Gray; #424242) 2) .tga saved as 32 bits/pixel without "Compress (RLE)" option enabled 3) .tga saved to .paa using TexView 1.0 4) .paa texture and model loaded in OFP both unbinarised. Any help will be greatly appreciated :blush:

I want to start making islands for ArmA but the only thing that’s standing in my way now is obtaining satellite images from Google to create the satellite map. At the moment I know 1 technique which is to save each picture individually and then to join them up by hand to create the big .bmp file. But this takes a very long time to do. I also tried programs that let you select an area of the map and then download the satellite images for you at a required zoom level and then join them up to create a big .bmp file which is what I need, the only problem is that most of these tools don't work anymore. So is there any other way to make a satellite mask quickly or a working tool like the one above? :j:

Hello everyone once again :smile: A couple of days ago I was reading some of the threads here in the addons discussion section and in the Tatra thread the author kindly gave anyway some of his unfinished model, one of the model that caught my eye in particular is the Maz 537 because there is no vehicle which enables the OPFOR to transport tanks in ArmA 2 at the moment, not that I know of at least. So since my other projects are very close to being completed I decided to finish this quickly. History: The MAZ-537 is a Soviet army artillery truck designed and developed by MAZ (Minsky Avtomobilny Zavod - Minsk automobile plant),Belarus. The MAZ-357 was designed in the beginning of the 1960's and is capable of towing a trailer with a tank or cargo up to 7 tones or an R-14 intermediate-range ballistic missile. Specifications: wheel formula - 8x8 carrying capacity - 7,000 kg (15,432 lb) max weight - 18,975 kg (41,833 lb) trailer weight - 15,000 kg (33,069 lb) velocity - 60 km/h (37 mph) dimensions - 8,780 mm (345.7 in)x2,805 mm (110.4 in)x2,915 mm (114.8 in) track width - 2,150 mm (84.6 in) wheel base - 5,750 mm (226.4 in) engine - liquid-cooled diesel power 375 hp (280 kW) (on 1650 rpms) Source: Wikipedia Progress: Modelling: 95% Texturing: 50% Scripting: 50% LODS: 20% Overall: 40% Screen shots: Estimated Release Date: Next week Credits: Original Model: Jarinator90 UV mapping, textures, various model enhancements, animation: Martin Thanks to Richard Th0rn3 for clearing up a lot of things in the model.cfg! Please comment!

Hello everyone, I made this addon for a friend who was working on a British island some time ago. Since then I got a lot of people asking me to release this road pack so that they could use it on their islands too etc... So finally today I got the time to put this together and release it. UK Roads Pack v1.0 Download link: http://www.mediafire.com/?2bj06bnl46d4e6w ~19MB http://www.mediafire.com/?quvn696kd8a568w ~27MB (unbinarized - editable models) Important: This addon is ONLY for island makers and will not be visible in mission editor! What does this addon contain? This addon contains 5 variations of British roads, including T and X junctions, with and without yellow boxes: City (wide), 4 lane road (2 lanes on each side) City (wide), 4 lane road (of which 2 lanes are bus lanes) City (wide), 4 lane road with bus lanes and but stops/pedestrian crossings City (2 lane) with single yellow lines and T + X junctions City (2 lane) with double yellow lines and T + X junctions Country side with T + X junctions and pedestrian crossings Various expansion segments allowing 2 lane segments to be connected to 4 lane segments Usage: In order to use this addon on your island, unpack the uk_roads.pbo file and place in in to your P:\ drive and add all the necessary segments in visitor. Also place the uk_roads.pbo (the actual .pbo) in to your ArmA 2 addons folder, usually: X:\Program Files\Bohemia Interactive\ArmA 2\Addons (Where X stands for the drive letter that ArmA 2 is installed on, on your computer) Permissions: You have full permission to do anything you like with this addon as long as I am listed in the credits and any part of this addon is NOT used for commercial purposes, or any other game (except BIS games) as it uses BIS textures as the base. Link to unbinarized models: If you need the unbinarized models, they can be downloaded here: http://www.mediafire.com/?quvn696kd8a568w ~27MB Feedback: Please report any bugs/improvements in this thread and I will update this version of the addon to version 1.5 with fixes/improvements as soon as possible. Please mirror and thanks in advance :cheers:

Hello everyone and happy Halloween! Finally after lot's of hard work I, Richard Thorne (a.k.a Th0rn3) and everyone else who has worked on this project would like to present to you the completed MiG -15 by (Bdfy & Volkstrum)! History of the MiG - 15 Video: ( ) Fixed issues: Flaps have been fixed and elevators added Crosshair has been centred Model has been completely re-animated 6 new skins have been added All weapons have been fixed Other minor issues have been fixed Change log (21/12/2010) By VictorFarbau Change log (16/06/2011) By sv5000 Fixed texture issue with cdf version Fixed config issue with Chedaki (ChDKZ) fighter bomber version. Renamed rockets to S-5, and added 1 more rocket to each pod to match Visual model Added 37mm cannon Added 23mm cannon Known issues: Light on the wing missing Credits: Bdfy & Volkstrum - The original authors of the MiG-15 (Volksturm - Models and textures) (Bdfy - Config, scripts and project leadership) Richard Thorne - Model animation, final config, scripting, presentation movie Martin - Takistani, CDF, Czech and Chedaki (ChDKZ) skins Topas - Polish skin PROTOTYPE 001 - Base config VictorFarbau - Improvements and bug fixes sv5000 - Improvements and bug fixes Bdfy & Volksturm project thanks OTK team for beta testing! Types of aircraft: Mig-15bis Mig-15bis 4x R76 Mig-15bis 4x FAB-250 Mig-15bis Fighter-Bomber Mig-15bis Multirole Read me: Click on the button bellow to show the read me file Screen shots: Download link: (Current version 2.1) (Please mirror!) http://www.multiupload.com/1ZMIZ1862I (~43MB) Please leave your comments

Good evening gentlemen, It is my deepest regret to inform you of this in our community, but it has been brought to my attention and confirmed by me that my addon Taviana Island and other mods, including DayZ are being re-distributed for money by this site: http://worldzombie.ru The owner of this site and project leader is a man called Andrey Mukhyn a.k.a. fly_byte. Site: http://worldzombie.ru/ Youtube channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/worldzombieru/videos?flow=grid&view=15 vKontakte page: http://vk.com/worldzombieru As you can see in the videos, it is by no doubt Taviana Island and a re-skin of DayZ. The method in which these mods are being re-distributed for money is, that players are required to purchase a key to the server where these two (modified without permission) addons are present. The keys cost around 250 Russian Rubbles each, which is approximately 7 euros or 10 US dollars. Proof of this can be found on their vKontakte social media group, posted by Andrey Mukhyn himself (Translated to English by me): I have made a topic on their forum regarding this matter: Translation: This is also true on the World Zombie site on vKontakte: Because the presence of the island on your paid server infringes my copyright and license and of distribution Taviana island, and others copyright right, I ask that you remove my work (island Taviana) from your paid server within 48 hours. I hope that this issue will be solved quickly or I will be forced to use alternative routes to remove my work from your paid server, including legal action. Thank you very much for your understanding. - Martin (Author of Taviana Island) For your convenience, the license of the island Taviana: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Permissions & Liscence ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Taviana Island by Martin Bauer is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.* -> Link to liscence: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/deed.en_GB *This licence applies to the current version of the island (1.0), any future releases and any previous releases (BETA 1, BETA 2, BETA 3, RC1 - RC6). §1) You are free: To copy, distribute, display, and perform the work Under the following conditions: §2) Attribution: You must give the original author credit. §3) Non-Commercial: You may not use this work for commercial purposes, or to generate any kind of financial income, i.e. using this addon on a server that requires the user to pay for access/maintenance. Exchanging this addon for any sort of financial income i.e. placing this addon on a site which requires the user to pay for downloading this addon and so on... §4) No Derivative Works: You may not alter, transform, or build upon this work - it must always be distributed in its original form. ***************************** Usage in BIS and other games: ***************************** §5) Using this map or any of its components (on other maps/games) or modifying any model contained in this addon is not allowed. §6) When using this addon as part of a mod, please make sure that this readme file accompanies this addon. ********************************** Logo, Flag & Coat of arms images: ********************************** §7) The Taviana Island logo, flag and coat of arms where created and are property of Martin Bauer and Rytis Tekorius. §8) It is prohibited to use the logo, flag or coat of arms for any commercial purposes, or to generate financial income of any kind, be it direct/indirect without the written permission from both Martin Bauer and Rytis Tekorius. §9) It is prohibited to use the logo, flag or coat of arms on any material object such as a t-shirt, cup etc… and re-distribute it in MASS, even if this is free of charge without the written permission from both Martin Bauer and Rytis Tekorius. However it is NOT prohibited for personal use i.e. printing the logo on your OWN t-shirt. NOTE: Users breaching the agreement that this addon may not be used for commercial purposes or generating financial income e.g. on paid servers, will be legally perused. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Disclaimer --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Taviana Island is a free, unofficial add-on to the Armed Assault 2 series. It has been provided to you free of charge and must always be re-distributed free of charge. The modification or usage of any material contained within this add-on is not allowed for personal or commercial usage without written permission from the author. This add-on has been downloaded by you at your own risk, therefore I, Riptrough Studios, Bohemia Interactive or any other party cannot be held responsible for any damage done to your computer by this add-on. "Riptrough Studios" and the Riptrough Studios logo are the property of Martin Bauer and Rytis Tekorius. 100% compatibility with another add-ons cannot be guaranteed. However after about 30 minutes my post was deleted: Translation: "Requested topic not found" And I was banned from the forum: Translation: "This forum is closed to you, please contact and adminnistrator" I also let the admin know on the vKontakte social media site: Translation: Now that I am in this situation and my work is under a CC license, this addon conntains work from other authors too, I do not know what to do next. Is there a way to blacklist their servers or who should I seek legal help from - if I should seek any? Thanks for your help in advance! - Martin

Ok guys, I read about Windows 8 in a magazine and then searched it up on the internet and came to this: Apparently this is how Windows 8 will look when you start it up; you will see the "start screen" instead of the desktop. Maybe there will also be a classic desktop you can switch to or a different version of Windows 8 where there will be a normal desktop, I don't know, but I don't see Windows 8 as being a good OS for developers with this new home screen, it looks like a good OS from some tablet where content is just consumed but not for a PC where content is created. EDIT: Apparently Windows 8 is also “designed for touchâ€, again this might be good for consuming content but not for creating. Once I tried out one of those all-in-one PCs with a touch screen and after 30 minutes I went back to the mouse and keyboard, my hand was too uncomfortable and hurting to continue like that. Typing on the touch screen monitor at a 90 degree angle was also a pain in the ass. I'm not so sure about this new concept but I think I will most likely stay with Windows 7 :crazy: What are your thoughts or info on this?

Happy new year guys!!!

Of course its ok, you don't have to ask me for permission to make missions on the island I made it for you to make missions on

Hi Iceman77, let me quickly narrow things down for you.. As Max Powers said, perhaps you could read the thread you hope to contribute to or debate. Regarding Worldzbmbie: If you read the thread carefully, you will find out three facts: 1) My island is the only island on the server. 2) Dayz Mod with a new UI is the only mod on the server. 3) People have to pay to get access to the server the server. Answer: Absolutely basic money making scheme/people are paying specifically to play on my island and DayZ mod. Regarding Vilaers: If you visit the site http://www.vilayer.com/ you will find out three facts: 1) It is a server hosting company, not a clan. 2) A server can be purchased with Taviana bundled in to the package. 3) People purchase servers/or server slots there. Answer: By bundling Taviana in to the package they are using it as a fee tool to gain more customers, by having it pre-installed. Because of what [FRL]Myke said, and also because I’ve had a donate button on my website for 3 years and basically didn’t get jack …. :smile: You don’t need to see anything at all about editing someone else’s work; the fact is that addon makers are producing free content for you and they decide how their content will be used, not you or anyone else regardless of your opinion. If you want someone to edit addons make addons yourself and you will be able to decide what you do with them. I don’t allow this, reason being - I don’t what 50 different versions of my island out there, modified to a point where it doesn’t even have the basic feel that I intended it to have. Yep, and my proof against their legitimacy would be that they didn’t reply to my PM. By starting a thread and them deleting it after 5 minutes without leaving a reply or PM for me I have proved their unwillingness cooperate. And I am not upset by the way, the reason why I started this thread is to make this issue known and sorted out, because I am not the only one that is having problems with this, and because I’m trying to help the community and BIS. Remember that when most addon makers leave us, this forum will be empty as well as the servers, and you will most likely be gone too with your opinion about editing other peoples work. By having to pay for a server on which this addon is present (modified version to be precise), you are paying for access to the addon, and the addon is being used a marketing tool too. Thank you for your attention, Best regards

Thanks. I guess I should let the authors of those islands know too. Since this company is based in the UK, they are in reach and we can sue them. I will tell this to BIS too.

It has just been brought to my attention that another commpany, this time based in the UK is selling Taviana and also a version of DayZ which uses code from my friends work without asking him for permission. The site: http://www.vilayer.com/ Their announcement: http://dayzmod.com/forum/index.php?/topic/110136-no-vehicles-on-our-taviana-server/ Now I regret all the time I put in to this

Excellent, I got some of the videos removed by Youtube :) Flagging seems to be better then sending an email. I will flag some more later on.

Nope, my dad is Vladimir Putin Yes, or they are just busy dealing with other issues. We will see - hopefully the videos will get taken down ;)

Nope, I'm still waiting But I'm glad that the hosting company and VK team have replied to me. Maybe I should e-mail YouTube again?

I don't see any reason to threaten Mr. Mukhin or even bring his family in to this as I read in some previous post; I think it can only make matters worse. Two wrongs don’t make a right, and threatening him is basically doing exactly what he did to me which was rather amusing and made a lot of people including myself doubt his age and intelligence. Kids do this kind of stuff in 5th grade. However I appreciate if people take the time to politely contact him and tell him to take the stuff down, big thank you to you all. If we achieve justice, I will make a statue in the centre of Sabina on Taviana with the name of everyone who left a reply in this thread Thank you, I know, the Russian community in ArmA is very good - even since the OFP days, they produce very cool content and I’ve been working with them quite closely during Taviana to get it out in to the Russia community more mainly because I was contacted by the owner of this site www.arma.at.ua who likes the island so much that he permanently put it in to the headlines of the website just to say thanks.

Hmm I don't know, perhaps a config tweak could solve that. I want to avoid placing too many lamps because the map is a big performance drain as it is :biggrin:

Hello everyone, Sorry for being away for a while, I’ve just been caught up in other stuff and another project that I’m working on. I will answer a few comments, and I also have a lot of thank yous to say before I tell you some good news that has happened recently. First of all about Russia, I highly regard that a lot of members of the Russian ArmA community have apologized to me for this mans actions, and don’t get me wrong I extremely highly respect that people stand up for me even to the point where they blame their whole country and have balls like that to apologize as well for the actions of one man. I guess this is deeply rooted in our Slavic culture and I highly regard it. But please guys - do not blame yourselves for this, or Russia as a whole, or any country in Eastern Europe or the world, you or your country have done absolutely nothing wrong in what has happened and do not deserve to apologise for anything. The fact is that a man who happens to be living in the Russian Federation is using other peoples content on his server to make a quick buck. Stuff like this happens in any country in the world. Please remain assured that you and your community will not be treated any differently because of what has happened, or any other community from any other country as a matter of fact because I’ve been in this community long enough to know that this isn’t how we roll at all. Hahaha that’s a good one, I will keep that as my last resource :biggrin: Hi Pavel, Thank you very much for the great help that you are giving me and everyone else involved in this matter. I highly highly value it, and wish you the best of luck, and I am optimistic that you guys will be able to at least shut them down because you live in the same country – whereas for me alone that is very difficult to do from the UK. I have obtained Mr. Mukhin’s real name and address, whilst speaking to him on Skype, he basically said something like “bla bla take me to court if you want! This is my real name and address bla bla bla…†I don’t know if those details are real, but I will PM them to you shortly in case they can be of use to you. If you need anything at all from me, please PM me or contact me by e-mail (I will include that in my PM to you). I speak Russian pretty well so you can write in Russian if you need to. I thank you on behalf of the whole ArmA community! Now the other good news: I have received replies from the www.worldzombie.ru host which says: Original: I have also received a reply from the vKontakte social media site which is very long to translate, but it basically says: Which I will do shortly. Original bellow: A big thank you to everyone who is supporting me, it makes me proud to be a part of this great community. I will post any developments here, and hopefully together we can shut these guys down and send a clear message to others like them that they won’t succeed.:jump_clap::bounce12::811:

Thank you, it’s just confirmation that you understand what you are doing and know that I am the original author to the best of your knowledge. I had to do this too when reporting their channel, so I thought they wouldn’t request this from you by email. I will PM you about it tomorrow and you can decide if you want to continue or not, and if not we will wait for what they reply back to me – hopefully we can get the videos removed. Yes, people like this make me proud to belong to this great community! He deserves beer for this

Of course, no problem - added to my to-do list.

Thank you guys, I have contacted placebo and Dwarden, will also contact Youtube in the UK, this hosting and vKontakte social media site today. The latest development: I have been contacted again by fly_byte and hove now been blocked from his Skype again. I will make this threats public so the world can see what kind of people run that server – I will have to replace a lot of words with asterisk symbols (*) as they are vulgar, and obviously have no place on our forums: (Translated by me) I deem vulgar comments like these threatening and insulting and most of all stupid even if written over the internet. Please do not see this as some kind of regular behavior in Eastern Europe or Russia, but there are people like this in every country. Original messages: EDIT: Will conact DayZ too

I have e-mail Dwarden and Placebo regarding this matter. I have also been in touch with the leader of worldzombie who still refuses to take the addon off, tells me that possibly next month they will have their own map ready etc... But he has agreed to post here on the BIS forums regarding his paid server and mod.

Thank you derdoe! :cheers: Could you PM me what you wrote to them please so I can get an idea of what I should write and I will do it myself then. It doesn't matter if it is in German, I will get the rough point and Google translate will help me with the complicated words. ;)

Ok, will do that tonight! Thank you for your help :cheers: