Fourty7

Hey, sorry to bug you guys about something simple. Just wondering if anybody is aware of a quick & easy way to find turret paths for vehicles. I've always done this manually (Trying every possibility until it works) but working with mods that don't follow standards very well it gets a little crazy. I looked through a lot of SQF commands & functions, I tried using all of the following; // Functions BIS_fnc_getTurrets BIS_fnc_allTurrets BIS_fnc_vehicleCrewTurrets // SQF CMDs allTurrets fullCrew Every one of the above gave the exact same return, even though some of them say they only return the turret paths, it included the things the others had. Eg; SCREENSHOT OF RETURN VALUES TEXTIFIED I was running these using systemChat through an action, SQF below; this addAction [ "<t color='#ff5522'>Turret Test</t>", { params ["_target", "_caller", "_actionId", "_arguments"]; { systemChat (_this joinString "||"); } forEach ((typeOf _target) call BIS_fnc_getTurrets); }, nil, 5, true, true, "", "true", 100, false, "", "" ]; No matter what I tried every single time it was returning "any" for the turretPath. I'm not amazing at SQF, but I made sure I ran every one of the functions & commands correctly and can't understand why this is (Or why they all show the same stuff). I tested in vehicles I know the turret paths for, and it still said "any" with a human, AI, or nobody in the seats. Am I missing something, messing something up, or is there another way to find turret paths that works? Thank you very much for your time, and again sorry for bothering you! Have a good one. 😉

@pierremgi I cannot thank you enough man :O... You sir are a life saver! 😉 Vid of it working (I assume you already knew it would lol) Absolutely random on their turret pathing, RHS really knows how to follow standards ( https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Turret_Path ) lol 😕. Was looking around on your Workshop page, I'll try to get some people around to try out a few of your missions some time!.. Was just reading the "Surfing Jaws" description, sounds interesting 😜 Haven't tried yet but the concept on hostages / captured units does sound fun! Not sure why but unitTurret is not linked as a "See Also (Related Commands)" under any of the ones I tried earlier (just checked to make sure). Not sure how to suggest this, but would if I could. Also semi confusing that unitTurret requires the vehicle to be linked when a unit will have to be in a vehicle to get any turret path lol. Not complaining either way, I have something that works and I will share with everybody I know who needs it! 😛

Hey, I was just messing around with the Enfusion Workbench, trying to get used to it and all. Imported some textures, made a material, and went to make a particle affect and this happened; Not sure if I'm doing something wrong, or if it's an issue with the tool being day 1-3 of its release. If anybody knows what I did wrong / what's going on, would be great to know. Thank you very much for your time! 😉 *Sorry for posting in this section, but there still isn't a dedicated Reforger / Enfusion forum so not sure where was best to post it. If you want it moved feel free to do so.*

I tried to find the feedback system but couldn't. I didn't look everywhere yet, because I'm still having the server connection issues so many are (Added the exe to win firewall in+out accept all, didn't help). Got the tools and it's actually a (mostly (missing object editor it seems?)) full tool suite, not just for missions. Eg; https://i.imgur.com/qbUbEyb.png *edit* : The "World Editor" may be intended to be used as the object editor as well it seems, not sure yet.

Ahhh they finally added it lol. I looked until I passed out last night but only used the search in the Steam Store this morning :X... TYVM, time to get learning! 😜 Thank you so much JC Denton! 😉

Did you actually find a download link? I clicked every single button on this page, tried submitting my email, but I'm still not seeing any download. If you go to the "Early Access" link posted on that page, it actually says; "If you want to download Workbench, check our Dev Hub." ...in the third last paragraph, but it just links back to the same page you linked. In the "Docs" link on that page, their listed tools does not include the workbench (or much else); https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Category:Arma_Reforger/Modding/Tools/Official_Tools

How does one acquire the "Enfusion Workbench"? Eg; Dyslexi using this tool today I can not find it available via; Steam as part of Reforger after you purchase it Steam as a separate application/tool in the store The EE website If you search for "Enfusion Workbench" on steam, "Dayz Tools" comes up but that's it. Tried logging in on the EE website, but it just links you to Bohemia's main site and the login is not tied to the EE site so that didn't seem to help. Are the tools just not available to the public currently? I have a lot of other questions, but I acknowledge you're probably being overwhelmed now, can I just make one suggestion?; PLEASE allow us to bind Mouse4 and Mouse5 in the controls menu. I have used Mouse4 for use for... a decade... and it's painful when I'm clicking it in the controls menu to bind a key and it just doesn't care, but there's a hint on the keybind input screen that says "ESC = Cancel", and when you press ESC it binds ESC to the key instead of cancelling. Sorry, I'm not trying to be an ass or complain, just trying to help. Thank you very much! 😉

Hey guys, simple question; Looking around in the functions the other day, I found one that could be extremely useful for something I've wanted to do for a while (ability to "Feign Death" for players); https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/BIN_fnc_setRagdoll I just ran a quick test (debug console on player + random AI unit with a global variable assigned) and it doesn't appear to work. After running the test, went back to its page and noticed it says "This content is exclusive to the Arma 3 Contact Expansion."... I assume the answer is yes, sadly, but does this mean it requires contact to be loaded in order to exist / be used in a mission? If so, I assume I can just copy-paste the function directly from the config file. Cheers! *Considering this is paid content, I will not do so unless I am told it is OK.*

@POLPOX Thanks for the suggestions! I was hoping it was possible to ragdoll without forcing unconscious, almost like when a unit is hit by a vehicle, ragdolls, then gets back up a few seconds later. It can work using the "setUnconscious" command to exit it, but in PVP might seem like cheating in some cases because you get the external camera position looking down at your body when you're unconscious. I'll see what I can do with it! 😉

Hey guys, I finally switched to Windows 10 having built a new PC, and for a while I was noticing some really odd behavior. I'm going to explain what was happening before (On Windows 8.1) first, for reference. In Arma 3 the mouse cursor is not locked to the window / display when in fullscreen, and on Windows 8.1 in Arma 3 whenever the cursor existed (Eg; in a menu) you could move it to your other display and press either mouse button, and it would alt+tab / focus on the window you clicked on and minimize Arma 3. After moving to Windows 10, this behavior didn't change, but I noticed something new happening; Even when the mouse cursor doesn't exist, whenever I use the scrollwheel it would randomly be scrolling things on my second display. Obviously the (non existent) mouse cursor was hovering over these windows, but at first I was quite confused... Did some searching and I found this feature / setting added with Windows 10; https://www.thurrott.com/windows/windows-10/2435/windows-10-tip-scroll-inactive-windows After disabling this in the settings menu, the random scrolling on other displays will not happen. However, this setting is actually EXTREMELY useful when in desktop / not playing a game that doesn't lock the mouse to the window. Not being required to select a window to scroll it up/down is an amazing feature... At this point, I would love to use task scheduler to create 2 tasks; 1 - When Arma 3 is launched, toggle "Inactive Window Scrolling" off. 2 - When Arma 3 is closed, toggle "Inactive Window Scrolling" on. I attempted to do this on my own with no success. Even with Audit Process Tracking turned on in MS Local Security Policies I couldn't find a unique Event ID for Arma 3 launch/close. 😞 I assume this has been asked countless times, so sorry for even bothering, but; Is there no possibility of adding another fullscreen option in Arma 3 which locks the cursor to the window? It would be very nice. If anybody else has a suggestion / has found a way to deal with this, PLEASE let me know! Otherwise I'm just going to permanently leave it off which is pretty sad. That scrolling feature is amazing lol. Cheers, sorry for the rant, and take it easy!

@Harzach I tried this again just to be sure, but no, "Fullscreen Window" definitely does not lock your mouse to the window / display, even after a game restart post setting it.

Hey guys, I was coming to post something else, wanted to make sure it hadn't been posted before via searching, and ran into this; When you go to search on the BI forums, the filter options it offers are shown as white text on a white background. I am not 100% sure these are supposed to be buttons, but there were what looked like checkboxes to their left (Not really visible in video). It had been a while since I'd been to the forums, so I had to re log-in. Prior to logging in, the color theme of the website (Forum) had a completely white background, and when I logged in it switched to what you'd call "Dark mode". I was assuming this was the cause of the issue, however I checked my profile settings, and account settings, and did not see a way to choose a color theme / disable "Dark mode".

This is correct... However, when it was white before logging in, and dark after logging in, not sure why someone would think it wasn't related to their account on said website.

After thinking about this for a bit, my only assumption for what's causing this is; When the HUD is open, it has to read a lot of data to fill the right menu (mainly the object database), and when it's turned off it's not reading data... However, this seems unlikely for two reasons; I would not expect the amount of (data) reading done to be a constant, but the frame drop is measurably constant & consistent. There is never a delay when turning the HUD back on, where generally when you open something that needs to refresh its list by reading data there's a delay. May be the case, but I don't think so?

Hey guys, I generally don't work in the VR map/island, but I have been recently. I noticed that while editing, if I press backspace (To hide the HUD) my FPS goes from around 150 to 275-300. This is most likely a thing on all islands/maps, but I only noticed it because my GPU fan went to 100% every time I was turning the HUD off. Just wondering why the EDEN HUD causes such an extreme FPS drop, also if this is expected behavior or something I can change/fix? ***After Edit*** Did some testing to verify, and this does happen on other islands, but with significantly less of a FPS change (About 5-10% on Altis, tested in a object-dense area + in ocean looking away from island, about the same percent).

@Janez Thanks for the reply & info. Very odd place to have the theme selector! :P

The option does exist for all items spawned via Vehicles & Units (AI) sub-menus, however the option is not available for anything spawned under Aircraft, Naval, or Defenses? eg; Maybe this was intentional for Defenses because they have the option to disassemble, however if anyone would like to put non static-weapons into the defense asset list the map clutter could get crazy fast.

Notes / Ideas / Suggestions; CP Multiplier (setting on Warlords main module) does not effect awards for kills (10CP per kill regardless). The ability to modify CP cost for Arsenal (An option in the Warlords main module?) would be a great addition. The Y-32 (CSAT VTOL) has issues landing, possibly already fixed in the 1.90 update. An option to manually delete (recycle CP?) owned vehicles / AI units would help abandoned things, and allow players to purchase units/vehicles if their group is too large. An option to set the "attachTo offset" of defense objects would be useful for custom objects. Adding objects other than static turrets that are larger, you can end up inside them after being placed with no escape, death, etc. Not sure if per-object XYZ object offset can be implemented (An optional extra line in an asset's class list?) but could really help the custom warlords scene IMO. Maybe consider adding some things to "Defenses" like Sandbags, Hbars, those metal military buildings? Maybe even the drones (since they can't land) & the Jets DLC drone AA emplacements (eg; Pretorian)? The last few being kinda OP, could be balanced with cost. Also kinda wondering how they'd get handled by garbage system. Here's a video of using some other objects as Defenses while testing stuff. *** Not looking for answers, or acceptance. If you like the ideas, cool! ..If you don't, COOL! :D *** Take it easy, -Farty7

Hey guys, I've been trying out making a Warlords scenario using the tutorial documentation + some threads around the forum. Naturally I want to make a custom asset list, but I was wondering about doing something specific that I expect may already exist, undocumented?... So when you create objects (editor, game, scripted, etc.) you have the ability to run commands on said object (initialization code/script). Is there any way to add an "init script" for specific assets? eg; class C_SOME_CAR { cost = 100; requirements[]={}; init[]={"this setObjectTextureGlobal [ 0, "#(rgb,8,8,3)color(1,0,0,0.7)" ];"}; }; I'm assuming this isn't how it would be done (if it can), however, it would be a great option to have IMO. Personally I intend to use it for "painting" custom (workshop mod) vehicles Blue & Red for Blufor & Opfor respectively, but the ability to write init script for assets could be very useful for many things. If it's not available at the moment, could be worth adding if it's not too much trouble. Thanks & Take care! -Fourty7

After doing some research, there's actually a command in C for this; https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms646262(v=vs.85).aspx?f=255&MSPPError=-2147217396 Hope this helps.

Hey guys, I've had this issue for ever in ArmA 3. I assumed an option for "Lock mouse cursor to window" option would show up over time, but it hasn't. The issue I have is that the game will alt tab if you click a mouse button while the cursor is not over the game's window, which can happen very easily since you switch between the mouse controlling the player & the cursor frequently. It happens more often if the user has multiple monitors, but it is possible to happen on a system running a single display and the game on fullscreen mode. To make things even worse, sometimes (aprox 1/30 times) when it happens, after alt-tabbing back into the game or clicking on the window's taskbar icon the game goes into a state where the mouse cursor, when placed on the display with the game, will alt tab as soon as you click. When in this state it clearly shows the windows mouse cursor the system is using, and not the ArmA 3 mouse icon (the "star trek" shape with no bar to make it an arrow) which is why it minimizes the window when the mouse is clicked again. It also seems to stay in this state until voodoo magic is performed, in the sense of... Sometimes alt tabbing back in fixes it, some times clicking the task bar icon fixes it, and sometimes trying both options 15 times each will eventually fix it... always unpredictable. A lot of games used to give the option to lock your mouse cursor to the game's window. I'm not very knowledgeable on coding, if this isn't an easy option, if new bloatware I mean operating systems (w10) caused issues with it etc.. I would seriously appreciate not being thrown out of the game in the heat of the moment then being stuck immobile for an unknown duration while the game continues, and I can't imagine I'm the only person who's seen this issue. I would suggest putting the option in either; Settings-Video-Display, or Settings-Controls-Mouse if you consider it worth the time. Thanks!

Hey all, Recently I've been working on a 3D model which I intend to create a short video with as an intro for a friend's ArmA videos. The object is reflective metal, and I can use a spheremap to get the reflections on said object without needing it to be in the world / engine. Here is the thing I'm working on using a few different spheremap images (Real life not ArmA) I had already https://imgur.com/a/Gy1Nu For reference, a spheremap is a 2:1 image made using a camera that has an FOV of 360 degrees horizontal by 180 degrees vertical (Captures everything in all directions), then applied to a sphere (with default sphere UV mapping) which surrounds the camera/scene. For reference, here's what a spheremap looks like https://imgur.com/a/T0NCf I tried my own hack-job method, by setting the FOV manually in my .Arma3Profile to the following settings; #SpheremapBorken (180 x 287.99) fovTop=3.141592; fovLeft=5.026547; Since my main display is 16:10 I figured I'd try to set the vertical FOV to 180, take two screenshots (using splendid camera + backspace) in opposite directions and do some cropping + scaling in photoshop, but the FOV wasn't actually 180 degrees after going into the game and you can't manually set the angles for the camera (to my knowledge) other than mouse (inaccurate). I'm thinking there could be a way to control the camera with the debug menu, but I only know about 1/100th of arma scripting language :P Anybody have any ideas?... Or is there potentially a tool that exists for this already in the engine? Thanks for your time either way!

ArmA 3 : 6,300 hours ArmA 2 OA : 3,300 hours AKA 400 days of running ArmA :X... https://steamdb.info/calculator/76561197961135345/?cc=us Scroll down to game list and sort by time lol. I have a bit of an obsession with flying, also mission editing! It's one of many problems I don't try to fix. ;D

Cheers haha :P. I can understand how it was missed.. Without taking the unit out of the turret, or previewing / running the mission & looking at all the slots you wouldn't. I'm guessing it's the same Unit Class used for all Autonomous vehicle/turrets used this way, but might need to re-check the properties of multiple (Eg; Autonomous Laser Designator turret).

Bug / Issue : AI versions of turrets always playable. I noticed there's no way to set or remove the "Player/Playable" status of the unit controlling the AI versions of automated turrets (Body-less unit controlling MK30A type). Tried resolving with code but there's no way to set a unit to not playable, also the following command apparently does not currently work. https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/setPlayable Here's a very quick video showing what I mean in MP editor. (Fullscreen to read anything sorry) You'll actually notice they show up as a "Player" (red not purple) even when there's multiple, which should not be possible I thought? Anyone know a way to jerry-rig this problem, or was it overlooked? Obviously I can not use the AI turrets, but I'd really like to and don't want them to be player controlled. Thanks guys! Apex & Tanoa are amazing.. the sugar factory + N/E port are the best helicopter playgrounds yet ;)