[evo] dan

Hi all, I've been trying to get the P Drive to mount via the A3 tools but I seem unable to get it to work at all. Now, i've been trying to follow the advice given to me by BIS: However, I've gone through the preferences menu, selected settings and then gone to the P Drive tab, I've set it to a folder within the C Directory. I then go and press the mount P drive, it pops up the cmd window, then shuts shortly, without having actually mounted the P drive, even though it says it has completed it successfully. I try to even go to the P Drive via the tools but Windows says no. I'm running tools as Admin on Win 10 if that makes any difference. Am I missing something somewhere like copying everything to a work folder manually or something? Heres the excerpt from the log, not sure why its saying mounting from undefined since the C folder I have pointed to exists and I've install bulldozer into there. 2016-05-16 19:58:59,046 1 [iNFO] [WorkDrive.Program.DoTask]: Mounting the work drive from "undefined" 2016-05-16 19:58:59,090 1 [iNFO] [WorkDrive.Program.NewInstance]: Child Started: FileName: WorkDrive.exe - Arguments: /mount P "C:\P Drive Stuff" /parent=7360 2016-05-16 19:58:59,400 1 [iNFO] [WorkDrive.Logger.Start]: Child process from: 7360 2016-05-16 19:58:59,431 1 [iNFO] [WorkDrive.Program.DoTask]: Mounting the work drive from "undefined" 2016-05-16 19:58:59,433 1 [iNFO] [WorkDrive.Modules.PDrive.Mount]: Work drive mounted from C:\P Drive Stuff 2016-05-16 19:58:59,444 1 [iNFO] [WorkDrive.Modules.PDrive.Mount]: Work drive mounted from C:\P Drive Stuff 2016-05-16 19:58:59,445 1 [iNFO] [WorkDrive.Program.DoTask]: Success I've followed the instructions here, but no P drive ever gets mounted unless I go through and do it manually every time: https://forums.bistudio.com/topic/190353-howto-work-drive-setup-buldozer/

Ahh, maybe thats why as I'm only using the stable version of the BI Tools.

That's good to know, was planning on doing something to add little bits of pipework to my model to make it a bit less bland.

Quick question guys, i've noticed this in game as a way BIS get 2 cylinders to meet up, is this an acceptable way of doing it as I assume they've just hidden the base of one cylinder through the other and then just joined them in the software rather than trying to graft it on. https://www.dropbox.com/s/m7xn9x3zc0dwblx/20160515180830_1.jpg?dl=0 https://www.dropbox.com/s/0twkid6r74lx512/20160515180838_1.jpg?dl=0 https://www.dropbox.com/s/rstf4haglsiaozm/20160515180857_1.jpg?dl=0 https://www.dropbox.com/s/rstf4haglsiaozm/20160515180857_1.jpg?dl=0

Anyone know how to get the towing tractor to tow stuff or is it not possible at the moment?

PM'd you my logs

Its works ingame now, so now its time to go and do some proper modelling! Thank you so much all!

Guess it just needed the extra stages then or something.

Thanks for looking at that for me! So, was it the rvmat, or the filenames themselves, i'm kind of confused now.

I don't think my bump map is working quite right, doesn't seem to be showing up in game or is it that I haven't set enough depth or something? Here are some pictures from ingame: https://www.dropbox.com/s/wnedutozx7o2y3b/20160508170938_1.jpg?dl=0 https://www.dropbox.com/s/9s095g45chlz39a/20160503211607_1.jpg?dl=0 https://www.dropbox.com/s/3y5afdx13208u9x/20160503211600_1.jpg?dl=0 And here is a .rar copy of all the stuff that I have put together: https://www.dropbox.com/s/zh352r4h7252wxh/RandomObject.rar?dl=0 Heres the .pbo for anyone who wants to try it ingame to see if its just my eyes: https://www.dropbox.com/s/go0kf0k0pql7yqc/%40RandomObjects.rar?dl=0

Out of interest, what you doing the nohq in software wise? (I think the nohq is the bump/normal map)

Looks nice! Do you do bump/normal maps for those too in order to bring the detail out?

After the tools failed, I ran DevP.bat manually from the a3 tools directory

I noticed this in the tools, but even thougth I run the tools exe as admin, I still have to go through the install directory to get the drive to mount correctly as it doesn't seem to call it right via the tools. Also, I've got the auto mount ticked but always have to mount it manually. Am I missing something somewhere? This is on Win10

With smoothing on, it looked a lot better in game. Still need to try to get a normal map to work. Going to have go do some googling to see how to do it in gimp or paint.net.

so a normal map = bump map?

Never mind, seems you cant call containing folder the same thing as the model. I managed to get it in game, could probably do with some more poly's for close up. Also, my bump map doesn't seem to be working, do I need to do something to add it in via the rvmat or is it somewhere else? https://www.dropbox.com/s/9s095g45chlz39a/20160503211607_1.jpg?dl=0 https://www.dropbox.com/s/3y5afdx13208u9x/20160503211600_1.jpg?dl=0 My texture could do with a bit of work but I don't think it was too far off at least.

I like you, I like you a lot with a all these planes.

It seems that theres more that's confirmed as not in at the moment rather then what is actually in. I'm starting to get worried about the quietness from BIS at the moment as it seems like we'll only get Tanoa and a small number of other assets.

Thanks for getting back to me about this, i'll try and make some more lower poly LOD's to put into the model. Just need to figure out how to do decent textures now. I've been talking to my clanmate and have managed to get this render out of blender, seems a lot better but he recommended that I sohlud probably do a model that is higher poly then the current one. https://www.dropbox.com/s/noq6c3jwgd613yp/oil%20container%20bump%20map%20render.png?dl=0

Nice! Loved this mod in Arma 2, especially the diverse units that you included in it.

more so the nose and cockpit then anything

How come that VTOL almost reminds me of the C119 Flying boxcar? Maybe its an inspiration and that too had a gunship version as I recall.

I hope for this too.

Its not JJ Abrahams this time though. Seems to be some bloke from Birmingham