HorribleGoat

you can not animate proxies in parts, only the whole proxy model. Basically how I see it, you are designing your model in wrong, non Arma compatible way. Arma is game engine with "best practice" methods to do things like vehicles and there are solid limits to some things that you just can not bypass.

:9 I saw that too. Robots like this are making their way into games now.

you cant fix those errors. only the author can.

Id recommend running some basic blender tutorials to get the hang of the program. You can add multiple materials on a object in Blender in the materials tab by creating more material slots and assigning them to faces in edit mode.

there are various default rvmats in P:\A3\Data_F\ if you have your tools and P drive development environment set up correctly

you are doing retexturing wrong way if you are packing the original p3d retexturing is done by making a new texture and a config file to point an objects configs hiddenselections to your new textures, not by unpacking a mod, replacing textures and packing it again you are essentially breaking the whole thing. Only objects that support hidden selections can be retextured in the proper, no rules breaking way. also pboManager is not proper pbo tool, delete it.

you are definitely doing animation very wrong if you use that many bones on those parts. Also proxies dont have separate animations so you can bypass the limit with them.

There is no skeleton in the p3d to import, weighting does import so possibly you are just trying to import a model that does not contain weighting. Is it really a model you made?

what model are you editing?

Possibly a copy paste mistake was made. Fixd now

Heya! Still going forward with the project, no worries! Just slow progress. On latest news, the new sexy WK-209 legs have made their way in game now so the whole latest design is now imported. I did also get the animation rig improved a lot so that the animation making is more efficient now. New "normal" walk sequence clocking at 18kmh speed. There are quite a lot of more sneakpeeks at our discord too! https://discord.gg/8mP9k2u

you would probably have best luck with answers by contacting Exile devs on their Discord server.

Hey folks! (long wall of text ahead) Some time ago there was a post by Kiory about a really cool accidental discovery he had with Arma materials: https://forums.bistudio.com/topic/175495-opticalactive-camo/ And for some time I've been working on reproducing the effect and wanted to share current progress to you all since with the help of mr. zantetzou I've had some breakthrough with the technique. For background: In his post Kiory mentioned the basics on how the effect is achieved: By applying a 0 alpha (completely see through) _CA texture on the model in question and applying an .RVMAT with PixelShaderID="Refract"; and VertexShaderID="Super"; and with that I began experimenting on my own some time ago, but did not get as good results in the progress as every time, no matter what the model I applied my 0-alpha texture and my refracting material the model always had this white sheen to it. Except on the move when it looked about what I was hoping to achieve. Finally some progress: After 143 trial .RVMATs I dropped the testing in frustration as nothing seemed to change no matter what attributes I changed and couple of days ago picked up the project again after being contacted by zantetzou as he too was interested in creating "optical camouflage" material for his own project. He in his own trials had used almost identical set up with the texture and material BUT had achieved proper effect in one of the VR objects. When we exchanged our findings I too were encouraged to try out some of the VR objects and the refracting materials and ALAS for some they worked and provided identical results that Kiory had show in his video. This progress now gave me the boost to write here in hopes that others interested in the matter can partake in the trials in order to find how this works. Here is the .RVAMT i've used. 0 Alpha see through texture im sure everyone can make. Pictures: And here are couple of screenshots on how it looks after application on different models: Before: After: Theorizing: Notice the difference between the VR objects on the left and my test man with different material combos on the right. The white sheen is obvious and something that happen on all other objects me or zantetzou have tried but the VR objects the effect is working (maybe it works "wrong" on them in a way, but it looks the like what we would like to use) but so far I have not figured out why. Currently I've theorized that whatever the texture/material combo the model originally has somehow affects how the refracting shader works on them and thus I have extracted the texture/material paths applied on the VR objects via hiddenSelectionsTextures[] and hiddenSelectionsMaterials[] in their configs and tried to apply the same ones on my test man in the pictures. This however did not produce the any results and so I am here asking if anyone else has ideas on how to proceed from here. I've been considering the possibility that man character is drawn somehow different from static objects and as my next step I will make a static test object to see if theres any difference there. For some reason the white sheen also disappears in some angles and when the object is looked at from high speed, or the objects moves fast: Shot this one when running past the testman: Known objects it works on: So far following objects have show the refracting shader as in the picture on the left: Sphere (200cm) / Sign_Sphere200cm_F VR Wheeled APC Target / Land_VR_Target_APC_Wheeled_01_F VR Tank Target / Land_VR_Target_MBT_01_cannon_F VR MRPA Targetr / Land_VR_Target_MRAP_01_F VR Wall / VR_Billboard_01_F Thanks for reading this far: And I would suspect that it would work on some other VR objects like the sphere that are somewhat see through/emmisive to begin with. I will continue working on this since I really want to make a scifi optical camouflage ghillie suit for our mod and eventually when we get back to our C&C mod this effect would be quite essential for Nod Stealth Tanks. If you get any ideas on what makes this work, don't hesitate to post on this thread!

Id make the suit in similar way as the ghillie is made and so that it hides/covers the rest of the gear when used. The wiki explains how the different parts of supershader work quite well and how different texture types are composed. Not much else is written about them I recall except for tree materials. They have their own page. For things like this kind of "hacky" use of shaders there isn't really any guidance for. Filepatching with the diagnostics exe can be very useful for faster testing though.

My approach will be a custom suit that is made with refraction shader in mind and will work with it. For me there is no need to be able to apply it to every unit. Another working example is the one in my video where the silhouette effect is created with the attached camo blobs and the main character is actually fully hidden. Cycling gear/character swap would be a lot more performance heavy approach, I would not recommend it.

Turning off AO and DoF isnt really a solution. The difference between objects that look partially solid/grey/white shaded is that they are originally non transparent models. So that is a property that gets baked into the p3d on binarization depending on what PAA type the p3d is assigned with. (_CO non transparent/ _CA transparent). (That is with the refracting shader) And its not really a bug since it works as intended on the transparent objects it is used on (or well particles)

the main problem you have is using pboManager for anything. It is not a proper addon creation tool.

I dont think your weapon bone is the right way around @brutalzic

you can just duplicate the existing object and armature..

There is wikipage about how model.cfg works. also compare to the man skeleton. Your model.cfg parenting is all off. But custom characters also have a lot more involved in the configs which. Custom characters are not very good first project as they involve a lot of non documented work that you just have to figure out.

yes the weighted animations do not work right in Buldozer

you cant animate headgear like that

hiddenselection textures require the changing texture mesh selections to be defined in the sections list of model.cfg for that object

Ïd use better 3D modeling program like Blender. But no, there really is no special super fast way to make Arma compatible and performant geoemetry lods. Buying models is not really a shortcut since they always need a lot of work and skill to make them work in game.

your model.cfg skelton will need to match the armature bone naming and hierarchy you have in Blender