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Better late'o'clock than never I suppose. Today at 4AM I managed to submit my entry to the competition: the experimental Waltham Robotics DOGG-0 field support unit. Whopping 10 hours to spare! 😝 The unit was deemed too expensive for the Military to test so Waltham Robotics had to look elsewhere for testing partnership and they ended up collaborating with the AAN news service with exclusive documentary deal about the development and future of robotic all terrain field support units. WR provides the technology and technical support and AAN war reporters take the units out into difficult and dangerous parts of the world documenting the ups and downs of the little helper. The DOGG-0 unit is rather curios by nature and only time can tell how far the technology goes:

-LOST DRAGONS- ARMA III Total Modification When the War finally ended the galaxy was in ruins and mankind struggled to survive in the cold depths of space. Many worlds were lost, many wonders of technology forgotten, scattered all across the galaxy when the spacelane network collapsed plunging the great nations of men into chaos. For decades we were lost. In 2235 Unity-Project successfully re-established some of the old space network bringing together hundreds of worlds and launched out a great effort to reclaim what once was lost.. For a moment men rejoiced together in peace but it was not to last as new rediscoveries soon sparked up secret arms race between the surviving nations. The race back to the stars began as fortune hunters set out into the void to seek out glory and fame. In Lost Dragons you take up the role of a member of a fortune hunter company racing to find one of the most powerful Old World relics, the mighty Dragon class warship hidden on a long lost world of New Eden. Unfortunately you are not alone as others have found their way here too and it is up to your skill and cunning to ensure you emerge victorious from the battle. There is no turning back now - Dropship ETA 1 minute. Welcome to the treasure hunt. Lost Dragons is a multiplayer total modification aiming to bring out a new thrilling gamemode for Arma3. Our concept is futuristic objective based team warfare with randomly generated map elements to ensure every game is a unique experience with completely new set of units, weapons, structures and terrain. +LoDR Features a 20x20 square kilometer map with unique post war/ long deserted atmosphere with unique randomgeneration element that ensures every game is different from the others. Explore the ruined cities, military bases, hidden laboratories and fallen warships to find the location of your prize. +Complete set of new units and vehicles, from your basic gear to powerful war relics scattered around the battlefield. + We aim to create 2 sides of the Old war conflict that once waged war on New Eden, a civilian side to represent the long gone population of New Eden and also 2 corporate salvage companies that are now arriving on the planet. + Vehicles from personal transports to huge battleships, with tanks, planes, vtols, walkers and more in between. +Powerful new weapons to lay waste upon your rivals and claim the victory + Both corporates will have their own starting equipment and there will be a great number of weapons and equipment to be reclaimed from the old battlefield +Challenging main victory goal with multiple ways to win. Mission details: (Subject to change) +World of New Eden is covered with lush Jungle (as Arma allows it) and the abandoned cities will be partly reclaimed by nature as well as ruined by battle. +Terrain will consist of fixed elements and a great number of randomized elements that will make every game different. (objectives, key buildings/ locations, weapons, vehicles, spawnpoints, AI-enemies) +Max team sizes will be decided through testing +Player takes control of a small AI squad, but main gameplay focues on team PvP spiced up with some Independet AI combat. +AI characters will be portrayed as cyborg/robot drones and the area will have roaming abandoned AI combat drones and possibly wildlife elements lurking in the shadows. +Supporting drone units will have quite bad aim and are there to act as drivers, pilots and firesupport. (crappy aimbot module installed) +Players will have access to their respective teams basic gear throughout the game and may alter their loadout. +Starting equipment selection in a pre-start menu and respawn loadout customization. +More exotic and powerful weapons may be scavenged from various locations but beware the limited ammosupply on these weapons. +Players begin the game from a randomized dropzone with HQ-vehicle, supply vehicles and a few light transports. (This is no military operation) +Light combat vehicles, light armored transports, recon vehicles and personal transports are available throughout the game. (Droid pickup / aerodrop) +More powerful vehicles may be reclaimed from the battlefield. (military bases, battlelines, supply caches) +Scavenged vehicle may be damaged or low on ammo and can be repaired and rearmed in designated locations. +Main objective is to find and activate the last of the mighty Dragon class Warship: +Dragon is an autonomous weapons platform capable of immense destruction and cannot be controlled without a command module -> First objective is to find and begin the restoration of a Warrior class Battleship that acts as the command unit and can access the Dragon (2-4 Warriors in good enough shape will be present on the map) +Once found the Warrior will act as a forward base and must be defended. +The Dragon is hidden somewhere in the area and the location can be found through simple exploration or by gathering Intel from various objectives -> Intelpoints come available by time as the HQ vehicle scans the area and compiles recovered data. -> By gathering intel you narrow down the area the Dragon is "hidden" on the map -> Due to its immense size the Dragon will be randomly located in one of the six "ARK" bunker facilites and intel gathering will narrow down which one and also grant you access codes to get in more safely. + It will be possible to hack your way in, but it will be hard, slow and dangerous. The ARKs will have sophisticated security measures and you might even wake the Dragon from its slumber if you fumble. +Once operational the Warrior battleship must be flown (yes flying battleships) to the Dragons Location and they both need to be defended during docking procedures and while the Dragon powers up. -> Both sides have access to Warriors and may interfere with the docking procedures or even steal the Dragon if they manage to down the other Warrior or board the Dragon. +Note that these are very powerful vehicles and will need full team effort to manage full operational status and also taking one down is not an easy job. -> Once the Dragon is awakened there is still a change for the opposing team to sway the race as the round will end when the Dragon completes its powerup sequence and becomes fully operational. +By attacking certain weakspots with enough power the sequence may be interrupted and if the winning team is held off long enough the Dragon may be stolen even in its awakened state. New factions are as follows: WesT/Blufor: Hastur Corp : Salvage corporation (Player faction in "Treasure Hunt" gamemode) East/Opfor: Blackbird Salvage INC. : Salvage corporation (Player faction in "Treasure Hunt" gamemode) Independet: "Old War attacker name placeholder" : Old War Attacker faction Civilian: "Old War Defender name placeholder" : Old War Defender Faction "New Eden Civilians": Old War Civilians Downloads: Very old release version: Version 0.1.99 Download New one worked on as fast as we can! You may find us at: MODDB - LOST DRAGONS and Make Arma Not War - Contest Your support is always appreciated! For most up to date news, follow us at MODDB more pictures from early development: Original alpha release post:

Still in development, though due to work and life stuff things got pretty slow for a while. There is no release yet though, we are not in a rush.

They do support it (not in buldozer though). the skeleton just needs isDiscrete = 0 parameter

Plan, yes! Try to find time to do that, Yes! Success rate so far: 0% 😅

There is no solution for that, you will run out of bones and cant make them work with dampers. You are not the only one to look into this in the years Arma games have existed and probably wont be the last, but there just is no way to do it. The mesh loop track that the game is designed for can be made to look pretty nice if you invest enough effort into making it though.

it is not possible to retexture nvgs as hiddenselectiontextures dont work on them

you can use the sample character from Arma3 samples on steam as reference

use png for color check. bmps dont work as far as I've seen

Im gonna challenge that a bit and say that lazyness would have been not include any planes at all. Like it has been pointed out Air missions were done by completely different branch of military but we did include planes so that they can be used by players in any way they want.

There are no updated videos so you will have to figure out the UI changes on your own. The principles in older videos are still the same though, buttons just may be in a bit different places.

You would need to build a config patch mod that is loaded after ACE that overrides the item names or creates new derivate items with the new name. At this stage you will have to evaluate if you want to spend time (some weeks or months maybe) to do this kind of a thing.

You can create your own air combat scenarios pretty easily with the Arma 3 inbuilt mission editor, but SOGPF itself does not come with air combat missions as it focuses on the SOG (Special Operations Group) action.

Yes, just life things cut free hobby time sharply so development been quite slow. Many concepts been remade few times as the ideas mature and become more clear.

Models can not be exported out to be edited. What you would like to do may not be possible on those models.

I've posted this on the Arma Discord a while back but perhaps it can be useful here too: Got a bit curious on the character size and had to test out what is required to fit out Arma 3 character to the new size so here are few observations: +The Reforger man is 180 cm tall VS Arma 3 man at 182cm + This may be partly due to the different pose ( more straight limb A pose VS more relaxed A pose) + The shoulders are angled way more down and the back and neck curve differently, this gives the new skeleton/armature/character different posture and different reach + There are some differences to the limb and back proportions too and the hands are more natural shape. +The lower body is relatively similar, the hips are slightly lower and there is small difference in the leg positioning but the leg differences are very small +main challenge is the hands which are in very different pose (half grab VS A3 straight palm and fingers) and the difference in both bone length and different configuration mean older models will very likely need lot of hand/gloves tweaking or remaking to fit the new character as the pose cant comfortably be matched with the old A3 skeleton without some quite noticeable mesh and uvmapping deformation. + some models may have challenges with the shoulder areas too as the shoulders go way more down, which can lead to quite bad results if proper adjustments are not made. In my test here I have not yet completed all the adjustments and the armored gloves of my armor suit will require full rework due to the issues mentioned above. They were made to fit the previous hand shape. The torso area is hard armor which I opted to keep rigid in place as well as the armored/powerarmory neck and helmet. The character head sinking into the suits neck works alright and requires only minimal fitting of the hood and helmet interior.

This most likely means the vertical scale of your map is broken or your ASC coordinates are not correct and the imported height layer is not inside your mapframe when you rebuild it. Also real life above water surface height data has sea water always at 0m level so the sea behavior is as expected. The asc import you have there definitely has heights since the shading is visible.

Video tutorials about terrain making for Arma are not very good. They leave out necessary information and usually follow bad practices that will hinder your work. As pointed above, the Arma discord is the place to ask questions or if you want to use to forums, it is best to create your own topic and describe whatever problem you have in detail so anyone reading can easily help if they have answers.

There is no proper way to remove all roads as the roads are also painted on the satellite image that is drawn at long distance. "Overhauling" maps by removing stuff in editor is not the proper way to do these things (there is no proper way to do such in editor) and ends up breaking AI big time. If you people want new maps, Id recommend starting from scratch to build your own terrain instead of try to hack out existing ones in ways that will break game mechanics and make your game experience worse.

filepatching and mergeconfig are dev branch diagnostic exe features that could be useful

I called this long time ago:

That would be a negative, Arma 3 is said to not receive any BI developed content.

Check out PMC tactical maps, theres few pretty huge ones that work for flying. Other than that, fly maps have problems with lack of ground detail (terrain engine limits) and coordinate precision caused lagging in big maps. Both which are why such maps are rarely made and why Arma is not really a flight sim. You can test what is possible with the PMC maps.

Greetings! Id like to introduce a personal project of mine that I have wanted to start for a while now and finally today got around it. I call her the "Frankensteins Bride". This is my take on a female character base for Arma 3 since it is something still not officially available and something I wanted to hone my skills with. The model is pieced together with the aid of Arma 2 civilian female models (hence the name) and rigged on a scaled down Arma 3 skeleton combined with complete facial skeleton and from initial testing the rig seems to work quite well. The head is modified from the Arma 3 sample head with more feminine form and even with a rugged man face texture loaned and slightly modified from "m_white_15" texture it does look somewhat like a woman. The model is the same height that A2 women, about 166cm which is much shorter than the 180ish man characters in A3. --> So, my goal for this project is a working (and maybe even A2 animation compatible) character base that I can use in our mod projects and which upon the community could build on their own characters. Next step is to finish the body mesh, UV map and texture it properly and test it with A2 animations and if the animations work, they could ease a little the process of fully animating the character. Which brings us to the last step of the project, the animations. Im hoping that when the project reaches this stage (and if we dont already have a official female characters by then) I might find some helping hands from our community to work the huge amount of animations needed for fully working character. I have no estimate on how long this will take, but I'll keep this thread updated! Picture Updates: Progress update: Animations seem to work on the new skeleton.. Story so far.. She arrives at Altis by sea, yet no one is there to greet her.. :C Wonder why... To-do: +Finish body mesh *I think I've got everything on its right place. +UV-Mapping *Have to see how it deforms, but 1st phase ready +Texturing *Started *Decent phase 1 texture ready for ingame test. +Final mesh tweaks *Work in progress (probably for a while) +Rigging the character *Preliminary testing shows no weird deformations. Adjustments will be applied if necessary. +A2 animation test *MovesConfig port from A2 to A3 and updating it to new standards *Workaround for the changed A3 skeleton *New character class +Simplified and properly LODd sample mesh for community use *As said I can't really invest enough time to recreate all equipment for female character, so I hope others can build on my work. +Animating *Converting the Arma 3 man animations for the new smaller skeleton to provide working base animation set. *Creating the rest of the necessary animations to fully use the character armed and unarmed (If A2 animation port is successful, needs a lot less work)

Also nothing newsworthy at this time. 🤪