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So for those not on the Twitter, here's the new drop - CAT Rig and associated how to use tutorials.This one's been long overdue, but what can I say? busy busy busy. http://credmo.updatedtuesdays.com/tier1/products/support-products/3ds-max-animation-rig-v2/ You'll find everything you'll want in there.

Love it, entirely unironically. Any chance of seeing Dutchko's(one of the contributing artists to WGW) "Original Slavu Gear" patch getting added?

If I wasn't such a pedant with executive ordering issues, less.Significantly less parts, and most sidearms are built around concealability, which cuts down on the number of obtuse external details and whatnot.

I'll do what I can, but I'm working with arma's animation system, which usually is workable, kind of nosedives into awkward territory for the handling of pistols.

They already have ;) FWIW to those curious, the 228 will have the German Rolled and Stamped slide, and the 226 comes in a similar form also. Speaking of the M11, I've posted this on Twitter, but I probably should bring this across to here. Keep in mind so far I've only done 9mm - Not really, not an immediate concern TBH.

In Exile? I'd assume the first, it's kind of hard to make definitive statement on that though. Would recommend asking the the Exile devs to be sure.

Short answer, Arma ballistics aren't a single variable damage equation, even without ACE ballistics added to it. Damage is calculated by - Speed : The speed at which the bullet traveling that inflicts the highest damage- as the bullet's speed slows, it deals less damage Air Friction : Controls the rate of decelaration on the bullet. It's simulating the relationship between the ambient atmosphere and the aerodynamic efficiency of the bullet. The less aerodynamic, the faster it bleeds speed. Caliber : Not actual caliber, it's a cover-all number to determine the piercing capabilities of a bullet when it strikes anything. Tin Shed, Body, Body Armour. Hit : Base impact damage. The only way to achieve the full value of this is with the bullet at it's ideal/max speed. Every gun in arma uses these, it's the standard ballistics model. When you fire, all of this comes into play, plus gravity. Speed affects damage, Friction affects speed, Speed and caliber affect penetration of objects (like armor), hit,caliiber and speed determine how much damage a shot will impart. There's no real "best" bullet round for any gun, as what your target is changes which one is more suitable. Subsonic Are GREAT for up close with a suppressor (preferribly not against kevlar), but they're worse than useless for long range shooting, and likewise you wouldn't want to use SPR up close in amongst no-shoot targets. Best advice I could give is if you're ever unsure, EPR/Ball/FMJ is probably fine enough for most blind dates with the enemy. Other stuff is when you know which lipstick you want to paint him with. Speaking of blind dates - Coming soon.

No, Too different, Some stuff might carry over, but considering I just got done UV mapping like 5 slides and 6 frames, I'm not keen to add a 7th right now

For what it's worth regarding the magazines, Robalo, never ending source of the good stuff and I might have something in the works

Because I am a huge nerd, yes. To help me debug this (because this is a behaviour I specifically patched out) where and when did you download? So I appreciate what you're saying ,but I've no plans to switch back. As much as they were more realistic(technically, most were on some level originally from youtube videos), they didn't play well with soundshaders, and their overall sound quality and mood was too inconsistent and was making them overtly unbalanced when around gunfire from other mods (or just stock assets)

Releases For the short and skinny of overall patch changes - Across the board hiddenselections have been implemented on all weapons, so all your camo/reskin dreams can come true. If you're into doing that sort of thing, it'd behoove you to check respective classes for more details and whatnot. Huge rewrites to the majority of weapons in the packs, making great use of coding efficiencies and macros. Again, Super special credit to Robalo. ( Seriously, like 80-90% of the work gone into these versions was his, dude did amazing) Some packs include some missing stepchild variants (X and Z combinations in, but Y absent) Obviously, the Armaholic links are all up there, and the links are all updated on the NIArms site(and SW is up-to-date), but if you'd prefer just the direct links- NIArms CORE V1.1 NIArms AK Pack V2.1 NIArms AR15 Pack V1.9 NIArms AUG Pack V1.6 NIArms AWM Pack V1.3 NIArms FAL Pack V1.9 NIArms M14 Pack V1.9 NIArms M60 Pack V11 NIArms Minigun V1.1 NIArms G36 Pack V1.2 NIArms G3 Pack V2.0 NIArms MP5 Pack V1.6 NIArms SG510 Pack V1.2 NIArms M1903A1 Pack V1.3 NIArms MG3 Pack V1.05 NIArms SAW Pack V1.3 NIArsenal V7(All-in-One) Unintentional ommission. Yeah, they are. Gave permission to use. IIRC theirs are set up in .338 Lapua(L115A3), whereas mine are .300WM

It is, Did a blind check. If you've downloaded the SAWs and you're planning on using CUP or RHS compat, I'd recommend a Re/DL. Will have the All-in-one pack with fixed compats up by tomorrow. From there, we're green for official v7.

I can neither confirm nor deny these allegations. maybe sometimes it's also pizza. Anyhoos, Coming down this week is the "V7". Absolutely knocks out the pre-game errors, and comes with some super-whack levels of code optimising and macro usage, courtesy of Robalo (he's worth at least a beer from everyone ever on his own, by the dubs) .Also in it is HiddenSelections, so those who want camo jobs on their guns can make that happen now. If anyone caught it on twitter, you know that I've already had some fun with it-

Small update- MG3/42 Source files (not just Game engine format) now available to download - http://toadie.updatedtuesdays.com/PubSharbse/Src/MG3%20Source.rar

May as well give a visual sitrep of everything (imgur's dead for me right now, so apologies that this isn't stuck in an album or something. Also Twitterers will already have seen some of these. apologies) - SG550's well underway. Have someone feeding me GREAT reference material(even has rulers to give accurate measurements. 10/10) on it so I'm powering through. Currently working on the Trunnion and locking lugs. https://my.mixtape.moe/wtqtaw.PNG ACR Going through the HP bake mesh https://my.mixtape.moe/dxmbhv.PNG Currently Finished parts of the HP Bake Completed LP looks a bit like this https://my.mixtape.moe/suikum.PNG https://my.mixtape.moe/hvguvr.PNG P226s What U need on your Sig, fam? https://my.mixtape.moe/suqlhx.PNG Sights (taking the optic Slot): VonStavenhagen (Factory West German), 3-Dot (SigSauer Modern/Sigarms NH Factory), V-TAC, AT Triangular, Trijicon XS, Cadex RDS Mount (with Docter RDS), High-profile 3-dots with frame-mounted Romeo-1 Frames : Early Stock,Elite,(Still to do: Late model Stock) Slides: Modern Factory, Early West German/German.(all other slides are just different finish jobs/detailings of the former) Grips: Stock profile, Hogue Overmould, (todo: E2 Profile, thinking about: Hogue G10s. No promises.) Barrels: Standard and Threaded in the two main bore sizes (9x19 and .40) https://my.mixtape.moe/coqahe.PNG https://my.mixtape.moe/fcluxp.PNG https://my.mixtape.moe/kqxoih.PNG https://my.mixtape.moe/auddgv.PNG My only real caveats for the Sigs right now is I don't plan to do the SA version or the X-series.. or the Legion... For now. FN 30-11 One of the real benefits of doing this is that once it's done,I've got a really solid base for most any full-size Mauser-98-action rifle ever. https://my.mixtape.moe/seafqu.PNG

That. Was using Github to track bugs before the repo was in use. Shit,Now you've all drawn attention to it, I may as well mention: NIArms is available on GitHub.Entire functioning source base, and has been, discretely, since July. Primarily I set it up to coordinate with YoursTruly and Robalo, but it works with the ethos of NIArms, so eh. The terrible secret is out to air now. All I really ask is that if you do want to make a contribution or a derivative, please create a fork or let me know otherwise how you're using it, just so I don't have to hunt down individuals doing less honourable stuff with it.

Not sure about the C, the M27 is just a D16.5 with KAC sights, so maybe for that. Ideally what I'd be aiming for is covering the largest coherent grouping of the family (outside of the specifically requested gear). For the 416s it'd be the D10, D14.5, D16.5, D20, and the A5 versions of each. Actually the reverse happened- these come from a time pre-dating any formal HLC releases (like mid-late 2013) when I just ported a bunch of things to arma for me and my friends to mess with,. Most of it I could never release, so it got turfed, but the mags and ballistics I kept just in case. Never know when you're going to need 6.5 Carcano or .303 (actually that second one Might be more close than you think), and I figure that any interested parties could hook them up to their own stuff if they wanted them.

I was given the impression that the rate-reducing bolts were more or less standard on MG3s at this point (something something extending barrel life), shows me to believe what I'm told. It's still around the 950-ish mark, which is definitely faster than most other MGs though, so it's not like you're missing much saturation. The weight thing, that's comes down to BI's mass value not being any standardised unit, so that value varies wildly depending on who's maths you use. I'll tweak it a bit for you if that sets your mind at ease (same goes with adding KWS selectors, both will come in an incremental). Yes I did get your report ;) Yeah, that's down to the bipod legs- They're longer than what arma predicts are "reasonable" for the character stance. The fix is negate the MG's height advantage while prone(clip some of the bipod into the ground), I prefer the slight bug over that TBH.

http://imgur.com/a/Pc29Y http://toadie.updatedtuesdays.com/PubSharbse/Mods/NIArms_MG3%20V1.0.rar Steam workshop and Armaholic to follow.

Dangit Rob, you're too fast and 2furious. Good news on that front, when the MG3/42s release (which was going to be this weekend, but I forgot that the 7.92 ballistisics weren't placeholder), you can expect another round of patches out over October. Robalo's doing some amazing under hood work , and yeah, things like cleaning up the compat patches is part of that.

So, this is a longstanding bug with the way Arma handles += operations on variables in child classes(there's smart people who could give you the full technical on it, short answer is it does not). Now, it can be fixed, but it means that the RHS compat no longer will be a theoretically dynamic PBO: If RHS changes magazines on AKs, Or if HLC changes magazines on AKs, that Compat WILL have to be manually made to include both, and it couldn't be used in conjunction with ACE3 or CUP compats, because it would implicitly be ignored OR over-rule, depending on load order. Does an error appear, or is there anything in the Logs?

The problem is actually with the BG Weaponsframework. Kerc's working on an update.

Echoing Warlord, 550/1/2/3 for certain, Tactical and stock iterations definite. Sniper 550 probable also. 556... I actually already have done(old source engine project, linkylink), but I'd rather redo it than shove that off, and it and the 556R and XI are probably going to be bottom of the list for priority purely out of their comparative non-use, Don't be shocked if those don't show up. Yeah the compats specifically are very much use at your own risk, which is why they come with source files shipped, and they're really the only thing that wasn't touched codewise for the patch, so yeah, for the most part they're a little behind. Sig510s don't have an RHS compat because nothing in RHS needs to be made compatible with it (or vice versa), same with the springfields. Regarding the weaponslotinfo warning messages specifically- try removing the SAW pbos, and the main saw PBO itself. IF that gets rid of the WEaponslotInfo errors, then that's two separate sources that confirm I need to re-upload the all-in-one.

So before the links, I'd like to give a special thanks for YourTruly ,Robalo, and Mallow for their contributions to this release, which were significant and without I'd probably be still be wallowing through making a mess of. Additionally a special thanks to Navaro, who's currently working through overhauling all the sound samples to be both consistent and high quality. Some of that has made it's way into these builds. Core V1.05 AR15s V1.85 AUGs v1.55 AWMs V1.25 G3s V1.95 G36s V1.15 M14s V1.85 M16s V10.5 AKs V2.05 Minigun V1.05 MP5s V1.55 SAWs V1.25 SG510s V1.15 M1903 Springifields V1.25 FALs V1.85 Armaholic/PW6 to come. SW already has updates rolled out.

reupped, All in one's done. Mirrors and formally links to follow.