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CYTECH INDUSTRIES a unique and ambitious project in its complexity and settings. For more info check out the link to the BIS forums below DISCORD Forum Post What are we looking for? - Level Design/Composition: [Eden editor/ Xcam/Plopper/other]. - 3D Modelers: [blender/3dmax/other]. - Model porting: [experience preferred] porting UE4, Unity assets, other / making models ArmA ready - Texture artist: [For re-textures, HD texture editing, etc.] - Audio / Sound: [Someone who has knowledge of the Arma 3 audio tech] - Weapon porting [experience essential] - Animations: [Experienced Animation specialist] What's in it for you - An exciting project to showcase your work - Full credits - A friendly team to work with and learn from Please contact Dan Tronic for more info.

Compositions are essential for most missions and they are an awesome feature - but how do I spawn them? Via createVehicle? I guess I have to declare them in the description.ext. Can someone tell me?

Hi guys, I am currently working on a custom composition mod for our unit that uses custom textures on Arma 3. The current code I have works only in Single player Editor, it does not show up for Zeus on the dedicated server. Anybody able to tell me what am I doing wrong? I have been going through the BI forums and the wiki, they don't provide me with the answer I am looking for however. https://pastebin.com/pbr8Au4f Thanks, BigBearZ

I just come upon this particular (small?) website today which i think might be useful/helpful for add-on or mission makers alike. This- https://www.battleorder.org/ It cataloged some*(i found only some for now, but maybe they might end up useful for some*:)) of the nation's armed services, their composition, their equipments, and maybe most useful imo; their except organization in each level, from fireteam, squad/section/combat group, to company and battalion. I thanks to whoever run the site. I think maybe some of you here can have useful info on it, like i did with one of my imaginary scenario where i make French combat group by source of it (via AMF+R3F. Thanks to them all).

OVERVIEW CompoT is a toolset designed for mission/addon makers to place and manipulate objects. CompoT is integrated directly into Eden mission editor, allowing you to place most ArmA 3 buildings and objects seamlessly, while normal mission making. To play mission made using CompoT, players do not need to have addon installed, everything is stored in mission.sqm and/or ct_projects.sqf. Addon is needed only for mission making process. CompoT have powerful GUI tools to utilize objects added by other addons, as example it is natively compatible with CUP objects, which is 3500 additional objects. CompoT`s cornerstone is randomization. With CompoT, mission/addon makers are able to significantly increase replayability and overall variability of their missions, by adding certain level of battle field randomization. CompoT is aiming to support as much of community tools and utilities as it possibly can. If you like to have CompoT`s functionality in your own project/addon/what-ever-you-are-doing, please don’t hesitate to contact me, I will be happy to help integrate CompoT in your project. CompoT is open source, it is found on GitHub, feel free to fork and/or pull request. Stable branch v0.2 github Dev branch github (latest updates and issues ^_^) KEY FEATURES Solid connection to Eden Editor Powerful object browser tool, with searching. Can be used to place objects from any mod or addon. Does not need mod to be installed for playing mission. Can be used virtually in any kind of missions, including persistent MP missions like DayZ. Flexible means of randomization. Object library with more than 4.5 k entities, all categorized and have screenshots. SHOWCASES If you would like to see CompoT in action, consider playing RTDM - Randomized Team DeathMatch. This game mode build around randomization of battlefield, looting and round based - one life - team death match. You can directly connect server with IP address 173.199.107.44:2302 Or search new server browser for "RTDM" In order to play you don`t need any mods. Please join the fight and call your friends! TS server available on same IP as server, password: rtdm INSTALLATION To install the Composition tool you should use modfolders to keep it seperate from the official game content to prevent issues. With Arma 3 you can use different ways to set up your modfolders to use custom content you have downloaded. STABLE 0.2 Armaholic Workshop DEVELOPMENT Armaholic Workshop Dev build have all the latest features and new bugs. It is updated as frequently as new features or fixes added. This is same as github`s CompoT->dev, but packed and sighned. MEDIA TUTORIALS Please see tutorials on official youtube channel. You will find all tutorials in this playlist. If you have tutorial request, let me know in this thread, i will try and make it for you. CONTACT If you like to contribute to project, have suggestions, want to add support for your objects addon or just talk about Composition Tool. Feel free to contact me via one of the following methods. Hate typing like me? Like to have voice conversation? Join discord PM me on this forum CHANGE LOG Changes mentioned from oldest to newest

Hi folks Something I built a while ago for one of my GR Campaigns and thought I should just release the castle walls as a composition. Not sure how to upload a composition via Steam - search on Google tells me not possible so let me know if there is a way or I'll upload it on Armaholic. Background is, original Ghost Recon had a brilliant map called Castle which featured in missions but was extremely popular for PvP. The key features were walls which you could run around on, towers you could enter and 3 choke points to enter the castle from. Obviously there are no castle walls you can run on in Arma 3 but using some innovation, I flipped some ruin walls around on each and voila. Also towers couldn't be climbed but you will find access to the walls via several wooden staircases and through some small entrances at the base of 2 of the towers (clever use of tower windows ;) ). You will have to crouch as you move between tower doors as they are low overheads, but all in all, it should provide some fun. I left the middle empty so once placed on the map you can fill the castle with things like buildings, fortifications, more castle ruins, etc. Check from 4 minutes for moving across the walls - note if player crouches he will get through the with relative ease. Link to file - http://fileshare.link/3ff0614d047ad5eb/castle_walls_1.rar

I am using LARS compositions spawn-er and it has stopped working. The creator is not currently responding and hasn't be active since July. here is the error message _wp |#|setWaypointCombatMode _mode; _wp setWayp... Error Foreign error: Unknown enum value: "" File LaRs\Functions\fn_createComp.sqf [LaRs_fnc_createComp], line 1201 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- here is the code from LaRs\Functions\fn_createComp.sqf. Line 1201 is highlighted. Let me know if the whole file is required. //***** //WAYPOINTS //***** private _fnc_spawnWaypoint = { private [ "_position", "_ATLOffset", "_placement", "_compRadius", "_mode", "_formation", "_speed", "_behaviour", "_description", "_condition" ]; params[ "_cfg", "_group" ]; _position = getArray( _cfg >> "position" ); _ATLOffset = getNumber( _cfg >> "atlOffset" ); //_position = [ _position, _ATLOffset ] call _fnc_getPosition; _position = [ objNull, _position, [0,0,0], _ATLOffset ] call _fnc_setPositionandRotation; _placement = getNumber( _cfg >> "placement" ); _compRadius = getNumber( _cfg >> "completitionRadius" ); _mode = getText( _cfg >> "combatMode" ); _formation = getText( _cfg >> "formation" ); _speed = getText( _cfg >> "speed" ); _behaviour = getText( _cfg >> "combat" ); _description = getText( _cfg >> "description" ); _condition = [ ( _cfg >> "expCond" ), "TXT", "true" ] call _fnc_getCfgValue; //TODO: does this need defering private [ "_onAct", "_name", "_script", "_timeout", "_show", "_type" ]; _onAct = getText( _cfg >> "expActiv" ); _name = getText( _cfg >> "name" ); _script = getText( _cfg >> "script" ); _timeout = [ getNumber( _cfg >> "timeoutMin" ), getNumber( _cfg >> "timeoutMid" ), getNumber( _cfg >> "timeoutMax" ) ]; _show = getText( _cfg >> "showWP" ); _type = getText( _cfg >> "type" ); private [ "_effectCondition", "_effectSound", "_effectVoice", "_effectSoundEnvironment", "_effectMusic", "_effectTitle", "_wp" ]; _effectCondition = getText( _cfg >> "Effects" >> "condition" ); //TODO: does this need defering _effectSound = getText( _cfg >> "Effects" >> "sound" ); _effectVoice = getText( _cfg >> "Effects" >> "voice" ); _effectSoundEnvironment = getText( _cfg >> "Effects" >> "soundEnv" ); _effectMusic = getText( _cfg >> "Effects" >> "track" ); _effectTitle = getText( _cfg >> "Effects" >> "title" ); _wp = _group addWaypoint[ ASLToATL _position, _placement, count waypoints _group, _name]; _wp setWaypointType _type; _wp setWaypointCompletionRadius _compRadius; _wp setWaypointCombatMode _mode; _wp setWaypointFormation _formation; _wp setWaypointSpeed _speed; _wp setWaypointBehaviour _behaviour; _wp setWaypointDescription _description; _wp setWaypointStatements[ _condition, _onAct ]; _wp setWaypointTimeout _timeout; _wp showWaypoint _show; _wp setWaypointScript _script; //TODO: Effects need testing _wp setEffectCondition _effectCondition; _wp setSoundEffect [ _effectSound, _effectVoice, _effectSoundEnvironment, "" ]; _wp setMusicEffect _effectMusic; switch ( true ) do { case ( isClass( missionConfigFile >> "RscTitles" >> _effectTitle ) ) : { _wp setTitleEffect [ "RES", "", _effectTitle ]; }; case ( isClass( configFile >> "CfgTitles" >> _effectTitle ) ) : { _wp setTitleEffect [ "OBJECT", "", _effectTitle ]; }; default { if ( _effectTitle != "" ) then { _wp setTitleEffect [ "TEXT", "PLAIN", _effectTitle ]; }; }; }; _wp }; //**********

a script that will grab compositions we made in eden editor automatically or we could choose to add them to the mission ? this seems like a function that should have been there in the beginning , is there an eta of this implementation ?

Is there a practical way to do that? Something that can catch relative positions between elements of a composition made in the editor and then "converted" to be used with "attachTo" and "setVectorDirAndUp"?!? I understand the logic of scripting, and also know relatively well, the "OFP/ARMA language" but I really suck at combining both things (well). Is not that simple, could be a potencial "very usefull" script! by