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This Addon contains all PLP Object addons released to date, except for PLP Markers. Ah, nearly forgot .. A fancy Main menu icon is included, too. I may add a flag in the future. Any addons related to enriching scenery in ArmA3 released in the future will be included here. Content (v1) PLP Beach Objects PLP Containers PLP Materials PLP Urban Pack (Barriers and Fences) PLP Urban Pack (Private Property) Download from Armaholic Download from Steam

I have uniform model with one base texture. I imported it in Arma 3, but there is a high specular. How can I decrease specularPower?

Hi all, I've run into a small problem today. I wanted to set up some custom textures and a material in my mission and do some magic with it with scripting. I wanted to use the Super Shader but the game won't let . me The main problem is just the paths to the textures/maps in the rvmat. It's easy in the Addon editing, but how can I make the texture paths relative to the mission? I'm just getting an error that it could not load the texture. Code: class Stage1 { texture="data\textues\scorpion_nohq.paa"; uvSource="tex"; }; I have the "data" folder in my mission root and the path is as follows above. File exists and it's not corrupted I guess - TexView2 sees it properly. I tried changing the path to e.g. textureTest.lingor3\data\... or using __FILE__ but no joy either. Could anyone shed some light on that please? Thanks!

Hey guys, below are two sets of Tanoa-based HDRI environment maps I made for use in Substance Painter and Blender. They should be compatible with a number of other 3D modeling softwares and texturing programs. The idea is to allow users to have a 3D environment from Arma 3 to create their materials within so as to give better reference to the environment and the lighting around the object. Included below is a 4k set and an 8k set of 3D images at sunrise, midday, and twilight each for use with the Arma 3 Apex Shader's respective preview modes. Please feel free to comment with other maps or concerns/ideas to enhance the final products. Download 4k or Download 8k

Same units, same time of day, same camera angle. Click to enlarge. Features Units, vehicles, objects, buildings, terrain, vegetation, etc should now react better and, to some extent, more realistically to lighting. Contrast in general should be enhanced, providing more depth and more vibrant colors to OFP/CWA while reducing the cartoony look (but, remember, this still is OFP). The differences between the interior and exterior of buildings and vehicles should be more noticeable. Dust and smoke particles won't be visible during night time any more. No more seeing the shining trail of dust of a tank that you can't actually see. Lighting effects similar to vanilla sunset and sunrise should be present for longer hours. Vehicles should provide more realistic shining effects. Description This addon modifies the lighting and glossiness properties of the terrain, vegetation, buildings, infantry, vehicles and virtually anything available in vanilla OFP/CWA. All those vanilla textures have been distributed in several categories (classes) which use new custom material properties. Each material definition has its own distinctive properties, and include: Buildings Terrain Vegetation Water Glass Generic metal Metal of vehicles Interior of vehicles Metal of weapons Human skin Clothing Gear made of plastic and similar materials Particles Shining particles The default OFP materials are also overridden using values similar to the new material definitions, so you should be able to see the effects of these new material properties on any island that doesn't use custom textures. Also included is a pbo which adds material properties to a lot of user made units and objects. While it doesn't cover them all (that's an almost impossible task) it should cover some of the more popular ones, including AGS buildings, BAS vehicles and some islands. This pbo also incorporates the texture listings for user made addons found in Locke's Original OBJ Material Def addon, although the textures themselves have been reorganized so they use the new material properties. Same units, same time of day, same camera angle. Click to enlarge. Download OFP Materials v1.1 (contains materials for Addons 1): Installer https://www.mediafire.com/download/k2l5i2ra5jx2tdc/OFP_Materials_v1.1_Setup.exeMirrors: Mirror: http://www.moddb.com/mods/ofp-materials/downloads/ofp-materials-v11-installer Manual installation: https://www.mediafire.com/download/1axm6ac4utyvrht/OFPmaterials_v11.zip Contents The zip file includes: A readme The addons folder proper, containing: ofp_matdef_core.pbo and ofp_matdef_addons1.pbo _pbo: You can find uncompiled versions of the pbos here high contrast: inside there’s a version of the ofp_matdef_core.pbo file using high contrast material definitions low contrast: inside there’s a version of the ofp_matdef_core.pbo file using low contrast material definitions _config_template: an empty config file you can use to add support for other addons Manual Installation Shortcut method Decompress the zip file and place the OFPmaterials folder inside your ARMA Cold War Assault one. Create a shortcut of the ColdWarAssault.exe file. Right click on the new shortcut and click on Properties. In the Properties window add the following line in the Target text field, just after the path to ColdWarAssault.exe : -mod=OFPmaterials; To see the new material definitions you must now launch the game by using the new shortcut. Steam method If you don't want to use shortcuts and use the Steam version: Decompress the zip file and place the OFPmaterials folder inside your ARMA Cold War Assault one. In your games list right click on Arma: Cold War Assault and select Properties. In the Properties window click on the SET LAUNCH OPTIONS... button. Write this in the text field: -mod=OFPmaterials; Click OK. Click Close. Click Play. If you want to skip the OFP intro you can add -nosplash before the -mod line, like this: -nosplash -mod=OFPmaterials; You can also add or remove this addon whenever you want. It won't break any current mission or campaign. You can also place the pbos in any other addon folder. Load order doesn’t matter. High contrast or low contrast? There's two versions of the ofp_matdef_core.pbo file you can use: high and low contrast. Each one has its own benefits and drawbacks, so it's up to you which one to use. Note that the default one is the high contrast version, but only because it showcases better what this addon is all about. Use high contrast if... You want more dramatic lighting (and more realistic and better IMO) applied to everything You are not planning on creating or playing missions that use dynamic spawning You are not using user made addons which don't have the new custom material definitions You want to create good looking videos or screenshots Use low contrast if... You are planning on creating or playing missions that use dynamic spawning You are using user made addons which don't have the new custom material definitions You don't mind losing enhanced lighting for units, buildings and other structures (terrain, vegetation, water and glass will still have the enhanced lighting). Basically, the low contrast version is the most compatible all around, but it loses some lighting effects. The high contrast is the one that provides more eye-candy, but it makes dynamically spawned and unsupported addon units, structures and weapons look flat and ugly. Changing contrast settings OFP materials uses by default the high contrast version. If you want to use the low contrast version instead, simply copy the ofp_matdef_core.pbo file found in the low contrast folder and paste it inside the addons one, overwriting the existing version. To change it back to high contrast then follow the same steps, but copy the pbo found in the high contrast folder instead. You can also edit the provided Config.cpp (found in _pbo\ofp_matdef_core) and comment and uncomment the #include line of the contrast file you want, and then compile the pbo. More comparison media Videos Album https://imgur.com/a/q8my7 Adding support for your own or preferred addon(s) You can find the template of a configuration file in the _config_template folder. It’s already commented, so refer to it for further instructions. Feel free to share it publicly once you’re done, be it in the release thread of this addon, another thread, or bundled in the addons folder of your own addon or mod. Known issues OFP is unable to apply materials to dynamically spawned units, objects and weapons. Anything that wasn't present at the start of a mission won't use any material at all, and will look flat and way too bright compared to the rest. Note that all this only affects the High Contrast version. The Low Contrast is exempt from all this, as its goal is to allow spawned and unsupported units to blend better. Solutions Let me advance that there’s no real long term, no-hassle solution that I’m aware of. If you know of any, please, let me know. With that said, there’s ways to work around this, none of them optimal or practical. Place in the editor objects, units, etc of the same class you are planning to spawn dynamically This might work when you want to spawn one or two classes, but it’s a very bad solution for most cases, as it would require manually placing dozens of units and structures. You should also not remove them during the mission. For materials to be applied there must always be an unit of the same class already present in the editor. If you remove the units you manually placed, further spawned units will be material-less. Alt+Tab Yes, really. Alt+tabbing resets the rendering, so it reapplies materials to all present units, structures and weapons. If you are using Windowed Mode then you can minimize and maximize the OFP/CWA window for the same effect. Spawned unit while using High Contrast version. It looks flat and out of place. The same unit after Alt+Tabbing. Material limitations Just remind you that, as with anything related to materials, you can only see their effects if you have Hardware T&L (Hardware Transformation and Lighting) enabled in the Video Options menu. It should be enabled by default. If it’s disabled then you most likely are using a very old or weak graphics card that doesn’t support this feature. Also, roads and any other object with vertices placed On Surface won’t receive any material lighting effect. The same applies to non-binarized models. Changelog v1.1 CHANGE: Vegetation now less reactive to lighting CHANGE: Updated template config with more and more extended comments CHANGE: Added some missing classes to template config CHANGE: Moved WW4 and Mi2 textures from ww4ext_matdef to ofp_matdef_addons1 NEW: More addons supported by ofp_matdef_addons1, including MAP, BAS, AEF and OFPL objects and a bunch of Vietnam era addons - v1.0 * Initial release Credits Locke@Germany for inspiration and for the glass and metal texture lists of user made addons krzychuzokecia and Apocalypse83 for testing Permissions All my released work falls under the Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International license, unless specified otherwise. You don't need to contact me if you want to distribute or modify any of my projects, but it'd be appreciated. Some of my work might include content by other authors. My permission doesn't extend to their work, so you should contact them if that's the case.

Hello there, I'm really green to using the Object Builder, and I'm just starting with making simple barriers. I noticed that using samples rvmat available online, AI seem to be keeping track of me behind the barrier while some other sample models which I used don't let the AI track me behind it. I'm curious which properties of the rvmat/bisurf used on these models determines whether the model component is going to be opaque or transparent to AI. Thank you in advance.

Hi Does anyone know what makes models/objects/stuff "glow" when looking via FLIR/Termal sights? That "heat" effect on live unit, is that done via material? How to make it? EDIT: Hmm, I made a mistake, wrong part of forum

Hi I just recently started working with porting A2 model into A3. So Noob here. I set everything right and when I launch my vehicle in unbinarized addon all paths works as planned, no errors etc. So now when i binarize, my vehicle has losses paths to penetration materials which are in a3\data_f\penetration. But rvmats that are included with my vehicle files are there and working fine, only paths to A3 default materials are missing, in my case it points to hit effect. Now when my vehicle is hit there is dirt spash effect instead of metal hit effect. (binarized) Unbinarized it shows correct metal hit effect that it takes from a3 default files. When I open my binarize p3d and unbinarized p3d via notepad++ or elitness, the paths are the same "a3\data_f\penetration\metal_plate.rvmat", unchanged. All my paths that point to a3 files are like e.g: "a3\data_f\penetration\metal_plate.rvmat". So how can I prevent my p3d model losing paths to a3 default files after binarize?