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addon_optimization_guide

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2024-07-31T15:29:13+00:00

OFP Addon Optimization Guide OFP Forum, OFP Home, OFP File Formats, OFP Tools, OFP Missions, OFP 3D Modeling, OFP Terrain Operation Flashpoint (OFP) aka ArmA: Cold War Assault (CWA) OFP Addon Optimization Guide by nephilim. March 8th, 2006. So what is optimizations about? Basically there´s several factors to be aware of before starting with a 3d game model.

animations

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2024-07-31T15:30:54+00:00

OFP Animations OFP Forum, OFP Home, OFP File Formats, OFP Tools, OFP Missions, OFP 3D Modeling, OFP Terrain Operation Flashpoint (OFP) aka ArmA: Cold War Assault (CWA) This articles talks about simple, single-p3d animations, where parts of a model rotate around an axis (like a car door, or a tank turret). Complex animations for soldier's movements for example are a different issue altogether

binarize_errors

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2024-07-31T15:32:03+00:00

OFP Binarize Errors OFP Forum, OFP Home, OFP File Formats, OFP Tools, OFP Missions, OFP 3D Modeling, OFP Terrain Operation Flashpoint (OFP) aka ArmA: Cold War Assault (CWA) There are several binarize errors on p3d models. For example Bad proxy object definition proxy: This could mean the several things like: * There is a selection but no proxy present

brsseb_lesson1

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2024-07-31T15:34:46+00:00

OFP Brsseb 3D Modeling Tutorial OFP Forum, OFP Home, OFP File Formats, OFP Tools, OFP Missions, OFP 3D Modeling, OFP Terrain Operation Flashpoint (OFP) aka ArmA: Cold War Assault (CWA) Lesson 1: Creating your first addon Lesson 1: Creating your first addon by Brsseb Preparing for the lesson Before we can begin making the addon we should get & set up all the stuff needed. We must create the folder the addon should be in and get all the texture files. We`ll also need a config-file. This can …

brsseb_lesson2

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2024-07-31T15:36:19+00:00

OFP Brsseb 3D Modeling Tutorial OFP Forum, OFP Home, OFP File Formats, OFP Tools, OFP Missions, OFP 3D Modeling, OFP Terrain Operation Flashpoint (OFP) aka ArmA: Cold War Assault (CWA) Lesson 2: Creating your first car Creating your first car by Brrseb Preparing for the lesson So you`re ready to begin your second lesson, huh? Well, if you ever wanted to know how to make a car in OFP you`re in the right place. This lesson will teach you the basic on how to set up a car in OFP. It wont teach…

brsseb_lesson3

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2024-07-31T15:38:29+00:00

OFP Brsseb 3D Modeling Tutorial OFP Forum, OFP Home, OFP File Formats, OFP Tools, OFP Missions, OFP 3D Modeling, OFP Terrain Operation Flashpoint (OFP) aka ArmA: Cold War Assault (CWA) Lesson 3: Creating your first Weapon Creating your first Weapon by Brsseb Preparing for the lesson Hello, and welcome back. Its time to make our first weapon in OFP. Yes, that's right. A step by step tutorial that covers the most of it; from modeling the gun itself to getting it ingame.

brsseb_lesson4

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2024-07-31T15:40:18+00:00

OFP Brsseb 3D Modeling Tutorial OFP Forum, OFP Home, OFP File Formats, OFP Tools, OFP Missions, OFP 3D Modeling, OFP Terrain Operation Flashpoint (OFP) aka ArmA: Cold War Assault (CWA) Lesson 4: Creating your first Helicopter Creating your first Helicopter by Brsseb Preparing for the lesson Hello, and welcome back to yet another lesson. This time you get to make your very own helicopter. And if you`ve followed the previous lesson this should be a walk in the park. Therefore Im not going to…

brsseb_lesson5

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2024-07-31T15:47:40+00:00

OFP Brsseb 3D Modeling Tutorial OFP Forum, OFP Home, OFP File Formats, OFP Tools, OFP Missions, OFP 3D Modeling, OFP Terrain Operation Flashpoint (OFP) aka ArmA: Cold War Assault (CWA) Lesson 5: Creating your first Gunboat Creating your first gunboat by Brsseb Preparing for the lesson Ok, the lessons is back and now its time to build a boat. Since boats are very easy to do (if you have done a car, you will notice boats are much less work), so for this lesson to contain anything usefull, I …

brsseb_lesson6

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2024-07-31T15:49:14+00:00

OFP Brsseb 3D Modeling Tutorial OFP Forum, OFP Home, OFP File Formats, OFP Tools, OFP Missions, OFP 3D Modeling, OFP Terrain Operation Flashpoint (OFP) aka ArmA: Cold War Assault (CWA) Lesson 6: Creating your first Airplane Creating your first Airplane by Brsseb Preparing for the lesson Yes, now im back and its finally time for airplanes! First things first..you need these skills and programs to do this tutorial:

brsseb_lesson7

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2024-07-31T15:50:50+00:00

OFP Brsseb 3D Modeling Tutorial OFP Forum, OFP Home, OFP File Formats, OFP Tools, OFP Missions, OFP 3D Modeling, OFP Terrain Operation Flashpoint (OFP) aka ArmA: Cold War Assault (CWA) Lesson 7: Creating your first ARMED Airplane Creating your first ARMED Airplane by Brsseb Preparing for the lesson Finally got back to writing tuts again and here is one I have wanted to make for months: its your first tutorial about equipping a vehicle with lots of firepower. We are talking about a machineg…

brsseb_lesson8

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2024-07-31T15:52:34+00:00

OFP Brsseb 3D Modeling Tutorial OFP Forum, OFP Home, OFP File Formats, OFP Tools, OFP Missions, OFP 3D Modeling, OFP Terrain Operation Flashpoint (OFP) aka ArmA: Cold War Assault (CWA) Lesson 8: Creating your first Building Creating your first Building by Brsseb Preparing for the lesson Welcome to the 8th tutorial were we will make our very first building, a cute little house that we can walk into, open/close doors and maybe climb a little ladder too! First things first:

brsseb_lesson9

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2024-07-31T15:54:12+00:00

OFP Brsseb 3D Modeling Tutorial OFP Forum, OFP Home, OFP File Formats, OFP Tools, OFP Missions, OFP 3D Modeling, OFP Terrain Operation Flashpoint (OFP) aka ArmA: Cold War Assault (CWA) Lesson 9: Custom Object Animations Custom Object Animations by Brsseb Preparing for the lesson In this tutorial we will talk about how to set up simple animations for you addons.

brsseb_start

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2024-07-31T15:55:39+00:00

OFP Brsseb 3D Modeling Tutorial OFP Forum, OFP Home, OFP File Formats, OFP Tools, OFP Missions, OFP 3D Modeling, OFP Terrain Operation Flashpoint (OFP) aka ArmA: Cold War Assault (CWA) Getting started Oxygen 2 tutorial by Brsseb In this pre-tutorial lesson we will go over all the stuff you need to do before you can start on lesson 1. I will guide you step-by-step from getting o2 and viewer, to making it work properly. Follow this guide and you will avoid most of the most common newbie probl…

cfgvehicles_configref

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2024-07-31T15:57:45+00:00

OFP CfgVehicles Config Reference OFP Forum, OFP Home, OFP File Formats, OFP Tools, OFP Missions, OFP 3D Modeling, OFP Terrain Operation Flashpoint (OFP) aka ArmA: Cold War Assault (CWA) TokenName Config.cpp Reference Simply put, Token Name & Value pairs are as follows SomeName = SomeValue; Token Names are used extensively throughout ofp 'text' files.

config.bin

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2024-07-31T16:00:04+00:00

OFP Config.bin OFP Forum, OFP Home, OFP File Formats, OFP Tools, OFP Missions, OFP 3D Modeling, OFP Terrain Operation Flashpoint (OFP) aka ArmA: Cold War Assault (CWA) The config.bin file is a binary version of the config.cpp file. For more detailed information see Config.cpp. Sometimes binary form configs are referred to as 'encrypted'. This is misleading, as the encoding used for config.bin is not an encryption, and it was never intended to be, The purpose of the binary form is to provide …

config.cpp

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2024-07-31T16:00:59+00:00

OFP Config.cpp OFP Forum, OFP Home, OFP File Formats, OFP Tools, OFP Missions, OFP 3D Modeling, OFP Terrain Operation Flashpoint (OFP) aka ArmA: Cold War Assault (CWA) The config.cpp file is the main configuration file for Operation Flashpoint in text form. (not binarized). This file contains all of the important information for configuring a model within OFP. The OFP engine is capable of reading config.cpp files in both binary (

geometry_lod

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2024-07-31T16:01:59+00:00

OFP Geometry LOD OFP Forum, OFP Home, OFP File Formats, OFP Tools, OFP Missions, OFP 3D Modeling, OFP Terrain Operation Flashpoint (OFP) aka ArmA: Cold War Assault (CWA) I recommend using the component convex hull (CCH) function geo LODs - it's under the structure/convexity menu. Geo LODs require all the objects to have convex shapes (ie no concave angles to the faces) and for the objects to be named properly. This function does it all for you.

helmet_visible

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2024-07-31T16:04:15+00:00

OFP Helmet Visible Inside A Vehicle OFP Forum, OFP Home, OFP File Formats, OFP Tools, OFP Missions, OFP 3D Modeling, OFP Terrain Operation Flashpoint (OFP) aka ArmA: Cold War Assault (CWA) If you enter a vehicle and your soldier models helmet comes into view blocking it, then you have problem with the hlava and/or mireni selections.

keepheight

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2024-07-31T16:05:42+00:00

OFP Keep Height OFP Forum, OFP Home, OFP File Formats, OFP Tools, OFP Missions, OFP 3D Modeling, OFP Terrain Operation Flashpoint (OFP) aka ArmA: Cold War Assault (CWA) The keep height feature means that for example, fences and roads are using this one, they are always (and I do mean ALWAYS) aligned to the ground no matter what the fit to ground setting says in WrpTool / WRP file.

lod

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2024-07-31T16:07:06+00:00

OFP Level of Detail (LOD) OFP Forum, OFP Home, OFP File Formats, OFP Tools, OFP Missions, OFP 3D Modeling, OFP Terrain Operation Flashpoint (OFP) aka ArmA: Cold War Assault (CWA) What's a LOD? LOD means Level of Detail, and is a method of defining, via different variations of a model, how high or low the viewable quality of the model should be, and how it should interact with the environment.

muzzleflash

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2024-07-31T16:08:58+00:00

OFP Muzzle Flash Bug OFP Forum, OFP Home, OFP File Formats, OFP Tools, OFP Missions, OFP 3D Modeling, OFP Terrain Operation Flashpoint (OFP) aka ArmA: Cold War Assault (CWA) The Problem This problem may occur for addon makers in the form of the muzzle flash of a weapon model is visible at all times in-game, and does not simply flash when fired.

named_properties

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2024-07-31T16:10:18+00:00

OFP Named Properties OFP Forum, OFP Home, OFP File Formats, OFP Tools, OFP Missions, OFP 3D Modeling, OFP Terrain Operation Flashpoint (OFP) aka ArmA: Cold War Assault (CWA) Named Properties can be set in Oxygen. If you don't see this you must first active the Named Properties window under -> Window -> Named Properties, or simply press Alt+P.

named_selection

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2024-07-31T16:12:00+00:00

OFP Named Selection OFP Forum, OFP Home, OFP File Formats, OFP Tools, OFP Missions, OFP 3D Modeling, OFP Terrain Operation Flashpoint (OFP) aka ArmA: Cold War Assault (CWA) Some objects or vertexes need to be named in order for them to work properly. This is done in the 'Named Selection' window (ALT-L). Standard objects like wheels, lights, etc. must be defined by their official Czech names. User defined objects (for animations, for example) can be named anything.

referencesites

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2009-05-07T08:13:14+00:00

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retexture

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2024-07-31T16:13:28+00:00

OFP ReTexture Object OFP Forum, OFP Home, OFP File Formats, OFP Tools, OFP Missions, OFP 3D Modeling, OFP Terrain Operation Flashpoint (OFP) aka ArmA: Cold War Assault (CWA) To re-texture an object, you need to do this following. * Move textures to a folder inside working folder * Open model in O2. * CTRL-LMB double click on texture on texture list on the left.

tokennames

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2024-07-31T16:14:47+00:00

OFP Token Name Value Types OFP Forum, OFP Home, OFP File Formats, OFP Tools, OFP Missions, OFP 3D Modeling, OFP Terrain Operation Flashpoint (OFP) aka ArmA: Cold War Assault (CWA) Token Name values The ofp engine, and specifically, a raPified (binarized) file identifies only a few different 'types' of Token Name aString = "A string"; anInteger = 1234567; aFloat = 0.0123; anArray[] = {.....};

tutorials

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2024-07-31T16:24:46+00:00

OFP Modeling Tutorials OFP Forum, OFP Home, OFP File Formats, OFP Tools, OFP Missions, OFP 3D Modeling, OFP Terrain Operation Flashpoint (OFP) aka ArmA: Cold War Assault (CWA) OFP 3D modeling tutorials hosted in PMC Editing Wiki, you can rest assured that links for these will always be active. Gizmo Mapping by Ebud Spherical Gizmo Mapping by Remcen Correct Texture by Ian Malcolm

tut_correcttexture

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2024-07-31T16:16:15+00:00

OFP Correct Textures OFP Forum, OFP Home, OFP File Formats, OFP Tools, OFP Missions, OFP 3D Modeling, OFP Terrain Operation Flashpoint (OFP) aka ArmA: Cold War Assault (CWA) Using The Right Format Of Textures by Ian Malcolm PAA Format PAA textures with transparency for all objects. Use them only if you really want half transaprency, eg glass.

tut_gizmomap

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2024-07-31T16:17:28+00:00

OFP Gizmo Mapping OFP Forum, OFP Home, OFP File Formats, OFP Tools, OFP Missions, OFP 3D Modeling, OFP Terrain Operation Flashpoint (OFP) aka ArmA: Cold War Assault (CWA) Oxygen 2 Gizmo Mapping tutorial by Ebud How I do it is like this. Step1 Grab something like a soldiers leg( just the polys you want wrapped by the texture), and make a new

tut_import_3ds

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2024-07-31T16:18:52+00:00

OFP Importing 3DS to Oxygen 2 OFP Forum, OFP Home, OFP File Formats, OFP Tools, OFP Missions, OFP 3D Modeling, OFP Terrain Operation Flashpoint (OFP) aka ArmA: Cold War Assault (CWA) Converting 3DS Files To O2 Light by Ian Malcolm Let's start: You have an 3DS Max (3ds) file, now import in from 3DS to P3D. 3ds models have 1:10 scale, so just scale them to 10 times bigger.

tut_simple_building

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2024-07-31T16:20:07+00:00

OFP Creating Simple Building OFP Forum, OFP Home, OFP File Formats, OFP Tools, OFP Missions, OFP 3D Modeling, OFP Terrain Operation Flashpoint (OFP) aka ArmA: Cold War Assault (CWA) Creating Simple Boxy Building by Ian Malcolm Before you start creating this building, you must have some imaginary in your head (or on photo) how this building will look when it will be finished, so we must know what we well make one of the basic rules for modelers, this time it´s will be look something like this…

tut_smooth_sharp_edge

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2024-07-31T16:21:26+00:00

OFP Smooth and Sharp Edges OFP Forum, OFP Home, OFP File Formats, OFP Tools, OFP Missions, OFP 3D Modeling, OFP Terrain Operation Flashpoint (OFP) aka ArmA: Cold War Assault (CWA) Smooth and Sharp Edges by Ian Malcolm Maybe you already met with this problem: you need to create very angular object,but if you try to do that it´s till not that what you want (picture)

tut_sphericalgizmo

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2024-07-31T16:22:45+00:00

OFP Spherical Gizmo Mapping OFP Forum, OFP Home, OFP File Formats, OFP Tools, OFP Missions, OFP 3D Modeling, OFP Terrain Operation Flashpoint (OFP) aka ArmA: Cold War Assault (CWA) Spherical Gizmo Mapping Tutorial by remcen aka hottentotten mike The Problem We want to map this cap: there are two options: 1) Flat mapping

validating_geometries

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2024-07-31T16:26:15+00:00

OFP Validating Geometries OFP Forum, OFP Home, OFP File Formats, OFP Tools, OFP Missions, OFP 3D Modeling, OFP Terrain Operation Flashpoint (OFP) aka ArmA: Cold War Assault (CWA) Objects that are used in the Geometry or Fire Geometry LOD must be closed and convex in order to work. To test for these qualities you can use the following methods: Open Objects

vehicle_aircraft

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2024-07-31T16:27:07+00:00

OFP Vehicles Aircraft OFP Forum, OFP Home, OFP File Formats, OFP Tools, OFP Missions, OFP 3D Modeling, OFP Terrain Operation Flashpoint (OFP) aka ArmA: Cold War Assault (CWA) Proxy's cargo, pilot, gunner and copilot are all as follows. Face Properties – User 0, Enable Shadow/texture merging, Lighting Normal and Z bias none.

vehicle_car

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2024-07-31T16:28:11+00:00

OFP Vehicles Car OFP Forum, OFP Home, OFP File Formats, OFP Tools, OFP Missions, OFP 3D Modeling, OFP Terrain Operation Flashpoint (OFP) aka ArmA: Cold War Assault (CWA) These are the selections for Jeep/JeepMG and 5Ttruck cars. Selection Description brzdove svetlo both break lights, turn on when you break L svetlo left headlight

vehicle_tank

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2024-07-31T16:29:16+00:00

OFP Vehicles Tank OFP Forum, OFP Home, OFP File Formats, OFP Tools, OFP Missions, OFP 3D Modeling, OFP Terrain Operation Flashpoint (OFP) aka ArmA: Cold War Assault (CWA) Tanks have tracks that are called on selections “kolL” which is left side, and “kolP” which is right side. pasoffsetL and kolL needs to be User: 53 and

weaponproxy

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2024-07-31T16:31:33+00:00

OFP Weapon Proxy OFP Forum, OFP Home, OFP File Formats, OFP Tools, OFP Missions, OFP 3D Modeling, OFP Terrain Operation Flashpoint (OFP) aka ArmA: Cold War Assault (CWA) Weapon Proxies In Aircraft's. Create proxy then right click it which brings up Proxy Name dialog. If you want to see your weapon, then write down the PBO path and p3d name like this

weapon_models

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2024-07-31T16:30:22+00:00

OFP Weapon Models OFP Forum, OFP Home, OFP File Formats, OFP Tools, OFP Missions, OFP 3D Modeling, OFP Terrain Operation Flashpoint (OFP) aka ArmA: Cold War Assault (CWA) Weapon models by bis. They have 5 different LODs, View-pilot and memory, nothing else. 0 LOD has less details as View-Pilot. In muzzle flash selection “zasleh