It was 2 degrees that morning. The day was sunny and warm.

Canberra winters are cold however that is reserved for the morning and evening hours. Days are usually in their teens with clear, sunny skies.
Clear skies meaning frost though...

I think it is the UK that has the problem here. Any nation where a summer day of 19 degrees results in t shirts, swim wear and mass consumption of ice cream has it all wrong.

Pshaw. Everyone else is just wusses.

For pMaster.

Oh, I see... Lovely

I'm supposed to take from a someone who says spiders dream of nothing more than to befriend humans that not every animal in Australia is dangerous. Right. It's a plot to make unwary tourists die by the dozens and steal the money from their corpses, is it not.

Actually, spiders are one of the best pests. After all, they eat flies and cockroaches, and the eight legged buddies don't eat our food nor contaminate it.

Oh great another spider-friend. Living on the Southern hemisphere really seems to mess with people's brains.

Years ago i was in Spain with some friends waiting for one of them to finish taking a leak on an old stream bed away from the road. It was morning and on the wall above us were hundreds of webs covered in dew. We were poking them randomly whilst we waited. We watched a big butterfly flap past and land next to one of these webs near us when suddenly a massive trap door tarantula spider jumps out and kills it. We look at each other then suddenly realise what were sat next to with these hundreds of webs, crap ourselves, and run away back to the car.

In other news im playing with O2

OOH MY GOD! MY HOLIDAY FOR FLORIDA IS BOOKED! GOING FOR 15 DAYS FROM THE 27TH OCTOBER!!!
CANNOT CONTAIN THOS EXCITEMENT!

Or your capslock, apparently.

Heard loud bangs in the vicinity at about 1:15 am, thought "Gunfire? Probably not".
...now police is all over the place. Damn, had I called them as I considered I could sell my story to the tabloids!

In other news, I dreamt of a tornado (the storm, not the plane) last night and it was utterly awesome. Here's wondering what Freud might have to say about this?

Hmm would seem Israel just took out a large stock pile of Assads chem weapons. Judging by the size of that village, the hillside in the distance and the need to burn up the chemicals id say thats a mighty large explosion for non-nuclear arsenal ...



Watch the video yourself

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-22417482
edit: oh BBC dropped the video - finding re-direct on youtube
edit2: new link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5riGm_fVHOw
(News showing up 30mins ago (4:00) + Youtube & Twitter questioning mushroom cloud?)

Indigo take me with you? lol
Dude pMASTER! ... Think this board needs a new rule - 'Only real guns allowed if country covered in snow 9 months out of 12'

Answer my own question here with this: The Massive Ordnance Penetrator (MOP) 30,000-pound GBU-57 - Closest im gunna get (and you can possibly get) before looking at low yield surgical nukes

Only a couple of tons? How cute! Try an N1 rocket.

Admittedly, it's not supposed to explode, but you can't question those results!

Hey guys, did I ever tell you how sexy and amazing you all are? - Got an on topic question for you.

O2 Object Animation

Got a door im trying to open.
Followed Mondkalb's Tutorial to the letter - nothing. (his saved .p3ds and config/cfg dont match anyway?! It'd never work in game!)
Followed BIS's own tutorial to the letter - still nothing. (bits missing in this that are in Mondkalb's Tut?)
About to go dig up my 3rd tutorial to follow but im gunna ask here too.

How the f*ck do you do animation?

• Select door in resolution LOD name it "door1"
• In Fire Geometry LOD copy pasta "door1"
• In Memory LOD 2 points for door hinge axis name it "door1axis"
• Still in Memory LOD another point for the in game menu called it "doorbell"
• Define everything in the config, model and stringtable and ... thats where i fall flat on my face well CTD from in game.

[noob]
soory for bad my english i no speakie
[/noob]

cheers chaps

CTDs usually stem from the config or model.cfg trying to refer to something on a model that doesn't exist (or models that don't exist), check your points are named properly (remember that it's case sensitive)

The coding side of things has always been a blur to me, never managed to get my head round it in this or anything lol

I copied my files direct from Mondkalb's Tutorial which is the main locked tutorial over on the O2 modeling section on Biforums and tried it word for word including the german names and still no luck. Your right i expect im missing a coma or spacebar somewhere or a word is wrong from german to english translation.

http://pastebin.com/6tpxyYfY Config.cpp
http://pastebin.com/ESNJhcpG model.cfg
http://pastebin.com/duyQ4xpa Stringtable.csv

The object that is rotating is called "Door"
The axis is called "Door_Achse"
The in game menu trigger is called "Door_knoph"

Ive checked all the upper and lower case letters (including the uppercase A in Achse and lowercase k in knoph), corrected the numerous file naming errors like TUT_Wall\ missing an 's' (TUT_Walls\) and TUT_Wall_3x3m.p3d reading TUT_Wand ... checked the file structure, correct names in O2 and tried every last way of putting "Door" in different files, different vertices etc .... im lost lol
All made more the frustrating that this is 'the' tutorial to follow ... BIS trying to kill off A2 modding in favour of A3?

edit: 18:30 - Looks like Mondkalb faked the animation part of his tutorial. Nets full of folks looking for help on it ...
edit: 19:41 - Gunna try Frankenstein-ing the paperwork from another other .cfg/config
edit: 21:05 - haha well failed hard and nearly corrupted the entire model ... better not play with codes and wait for help

Suddenly a wild double post appears

This:

Is the wrong way of writing a model path. It should look like this:


This is the point where I get to act smug because that's exactly what I said was probably the issue

Also, I wouldn't bother with the stringtable for now, it's just going to cause issues, just define your object names like this until you've got everything working:

That way if something goes wrong, you know it's not that you've fucked up the stringtable

Also also, you should add this to the beginning of all your configs:


It's handy to have something to reference, so you should probably grab the big sample model for ArmA.1, (which also includes model.cfg and config.cpp files for you to look over), the syntax is essentially the same, just double-check the classes you're inheriting from exist between games.

Feel free to be as smug as you like When it comes to these i haven't a clue lol
Thanks buddy! I've changed those bits but still not getting any animation ... See you've lost me again. Whats the big sample model for ArmA.1?

Why is that Mondkalb blokes tutorial stickied anyway? Its completely wrong! BIS has to know that. For it to be the recommended tutorial guide by the company for newcomers to the modding community they're either deliberately setting up new guys to fail or really don't care about their fan base. Its crap like this that puts me off buying their products ....

edit: ha f*cking ha - found the A1 sample models but BIS website is 'Down for maintenance'

Big sample model pack. I know how to type, I swear! Check here

Animations usually only work if you binarize your PBO. I don't know why this is, but it's the only way I've managed to get them to work. To be honest, I don't fully understand model.cfg files, I'm inclined to believe they're witchcraft.

(Jahve explained it to me once - something about the model.cfg being merged with the p3d, I think you can have a model.cfg and it not be binarized, but you have to write it differently. Like I said, probably witchcraft.)

Really appreciate it buddy, thanks!
Gunna go grind these files with gratuitous amounts of coffee see if i can avoid a sleepless night!



These are the 'cunning stunt' doors im trying to open!
Not giving up

After 14 hours of non-stop grind at 00:45 Carver managed to code and animate 2 doors
Mondkalb had got his p3d's mixed up and put 'TUT_Door' instead of 'TUT_Wall' in the .cfg animation section *facepalm*

I look like this > so going to bed.

Cheers for the help Dave!

ps: If your wondering why its not an in game shot BinPbo now refuses to pack telling me "Binarize.exe has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience." then CTDs ... But thats for tomorrow to fix!

Hey Carver, don't go getting back into old sleeping habits!

This thread needs more beetles all of a sudden.


God of Beetles ! Heed my plea ! Fix this thread with your almighty followers and lead those who would try to usurp your glory with P3D's to their doom !

! Cookies!

It's been a while, so I might be a bit rusty, hold on...

Flesh Eating The Beatles.




...I pancaked, didn't I?

I love to see the vigor of young males in action. Get it well and truly stoked and they'll spend their days animating shipment containers, equipping non-existing militaries of fantasy nations or striving to watch every video of an explosion that there is on YouTube.

Nope. I laughed my ass off.

Im back again

So i understand a bit how these work now. BinPbo now does its job no CTDs. My issue now is in game theres nothing. The model is there, the ladder works, but nothing to do with the 2 door animations. I'm guessing its the menu options not showing up where it goes wrong but thats coding again and i get stuck lol

Open_Door and Open_Door2 are the two user animation classes for the two doors. Im thinking it might be cause they're not defined through the skeleton something correctly? Mondkalb tries to define everything through his own class via "TUT_obj_skeleton" which i think is causing it to fail

http://pastebin.com/QNW2upnc - Config.cpp
http://pastebin.com/QdaUtimN - model.cfg

Cheers

edit: Also as a weird outcome of the anim working in o2, in game the second door is not solid despite it being defined in the Fire Geo LOD and Geo LOD?! lol

The geometry problem seem like it'll be an issue with the actual geometry model, rather a coding error (if it was, the resolution LOD door would be displaced too). It might also be what's causing your issue activating the animations ingame. (AFAIK it uses one of the geometry LODs to determine if the player is looking at the door)

Redid the geo LOD and fire LOD and tested solid in game so yup thats fixed Still no in game anim lol
Just tested the ruin model and thats not appearing either
back to the drawing board config

edit: its midnight again ... just finished my 4th rewrite using a 4th found script someone paraded as working only to find it doesn't.

ArmA 2 Does support animation right?

7 am till 10pm? f*ck you work. f*ck you.

Also: If any of you guys have a PS3, add me up! IndigoAmaya

Are we supposed to see anything in particular?


............
It's cold outside, with chilling winds and freezing rain. Global warming, I suppose.

AT4 + GATSO = gratification to all motorists in the UK.

In the history of ArmA im surprised no ones done this yet lol
Im putting together a little road furniture pack. No animation in signs!

Oh, that!
I'm a little slow on the uptake.

Now, you see, I just assumed the council were putting speed cameras in our vidja games for "safety reasons"...

Actually, come to think of it, I probably shouldn't have said that, might give them ideas

cant it be scripted so every time some one is speeding 10£ will be added to your paypal? XD

You, my good Sir, just successfully divided by zero.

The last hour I've been reading about Oskar Dirlewanger, utterly repulsive.

Someone put on a maid outfit and go check out the News & Team Coordination thread plox. House cleaning needed
Oskar Dirlewanger? He's the .info Asylum OP isnt he?

A typical Wikipedia-situation - you wanna spend 60 seconds looking up a random subject and end up reading stuff on the Nazis for 60 minutes straight. Frankly, it's not a phenomenon unheard-of. I think it was even the project's founder who once joked all it would take to get to Hitler from any given Wikipedia page was clicking five randomly selected interlinks.

First the world, then the far side of the moon and now wikipedia!

On a slightly related note, whenever this Jimmy something guy has his picture put up on Wikipedia to appeal for funds he scares the living shit outta me with that all-knowing smirk of his. It's like he was thinking "I know where you are. I know which webpage you've visited last. You naughty naughty boy".

Yes, that's Jimmes Wales, founder of the wiki. And a good news (I guess), now Wales and Sanger articles are a tad more objective, I recall reading wonders of Wales and sh*t of Sanger a few years ago in the wiki.

EDIT: BTW, Witt, since you work in the Police, and you're a volunteer in I-don't-remember-what-but-looks-like-SAR do you have the National Emergency Plan, the various different contingency plans and Communications Plan? I could use it for the uni.

To think that in a few years I may be the one doing those plans... If that happens, say goodbye to Argentina lads.

Isn't that even some old song... Goodbye Argentina....

@Benoist;

AIIMS - Wiki


AIIMS - FEMA management

Thanks, mate.

In other news, Jorge Rafael Videla, one of the worst men in Argentine history died today in jail. I'm quite happy, more over because he died in prision, instead of being free like many other dictators.