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I'd recommend 512x512 or 1024x1024, or you can try 512x1024 or 1024x512. The surface you put the image on may also distort the image, depending on whether its evenly sized.

@@FrankieHustla reworked the image, thank you for the quick response. issue sorted!

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The wiki has a lot of outdated information and the community will often regurgitate incorrect information. Agents actually have less collisions; this can be proven by using the setDestination command and use the "LEADER DIRECT" parameter, which makes the agent path from point A to point B while ignoring collisions. Additionally, I have a mission that can handle around 600 agents with about 20 units at 120 FPS. Not possible with units since units have a lot more behaviors. There's a lot of reasons why agents are better for performance, the biggest drawbacks with them is that they do not always execute commands when told to and cannot target things. They're really just meant for being civilians, animals, or basic AI at a base.

@@FrankieHustla Well, it have correct information more ofter than not imo, it was one of the first resources that I used and most of the time it have worked for me, not saying thats perfect tho, its far from it. I don't understand why Bohemia doesn't do one themselfs that said. Anyway thanks for the information, I will take it in consideration and thanks for teaching others about how to use this marvelous editor. 🙂

I've seen A3PL (Arma life project or w/e) do it but they had an extension assist with it. Technically it is possible but requires some programming knowlege of APIs I think.

@@FrankieHustla interesting, thanks for the answer. Nice videos, by the way.

Dimensions should be 32x32, 64x64x, 128x128, 256x256, 512x512x, 1024x1024, etc etc (Usually no need to go above 1024)

@@FrankieHustla What dimensions would you reccomend for something simple like the 'PC set (Screen)' object?

@@FrankieHustla Hey, thanks for the reply. I hate to pester you further, but I tried a 1024x1024 pixel .jpg image on the 'PC set (Screen)' and still it was blank white. Do you know why this might be? It is for a singleplayer mission. I have not edited the init or variable name of the object. Nothing was edited, just the 'object specific' options at the very bottom to the image.jpg.

ArmaIdiot has some good videos on making cinematics and intros (And good vids in general). I'm starting to move onto other things like Unity. I might make more videos in the future but no ETA.

All modules are buggy garbage that barely work in multiplayer, I prefer to script everything from scratch instead; the modules are designed for singleplayer. Some modules work OK in multiplayer, like Game Master for Zeus, but things like the Support modules will not work as intended and has always been that way. TL;DR: Don't use vanilla modules, find scripts/mods that do what you want instead.

I'd recommend just using createVehicle if they need to be global anyway. However, I have local triggers in my Takistan mission that use createVehicleLocal, so that AI populate the area the player is in locally. An approach like that would be fine. Maybe I'll do a video on it when I have the time.

yeah i figured createVehicle would be a better option since I'm making them global anyways.. just was curious if it'd offload stuff from the server to the clients. cheers, noticing an increase of 5-10 fps compared to createAgent@@FrankieHustla 👍

I don't really mess with singleplayer missions. As far as I know, the default saving won't save any scripted variables (I could be wrong, never made a serious singleplayer mission) so that'd have to be done separately.

In some ways it still is, very cool sim.

Subscribed for 6 years, wow, thanks for stickin' around

I don't have any fancy cinematic scripts of my own but I'd recommend ArmaIdiot, its an old dead channel but has good info and helped me get into scripting -- he has a video or two on cinematic stuff.

@@FrankieHustla Thanks man! I'll have a look in it! :D

I plan on updating both -- the radio script got updated about a week ago. May work on adding a relay/retrans site system eventually for the next update. Or I'll just convert it into an addon and do that later. The furniture script has a ton of new additions and changes to it for a few missions I've been working on, but I haven't finished it enough to want to release it. There's a pretty good fix included, too. No ETA.

@@FrankieHustla I also remember you showing a custom version of ambient civ script on one of your streams, the one that had civilians standing on the balconies etc. I think you've said it's not super optimised but damn, it looked very impressive and immersive. Do you plan to release it oneday maybe? :> And, please, keep updated script version of your radio too, for vanilla boys. If it's possible of course

I may show off some more stuff like that I'm doing for my group's Mike Force mission (TFR Mike Force Server, system not yet in the mission but will be soonish). Not sure when it'll be ready for a public release since I have a bunch of fixes and additions to do, but it's already got more features than pretty much every other civilian script out there. The script version of the radio will always be supported; the separate addon version will eventually be released due to being the top request.

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My Google Drive/Dropbox is getting full, so I put a link to a PasteBin which lets you copy & paste the code. Thanks for the suggestion.

You need to select the "All Files..." dropdown when you save as .ext

Not sure if I fully understand what you want, but you can create triggers to activate when player(s) enter it, then sync the trigger to an AI group waypoint -- the AI wont move until the trigger is activated. Also been a long time since I messed with triggers and sync but its along those lines.

If you put the code into the mission, yes.

(6 months late but oh well) You can find all the selections on a vehicle using the "selectionNames" script command. Usually, the "clan" or "insignia" selection is what would display the player's clan logo or unit insignia. Here's a quick untested example how to find it in one line of code: this setObjectTextureGlobal [ ( ( selectionNames this ) find "clan" ) , "" ]; //Hide's the clan logo on vehicle I'd recommend adding a "GetIn"/"GetOut" eventHandler to the vehicle or a "GetInMan" / "GetOutMan" eventHandler to each player, then add that code. If in an eventHandler, replace "this" with "this # 0" instead, without the quotes.