Armed Civilians v1.02 [Archive] - Bohemia Interactive Forums

W0lle

Oct 18 2009, 22:22

For one of my crappy missions I needed some armed civilians and the result is this tiny addon.

I've taken all the male civilians (except the Priest and Pilot) and gave them different weapons to fight. They are armed with: AKM, AKMS, AK-74, AK-74/GP-25, PKM, RPK, RPG, Strela, SVD, Saiga, M16A2 and MP5A5. Each unit has 4 magazines (the Policemen carry also an M9 with 4 Magazines). In total that adds 360 different units to your editor. :)

You can find the units in Independent -> Civilians -> Armed Civilians.

Download v1.02 @<hidden> Armaholic (http://www.armaholic.com/page.php?id=7951)
Download v1.02 @<hidden> Armed Assault.info (http://www.armedassault.info/download.php?cat=addons&id=1108)

Requirements:
For the "Vilas Edition": Russian and East Europe weapons pack by Vilas (http://www.armaholic.com/page.php?id=9218)
For the "ACE2 Edition": ACE 2 (http://forums.bistudio.com/showthread.php?t=92466)

Readme, Classnames list and serverkey are included in the archive.

Thanks to Armaholic for the hosting. :)

Stemack

Oct 18 2009, 22:50

Nice one mate this is going to come in very handy for some ideas I have been having for missions lately :)

Baskis

Oct 18 2009, 23:19

Great stuff thanks Wolle!

Blueteamguy

Oct 19 2009, 01:02

I have "Angry mob of random peoples" running through my head at the moment, TO THE EDITOR!

Binkowski

Oct 19 2009, 01:32

Thank you! Great stuff, now I can do some of the TDG's that require armed civilians!

RedRacer

Oct 19 2009, 09:13

Hi Wolle,

Ive been having a problem getting ur server key. Seems like the links to the keys are being updated. Any chance on getting a good link to your server key???

ckolonko

Oct 19 2009, 10:17

I think the priest with one of the ArmA shotguns would be rather amusing.

smacker1

Oct 19 2009, 14:51

Will these be loaded via the Ambient Civilian module?

W0lle

Oct 19 2009, 15:41

dale0404
Thanks for the mirror :)

RedRacer
You can download the server key here (http://armaholic.eu/wolle/W0lle.bikey).

ckolonko
Yes maybe, however I decided to leave the priest out for a reason. Priests have a stronger weapon than boomsticks. ;)

smacker1
No, you need to place them manually as any other faction. Might be possible to do that though but I haven't done any research on how to modify/create the modules.

[GLT] Legislator

Oct 19 2009, 19:05

Good work :) I smell a huge civil war comming up! That'll do nicely in my mp campaign.

TheHandsy

Oct 19 2009, 19:59

ckolonko
Priests have a stronger weapon than boomsticks. ;)

The power of the loooorrrrddddaaaah and savioooourrrah?

NeMeSiS

Oct 20 2009, 18:06

The power of the loooorrrrddddaaaah and savioooourrrah?

Holy water. Obviously you dont hunt alot of vampires.

Anyways, are they grouped? Makes it alot more useful in combination with ACM.

liemi008

Nov 21 2009, 05:55

I think this addon should add some female civilians too.
I really think this game is lack of heroines.
It's a shame that female civilians are not allow to use weapons.
Did anyone have the idea to make some 007 missions?

[GLT] Legislator

Nov 21 2009, 08:14

It's a shame that female civilians are not allow to use weapons.
There aren't animations for that kind of action within the game and you can't simply use the male animations. :( I was very disappointed when I couldn't make a fun mission having heavy armed grannys.

Grub

Nov 25 2009, 19:56

Nice work.

Killer Granny's would be great. not sure if I could pull the trigger though unless it got down to her or me. ;)

Uglyboy

Nov 25 2009, 20:56

i hope we will get this in OA :D

http://www.captainsjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/granny_in_iraq.jpg

skooma

Nov 26 2009, 03:10

Shouldn't the policeman carry a Makarov? He does live in an Eastern Bloc country

Sky999

Nov 26 2009, 11:15

For some reason when I use this addon, whenver I fire a shot, the screen fills with blue text telling me who fired it, and what bullets they used =/.

Mark XIII

Nov 26 2009, 13:02

Wolle..your missions are far from crappy :)

W0lle

Dec 1 2009, 15:39

Shouldn't the policeman carry a Makarov? He does live in an Eastern Bloc country
Good point, will fix that. :)

For some reason when I use this addon, whenver I fire a shot, the screen fills with blue text telling me who fired it, and what bullets they used =/.
Definitely not caused by this addon as it simply adds weapons and ammo to the stock A2 civilians. There's not a single script used or something.

Wolle..your missions are far from crappy :)
Cheers mate.

Colt45_GTO

Dec 1 2009, 17:33

any plans on arming the dogs?

dogs with fricken lazer beams on their heads!

no serious now.....how about arming the women? get a riot scene going, some real civil unrest ;)

maturin

Dec 1 2009, 18:03

The trailer did make it look like dogs would be aggressive, and I've been hunted by German Shepherds in a mission (I shot one in a panic), so "arming" the dogs is a great idea.

Binkowski

Dec 2 2009, 01:10

any plans on arming the dogs?

dogs with fricken lazer beams on their heads!

no serious now.....how about arming the women? get a riot scene going, some real civil unrest ;)

Unfortunately you can't :(. Go into the editor and play as a woman and check out your gear. It's weird.

W0lle

Dec 2 2009, 15:20

any plans on arming the dogs?

dogs with fricken lazer beams on their heads!

no serious now.....how about arming the women? get a riot scene going, some real civil unrest ;)

If it would be possible they would have been included in the initial release already. Unfortunately the female models cannot carry weapons, there is no way to fix that without either creating new models or fixing the existing ones (which is not possible yet).

W0lle

Jan 24 2010, 22:36

v1.01 of my tiny addon is available now. Changelog is pretty small though:

Police now carrying Makarovs
"Vilas" Edition added

The "Vilas" Edition requires the Russian and East Europe weapons pack (http://www.armaholic.com/page.php?id=9218) from vilas. In this version most weapons have been replaced with Vilas' boomsticks. This version also contains 29 additional units carrying the SKS rifle.

So in the archive there are two pbo files, w0l_armedcivs.pbo and w0l_armedcivs_vil.pbo. The first is the original version which requires no addons, the second is the one which requires Vilas' weapons.

Foxhound

Jan 25 2010, 08:17

Thanks for informing us about your updated release :cool:

Release frontpaged at the Armaholic homepage (http://www.armaholic.com/page.php?id=7952).

http://www.armaholic.com/datas/users/3-animation.png (http://www.armaholic.com/page.php?id=7951)
Armed Civilians v1.01 (http://www.armaholic.com/page.php?id=7951)

http://www.armaholic.com/skins/Blaster07/img/required_addons.png
Russian and East Europe weapons pack (http://www.armaholic.com/page.php?id=9218)
(Only required if you wish to use the "Vilas" Edition.)

W0lle

Feb 28 2010, 19:10

One more update. :)

v1.02 contains the "ACE2 Edition" which adds even more people:
Civilians with G3A3 and Skorpion.
Police with G3SG/1 sniper rifle.
Pistols have been replaced with TT33.

Link is in the first post.

Wiggum

Feb 28 2010, 19:36

Great to have a ACE version !

jwalstab

Mar 1 2010, 00:12

Thanks love nothing more than gunning down some civs from a choppers side MG

Foxhound

Mar 1 2010, 09:48

Thanks for informing us about your updated release again mate :cool:

Release frontpaged at the Armaholic homepage (http://www.armaholic.com/page.php?id=7952).

http://www.armaholic.com/datas/users/3-animation.png (http://www.armaholic.com/page.php?id=7951)
Armed Civilians v1.02 (http://www.armaholic.com/page.php?id=7951)

http://www.armaholic.com/skins/Blaster07/img/required_addons.png
Russian and East Europe weapons pack (http://www.armaholic.com/page.php?id=9218)
Advanced Combat Environment 2 - Core (http://www.armaholic.com/page.php?id=8602)

Old Bear

Mar 1 2010, 12:01

For one of my own crappy mission I need some African armed civilians on Isla Duala ... do you intend to release one set ?

Nevertheless, Armed Civilians v1.02 is also hosted on Armed Assault.info.

Undeceived

Mar 1 2010, 12:09

Yes!! :) That's what I also needed. Thanks Wolle!

W0lle

Mar 1 2010, 14:51

RabidStoat

Mar 1 2010, 16:47

@<hidden>
Love it! Just one questions re the .pbo's - do we use bothe vanilla and ace/vilas, or is it only a single file to go in the mod folder?

Icewindo

Mar 1 2010, 17:42

Thanks for the mirrors Fox and Old Bear.

African civilians I'm looking for too. :D

It would be no big deal to give the existing civilians dark skin but then they still don't really fit. So to make it proper, complete new models must be made which unfortunately exceeds my knowledge.
Maybe some kind person could make a couple of civilian models and I do the config work then ;)

No need to create new models, what about the ArmA1 civilians? They look pretty african, with t-shirts and stuff.

One will need to change the paths in the model, create SUPER rvmats and redefine the rvmat paths, convert the textures, add in ArmA2 heads/hands, copy ArmA2 geo/fire/memory lod, redefine shadow lod head (some nasty glitches occur otherwise) and add a proper config...

edit:
I think it would work without redefining the paths, too. This would save alot of work.

Nothing spectacular, just boring... and I might be bored :p

http://i290.photobucket.com/albums/ll246/bla212/Clipboard02-20.jpg

W0lle

Mar 1 2010, 19:06

Good point actually. I already knocked at someones door re. civilian models but if that doesn't work we still could use the A1 models.

dialektiikka

Mar 1 2010, 19:32

W0lle, given any thought to arming the priest? :)

When Liberation 1941-45 mod comes out, I'm sure I'll not be the only one wanting to use the priest as a manque for Father Mihail (re: SthrafBat TV series (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0425715/). If you don't wanna, it's OK, your addon :). But please think about it, willya?

W0lle

Mar 1 2010, 19:43

I said a while back that I personally don't think it's needed. However since it's no problem to arm them in the game anyway... I can add them in another version as it's not much work at all.

And before anyone gets any ideas: Nope I still can not add armed women. :)

Mozzak

Apr 7 2010, 14:57

Well you can arm normal civilians with a script so this isn't so useful but I'll download anyway.

[GLT] Legislator

Apr 7 2010, 17:04

@<hidden>:
You are wrong. This addon is very useful. If you try to add units of different sides into groups of other sides it will cause problems, basicly because of some strange inheriting from the base classes. Furthermore it'll make things easier to place armed civilians if they've already got a pre-configurated weapon loadout. It's a pain to equip hundreds of civilians manually, you know. Besides this way the mission.sqm is a little bit smaller in file size due to the lack of extra unnecessary code. Every addon out there has its origins and there's always a reason why someone creates an addon. Think about it, W0lle did make a good job ... except for the lacking of a localization for the 360 armed civilians :p I had to do it myself *crazy*