TOH Community Preview - new scripting commands: setShadowDistance , getShadowDistance

[CarlGustaffa]

Isn't that a bit early, considering "not done, may be deleted, subject to change" etc at this point? Not sure what is best.

In the mean time, I've found a few pages which at least have the commands, and the builtin help on the commands at least show some information:
http://www.cityliferpg.com/forum/ind...howtopic=16349

Note there are things like air density, new radio channel commands, battery that actually drains, APU (not tested), new wind stuff that appears to be equal to current but has different notes in the help, rope commands etc - many reasons to fall in love "New weather stuff" is mentioned, but I can't find any commands to obtain ambient temperature or moisture, or will temperature be based only on the temperature tables found in the world config? Will be interesting to see.

[.kju [PvPscene]]

Why too early? Explain.

The BIKI being a wiki, hence the name, is easy to update if needed.

The purpose of this preview is to test, right?
The sqf commands are part of that.

Remember they said they hand out this preview to allow
their beloved modding community to start digging into it - no?

PS: The stuff you "found" is from the BIKI.

[Moricky]

It should be possible to use generateComRef scripting command to create it on your C:\ drive.

Please note some new Take On command descriptions may be inaccurate or missing, as they are still WIP.

[Xeno]

At least my ToH preview version doesn't support the generateComRef command...

Xeno

[Mr Burns]

Loosely related to scipting, but is there a listing of the arguments used to feed the new "scipted waypoint type"? With no entrys it just caps the flying height, but there must be more as seen in the example mission (timer, etc.). Any hints on this?

Another one loosely related, damaging tail or main rotors via "mala vrtule" & "velka vrtule" don´t work on the new chopper, can you tell us the new selection names? I´ve already had a look at the o² pic posted some time ago in devblog or whereever that was, but the names from there don´t work either..



PS: the new post icons are ..... strange

[.kju [PvPscene]]

Maybe this helps: http://pastebin.jonasscholz.de/1475

From the TakOH AIO.

[CarlGustaffa]

Why too early? Explain.

Explanation:

Please note some new Take On command descriptions may be inaccurate or missing, as they are still WIP.

See i.e. the new wind commands. By description it appears they will be something new (force and rate of change). Using them, you'll see they do the exact same things as the current wind commands (wind vectors without rate of change). Filling in Biki at this point with the old data because they aren't finished, makes the Biki obsolete or inaccurate at release. The biki have the incomplete list of commands, but not the syntax and parameters that currently is incorrect. Filling out with incorrect information just feels a bit wrong.

The BIKI being a wiki, hence the name, is easy to update if needed.

Being easy to update doesn't mean it will be updated. Many examples still contain OFP data, making them less than trivial to try for those exploring scripting for the first time. Example: addWeapon - how is a newbie to know that "M16" is from OFP and does not reflect any M16s in A2?

The purpose of this preview is to test, right?
The sqf commands are part of that.

Not sure how much I agree on that. The preview is pretty much only a preview on the flight model and cockpit interactivity. It's not a beta of the actual game. So there are tons of stuff that can't be changed at this point.

Remember they said they hand out this preview to allow their beloved modding community to start digging into it - no?

And we are, aren't we? I try to make personal missions, but I tend to use OA at least until very late, as the TKOH editor is a bit twitchy and unstable (I get frequent crashes where OA works, so pretty much given up at this point). Also, even if unsuccessfully, I've tried to make a sound addon (personal use only, due to where the sounds are coming from). But this doesn't require Biki commands for commands that aren't fully implemented yet - it will only cause confusion, and I'm sure BIS have full control over what works as intended and what will come down the line.

PS: The stuff you "found" is from the BIKI.

Ehm, yeah? Don't see the point. I did say "a few pages". I used google to seach, sorry if that caused any confusion.

[Mr Burns]

Maybe this helps: http://pastebin.jonasscholz.de/1475

From the TakOH AIO.

I cannot believe it´s in english now
This certainly takes away some of arma´s magic (speak: incomprehensibility) but then again it can only be good for the newcomers, so thumbs up BI!


And there´s so many new hit selections too ... just great. Thanks Mister

[twisted]

Have questions about shadows.

in arma2:OA hills do not seem to actively cast shadows - which often results in the shadows of soldiers on the hill floating on terrain or on brightly lit houses nearby. now as far as i can tell it's just the side of the hill that gets darker depending on the light source.

On the video in the first thread of this topic the houses cast shadows. would terrain also start casting shadows? that would add a lot to the immersion when flying over at different times of the day and add in an important part of lighting that's a persons eye picks up as missing intuitively.

[Ginger McAle]

That timelapse does look really nice. Thank you guys for thinking about the shadow draw distance!
I think this topic (shadow draw distance) is very important.

At the moment (in arma 2 / oa) the shadows disappear to fast in my opinion. When driving for example on a street surrounded by tree´s on chernarus you see a few meters away in front of you on the ground the lod change of the shadow and further away it goes fully away.

I understand the decision, the shadow view distance does have propably high impact on FPS but it makes the game look not so good, or lets maybe say, outdated?
In chernarus the ground in forrests and under tree´s in general is darker, a clever workaround for not rendering the shadows of the tree´s so the player is not confronted directly with this "issue".

Without a darkened ground it does look like this:





Would love to see this in the graphics menu in every title running this engine ^^

By the way, someone made a thread months ago where he did change the render distance in the map config file of grass and small trees and shadows if i remember correctly. He didnt has nice FPS then of course. I would like to try it too but wasnt able to find the thread. Does someone know where to find it?