A2 Island Fixes

So, I spent some time to make A2 maps a little bit more playable and here is there result.

vehicle dust



lights at night





a3 penetration & particles effects

Bellow addon fixes:

*added missing stringtables

*penetration materials - no more bulletproof walls or trees

*added vehicle dust & friction to a2 surfaces - moving vehicels & infantry leave dust and no more driving offroad like on highway

*falling walls

*remove a2 & a2co from mods menu

*working street lamps

REQUIREMENTS:

AiA or A3MP Pack

Notes:

It can be used with AiA or A3MP Pack. In fact, I tried to keep A3MP structure so if you want to save some space you can remove or rename (change rds_ with a3mp_, bikeys may not working after that) folowing files:

RDS_Builds_Data
RDS_Structures_Data
RDS_Structures2_Data
RDS_Utilis8

Below is explanation how did I fixed those thing so if you have some custom maps you can freely adapt those tips :)

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Wall bug

With a3 bis changed how trees are handled (how they fall). Since OFP, wall used same simulation like trees and now they introduced new one (because old one is not working very well with walls) - damage: Wall

In order to make your wall fall in nice fashion you need to change damage (or dammage) param to Wall

O2 Macro to speed up thing (replace damage param to wall)

#include "std\lodNames.inc"
#include "std\o2config.inc"
#include "std\paramFile.inc"
#include "CheckMat.inc.bio2s"
#include "std\flags.inc"

scopeName "CheckAll";

console=openStandardIO;

lastLodShow=-1;
inLodShow={
private "_res";
bugreported=true;
if (lastLodShow!=_this) then
{
               _res=eoln+"In level "+(_this call lodNameGetName)+":"+eoln;
	lastLodShow=_this;
}
else
{
	_res="";
};
_res
};

#define ERROR(x) {console<<(_resol call inLodShow)<<"	"<<x<<eoln;}
#define ERROR_LOG(x) ERROR(x)


0 call
{
bugreported=false;

if (this in ["options"]) then {messageBox ["No options are available in this script!",0];BreakTo "CheckAll";};
if (typename this=="STRING") then
{
	p3d=newLODObject;
	p3dname=this;
	if (!(p3d loadP3d this)) then {	console<<"Unable to open:"<<this<<eoln;BreakTo "CheckAll";};
	runFromO2=false;
	texpath=((splitPath p3dname) @ 0);
	console<<"----------------------------------------------------------------------"<<eoln;
	console<<"Checking file: "<<p3dname<<eoln;
}
else
{
	p3dname=nameof this;
	p3dname=splitPath p3dname;
	p3dname=p3dname @ 2 + p3dname @ 3;
	runFromO2=true;
	p3d=this;
	texpath=o2GetConfig IDS_CFGPATHFORTEX;
	console<<"--------- Checking "<<p3dname<<" ------"<<eoln;
};

objects=getObjects p3d;
resols=getResolutions p3d;
collectMats=+[];

       _hasView = false;
       _hasFire = false;
       _shadow0  = false;
       _shadow10 = false;

for "_i" from 0 to (count p3d-1) do
{
	private ["_obj","_resol","_isol","_numsect","_degen"];
	_resol=resols @ _i;
	_obj=objects @ _i;

	if (_resol<LOD_EDIT_MIN || _resol>=LOD_EDIT_MAX) then
        {
                if (IS_LOD_GEOMETRY(_resol)) then
                {
                        	_obj setProperty ["dammage","wall"];
               		console<<"Added wall damage geometry"<<eoln;
                        };

	};
};
};

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Street lights

Once again, one param changed.

In geometry lod you need to change class: Street Lamp to HouseSimulated

After that, you need to define your street lamp in config.cpp

Important, use following naming scheme

class LAND_nameofyourp3d

example config

class CfgPatches
{
class CAStructures_E_Misc_Misc_powerline
{
	units[]={};
	weapons[]={};
	requiredVersion=1.02;
	requiredAddons[]=
	{
		"CAStructures_E_Misc","A3_Structures_F_Civ_Lamps" //<- that is important too!
	};
};
};

class CfgVehicles
{
class Lamps_base_F;
class Land_PowLines_Conc2L_EP1: Lamps_base_F
{
	mapSize=3.78;
	author="$STR_A3_Bohemia_Interactive";
	_generalMacro="Land_LampStreet_F";
	scope=1;
	scopeCurator=2;
	displayName="$STR_A3_CfgVehicles_Land_LampStreet_F0";
	model="\ca\Structures_E\Misc\Misc_Powerline\PowLines_Conc  2L_EP1";
	armor=500;
	class Reflectors
	{
		class Light_1
		{
			color[]={1200,600,300};
			ambient[]={12,6,3};
			intensity=7;
			size=1;
			innerAngle=100;
			outerAngle=180;
			coneFadeCoef=2;
			position="Light_1_pos";
			direction="Light_1_dir";
			hitpoint="lampa";
			selection="";
			useFlare=1;
			flareSize=2;
			flareMaxDistance=220;
			class Attenuation
			{
				start=0;
				constant=0;
				linear=0;
				quadratic=0.30000001;
				hardLimitStart=40;
				hardLimitEnd=60;
			};
		};
	};
};
};

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Dust

effect are surface specific now. couldn't make to work array[] += so it replaces BIS effects - adding new surfaces might be a little bit tricky...

		leftDustEffects[] = {
[bis surfaces]

	//new surfaces - chernarus

		{"CRGrass1","LDustEffects"},
		{"CRGrass1","LGrassEffects"},
		{"CRGrass1","LDirtEffects"},
etc.

};

First let me thank you once more for all your effort and time ( being in the RHS mod, RDS tanks, static , civilians or this fixes ), I really think you are doing an awesome job, and I personally use all your mods. Keep it up :)

I don't know if its possible to fix it, but one thing that bugs me a bit with the A2 maps, is that some objects are material-less, for instance you can go through the bump in the road-rail crossings or in the sidewalks in the cities.

Thanks, I was thinking about that thing a that's somehow connected with empty geometry on those objects - probably to avoid ai loosing his wheels. I will check if only adding physx lod will help anyhow and what performance impact it will have

ps: I don't think so :P

@ papy.rabbit.08 - I was thinking about merging it with aia but dunno when it will happen

It's really important if you want to use A3mp files and those fixed to launch it in correct order so a3mp model gets overwritten by mine.

@ papy.rabbit.08 - I'm considering sending it to PWS using new collection thing but that will happen after I will get back to home.

Ah, and no steam for sure because current filesize limits is set on 987MB

@ Goodson - I wish, it was so easy - plenty of model changes here and there (described in first post)

I will try to answer rest of the question tomorow, got to go and thanks for the support!