External Viewer: Attach Failed. No viewer found

[Stilton]

I thought id post this topic in the right forum in the hopes that someone has already experienced it...
Obviously, this for Arma, not the original Ofp.. i have the sprocket/downloaded version of Arma... ***latest patches and the Oxygen 2 PE ***RC...

The error i get is the thread title.. ***External Viewer: Attach Failed. No viewer found ***- ***i get this when i try to load buldozer/the viewer... i havent even loaded a file... ***and also, when i have loaded my file


Here is my config from O2, ***i have changed the Virtual drive letter in the batfile to Z.. because its a little more organised for me, but i get the same error if i leave it as P:\

I have also tried copying all the DLL's from the o2light, ***and unless i put the quotes "..." around the ***c:\arma.exe ***part... ***when i go to the viewer, i just get a menu screen...


I have posted this new thread as i read people having similar problems, ***but im not sure if anyone has had exactly the same problem...
...and i hope me posting this increases the chances of it getting fixed ***

thanks to anyone who can help


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Also.. i have just thought to ask, is there any alternative to buldozer viewer? Can i not import my semi-working models into Arma to view them?? because quite simply... i've stopped making my models and cant continue because i dont know of a way to preview them, if anyone knows how i can preview them directly into Arma without buldozer errors it'd be cool - thanks
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[Suma]

Also.. i have just thought to ask, is there any alternative to buldozer viewer? Can i not import my semi-working models into Arma to view them?? because quite simply... i've stopped making my models and cant continue because i dont know of a way to preview them, if anyone knows how i can preview them directly into Arma without buldozer errors it'd be cool - thanks

There is an alternative which could provide you at least a partial workaround. You can launch ArmA.exe with arguments -buldozer -noland and path to your p3d file, with a current directory on your working driver, like:

P:
cd P:\
"C:\Program Files\Bohemia Interactive\ArmA.exe" -window -buldozer -noland P:\FullPathTo\MyModel.p3d

You will not get interactive updates from O2 this way, but at least you should be able to preview your model in the engine.

[Stilton]

hmm...

thanks for your help in trying to resolve this.. but still no joy.

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At least, im guessing what i have described is a known issue with the tools? and not just me - that is being fixed yeh? - im hoping the fact you have replied is to confirm this, i hope
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I added this: ***-window -buldozer -noland P:\FullPathTo\MyModel.p3d


as you say, to then end of the shortcut but as i say, ***no joy.. it just keeps splitting errors at me, ***my shortcut looks like this..


C:\Games\ArmA\arma.exe -buldozer -noland z:\TC_P90.p3d


But it now spits up... 2 error boxes before closing the game..


No entry '.CfgWorlds'.


and i click ok and get..
a black screen, followed by another error:


Shaders not valid (mismatch of exe and data?)



- *** I thought this may have been as i asked daSquade for his .exe ***file to test if it was my sprocket version causing the problems, ***but i have since reinstalled the game and have a legitimate version of the game... ***So ***i have no idea ***


Once again, ***thanks for trying to resolve this, ***any answers ***are appreciated ***

p.s: ***also, ***i think the sprocket version i have is 1.05, ***yet i just reinstalled it and it says its 1.08... ***which is confusing, ***so im going to downlod the patch and apply it again just incase thats what causing it... ***But im hopeful as you guys wrote it, you might know if this is not the cause...

[Suma]

I added this: -window -buldozer -noland P:\FullPathTo\MyModel.p3d

This is not enough. You need to make sure the current directory (sometimes also called working directory) is set to where your textures and models are (by default to P

[Stilton]

hmmm....


..sorry to sound like a completely 'noob' here... but i know how to set a working directory in... dos-mode for example?


but im a little bit confused as to how you do this in windows..

would this be where it says
"Start in" in the shortcut?

[Stilton]

YEEESS!!! YESSS!


Thank you Suma... i would edit my post, but this needs another post...



I went into CMD / Dos prompt... typed what you suggested... and Voila... i have.... MY MODEL! inside the viewer... all working.




It now complains about:

Cannot load texture standard_1.paa




but this is a minor detail, now i have a semi-working bulldozer and i can actually SEE MY MODEL!


Suma, i cant say how happy you have made me man, thank you so much for your time... Obviously it'd be great if it worked without all this effort.. but, i suppose like they say...

Anything thats easy to do, isnt worth doing at all





thank you again

[Maruk]

Please try RC3 tool suite. It should fix the problem completely for all versions...

[Dramboi]

Where do i get it ?

[HulkingUnicorn]

@Dramboi: this thread was hidden in the EDITING NEWS forum

@Devs: Thanks for getting buldozer working properly with the Sprocket edition of Arma

[SolidSnake-(SNK)]

Can someone pleace thell me what to do to get buldozer working? I have tryed eveything, but i dont understand what to do to get it to work.