Bohemia Interactive's future ARMA 3!

[Dwarden]

no need to rely just on Havok

better to utilize P.A.L. (Physics Abstraction Layer) while use as base physical engine e.g. Bullet Physics Library

this way You get easy access to cost effective (no license fees) OpenCL accelerated physics

You can also then interact Bullet with e.g. DMM and accelerate both via OpenCL

while Euphoria is nice
yet any proper realtime (semi/full)procedural animation blending would be enough ...
also there are similar middlewares around with better price tag ...
e.g. Locomotion for walking

the LUA part raise the question is if it's worth it
or why not look for something what may challenge LUA, one of candidates may be AngelScript
some may fight for good old Python

in the end just evolve SQF + allow direct C++ API linking to the application (hint VBS2Fusion)

C++ code build with Intel TBB/IPP/etc or Parallel Studio
combined with DX11 to squeeze max of todays PC platforms

the above is just example that You should always consider other ways

[MulleDK19]

while Euphoria is nice
yet any proper realtime (semi/full)procedural animation blending would be enough ...
also there are similar middlewares around with better price tag ...
e.g. Locomotion for walking

Except that Euphoria can be 100% physics. Euphoria is able to make soldiers stumble with physics while still being able to fire, etc.

the LUA part raise the question is if it's worth it
or why not look for something what may challenge LUA, one of candidates may be AngelScript
some may fight for good old Python

in the end just evolve SQF + allow direct C++ API linking to the application (hint VBS2Fusion)

C++ code build with Intel TBB/IPP/etc or Parallel Studio
combined with DX11 to squeeze max of todays PC platforms

I'd rather have Lua than any C++ like scripting language. Lua is fast, flexible, easy to learn, and very forgiving. No need to define variable types. You can put anything in them. Even functions.

You can even rename native libraries, lol.

io.write(string.lower("LOL\n")) --Gives result "lol"

local bla = string;
string = nil

io.write(bla.lower("LOL\n")) --Gives result "lol"
io.write(string.lower("LOL\n")) --No longer exists

Aaah... And it worked first try xD http://www.lua.org/cgi-bin/demo


It's really a nice language to work with.

[johncage]

they could really use speed tree.

[zombo]

A melee attack , A more inteligent IA , NO MORE BUGS , NOT MORE USSR ,RUSSIA . I would like to see England , China ,Irak, Iran,Germany , maybe USA but with new vehicles like f16 or f18 new weapons etc . a real country, a real city, No more repeated vehicles like T-72 or BMP2 or 1 they are in the game since OFP1 , MORE NEW ONES LIKE T95, more realistic air fly, more ships submarines, more realistic weapon sounds and scary,the ak47 and ak 107 in arma 2 sounds like toy guns for me ,more betters graphics a conboy waypoint and no more robotic voices and so on ...

sorry for my bad English

[Deadfast]

- Everything would be so much easier using Lua.

Why exactly? I think BIS did a good job with SQF/SQS. If anything needs to improve it's the client-to-client(server) communication.

[whisper]

ArmA3 is Carrier Command:Gaeia Mission, apparently

I suggest you take a look at the dedicated forum a bit lower in these forums

[Sickboy]

Programming away in Ruby these past months, I surely can agree to wanting an Object-Orientated programming language, with nicer typing and more flexibility
SQF gets the thing done, but the above would seriously increase productivity, and creativity, as it will be easier to get things done, and more fun

[DM]

they could really use speed tree.

:facepalm:

[MulleDK19]

A melee attack , A more inteligent IA , NO MORE BUGS , NOT MORE USSR ,RUSSIA . I would like to see England , China ,Irak, Iran,Germany , maybe USA but with new vehicles like f16 or f18 new weapons etc . a real country, a real city, No more repeated vehicles like T-72 or BMP2 or 1 they are in the game since OFP1 , MORE NEW ONES LIKE T95, more realistic air fly, more ships submarines

WTF? I don't wanna miss the T-72 or BMP2, or any other vehicle.

more realistic weapon sounds and scary,the ak47 and ak 107 in arma 2 sounds like toy guns for me

Uhm... You play too much CoD. The sounds in ARMA 2 sounds exactly like real-life.

more betters graphics

WTF... ARMA 2 has some of the best graphics. Buy nVidia.

Why exactly? I think BIS did a good job with SQF/SQS. If anything needs to improve it's the client-to-client(server) communication.

SQF/SQS is really crap. It's fucking annoying. I'd rather work with machine language than SQS/SQF (And I do).

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SQF/SQS is really crap. It's fucking annoying. I'd rather work with machine language than SQS/SQF (And I do).

But others dont.


The simple fact is, I dont think there would be any change on this matter unless BI start everything from the begining, which I dont think BI will think of giving the time they have been using them, nor is it worth the time and money to do such thing, unless BI somehow wanted to use 3rd party engine which AFAIK notthing on the market can match what RV is doing in terms of scale