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I put together a test mission several months back and I thought at the time that spotting distance had a velocity component to it as well which would make sense as it is much easyer to pick something up that is in motion that one that might appear more static. It seemed that I was able to get much closer by just walking slow. When I replayed the mission and ran instead of walked they seemed to see me much further away. I repeated a couple of times but I'm not sure if that is enough data points to gather a conclusion. I'll put together another test and see what happens.

Thanks....I'll check it out :)

I was wondering if anyone had a example mission that I could look at to learn a bit about the ACM module. I've read the biki regarding the module, however there isn't alot of info or a example mission in there. Any help would be apreciated.

I have a E8500 and unclocked the performance with this game really isn't that good. I've overclocked it to 4ghz and then things began to run better but I didn't want to leave it clocked that high. I think a quad is really the only way to go with this. I'll be going to a quad in the future myself.

I've been around since OFP came out and purchased Resistance and OFP I as well. I purchased Arma 2 when it first came out and I've found that I really like the immersion that the game provides. The great looking scenery and local towns and stuff. I also like the cars, tanks and trucks and APC's. With a well written mission, those things really add to the immersion the game provides. While the game provides a decent fun factor for me, I find I have a few bitches which I assume will be fixed I hope with future patches. First bitch is one that has been discussed at length so I won't go into detail. I find my FPS performance in MP pretty poor. I have a Core 2 duo E8500 @3.7ghz, 4gig of PC8500 memory, 19" wide screen with a Gforce 9600GT 512MB. It just doesn't run very well when I play the Warfare type mission(forgot name). I was hoping that I would have gotten better performance with this system even though its not top of the line stuff. Second is regarding the AI. Even though the AI has been noticably improved, I find that they seem to see through the heavy grass and hose me down with machine gun fire while I cant fire back as I cant see them. Third is also regarding the AI. Even with suppressing fire, at times they still seem to run at you like mindless muppets. They don't have any fear of getting hit. I know they do alot of manuvers to flank you and stuff, but they'll still just run into direct fire. Sometimes they will make a attempt to conceal themselves. I found them peaking around a corner and firing very clever programming and quite cool. I'm sure some of these things will be addressed with patches, I just hope its not a long time comming. All in all though I really like the game and hope the improvements sort out some of the issues that I've experienced and have read about.

I couldn't get this to work. I tried it on a enemy unit and also myself but didn't seem to do anything. Also I see a command to setunconcious, cant seem to get that to work either.

I also have a E8500 with 4gig memory and a 9600GT 512mb vid card. I'm running windows 7. I overclocked to 4ghz and I didn't really gain much in the way of FPS. The 9600GT isn't a really good card by todays standard, but I wouldn't have guessed that it was the culprit for my less than expected FPS.

I'm going to un-install my logitech software and give this a test to see if it has any effect. There is however 1 problem with this. I happen to have a Logitech MXâ„¢ Revolution and that has 8 buttons and 2 wheels. I don't think I will be able to program the other button fuctions without the logitech software.

I found a new way to get rid of the "Go....I'm Covering" etc. I shoot the guy thats saying that. The others get quite then. I think they got the point. ;)

Does it fix the "Go I'm covering....Gooooo I'm Covering...Go I'm Covering...I'm covering....I'm Covering...Go I'm Covering...Go I'm covering....Gooooo I'm Covering...Go I'm Covering" I'd really hate to see that go ;)

Tophe, I don't know if this will help but I was having simular problems and I made the max and min distance larger like min-100 and max-350, then things began to work. Don't know if 100 is a minimum or I if it was just a fluke. I had previously had the minimum less than 100.

I didn't want to open up a new thread just for a question about the Ambient Combat Module, but the other one was getting pretty long. I want to just have the ACM spawn Russian Infantry. I've been able to get the ACM to spawn default ground patrols with the following code in the init module, however it spawns armor as well. waitUntil {!isNil {BIS_ACM getVariable "initDone"}}; waitUntil {BIS_ACM getVariable "initDone"}; //Sets frequency and number of patrols (0-1). BIS_ACM is module name [1, BIS_ACM] call BIS_ACM_setIntensityFunc; //min max spawn distance [bIS_ACM, 300, 600] call BIS_ACM_setSpawnDistanceFunc; //factions to be spawned [["RU"], BIS_ACM] call BIS_ACM_setFactionsFunc; //Skill range for spawned units [0, 0.6, BIS_ACM] call BIS_ACM_setSkillFunc; //Amount of ammo spawned units possess [0.2, 0.5, BIS_ACM] call BIS_ACM_setAmmoFunc; //Type of patrol. With 0 meaning no chance of appearing, and 1 meaning 100% chance. -1 removes patrol type completely. ["ground_patrol", 1, BIS_ACM] call BIS_ACM_setTypeChanceFunc; ["air_patrol", 0, BIS_ACM] call BIS_ACM_setTypeChanceFunc; I assume that I will have to use the following functions to get that to happen but I'm not sure what the "Array of configs and / or Strings" means. I don't know where to get the CfgGroups or Strings from. //You can pass both actual CfgGroups Config entries or class name Strings. [<ACM reference | Object>, <types | Array of Configs and / or Strings>] call BIS_ACM_addGroupClassesFunc; //Passing an empty types Array will completely disable the custom database and switch back to the default. [<ACM reference | Object>, <types | Array of Configs and / or Strings>] call BIS_ACM_removeGroupClassesFunc; Can anyone show how I might just spawn infantry?

I can second that. I was playing with the editor lastnight and placed a couple of Shilkas and a several A10's and set SAD waypoints and let it go. It looked like I had installed a new meteor shower module in arma 2 as there were flaming planes hitting the ground all over the place. :icon_lol:

Well actually they both have the same symtom. If I use the first method to change the view to the AI, everything is good. The AI moves on his own and I'm just viewing through his eyes. If I try to switch the view back to my origonal body, the AI doesn't seem to move anymore. I'm still fiddling around....perhaps their is a command to give him a shove and get him going again :)

Thanks for the ideas:) ---------- Post added at 01:29 PM ---------- Previous post was at 01:19 PM ---------- Alex, Adding "Playable to each of the units does in fact allow me to switch to them via "T", however when I switch back to my origonal unit, the other unit does not go back into formation with its leader and just stands there. I imagine there is a command to get him going again but I havn't found it yet