Profile of Olhausen

Mmm wire, so far so good for me. At least for now. I will try to keep an eye open just in case.

Did you tried to un-install and re-install the tool again ? Try to have a fresh start.

Regards, Olhausen

@Dar Thank you for the extra data.
About the crew animation, yes this happens to me too and sadly I could not find a solution for that too.
But this is only for the dodge, hopefuly the Bren Carrier has a better crew system and works perfectly ok.
Sadly tools have some limitations.

Other thing thats happens to me is the UI selection circle is broken for the Bren Carrier and I correct that using an "alternate_sua" like in vanilla Dodge. This bring me back the selection circle.

<string name="alternate_sua" value="armies\soviet\vehicles\t70m_light_tank\t70m_light_tank" />

Regards
Olhausen

EDITEd OLHAUSEN: I dont understand correctly your last problem. Could you explain better ?

Yes, I am going to try it again tomorrow, right now I am having some problems with internet.

Thanks for the reply guys.

EDITED OLHAUSEN:

I finally solve the problem. My problem was to use all weapons animations in the same abp file.
The way to solve it is to create exclusive .abp file for each dodge. In each .abp I added his unique weapon animation.

Then now in my mod I have three dodge.abp file. Each one has his own weapon animation

dodge_wc51_.abp

{
"..\\..\\..\\common\\vehicles\\driver\\driver",
"..\\..\\..\\common\\vehicles\\crew\\pintle_aef_m2hb50cal\\pintle_aef_m2hb50cal",
"..\\..\\props\\aef_parachute\\aef_parachute",

"dodge_wc51",
}

dodge_wc51_30cal.abp

{
"..\\..\\..\\common\\vehicles\\driver\\driver",
"..\\..\\..\\common\\vehicles\\crew\\pintle_m1919a4\\pintle_m1919a4",
"..\\..\\props\\aef_parachute\\aef_parachute",

"dodge_wc51",
}

dodge_wc51_dshk38.abp

{
"..\\..\\..\\common\\vehicles\\driver\\driver",
"..\\..\\..\\common\\vehicles\\crew\\pintle_dshk38\\pintle_dshk38",
"..\\..\\props\\aef_parachute\\aef_parachute",

"dodge_wc51",
}

To finish the job I added to the ebps of each dodge the new entity with his proper name.
Now works perfectly ok.

I want to say thank you to Sneakeye for his time supporting me during the mod my respect to him and I hope this could help other like it did it with me.

PD: I just wondering if Bren Carrier could support dshk 1938 animation. I will check the world builder tomorrow.

@sneakeye: Thanks a lot mate !!. Once again the mod community is benefit with your valuable expertices.

I am going to try them both. I will full credit you in my discord and steam page. I hope this could help others doing his own creations.

EDITED OLHAUSEN:

Hi again, I do my best trying to mod the weapon but I think I am missing something because the animation is not working for me. I am going to leave here my animation elements and the dodge .abp modding.

Here a screenshot about how my problem looks like:



My dodge .abp:

--3dsmax toolset generated: abp_functions.ms--
model =
{
"..\\..\\..\\common\\vehicles\\driver\\driver",
"..\\..\\..\\common\\vehicles\\crew\\pintle_aef_m2hb50cal\\pintle_aef_m2hb50cal",
"..\\..\\..\\common\\vehicles\\crew\\pintle_m1919a4\\pintle_m1919a4",
"..\\..\\..\\common\\vehicles\\crew\\pintle_dshk38\\pintle_dshk38",
"..\\..\\props\\aef_parachute\\aef_parachute",

"dodge_wc51",
}

My .30cal weapon animations on the weapon ext:





My Dshk 38 weapon animation on the weapon ext:





Also my dodge only have the canopy off and nothing else regarding extra modding elements. Here some screenshot of it just in case there is another problem around.

Dshk38 hardpoint 1:


Dodge crew:


At the end: My .50cal is a clone from the original one. I just replace the animations as you recommend.
Here my weapon archive just in case:

.30cal M3 Dodge


Regards
Olhausen

Hi mod community: I am trying to achive some new elements for my mod and I am a stuck with some animations. I have some questions, then lets start.

a. I want to achive a Dodge with a mounted .30 cal instead of the .50cal. The main reason is to balance my mod at the early game.
b. Also could be nice a similar animation for halftracks (.30 cal gunner)
c. At the end I want to know if possible to have a dshk 38 (.50cal) animation on Dodge and Bren Carrier.

What I know:

a. Vanilla game have a .30cal weapon for the dodge. I already tried put this weapon on the hardpoint 1 (of the dodge) and replace the .50 cal and see whats happens, but the gun dont shows up.

Vanilla weapon:
weapon\aef\small_arms\machine_gun\heavy_machine_gun\dodge_wc51_m1917_30cal_mp

b. I took a look in the world builder to see the animations states of the dodge and got two possible options in there:

pintle_dsk38_state
pintle_mg_state

c. The vanilla .30 cal for dodge has the follow animations values in the weapon ext:

state_name: maxim_state
track_horizontal: maxim_horz
track_vertical: maxim_vertical
variety_name: dshk38

I think the modding is possible but I can not find the correct values to mod it. I will gratefull with any kind of support. Also, the rest of the mod community will be benefit with this data.

Regards
Olhausen