Arma 3, Bombing Run System

As a part of the mission/mod that I am creating, it involves a bombing run with one or multiple planes and zones. Bombing run script I wanted the script to be a proper bombing run, not just a red circle (bombing zone) that appears on your map and then a heap of explosions scattered around the place *cough*... as there is little to no immersion in the game-play for any players, and rather unrealistic. I sat down, and thought about how I wanted...

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Battlefield Heroes, The War Is Over

I had played this game since "closed beta" (2009), and now after 6 years... the war is over. EA/EAsy are closing down the game. From the beginnings the game style had potential, it was great fun, the game mechanics were enjoyable, and it was a unique third person cartoon style shooter. Weapon load-outs, abilities, taunt emotes, custom clothing/skins/etc... it was rather unique.... somewhat clunky, but unique. Battlefield Heroes - War Is...

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Arma 3, Loot Spawn System - Video Demonstration

As promised, here are a couple of short videos of my loot spawn system in action, with an explanation on what the colored markers represent. Loot Spawn - Debug Markers The green circle markers are default loot positions retrieved from the configuration within Arma 3.  The red circle markers are dynamically/on-the-fly generated loot positions on the outside of any given building The yellow circle markers are static positions which were...

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Arma 3, "Last Man Standing" Mission/Mod Creation

As some may already know from chatter around the Arma 3 and Twitch community, that I am currently creating my own "Last Man Standing" game mode for Arma 3. Arma 3 Editor Why you may ask? Well the short answer is, the game mode which is currently available for Arma 3 gamers to play is very clunky... and yes I'm talking about "Battle Royale". In the beginning "Battle Royale" was pretty much all I played (version 0.4.0) on Arma 3, I quite enjoyed...

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Arma 3, Mute/Unmute Script

Whilst playing Arma 3, I found it frustrating that one could not easily mute/unmute the sound. I had to go into the Arma 3 menu for audio, drag the slider down... then drag it back up again... and had to do this over and over and over... rather annoying. I then did some research on a solution and couldn't find anything that would help. That's when AHK aka AutoHotKey came to mind. I ended up finding some example code of what I wanted to achieve...

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Arma 3, Loot Spawn System

So the loot spawn system is what I initially worked on, due to curiosity more than anything to find out how loot spawns and how difficult it is to correctly calculate in world positions. Loot spawn script I then expanded upon that script whilst learning the Arma 3 code structure, etc and created my own custom loot spawn system (small preview of the code above). Basically what my initiation system does is this... It gathers ALL buildings on...

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Hey, I'm soul.

For those that don't know me, I'm 'soul', I'm a current player of "ArmA 3" with it's various multi-player missions and mods. My in-game-nick is usually 'soul[kobk]' or a variant of it. KOBK - Kill Or Be Killed Within Arma 3 I started off playing "BR" aka "Battle Royale", which is a last-man-standing mod... but due to the annoying game bugs (specific to how it's coded/scripted), I stopped playing. During my "BR" gaming, I wrote/compiled...

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