32 COOP - Shahi Kot Valley Campaign

[Rhodesy_77]

G'day all.

ok ive begun reading '18 hours' and its given me an idea for some serious kick ass arma :D.

ok, so the idea is, to have 4 - 6 missions, that follow on from each other all on the one map (to be clear not all in the same mission) so for example, it would start off with Operation Anaconda, a large arial raid on one of the last known taliban strong holds in the mountains. if u win you continue on to say capturing/killing taliban leaders in a nearby village that escaped during operation anaconda. but if u lose you would return and try the first mission again (would be on maybe a weekly or fortnightly basis just with our aussie community) from there it might go onto things like mounted patrols and insurgency type battles (ie just finishing them off cleaning up ect.) then have some big finaly for the last mission such as taking out the last major resistance in the valley.
yes, sounds like a massive task but just think of the awesomeness :blowup:
also. this will be revolving around the ACE mod as a platform mod and im in the middle of putting together a custom addon package with gear (some customized by myself the rest stock from armaholic)

now i bet some of you are thinking "wait isnt this wat OCRD is?" well sort of yes, but this wont be on the same scale as OCRD, there wont be fixed squads, leaders, pilots and so on. ppl will beable to put their hand up for certain roles each mission (for example in the first mission there will be a need for 2 fighter/bomber pilots and two chinook pilots who will later pilot an attack chopper) but this people will be advised to practice in their own time with those weapon systems as i want to make this thing as realistic and HARD as possible. so wasting assests is not an option. you will literaly NEED every ounce of fire power i give you.

atm i cant play arma due to my **** graphics card, but i have started planning this already.

ok onto some more info. the map i will be using for this currently is NOT released, but a beta should be coming out shortly, but thankfully i wont have to wait, as i have an alpha build of it thanks to the creator.

the map i intend to use is Razani, North Waziristan, Afghanistan (http://www.armaholic.com/forums.php?m=posts&q=4479)
http://i271.photobucket.com /albums/jj123/Rockyrhodes_77/4-razani_43.jpg

http://i271.photobucket.com /albums/jj123/Rockyrhodes_77/4-razani_48.jpg

also the maker has kindly said i can give this out to certain people. and as this is a massive task, im looking for helpers :D and im not really talking testers :P, i need people who can help me work on the scripts needed and work on the missions as needed. if anyone is willing to give me a hand just say so :hi: any and all help is welcome.


if you have suggestions for following missions (i already have the first mission all worked out and dont plan on changing it :P) then let us hear it.


Anyway hopefully ill beable to start on this some time next week. but if you wish to give a hand give us a yell as soon as possible, as i have a few tasks that need to be worked out for the mission.


Cheers all Rhodesy.

[icehollowpoint]

Great stuff mate, Im thinking about doing a similar project but inspired by East Timor and more focused on active patrolling.

Just a head's up though, ACE is not too compatible with custom units at this point in time. Some work, others not so well. I'm still looking into this but I'll give you heads up if I figure out anything.

[Rhodesy_77]

do u know to edit the ACE dta file? to change custom units from hidden to show? lol

also if u want i can send u my SASR reskins to use. but if thats the case will only be able to be used in like a closed community. as i dont really have offical permission to release them publicly.

[icehollowpoint]

do u know to edit the ACE dta file? to change custom units from hidden to show? lol

also if u want i can send u my SASR reskins to use. but if thats the case will only be able to be used in like a closed community. as i dont really have offical permission to release them publicly.

Didn't know about the Dta file lol!

And that would be bloody excellent mate, I understand they were mainly for OCRD purposes, but my only intention with the ET mission set was for WC play.

*EDIT: The only other problem is any custom weapons that use custom ammunition outside of ACE's embargo, won't have ACE ballistics applied I think, nor ACE weapon features like backup sights and sight adjustments. That said, ACE has more than enough range to choose from lol.

[Rhodesy_77]

lol ok, go to your DTA folder in your arma folder, then into the ace folder then the client side file then change this line #define ACE_SCOPE_SHOW_BIS __hidden to #define ACE_SCOPE_SHOW_BIS __visible and save that file. and its as easy as that mate lol.

yer well its its just for WC then no worries mate. haha no worries there either, the new version are configed FOR ace. so have all kits set up for ace. iirc they are armed with hk416.

[sabre19]

do u know to edit the ACE dta file? to change custom units from hidden to show? lol

also if u want i can send u my SASR reskins to use. but if thats the case will only be able to be used in like a closed community. as i dont really have offical permission to release them publicly.


Then you shouldn't give them out at all. Dont be one of them 'but i only gave it to my mates', giving it out is giving it out, permission isnt hard to get, or atleast to try and get.

[Rhodesy_77]

sabre mate i have, and all i got back was a imature responce that sounded like a 12 year old wrote it. and really in a way i do have permission for closed groups, (MontyB From AAF got permission but never got around to doing it so i did it, now they will feature in the AAF mod along with OCRD addon pack)

[icehollowpoint]

Then you shouldn't give them out at all. Dont be one of them 'but i only gave it to my mates', giving it out is giving it out, permission isnt hard to get, or atleast to try and get.

He's not making it a public release, it's for private use, and he already has in effect gotten permission to use them for OCRD, which I am still a part of.

[sabre19]

Fair enough, he didnt mention that, i was just sayin because ArmA already has enough people that simply use, or use and then play the fool and ask. And private use or not really its nice to still ask.

But i dont want to sour the thread, and now i have more info, all the best with it fellas.

[pogoman]

that island looks reallly cool!!! i'll help you out if it means i get to play with that baby :D

[Captain_Wolf]

Looks sexellent, the campaign part will be easy actually making the maps and getting them to work perfectly will be the real hard part. I'd offer my help but I'm not sure how good I would be, I am plenty good at modifying other peoples work but I haven't done that much stuff from scratch for ArmA. Hit Pogo up he has mad ArmA skillz ;)

iirc they are armed with hk416.
Sorry but being a realism whore like I am wouldn't a default loadout of M4 series weapons be the go? The 416 is sexy and all but in reality no one really uses it yet in RL.

[Rhodesy_77]

actually several special operation units of the USA use the hk416, there for very possible for our SAS boys to be using them. also we made it 416's cus only m4's ace had was the stock which look crap lol. plus with ocrd us SAS boys change loadout so much the defualt will almost never be used lol.

[pogoman]

to make things varied you could always use my loadout script from insurgency. it allows you to select which class of weapons your team will be using for the mission at the briefing (hk416, m16, CAR, M14).

[Rhodesy_77]

keep in mind these are made for ocrd and thats about it. so not a massive importance

[Rhodesy_77]

Copy and pasted from the ORCD forums, cant be stuffed typing it all again :P

ok not entirely sure if this is the best place for this but ooh well.

ok so ive just started to learn to model. how ever my spare time atm is very short and also cant play arma atm due to pc problems. but i have an up comeing 32 player coop campaign for arma ive started planning and so on.

and anyway long story short i needed some mountain like defences that taliban would use (did best i could with no ref pics) so i got to work. and this is wat i came up with (one of a few others i got in the works)

http://i271.photobucket.com /albums/jj123/Rockyrhodes_77/bunker_cover_mg.jpg (http://www.operationreality .org/forums/showthread.php?p=245 34#post24534)

anyway, i have no idea about UV mapping, spec maps, bump maps and normal maps and all that. and frankly i have no realy time to learn atm. id like to get these done fairly soon and knowing our large modding capabilities around here was wondering if some1 is willing to take these off my hands and finish them?

if some is it would be AWESOME!!!!! and i would love u long time

Cheers all
Rhodesy.

[pogoman]

sooo any chance i could get a link to this island? :D
gunner tells me great things about it...

[Rhodesy_77]

lol, well just wat are you willing to do for it? :P

but also from wat i hear he is releasing a public beta with in a few weeks.

P.S. this idea is still going ahead, i just havnt got my card yet.. but ive been working on the addon pack and its geting there.... slowly.. (sorta hard to mod a game u cant play.....)