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An uncommented play of Chickenhawk with VTE 1.5 on Take On Helicopters, using the Medium Veteran's parade heli:

http://youtu.be/OmmF-puK_DE

Nice session tonight. We played PMC COOP 32 targets 2 (random enemies) v0.1.8 and PMC Rice day. The first one showed a few errors in the server log, probably due to something uninitialized or already deleted: 111/11/21, 20:16:22 "PMC_groupRecycle.sqf: _grp: O 1-1-B, PMC_grpNum: scalar" 111/11/21, 20...

oops, just realized that I had the laptop connected via WLAN and for that IP port forwarding is not setup... Should be available now.

I'm patched to 87546 and the server now uses a2oa-server-1.60.87357.tar.bz2. Server should be up and running now, connect to 'TeTeT VTE Server', password is vte, admin is hochiminh. I'll connect in two hours.

Anyone up for a mp game on Wednesday evening, 19:00 UTC, 20:00 Central European time? I'd use my laptop as server again, using the then current latest beta patch from http://www.arma2.com/beta-patch.php. Any mission requests? If so I'd check upfront if they run.

Yes, it was good fun! Sorry for the abrupt ending, though. I'll might be available for another game on Saturday. If anyone else wants to join, feel free to!

TeTeT

Wrong thread, please delete.

Great, I've just added the beta to the server and now try to test it. As it is a Linux server, not sure if I need a new server binary as well? Missions come next.

TeTeT Test Server is up now, password is 123, admin is 123456. There are no VTE missions in yet. Now checking out what the plans are for tonight.

Let me check with the gf what are the plans for this evening, if its possible, I reply here within the hour. BTW I've got a new router and upgraded my upload speed to around 7mbit/s. So I can put the ded server on my laptop, just need to sync the vte module. Which mission should I put on it?

Another wishlist item would be to change the default faces for the Vietnamese. PMC should have introduced some nice new types. Here's a list of those that I think are suitable for VC: face57, face58, face108_PMC, face109_PMC, face110_PMC, face111_PMC, face112_PMC, face114_PMC, face115_PMC, face116_P...

Bummer, I discovered another problem. The civilian boats that I spawned seem to be all enemy and confuse the attack helo ai when attacking. Any idea what might go wrong here: _boatCiv = "VTE_sampan"; _boatUS = "VTE_pbr"; _boatVC = "VTE_sampan"; _boatType = _boatCiv; _totalBoats = 0; spawnBoat = { _s...

Time for a beta release I think. There are 19 base missions, 2 extra missions that will be available when the right base mission is played and 1 RTB mission. There is some traffic in form of helicopters, planes and ships, and the villages are populated by a few civilians. The bases are also populate...

Cool, let's aim for 19:30 CET, that is 18:30 UTC, 20:30 EET. Cheers

Cool, let me know when it would be a good time for you. I'm in central European time zone and Wednesday evening or anytime Saturday or Sunday would be great.

I made some progress on the mission over the last days. The pbo size is down to 10 MB, the jingles have been compressed further now. I don't think there's any quality loss. I added a dynamic AI spawn / despawn script for villages and bases. Currently there are 15 tasks available of which 4 will comp...

Are there any regular games at the server going on? From time to time I take a look there, but there's just me as player. BTW the longest day does not work for me when I re-join. That is the initial connect is fine, I can play. But when I quit and want to join again later, I'm stuck after the class ...

Thanks for the advice! I didn't really pay any attention to the size. The Sound folder was 30+ MB, as I used full quality conversion from the base mp3 I used. It's down to 14 MB now, and I guess the 44100 Hz sampling rate is also not needed. I'll have to brush up my ffmpeg skills though to get the r...

The first working alpha is there. Fly four out of ten sorties to complete the mission. There are two extra missions, that can be activated by flying two other missions first. There are still a lot of missions missing, as well as overall polish, but it is basically playable. You can test the latest d...

For the record, I delayed the setPos call with a sleep and now it works just fine. Here's the code, though the guardpost script cal could use some love, so the outside of the camp is watched, not the compound. If you want to recycle it, you need three objects on map named BaseSpawn, FSB18Pos and Out...

I've made some progress with the mission, but not as much as I had hoped for ... There's just 7 tasks so far, so I need to add a dozen or so more to make it a bit more random and interesting. I've started to populate the base a bit and set two squads on patrol via UPSMON. I also wanted to add guards...

I've encountered two problems so far: the rotor blade texture seems to be white unless it's spinning and there is a floating bridge close to the center camp. Here are two images illustrating the problem: http://tspindler.de/arma/missions/chickenhawk/vte-bridge.png http://tspindler.de/arma/missions/c...

Yes, I meant something different. I was thinking of guards, vehicles, patrols, idle people and so forth at the base. Kind of like an AmbientBaseLife script. When I think about, it would be nice to have the same for the villages. When the player comes close to a village, some sort of village life sta...

Hi, I've recently ported Workhorse by BTK from Takistan to Chernarus. Instead of flying a CH-47 the player controls a Mi-8 MTV there. Today I started to create a random helo transport mission for an unarmed UH-1H for VTE, I hope I'll have an alpha ready by Monday. A question on the helo crew: I orde...

I admit to have no seen it completely, but there is a documentary on a platoon available: http://wardocumentaryfilms.com/browse/vietnam/the-anderson-platoon/ On the (hollywood) movie list I find Flight of the Intruder to be missing. It has some good flying scenes in it, though the ending is rather r...

Hello TeTeT, Glad to read that the new vertion works better! That's very kind of you to took time to test my mission and submitt feedbacks. Please find below my "answers". As my work take almost all my time, it will be a bit hard to post version 1.1 today, but it will be released at worst before th...

Thanks for your quick reply! I downloaded version 1.0 of your mission and it started without problems :) Here's some feedback: Spelling: Map states 'Ground zero Einforcements' instead of 'Reinforcements' Spelling: Viet Kong or Viet Cong? Atmosphere: Metal song (Gorefest?) in opening cinematic, not g...

Hello,

thanks for making your work public! Unfortunately I cannot start the mission, I get the following error:

"bin\config.bin/CfgWorlds.1'."

Any advice of what might go wrong? I use six updater to start the mod and game, in case that's related to the error.

Bye,
TeTeT