General scripting help

gopostal

Valued Member!
First a quick intro, since it's germane to my request. I've been involved with game servers and running them for years and have a decent background in mod development. I've done total mods for the Unreal engine (http://www.moddb.com/members/agutgopostal/mods) so I have plenty of experience.

Long story short, I had a nasty battle with stage 4 cancer and dropped away from Unreal completely.

I've been smitten by the DayZ bug and I'm really enjoying it as I heal from the fight. Currently I run a semi-popular "themed" server where I use Chernarus Mission System as well as Wicked AI (thanks to both devs for these, wonderful work!). I did some light editing of the screen text and created a faction called the "Legion" that runs all over Cherno and unifies the two mods into a coherent group that you must struggle against. This gives a logical storyline and unity to all the missions (roleplaying essentially).

Now my question. I'd like to spend a beer or two with someone in TS discussing how to proceed with scripting for my server. I won't waste your time, I can do my own homework, and I won't ask dumb questions. I know how valuable time is and I won't use yours unwisely.

Ideally I'd like to create uniforms for all the AI to tie them together and eventually create a once-a-week mission that you can assault the Legion HQ and kill the leader. Stuff like that.

Anyway if anyone is up for this please let me know. I'll meet you at your convenience. The only caveat is that my cancer was in my throat and some days my voice is quite bad (though those are few now). I lost most of my teeth and have some (very minor) problems with certain words now but you are welcome to tease me, I'm cool about it. Just glad to be alive.

Looking forward to chatting with some devs if it works out. Thanks for reading and have a great day :)
 
You could set all your AI to use the same skin, but of course they would all look the same.
If you wanted to add a custom skin it would be a custom mod, and you would need to modify your server and client files, but everyone who wanted to play on your server would also need to install your copy of DayZ (that is modded to add a skin (model) ).

Here's a list of usable model classnames. The civilians (such as madams, hookers, etc) glitch out when they are given a gun and just sit there stuck in the ground as they have no animations for gun handling. Anyone who is holding a gun in the picture will work.

http://community.bistudio.com/wiki/ArmA_2:_Infantry
http://community.bistudio.com/wiki/ArmA_2_OA:_Infantry‎

Maybe try the MVD infantry?
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That does help tremendously. One of my areas of interest is asset creation and how those are brought into the game proper. So there isn't a way to create several textures then apply them to a stock model so all players can see them that way? Bummer. That's fairly limiting though it cuts way down on skin cheaters I guess.
 
You can, but there is no way to do it on the server-side that doesn't require the client files to be modified for all server users.
 
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