Wednesday, November 5, 2014

FEMAL3 Beta 1 | Arma 3

Female combatants in Arma 3? Why not! This short clip features female units for Arma 3 from zeealex. This is FEMAL3 Beta 1.




Lifted from Armaholic:
Beta 1 Changelog
- Added Uniforms, longsleeve and shortsleeve versions (FIA is only shortsleeve)
- Replaced Generic Female infantry with the new models, all sides have their respective female soldier.
- PSD resource for further development included
- A Female HL for the White females (no more hairy arms)
- Fixes of "class.scope" errors on startup (I think I've got all of them now)
- Fixed typos in RVMAT files causing errors








FEMAL3 Beta 1 by zeealex
http://www.armaholic.com/page.php?id=26169
http://forums.bistudio.com/showthread.php?180099-FEMAL3-Alpha-1-Crude


Bornholm Denmark Terrain for Arma 3 from Egil Sandfeld
http://forums.bistudio.com/showthread.php?184446-Bornholm-Denmark-Terrain



Info below are related to GlovePIE Voice Commands



The conveniences of voice commands in Arma 3:
  • No in-game interaction with scroll action menu
  • No in-game interaction with AI's inventory menu
  • No key bindings
  • No radio triggers
  • Extremely easy to use, say what you want
  • Immersive!



So, why consider GlovePIE?
Aside from the fact that you can use GlovePIE for free and fully customize your PIE script to your own liking, voice commands / voice recognition / voice control in ArmA 3 using GlovePIE and voice_com addon can accomplish a lot of wonderful things. Things you can do with this setup can be summarized into two categories:




(1) BASIC commands for player (yourself) or squad (AIs, NPCs), and the game itself

- Commands like change view, kneel, stand up, go prone, open watch, open map, assign team, mount vehicle, disembark, engage target, open fire, hold fire, watch direction, copy stance, etcetera.

- Of course, those basic commands above can also be programmed in other 3rd-party voice recognition softwares like Articulate, PiLfluS, Shoot, VAC or Windows Speech Recognition Macros. A walk in the park task.


- What happens here is that GlovePIE translates your voice command/s to the corresponding key bindings. Emulation! For instance, when you say "squad", GlovePIE would press for you the "~" key (tilde key) which by default would select all members of your squad.

- Another example is when you say "two" "three" "return to formation", GlovePIE would press in consecutive order the following keys: F2  F3  1  1. Those examples are dependent on the default game key bindings. GlovePIE clicks them for you when you issue a command. The voice commands can be programmed to your own liking. So, instead of saying "squad", you could use "all" or "guys listen up" or whatever phrase you desire and the end result would still press key "~".


Check this link for the write-up and video about how basic GlovePIE voice commands in Arma 3 work.




For a list of Arma 3 key assignments, check out this link. Thanks to alpha-kilo.
http://tinyurl.com/nyh4agh

Here's a video from Royal Gamers UK demonstrating squad commands in Arma 3 using GlovePIE:
http://youtu.be/xWIfB-aM7h4

Reddit discussions:
http://redd.it/1i04oz
http://redd.it/2cuabu



(2) ADVANCED commands for player (yourself) or squad (AIs, NPCs), and for the game!

- Adding or removing your own/your squad member's rifle attachments such as optics, flashlight and suppressors, adding or removing clothes/ uniforms, commands for player or squad invincibility, adding (spawning) any weapon, ammo, vehicle, item in ArmA 3 or from ArmA 2 (thru AiA), time and weather manipulation, calling artillery strikes, moving to specific map location, etc.

- Now, this is something unique since there is no in-game menu or dialog interaction involved, no keyboard shortcuts pressed. Just use your voice. To each his own. This setup is not dependent on injectors, cheat menu or hack menu found elsewhere on the internet.


So...

If you need a Glock, then just say "add Glock"
Want a AMV-7 Marshall? Just say "add Marshall"
Need a ARCO optics for your rifle? Just say "add A R C O"
To add 2 hours to current time, just say "add two hours"
To call artillery strike at designated map location, just say "artillery"
To order your squad to fire at specific target, just point and say "target that"

... and so on and so forth.


Without a doubt, it is so much easier this way. I haven't seen a video on YouTube using similar approach. I could be wrong though.


Status quo
Arma 3 does not have native support for voice recognition. Wish Bohemia Interactive devs integrated some sort of voice recognition feature in Arma 3 for us who love to say what we want in game.

Of course, not all commands of the advanced category like weapon and vehicle spawning, calling for artillery or nuke strike, weather and time manipulation can be added to the proposed feature but I think adding voice recognition support for basic AI/squad commands is plausible. I believe that it adds realistic immersion to the already awesome game that is Arma 3. One could just say 'Soldier two, get in that chopper as gunner ' instead of pressing the equivalent key bindings.


Wishful thinking? Who knows, the devs might give it a go. Vote up!
http://feedback.arma3.com/view.php?id=2843



Files featured here are for personal use only. Video shared on YouTube just so you know something like this exists. Videos or it never happened! If you need my script, kindly check the video/ link at the lowermost section of this write-up.


Thanks for dropping by. Voice commands and Arma 3 rocks!



USEFUL LINKS

ArmA 3
http://www.arma3.com


GlovePIE 0.45 Free (page 1, main download page)
http://glovepie.org/glovepie_download.php


GlovePIE Basic Script on Armaholic (with GlovePIE 0.45 Free executable)
http://www.armaholic.com/page.php?id=23281


How To Use GlovePIE Voice Commands in Arma 3
http://voicecommands.blogspot.com/2013/10/how-to-use-glovepie-voice-commands-in.html