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How to place Compositions correctly

By Anytature

The new arma 3 update 2.0 allows you to upload Compostions to the workshop and people have been making a lot of cool stuff but for it to appear as it's supposed to be like you need to disable "Vertical Mode" and "Surface Snapping" so this guide will teach you how to disable & enable it

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How to Disable/Enable Surface Snapping & Vertical Mode

And if you still don't get it...

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How to Disable/Enable Surface Snapping & Vertical Mode

Ok so first of all you must place it on a smooth surface (some compostions) and then comes in Surface Snapping and Vertical Mode will be on by default so all you have to do is click these two icons here to disable it and then you click it again to enable it. simple stuff.

And if you still don't get it...

it's ok relax, here is a photo of both "Vertical Mode" and "Surface Snapping" Enabled

Then you have both "Vertical Mode" and "Surface Snapping" Disabled

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I hope this helped a lot of people, good day.

Guide on how to rotate correctly https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2285583673

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Anytature [author] 26 Jul, 2024 @ 8:42am

@flyguy1998, that happens because of the attachto script i used was far less effective and more complicated, instead use, call{[this, vehicleinitname] call BIS_fnc_attachToRelative} , type this in every object u wanna attach to a vehicle and place the object anywhere u want. items will also no longer fly off either

Flyguy1998 24 Jul, 2024 @ 5:52pm

Do I need to edit scripts to place more than one battle-hardened vehicle? Any additional vehicles spawned after the first have all attached items fly off with error messages

xvil33 27 Jun, 2024 @ 4:58am

how do you do this in zeus?

Bad Viper 7 Jun, 2024 @ 10:04am

always wondered what those symbols were for

Stix_09 30 Aug, 2021 @ 9:50pm

How to attach one object to another
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1819812828

Stix_09 30 Aug, 2021 @ 9:36pm

NOTE
Compositions are only a client side thing . You can only use them in mplayer if the assets in them are on the server

Stix_09 30 Aug, 2021 @ 9:33pm

Yes you can make your own custom compositions in zeus,
In Zeus select groups->select empty (the yellow cloud looking icon)

at the bottom of this panel in Zeus is an option

"Save custom composition from currently selected entries"
(there is also an edit button next to it, so you can)

this saves a custom composition entry in Zeus
(so you place this heli and make it one of these)

See these mod examples (you could do this also with this mod)

Its also possible to make compositions avail in zeus,
ZEC - Zeus and Eden Templates / Building Compositions
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=642912021&searchtext=zec

ZECCUP - Zeus and Eden Templates for CUP Terrains
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=750186990

If you use the Zeus enhanced mod it also makes it easy to make editor placed items avail for manipulation in Zeus (must have mod for anyone using Zeus IMHO)

Anytature [author] 23 Apr, 2021 @ 9:59am

You'll have to use an attach script to do that, google on how to attach stuff onto vehicle in arma 3 and you'll see some results.

ahsegw214bg 23 Apr, 2021 @ 9:57am

guys, can you tell me how to attach an item to the car ? I tried everything, nothing works

Anytature [author] 13 Dec, 2020 @ 8:12am

Yes, i can place like the CUP and the default in game compositions but not my stuff at least.

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