Crashes for me as well.

On Win7 Home Premium 64bit (German)
Steps:

1. Open Arma 3
2. Open Editor with Virtual Reality world
3. Open debug console (not "previewing" or anything) and enter:

"" splitString " "
-> crash

C:\Games\Steam\steamapps\common\Arma 3\arma3.exe

"C:\Games\Steam\steamapps\common\Arma 3\arma3.exe" -showScriptErrors -noPause -filePatching -nosplash -world=empty -nolauncher

Original output filename: Arma3Retail_DX11
Exe timestamp: 2015/08/25 16:06:38
Current time: 2015/09/01 15:23:26

Type: Public
Branch: Stable
Version: 1.50.131969

Allocator: C:\Games\Steam\steamapps\common\Arma 3\dll\tbb4malloc_bi.dll

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Thanks for the feedback!

@BI
Just to consider: It would be very helpful if one could define via the item config what VA category an item should be listed in and to have that as the only condition for an item to appear in that category (no requirements as to the assigned slot, simulation or anything else).

Here is an example that is similar to the issue described in the OP, just with different side-effects:
Community implements their own GPS device(s) (i.e. like cTab or the MicroDAGR in ACE3). In order to get them to show in the GPS category in VA where they make most sense, one has to configure the item with simulation = "ItemGPS";. The unwanted side-effect of that is now the item will automatically be moved to the GPS slot in your inventory (might be deemed okay for some devices, but maybe not others, i.e. a Tablet), CTRL+M now gives you the default GPS (the one you are trying to replace) and your main map will show a cross-hair on your current location.

See #23925 for a request to have a "Misc. Item" classification that works with Arsenal.

See #23926 for a request to have the mine detector with the best detection range chosen instead of the first.

Well, yes and no. How are they going to fix this when the game doesn't provide a way to get around this without removing the ability to have items show up in Arsenal?

I agree that the issue isn't the one stated in the opening post, that was before I fully understood what was going on. I or someone from the ACE3 team will probably have to open up a new issue here.

Yes, its apparently an issue with any mod trying to get their items to show up in Arsenal as items (as there is no such classification at the moment that would show in Arsenal) and are using the mine detector classification as a workaround.

Either we need a way to classify items as, well, just items that would show up in Arsenal, so that way mods can stop classifying their items as mine detectors.

Or we need the function that figures out a units mine detection rate to either keep iterating through all inventory items and pick the item with the best range, or have it at least omit any mine detector item with a negative detection range.

I had the mine 30m directly north of the player, player facing directly north, then moved the player about 3m to the east. Than ran straight forward (just holding W, no mouse movement).

Right now I am not so sure if I had ACE3 running or not (I was doing some tests with it yesterday).

So I reran tests today, this time having the APERS Tripwire Mine (named "mine") 30m directly north of the player, player facing directly south, and once spawned in, running backwards (only holding down S). Ran the following script to display the distance to the mine until detected:

• spawn { while {!(mine mineDetectedBy side player)} do { hintSilent formatText ["%1",player distance mine]; };

};

Mine detector was added / removed to / from inventory after the unit spawned in.

Made sure I had no mods and pretty much got the proper results:

• Rifleman _without_ mine detector, mine exploded
• Rifleman _with_ mine detector, detection range ~15m
• Explosive Specialist _without_ mine detector, mine exploded
• Explosive Specialist _with_ mine detector, detection range ~15m

Now, to figure out what went wrong yesterday (bearing in mind that the test was done slightly different), I turned CBA_A3 and ACE3 back on, then repeated the above tests (running backwards into the mine):

• Rifleman _without_ mine detector, mine exploded
• Rifleman _with_ mine detector, mine exploded
• Explosive Specialist _without_ mine detector, mine exploded
• Explosive Specialist _with_ mine detector, mine exploded

By the way, I was only using the ACE3 medical module (and the dependencies).

The problem seems to be the medical items (in fact all items) created by ACE3, that the unit spawns with. They all inherit from their ACE_ItemCore class and it looks like this:
class CfgWeapons {

class ItemCore;
class ACE_ItemCore: ItemCore {
    type = 4096;
    detectRange = -1;
    simulation = "ItemMineDetector";
};

};

This is no accident as it is a trick to get around Arsenal's limitation of not being able to show generic items.

However, the function used to figure out a unit's mine detection range, is currently stopping at the first "Mine Detector" item it can find and uses its detection range, rather than parsing through the whole inventory to find the item with the best detection range.
Here is how I verified that:
If, after spawning in, I execute

removeAllItems player;
player addItem "MineDetector";
player addItem "ACE_fieldDressing";

and rerun the above tests, I do get a detection range of 15m for both the Marksman and the Explosive Specialist.

If however I change the order and have the ACE item added first

removeAllItems player;
player addItem "ACE_fieldDressing";
player addItem "MineDetector";

both the Marksman and the Explosive Specialist will not detect the mine before stepping onto it.

See issue report over at the ACE3 GitHub for a cleaner version of the report and the ensuing discussion:
https://github.com/acemod/ACE3/issues/879

Just noticed this problem as well, please fix.

How is this still set to "new"? It seems to be quite a fundamental flaw that can end up being game breaking on lots of missions / mods.

Thanks, thought "CL" was referring to some internal place :)

What version did this get fixed in? I did not see it show up in the 1.36 change log.

Edit: Just checked. In 1.36 the issue is not fixed.

Had the same issue on a mission a couple of weeks back and just now again on 1.42.

On a dedicated server:

1. Client A assembles Darta on Stratis runway
2. Client B connects with his UAV terminal
3. Client B choses to control UAV driver

Client B touches no further contols, after about 5-10 seconds the UAV explodes.

For the reproduction it is important that Client A does the assembly and Client B connects and is the driver.

It seems that the UAV explodes upon or shortly after the UAV object ownership is being transferred to a client other than the one that assembled the UAV.

Only workaround seems to be to give the UAV a waypoint so that it takes off itself.

Thanks KK, I was just stumbling over this one as well...

The same happens if any scripted dialog is shown. When using the joystick as your control input for collective, you start falling out of the sky at a rapid pace. If you are using your keyboard (default settings), this doesn't happen, the helicopter seems to keep its altitude for the most part.

Joystick pilot that opens a dialog > likely to die.
Keyboard pilot that opens a dialog > likely to live.

Is this going to get looked at? Its still "new".

FYI, I have seen other BIS functions incorporate the same workaround / fix (check return value for nil before returning it).
I think getting this to behave the same in both scheduled and un-scheduled environments would be preferred, ideally so that one can return a nil variable without having to check for it, but I'd take it the other way around if this means we get some consistency here.

Found the same to be true in 1.38.

Try the memory point "pilot", or possibly "head_axis".

Running into the same issue. ctrlMapScreenToWorld [0.5, 0.5] is supposed to return the centre of the map control I am referencing, but it only does that when the map control sits right in the middle of the screen.

Can we please get a fix?

Just experienced this myself. Could not join a mission in progress because of the "mission complete" screen popping up upon joining. I tried all the free slots that were set to "player only", but same result every time. Feasible that these slots were occupied by other players before, but cannot be sure.

Also upvoting for this!

Even if this was being used to play LAN with a couple of friends that didn't own a copy, what is the problem with that? At the end of the LAN if anyone likes the game enough, they will go buy it to play it online with their buddies. Good marketing.

So, being one of the HOTAS users that has always been plagued by the issue described here (60% loss of throttle axis in SFM), I did test this again today and to (probably) no ones surprise it is exactly as Ragoon reported.

Using a Thustmasters Warthog Throttle (both Throttle and Joystick are combined via TargetGUI), I have assigned the right throttle + and - axis to Collective raise (analogue) and only the + axis to Collective lower (analogue). This does improve things a little, but I still have about 33% of the axis not being responsive at all. It is still really difficult to be precise enough with the throttle around the point of hover.

It also so happens that when I open a dialog (in my case opening cTab) that uses "createDialog", the helicopter immediately starts dropping out of the sky at maximum decent rate, even though the throttle was pushed all the way forward.
It is rather interesting that opening the inventory (also a dialog) or the map, does not share the same result, so I assume there is a way to construct a dialog in a way that it allows mouse interaction without killing HOTAS input to the helicopter. Please, please let us know how to do this (or if there isn't a way to do this currently, then please fix scripted dialogs the same way you have fixed the pre-defined BI dialogs)!

I can only agree with previous comments, there is so much potential that this enhancement would unlock.

Examples would be having the map shop up on a screen of your vehicle's dashboard, or the currently set frequency for your radio being visible on the actual radio rather than some extra dialogue that you have to overlay on-top of the 3D scene.