Making movie need more characters ...

[Renaissance0321 10]

Hello I am in process of making a movie in the editor but the look of the soldiers appears to be random every time I go back into the game. I also noticed there are some "Special" characters that I'm using that do not change appearance ... is there a way to use the other facial models and make them "permanent" as well? Thanks!

[kylania 568]

http://community.bistudio.com/wiki/setIdentity

[Renaissance0321 10]

Thank you for the quick response! Do I need to describe the identities in the description field or is there premade ones I can use? Sorry I'm an editing noob.

[kylania 568]

You'll put it in the description.ext file actually.

You can preview faces you can use here:

OA Faces (middle of the page)

ArmA2 Faces

Edited August 31, 2010 by kylania

[Renaissance0321 10]

Ok so I put a text file called Description.ext in a mission folder under Documents/ArmA2/Missions/Name AND under Documents/ArmA2/UserSaved/Missions/Name with JUST the following

class CfgIdentities

{

class John_Doe

{

name = "Marv";

face = "Face19";

glasses = "None";

speaker = "Dan";

pitch = 1.1;

};

};

And this doesn't change anything when I go back into the editor, reload the mission and hit preview

[kylania 568]

Two things to check...

1) Save the mission again now that you've changed the description.ext

2) Make sure the text file isn't description.ext.txt :)

Also make sure you have this in your unit's init:

this setIdentity "John_Doe"

Edited September 1, 2010 by kylania

[Renaissance0321 10]

Done and Done. What am I missing? I've got a guy in the editor named Marv and I want to change his look. I put

this setidentity john_doe

in his initialization field.

[kylania 568]

Quotes around John_doe? "John_Doe"

[Renaissance0321 10]

Yep I did that too

[kylania 568]

Hmm.. you're running ArmA2 or Combined Ops? (Since Face19 is an ArmA2 face)

Just did a test, adding a description.ext to an existing mission with your code in it, and it's working for me. White guy with a subtle blond goatee?

Edited September 1, 2010 by kylania

[Renaissance0321 10]

No black guy lol. Running Combined Ops ...

[kylania 568]

Here's what Face19 is supposed to look like:

Did you want a different face? Also, could you make upload your mission so I could take a look at it?

[Renaissance0321 10]

Ok I'm thinking my description.ext file is not affecting my mission for some reason. Is there a way to test that? Maybe adding a briefing or something to see if that pops up when I hit preview?

[Renaissance0321 10]

Can anybody help me with this? If you could follow the thread and see what I've tried to make this work so far I would appreciate it!

[Renaissance0321 10]

Guys this is killing me and I can't move forward in my movie making until I get this. Is there ANYBODY out there that has a clue to what might be wrong????

[[frl]myke 15]

Sure it is description.ext and not description.ext.txt?

What is the exact location of the description.ext (full folderpath, please)?

As a hint: if in the same folder you have the description.ext is no mission.sqm file, then it is in the wrong place.

[Renaissance0321 10]

It is description.ext I think ... where would I find that? I mean I renamed it? Location is Documents/ArmA2/missions/"name of mission" and there is a mission.sqm in there

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Oh crap it says it's a text document, how do I change?

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Well it's NAMED "description.ext" but the TYPE of file is TEXT and it opens with text document

[kylania 568]

It is description.ext I think ...Well it's NAMED "description.ext" but the TYPE of file is TEXT and it opens with text document

... I asked about this in post #6! :rolleyes:

To display file name extensions

Depending on your settings, the file name extensions of your files may not be visible. To display the file name extensions of your files if they are not visible, follow these steps:

1. Open My Computer or Windows Explorer.

2. On the Tools menu, click Folder Options.

3. Click the View tab.

4. In the Advanced settings box, click to clear the Hide extensions for known file types check box.

5. Click OK.

Then just remove the .txt part from the file name via rclick -> Rename

[Renaissance0321 10]

KYLANIA YOU ARE THE BEST :) :) :) :) :)

Thank you so much!

[kylania 568]

Glad it's working! That silly 'hide extension' thing is the FIRST thing I turn off when I install windows. :)