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Help? Inexplicable lack of briefing.

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My briefing wont show up, and I'm at complete loss here. I get to the briefing/map screen, but no matter what I put in my briefing file, it doesn't show up.

In my troubleshooting efforts I took my init.sqf and briefing.sqf from a previous mission and copy/pasted them into my mission folder. While I get a perfectly find briefing with this combination in my old mission, nothing happens in my new mission.

Have I accidentially somehow magically turned off the briefing in the mission file? Whats going on?!

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A2 requires a briefing.html file to be present for the briefing to show. Even if the file is empty. Got a briefing.html?

Also remember you need to shift-preview to get it to show in the editor.

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  maturin said:
Edit: Didn't read Kylania's last sentence.

heh I added it later. ;)

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  kylania said:
A2 requires a briefing.html file to be present for the briefing to show. Even if the file is empty. Got a briefing.html?

Also remember you need to shift-preview to get it to show in the editor.

I haven't needed a .html file before, and I've always just clicked normally on preview and got the briefing to show.

I really doubt any of that is the problem, as I can go into my older mission and see the briefing fine, but if I go into my new mission with the EXACT same files as the old one, none of it shows up. I just get empty notes and no tasks.

---------- Post added at 12:29 AM ---------- Previous post was at 12:08 AM ----------

Just did a completely fresh mission with 1 playable character and nothing else except for my init and briefing file. tasks and notes show up fine. Wth could cause a mission to completely reject any briefing file?

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im guessing your older mission is also played in a older patch, you do need what kylania said at least now.

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  Demonized said:
im guessing your older mission is also played in a older patch, you do need what kylania said at least now.

No it doesn't. By old I mean 1 week old, and its working fine without any of those things.

I actually DID find the culprit though. Apparantly the weather module (adds 3d clouds) disables your briefing file. An odd bug if I ever saw one.

With that removed from the map, the briefing works like a charm.

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Thats strange, i have seen several being forced to use html file, can you post your working mission, id like to see it.

Also maybe you have stumbled upon a freak bug, though i dont know how many uses the weather module.

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Very strange that a weather module would break such a thing. :confused:

But really, create briefing.html. A month or two ago there was a similar thread where a guy simply refused to believe that it was the answer to his problems, even if it was in the end.

Edited by Celery

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  Celery said:
Very strange that a weather module would break such a thing. :confused:

But really, create briefing.html. A month or two ago there was a similar thread where a guy simply refused to believe that it was the answer to his problems, even if it was in the end.

Tried it, didn't do anything other than putting a picture of a pretty explosion on my mission loading screen. Got the problem fixed now anyway. Wierd weather module.

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