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Overview problem

By VonNexus, in ARMA 2 & OA : MISSIONS - Editing & Scripting

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VonNexus    10

VonNexus
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Hi guys, I've searched a little bit around in the forum but actually didn't found nothing about the problem I have.

Basically, I'm making a mission and I wanted to add an overview to it. To do that, I downloaded the A2OD Editor, an useful tool that should allow you to make it easier to build up mission overviews and briefings.

I compiled every field required in the tool, and saved what I did as overview.html.

This is what is in overview.html:

html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=windows-1250">
	<title>Overview</title>
</head>
<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF">

	<p align="center"><img src="over.jpg" width="612" height="512"></p>
	<p>
	Prova
	</p>

</body>
</html>

"over.jpg" is of course the name of the image I want to use for the overview. It is a JPEG 688x616 which I put in the mission folder (there is no subfolder as you can see from the script), "Prova" is a simple line for testing.

Now you will be wondering, what's wrong then?

I really don't know, but when I saved the mission as a SP one and I clicked on it in the SP Missions interface, the game crashed. I really don't know where the error should be, even because the overview.html was made with a specific programme which I belive should work good.

A2OD was made for ARMA 2 and I am running a Combined Operation with the last patch on. May this be the problem?

Thanks in advice for any help you'll provide.

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tom3kb    15

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Its probably not this but pictures jpeg from Ofp times should be for example:

256x256, 512x512, 1024x1024, 512x256 etc. And maybe high and wight are to big? But even with that i think that mission should not crash, you should not see picture in overview but mission should work.

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VonNexus    10

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Its probably not this but pictures jpeg from Ofp times should be for example:

256x256, 512x512, 1024x1024, 512x256 etc. And maybe high and wight are to big? But even with that i think that mission should not crash, you should not see picture in overview but mission should work.

I tried changing the width and height parameters to the ones you used in OPF. But it didn't work. It crashed like in the other times.

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tom3kb    15

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If nothing helps maybe just depbo someone else mission with working overview check his code and write the same or copy his overview file. Add your picture, text etc and all should be ok.

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VonNexus    10

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If nothing helps maybe just depbo someone else mission with working overview check his code and write the same or copy his overview file. Add your picture, text etc and all should be ok.

That's what I tried to do a couple of minutes ago. Nothing, it doesn't work.

---------- Post added at 11:12 PM ---------- Previous post was at 11:03 PM ----------

EDIT

Alright, It seems that the problem is the image format. BI Wiki says that a JPEG should work fine for an overview, but, as far as I have seen, is not, because I tested the same code posted above with a .paa image and it worked like a charm. Maybe one of the last patches removed the possibility of using JPGs for overviews, or such things?

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tom3kb    15

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And without that picture and overview in your mission folder you can start your mission. To be sure that overview is the real problem.

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