Overview Picture

[Kydoimos 916]

Hi, I've got 'overviewPicture =' in my description.ext but I don't know how to make it work. Basically, the path to the picture - if I put something like C:\blabla\blabla\blabla, how will it then find the picture if someone else plays the mission? I know on the Steam Workshop the overview picture is the one you select on the Steam workshop upload menu, but what about if someone downloads it from something like Armaholic? Does that make any sense, or am I asking a typically stupid question? :p It won't work if I just put the path starting from the .pbo folder will it? E.g., "Images\Picture_01.jpg"?

[kylania 568]

include the picture with the mission. Path starts from the mission folder.

So if it's in mission.altis use: overviewPicture="overview.jpg";

If it's in mission.altis\images use: overviewPicture="images\overview.jpg";

[shuko 59]

On dedicated servers when selecting mission, the custom overview pictures will give an error "yourpic.paa" not found or something like that, because it seems the mission pbo is not loaded at the selection screen, but only when you click play. Next time the image will show, but when you relog, you get the error again.

[Kydoimos 916]

Brill - thanks chaps! It was the dedicated server issue that was throwing me! :)

[shuko 59]

Time to vote!

http://dev-heaven.net/issues/72805

[kylania 568]

Time to vote!

Why dev-heaven instead of feedback.arma3.com?

[shuko 59]

Why dev-heaven instead of feedback.arma3.com?

Purely because I didn't know about it. ;)

http://feedback.arma3.com/view.php?id=8819

[jgaz-uk 132]

On 9/28/2013 at 5:59 AM, shuko said:

On dedicated servers when selecting mission, the custom overview pictures will give an error "yourpic.paa" not found or something like that, because it seems the mission pbo is not loaded at the selection screen, but only when you click play. Next time the image will show, but when you relog, you get the error again.

 

"On dedicated servers when selecting mission, the custom overview pictures will give an error "yourpic.paa" not found" has there ever been a solution found for this old problem, anyone know???

[Gunter Severloh 4051]

15 hours ago, jgaz-uk said:

has there ever been a solution found for this old problem, anyone know?

Have you tried jpg format?

[jgaz-uk 132]

Yes tried both .paa & .jpg    Always first load up you get the missing image message, (reload the same mission again & you see it) the only thing that will work first time is one of the default vanilla hidden images; e.g.

 

loadScreen = "\a3\missions_f\data\img\mp_coop_m01_overview_ca.paa";

loadScreen = "\a3\Missions_F_EPA\data\img\C_m01_overview_CA.paa";
loadScreen = "\a3\Missions_F_EPA\data\img\C_out1_overview_CA.paa";
loadScreen = "\a3\Missions_F_EPA\data\img\C_out2_overview_CA.paa";
loadScreen = "\a3\Missions_F_EPA\data\img\C_EA_overview_CA.paa";
loadScreen = "\a3\Missions_F_EPA\data\img\C_EB_overview_CA.paa";

 

Those & a load of others 😧

 

any number of those work as they are taken direct from the A3 on everyone's computer.

 

Dont know why its set up like that?  the mission makers included overviewPicture always works first time as long as its the right size.