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Need some help with a map marker here.

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Hello Chris here.

So i wanted to make a mission here, and i wanted to add couple of markers, not any type of markers like normal ones, but kinda special markers, if i wanna call it that :P

so after playing the campaign of Arma 3, i really liked the map markers that was there, like the ones where when you hover your mouse over it, lets say a blufor marker it would say something like:

Lt. Smith

1st Platoon and so forth.

Example below:

http://i.imgur.com/YUspCcn.png (205 kB)

now i have been looking on the forums incase someone has asked for this type of help in the future but with no luck :( (if someone has indeed, made a topic similar to mine, then please share the link), now i have gone on google, no result, might be me not searching for the right thing, or it might just be me who is horrible at looking for things, but anyway, i have also gone through the bis wiki, but i haven't gotten anywhere, once again might just be me.

anyway if anyone could either explain to me how i do that, or direct me to a tutorial or something, it would be appreciated :)

Regards

Chris

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I think it has to be done in addon config, but I am not sure. BIS should make a simple Module which automaticaly creates these things on map - with editable informations, icons and stuff, ofc.

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I think it has to be done in addon config, but I am not sure. BIS should make a simple Module which automaticaly creates these things on map - with editable informations, icons and stuff, ofc.

mhmm, well if that's the case, then its gonna be a bit more tricky, but we'll see, anyone else knows otherwise?

If bis decided to make a module that adds a marker shown in the example, it would provided us mission makers more ways of doing missions.

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They are groupIcons, they can be interfaced with.

You can have them display either as 2d (Map view) 3D ingame or both using the groupIconsvisible command

Check the comref for more details

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They are groupIcons, they can be interfaced with.

You can have them display either as 2d (Map view) 3D ingame or both using the groupIconsvisible command

Check the comref for more details

thank you very much sir for providing this information!

UPDATE: umm.. am stuck again :P kinda stuck, like i really want to make the same markers that bis did in their campaign, so if any bis developers would i dont know share to us how they did it, since am trying everything but it is not working.. any help would be appreciated :) and i went on the bis wiki this time, i dont want the markers to be on the leaders head, i want to be static.

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