[Help/Advice needed] Arma 3 Custom Missions for myself and a buddy?

[Dashmore 10]

Hi all,

I play a lot of Arma III whether this be online on invade and annex servers, or just doing COOP missions with a friend of mine.

We used to play a ton of Arma II, DayZ etc. and there was a ton of cool maps and missions.

Now i've been scavenging the forums for cool maps and missions to play with my mate. But don't really know where to start? We've been connecting to each other via. Hamatchi and then setting up LAN games and playing missions from the Steam Workshop.

However, I want to be able to play missions with mods enabled such as weapons and character models - or even create my own scenarios but have no idea where to begin.

Most recently I was looking at the new Ukraine map that is being developed and i'd love to play a little Co-Op mission on there just with my mate.

Where do I even begin to design missions, or even find some good 'custom' ones? I'd love to play on Chernarus again and I do have All in Arma, but how can you play old Arma II missions online anymore? I'm not asking for a complete guide but how do you guys usually go about designing a little mission to do with a mate or two?

I understand this thread is a little all over the place, but please and advice would be greatly received. :o

Cheers.

[Grumpy Old Man 3546]

Basically all you need to use new assets (custom stuff from mods) would either be using VAS or the Virtual Arsenal on an ammocrate of your choice, so you can equip those fancy custom weapons, other than that you don't need to mess around with MP locality if you'll be making one mission with one main goal.

The most basic setup would be to just place some enemies in the editor and place 2 playable units on the map, then launch it as MP game.

Then read the forums, wiki, some other obscure sites I disavow any knowledge of and work your way up in the scripting ladder.

If you're planning on diving deeper into MP mission making get yourself prepared for a tedious and, depending on previous scripting knowledge, painful but very rewarding way.

[the_demongod 31]

Watch some of Jester's editor tutorial. They're really straightforward and you'll be familiar with basic mission creation in no time.

[Rich_R 1087]

Google Youtube for editorial tutorials. Many of the techniques and tricks are the same for both Arma 2 as well as Arma 3. You just have to get stuck in, start by building basic missions and build from there.

Once you understand how the editor works, its really easy...just time consuming:)

[the_demongod 31]

Google Youtube for editorial tutorials. Many of the techniques and tricks are the same for both Arma 2 as well as Arma 3. You just have to get stuck in, start by building basic missions and build from there.

Once you understand how the editor works, its really easy...just time consuming:)

Yeah, as in "don't forget to eat" time consuming...