Exporting MCC .SQM mission to single mission.

[haydnbuzz 10]

Hi there, I’m having difficulty exporting MCC missions that I’ve created into

single player missions when copying the sqm.

I have created a folder in E:\Steam\SteamApps\common\Arma 3\Missions called

mymission.altis This folder appears in Play>Scenarios within the game.

When I then login to MCC generator and create my mission I go to “Save/Loadâ€

and then to “Save All (SQM)†it then says copied to clipboard and I paste this

into the Windows notepad which I then change the “save at type:†from a text

document to all files. When I save this file as mysnipermission.sqm and place

this in the E:\Steam\SteamApps\common\Arma 3\Missions\mymission.altis it does

save this as an SQM file. The problem that I’m having however is that when I go

back to Play>Scenarios within the game I can’t see the mission created. I can’t

find it either within the editor.

Am I doing something obviously wrong somewhere? When I save the file in notepad

it’s currently set to ANSI encoding. Would this make any difference if set to

anything else?

Any help would be greatly appreciated. I have searched the forum but can’t find

much on this and all steps I have found I thought I’d followed correctly.

Thanks

[Jona33 51]

It must be named "mission.sqm", not "mysnipermission.sqm". Certain files within the folder use hardcoded names and they must be present, the only .sqm file allowed is mission.sqm. Also I'd recommend notepad++ if you're going to be doing a lot of mission making, there's an sqf plugin for it as well I think, but even in it's basic form it's a bit friendlier (things like pairs of brackets are highlighted etc.).

[haydnbuzz 10]

Thanks Jona33, I've downloaded notepad++ and tried again renaming to mission.sqm but when I try to load in single missions under mymission.altis I get "No player was selected". Am I doing somethings really obviously wrong?

[Jona33 51]

That's just a simple thing, you either need to place a new unit or select one of the existing ones, double click on it and set control to player. Once you've done that a red circle should appear round that unit, then you'll be able to click preview to test the mission.

[haydnbuzz 10]

I'm still having no luck are my steps right?

1)Open 2D editor - I'm adding a group and selecting a unit and setting control to player

2)Going to preview and designing mission with MCC

3)Saving sqm as "mission.sqm" and putting in E:\Steam\SteamApps\common\Arma 3\Missions

4)Coming out of the preview and at this point I've tried both saving and not saving as I come out of 2D editor.

5)Going to Play>Scenarios>mymission.altis - as soon as I double click this it says "No player was selected"

What am I doing wrong? There is a red circle around my player that I've assigned.

[Jona33 51]

Don't know what's going wrong there, when using MCC like that I always do it like this

1) Create a mission, place a single player unit

2) Preview the mission, use MCC to build whatever I want

3) Use the save all to sqm function in MCC

4) Copy and paste it into a random notepad file (not saved)

5) Exit the mission

6) Save the notepad file with the exported code as the mission.sqm in the mission folder, making sure the old one is overwritten

7) In the editor open (making sure not to hit save by accident) the mission again.

I've never seen that have any problems before.

[SavageCDN 231]

After you export and paste into mission.sqm you need to re-open the mission in the 2D editor and change the player unit to player (SP) or playable (MP) then save.

[spidypiet 17]

1.create new mission

2.add unit (player)

3.save mission

4. preview , add stuff , then save to .sqm(keep in mind its saved to clipboard instead) go back to 2D editor

5.find file yourmission.map in my documents/user/arma 3 other profiles/name/

6. open mission.sqm then hit ctrl+a (all is selected now) hit ctrl+v clipboard is pasted in mission.sqm save file

7. while still in the 2D editor reload mission

8. all units are AI now so you have to edit them for player controll and save again

Edited December 18, 2014 by SPIDYpiet

[haydnbuzz 10]

Thanks for all your help, it turns out I was saving the missions in the wrong folder and not in the folder in MyDocuments. It's working perfectly now thanks everyone for all your patience with this newb! :)