Adding a Mission Name & Description

[dr_eyeball 16]

Is there any reason why 70% of missions are created without a Mission Name & Description?

I perhaps wonder if some don't know how because it's not fully obvious (or are they just lazy?) Please start adding this to all your missions.

1. Adding Description

In the editor, simply click on the Intel box which brings up the Intel Dialog to input the Mission Name, Description and set the weather. Once added, this will add a section to your mission.sqm file with:

<table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td>Code Sample </td></tr><tr><td id="CODE">

class Mission

{

....

class Intel

{

briefingName="My Mission Name";

briefingDescription="My Description";

startWeather=0.100000;

forecastWeather=0.300000;

year=2007;

month=6;

day=7;

hour=8;

};

class Groups

{

....

}

....

}

2. Format

The common format includes the game mode and player count and sometimes a version, as in:

<table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td>Code Sample </td></tr><tr><td id="CODE">My Mission Name (Coop 20) v1.2

It will appear in the mission selection dialog plus the briefing title plus the debriefing title plus all stats software. Otherwise all you will see is "filenamex.sara" (and some of those are badly named too, but that's for another day).

As well as the above, it would be good to add to the description.ext file, the following lines:

<table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td>Code Sample </td></tr><tr><td id="CODE">onLoadMission="<Your loading screen message>";

OnLoadIntro="<Your intro message>";

3. String Table

In both cases you can reference a string table entry as:

<table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td>Code Sample </td></tr><tr><td id="CODE">briefingName="@STR_MP_MISSION_TITLE";

and

<table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td>Code Sample </td></tr><tr><td id="CODE">onLoadMission=$STR_MP_MISSION_TITLE;

I know it's dead simple and there's much more you can add, but even just the bare minimum above is not happening. It will be much appreciated.

[jerryhopper 286]

I know it's dead simple and there's much more you can add, but even just the bare minimum above is not happening. It will be much appreciated.

true to that!

Mission Makers, check this thread on the ArmA Misson Naming Convention initiative

ARMA Mission Filename Convention