Project OAC 'OFP ArmA Conversion'

[.kju 3239]

<span style='font-size:12pt;line-height:100%'>Project OFP ArmA Conversion</span>

Actually a small trailer was planned, yet it didn't work out yet.

So instead you can check a bunch of simple teaser videos on this page:

[ Project OAC ]

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== Purpose of this project ==

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* Playable content. Now. Much. Enjoyable. Good quality.

* In the form of: Get any OFP missions or campaigns playable in ArmA with little or no

modification of the mission file.

* Possibility to use community made addons alongside to improve the visual aspects,

sounds or gameplay.

* Easy access to the content.

* Automated update and delivery system.

* Open system, focus on compatibility with community addons and MODs.

* Open source project - every can contribute very easily.

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== NOT the purpose ==

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* Make custom models, textures, sounds.

* Change the gameplay itself.

In other words it has no relation to CWR, has different goals and

follows a different approach.

More details on the OAC Project page in the BIKI.

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== WANTED ==

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* Nice banner for the wiki page and this thread.

* Nice simple trailer to advertise the CWC, Res and other OFP campaigns.

* Please contact me by PM, if you want to help the project by

making a good looking project page (html editor and/or graphics design).

Enjoy.

[EricM 0]

Ahem... isn't this the very purpose of Cold War Rearmed ?

You should offer them your help instead of trying to do it all over again...

[Shadow NX 1]

Was thinking the same, any more details Q?

[eJay 1]

It's a bit "amateur" to use reskinned addons made by another authors and call it "conversion"

[.kju 3239]

The wiki page with details will be up tonight or tomorrow.

Thanks for your interest so far.

The thread subtitle pretty much says it all.

The list of used addons is to credit the people for the usage of

their excellent work in the videos. They are NOT part of this

project in any way.

Edit: Thanks for the note!

Added the clarification on the page too.

Giving credits for used addons in screenshots and movies is

common practice though I believe.

[sdoc 0]

i think there's a bit of confusion what you are actually doing. And from the posting it's not entierly clear either.

Do i understand you right that you either want to provide a system to automaticaly convert OPF missions to ArmA or want to provide the converted missions themselves? Or am i completely off with my guess here.

[.kju 3239]

Well that is why it's called a teaser.

Added a bunch of more videos to the page.

Of course it is no super mega awesome videos, yet at least to me it

brings back some good old memories of the CWC area.

Hopefully some enjoy the videos at least as I do.

sdoc that is basically it. Both parts yes.

[luemmel 20]

i am looking forward to your work! i made a mission pack of old good ofp missions for arma in the past and currently i am working on a cwr warfare mission.

[Daniel 0]

"Heh heh, Lt Armstrong. That's got a nice ring to it..."

Looks awesome mate, gonna keep an eye on this.

[.kju 3239]

First draft of the wiki page up.

Please ask or feel free to improve the wiki site yourself.

Added WANTED list in the wiki and in the first post.

Keep it coming.

Adding info for road VI. and VII. to the wiki now.

[.kju 3239]

Bit unfortunate news. It will be not possible to deliver the conversation

voice files of the OFP CWC and Resistance campaign.

This means you need to add them from your local OFP

installation yourself.

A guide how to do that will be added to the wiki with the release.

Quote[/b] ]Thank you for submitting your recent request to Codemasters

Customer Services concerning Operation Flashpoint.

Unfortunately we cannot give you permission to do that. The

voice files used are subject to very tight licensing restrictions

which forbid us to use them (or allow others to use them) in any

other media. Sorry.

...

Kind regards

Rob

Codemasters Customer Services

To make this clear it seems that Codemasters doesn't even own

the conversation voice files themselves (completely).

So no resentment to CM at all for that descision.

[Maddmatt 1]

Bit unfortunate news. It will be not possible to deliver the speech /

voice files of the OFP CWC and Resistance campaign...

That is why CWR is using voices from OFP: Elite. Maybe you can too, if you can get a copy of it or get the files somehow.

I believe the missions and voices have been changed in it though, maybe you can just copy the missions from OFP: Elite instead of the PC game.

[.kju 3239]

Maddmatt is not about the common soldier chatter.

Instead it is the voice files from the dialogs - the campaign

conversation voice files.

Are you sure these are different in OFP:E?

Are they better?

I mean it would be pretty easy to merge the files from OFP

itself.

[Shadow NX 1]

Afaik in OFP:E they were re-recorded and BIS has the copyrights on these.

[Denz 0]

Quote[/b] ]maybe you can just copy the missions from OFP: Elite instead of the PC game.

Nope, can't do that. While it's easy enough to port pc missions across to Elite there is no way to do the opposite.

Quote[/b] ]Are you sure these are different in OFP:E?

Yep, they are different. As to whether they are better I guess that is a matter of opinion.

I can easily send you the Elite stuff but need clarification from BIS as to whether that would be acceptable

[W0lle 1042]

There is a reason why we at CWR using the Xbox soundfiles. And no it's not because we like them that much.

Also the xbox campaign is slightly different then the original CWC campaign. While the story is still the same, some missions have noticable changes in them or are not present at all.

In short that means if you use the original CWC missions but the xbox soundfiles you have to deal with missing soundfiles and/or stringtable entries that doesn't match the soundfiles.

[Maddmatt 1]

Are they better?

Judging from what I have heard, definitely not!

But at least they are the property of BIS.

Nope, can't do that. While it's easy enough to port pc missions across to Elite there is no way to do the opposite.

With a little work changing the mission file (in a text editor) it should be possible to get it to work in ArmA. It's just a matter of getting it to a format that ArmA will accept.

I don't know how difficult that will be though

[.kju 3239]

Thanks for the input guys!

Well my personal vote is going for OFP campaign conversions, as

the CWC campaign and all BI SP/MP mission already work quite well.

So I think it will be better to distribute those without the voice

files and instead add a little script and/or description how to merge

in the OFP voices from people's own OFP local installation.

[.kju 3239]

A short update on project OAC.

1)

CWR and OAC will supplement each other. As the class system

for CWC+Res missions will be the same for both, it is possible to

play CWC/Res missions converted via OAC in CWR too.

2)

CWR and OAC will work together on the CWC campaigns.

While CWR uses the OFP:E as a base and OAC the OFP (PC), both

will share solutions to make the campaign as playable as possible.

3)

The OFP (PC) CWC campaign will require to have OFP installed

as to BI's request for copyright reasons (simple registry check).

4)

Access to the development source should be available tonight or

tomorrow.

.kju

[.kju 3239]

Slight delay ..

Wiki page update is almost done.

Thanks to Sickboy OAC has now a mantis bugtracker.

The OAC bugtracker has three sticky tickets to suggest OFP:

* addons

* missions

* campaigns

to be made compatible to ArmA.

Note that you have to provide download links!

No sign up required for the site. Anon posts possible.

Thanks to russin wglcti.com will host the YomaTools server soon.

In other words casual players will be able to select mission (packages) and campaigns

in YomaTools, download and convenient update the content with it.

.kju

[CameronMcDonald 146]

Nice to hear, Q. I was playing Pathfinder in ArmA the other day; possibly my favourite OFP mission, and so I can't wait to see how this conversion goes.

[.kju 3239]

hey CameronMcDonald

thanks for your interest buddy!

How did you play the Pathfinder mission - with CWR?

Or did you or someone else make it playable in ArmA by hand.

The wiki section of project OAC for developers takes shape now.

The part how to get the source version of the compatibility addons is done.

Feedback would be very much appreciated as you can find a

very detailed step by step description how to get the stuff.

I would be interested if its too complicated, too detailed, not

understandable etc.

Read about it here:

VII. How to improve the compatibility addon

PS most links lead to images the show the details.

The details how to get the already converted missions and

campaigns and the required files should be online tonight.

Note that this stuff is meant for developers.

So it requires some effort and a little technical expertise to get

it running.

For the casual player as stated the YomaServer will soon follow.

.kju

[DUTCH-BUDDHA 0]

whell good job soldier i realy likedt the campaigns of opration flashpoint cold war crisis and resistance much beter then arma campaigns. i was wiching and prying that some one make this happen  mi quwestions are

are the campainse same like origenal i mean in the opf campainse u can not followe the story line and chest walk around on the island and steal som chopper or tank wy oof the mission opjectif i mean dit u meneg to make this happen as wel (the island is ociepidt) and can u make the dounload in som oter wy i mean in a zip file and cheast the pbo files  and host it on som site cos i wandt to ceep mi pc clear of som oter runing programmas. tanks for the creat job ... by the wy i have oter exspansions as wel dit u ever hear of Between the lines its a exspansion of opf look here

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Between....005QKGX

[Delaorel 0]

(I speak french. My english is not very well.)

Hi!

Fisrt, thank you very much for your very great job. You make me able to play Operation Flashpoint on ArmA, and so I've never played the original game in the past. Thank you again!

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Ok, here's my problems...

1.

I followed all this instructions: Play OAC with CWR MOD - instruction inside, and when I launch the game this message appear:

Addon 'Cwr_Editor' requires addon 'CWR_vehicles_land_tracked_T80'.

So, I click Ok and the game start anyway.

But, if I recopy the file "CWR_Ed_T80.pbo" at the Addons/CWR folder, the message don't reappear.

There's my shortcut: "C:\Program Files\Atari\ArmA\arma.exe" -nosplash -mod=CWR;@oac-optional-cwr-placement;@oac-optional-cwc-res-music;@ace_islands;@oac -world=empty -maxmem=512

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2.

When I launch the "Ambush" mission, this message appear:

"Cannot load texture cwr\cwr_units\data\cwrface33.paa"

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3.

For the winter missions, why the ace_islands addon is use? The CWR Addons looks like more beautiful.

Exemple: In the ace_islands_Kolgujev, many trees are in the air, not on the ground.

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4.

I would like to know... What's happening about "pmc_fury.pbo" in the Campaigns folder? Because, we can't access the Campaign Menu in the game.

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5.

And finaly, what's "@oac-optional-unit-replacement"?

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Thank you so much.

[stun 5]

@Delaorel

Have you updated to the latest version available with Yoma tools?

The latest version has added the ability to select campaigns when using the CWR mod.

the oac optional unit replacement lets you use community made addons to replace the default ARMA units. For example the striker can be replaced with the M2 Bradley, ericM's Hind replaces the Mi-17 etc. If you use the replacement addon you will need to make sure that you have downloaded the actual addons themselves.