Single player scenarios in MP?

[calo_mir 10]

How difficult is this likely to be to get working?

We'd like to play the single player scenarios included with the game as

cooperative MP.

[.kju 3241]

Which ones? BI ArmA II SP Missions?

Just make all slots playable. That should work as a start.

Most likely the mission scripting is based on the SP main character.

So if he dies, you will loose the mission / no progress.

[calo_mir 10]

Right.

At a more practical level, is it going to involve extracting PBO files?

[Inkompetent 0]

Yes, it will. At the very least you'll have to change some units from 'Not Playable' to 'Playable' so that people can select them at mission start. Otherwise the only playable unit is the 'Player' one.

And as kju says lots of the scripting probably use the 'player' variable to react only to the player, and if you are even more unlucky half the stuff won't even work in multiplayer because it isn't designed to be syncronized across several machines.

But to start with, just un-PBO a mission, set some more units to 'playable', and save it as an mp-mission and have a go. Might work.

[calo_mir 10]

I see.

I'll most likely search through the level scripts for occurrences of 'player' and try to modify the code to work on groups instead of individuals.

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Thanks.