Basic Addon Structure and Needed Files

[chris330 0]

Hi,

I'm hesitant to make a new thread on this but amazingly there are no others already present on this subject or those that are, are not stickied.

Can someone outline the basic files needed for an ArmA 2 addon. I'm at a total loss as to what to do to get a simple addon made and in game. Are there any sample addons out there which can be depbo'ed and used as a template?

And another thing is dePBO still used or does ArmA 2 have different addon file extensions than OFP? I couldn't find anything within the standard Bohemia editing suite download on OFPEC which mentioned anything about dePBO'ing addons. Do we still have the binarize issue for models too? Do we need ODOL explorer to open binarzied p3d models?

All I want is a standard config file to get a simple sphere (ball) into game with a bright colour on it, but it seems more complex than OFP's days and not much instruction anywhere either.

Can anyone help? Thanks ;)

[chris330 0]

Ok I actually managed to get a red ball in game using Brsseb's crate tutorial config from OFP! Once I'm happy with it all I'll post up a simple resume of what's needed in case anyone else journeys through tis topic in the future :)

[lNTRUDER 26]

Ok I actually managed to get a red ball in game using Brsseb's crate tutorial config from OFP! Once I'm happy with it all I'll post up a simple resume of what's needed in case anyone else journeys through tis topic in the future :)

Hey Chris,

May I ask which OFP tutorial you used for this? :)

/ ]NTRUDER

[chris330 0]

Hi yeah sure it was the Simple crate one. The one where you make a ship container. That config worked without any alterations at all I only changed all the instances of MyLovelyCrate or whatever he called it to the name of my addon. It worked a treat!

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If you're that interested the addon config might still be on my drive.

[lNTRUDER 26]

Hi yeah sure it was the Simple crate one. The one where you make a ship container. That config worked without any alterations at all I only changed all the instances of MyLovelyCrate or whatever he called it to the name of my addon. It worked a treat!

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If you're that interested the addon config might still be on my drive.

Yes, I would very much like to see the config if I may? :)

Cheers mate.

[chris330 0]

class CfgPatches
{
class Crate
{
	units[] = {Crate};
	weapons[] = {};
	requiredVersion = 1.0;
};
};
class CfgVehicles
{
class All {};
class Static: All {};
class Building: Static {};
class NonStrategic: Building {};
class TargetTraining: NonStrategic {};
class TargetGrenade: TargetTraining {};
class Crate: TargetGrenade
{
	model="\crate\crate";
	armor=20000;
	scope=2;
	displayName="My lovely crate";
}
}

I found it. That's the config straight out of the tutorial. If you need any more help understanding what to do to make it applicable to your addon please ask :)

[lNTRUDER 26]

Thanks for helping me Chris, despite me obviously being too lazy to search for it myself :D I will take a closer look at the code when I get home.

Cheers :)