Beta mission, pop-up error window, frustrated rookie

[r.flagg 11]

Hi. I'm still only a few months into the world of Arma, and I'm teaching myself to play, and to edit missions. Loving the game, by the way.

I'm trying to create some small, not-too-difficult coop missions in urban-y areas, simply because that's what I want to play (At least for now, maybe later on I'll get the urge for huge battles in big wars).

Anyway, here's one of the missions I've been making and learning as I go;

http://chaotic.beyondunreal.com/temp/PortoSweep.rar

My current frustration is the pop-up error message, that says I cannot play/edit this mission, due to downloadable content that has been deleted 'bb_mercenary'.

I think my problem started when I realized half-way through (it's taken me awhile just to get this far), that I had the wrong file for those mercenary skins. I then got the "fixed" version for CAA1 users, and at least I think that's when my issues started. Now I can't seem to get rid of that pop-up window. I've tried opening the mission file and deleting that line, re-adding that line, etc. So far to no avail.

Anyway, I was hoping some kind soul could try and see if they can even load the mission, does it play, do you get the error message too, and so forth. If there's anything I can do to get rid of the message, without scrapping the effort and starting from scratch, that would be wonderful.

It takes place on Porto, so I guess you'll need CAA1. And in addition to the Merc skins by SchnapsdroSel, it uses Norrin's fast rope addon, and I think I used a Little Bird by Cyborg112.

Please and thank you.

Finally - I live in Ohio, and if there's another rookie-level player in my area that would like to hook-up for some small scale casual coop games....?

Thanks for reading.

[H3NRY 10]

if you open up the mission.sqm in a text editor there is a section or two that state "addons" and "autoaddons" if you delete the CONTENTS of those sections then edit it again it should fix your problem, sometimes it doesnt tho but it does clean that area up a bit

addOns[]=

{

"cacharacters2",

"chernarus",

"CAWheeled2_MMT",

"castructureshouse_church_02",

"camisc3",

"cabuildings"

};

addOnsAuto[]=

{

"cacharacters2",

"castructureshouse_church_02",

"CAWheeled2_MMT",

"camisc3",

"cabuildings",

"chernarus"

};

you would do

addOns[]=

{

};

addOnsAuto[]=

{

};

[r.flagg 11]

Well, that didn't fix the error message from popping up, but I'm grateful for the reply anyway. Starting to wonder if it's some kind of bug with the game. After all, it's saying "content that has been deleted", but they are installed and working. And there sure seems to be a heck of a lot of similar posts/threads on these boards with lots of different addons.

Guess I'll do what many folks seem to be doing, just click and ignore. I'm just hoping that if other folks play my mission - and have the merc skins installed - that they don't have the same problem.

I have other missions in the works using the same skins that aren't having this problem. So.. I'll just keep rolling on.

Thanks again.

[jw custom 56]

I think you need one or both of these mods installed:

http://forums.bistudio.com/showthread.php?t=80944

http://forums.bistudio.com/showthread.php?t=68475