CfgMods config entry for modmakers

[marseille77 53]

A new feature for Mod maker who want to indentify their mod in OA and lead the player directly to his website. In the main menu there an feature to link more mods without the shortcut procedure. (the last entry there)

Here an example:

class CfgMods
{
      class BWMod
      {
           dir = "BWMod";
           name = "Bundeswehr Mod";
           picture = "\bwmod\bwmod_logo.paa";
           hidePicture = "true";
           hideName = "true";
           action = "http://www.bwmod.armedassault.info";
      };
};

legend

class = You choose a name for your entry

dir = The name of the mod folder

name = Name in Menu

picture = a logo picture who is shown on the right site of the menu

hidePicture = true/false (show the pic in the mainmenu)

hideName = true/false (show the name in the mainmenu)

action = the link for the website button

Edited July 3, 2010 by Marseille77

[[aps]gnat 28]

Thanks Marseille

Good one BIS

[granQ 293]

it works excellent to enable.. but for some reason i can't disable it?

[tupolov 520]

I've placed this in my config.bin for my Qom Province addon, but its failing to show in the Expansions UI. It simply shows @TUP in the UI, no name and no picture.

This is my config:

class CfgMods
{
  class Tup_Qom
  {
	dir = "@TUP";
	name = "Qom Province";
	picture = "\tup\tup_qom\data\startup_logo_arma_tup.paa";
           	hidePicture = 0;
           	hideName = 0;
	action = "http://www.arma2.com";
  };
};

This is placed at the root of the config.cpp file.

Any ideas?

[bushlurker 45]

try just this...

name = "Qom Province";
actionName = "Website";
action = "http://www.arma2.com";

* paste into notepad - save it as "mod.cpp"...

* rename "startup_logo_arma_tup.paa" to "mod.paa"

* place "mod.cpp" and "mod.paa" BESIDE the "Addons folder", INSIDE your projects modfolder...

so - you supply a readymade modfolder...

@Qom_Province

inside that is an "Addons" directory, plus the two "mod" files, and - inside the "Addons" as normal, is your project .pbo's

I'd suggest trying to get your A2-style logo looking good at about 256x256px - it'll show not far off that size in the Expansions UI and should reduce ok for the little logo on the main menu screen..

... going higher-res only seems to look worse once the game autoresizes...

Works quite well, and looks sortof "in keeping" with the rest of the game - doesn't look out of place... unlike "cba strings, etc, etc, etc, etc"... ;)

B

Edited March 31, 2011 by Bushlurker

[tupolov 520]

Once again to the rescue B!

Thanks!

[soul_assassin 1750]

sorry to dig up old thread but I figured out why it was not working for Tupolov:

to have it directly in the config, the mod folder should not have the @ symbol. Then it works.