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  3. Posted · Edited by Old_Painless

    I bought the Combined Ops package as well and Sprocket is downloading right now. However, can't quite figure out how far it has come - the 3% completion seems a bit off if it has downloaded almost a quarter of the MBs required :-)

    sprocketpct.jpg

    Another thing - there is no indication of where the download is stored on my PC - guess I will have to look for it afterwards.....

    -OP

  7. Posted

    7. Load your mission in the editor and put 2 units somewhere and name them dude1 and dude2.

    Make dude1 as the player

    Now create a trigger, let's say 5m x 5m.

    In the Activation line you put the following:

    call { [] execVM "dialog.sqf"; };

    Press OK and press F2 and link the trigger to the player unit (dude1).

    8. Create a script file called dialog.sqf in your mission folder.

    In this file you put the following:

    dude1 say "STR_dialog1";

sleep 2;

dude2 say "STR_dialog2";

if (true) exitWith {};

    9. SAVE the mission in the editor and LOAD it again.

    Preview the mission.

    Hi, thanks so much for such a detailed walkthrough.

    I tried to see if I could make it work. I have never used the Editor before and had some problems understanding step 7 ("press F2 and link the trigger to the player unit (dude1)"). I was expecting some dialog box to manage the way they are linked? I managed to get a line between the trigger and him, but is that how this should be done?

    Also, I simply previewed the mission, and it did not play the dialog. Would step 9 help, ie. Save and re-load it? Is that required?

    Finally, my mission was not saved to the game folder, rather in some User data folder, I suppose that is OK?

    Thanks for any pointers to these questions!

    -OP

  8. Posted

    What are some scenarios for a person really new to this?

    Also, does ACE work with OA?

    And is ACE good?

    If you have Arma2 or Combined Operations (A2+OA), then the original campaign that came with Arma2 is quite good training on a relatively simple level. ACE will probably complicate things for you, if you are really new. I would advice you to get to learn the basics first

    -OP

  11. Posted

    It just gets better. Was doing a nighttime steal the item mission with the CZ scoped rifle. There were four enemies guarding the item at a camp. I snuck up to one, couldn't have been more than 50m away from him, had his head exactly in my sights. Fired. Nothing. Didn't even flinch.

    It could very well be that you weren't zeroed in on the distance he was at. If you're zeroed at 500m and he's at 50m you will not hit him. PageUp/Dwn is used to set the zeroing distance for sniper rifles

    -OP

  12. Posted

    I don't know really, could be a lot of stuff. This method is usually pretty safe, as you are aware. Only thing I can think of is if your 1.54 install had issues that didn't show during your game-tests, but that conflicted with the 1.55 patch.

    Other issues would be pure speculation, but something along the lines of admin rights, read-only user folders, antivirus running etc.

    Your post made me consider to keeping the addons in folders outside of the Arma2 main folder. To keep this method simpler. If I ever get around to it (I will if I start having problems)

    Cheers,

    OP

  14. Posted

    Will they "see" each other and make a "combined ops install" or do I have follow any particular steps?

    ->YES, OA sees A2, no fuss. Reboot after A2 is installed and check that it is ok for good measure. Then install OA and allow it to install into A2s folder (it will suggest to do so).

    the I can use my patch 1.55, which seems to work fine, to patch the combined installation to the required level,( I dont need to use the 1.08 patch?) at which point I will be good to install any mods if I so wish. Have I got that right?

    ->Completely

    thanks for the help, its pretty damn confusing...

    Cheers, mark

    No problem, let us know what happens

    -OP

  16. Posted · Edited by Old_Painless

    A simple system that can help reverting to older patches (from the old Falcon4 days with many patches to keep track of) is this:

    1. Keep an unpatched version of Arma2 in a separate folder, eg. Arma2_noPatch. You construct this by installing from DVD and then copying the entire Arma2 folder into this folder. You then have two identical folders, Arma2 and Arma2_noPatch. The registry points toward Arma2.
    2. Now patch the Arma2 folder to, say, 1.55 and enjoy the game.
    3. When the next patch comes out, the main thing with this procedure is to rename your Arma2 folder into whatever the version is at the time.
    4. Eg. rename the Arma2 folder into Arma2_155. Then make an empty folder named Arma2 and copy the contents of Arma2_noPatch into this folder. Now patch Arma2 with the new patch.
    5. Now, if you don't like the new patch, just delete the Arma2 folder, make a new one and copy the contents of Arma2_155 into it. Voila, you're back to 1.55

    Hope this may be of some use. Note that as Arma2 resides not only in the Arma2 folder, you might have to maintain copies of the user data folders (profiles and stuff) as well to be really on the safe side. But they should be up- and downwards compatible.

    -OP

  18. Posted

    Hi guys thx for the advice. I see you are referring to a "combined ops install" - how is that achieved, by simply doing what old painless described? Or is it some version you can buy? Sorry for the newby questions!!

    Bythe way, i have re installed just the OA on its own and patched it to 155 and its working great. So maybe I will just stick with that for the moment.

    Can any of the mods like ACE etc be installed to just OA ?

    Cheers, Mark

    Hi Mark, yes, Combined Ops = A2+OA.

    Ie. install A2 first, then OA.

    After OA came out, you can buy a Combined Ops package that has A2 and OA bundled.

  20. Posted

    Hi, you are getting into a lot of trouble, I must say, for a seemingly simple task. Sorry to hear that. More than anything, it sounds like you have a bad 1.08 patch downloaded.

    When I installed Combined Ops (A2+OA), I installed A2 first, did no patching, and then installed OA. I then patched with the OA 1.55 patch, which will patch both OA and A2, bringing A2 to 1.08.

    You could perhaps try my procedure, and check after each step if it works.

    Good luck,

    OP

  21. Posted

    http://homepage.eircom.net/~kdjac/cleanup.plr_mana.pbo

    Simple kill some stuff CO 10 mission OA/BAF , objectives work dont know if mission end works.

    Mission is a template i copy from island to island so i have a purpose when having a look around :)

    Superb island, having a small problem getting stuck on the rocks at the south east of the island keep getting stuck on the small ones.

    Really enjoyable mission, thanks. Playing it in SP without problems. Got stuck on some rocks as well, but nothing major.

    Cheers,

    OP

  24. Posted

    Ok, this time I progressed quite a bit further into the first mission. Cleared the first hamlet.

    Then this Just-in-time debug thingy came up again. I have found out that it is not a rare problem if you have Visual Studio installed. I have disabled the debugger and hope to finish the first mission without freezes. So very likely nothing to do with the mission.

    Really cool operation by the way; I had this guy in my IR-sights and was about to pull the trigger, when a large flash hit him, turned out it was fire from some of the armored support vehicles.

    -OP

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