Config based addon

In this thread I was grateful to get some advice on the use of the shipping containers in the game, but it seems the best way to do this is by a config addon, so I thought I'd ask here. It's simulation is normally a house and I was hoping simply changing that to 'thing' would give it proper physics and all, but it doesn't.

With the below config, I get lots of missing config.bin entries. If I ignore them the container seems to have no mass and will happily float away. Looks most odd.

Anyway, I don't usually ask others to do my work, but this part of my project is overdue now so if anyone would be good enough to finish this off for me, I'd be most grateful. There's little or no documentation or help stuff for writing cpp.

class CfgPatches 
{
   class TKY_CONTAINER {
       units[]={"TKY_CONTAINER_OPEN"};
       requiredVersion = 0.1;
       requiredAddons[]={"CAMisc_E"};
   };
};

class CfgVehicles 
{
   class Land_Misc_Cargo1Eo_EP1;

   class TKY_CONTAINER_OPEN : Land_Misc_Cargo1Eo_EP1
   {
       simulation = "thing";
       displayname = "Packed FOB";
       scope = 2;
   };


};

http://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Category:ArmA:_Addon_Configuration

No documentation? :raisebrow:

HTH did I mess that?

Thanks Dawg, I'll check it out.

class CfgPatches 
{
   class TKY_CONTAINER {
       units[]={"TKY_CONTAINER_OPEN"};
       requiredVersion = 0.1;
       requiredAddons[]={"CAMisc_E"};
   };
};

class CfgVehicles 
{
   class thing;

   class TKY_CONTAINER_OPEN : thing
   {
       model = "EPWHATEVERCONTAINERMODEL";
       displayname = "Packed FOB";
       scope = 2;
   };


};

i used Ca\buildings2\Misc_Cargo\Misc_Cargo1E

or if you want to add the parameters to the existing class with no inheritence

class thing from A2

class Thing: All
{
	reversed = 0;
	animated = 0;
	icon = "iconThing";
	vehicleClass = "Objects";
	displayName = "Unknown";
	accuracy = 0.005;
	simulation = "thing";
	side = 3;
	weight = 0;
	class InventoryPlacements {};
	submerged = 0;
	submergeSpeed = 0;
	airFriction2[] =
	{
		0.01,
		0.01,
		0.01
	};
	airFriction1[] =
	{
		0.01,
		0.01,
		0.01
	};
	airFriction0[] =
	{
		0.01,
		0.01,
		0.01
	};
	airRotation = 0;
	gravityFactor = 1;
	timeToLive = 1e+010;
	disappearAtContact = 0;
	hasDriver = 0;
	picture = "pictureThing";
	weapons[] = {};
	magazines[] = {};
	minHeight = 0.1;
	avgHeight = 0.2;
	maxHeight = 0.4;
	type = 1;
	threat[] =
	{
		0,
		0,
		0
	};
	maxSpeed = 0;
	irTarget = 0;
	class SpeechVariants
	{
		class Default
		{
			speechSingular[] =
			{
				"obj_object"
			};
			speechPlural[] =
			{
				"obj_objects"
			};
		};
		class EN: Default {};
		class CZ
		{
			speechSingular[] =
			{
				"obj_object_CZ"
			};
			speechPlural[] =
			{
				"obj_objects_CZ"
			};
		};
		class CZ_Akuzativ
		{
			speechSingular[] =
			{
				"obj_object_CZ4P"
			};
			speechPlural[] =
			{
				"obj_objects_CZ4P"
			};
		};
		class RU
		{
			speechSingular[] =
			{
				"obj_object_RU"
			};
			speechPlural[] =
			{
				"obj_objects_RU"
			};
		};
	};
	TextPlural = "Objects";
	TextSingular = "Object";
	nameSound = "obj_object";
};

Fun parameters:

airFriction2[] =

airFriction1[] =

airFriction0[] =

airRotation =

gravityFactor =

Aha. Now we're making progress.

See how it doesn't fall to the ground when released by the helo.