Single playe Senario picture

[TheTrooper]

Guys, how do you set up a mission for single player senario? What I mean is mainly the picture and the brief description for it for the menu on Arma2? I got the Overview file, but what size does the picture need to be?

[Günter Severloh]

Would this help you?:

Custom Loadscreens
Can be used by putting an image in the mission-folder.
The path is now relative to the mission folder.
e.g:

loadScreen = "pictures\test.paa";

Will work if the picture “test.paa” lies in a sub-folder called “pictures” within your mission-folder.

Create a EXT file called Description and put the code in there.

Images
working image-types are .paa and .jpg
.paa can handle transparency but is big in size
.jpg cannot handle transparency but will achieve good tradeoff between size and quality.

For ArmA2 textures / images generally applies:
- aspect ratio should be 2:1 or 1:1
- pixel resolution should be a number divisible by 2
- currently supported max resolution is 2048 x 2048 afaik
Good pixel resolutions for Loadscreens would be:

• 2048 x 1024

• 1024 x 512

• 512 x 256

Info and Links
TexView2
is a texture viewer and conversion tool for .paa and .pac files
http://community.bistudio.com/wiki/TexView_2
and part of BI Tools 2
http://community.bistudio.com/wiki/BI_Tools_2

PAAplug v1.2
is a PAA format plugin for Adobe Photoshop
and part of Kegety´s ArmA Tools package
http://www.kegetys.net/arma/

IrfanView
is a freeware/shareware image viewer that can view, edit, and convert image files
http://www.irfanview.de/

GIMP
is a free raster graphics editor
http://www.gimp.org/

LoadingScreen (how-to)
at BI-Forums a guide for a more complex variant
http://forums.bistudio.com/showthread.php?t=104552
detailed info on .paa format
http://community.bistudio.com/wiki/PAA