Some questions

[Sid]

It has been almost exactly one whole year since I played OR been on these forums. Wow - look at all those addons... we didn't have that convenience "Back in my days".

Anyways, I FINALLY got around to buying Resistance, and man - I should have bought it sooner.
Now, I have a few questions:

1.) How do I make the Cockpit Textures of a Vehicle look better? (Do I decrease the overall size?)

2.) How would I make things sit atop of an object? (Ie. Putting a Turret onto a look-out tower.)

Anyways, thanks for your time,
-Sid

P.S. Has anybody made a 1985 Dodge Ramcharger yet?

[Jamesia]

well I can answer number 1.


In the operation flashpoint folder click on OPERATION FLASHPOINT PREFERENCES.

This enables you to select more options than you can in-game.


Select ADVANCED on the right, and then the TEXTURES tab.


This enables you to set the resolution of cockpits, objects, landscape and special effects.


Number 2 is a more complex mission editing question

[Sid]

Thanks. SO I decrease the texture size to make it look sharper?

[Jo Man Dragon]

no, you increase texture size

[EBass]

Well no 1 appears to have been answered so I'll do number 2.

Ok Im no editer at all, most of my supposedly complex missions lie in half finished unusable messes, the only ones I ever do properly are massive straight out shoot outs which are fun in themselves but will never be truly great. Anyway

To make something sit on something there are two ways. One is a very simple way which usually wont work in the editor. It is simply to place a unit on the structure u want it up and hope it goes up there. U can do this to some church towers and guard towers. However this will NOT work for vehicles such as machine guns

To do this u need to set their Height. Write this in the Init box

[getpos this select 0, getpos this select 1, (getpos this select 2) + 10]

This will set the unit 10 metres in the air.
I dont know the ins and outs of it at all I'm afriad but I believe getpos 0, 1, and 2 merely state that the unit does exist in its CURRENT position. The 10 is all u need to concentrate on, just change that to whatever value u need the unit at. U CAN use decimals remember. It's very useful. But ur better off asking a serious editor, I believe Ronins quite into it, he made the well reknowned Hamburger Beach mission. Ask on the "Editing forums" U'll get a better answer

[Sid]

Thanks - I'll try that now.

Oh, and anybody willing to PM me on this "BIS Fun Site"? lol, thanks for your time.

[Sid]

Didn't work. It keeps saying "Error Type Array - expect nothing" and the Unit screen doesn't go away. And at the top is said, "Invalid number in expression" but I typed it all out write. Whats up with this?!

[RalphWiggum]

Please search under "setpos" in mission editing section for complete answer

[Sid]

Oh - and another thing: How do I make it so a fire is lit when I start a map?

[Sid]

Please search under "setpos" in mission editing section for complete answer

Thank-you, I shall search for that now.