How do I make my own groups?

[falcon84]

(I apologize if this has been discussed before, but I couldn't find it in searches)


How do I make my own group accessable with F2 in the editor? Bascially, I'd like to make a group of special forces with all the skill levels automatically set to the highest levels. I'm not looking for new units, just a group of tough soldiers that I can place with ease with F2.

Thank you in advance.

[Gedis]

oh... this requires some config skills...
first you unPBO soldier's addon you want, then you need to change the config, but i have never tried of creating my own groups in config *** and after all work is done, you need to compress that pbo file.

[Kirby]

May as well just place em and then put skill up...

[SEAL84]

Yeah it's far more trouble than it's worth. There is a cheap workaround though...open up the desert island, manually create your high-skill squad, then save the mission. You can then either merge it into the main mission you're working on or just copy/paste the squad in.

[Zulu1]

If some one does have a basic knowledge of conifgs you can copy a "groups" section from another addon that has a group and paste it into the addon you want to add groups to and just change the units names. It's not really all the bad

[SEAL84]

If it's an addon, it's doable if you're familiar with configs, yes. If you're talking default BIS units like at least I assumed, no.

[mr. Duck]

Actually, you could just write a new config.cpp, encrypt it into a pbo file and that's about it.

Assuming you want to use BIS only units for your new groups you could make a config that looks something like this:
<table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td>Code Sample </td></tr><tr><td id="CODE">
class CfgGroups
{
class West
{
name=&#34;West&#34;;

class insert_class_name
{
name=&#34;insert group name &#40;west infantry?&#41;&#34;;
class another_class_name
{
name=&#34;exact group name &#40;rifle infantry&#41;&#34;;
class Unit0
{
side=1; &#92;&#92;side
vehicle=&#34;unit name&#34;;
rank=&#34;Lieutnant&#34;;
position&#91;&#93;={0,5,0};
};
class Unit1
{
side=1;
vehicle=&#34;TerSolAT&#34;;
rank=&#34;Sergeant&#34;;
position&#91;&#93;={3,0,0};
};
class Unit2
{
side=1;
vehicle=&#34;TerSolMGSN&#34;;
rank=&#34;Corporal&#34;;
position&#91;&#93;={-3,0,0};
};
class Unit3
{
side=1;
vehicle=&#34;TerSolRocket&#34;;
rank=&#34;Corporal&#34;;
position&#91;&#93;={5,0,0};
};
class Unit4
{
side=1;
vehicle=&#34;TerSolGL&#34;;
rank=&#34;Private&#34;;
position&#91;&#93;={-5,0,0};
};
class Unit5
{
side=1;
vehicle=&#34;TerSolGL&#34;;
rank=&#34;Private&#34;;
position&#91;&#93;={7,0,0};
};
class Unit6
{
side=1;
vehicle=&#34;TerSolM&#34;;
rank=&#34;Private&#34;;
position&#91;&#93;={-7,0,0};
};
class Unit7
{
side=1;
vehicle=&#34;TerSolRocket&#34;;
rank=&#34;Private&#34;;
position&#91;&#93;={-9,0,0};
};
};
};
[/QUOTE]

The only way I know that affects skill is by changing the rank. There might be another way that I&#39;m unaware of though.

[W0lle]

Moving.