@ADDONS "General"

[MCPXXL]

I often see that people cannot install some addons correctly !

Here and now... ***once more a "LAW"

Dear MODDERS and INSTALLERS !

The BIS addons folder is a FORBIDDEN PLACE".

There is no need to put any additional pbo into the original addons Folder !

As you can see there are a lot of @addons on the "market" ....
So please be so kind and use your mods like this ones and it will help a lot.

In these @addons folder you can put your filestructure like in the whole BIS Root folder

as sample:
@mapfact
*** *** addons
*** *** ***map_misc.pbo

You can do a lot more of this things but i do not want you make you confused.

And please do not say i do that since years and have no probs because it maybe ... and others do install their Arma again and again from scratch because they do not know what they have done with overwriting needed files.


sincerly
MCPXXL

[rundll.exe]

Amen.

Sometimes it takes hours before an official MP (CTI) match to clear someones addon mess. If you put addons there it may confict with others and there is no quick way to disable them.

mod folders for the masses!

So please dont pu in the readme of addons that the pbo should go in the Arma/Addons folder

[Universel]

Can we create a global Addons folder and put the different @Addons inside it ?
Cuz it s a bit annoying to mess the numerous @Addons folders with Dta, Missions, Key and so.

I mean /Arma/Addons/@AddonX_Y_Z/addons.
What would be the syntax in the shortcut ?

[gL33k]

Can we create a global Addons folder and put the different @Addons inside it ?
Cuz it s a bit annoying to mess the numerous @Addons folders with Dta, Missions, Key and so.

I mean /Arma/Addons/@AddonX_Y_Z/addons.
What would be the syntax in the shortcut ?

you can yes. but avoid conccurency.

[MadDogX]

Wow, MCPXXL is onto something there.

I think I'm just gonna create the folder \ArmA\@Addons\Addons and put all unofficial addons I use in there... that should keep things tidy.

[MCPXXL]

And then the things like "kegs Arma launcher" getting much more sense because simply a click and you start with different mods for different servers ***

you define once all your @Addons like @mapfact;@faf_Sounds
and so on and then can enable disable it by a click.

choose your servers and the corrosponding @addons


@MadDogX Just kidding...
Use everytime a new Folder ! or mix but ONLY if you 100% know that there are no conflicts !

My Arma root looks like this:

@MAPFACT
@FAD_SOUNDS
@GL2
@ISLANDS
@ACE_EVERON (As long as we test things on it... it runs in its own folder)
@voice_quit
@test (all small pbo that do not make trouble with outhers)

[Raptor]

What is the impact on the game, or is there nothing?

[TheDawnOfAllWars]

And then the things like "kegs Arma launcher" getting much more sense because simply a click and you start with different mods for different servers

you define once all your @Addons like @mapfact;@faf_Sounds
and so on and then can enable disable it by a click.

choose your servers and the corrosponding @addons

thats how i do it

http://www.kegetys.net/arma/

easily the best way to do it

[MadDogX]

@MadDogX Just kidding...
Use everytime a new Folder ! or mix but ONLY if you 100% know that there are no conflicts !

If I use a new folder for every addon, my ArmA shortcut is gonna be hellishly big.

I haven't had any problems with addons so far, so I think I'll just stick with a single 3rd party addon folder.

Of course things like FDF_Sounds still remain in their own mod folder but that's a different story.

[MCPXXL]

@Raptor

Read as many posts as you wish, about released addons and you will see what i mean ;-)

Simply in map_misc threat are ***many many of errors commited because wrong or mixed addons in the root one.


As Sample put Vilas and some other addons like map_misc right into your addon folder.

@MAD
For me it is LAW and I have never problems with PATCHING the game or searching hours whay something is going strange because i simply disable the MODS and find so errors in fighting mods very fast.
If you go the other way your search beginns ...

How many @Addons you make is on your own, but please do minimum one and keep the BIS addon folder clear.

And more ADDON creators PLEASE do not say put this in your Root Addons folder.(Simply ask for help to do it in an @addons folder) I think there are many people who will help.
Think about the next patch