Framerate-Friendly Island - porting stuff over?

[oldbear 390]

I am also getting what you call the "pink line", for me it's "purple death ray" ^^

But I get it only on one of my WIP maps. What's strange is that I have 2 maps based on my Pomegrat island already released.

Pomegratskaya, a Northern version of the previous and Winter Pomegratskaya the same covered with snow.

I have the pink/purple line only on the last one so I am wondering if it's texture related.

I will test the CAA1 way, but hope I can find an easier way to do maps for ArmA2 ...

Nevermind, I think the CAA1 way is down, get a 404error. I will wait

Edited July 8, 2009 by Old Bear

[Killerwatt 0]

The latest files from the caa1 download site seem to have cured my problems with the "pink line/death ray" Just a couple of error messages popping up and some textures not showing now, but overall its getting pretty close to perfect. These guys are doing great work.

[madrussian 347]

You guys that are getting the CAA1 way to work...

Can someone pop off a quick screenshot of the exact contents of your addon folder?

I'm still having issues over here trying the CAA1 method. :eek:

[PTV-Jobo 820]

Mee too Mad. I'm using ArmaLaunch and it only spotted the X file. So I tried it with it running and then I removed the two main folders out of there and ran those mod folders and still didn't work. :(

[Killerwatt 0]

Well, Here is my set up for what its worth.

My ArmA2 installation is on my "D" drive so your drive letter may well be different.

I have two additional folders in my Arma2 directory, one is called "caa1" and the other is called "oac" the caa1 folder contains three folders, one called "addons", one called "docs", and one called "keys". These folders contain the files from the caa1 download site after they have been unzipped.

The "oac" folder contains a folder called "coa_core" this folder conatins two folders called "addons" and "keys" respectively.

The "addons" folder contains the two "oac" files from the caa1 download site and the "keys" folder contains the oac_core_2009_07_07.bikey file from the same place. Again these files were uzipped before they were placed into the folders. Please note that all these folder names are without the " in the name.

Finally the shortcut was created and the following path was inserted into the target line in properties.

Hope this helps someone.

"D:\Program files\Bohemia Interactive\ArmA 2\arma2.exe" -mod=caa1;oac\oac_core;

[r3volution 0]

I'm running just the core files

buildings

desert

desert2

misc

plants

roads

rocks

sara

signs

as well as their associated .bisign files and there's minimal errors. Only a couple on startup and/or load. Nothing too bad, and no sign of any purple death ray or pink line of doom or magenta carnage wand or whatever. As everyone has said though, there's something definitely wrong with the way the mid-distance textures are processed because the long-distance ones are being used at v-short distance. I'm not finding a massive framerate boost though, but that could be more attributable to my pc being a mound of suck rather than anything to do with the original arma1 maps.

[taves 10]

i finally got the maps to work in the editor, but on startup of the game i get this:

Addon CTI_buildingsBmp2_hq requires version 1.09 of application

and when i get in the editor and load a map i get this message:

No Entry Bin\Config.bin/cfgvoice/Dan.protocol

and it goes back to the editor not allowing me to start a game

[.kju 3240]

You may want to look into:

CAA1 - BI ArmA addons in ArmA II

The OAC core addon makes porting less work and less errors to surface.

[andersson 285]

After some frustrated browsing around in dev-heaven I managed to DL yomas tool and all necessary files. And thank you kju! Its a true pleasure playing on arma islands!! I also get more fluent gameplay now than in arma2 so its great!

Questions:

Why the modfolder "x"?

-its confusing for alot of people to use modfolders that way

-it doesnt use the common @ that is preferred by many

-it doesnt work with yomas addon synch tool!! (I ended up moving the internal folders out and making them into normal modfolders. Which means I have to reassemble the "x" when I need to update)

Why so much files, its 2 gig? Are all necessary for the islands or are you thinking future compability for other stuff? Right now it clutter up the armoury.

[.kju 3240]

Thanks andersson for the feedback. I have answered your points in the CAA1 forum. :)

[andersson 285]

Thank you for your reply kju :)

Yes I do see the benefit of having a less cluttered arma2 folder. Dont know yet if the benefits overweights the drawbacks. But I do see your point.

"x" is easy to reach? :D I know that @ is not that easy to reach, but I still prefer that old proven system with an @ first.

The size, yes I know that there are alot of content. With future compability I thought that you makes it easier for future arma1 addon ports, which it was :)

The reason for me to ask was that I first thought that the pack was only about the islands and they dont need all the files. Imho it would be nice to have an island only pack in addition.

It would also be nice to get arma1 weapons 100% compatible (right now problems with some sights and M136 rockets). Also to replace as many weapons as possible to arma2 equivalent would be nice to have less clutter in the armory.

Please take this constructive as I am really fond of what you done! Been playing old nice missions on Sahrani tonight. The performance boost also helps the guys with weaker systems. The oac helps me to port over my old favorites without too much mission.sqm editing.

So thumbs up and please continue to improve this!

[andersson 285]

Hi kju,

I get this error now and then; "effects/ is not a class."

Im quite sure its related to oac. I got it in alot of arma1 missions on Sahrani and when I cleaned up the mission.sqm so the mission only uses arma2 units it disapears.

[Dmahon 10]

1.) create a modfolder and name it like u did @opx

2.) create a folder INSIDE the folder @opx and name it "addons" (without the quotes)

3.) copy listed files into the folder with the name addons

4.) copy the files from opteryx maps into the same folder with the name addons.

5.) now you add in your arma shortcut your modfolder , it should read like this:

Followed all of these steps very closely but i'm getting an error on startup saying "Addons CTI_buildingsBmp2_hq requires version 1.09 of application" i don't get it, is it a version mismatch of whatever patch is installed on my install of Arma 1? problem is i don't have Arma 1 installed properly, i have it installed on a portable hard drive and somewhewre along the lines my install got corrupted and it wont start up or tell me what version i was running on, does this mean the only way i'm gonna get this running is to install arma 1, download & install the patch and after all that just to get some files?

[Peregrine 0]

Im having the same error as Dmahon. I do whats said on the front page and when I start the game it says "Addons CTI_buildingsBmp2_hq requires version 1.09 of application".

Does anyone know a fix?

[p75 10]

Im having the same error as Dmahon. I do whats said on the front page and when I start the game it says "Addons CTI_buildingsBmp2_hq requires version 1.09 of application".

Does anyone know a fix?

I get the same error.

[horror1 10]

the error is normal u can just cick ok and it should work.

the version mismatch is caused by the arma2 version 1.02 but arma1 versions of files require 1.09 version:)

nothing to bother about

there will be at least 2 more errors when u start the maps, just click ok and it should work.

[thorhal 10]

Got evolution working on Sahrani.

there you go: http://forums.bistudio.com/showthread.php?t=82321