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Way awesome! Outlanders and I played some Russian Roulette and BLuD and I played some darts. This is the kind of stuff that sets this website apart from other gaming sites out there! !2cool

nice, with the guy would have posted a name or link to the addon.... lame

!lol

I love PDF's for their potential as instructional manuals. Like the one for Project Reality. This is an excellent guide you put up here, I'm now installing the program and am wondering if this is something I start before I start Arma or if it makes a Shortcut I can place on my desktop/taskbar/startmenu. I use many custom shortcuts on my desktop, they are for Scripting/Editing, or jumping straight to one server or another on load.

Cool! @RAM - lol, Hillbilly p0rn! Same as regular p0rn, just fewer teeth. !rofl

Excellent! You know I'm all about the pretty pictures, Savage! Thanks for making that up so fast! I really need a PDF writer. I just got Foxit installed on my gaming PC, but what is the name of a decent writer? I'm certainly hoping it has an interface similar to MS Publisher or that series of writers.

NEVER install addons by copying their contents to your Arma Addons folder!!! ]This is not difficult: When you download a Mod or Map, it is a RAR or ZIP. Look inside it for the @THISMODNAME Folder. Copy and Paste that into the Bohemia Interactive Arma Program Folder. Simple. Then either make a shortcut with a command line like this: "A:\Programs (x86)\Bohemia Interactive\arma2OA.exe" -mod=@NAMEOFMOD Obviously, the path to the program file will differ on your PC, but this isn't rocket science here and we all will help you every step of the way. If some dingus submits their Mod or Map for download, and it's just a bunch of PBO files, they are truly the saddest sack, but it does happen. When it does, you have to finish their homework for them, and then turn it in to the teacher with your name on it. !lol Sorry for the non-sequitur. This image should show you the simple folder structure of an Arma Mod/Map Addon: I hope this helps you to get into the awsome VG CLAfghan Server. I've just uploaded version 0.92; though I do need to drop in a hotfix today, the mission is pretty well done and ready for operations. See you around, bro! !cheers

I changed the Domi(CLAfghan) server last night per your instructions - just opened up the flood gates, we don't have numbers yet anyway and I wanted to Aussies to have a fighting chance of getting in. Hey, Murder, maybe I should just mail you a 4GB flash drive with a ton of wicked Arma mods on it...lol!

Wecome to the club, beetlebaily1! Glad to hear you got your BMS sorted. I'm sure there are plenty more, but I can say that =VG= Poffadder and myself are old school MS FS pilots. Of course, I never graduated from a Cessna and Lear Jet, whereas =VG= Poffadder flies everything, including them big bad 747's. He and I both have FSX, but again, he's invested in hundreds of dollars in addons and sceneries. Iffn has been getting into Microsoft Flight Sim X with Poff, and they've been flying in Multiplayer via Hamachi. I keep nagging at Poffadder to make a picture profile here of his Screenshots - I have several as my desktop background and I must say, they are the BEST in-game shots from any game I've ever seen! People come into my office and see the desktop thinking it was a photograph from the internet of a REAL airplane over a real city. I'm sure Poff will be around more often soon, he's finishing up with first semester exams atm. Great to have you guys around! !cheers

Excellent post, man! Hope you don't mind the change from compact tiny white fonts to the "pop off the page" look. This info is great, and is gonna help a lot of gamers! Thank you !cheers

Welcome and good luck, EagleIII! Say, it does sound like you are gonna need to create a profile for that X36. I feel for you, HOTAS set-up in Falcon/BMS can take awile. This, of course, is why we are trying to assemble the largest section of Downloadable Joystick Profiles on the internet. As we do not have your X36 version, might I ask that you upload your Joystick Profile and add it to the DownLoads when you are done? This will ensure that the very next person that asks about an X36 Profile has a chance to DL a Preset Example to use/modify. Thanks in advance, and have fun with BMS! !fans

Please continue to be active on the forums and website. All =VG= Members are involved in site building as well as team building in the games. Post some cool photos, or videos. Make your presence known. VG is your clubhouse, feel free to carve your name into the wall and let your mark be known! !hi

Awesome work! I can really appreciate the effort you all are putting in. Looks great! !cp

then why, clippy, did you ask me for info on how to manually and completely uninstall your Arma game so you can reinstall it proper? !lol Oh wait, it was someone else who did....lololol Really, though, I'd meant to post this info up for some time as it gets redundant walking people through it as I have more than a few times to repair installations. Was for our good friend, tankmaster, specifically. And any who need to reinstall in the future.

We need a post specifically about Arma 2 lauchers, preferably with screenshots, and featuring instructions and pics for most the popular ones, or at least the most popular one. This would be a great news item, but I am a bit busy at the moment, and when I'm done I'll be busy connecting all my social network/blog/YouTube things so I can cross post all the info and vids from the new CLAfghan mission and for VG. Also, I still need to contact Raptor to see where he left off before he left VG, and perhaps get the files from him or re-do the whole thing myself.

then poke me, or message me on Steam. geez...lol. Run Combined Operations. I have since weeded out all Arma 2 elements that accidentally got included when I added Ft. Irwin Training Center elements and UNA Target Boards to the CLAfghan COOP Mission. Will have the rest sorted before dawn. Till then, run the game as Combined Operations as I told you, and you won't have a problem. It's that you have Steam that I don't know how to do these things. You should have me as a friend on Steam through VG Members, and if you message me, Steam beeps. So does TeamSpeak if you poke me. !hi

I found that trying to get the damn video to render with good settings was the HARDEST thing about Vegas. That particular part is so foreign to me, I had to watch some 15 year old kid on YouTube describe the process through endless "um um, yea, then you...wait a minute" but it finally worked. I saved it as my "YouTube" render profle, and never messed with it again. Then, upon reinstall, I lost it. So, now even I don't know how to best render a video. That little bit of my Arma teleport script example is crappy, blurry, and it's size is way to big. Took me over an hour and a half to upload it to YouTube for that tiny clip. To summarize, I do not know about Vegas Render Settings, and look to YouTube for instruction.

=VG= CCCode LAN_WROTE ... =VG= Eclipse002 LAN_WROTE ... Why would i wanna remove it?? A fresh reinstall? Yea, clippy... Duh !lol

Thank you CC!! !cheers I changed it, and added that as step four. Good lookin, brother!

ALWAYS BACKUP YOUR USER PROFILE, ADDONS, DLC, OR MODS FIRST! Step One: Run Arma 2 Uninstaller or use Window Add/Remove Programs to Remove Arma 2 Step Two: Restart if required; Open Programs Folder and delete any remaining Bohemia Interacitve folders Step Three: Open My Documents and Delete any/all Arma 2 or Arma 2 OA folders Step Four: (Thanks to CCCode!! !hi ) At the top of the My Documents Explorer window, in the address bar, type %appdata% and press enter. --If you wonder where this is physically, open your Root C: drive; Open Users, "YOUR NAME", AppData (if not shown, enable Show Hidden Files and Folders under Folder Properties) ---Under AppData, there are 3 folders Local, LocalLow, and Roaming. Ensure no Arma Folders exist in any, delete any Arma folders found. TO BE CLEAR: Do not delete the Folders: Local, LocalLow, or Roaming. Advanced - If you have advanced problems, you can delete the BI Studio registry entries using Regedit. This is advanced, and not necessarily required for all uninstall/re-install needs. You can try all the above steps, then re-install. If your issues are not resolved, follow the above steps again, and include Step 5 here: Step Five: Delete Registry Keys left over --Open Start Menu, type: regedit and press enter --Unexpand all the folder trees so it's easy to look at and navigate. You will be dealing with 2 folders: HKEY_CURRENT_USER and HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE (If you have a 64-bit version of Windows, some of the Bohemia Interactive Studio folders will be found under the Wow6432Node, otherwise the folder is called Software) Here is a self explanitory picture. Delete the Bohemia Interactive Studio folder. I have another for my editing tools, you will not. Next, Collapse the Folder Tree HKEY_CURRENT_USER with the small triangle to it's left. Now, open the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE folder, and again, navigate as in the image below. Delete the Bohemia Interactive Studio folder. Ensure you check for these folders in the Wow nodes if 64-bit, and Software folders. Use this process at your own risk. If I didn't say such, I wouldn't be fair. Any time you mess with your Registry as an uniformed computer tinkerer, you risk permanent damage to your operating system. I have tested and perfomed the above procedure several times on my own system, and directed many others through the process. It is safe, but if you mess something up while in the registry you will regret it. PM me with any questions. Include a screenshot if helpful. Current Install Order for Arma 2 and Operation Arrowhead: http://www.veterans-gaming.com/vg-plugins/forum/forum_viewtopic.php?21228.0#post_21232

@SavageCDN = Well, I'd certainly make it available to port to other islands. Shouldn't be a problem, but is a bit of work, as in MASSIVE, to port it now after the hundreds of hours I've put into it. We're talkin around 12-20 hours a day scripting every single day (except for several around Xmas) since 12/9/2011. EVERY SINGLE DAY. I added it up... If I were doing this for a company, I'd have 80+ of overtime each week for the past 4. So, yea, if you want to port, go ahead. I'm focusing on Afghanistan. If you do port, you may need to remove the Ft. Irwin Training Center elements. Was hard enough to get it to fit on this massive 450sq. km map. And that CQC map you mentioned, great idea! Should be run with ShackTac Movement and ShackTac HUD in that version, though. MOUT is all fun and games in Arma till you have to enter a doorway with your gun draw. ShackTac makes CQC possible in Arma, and only ShackTac. Final quirks will be worked out this afternoon.

Sorry Bob, the reason I haven't posted up a version for you to download is that there are just one or two kinks involving "locality" that cause said things to not work when map is on a dedicated server vs. hosted privately or played offline. Right now, there is a basic hot fix on the server, I threw it up this morning, called v0.90. But even that one I don't feel comfortable giving to you Bob, or distributing just yet. I will have it all sorted in the next few hours even. This is my MAIN task at the moment - freakin locality "if(isServer) exitWith FUCKING RUN MY SCRIPT....lol something like that needs to be added to a few key functions I wrote. One big change from 0.89 to 0.90 is the "teleport" or relocation between the South Airfield, Camp Branca in the NE, and the Kunar Regional Training Center. Inspired by Oniblood's (helpful) remark about the original teleport, which simply consisted of the following lines: player globalChat "Relocating to South Airbase...";<br />player setPos [(getpos SEFlag select 0)+3,(getpos SEFlag select 1)+3,(getpos SEFlag select 2)+0]; So, in response, I wrote 10 scripts to handle "simulated" transportation between Camp Branca, the South Airfield, and the Kunar Regional Training Center. It is a very gracefull teleport where the teleport "flag" is a static AI Blackhawk MEV, it unlocks, spins up the rotar, forces you in, Fade to Black, teleports you to the Blackhawk at the destination, forces you in that one, Fade from Black Back In, forces you out, turns off all engines, locks back up, and welcomes you to new area personally. Now if I could just get it to work on the dedicated server!! He'll teleport, fading through black and all, but the rotar never spins up, or tries and fails, and doesn't seem to lock/unlock well. Probably needs one of those MP lines like "if not local player exitWith" or "if(isServer) exitWith". I'll have it sorted this evening. Worked out a problem with the parachutes before it became one. They are classified as "Air'. In this mission, you cannot pilot/use lead position in "Air" unless you are a p?ilot. People would have been droping like rocks, only to look up at their deployed chute sans parajumper, as if the straps were cut from him. Therefore, in the line that said if not Pilot eject his ass, I basically added "(andand if !isKindOf "parachute_blahblahEP1") then eject his ass". ! means not in this crazy language. not is kind of parachute. Fun fun fun, this scritping is, as you can see... Here's the code I just wrote for my ambient and gracefull teleport to the ParaJump Training Range: //Ambient Graceful Teleport to HALO Training Script//<br />//by =VG= SemlerPDX; 1st new NoOb script of 2012//<br />//inspired by =VG= Oniblood's comment on my former 2 line teleport script//<br /><br />//-------TCFlag is Name of Static AI Blackhawk UH60M MEV at Traning Center-------//<br />TCFlag action ["engineOn", TCFlag];<br />sleep 2;<br /><br />TCFlag setvehiclelock "unlocked";<br />sleep 1;<br /><br />player action ["getInCargo", TCFlag];<br />SEFlag action ["engineOn", SEFlag];<br />TCFlag action ["LightOn", TCFlag];<br />SEFlag action ["LightOn", SEFlag];<br />sleep 2;<br /><br />player globalChat "Relocating to South Airfield...";<br /><br />//-------Ambient False Take-Off-------//<br />3 fadeSound 0.1;<br />6 fadeMusic 0.1;<br />titleCut ["", "BLACK OUT", 4];<br />sleep 6;<br />SEFlag setvehiclelock "unlocked";<br /><br />//-------Ambient and Graceful Teleport-------//<br />//-------SEFlag is name of Static AI Blackhawk UH60M MEV at South Airfield-------//<br />player setPos [(getpos SEFlag select 0)+0,(getpos SEFlag select 1)+3,(getpos SEFlag select 2)+0];<br />sleep 2;<br />player action ["getInCargo", SEFlag];<br /><br />//-------Fade Back In, and Variable Personalized Welcome Message-------//<br />6 fadeSound 1;<br />6 fadeMusic 1;<br />sleep 4;<br />titleCut ["", "BLACK IN", 6];<br />sleep 1;<br /><br />if((round random 5) > 1) then {<br />    titletext [format ["Welcome to Prozakhar Airfield, %1.", name player], "PLAIN DOWN", 2];<br />} else {<br />//-------on the chance that a 0 or 1 comes up, it will say:-------//<br />    titletext [format ["Welcome back, %1. We kept the home fires burning...", name player], "PLAIN DOWN", 2];<br />};<br />player action ["getOut", SEFlag];<br /><br /><br />//-------Resetting Ambient Static Blackhawks-------//<br />sleep 6;<br />TCEFlag action ["engineOff", TCFlag];<br />SEFlag action ["engineOff", SEFlag];<br />SEFlag setvehiclelock "locked";<br />TCFlag setvehiclelock "locked";<br />TCFlag action ["LightOff", TCFlag];<br />SEFlag action ["LightOff", SEFlag];<br />//-----AND THEY ALL LIVE HAPPILY EVER AFTER. THE END-----// Here is what the teleport between bases should look like (note: the engine turns off much sooner now):

The proper procedure for installing Arma is as follows, steam may be slightly different, but order must be followed: Current Install Order for Arma 2: 1. Install Arma 2 2. Install Arma 2 Operation Arrowhead 3. Run Arma 2 at least once; exit back to desktop. 4. Run Arma 2 Operation Arrowhead at least once; exit back to desktop. 5. If you have BAF DLC Addon Pack, install it. 6. Run BAF at least once; exit to desktop. 7. If you have PMC DLC Addon Pack, install it. 8. Run PMC at least once; exit to desktop. 9. Install the 1.60 Patch (or run Steam update) now. 10. Spend a fair amount of time removing key bindings you will never use for the 20 redundant Arma buttons !lol Hope this helps someone, cuz it would have helped me get into servers with V2 checks back in the day..... It's all about the install order!

Also, I might add, the fix for the above problem is to reinstall, THEN install BAF and PMC addons, then patch. If you patch before installing BAF and PMC DLC, you get V2 sig check errors like that... This was pre - 1.60 patch that I fixed that. Just wanted to updated this if anyone else has that problem.

We will try to add the "second primary weapon" that slings on your back, but I'm not sure how that will work with both LEA and with the Preset loadout script that manages all this in the mission. For now, just create a standard custom loadout with one primary, a secondary if you wish, and a backpack, or other back weapon. Remember, we are pushing Operation Arrowhead, so if certain weapons are specific to Arma 2 only, the team will need to swap them for OA equivalent gear. Also, MG gunners cannot carry a backpack - the slot is null. Same for others, like Medics. Respect this when creating kits, or we'll be contacting you for revisions. As soon as we can get the second primary "slung on back", I will simply announce it, and add to the already existing customs for each player - no sweat. I want second primarys too, just need to nail down the method. Domi's sucked, and was like a magic "bag of holding" that sent players into the field with enough gear to supply a small faction... This new mission sports some nifty suppy drop and support modules so, I actually want soldiers to run out of gear after so long in the field. Gives the commander, the C-130 Pilot, and other logistics roles a point of existence.