PBOing Files

[Milwot]

How do you put all of your mission scripts and the mission itself into one file? I need to package a test mission w/ several big scripts so I can get some advice on the scripting.

[macguba]

A-ha!   This is an easy one.

Go intot he mission editor and open up your mission.    Now click on save at the right hand side.   With a bit of investigation you will discover that it's actually a drop down menu box.     One of the selections is Export to Single Player (or MP).   Click on that and your mission folder will be combined into a .pbo and exported to the Missions directory so you will be able to access it from single missions in the main menu.    It also remains as a mission folder, so you can still access it through the mission editor.      Editing will not change the .pbo - you have to export again.

[Chris Death]

Just remind that:

if you have already exported the mission to pbo style,
you can't overwrite it by exporting it again (OFP doesn't
support that feature).

So if you want to make a new pbo file, you need to manually
remove/rename the existing file.

:note - that OFP allocates every pbo file, which has been loaded
into memory

this means: that you have to quit the game to be able to
remove/rename a pbo file, once you have loaded it in the
game.


*hint* - you can have a workaround for creating a second pbo file, without closing the game by this way:

export to singleplayer - will create a .pbo file into
OFP\missions

export to multiplayer - will create a .pbo file into OFP\mpmissions

~S~ CD

[Milwot]

Damn-I should have known that. Thanks anyway.