Briefing problem

[ZapBrannigan]

hello, I have a racing mission and I cant get the briefing to work. Can sombody please help me out. I have attached it.

[Mandoble]

Abel? Is this for OFP or ArmA?

[ZapBrannigan]

Sorry I should have mentioned that it is an Operation Flashpoint mission

[Tyger]

Abel is Malden on OFP.

I'll take a look and get back to you Zap.


Okay, as far as I know it should work now. There were spaces such as:

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<a name = "Plan">
HTML doesn't like those spaces. Also, the comments were incorrectly coded. I suggest you go to the ED and download Chris's ArmA Editor, which will also work for OFP. It's under tools. But the comments like this:

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<! **** >
should really be <!-- **** -->

Try the attached one and let me know.

[ZapBrannigan]

no it still dosent work from what im doing so I may be doing something wrong.

[JasonO]

Have you tried Chris's OFP editor yet? It has a Briefing wizard..

[Tyger]

I added the information to the ArmA editor and posted it here.

The only things you need to do with it are put it straight into the mission folder. I.E.
C:\Program Files\OperationFlashpoint\Users\Missions\mymission.abel\

You probably already knew that.

How are you testing the mission to check the briefing works?

[Cheetah]

Works for me in ArmA. You don't have any objective, but it's showing the plan and notes.

[ZapBrannigan]

To test it im just putting the briefing in the mission folder then going into the editor, opening the mission and saving as export to single missions. and when i try and play the mission where the briefing is suposed to be it just shows a black screen.

[Tyger]

The mission might not be overwriting the current .pbo you have in the Missions folder. I have that problem a lot too. Try, in the mission editor, holding shift down when you press preview. See if the briefing comes up. If it does, exit OFP, delete the current mission .pbo you have in your directory, and then restart OFP and export the mission again.

[ZapBrannigan]

I did what you said with the shift screen, but it just shows that same black screen for the briefing that it does in single missions. Im really sorry.

[Tyger]

No that's fine. It just means that the briefing is indeed not working.

[schuler]

hey do like they say try Chris's OFP editor
http://www.chenderman.com/ARMAEDIT.htm    cheers

[ZapBrannigan]

I have been gone for a week because I was at a family reunion. But im back and ready to keep trying to make this work.
Ive tried making a new briefing in chris arma editor but it still shows a black screen where the briefing is. thank you

[ZapBrannigan]

Got back to work on this, seems that any briefing I make wont work in ofp? ANd any briefing I edited that already works stops working and just shows a black screen.  Maybe I should reinstall my game?

[Chrispy]

Okay, firstly, your briefing name is called "Briefing" - I suggest it be lowercase, okay?

Secondly, when I export a mission, then I export the same one, I don't think it overwrites for me. So you might wanna ALT + TAB and delete the .pbo you exported, then export.

Plus, I think the best way to remm/comment something out would be "<!-- TEXT HERE -->" - not "<! TEXT HERE >". BIS use "<! --- TEXT HERE>".

Plus, in HTML, you can't have something like this:

Hints:
-Stay in first person mode, it makes it easier to judge the terrain
-If you crash your bike will explode
-You have no boost on this one

It won't work like that mate. It has to be like this:

Hints:
<br>
-Stay in first person mode, it makes it easier to judge the terrain
<br>
-If you crash your bike will explode
<br>
-You have no boost on this one

"<br>" means the next line - "<br><br>" means two lines. Also, you used the paragraph code in as well ("<p>TEXT HERE</p>") - I'm not sure if OFP supports that (<p> is a better alternative than <br>/<br><br> but I'm not sure if it'll work still).

I attached a briefing.htm file from one of the STOCK missions. Use that. Just edit it to your needs. But don't play around with the real complicated stuff - just the text and basic code like <br>, etc.

Hope that helps.

Chris