{"id":985,"date":"2021-03-17T01:52:19","date_gmt":"2021-03-17T00:52:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ofp-faguss.com\/blog\/?p=985"},"modified":"2021-03-29T21:26:03","modified_gmt":"2021-03-29T19:26:03","slug":"ofp-game-schedule-march-2021-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ofp-faguss.com\/blog\/ofp-game-schedule-march-2021-update\/","title":{"rendered":"OFP Game Schedule – March 2021 Update"},"content":{"rendered":"

I keep making updates to the Fwatch 1.16<\/a> \/ OFP Game Schedule<\/a> and I felt like writing about the more important changes.<\/p>\n

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Island Cutscenes<\/h2>\n

Operation Flashpoint (also known as Arma: Cold War Assault) has a nice feature where it will display a premade cutscene for the currently loaded island. <\/p>\n

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The blunder (one among many) is that the cutscene has to be in an external location instead of being packed in the same addon. So either you store it in the dta\\scripts.pbo<\/em> (which you do not always want to replace) or in one of the game directories (usually addons<\/em>) which complicates the installation process and creates a mess.<\/p>\n

Up until now my solution to this problem was to store the cutscene in a modfolder and change the island’s configuration so that it will read cutscene from that mod. The shortcoming of this fix is that the cutscene is now locked to a specific modfolder and you can’t change the mod’s name. Also I have to investigate and edit addons which is time-consuming.<\/p>\n

Ro\u017cek suggested to simply move data from the mod to the game directories (when the mod is loaded) just like I already do it with missions (since Fwatch 1.14 from 2015). I’ve implemented this and now cutscenes are moved from the mod\\IslandCutscenes<\/em> to the addons<\/em> folder.<\/p>\n

I appreciate the tip but I don’t appreciate that I had to went back and revert changes in 8 mods<\/a> 😉 Still, this is much better because I don’t have to modify addons anymore which means less work and less confusion when identifying addon versions.<\/p>\n

I was surprised by this idea because I haven’t thought of it and it made me wonder what other simple things I’m not seeing.<\/p>\n

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Modfolder Missions<\/h4>\n

While coding this feature I thought that I might as well handle other types of missions: the ones for the Mission Wizard (I don’t think anybody ever used them but just in case) and for the Mission Editor.<\/p>\n

See list of folders<\/a> that Fwatch moves.<\/p>\n

This is convenient because:<\/p>\n