Arma 3 Mission Editing: Creating an Intro

[@isntthatsomething8928]

Great video. Gotta say, given how obscure a lot of the documentation and how difficult it ca be to find explanations for Eden, I'm loving your channel. This Mission Editing series breaks it into intuitive chunks with sufficiently thorough explanation. Far surpasses the official docs, no doubt. Instant sub. What I couldn't gather from this is how you set up the scripted vehicle movements and explosions in your demo at the en.

[@WhiteRaven]

Check out both my videos 1 on IEDs & the other on unit waypoints. In addition there is always a lot of trial and error when creating Ai movement but that should give you the basics.

[@Spookykidshow]

Thank you, I am working on my first ever mission, it's going to be a SOG mission, I am working so hard on it I want it to be polished real nice, something that people will think should of came out with the new DLC The mission objective is very simple but is going to be pretty difficult and reguire Skill to complete .. I am making it a single player mission and I think people will like what I am delivering I am so excited, even if 2 people actually play it I'll consider that a win. It's incredible the things we can create in the editor, I used to make war craft 3 missions as a kid so I have always loved tinkering with a game .

[@crazyVrex]

how can i find your mission in the workshop?

[@martinkubis4470]

i hope that you will make many great missions in the future. If you start learning you will find out that you can do basically everything with ARMA 3 editor and also you can find hundreds of tutorials on the official arma sites.

[@lukeskywalker4700]

I would also love to try it out

[@TheFlual22]

This was much easier to do in OFP. If you wanted to make an quick intro you could just put some triggers here and there which acted as your cameras.

[@sippilandia]

Yeah, I can't understand how they made this so complicated when they had very much working model in OFP.

[@xanaxist]

hello awesome tutorial. but your line "[] call BIS_fnc_cameraOld;" doesn't work as it should be. it just plays like a normal player except I can't fire weapons. any help?

[@MertKleebach]

Burial in the intro and good content, count me in

[@WhiteRaven]

Thanks & yes I use Burial as I'm a fan too

[@mariusstad9375]

I'd love to create an intro but unfortunately I'm stuck on basically the first step of the camera tutorial with the "[] call BIS_fnc_cameraOld;" script. It simply doesn't turn the player into a camera. What is interesting though is that I can't fire my weapon or anything except move around until I've clicked RMB, after which I can fire my weapon etc. Script doesn't work for me unfortunately, is there a solution?

[@dannyjl]

I'm not sure if anyone has told you by now, but I got around this issue by getting into the game (as a regular unit), pressing escape, and entering "[] call BIS_fnc_cameraOld;" into my extended debug console. Hope this helps.

[@NoivesMan]

POV: You don't have ArmA but watch tutorials just because

[@Braddok518]

Followed everything just right and made an awesome intro just to find out the ACE modification for Arma 3 messes with the script making it unusable, unfortunately I must use ACE in the mods I run. Does anyone know a work around so I don't have to scrap it, thanks for any help!

[@SasaAsas24]

Hey, I'm quite new to this intro-making stuff and scripting, and I have one problem when I start as a player and try to use the camera when my game loads for the second time it exits from the camera?

[@BGLENN-dp4tx]

You have the BEST video on this topic!! Thanks for your knowledge and time to share it with everyone. Bravo. Addendum question: With 2 players in my mission, will both guys see the intro if I place the intro .sqs file into the init for each one? Thanks again.

[@AmiltonNevesbr]

How to play a ogv video on intro scene and go to mission when player press space? PLz

[@mmm-hmmbabyohyeahyeahuhhuh9589]

Does it matter when it comes to making it in the Scenario or intro mission type on the top drop down menu?

[@OfficialMikeJ]

where is the outro video part 2 ?, Were into 2022 now have you uploaded that ?.

[@BF309th]

Raven, I want to thank you for your efforts. You are fairly thorough, and much of what you show can be understood without any experience in the editor. There is still a bunch that is foggy, however it's partly because I jump about the various videos searching for the item I am currently working on. When I find a corresponding video, it usually has about 90% of what I need... the other 10% isn't explained (probably because by the time most mission creators are working on that particular technique they already have an understanding of what the other editing basics/tools are that are being used but not explained).

[@WhiteRaven]

Thank you & I try to explain each video as if someone has a limited experience as I was once there and had very little help so am 90% self taught. However it's hard to cover basics plus the topic within 10mins so hope subs watch other vids covering those topics.

[@totallymojo]

"[] call BIS_fnc_cameraOld;" on my player units init does nothing at all. Have they changed this?

[@WhiteRaven]

I'll check this & let you know

[@WhiteRaven]

Hi, I just checked & it is still working. If you place the [] call BIS_fnc_cameraOld; in the players init when you play scenario the camera will load straight away. At this point remember NOT to touch the RMB or it will cancel camera. Q = Up Z = Down W = Forward S = Back A = Pan left D = Pan Right Num 4 = Rotate left Num 6 = Rotate right Num 8 = Pivot up Num 2 = Pivot down LMB = Record position (paste position into txt or sqf) Hope that helps, Good luck!

[@totallymojo]

@@WhiteRaven Thanks for testing! I did some testing with or without mods. Apparently, having the ACE mod loaded makes CameraOld not work for some reason.

[@jeffreynel643]

@@totallymojo @White Raven I Have the same problem, the white dot where you can make the camera shots with disapears inmediatly after 2 or sec...

[@realkaytlinidk4712]

@@totallymojo have you found a way for it to work with ACE or what cuz it kinda sucks that ACE is always interfering with bohemia scripts.

[@sammysparkbyxa]

When I left click to get the position info, it destroys the camera and goes straight into game, what am I doing wrong, following this guide to the point, no clues?

[@mr.stardoge1188]

Ok, I am just curious : HOW do you all people find out about these codes and stuff? Is it simple programming or did you find a "programming" text file somewhere? :)

[@nevada7174]

bohemia website has full documentation on the arma 3 scripting syntax

[@mr.knight2679]

Hello WhiteRaven why it doesn't exec the intro? I'm done in everything but whenever I played there's nothing but if I Local exec it. It is playing the intro? in your creating an intro you just played it and it is working? I'm sorry for my grammar. Please help me to learn some intro please?

[@bazstevens3874]

Bloody brilliant video and so helpful. One of the better ARMA editor tutors for sure. Subscribed! One burning question though. How do I get to add text to the intro like you did in your example?

[@WhiteRaven]

Thanks glad it helped & I'm going to be releasing a guide on how to create text soon

[@Charlie-216]

How do I open the intro thing with the notepad ++ app

[@mr.knight2679]

Why it won't work to me?

[@ghostelitegamer1267]

Doe's this work with multiple players?

[@silvagni97]

Hey man, is there any point in using the intro phase? Can I make something similar but druing the intro phase? If so what should I tweak? Also, was this made after the camera system and timelines had been added yet? would super appreciate any help!

[@dorklymorkly3290]

Maybe instead of timing the camera shots like this, triggers can be used? This is an actual question, not critique. Perhaps call the last tank in this case some variable, then sleep in the main script until it has passed a trigger on the road, maybe? I'm gonna look into that...

[@dennyfrontier]

Im looking to make an intro for a mission but Im trying to make it really simple: When the mission starts, I want both players to start in a helicopter already in the air. I just want the screen to be black for a few seconds while we can hear the helicopter, and I want simple text some where on the screen that says the name and time of the mission. Then I want the black to fade away. Is this possible to achieve?

[@ihavenomindandimustthink]

If you put down a waypoint for your character and scroll all the way down you can make it so when they get to that waypoint music could play the screen does a cool static glitching I think you can make it blackout and fade back in you can also use a trigger to do the same or sync the waypoint to a trigger personally ive only tried using music when a character reaches a waypoint so I'm not 100% sure that screen fading and all that will work but I know its there

[@Charlie-216]

@@ihavenomindandimustthink how do u put music in

[@dorklymorkly3290]

It's possible, but I don't know how, I think you can just place a heli in the air to make it flying by default, but not sure. Look at the Hell Heli scenario on the workshop and maybe disassemble it with a PBO tool?

[@languaj]

Great vid and easy to follow too. Subbed

[@WhiteRaven]

Thanks glad it helped

[@YozoraCho]

Ngl, this helped me more than you think :)

[@WhiteRaven]

Glad it helped

[@amitygaming7036]

so it all works but for some reason the intro wont end. i have to skip it to get into the actual mission. ive watched the video atleast 5 times and im not sure whats wrong. do you know of any bugs that might happen?

[@WhiteRaven]

Ok make sure the camera is shut down and deleted at the end of the script. So double check your script or if you have used mine those lines are still there or if you have named the camera something else make sure you go through the script with new name. Let me know how you get on

[@davebriscoe1012]

great vid

[@WhiteRaven]

Glad it helped

[@katzehd1507]

but i have a problem i cant open the thing with the dropbox

[@katzehd1507]

can you help me with that?

[@WhiteRaven]

Are you referring to the sqs file?

[@katzehd1507]

@@WhiteRaven how do you do that

[@WhiteRaven]

Did you manage to open the file? You will need notepad++ or similar to open that file

[@katzehd1507]

are you ok? you sound sad

[@WhiteRaven]

Thank you for your concern. That is a very kind thing to do, but I guess this is just how I sound when I'm concentrating lol