Need help with a Mission

[MeatyDoubleSlap]

Anyone have the skill to fix this mission i have.... the update of the new expansion messed up my fav mission and i can not get it working again... its by far the best mission ive ever played on this game and pretty much the only one i play... its a Ghost Mission that i added RHS RU units and a few other things to... its the Vanilla A3 hemett and a few other things that are causing the issues from the update... even if i delete them from the file the mission still doesnt work.. Help would be nice

[👑KingZer0👑]

I'm not 100 percent on this, but if you get new mods you have to restart said mission. Again, not 100 on that. But I've noticed if I turn on/off mods, play a mission, then turn off/on different mods...that mission won't work.

[HeroesandvillainsOS]

When you say it's not working, what's happening? I take it the mission at least opens because you said you tried deleting objects (this is a good sign). But to get help, you need to be much more specific.

[MeatyDoubleSlap]

it has nothing to do with mods it has to do with vanilla content being changed when the update came out....ill send you a add heroes

[Hortzy]

hey man
Open your mission.sqm file.
look for the follow code

addons[]=
{
	"A3_Data_F_Curator_Characters",
	"A3_Characters_F"
        //More addons will be listed here
};
class AddonsMetaData
{
	class List
	{
		items=2;
		class Item0
		{
			className="A3_Data_F_Curator";
			name="Arma 3 Zeus Update - Main Configuration";
			author="Bohemia Interactive";
			url="http://www.arma3.com";
		};
		class Item1
		{
			className="A3_Characters_F";
			name="Arma 3 Alpha - Characters and Clothing";
			author="Bohemia Interactive";
			url="http://www.arma3.com";
		};
                //More addons will be listed here
	};
};

and change it to

addons[]=
{
};
class AddonsMetaData
{
};

The mission will then re evaluate what addons are required and make a new list next time you open it, should fix your issue

[MeatyDoubleSlap]

Dont think thats the issue... its a few vanilla A3 stuff that was changed and even if i fix the code i cant get the mission to work... it either will crash the game or pop up the A3 stuff that is causing the mission not to start.... ill have to link the mission that i modded

[MeatyDoubleSlap]

http://www.ghost.armaholic.eu/ArmA3/Missions/


Mission v2.7 is the one i like to use

[HeroesandvillainsOS]

Lincolnlou, I'm fairly certain what Hortzy suggested will work. This has happened to me before and deleting sections of the mission.sqm will give you a clean slate from errors in most cases.

All I've ever had to do (except in one instance, which I'll give you in a sec), is to delete the Binarized Addons section of the mission.sqm (leave the brackets). Then open the editor, place an object, delete it, and save (this repopulates the Binarized Addons section of the file). What Hortzy (who is a mission maker himself) suggested seems even more thorough so you could try that too.

One time, I had an error for a mission object and this wouldn't work. However, if you read through this thread: https://forums.bistudio.com/topic/192473-way-to-find-the-real-missing-addon/

We found a way to replace the object itself with a headless client module, which was genius. I was then able to finally open the mission, to then delete the newly added module and replace the faulty object that led to the error.