Overviews

by Rob

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This is very easy to master.

OFP can use any JPG, PAA or PAC files that has sidelength to the power of 2 (in Pixels), so basically all you have do is make sure your pictures have these side lengths of 2,4,8,16,32,64,128,256,512. Please note that OFP does not give all that much space in the Overview and Briefing to show a picture. In the Overview 64x128 works fine sizewise.

If you want to make a picture with 170x23 pixels, all you have to do is resize the picture the next higher allowed resolution, in this case 256x32.

your picture may look wierd now but most of you should know that the Briefing and Overview are actually HTML files, and all you have to do is put your original Width and Height values in there. And voila, it shows as it was suppost to in the Briefing.

A Mistake that seems to be often made is to put the picture with some sort of HTML-Editor in which also inserts the name. The line with the picture should look like this:

<img src="mypic.jpg" width="128" height="64">

Make sure there is no URL or Pathname where the picture name should be, only the name of the picture.

After you have completed all that you can add your mission details.

Look at the beta overview that has been created here.

If you look where the picture is supposed to be displayed you can see that the computer doesn't like the picture. This is because the mission this was from, called "Iron Fist" made be myself, uses a PAA picture format which is a unknown format to your computer. but because the game is programmed to run these files it will show it perfectly.

 

As soon as you've finish making your own just simply add it to your missions folder.. thus being operation flashpoint/users/yourname/missions/mission folder.

If you have any troubles and may want me to make yours for you then send it over.