For those saying that there isn't pbo manager anymore, a simple google search would have yielded this link to get it. pbo-manager-v-1-4.software.informer.com/1.4b/
I think the problem is the fact that the link is missing on the website for some reason. Not really sure what that means, but the download link is not there.
@@olejnik5165 I hope arma 4 has a easier way of making custom factions. Ngl I like our military and everything, but sometimes I want to add a new power to the game.
@@subjectc7505 Problem is most of the new factions you find on the steam workshop are either new special force units or they are cheap reskins of existing factions. I searched up cartel sicario..... expecting to see some GR wildands type units and all that popped up were guys in looter or guerilla clothing with weak arsenals and no vests that would offer any form of ballistic protection
I like to give the units stuff that usually isnt used like water bottes, softdrinks, food, ropes, extra flashlights cigarettes etc. like none of that really does anything if you dont have some survival mechanics enabled but it increases teh immersion when you like go through someone's backpack to find something or check a corpse for stuff.
I've watched several "how to " do this vids on factions and you explain the export part of it the best - the links should help too. I'll make sure and give you credit when I can successfully share a faction to Steam and as always thanks so much for taking the time to share!
This is exactly what I was hoping for. I was thinking of setting up a Kaiserreich inspired OP with some friends and I've hit a stonewall with making and saving factions in ALiVE's ORBAT creator.
I just love the background music! Very nice Tutorial for creating my own factions. I always spend the most time making factions in the Virtual Arsenal and than I copypasted them on OPFOR Units.
There being 200 different mods for custom factions is exactly why I'm here! I'm going to use this to make a nice SCP Foundation-themed faction that uses mostly vanilla and probably CUP assets! Thanks for this video!
This is the first video I’ve been able to actually understand what was going on. You did a really good job commentating and making it a fun whilst still educational video for someone with me and my mental illnesses to be able to sit through. It may not be a whole lot to you but I liked / subbed on a few accounts so to maybe boost your vid in the algorithm, your other vids are also really funny too :)
Thought I'd add this as it's happended to myself in the past. If your orbat interface closes itself (it can happen randomly as a bug) you can use this code in the debug editor, execute local and then it will re-open the interface: [] spawn { sleep 2; ["openInterface", "Faction_Editor"] call ALiVE_fnc_orbatCreatorOnAction; };
Been doing this for a while already got some stuff up on workshop it was kinda hard to figure out but I can't wait to see what other stuff gets added with all the new faction mods and because you are more popular more people will get into this...... can't wait (Ps already doing Wall Street goons)
Okay, so I made my own faction, but decided, after some days, to tweak the loadouts a bit. So I import the config and remake it, but everytime I click "save changes" it just doesnt actually do that, since when I go back to edit the loadout, its the same, as if I didn't change anything. Help bitte
Unfortunately on each video about Orbat creator, They never show where to place the pbo file and you forgot exactly the same part here in this video could you tell me where to place the faction pbo please?
once you have the .pbo in the @ modfolder as described - open the Arma3 Launcher and on the mod screen choose "+ Local Mod" at the top, navigate to your @folder and select it
If you are talking about how to add the local mod all you got to do is put the @customfaction folder into your desktop with the factions.pbo with the factions folder and go into the launcher go to the mods tap and under the mods tab it should say local mod click that find your @customfaction folder and click the import button or something like that or it might be select folder and active at mod like any other
Your tutorial is very thorough and well done, and I don't blame you for this. Unfortunately, ALiVE ORBAT does not do what it should. I have tried to copy the vanilla AAF and change them to Blufor in order to have them on the blufor side of Warlords multiplayer - did all that you did, exporte and made them a PBO, loaded that up in ARMA. Unfortunately, they still show up in the IND category. I'll try drongo's creator, see if that works. Thanks anyways. Left a well deserved thumbs up.
Best ALIVE Orbat tutorial out there, really helped me out. If I publish the factions I'm working on I will be sure to credit you. Having the sample mod folder was super helpful
What I really wonder, is there a way to control the randomization? E.g. I want my units to have 3 or 4 different, randomized helmets. So I'd like to pick the specific helmets that are allowed to appear randomly on their heads. Do you know anything about this?
Hey! I did all your steps in the video correctly and there were no issues until we reached the end where I had to use the PBO manager. Well for some reason the PBO manager came in a single text file that, when opended, displays gibberish text. So I found an old version (PBO manager 1.4, not the newest 1.4.7) but that one was unable to create a PBO version of my faction folder. It for some reason, there was no button that allowed PBO Manager to just turn my faction folder to a PBO, this may be due to me being in windows 11 but in the same time, windows eleven has a "more options" page which I have clicked, and PBO manager seems to be missing when given the extra options. I am unsure what to do currently and I am pretty stuck, and most of the tutorials I watch do not fix my problem
What i'd recommend for making kits easier; 3DEN Editor > Place down Unit > Customize ACE Arsenal kit > Open the BI Arsenal > Save the current kit as a BI Loadout > explode
Ey man, I'm having a problem with importing an existing Faction Unit ( 7:50 ). Whenever I try to import an EXISTING FACTION UNIT it is ALWAYS blank in the category and unit type. Yes, I changed the faction tab to already existing factions (CSAT, NATO, AAF, Looters, LDF, you name it) it always comes up blank for category and type.
When i try to launch the game with my custom mod it just says: File faction\Confiserie.cpp, line 1: /CfgGroups/WEST/B_DEHeer/: Missing '}' What should i do
I've tried it several times doing exactly as was instructed, but only managed to break the game and keep it from launching. How do I get the PBO file to be read by arma without it crashing? Where does the PBO file go? Why am I getting error messages when I try to export the full faction but not the cfg?
I never even got mine to load in but from another comment: "If you are talking about how to add the local mod all you got to do is put the @customfaction folder into your desktop with the factions.pbo with the factions folder and go into the launcher go to the mods tap and under the mods tab it should say local mod click that find your @customfaction folder and click the import button or something like that or it might be select folder and active at mod like any other" Hopefully it works for you but it didn't for me.
@WarIsHell thank you for this video but I have some questions here since I am trying to learn how to properly set up configs or find alternatives to create factions and put the in a mod for all kind of "game modes" I am creating for ArmA 3. Let me share the questions then: 1) Do I need ALiVE to use these factions after their creation? And if not, does the issue with ALiVE ORBAT Loadout override insists? 2) Is there a way to disable the randomization of the facewear of the units? (probably I will come up with more questions so, I will post them as I get them from the back of my head) Again though, thank you for explaining the process so we can create our own factions for our missions!
Idk if this is a good place to ask, but i have made my own faction, everything works like it should, but when i used it for DRO, some stuffs are missing like the scope on the rifle, or the medkit for the medics. Is there any solution to this?
ALiVE uses scripted loadouts that don't play well with DRO (at least not anymore). Don't know of a workaround beyond fixing them by hand every mission.
Tried making a faction the placement preview shows it was saved but it doesn't actually load the units correctly. It reverts back to the base 3CB unit I based it off, how do I fix this?
Hey question. How exactly would I make my soldiers keep the face wear I give them. I want to give my troops Blue Armbands but the Armbands are in the face wear category so they always disappear when I want to give them a pretty important feature to differentiate who they fight for.
How do you add a custom logo to your unit? Like when you hover over the units, theres a puzzle logo, I would like to add my own image, how can I do this? Ideally, I'd also like to add a custom emblem that all my units wear.
It didn't work, I followed all steps exactly, and when I loaded game with local mod enabled, it doesn't show up at all. It's not even in the faction menu anymore now that I reset game, so I would have to start from the beginning if I wanted to make the faction again.
Great tutorial! Explained more than an other ones I could find and help me figure out 2 days worth of issues. I have a question though. I made a custom faction with new groups and units, I then tested it in game and with the ALIVE system and it works. I then wanted to add additional groups and new custom units, when I export the faction and the CFGpatches it only gives me the new groups and units I made during the most recent session, if I create a PBO of it by itself it was a incomplete faction and errored out. I found a workaround by creating a new PBO and placing the second PBO into the addons folder in my custom mod folder. I effectively created two mods for 1 faction, while it works, is there a better way to go about it?
Did everything as instructed, but im having a issue where my factions only show up as compositions and not in the objects section of the editor. Anyone had a similar problem and found a fix?
this worked great, I only have one issue. I created multiple factions, and when launching with them selected the game only loads the last faction on the list so the others don't show up!!! any solutions?
Having an issue with making factions that align with Scion Conflict. I'm making the "Amalgamate Republic Lancer Corps" with 4 different factions. Each faction represents the infantry wearing different camo. I made an original base faction with the troops wearing grey/space camo. It worked just fine. I then made an arctic/snow version of the troops, copied the original faction, replaced the autogen and cfgpatches files while reusing the cpp and the PBO Prefix file. Even when both are loaded, the only faction that shows up is the one that was packaged into a PBO most recently. Do I need to use new files? Does the "autogen" file have to be called autogen? The factions are named differently as well. Any help appreciated thank you
Hey so im having an issue where when i go to save the CFGpatches and Autogen the file in the actual .ZIP doesnt update. ik its probably my fault but i dont know what step i skipped so maybe you can help?
Hello. I have a problem. Soon as I get in the editor and spawn a group of units, I get this error: '...is setunitloadout _loadout;[_this]call |#|CFP_main_fnc_randomizeUnit;reload _this}..." Error Undefined variable in expression: cfp_main_fnc_randomizeUnit The units I spawn aren't randomized properly and before that happened I used Alive Orbat Creator to make my own faction. I uninstalled the CFP mod and installed it again and it keeps showing again. Any ideas? Thanks in advance.
For sme reason i have som kind of error when i try to copy full faction And also even when i copied full faction to file, ArmA can't find the PBO file even though I already made 2 factions prior and It can't even find files to already existing mods.
How do I make my units wear facewear at all times? I want my units to wear balaclavas, so I set them in the arsenal, but when I save them they're not wearing the balaclava.
im having an issue where i can only use 1 faction I made using your mod template provided? ive made 3 using your template and only 1 seems to be working when I enable as a local mod
Silly question but would this be doable for Vindicta? I have a small group of people who I host for and would love to tweak some aesthetic stuff and infantry arms for them to use. I dont know if Id need to pre-0fill vehicles or anything either for that if youre familiar with it.
Do you use one orbat made faction at a time or do you have two custom factions fighting eachother? Whenever I try to load two factions I've made only one is usable in game.
How to fix the face options swapping on their own? I read on a forum that it will save what you pick but when I go to edit it it picks from either the scarfs or the shades
Is there a way to add a custom flag to your faction in the faction editor? There should be a blank flag option there, but I have no idea how to apply my custom textures to it.
I downloaded PBO manager but it doesnt show up when I right click to export my faction. Does anyone know what I can do, im on Windows 10 idk if that makes a difference
Hey man thanks for the vid! I have one question though, I made TWO custom factions and they work, but only one at a time. I used the zip. in your download. There any way to enable both factions at the same time?
@@WarIsHell does it need to be a pbo of the faction folder? I tested to see if I needed two pbo from the faction folder, 'faction' and 'faction 2' and that didn't work. Wouldn't let me keep it without the '2'
@@WarIsHell Just got it to work! I made another copy of the whole file and pbo and it worked. In essence, two copies of the whole pbo in the mod. Thanks for helping me out!
@@charleslawson6210 Hey I need some help, I'm confused. Whenever I put the faction and the pbo, it forces me to replace them. What did you do to have that not happen?
Can you put these custom made units into the alive spawn faction through AI Commander and so on? Or is this mainly for zeus and will not work with alive sense it’s technically not a support faction that’s listed in their spreadsheet?
I wish I could tell you, I've not used alive for anything than the orbat creator. That might be worth trying and coming back and letting us know what you find
Do you know wo to add logistics as well? I created my faction and played it with alive but is giving me 0 force pool, the units do not attack the objectives as well, am i missing some steps here?
Well as close as I get I can't figure out what I'm doing wrong so that the PBO manager can find the file to get it where the game can find it. PBO can't find Google drive for your template files. Your right about the ease of making the factions though, but getting them into the editor is a pain so far!
A tutorial walkin me through a topic i am interrested in from beginning to end, made by a person who doesnt drop random acronyms for mods every 2 seconds as he doesnt expect me to have a whole lot of modding experience and the video was not uploaded in 1855?! That pizzaman must have put the wrong type of mushrooms on my lunch again...
Good day, Mr. Hell. I'm having a little problem with the "convert to PBO" part... I exported both ".txt"s and I've downloaded the PBO manager. When I right click the "Faction" folder, it doesn't show me any convertion option. I've also tried to use the manager itself, but it doesn't allow me to drag and drop the folder or anything... Do you know what could happening here?? If anyone here in the comments know what's happening, I would also appreciate the help. o/
Good guide, how to add a flag to the faction (I know I should use it in ppa format), but I don't know where to put the file and what is the base directory.
Got an error about some checksum when exporting, had a really bad feeling i lost all my work as the paste had none of the units just groups, but i could do nothing but continue the tutorial and export to see if true. Lost all my units and groups are empty cuz of it, lots of hours wasted, feel pretty offput now. Thanks for the tutorial looks like it'd work beyond my shitty pc.
So I just tried this for myself and I am confused, so I tried it with just vanilla assets just to test it and when I try and make a unit for my new faction there is no types to choose from. Is their something I am missing like a mod or a save button.
so basically these custom factions made through alive orbat will then be compatible with alive? As in you could spawn this custom faction for the opfor side of an alive scenario? hope that makes sense.
One question, I was trying to make three factions but only one loads instead of the rest of the two, may I ask on how to make all of those three factions to load?
If I wanted to make multiple factions in the same mod how would I go about doing this? Also, where do I put the POB file once all of these steps have been followed?
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For those saying that there isn't pbo manager anymore, a simple google search would have yielded this link to get it.
pbo-manager-v-1-4.software.informer.com/1.4b/
Hi. What if I want to create two factions [blufor and opfor teams]? I try to make it using this tutorial but its work only for one faction.
I think the problem is the fact that the link is missing on the website for some reason. Not really sure what that means, but the download link is not there.
@@IVediano same problem dude, did you fix it?
@@nachu885 yeah. I make 2 mods. First have faction.pbo. Second have faction2.pbo.
@@IVediano You renamed only pbo files?
Nice, I can create my dream military In arma without spending months modeling and editing my own soilders in.
SAME
@@olejnik5165 I hope arma 4 has a easier way of making custom factions. Ngl I like our military and everything, but sometimes I want to add a new power to the game.
@@subjectc7505 Problem is most of the new factions you find on the steam workshop are either new special force units or they are cheap reskins of existing factions.
I searched up cartel sicario..... expecting to see some GR wildands type units and all that popped up were guys in looter or guerilla clothing with weak arsenals and no vests that would offer any form of ballistic protection
I like to give the units stuff that usually isnt used like water bottes, softdrinks, food, ropes, extra flashlights cigarettes etc. like none of that really does anything if you dont have some survival mechanics enabled but it increases teh immersion when you like go through someone's backpack to find something or check a corpse for stuff.
I've watched several "how to " do this vids on factions and you explain the export part of it the best - the links should help too. I'll make sure and give you credit when I can successfully share a faction to Steam and as always thanks so much for taking the time to share!
This is exactly what I was hoping for. I was thinking of setting up a Kaiserreich inspired OP with some friends and I've hit a stonewall with making and saving factions in ALiVE's ORBAT creator.
I just love the background music! Very nice Tutorial for creating my own factions. I always spend the most time making factions in the Virtual Arsenal and than I copypasted them on OPFOR Units.
That's how I started too but then realized if I need Zeus, it doesn't work as well and learned this
@@WarIsHell yep same.... Till' now I never figured it out how to get my units to Zeus... Anyways thanks for your work/help!
There being 200 different mods for custom factions is exactly why I'm here! I'm going to use this to make a nice SCP Foundation-themed faction that uses mostly vanilla and probably CUP assets! Thanks for this video!
This is gonna be so helpful you have no idea.
This makes it worth it
FILKINS!!!
DUDE YOU DON'T KNOW HOW BADLY I NEEDED THIS!!
Glad it could help!
This is the first video I’ve been able to actually understand what was going on.
You did a really good job commentating and making it a fun whilst still educational video for someone with me and my mental illnesses to be able to sit through.
It may not be a whole lot to you but I liked / subbed on a few accounts so to maybe boost your vid in the algorithm, your other vids are also really funny too :)
Don't play ARMA 3 but when I do I will watch this tutorial for custom factions.
Thought I'd add this as it's happended to myself in the past. If your orbat interface closes itself (it can happen randomly as a bug) you can use this code in the debug editor, execute local and then it will re-open the interface:
[] spawn {
sleep 2;
["openInterface", "Faction_Editor"] call ALiVE_fnc_orbatCreatorOnAction;
};
Been doing this for a while already got some stuff up on workshop it was kinda hard to figure out but I can't wait to see what other stuff gets added with all the new faction mods and because you are more popular more people will get into this...... can't wait
(Ps already doing Wall Street goons)
Yeah it will be cool to see if any faction is put up that this video helped make possible
Really good video, the export phase is what I have trouble with and you emphasized on that a lot more than other videos.
Okay, so I made my own faction, but decided, after some days, to tweak the loadouts a bit. So I import the config and remake it, but everytime I click "save changes" it just doesnt actually do that, since when I go back to edit the loadout, its the same, as if I didn't change anything. Help bitte
Very helpful. Im not sure what I was watching last time, but after watching this one Ive actually managed to get it to work.
more videos covering this subject is always welcome
YOU SERVIN' THE COMMUNITY NICELY
Love the Editor Tutorials. Keep it up, Snack!
Glad you like them!
When I right click the file, the PBO option doesn't show up. How would I make it show up? I'm on windows 11
Unfortunately on each video about Orbat creator, They never show where to place the pbo file and you forgot exactly the same part here in this video could you tell me where to place the faction pbo please?
once you have the .pbo in the @ modfolder as described - open the Arma3 Launcher and on the mod screen choose "+ Local Mod" at the top, navigate to your @folder and select it
Thank the lord you made this video. This is gonna bring my Zeus game to a new level.
Where do you put it in the files when you're done? I've gotten everything except that, and I don't know where the files need to go
If you are talking about how to add the local mod all you got to do is put the @customfaction folder into your desktop with the factions.pbo with the factions folder and go into the launcher go to the mods tap and under the mods tab it should say local mod click that find your @customfaction folder and click the import button or something like that or it might be select folder and active at mod like any other
@@dailypunch6249 Thank you! This really helped!
Your tutorial is very thorough and well done, and I don't blame you for this. Unfortunately, ALiVE ORBAT does not do what it should. I have tried to copy the vanilla AAF and change them to Blufor in order to have them on the blufor side of Warlords multiplayer - did all that you did, exporte and made them a PBO, loaded that up in ARMA. Unfortunately, they still show up in the IND category. I'll try drongo's creator, see if that works. Thanks anyways. Left a well deserved thumbs up.
you have to edit and get a new config name for them in the edit page. do it for all of the units and they will show up in the correct place :)
tedious but its the way i figured it out
Best ALIVE Orbat tutorial out there, really helped me out. If I publish the factions I'm working on I will be sure to credit you. Having the sample mod folder was super helpful
What I really wonder, is there a way to control the randomization? E.g. I want my units to have 3 or 4 different, randomized helmets. So I'd like to pick the specific helmets that are allowed to appear randomly on their heads. Do you know anything about this?
Hey! I did all your steps in the video correctly and there were no issues until we reached the end where I had to use the PBO manager. Well for some reason the PBO manager came in a single text file that, when opended, displays gibberish text. So I found an old version (PBO manager 1.4, not the newest 1.4.7) but that one was unable to create a PBO version of my faction folder. It for some reason, there was no button that allowed PBO Manager to just turn my faction folder to a PBO, this may be due to me being in windows 11 but in the same time, windows eleven has a "more options" page which I have clicked, and PBO manager seems to be missing when given the extra options. I am unsure what to do currently and I am pretty stuck, and most of the tutorials I watch do not fix my problem
same issue here man!
Great Video. Thanks. Is there a possibility to set a specific facegear without randomizing it?
Thanks man, excellent instructions.
Your the best love all your videos keep it up 🙏🙏
Why thank you!
What i'd recommend for making kits easier;
3DEN Editor > Place down Unit > Customize ACE Arsenal kit > Open the BI Arsenal > Save the current kit as a BI Loadout > explode
Ey man, I'm having a problem with importing an existing Faction Unit ( 7:50 ). Whenever I try to import an EXISTING FACTION UNIT it is ALWAYS blank in the category and unit type.
Yes, I changed the faction tab to already existing factions (CSAT, NATO, AAF, Looters, LDF, you name it) it always comes up blank for category and type.
Hi thanks much for this interesting and informative video about ALiVE Orbat Creator. Got it, Thanks.
@WarIsHell at 24:42 do those have to be hpp files or can notepad be fine? subbed btw
what do you do with the .pbo after you get it im so confused?
When i try to launch the game with my custom mod it just says:
File faction\Confiserie.cpp, line 1: /CfgGroups/WEST/B_DEHeer/:
Missing '}'
What should i do
I've tried it several times doing exactly as was instructed, but only managed to break the game and keep it from launching. How do I get the PBO file to be read by arma without it crashing? Where does the PBO file go? Why am I getting error messages when I try to export the full faction but not the cfg?
I never even got mine to load in but from another comment:
"If you are talking about how to add the local mod all you got to do is put the @customfaction folder into your desktop with the factions.pbo with the factions folder and go into the launcher go to the mods tap and under the mods tab it should say local mod click that find your @customfaction folder and click the import button or something like that or it might be select folder and active at mod like any other"
Hopefully it works for you but it didn't for me.
A slight problem I've been having on my end is that it won't save uniform, helmet, backpack, or facewear choice, dunno what's up with that.
Do you know if you can use this to create factions but then remove mod? Or does the mod NEED to be include in mod list. Thank you!
why can"t i get this to work?, i looked in the systems and modules? but i couldn't find it?
you need to download the alive mod
@WarIsHell thank you for this video but I have some questions here since I am trying to learn how to properly set up configs or find alternatives to create factions and put the in a mod for all kind of "game modes" I am creating for ArmA 3. Let me share the questions then:
1) Do I need ALiVE to use these factions after their creation? And if not, does the issue with ALiVE ORBAT Loadout override insists?
2) Is there a way to disable the randomization of the facewear of the units?
(probably I will come up with more questions so, I will post them as I get them from the back of my head)
Again though, thank you for explaining the process so we can create our own factions for our missions!
I know this video is three years old but, when I place down the ALiVE module it just comes up with a green screen with black bars.
Idk if this is a good place to ask, but i have made my own faction, everything works like it should, but when i used it for DRO, some stuffs are missing like the scope on the rifle, or the medkit for the medics. Is there any solution to this?
ALiVE uses scripted loadouts that don't play well with DRO (at least not anymore). Don't know of a workaround beyond fixing them by hand every mission.
@@shatara42 Yeah i figured that. That sucks since ALIVE makes it easier compared to Drongo's Generator. Oh well, thanks for the answer
Great job thanks for making this!
Is there a trick to adding drones? It seems you can't use just any crewman to man them and you can't just leave them empty.
Tried making a faction the placement preview shows it was saved but it doesn't actually load the units correctly. It reverts back to the base 3CB unit I based it off, how do I fix this?
Hey question. How exactly would I make my soldiers keep the face wear I give them. I want to give my troops Blue Armbands but the Armbands are in the face wear category so they always disappear when I want to give them a pretty important feature to differentiate who they fight for.
You just give them it, it fixes in 3den editor, so don't worry, in Alive it's visually random
@@nachu885 Thanks mate, your a legend
How do you add a custom logo to your unit? Like when you hover over the units, theres a puzzle logo, I would like to add my own image, how can I do this?
Ideally, I'd also like to add a custom emblem that all my units wear.
It didn't work, I followed all steps exactly, and when I loaded game with local mod enabled, it doesn't show up at all. It's not even in the faction menu anymore now that I reset game, so I would have to start from the beginning if I wanted to make the faction again.
Great tutorial! Explained more than an other ones I could find and help me figure out 2 days worth of issues. I have a question though. I made a custom faction with new groups and units, I then tested it in game and with the ALIVE system and it works. I then wanted to add additional groups and new custom units, when I export the faction and the CFGpatches it only gives me the new groups and units I made during the most recent session, if I create a PBO of it by itself it was a incomplete faction and errored out. I found a workaround by creating a new PBO and placing the second PBO into the addons folder in my custom mod folder. I effectively created two mods for 1 faction, while it works, is there a better way to go about it?
Did everything as instructed, but im having a issue where my factions only show up as compositions and not in the objects section of the editor. Anyone had a similar problem and found a fix?
Does progress save at all when making this? or do you have to do everything right then and there?
this worked great, I only have one issue. I created multiple factions, and when launching with them selected the game only loads the last faction on the list so the others don't show up!!! any solutions?
Having an issue with making factions that align with Scion Conflict. I'm making the "Amalgamate Republic Lancer Corps" with 4 different factions. Each faction represents the infantry wearing different camo. I made an original base faction with the troops wearing grey/space camo. It worked just fine. I then made an arctic/snow version of the troops, copied the original faction, replaced the autogen and cfgpatches files while reusing the cpp and the PBO Prefix file. Even when both are loaded, the only faction that shows up is the one that was packaged into a PBO most recently. Do I need to use new files? Does the "autogen" file have to be called autogen? The factions are named differently as well. Any help appreciated thank you
Hey so im having an issue where when i go to save the CFGpatches and Autogen the file in the actual .ZIP doesnt update. ik its probably my fault but i dont know what step i skipped so maybe you can help?
Hello. I have a problem. Soon as I get in the editor and spawn a group of units, I get this error:
'...is setunitloadout _loadout;[_this]call
|#|CFP_main_fnc_randomizeUnit;reload _this}..."
Error Undefined variable in expression: cfp_main_fnc_randomizeUnit
The units I spawn aren't randomized properly and before that happened I used Alive Orbat Creator to make my own faction.
I uninstalled the CFP mod and installed it again and it keeps showing again. Any ideas?
Thanks in advance.
For sme reason i have som kind of error when i try to copy full faction And also even when i copied full faction to file, ArmA can't find the PBO file even though I already made 2 factions prior and It can't even find files to already existing mods.
Hey bro, how do you pre-set up their formation using alive? I hate to drop them and settle their formation manually. 😅
How do I make my units wear facewear at all times? I want my units to wear balaclavas, so I set them in the arsenal, but when I save them they're not wearing the balaclava.
This is a bug right now but when you actually spawn them in they where what you actually set
im having an issue where i can only use 1 faction I made using your mod template provided? ive made 3 using your template and only 1 seems to be working when I enable as a local mod
same bro
Try changing the name of the faction folder before you pack it as a pbo. Let me know if that works.
@@its_koko_koko it works
@@nachu885 Glad to hear it!
Hmmm. got an error when I went to run it with the new PBO.
ErrorMessage: File faction\autogen.hpp, line 0: '.': '*' encountered instead of '='
Silly question but would this be doable for Vindicta? I have a small group of people who I host for and would love to tweak some aesthetic stuff and infantry arms for them to use. I dont know if Id need to pre-0fill vehicles or anything either for that if youre familiar with it.
I've downloaded the PBO manager, it will open up and everything, but it won't let me pack anything into a pbo. What do I do?
Do you use one orbat made faction at a time or do you have two custom factions fighting eachother? Whenever I try to load two factions I've made only one is usable in game.
Did you ever figure this out? I have this issue as well
@@ryankluge6785 You need to place the pbos of both factions into a single addons folder to load them as one mod
I'm having problems with two or more faction mods being loaded at the same time, only one shows up, any possible solutions?
How to fix the face options swapping on their own? I read on a forum that it will save what you pick but when I go to edit it it picks from either the scarfs or the shades
I love the tutorial but i was wondering if there was a way to add the faction to zuse?
Is there a way to add a custom flag to your faction in the faction editor? There should be a blank flag option there, but I have no idea how to apply my custom textures to it.
I downloaded PBO manager but it doesnt show up when I right click to export my faction. Does anyone know what I can do, im on Windows 10 idk if that makes a difference
try downloading Arma 3 Tools off steam and using the Addon Builder instead
Hey man thanks for the vid! I have one question though, I made TWO custom factions and they work, but only one at a time. I used the zip. in your download. There any way to enable both factions at the same time?
I think what you need to do is put two .pbos in your addons folder
@@WarIsHell okay I'll do that for sure
@@WarIsHell does it need to be a pbo of the faction folder? I tested to see if I needed two pbo from the faction folder, 'faction' and 'faction 2' and that didn't work. Wouldn't let me keep it without the '2'
@@WarIsHell Just got it to work! I made another copy of the whole file and pbo and it worked. In essence, two copies of the whole pbo in the mod. Thanks for helping me out!
@@charleslawson6210 Hey I need some help, I'm confused. Whenever I put the faction and the pbo, it forces me to replace them. What did you do to have that not happen?
Can you put these custom made units into the alive spawn faction through AI Commander and so on? Or is this mainly for zeus and will not work with alive sense it’s technically not a support faction that’s listed in their spreadsheet?
I wish I could tell you, I've not used alive for anything than the orbat creator. That might be worth trying and coming back and letting us know what you find
They'll work just fine to use with the virtual AI system
Do you know wo to add logistics as well? I created my faction and played it with alive but is giving me 0 force pool, the units do not attack the objectives as well, am i missing some steps here?
Well as close as I get I can't figure out what I'm doing wrong so that the PBO manager can find the file to get it where the game can find it. PBO can't find Google drive for your template files. Your right about the ease of making the factions though, but getting them into the editor is a pain so far!
to update my own comment - it was and is a lot easier once you do it a few times - the template was the real key so thanks again and again!
How did you pack it into a PBO?@@royvoss5794
A tutorial walkin me through a topic i am interrested in from beginning to end, made by a person who doesnt drop random acronyms for mods every 2 seconds as he doesnt expect me to have a whole lot of modding experience and the video was not uploaded in 1855?!
That pizzaman must have put the wrong type of mushrooms on my lunch again...
Well i should make the algerian peoples national armed forces but with nice tutorial good job keep up
tried changing a faction from blufor to independent and it wont work, anyideas? followed all the steps
Good day, Mr. Hell. I'm having a little problem with the "convert to PBO" part... I exported both ".txt"s and I've downloaded the PBO manager. When I right click the "Faction" folder, it doesn't show me any convertion option. I've also tried to use the manager itself, but it doesn't allow me to drag and drop the folder or anything... Do you know what could happening here?? If anyone here in the comments know what's happening, I would also appreciate the help. o/
I have the same problem
Good guide, how to add a flag to the faction (I know I should use it in ppa format), but I don't know where to put the file and what is the base directory.
Is it possible to create new tanks through this, or are all the ranks based on the ArmA presets?
Quick question, once I pack the PBO where to I copy it?
Dumb question-how do you get that PBO template? Is it just a template that you created and then when you save it it has all the right files?
so where can you find the files??????????? i export to nothing. i don't have custom factions and i don't have any idea where it would be located.
I don't have PBO Manager in my dropdown, any way to fix this?
Quick question, after I exported the full faction, my Arma crashed, is there a way to load up the faction again so I can generate the CFG?
Got an error about some checksum when exporting, had a really bad feeling i lost all my work as the paste had none of the units just groups, but i could do nothing but continue the tutorial and export to see if true. Lost all my units and groups are empty cuz of it, lots of hours wasted, feel pretty offput now. Thanks for the tutorial looks like it'd work beyond my shitty pc.
To my knowledge I've done everyhing right, but it still doesn't show up in the factions. Is it because I placed it on my D drive?
Hi if i want to make more than one faction do i just need to pack all the PBO into the addons @customfaction folder ?
I got a problem when I right click to make folder into pbo but there is no PBO option on it. how can I fix it TwT
So I just tried this for myself and I am confused, so I tried it with just vanilla assets just to test it and when I try and make a unit for my new faction there is no types to choose from. Is their something I am missing like a mod or a save button.
I have seen that that too I don't know why they don't show up sometimes
Orbat is dead in the latest version, devs confirmed
@@MajorBoggie still works
Try using 2035 nato when ur selecting the type to choose
@@mcap-jettison2214 Thank you for replying to my post but I am sadly not able to download the other half of the mods required to do this method.
PBO manager is gone.... and I found one online but I cant figure out how to pack it.
so basically these custom factions made through alive orbat will then be compatible with alive? As in you could spawn this custom faction for the opfor side of an alive scenario? hope that makes sense.
You know, I've never used them for anything with Aliva after the fact.
@@WarIsHell I will see about trying to test it out!
everytime i open the game it errors and says Cfgpatches already mined? what to do
I think the edit loadout is bugged, whenever i press save changes it just reverts to the previous loadout
I am creating an Alpha Group faction. How do i make them all have white faces?
Apparently only one of my factions works, how do i fix this?
One question, I was trying to make three factions but only one loads instead of the rest of the two, may I ask on how to make all of those three factions to load?
Now i can make my true clone wars dream
If I wanted to make multiple factions in the same mod how would I go about doing this? Also, where do I put the POB file once all of these steps have been followed?
Did all the steps but whenever I restarted the game it didn't pop up. It also didn't save for some reason.
How would I randomize the loadouts of units?
the SPBOFIXS and config.cpp didn't appear, help pls