I shouldn't have to ask this question...

[macguba]

Trigger

Activation:   Radio Alpha (or whatever)       Repeatedly
Text:   Savegame (infinite)
On Activation:    saveGame

[Dionysos]

It worked perfectly! New question! A bit more complicated this time, I think. I am making several missions with the same main characters to form a kind of storyline and of course I want the main characters to look the same in each mission. How do I decide which face a character has?

[macguba]

Use the command setFace or, better, setIdentity.    Working example in the Tutorial Mission.

[Dionysos]

Okay, now I feel like a complete nitwit again...
How do I get the tutorial missions and how do I use it? :'(

[Homefry31464]

The Editor's Depot mate, normally when macguba refers to something editing related it can be found there.  You can just search for 'tutorial', or something similar.  

[Dionysos]

Macguba, I have now gone through your excellent tutorial mission with the editor and I found the SetIdentity.
However, as far as I as understand, the SetIdentity's job is to name the main character "Harry Potter", which made me laugh BTW.
Being able to give characters certain names will be very very useful, but I still don't know how to change the appearance of the characters. In one of the missions, you follow a captain who has a certain face and head (moustache, big eyebrows etcetera). I didn't manipulate anything, he just got a random appearance.
Now, I want the captain to look the same in the following mission. How?

[macguba]

Use the setFace part of the setIdentity thing in the description.ext.    The numbers refer to the list of faces you can see if you click on your name at the top left of the Main Menu screen in the game.     You can also add spectacles or sunglasses.

[Dionysos]

 :'( :'( :'( :'(
Jeez, I really am worthless at editing like this!
I found the description.ext that came with the tutorial mission... Question is... How do I use it for my own missions?

[THobson]

Well you need to edit it so that it does what you want, and save it in your missions folder.  Go to C:\...whatever...\Operation Flashpoint\Users\Your name\missions\nameof your mission.  and save it there.

Edit:  One point to watch when editing description.ext is that changes only get brought in to your mission in the editor when you do a load.  So if you are editing your mission and editing description.ext at the same time you should keep saving and then reloading you mission in the editor.

[Dionysos]

Done and done! Now to the next problem... How DO I edit it so it does what I want???

[Dionysos]

Never mind, it was WordPad of course!

[THobson]

Do you mean how do you edit it or how do you know what you want it to do?

To edit it just open it in Note or Wordpad or some other text editor.

To know what to change then look at the turorials.

[THobson]

This exchange took place so quickly you might have missed an edit in one of my posts - so here it is again:

One point to watch when editing description.ext is that changes only get brought in to your mission in the editor when you do a load.  So if you are editing your mission and editing description.ext at the same time you should keep saving and then reloading you mission in the editor.

[Dionysos]

Thanks for the help!
Is there a way for me to see all the faces available? There is bound to be quite a lot of them...

[Planck]

The numbers refer to the list of faces you can see if you click on your name at the top left of the Main Menu screen in the game.

Planck