Cannot Load Intro

[Sniper_Kyle]

I could find no better place for this.  This thing happened awhile back and I dont know what to do.  It seemed that once I started downloading unofficial addons, I cant view most intros because it says i need some addon that I have downloaded.  This happens even if I know that the mission does not need that addon.  I know others have this prob cause I seen ppl complain online.  PLZ HELP!


Cheers,
     Sniper_Kyle ;D

[Chris Death]

When it says:
cannot load mission - missing addon: addon_name

you can do the following:

Variant a:

you already know reckon the addon it tells you by that message

goto "solution"

Variant b:

write down the missing addon shown in the message

open your flashpoint.rpt file

start a search for the addon, mentioned in the error message
you should find something like: addon_name in name_of_pbo


#solution

remove the addon from your addons folder
restart the game
watch the intro

#work-around

don't watch the intro
sorry, but the fault is in the addon's dependencies, and unless
you know how to modify the addon, you can't do anything
except: reporting it to the maker of the addon and hoping that
he'll fix it.

~S~ CD

[Sniper_Kyle]

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[Chris Death]

Sniper_Kyle

it shouldn't be that big problem like your smileys describe, as
for the time of playing that mission you don't need the addons,
which are causing such errors.

Leave them out of your game for that mission and put them in
later again, if you want to use 'em. Off course you'll need to
restart your game again.

~S~ CD

[Sniper_Kyle]

Yes CD I know that WOULD be easy but I have already tried that and it did not work.  I have (just about) all of my addons in mod folders except for island anims which are in the Addons folder.  When I try to start a mission it says that the addon of which I have ONCE USED is in it.  I unpbo the mission and I find that the addon name is in the ADDONS AUTO section.  

Cheers,
   Sniper_Kyle

[Chris Death]

 

Well this makes things mucho easier then  

If the addon isn't used in that mission anymore, just
remove it manually by editing the mission.sqm from the addons
and/or auto addons section - load it up into the mission editor -
save it again by export to sp or mp - and whooop it should be
gone.

P.S: to make sure it isn't used anywhere in that map, you should
also preview the mission once before exporting it.

Also note that you cannot overwrite an already existing pbo file
when exporting the mission, but when changing the mission name at exporting you need to take care that you don't change
the mission name different to your sqm version, or there wouldn't
be scripts briefings or other files than the sqm become exported.

Therefore you need to remove/delete/backup the previous pbo
file before doing so.

hope this helps

~S~ CD

[Sniper_Kyle]

OK i dont think you understand the problem.  Its not like the mission designer accidentally did not take out unused addons or anything.  It is that EVERY MISSION I DOWNLOAD has addons that I know are not in there!  I get really mad at this because the only way to play a mission and see an intro on my OFP, i have to unpbo it and bring it to the mission editor, hit intro, and it works for some strange reason by doing that.


Cheers,
   Sniper_Kyle ;D