Changing Loading Picture | Simple Way! (Dec 22 2014)

[Marshal]

Source: http://epochmod.com/forum/index.php?/topic/30224-changing-loading-picture-simple-way/

Hello and welcome to this topic!

Today i want to show you, how to change the Epoch LoadingScreen of the Mission.

What do you need is just a bit understanding of how you create own pictures. (Photoshop, .NET Paint, ...)

Tutorial:

First you gonna need a picture with the size of 1024x512.

The file-format should be .jpg because it is a very small format and the users don't need to download so much.

My own server-picture looks like this http://i.imgur.com/R92Gld5.jpg

After you've got your picture, make sure you unpacked the MPMission-Files from Epoch.

You can do this with Mikeros DePbo its called "Mikeros Eliteness", because the files are encrypted. (http://www.armaholic.com/page.php?id=19784)

You will receive a new folder where the Mission-Files are included.

Create a new one inside the folder and call it something like "customs, images, stuff, ...".

Put in the image file then,

Now you'll need to open up the "description.ext" and we need to change a small line. (loadScreen =)

Change the "loadScreen" variable to your directory where the image is placed. (loadScreen = "images\loadScreen.jpg")

You don't need to put the whole folder path in it, because the mission is the path where your image is located.

And if the mission is loaded, everything is using the local path of the mission, thats why you dont need to put a "C:\" in front.

Start you server and you got your own join screen!

I will add a video later, at the moment im on my netbook because im sitting in the kitchen.

Thanks for reading!

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"does the resolution need to be that low? I was using double that size in Arma 2.

I just realized it only puts it in a little box in the center, so bigger would be a waste. This was very helpful though, thank you very much."

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"you only need an image like 200x200"

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"in arma2 you have a full-screen-size loading screen...

in arma3 you only have the small picture..."