Well.. congratulations?

You've managed to break it!

Don't know how or what you did that I somehow didn't catch in my hours and hours of testing.

If it works then I guess we can just leave it there, but somehow the exportation process botched the ordering of the unit declarations.

I won't have much time in the coming days, but I can try to get a glimpse.

I appreciate you thinking it was your tool, but probably not man.

I tried very hard to make it unbreakable, so if you broke it, I failed :\

It's already in the dl I posted days ago.

@JD_Wang So last night I was trying to make a decent (in my eyes) Taliban OPFOR faction just from CUP, and then make civilians to go along with them.

I exported the Taliban faction, then built the civilian faction, exported that, made them both into PBO's as normal, but the thing is whenever I startup the editor I only see 1 or the other, never both. It's like 1 stops the other from loading.

This is probably a very simple issue for someone that knows things about configs and creating factions, but I am not that person. Can anyone tell me what's going wrong and what I can do to solve it (or at least point me in the right direction)

Thanks

You need to change the name on the CfgPatches from "testmod" to the name of each mod.

Since you have both in there..both of which are considered..."testmod"....you only see one.

Change that and you're golden. FYI...if you use the newest ORBAT Spyder posted..he added the ability to export CfgPatches automatically

Then Yes. I've put in at least 6-8 hours each day for the last 3 days into this so please test the latest version as things have improved a lot. Everything should work just fine.

@ToTo With the latest workshop release I get this when trying to pack :
https://i.imgur.com/WWiwamP.png
The quad bike is the vanilla FIA one... And he can't read config.cpp?!? Wut?

This will be fixed in an upcoming hotfix. Stay tuned.

@Nichols On a different note...Spyder; I was wondering earlier today if there was a plan to simplify the output of factions or the ability to save your work in order to resume it without having to reload all the previous stuff. Similarly to how we can save a mission file and reload it to work in it without starting over from scratch. I have gotten very good at reloading and typing faction names and classnames in the last few days but honestly don't have as much time now due to work and would love to get some game time in soon.

Thanks for the hard work and feedback on some of my other issues.

Well normally you would just put your config inside an addon, load that addon and continue working. Obviously errors in the current build can prevent a proper export under certain conditions so that's not always possible. I can't import an exported config because parsing that in SQF would be suicide, but an SQF datastructured output that can be imported (but won't be usable in any other way) in the future is possible. It takes time though and right now there is other stuff to focus on (and time is hard to come by).

@imbazil. Restructuring RHS units literally takes 5 minutes now. Watch the videos Spyder posted. Simply highlight all of the "red" groups (RHS groups that dont work) hit edit then switch them to proper categories (infantry, motorized, etc.) That's it. Then just export the config, run it with RHS and the units will be configured for ALiVE. No need to change names, etc.

If you want to add other units, simply add them to the unit editor (new --> name unit --> import unit from whatever mod you use) then create a group for your new unit, export.

I'll post some of my newest orbats in the orbatron today. I have Russian Marines (VMF) fixed for ALiVE, as well as the RHS US Socom units.

Quick Note:

I've setup an automated build and upload system that I'll run whenever I make any changes. These should be considered developmental builds that may not be entirely stable (so don't spend 4 hours on a faction just to have it break on export, go slow and build up).

You may access these builds via this folder: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/sjqlreh2tzcu6y8/AABXiTS0rZu6Who4P3om3e1Ya?dl=0

(Also added to main post)

All build names are appended with the date they were created.
ex. November 30, 2016 --> 11302016

Maximum of 10 builds will be stored at one time.

I've also created a Slack channel for ORBAT Creator related discussions and sharing. Notifications of new builds will also be posted to this channel. If you wish to join, please start a private (between just you and me) forums thread and post your email inside.