Arsenal/SaveLoad - Add way to save & load arsenal loadouts and placed objects to user profiles instead of clipboard

astruyk / Ares

An arma3 mod that adds some extra functionality to Zeus

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Arsenal/SaveLoad - Add way to save & load arsenal loadouts and placed objects to user profiles instead of clipboard #106

Open astruyk opened 9 years ago

astruyk commented 9 years ago

I think we could save them in the user profile or something, and then have the user choose from a list of the previously saved items.

So you'd have a button in the 'Copy' dialog that would be something like 'Save As...' and that would let you enter a name. Choosing that and saving it would save it to the user's profile with that tag. Then, there would be a 'Load...' button on the 'Paste' that would allow you to choose from a list of previously saved values. It would automatically populate the textbox with the text you saved before.

... Not sure of an easy way to cleanup old items though. Maybe if the text was blank it would remove the item.

alexcroox commented 9 years ago

That would be good. Is there a way to construct a whole mission of ambient enemy/fortification/road blocks etc and save it to your profile? That way when you load in you could simply load that "mission" and be ready to go. I think currently it can do it for objects nearby, not entire map.

astruyk commented 9 years ago

I made a issue #147 for saving units instead of just static objects. When that gets implemented it'll benefit from this as well.

alexcroox commented 9 years ago

Nice! In the future will it be possible to have "whole map" in the distance drop down?

astruyk commented 9 years ago

Created #148

astruyk commented 9 years ago

It'd be nice if there was a way to choose to load items from an external location as well. The two big ones I can think of are:

Objects defined in a mission (like in the 'Custom Mission Objects', but specifically oriented towards prefab positions)
Objects defined in a script the user can hand-edit

This would make it possible to populate the user's config file with a bunch of bases without having to leave the game. In a futuristic world of awesomeness there might be a way to share these objects through dropbox or import them from the internet in some cool way. One can always dream :)