Hell Heli Project

A refactor of Dr StrangePete's work with some bugfixes and orchestration.

We will be using poetry to manage the python scripts.

mission orchestation

Assemble multiple missions, per map using the same codebase.

hell_heli_refactored folder

Edit this one, not the mission folders.

setup_missions

Create the mission folders and appropriate symlinks.

poetry.exe run setup_missions

memetext

Handle writing the map names on the images

• image should be 1024 x 512 png
• Top text will be map name, fontsize 120
• Bottom Text will be "Hell-Heli Refactored" in fontsize 60

Generate the base image used by each map

poetry.exe run produce_images --name Reshmaan

older scripts

poetry.exe run memetext --image images/wreck.png  --bottom "hell-heli refactored" --fontsize 60 --save wreck2.png

Generate the map specific image, later converted to .paa for the mission

poetry.exe run memetext --image images/wreck_overview.png --fontsize 120 --top "Weferlingen (Winter)" --save images/weferlingen_winter.png

Generate the .jpg used for workshop preview, but it in c:\images for simplicity

poetry.exe run memetext --image images/wreck_overview.png --fontsize 120 --top "Weferlingen (Winter)" --save /c:/images/weferlingen_winter.jpg

imagetopaa

• https://store.steampowered.com/app/233800/Arma_3_Tools/
• https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/ImageToPAA
• https://paa.gruppe-adler.de/

C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Arma 3 Tools
C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Arma 3 Tools\ImageToPAA

ImageToPAA --help

$ ./ImageToPAA.exe --help
Arguments used:
'--help'
Usage:  pal2pace [options] <source> [<destination>]

Options:
        -size=<n>

vt7 example

./ImageToPAA.exe c:/images/vt7.jpg /c:/images/vt7.paa

publishing to workshop

• https://arma3.com/workshop101
• https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Publisher
• https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Arma_3:_Publisher
• https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/sdk/uploading