question on MP characters

[Mooky Guy 0]

Is it possible to make all the specialists into multiplayer characters to be used at once? As far as I can tell there are only 4 slots - rifleman, demo, support, sniper. Is there anyway we can include 2-3 different skins/characters for the riflemen slot, 2-3 for the demo slot...etc?

For example, can I play a mission with Ramirez, Cohen, Gordon for MP riflemen, while having munz and osadze as support?

[jay316 0]

i believe it is possible, hx5 added several MP chrs, check out how they did it in that mod by adding extra mp actors using different chr models.

[element11 0]

Yes you can but you need to make a new mod, and make the atr files, and instead of using ica_us_rifleman.chr use for instance buzz_gordon.chr in the atr files. THen put those in your actor folder and name them rifleman01.atr etc.

[Mooky Guy 0]

alright - sweet deal thanks. Now that I have that settled is it possible to employ your team in multiplayer (team backups) the same way you could in quick mission mode? IE create your squad with gordon, ramirez and cohen with certain weapons?

[Mooky Guy 0]

On second thought..it doesnt work. I can't get it to run the hx5 does. So basically is it possible to be able to put all of the specialists in at once in multiplayer on the same team? Sorry these questions are very repetitive.

[element11 0]

Yes it is possible to put those chr files in multi, but its a different and slightly more complicated process. What you need to do is take the specialists you want and find the chrs. Then go to your mod folder, and in the actor folder, make a new folder called "MP actor files". Within that folder create 4 new folders called platoon 1, platoon 2, platoon 3, and platoon 4. These will be the folders for the atr files for green red blue and gold teams. Now make a copy of the different chr's you want for each platoon ( you may want different chr's for each platoon, like in my swatmod, i have terrorists and swat officers on different teams). Name them anything. For example : platoon1_rifleman.chr. You dont need the _a and _b files for multiplayer though. Put those in your character folder. Now fire up igor and go to actor editor. Make 1 atr file for each rifleman, sniper etc for each platoon. Put the platoon 1 atrs in the platoon 1 folder we made earlier, and repeat for the other 3 folders. Make the atr file like you would in single, but for all 4 LOD's, use the one chr for each. Save the atrs like this: Your prefix will always be mp. the middel will be plt1 (or change the number depending on the platoon) and the end will be asl, dem, hvywep, or snip.

Example

mp_plt3_asl.atr

or mp_plt4_hvywep.atr

Hope this helps, if you have any further questions, post here or PM me.