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Post by schutzthedoor on Oct 2, 2023 1:09:47 GMT -6
Hello all,
I have been searching for the night to see if the original two campaigns from Iron Front have been ported over to arma 3. As far as I know it has been done in the past (with compatibility fixes from a fellow named OMAC from what I've read) but any link to discussion posts on the campaigns are to the now defunct mission-repository forum.
Iron Front was actually my very first PC game I played way back in 2012, I loved the campaign despite the bugs but was never able to fully complete it. If anyone can help with getting a fixed version of the campaigns into IFA3 it would mean the world to me. Hope someone can help!
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Post by Gunter Severloh on Oct 12, 2023 22:32:12 GMT -6
This is the King's Audience scenario from the campaign that was fixed back in the day: If you want to port the campaign from Iron front, then you would need to locate those files in the game then convert them from .ifa to .pbo as Iron front's files are all using .ifa extensions.
Ideally its best to just get the IFA2 conversion and use those files, then you would be going from Arma 2oa Iron Front to IFA3, regardless either way the port should work, though you'll still need to convert the .ifa files to .pbo for it to work in
Arma 3. You would need IFA3 which requires CUP_Core Terrains too to make the campaign work, and using IFA3 which is basically the port of Iron Front the game to a standalone mod for Arma 3 would have all the assets that the campaigns would use to work. The campaigns should load up whether they get errors for certain file requires im doubting, but you might get an error, so it shouldn't be
that difficult to do. Again there isn't really much to do with the IF campaign in terms of the scenarios in the campaign as they are all on the same maps that IFA3 has, outside that, to enable it to function like a campaign in Arma 3 alone it would be setup in the form of a mod,
never done campaigns myself but been doing scenarios since 2001 since the first game.
Btw The Iron front Fan forums as i stated which were my forums, i had recreated them here but theres only so much i could port. But from the MissionRepository website which is down now, you can read my posts here on what the situation was for the forum:
Heres my post on why the Iron front Fan forums shut down:
heres my post on why the MissionRepository shut down:
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Post by schutzthedoor on Oct 21, 2023 0:44:44 GMT -6
Thanks for your help Gunter, I tried searching around for IFA2 (either lite or the version if you owned the original game) and I can find anywhere to download it! It's a shame since it was such a nice conversion mod, but even withSix is not around anymore it seems. If you happen to know where to find it please let me know. I reinstalled the original iron front and have been at work converting the ifa files to pbo. The campaign actually loads in the campaigns section of arma 3! I'm so blown away. Lots of errors warning for missing scripts, but I will find and patch them until it works  Will keep you posted on how it goes. If I get the campaign working, would it be worth posting on the forum here as a mod people can download, or would copyright stuff make that a bad idea? |
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Post by Gunter Severloh on Oct 22, 2023 2:01:55 GMT -6
Best ask Kju on IFA3 discord about sharing the campaign, so i would say no until you get his word on it,
as he would know if its allowed or not.
Campaign needs to be rebuilt for Arma 3 imo, you'll need to test play the campaign to see if it actually loads each scenario
and you can play it. As for IFA2 you wont find IFA2 anywhere.
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