How to set up a squad in dayz/arma (EASY) Tutorial

[SkyCatan 4]

HOW TO: Make a squad in DAYz/ARMA2 with a logo! for free!

A while ago I posted this pic on the Dayz reddit http://imgur.com/7Dok8 People responded well and

wanted a step by step tutorial on how to form a squad and get logos in game. So OP delivers;

First, contact your squad mates. Get them to go ingame for their PlayerID number listed in the

Player profile on the main menu (the menu before you choose a server). Write all that down!

how to find PlayerID

• http://imgur.com/a/TPQVC#4

Optional

 each player is given a "remark" in game. The player can write something funny, witty,

introspective, or the squad leader can give them something embarrassing. Since you are getting

them to retrieve the PlayerID you might as well get them thinking what they want.

After that lets get technical. Open up Notepad and copy paste the following

<!ELEMENT squad (name, email, web?, picture?, title?, member+)>

<!ATTLIST squad nick CDATA #REQUIRED>

<!ELEMENT member (name, email, icq?, remark?)>

<!ATTLIST member id CDATA #REQUIRED nick CDATA #REQUIRED>

<!ELEMENT name (#PCDATA)>

<!ELEMENT email (#PCDATA)>

<!ELEMENT icq (#PCDATA)>

<!ELEMENT web (#PCDATA)>

<!ELEMENT picture (#PCDATA)>

<!ELEMENT title (#PCDATA)>

<!ELEMENT remark (#PCDATA)>

YAY! good job you. let us click File>Save As and save the file as squad.dtd

• http://imgur.com/a/TPQVC#3

Next the big one the squad.xml file once again open up notepad and copy paste!

<?xml version="1.0"?>

<!DOCTYPE squad SYSTEM "squad.dtd">

<?xml-stylesheet href="squad.xsl" type="text/xsl"?>

Next... Go through each line and change anything with ! ! being sure to delete the exclamation points

when done, Pretty straight foreword if you read it line by line.

<squad nick=" !Enter Squad abbreviation! ">

<name> !Enter Squad Name! </name>

<web></web>

<picture> ! This must match the logo you will make later .paa ! </picture>

<title> ! Enter Squad Title (abbreviation) !</title>

This is your header for the squad.xml It has basic squad stuff like name and title. Next we have

to input each players information with the following code. (Make one of these for yourself and

everyone else that plays with your squad!)

<member id=" ! PlayerID !" nick=" !Player name! ">

<name> !Player name ! </name>

<icq> !Player's Screen name !</icq>

<remark> !Player's Remark! </remark>

</member>

The icq tag can be just N/A for used for the forums of a squad or just AOL or MSN messenger w/e

End the whole thing with;

</squad>

By itself on the last line. Here is a rough idea of what it should look like;

• http://imgur.com/a/TPQVC#5

Now File>Save As again and this time make it squad.xml

Go to dropbox.com and get yourself an account and upload both the squad.xml and squad.dtd into

your PUBLIC folder (important).

After it has uploaded right click on the squad.xml and click copy public link

• http://imgur.com/a/TPQVC#0

Cheers! You have a squad now. Awesome, you could stop here if you would like. Get your entire squad to copy paste the dropbox public link into their player profile.

But everyone wants to have a logo so let us now do the hard part.

Go download http://www.gimp.org/

GIMP is Awesome and complex so lets do it the easy way. File New and setup a 256x256 px image

with a transparent background.

• http://imgur.com/a/TPQVC#1

Now draw to your hearts content (Here is my crappy heart with some sparks

• http://imgur.com/a/TPQVC#2)

Export your file to a TarGA. Making sure to UNCHECK the RLE compression box once you hit export

Go Download Texview http://www.armaholic.com/page.php?id=1563 (scroll down to FTP)

open your new Targa file in texview and bask in its glory. There are four dropdown boxes in the

texview main window. Click the upper left select RBGA. In the box under RBGA select DXT1

• http://imgur.com/a/TPQVC#6

Now save that as a paa and YOUR DONE

Upload the PAA to the same directory in your dropbox.com Public folder where the squad.xml is and

Boom Gratz!

ENJOY

TL;DR Why are you reading the TL;DR? this is a step by step guide...

[klesh 2423]

[SkyCatan 4]

did you make it?

[klesh 2423]

did you make it?

 

 

Yup.  The Ghostbusters have been rolling with a squad .xml for several months now.  :thumbsup:

[SkyCatan 4]

do you think i can join??:)