LEA - Loadout Editor For Arma 2 Combined Operations & ACE 2

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Description:
LEA is a standalone application with goal to simplify the customisation of player's loadout and mission edition. The software uses a full graphical interface and maximum automatised processes to help mission-makers and team players waste as less as possible time in editing loadouts. To do so, LEA has the capability to read and rewrite mission.sqm as well as generate SQF scripts into ArmA 2 mission. The software is provided with @LEA addon for players to make their loadout at mission start-up with LEA whatever the mission running on server. LEA can also help ArmA 2 team play thanks to its capability to easily share user profiles and missions through FTP.

LEA has been developed foremost to run with ACE 2 for OA/CO. However LEA can be used without ACE 2 (see FAQ).


LEA for Players:
•Creation of an unlimited number of profiles see applicable ingame, at mission start.
•Many Weapon Addons supported, included ACE 2, ACRE, all Robert Hammer's pack and more.
•Possibility to share profiles by FTP, using LEA Client Interface.


LEA for mission makers:
•Edition of all units (playables & AI), of all side.
•Edition of vehicle cargos, ammunition boxes, and all objects having cargo in the mission.
•Usable with any unit and vehicle addon.
•Quick edition commands by using predefined profile or by quick creation.
•Edition of Name and Description units attributes.
•Extraction and Compression *.pbo (Windows only).
•Possibility to share missions by FTP, using LEA Client Interface.
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Use (as mission maker)

To best describe how LEA works, we create a mission in Arma 2 Editor, composed of 1 USMC Officer, 2 USMC infantery group, 1 UNO infantery group, 1 Bradley, 1 tent, 1 ammunition box see. We modify Name & Description attributes of the officer see and the mission ones see.

Download the sample mission here.


Import mission

Open LEA, in the Mission Folder, select Extract mission from .pbo and check the blank Import mission.sqm into editor. The message "Mission successfully extracted from pbo" appears. see. Use the command Import mission.sqm if the mission isn't in a pbo archive.


Attributes visualization

In the Mission menu, select Properties to see mission attributes. Left list contains the different units, listed by side and group. Select Switch unit type to switch between playable units, IA, or empty unit. Select Change Display to see Name , Description , Displayname & Classname unit attributes. In the sample mission, the USMC officer attributes are: Name: Officer Description: Peter Anderson Displayname: Officer Classname: USMC_Soldier_Officer.


Unit assignment

In order to edit unit loadout, You must attribute them a Name. Into unit list, ones indicated as "Not Assigned" don't have Name. This action can be made manually or automatically.

- Manual Assignment: double click on the unit and fill the field Name & Description. see

- Automatic Assignment: select unit then select "Auto assign units" into Mission menu. Select this unit/this group/this side to assign respectively this unit, all unit of this group, or all units of this side. see

In the example, the unit of group 1 and 2 of West side have been auto-assigned. The units of group 1 of Resistance side have been assigned manually. see


Note: Re-assignment operation leads to a modification of the mission.sqm file by LEA. If this mission is opened inside ArmA 2 Editor, you MUST reload it to take modifications into account.


Define Preferences

Into Mission menu, select Preferences. In the sample mission, select "ear-plugs", "PRC343", "Compass", "Map", "Bandage" et "Morphine" see.Selected objects are now added into all playable units loadouts of the mission. see


Edit loadouts

Loadout edition can be done manually or automatically with profile application:

- Manual Edition: Select unit and follow same process viewed into Create Profile

- Automatic Edition: Select unit then click on Apply profile. Select this unit/this group/this side to assign respectively this unit, all unit of this group, or all units of this side. see

Loadout edition acts on human unit, vehicule cargo, ammunition box, etc. In the sample mission, select "Empty" into Switch unit type, and add weapons into the ammunition box, the tent and the Bradley. see


Remark 1: If for an assigned unit (= having a field Name), you don't want to modify default loadout, check the box "Do not script this loadout" see. If you don't, unit loadout will be erased.

Remark 2: LEA can be used with any unit or vehicule addon. If a unit is not identified by LEA, its Displayname will be seen as "Unknown". Also LEA won't be able to dstinguish if unit is playable or if it is a vehicle. To do this you must select the "vehicle" button in order to fill in the vehicle cargo see.


Add/remove units

We add a UNO group into the sample mission with Name field like s5, s6, s7, s8 and a USMC unit with Name field "Captain" and Displayname "Billy the kid" to the unit "Officer" see. The mission is then saved into ArmA 2 editor. In LEA Mission menu select Refresh see. The unit list is now updated see.


Add loadouts to mission

1. After loadout edition, select Generate loadout.sqf into Mission menu.

2. Select the destination folder (default mission folder) then Open.

3. The message "Also insert call for loadout.sqf script into init.sqf?" appears. Select Yes to insert loadout initialization script call into init.sqf file. If it doesn't exist, it will be created automatically. see

4. A LEA folder is created. It contains: see

- script "loadout-init.sqf": call script loadout-multi.sqf or script loadout-solo.sqf (depending if the mission is multiplayer or solo).

- script "loadout-multi.sqf": initialize loadouts in case of multiplayer mission.

- script "loadout-solo.sqf": initialize loadouts in case of solo mission.

- file "missionname.lea.mission": this file contains unit loadouts into a format readable by LEA.


PBO archives managment

Into Mission menu, select Make mission.pbo. PBO archive is now managed into LEA's pbo folder. Select Explore pbos folder to open this folder into explorer. see


Share a mission

To share a mission use the same way as profile sharing. You can use LEA FTP client to directly share the file .lea.mission see and the PBO archive see.

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