{"name":"Overview.html","title":"Overview.html","type":"topic","url":"https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Overview.html","revid":364918,"updated":"2024-06-30T14:38:11Z","aliases":[],"markdown":"> [!NOTE]\n> **Arma 3:** Overview.html is obsolete in Arma 3; instead, use Mission Overview.\n\nThe *overview.html* is an optional file, which simply means the game won't crash without it, but it adds polish to your creative efforts. It appears on the notebook before you start a mission or campaign.\nWhen you click on a mission, on the right you see an overview, which is mostly comprised of a picture and one or two lines of text. Alternatively, you could de-PBO an existing mission and use its overview file as a template.\n\nThe overview applies to:\n\n- single missions,\n- a campaign, and\n- individual missions of a campaign.\n\nThe overview of a mission within a campaign is not visible until after you have played that mission. The intent of all overviews is to provide a brief idea of what the mission is about.\nThe keyword is 'brief', because space in the notepad is at a premium.\n\nVersion numbers and mission author details should really be kept to the *ReadMe.txt* file, but many authors choose to include this information within the overview for reference.\n\n### File Anatomy\n\n```html\n<html>\n<head>\n    <title>Overview or anything you like or nothing at all</title>\n</head>\n<body>\n    <h2 align=\"center\">YOUR WAR</h2>\n    <p align=\"center\"><img src=\"my_picture.jpg\" width=\"230\" height=\"170\"></p>\n    <p>a single sentence description</p>\n    <p>another sentence if you must</p>\n</body>\n</html>\n```\n\nThe three displayed elements of this html are:\n\n- A centered title\n- A centered picture\n- One or more sentence descriptions\n\nAlter colored content to whatever you desire.\n\n#### Centered Title\n\n**CAMPAIGN ONLY** - do not use this for missions.\n\nUsing this in missions has no ill effect, however the title is already displayed as part of the mission content and you are losing valuable space to repeat the same thing. h2 tags can be used to make the font bold.\n\n> [!NOTE]\n> Other document sources indicate this should be a header tag \"*Main*\".\n>\n> They never discuss it in the context of campaign overviews, only 'missions'.\n>\n> It is completely unnecessary and will mess up picture positioning if you use it.\n\n#### Default Title\n\nCentered default titles occur unconditionally for all missions. They do not appear for campaign overviews.\n\nThe title of the overview (not the html `<title>` above, the name of the mission this overview represents) comes from one of two sources:\n\n- The filename of the mission folder will be displayed e.g `Apples.Cain.pbo`, or\n- The briefingName= contained in the *mission.sqm* of the mission folder, written as follows:\n\n```cpp\nclass Intel\n{\n    briefingName=\"One Big Pineapple\";\n```\n\nIt would be rare for you to want the mission filename to be displayed. In order for it to work 'correctly':\n\n- the briefingName= must exist\n- the briefingName= must be different from the filename.\n\nThere is a \"bug\" in Operation Flashpoint where if the briefing name is identical to the primary name of the mission folder the mission folder is displayed.\n\n**Example:** folder name apples.cain (or apples.pbo.cain)\n\n```cpp\nbriefingName=\"apples\"\n```\n\n- results in the briefing name effectively being ignored.\nFor this reason, you will often see\n\n```cpp\nbreifingName=\"apples \"\n```\n\nwith an additional space to force correct display.\n\nOr, the name of the folder containing the mission has underlines or some other device to make it different.\n\n> [!NOTE]\n> Filename title is also displayed as a diagnostic aid if the `-campaign` cheat is used.\n\n#### Pictures\n\nMany people have trouble creating a good overview picture. Pictures must be 2^n pixels wide and 2^m pixels high (where n and m are whole numbers) keep in mind that very large pictures will not fit on the page.\nPossible dimensions (width and/or height) in pixels are:\n\n- 32\n- 64\n- 128\n- 256\n- 512\n- 1024\n\nMany simple HTML tags will work in the briefing.html or *overview.html*. For an added touch of professionalism, centre your text by adding the following above your main body of description.\n\n```html\n<p align=\"center\">\n```\n\nSee Overview Picture for a mission picture tutorial.\n\n### See Also\n\n- Briefing.html\n- OFPEC hosts a variety of tutorials on building a better briefing.","sections":[{"heading":null,"level":1,"markdown":"> [!NOTE]\n> **Arma 3:** Overview.html is obsolete in Arma 3; instead, use Mission Overview.\n\nThe *overview.html* is an optional file, which simply means the game won't crash without it, but it adds polish to your creative efforts. It appears on the notebook before you start a mission or campaign.\nWhen you click on a mission, on the right you see an overview, which is mostly comprised of a picture and one or two lines of text. Alternatively, you could de-PBO an existing mission and use its overview file as a template.\n\nThe overview applies to:\n\n- single missions,\n- a campaign, and\n- individual missions of a campaign.\n\nThe overview of a mission within a campaign is not visible until after you have played that mission. The intent of all overviews is to provide a brief idea of what the mission is about.\nThe keyword is 'brief', because space in the notepad is at a premium.\n\nVersion numbers and mission author details should really be kept to the *ReadMe.txt* file, but many authors choose to include this information within the overview for reference."},{"heading":"File Anatomy","level":3,"markdown":"```html\n<html>\n<head>\n    <title>Overview or anything you like or nothing at all</title>\n</head>\n<body>\n    <h2 align=\"center\">YOUR WAR</h2>\n    <p align=\"center\"><img src=\"my_picture.jpg\" width=\"230\" height=\"170\"></p>\n    <p>a single sentence description</p>\n    <p>another sentence if you must</p>\n</body>\n</html>\n```\n\nThe three displayed elements of this html are:\n\n- A centered title\n- A centered picture\n- One or more sentence descriptions\n\nAlter colored content to whatever you desire."},{"heading":"Centered Title","level":4,"markdown":"**CAMPAIGN ONLY** - do not use this for missions.\n\nUsing this in missions has no ill effect, however the title is already displayed as part of the mission content and you are losing valuable space to repeat the same thing. h2 tags can be used to make the font bold.\n\n> [!NOTE]\n> Other document sources indicate this should be a header tag \"*Main*\".\n>\n> They never discuss it in the context of campaign overviews, only 'missions'.\n>\n> It is completely unnecessary and will mess up picture positioning if you use it."},{"heading":"Default Title","level":4,"markdown":"Centered default titles occur unconditionally for all missions. They do not appear for campaign overviews.\n\nThe title of the overview (not the html `<title>` above, the name of the mission this overview represents) comes from one of two sources:\n\n- The filename of the mission folder will be displayed e.g `Apples.Cain.pbo`, or\n- The briefingName= contained in the *mission.sqm* of the mission folder, written as follows:\n\n```cpp\nclass Intel\n{\n    briefingName=\"One Big Pineapple\";\n```\n\nIt would be rare for you to want the mission filename to be displayed. In order for it to work 'correctly':\n\n- the briefingName= must exist\n- the briefingName= must be different from the filename.\n\nThere is a \"bug\" in Operation Flashpoint where if the briefing name is identical to the primary name of the mission folder the mission folder is displayed.\n\n**Example:** folder name apples.cain (or apples.pbo.cain)\n\n```cpp\nbriefingName=\"apples\"\n```\n\n- results in the briefing name effectively being ignored.\nFor this reason, you will often see\n\n```cpp\nbreifingName=\"apples \"\n```\n\nwith an additional space to force correct display.\n\nOr, the name of the folder containing the mission has underlines or some other device to make it different.\n\n> [!NOTE]\n> Filename title is also displayed as a diagnostic aid if the `-campaign` cheat is used."},{"heading":"Pictures","level":4,"markdown":"Many people have trouble creating a good overview picture. Pictures must be 2^n pixels wide and 2^m pixels high (where n and m are whole numbers) keep in mind that very large pictures will not fit on the page.\nPossible dimensions (width and/or height) in pixels are:\n\n- 32\n- 64\n- 128\n- 256\n- 512\n- 1024\n\nMany simple HTML tags will work in the briefing.html or *overview.html*. For an added touch of professionalism, centre your text by adding the following above your main body of description.\n\n```html\n<p align=\"center\">\n```\n\nSee Overview Picture for a mission picture tutorial."},{"heading":"See Also","level":3,"markdown":"- Briefing.html\n- OFPEC hosts a variety of tutorials on building a better briefing."}],"categories":["ArmA: Armed Assault: Mission Editing","Arma 2: Editing","Mission Editing","Operation Flashpoint: Editing"],"groups":["Mission Editing"]}