They're blank, yes. I've also just made a completely new faction from scratch to find out that I cannot export the units config. I can export groups, faction (first option), and cfgpatches but when it comes to any unit (all of them or trying to export them individually) or the "full faction" option I get an error code and nothing copied to the clipboard.

I can export any other faction just fine but for some reason I can't export the one I just made. Must be a conflict with a mod I used to make the unit or something, I don't know. That's 3 hours of my life wasted. :(

EDIT: I just tried removing everything from one of the units I created and seeing if it was a mod that was causing the problem, but I still could not export that individual unit when he had nothing on him. I think I'm just gonna have to cut my losses and start again with the old ORBAT creator.

I'll try re-downloading and let you know what comes of it. The problem stems from opening a new units' arsenal and saving the changes. I tried creating a new faction, adding a CSAT combat medic into the units, went into the loadout editor, exited without saving any changes, exported - it was fine. When I went back into the loadout editor, (I have ASR installed so the NVGs were placed in the units inventory somewhere after the arsenal loaded up, that's the only change that occured from the units original loadout) I clicked "save changes" and tried to export the unit and got the error.

Tried redownloading it, got the same result. I'm just gonna stick with the stable ORBAT, I followed the same steps to reproduce on the old ORBAT creator and everything's working fine.

Been running this latest dev version all evening and haven't seen any issues yet. "crosses fingers and hopes nothing bites him in the ass"

I have the same problem as dev614, with the same error message. The first time, I rebuilt my faction from scratch and could not export the result... Rather frustrating. Latest version changed nothing. I only have CBA, Alive and RHS active...

Oh. I understand the limitation, but from a user perspective, there's not much point using the ORBAT creator without addons, especially such a widespread one (but known for its oddities and weird custom scripts, agreed). No critic here, just user-oriented feedback : )
It does work fine without RHS.

I simply want to change the tank/apc groups of 2 factions to include only one vehicle, instead of 3 and figured this is the way to go?

Seems to be easy enough in theory. I loaded the takistani army from CUP, found the groups and removed the other squad members, hit export and copied it into my description.ext file. so far so good right?

Now when I do the same with "rhs_faction_usarmy_d" they don't have any entries under the regular white categories but instead in custom named ones colored red by ORBAT. I guess the addon creator is to blame for messing something up but seeing as the faction actually work in the regular Alive modules would there be another way of simply reducing the squad size/override of the desired groups? or does it work if I edit the ones in red? (it says not compatible with alive so i guess not)

Ah i see, I'm gonna send some feedback their way then. Thank you for the reply and for already fixing the "issue"!

a side question, when i specify groups in the description file, will those groups add themselves / override the vanilla group pool, or do I have to include all groups that I did not modify as well if I want them to spawn?

On a different note...Spyder; I was wondering earlier today if there was a plan to simplify the output of factions or the ability to save your work in order to resume it without having to reload all the previous stuff. Similarly to how we can save a mission file and reload it to work in it without starting over from scratch. I have gotten very good at reloading and typing faction names and classnames in the last few days but honestly don't have as much time now due to work and would love to get some game time in soon.

Thanks for the hard work and feedback on some of my other issues.

@ToTo With the latest workshop release I get this when trying to pack :
https://i.imgur.com/WWiwamP.png
The quad bike is the vanilla FIA one... And he can't read config.cpp?!? Wut?

I had a similar error the other day but we were able to change it by removing that turret line from the config.cpp. Also you may find that the extended event handlers will create another problem as well.

@SpyderBlack723 You have to define ALL of the groups, modified or not. Basically, just make the changes you want, then use the Full Faction export option. Then rip out everything in that file except what is in between

class CfgGroups {
...
};

And toss that in your description.ext (or a file it calls).

Thank you for all the help! =)

Absolutely loving this so far! One thing though is that when I edited the vehicles and added different units to them through the unit editor, I keep getting

Undefined base class "Turrets" errors?

@SpyderBlack723 Hotfix soon

Is it related to that undefined class "turrets" error? Just wondering if I should wait for the hotfix or start seeing if I can fix it :P

OK quick outline then question.

Using the VME PLA units I changed them around to fit the needs of a mission I am working on. They are exported and have been packed into a .pbo and are in an addon that is called in my arma3sync file list when I am working on my mission. However the units that I have made are not visible at all. Basically I trimmed them down to just a small sample of the original and only used the "woodland" and "Special Forces" group. I was going to start editing in another mod with vehicles but since the others are not visible in the editor or in the Orbat menu I am stumped now.

Any idea why the faction would not be seen?

Any help you guys can give would be greatly appreciated.

When you went back and re-edited the units, dd you import them from the config?

For anyone who wants to use UNSUNG with ALiVE here my compat mod.

USMC 1967 (UNSUNG_W_USMC_65) (3rd Battalion 4th Marines for the primary force, 3rd Force Recon Company for the SF force, supported by the 25th ID for ground vehicles, and the Navy for CAS aircraft (All marine used aircraft))

PAVN 1967 (UNSUNG_E_PAVN_67) (40th VC Battalion, 1st regiment main force, 4th VC Battalion, 12th Regiment Recon Force, VC Village Geurillas primarily for ground troops with some 8th Battalion 66th Regiment NVA and 4th Battalion 21st Regiment Recon and Dac Cong for their SF)

Civilians (UNSUNG_C)

UNSUNG ALiVE

@Opendome When you went back and re-edited the units, dd you import them from the config?

They are packed into a pbo and are loaded in my mod order. They should show up just like the other mods when i go into the editor regardless of importing via config.

Will do....going to be a little while before that happens but will let you know how it turns out.

OK I was talking with a buddy and he said to use this for each unit:

scope = 2;
scopeCurator = 2;

The Orbat Creator spit this code snippet out for each unit:

scope = 2;
scopeArsenal = 2;

Could that be why the units are not visible in the editor for when I am working on my mission?

New version of my UNSUNG ALiVE Compat!

UNSUNG ALiVE

Guys we just found what was wrong with my faction not showing up in the editor. It was brought to my attention that the ORBAT creator did not spit out a }; in the CfgPatches portion. It was exported as this:

class CfgPatches {
class SHG_PLA {
units[] = {
weapons[] = {};
requiredVersion = 1.62;
requiredAddons[] = {
"A3_Characters_F",
"A3_VME_PLA_Men"
};
author = "Nichols";
authors[] = { "Nichols" };

But now it works because I have it as this:

class CfgPatches {
class SHG_PLA {
units[] = {};
weapons[] = {};
requiredVersion = 1.62;
requiredAddons[] = {
"A3_Characters_F",
"A3_VME_PLA_Men"
};
author = "Nichols";
authors[] = { "Nichols" };

Hi mates !

Do you know why when i use my faction in solo all is good but when we are on multi every weapons disapear for this faction ?

@miogushi Hi mates !

Do you know why when i use my faction in solo all is good but when we are on multi every weapons disapear for this faction ?

I talked with spyder about this, hes going to look into a fix ;)

oh ! i m not alone :), so i ll just wait.

Thank you