This article deals with the server.armaprofile, describing all the visual and difficulty settings in ArmA, like friendly and enemy AI quality, HUD, crosshair, 3rd person view, clock indicator and so on.
Naming
ArmA: .ArmAProfile
ArmA II: .ArmA2Profile
Arrowhead: .ArmA2OAProfile
Arma III: .Arma3Profile
Location
The file is location is different on each operating system:
Windows
The default profile named after the system user can be found at:
XP EN: c:\Documents and Settings\%UserName%\My Files\ArmA
XP DE: C:\Dokumente und Einstellungen\%UserName%\Eigene Dateien\ArmA
Vista/Win7: C:\Users\%UserName%\Documents\ArmA
User created profiles with a different naming are found at:
XP EN: c:\Documents and Settings\%UserName%\My Files\ArmA Other Profiles
XP DE: C:\Dokumente und Einstellungen\%UserName%\Eigene Dateien\ArmA Other Profiles
Vista/Win7: C:\Users\%UserName%\Documents\Arma - Other Profiles
Profile name
In there is a folder and within filename based on your profile name. For example: TheMonk.
\ArmA\Monk\Monk.ArmAProfile
You can define the profile to be loaded with the -name parameter.
Define different location
You can specify the location by using the -profiles parameter.
The name depends upon the -name parameter when starting the arma server.
Having started the server with "./server -name=server" (-profiles seems to be useless on Linux) you'll find it as a subfolder of your arma-server directory, for example "/usr/home/arma-server/server/server.armaprofile".
If you're not using the "-name" parameter, the default name "player" will be used and you'll find the ArmA profile in player/player.armaprofile.
Example Configuration File
The server has less values compared to a client version.
Server
Armed Assault
Annotation: Since 1.05 there are five more options available. Updates will follow as soon as their influence on the game is known.
class Difficulties
{
class regular // Displayed as "Cadet"
{
class Flags
{
// These are the settings. Set a value to 0 to disable the feature, or set it to 1 to enable it.
Armor=1; // Gives you improved body armor, tank armor etc
FriendlyTag=1; // Displays information on friendly units. ONLY WORKS WITH 'Weaponcursor=0', eg crosshair on.
EnemyTag=1; // Displays information on enemy units
HUD=1; // Shows you leaders location and your position in formation
HUDPerm=1; // Shows HUD permanently
HUDWp=1; // Shows Waypoints right after they're ordered to you
HUDWpPerm=1; // Shows Waypoints permanently
WeaponCursor=1; // Shows the crosshair for your weapon
AutoAim=1; // Enables auto aim when you're not looking through your weapon's scope. Also works with crosshair off
AutoGuideAT=1; // AT missiles will be automatically guided to their target. If 0, player has to lock onto the target.
3rdPersonView=1; // This turns 3rd(third) person view and group leader view on or off. Please never talk of this as "3D view" - ArmA is not an arcade game !
ClockIndicator=1; // Displays the clock indicator on the left of your screen when giving/receiving orders like "At 11 o'clock, enemy man at 200 meters"
Map=1; // Shows symbols for all objects known to your group on the map. This will NOT disable the map itself !
Tracers=1; // Displays tracers even of small arms that in real life would not have tracers
AutoSpot=1; // If you're close enough to an enemy, you'll report it without right-clicking
UltraAI=0; // Enables some kind of super AI that hears and sees more and has better tactics. This is for both friendly and enemy sides.
UnlimitedSaves=1; // Enables saving permanently. For single player missions. But you then can only load the last save state.
DeathMessages=1; // (1.09 and later) Displays "XXX was killed by YYY" messages in multiplayer
NetStats=1; // (1.09 and later) Enables the scoreboard functionality in MP
VonID=1; // (1.09 and later) When using VoN, display the name of the player speaking.
};
// These are the skills. Value may range from 0.000000 to 1.000000
skillFriendly=0.350000; // Friendly tactics skill
skillEnemy=0.350000; // Enemy tactics skill
precisionFriendly=0.350000; // Friendly shooting precision
precisionEnemy=0.350000; // Enemy shooting precision
};
class veteran // Most of the options from above are not available, because they're off by default.
{
// Also soldiers/vehicles die sooner upon damage (have no armor or body armor).
class Flags
{
HUD=1; // Shows you leaders location and your position in formation
HUDWp=1; // Shows Waypoints right after they're ordered to you
HUDWpPerm=0; // Shows Waypoints permanently
WeaponCursor=1; // Shows the crosshair for your weapon
ClockIndicator=1; // Displays the clock indicator on the left of your screen when giving/receiving orders like "At 11 o'clock, enemy man at 200 meters"
3rdPersonView=1; // This turns 3rd(third) person view and group leader view on or off. Please never talk of this as "3D view" - ArmA is not an arcade game !
Tracers=1; // Displays tracers even of small arms that in real life would not have tracers
UltraAI=0; // Enables some kind of super AI that hears and sees more and has better tactics. This is for both friendly and enemy sides.
DeathMessages=1; // (1.09 and later) Displays "XXX was killed by YYY" messages in multiplayer
NetStats=1; // (1.09 and later) Enables the scoreboard functionality in MP
VonID=0; // (1.09 and later) When using VoN, display the name of the player speaking.
};
// These are the skills. Value may range from 0.000000 to 1.000000
skillFriendly=0.850000;
skillEnemy=0.850000;
precisionFriendly=0.850000;
precisionEnemy=0.850000;
};
};
Annotation: Since 1.58
One of the main changes that came with 1.58 is, that the difficulty levels were transformed to true presets (Recruit, Regular, Veteran). Each preset has exactly defined value for each difficulty option. If any of the options doesn't match the preset, the preset is changed to Custom. The particular flags are stored in profile only for the Custom preset, since Recruit, Regular and Veteran are fixed ones and predefined in game's data in CfgDifficultyPresets config class.
