How to add a insignia

To add an insignia involve two steps; creation and conversion of an image and some minor scripting

Image and format

First off you need the image in a PNG format with a transparent background with the size of 512x512.

This image should be converted to PAA with DXT5 encode. This is done with the Arma 3 Tools program; TexView2, ImageToPAA or ARMAKE.

Image to cScripts

1. Naming the insignia (Follow current name standard).
2. Place your insignia in: cScripts\Data\Insignia\
3. Add the new insignia to CfgUnitInsignia.hpp
   To make it easy to add more insignias we have developed a macro to be used: MACRO_UNITINSIGNIA(CONFIGNAME,picture-name.paa);
4. Add the insignia to the selector script; fn_initInsigniaSelections.sqf To make it easy for your self to add more insignia to the selector just copy paste an insignia function from a previous category. Example:

   [_object,"Squad Insignia 1/1/C/1-7","11C_17_Insignia","cScripts\Data\Insignia\1-1-C-17.paa",['ACE_MainActions','cScriptInsigniaSelectionMenu','cScriptInsigniaSelectionCharlie']] call FUNC(addInsigniaSelection);
   

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