I have the problem, when hitting 5 to generate the file, the confirmation window pops up on the desktop and ingame the screen gets black. After ALT+TAB ing a dozen times I get the window back into the game to confirm it. Any fix for that?

the same as what eddi once wrote i have a fix for the auto generation Press 7
scroll tho the line 264 and change to

_line = [tostring[9],"class ",_buildingClass,tostring[13],tostring[9],"{",tostring[13],tostring[9],tostring[9],"table = ""Military",buildingcategory,""";"]joinstring "";

this explains it a bit better. I just added the extra points under the other ones.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AzsXJIqhd2U&feature=emb_logo

Maybe a lot of people don't work out well because they're in
"lootpos.pbo" in "lootpos\init\fn_init.sqf" line 221 says, "Press 3 to complete class before exporting file", and 3 is autogeneration. There you need to fix the record on button 4.

If autogeneration includes not all buildings, use this fix:
Do steps 1-3 like @Kääriäinen said and change this(start line 239):

//Create array with all buildings
_allBuildings = [];
_allBuildings = [12000,12000] nearObjects ["House",12000];
//array of all valid buidling classes

to this:

//Create array with all buildings
private ["_worldSideSize", "_mapCenter", "_scanRadiusSize"];
_worldSideSize = worldName call BIS_fnc_mapSize;
_mapCenter = _worldSideSize / 2;
_scanRadiusSize = _mapCenter * (sqrt 2);
_allBuildings = [];
_allBuildings = [_mapCenter,_mapCenter] nearObjects ["House",_scanRadiusSize];
//array of all valid buidling classes

That will dynamically get size of map and calculate truly radius of scan.

I re-tried the "fix", and it still definitely doesn't work for me.

@Brzęczyszczykiewicz I think I already did that and it didnt work, I will try again tho, thank u

@Dack Janiels, @Verdict - Khaz posted how to fix this. Let me explain:

1) Go to "\Steam\steamapps\common\Arma 3\!Workshop\@Exilemod Loot Position Creator\addons"

2) Unpack lootpos.pbo and go to extracted folder "lootpos\init"

3) Open fn_init.sqf and change line 60:

From:
_line = [tostring[9],"class ",buildingClass,": ",buildingcategory,tostring[13],tostring[9],"{"]joinstring "";

To:
_line = [tostring[9],"class ",buildingClass,tostring[13],tostring[9],"{",tostring[13],tostring[9],tostring[9],"table = """,buildingcategory,""";"]joinstring "";

4) Save the file, repack it back into lootpos.pbo - done.

Now it will be making classes in the same format as you have them in your config.cpp, except for loot positions being listed each in their own line (which is better anyway).

Doesn't work in the way it writes the lootpositions.hpp file.
For any class of building, I get some thing like: class Land_Garaz_bez_tanku: ReplaceMe
I get that I have to put a building type (like "Tourist", "Military", etc...) for each building, but there's hundreds of them.
Tried every thing but nothing worked. This tool doesn't save me any time.

Hi patrix is there support for 64bit ? mine keep saying its not supported :-/

I had to use this for contact Dlc. This tool has not dated at all. It does all you need in a few clicks.

Great work, thanks for sharing it.

which PBO are you talking about Khaz

This mod is a little outdated in the way it formats, but is easily fixed if you have a PBO unpacker. Simply go into the PBO > init > fn_init.sqf, and change line 60 from

_line = [tostring[9],"class ",buildingClass,": ",buildingcategory,tostring[13],tostring[9],"{"]joinstring "";

to

_line = [tostring[9],"class ",buildingClass,tostring[13],tostring[9],"{",tostring[13],tostring[9],tostring[9],"table = """,buildingcategory,""";"]joinstring "";

Great tool.

you should port this to DayZ people would love you!

Das ist die BESTE Loot Position Creator Mod die ich bis jetzt gefunden habe ♥ sehr sehr Geil. Hoffe das da immer weiter dran gearbeitet wird und verbesserungen gemacht werden. Daumen Hoch !

Please make it possible to delete the last loot position placed, often the pointing glove bugs out and you don't actually know where its going to land that position. So you start all over ;\

Thanks for only intuitive tool for loot positioning out there.

Great tool. But I notice that although it generates positions in the expanded firehouse, no loot actually spawns there. Same for a few of the other buildings that have expanded interiors. And I cannot create a position on the top floor of the tower or the roof. The placement ball disappears.

You can run this with 64 bit arma if you delete the DLL from the mod folder, before you start up the editor, steam will replace it eventually .. just delete it again the next time you want to use

After using this i have no loot at all??

Easier then I would of thought, nice work!

got it to work and its fantastic. tyvm. to use all u got to do is launch game with this mod and map turned on, go to editor, load map, place a single guy, press play and off u go.

maybe im doing it wrong but does nothing for me. ive subscribed, launcherd a3. loaded in the mod, when launched ask if i want to switch to 32 bit, i say yeah. game loads go to map in editor and nothing. tried with exile loaded as well and not. have the dll in the a3 root. any tips?

Using the generate map feature seems to be crashing some peoples games and sometimes entire systems

Great Job!!!

it crashes my Arma every time I run 7 to auto-generate entire map.

I subscribed to the workshop, added in in as a mod to load and when I launch A3 I get this: https://s25.postimg.org/52lrb27mn/2017-04-23_14_51_13-_NVIDIA_Ge_Force_Overlay.png

Fantastic tool!
Its easy to use and works fine.
I used auto generate entire map and worked very well.
Nice job man! ;)

Is there more info on how to use this tool? I loaded the map I want in the editor. i have the mod enabled, i placed the dll file in my arma 3 folder.

none of the keys specified here work, I can press 9 or the 9 on numberpad but they do not display any instructions.

This is a pretty cool tool. So I have few suggestion. First would be to be able to erase if misplaced. The other thing that would be nice is to verify if the building that the sphere touch has been done previously. Thanks for this tool it saves a lot of time.

works like a charm

It is not working anymore?

Brilliant tool. Thanks Patrix87!

Some buildings seem to NEVER spawn loot... even if their info is in the cfg. Has anyone else encountered this?

do you have to use this on the server as its running or in eden?

I second bots your options @Dizzturbed, it would be nice features to have.
I'm wondering if it would be possible to have a button that would spawn sample loot (So we can see how it's laying on an object or so). I could add it, but I can't find the files to edit :3

Thank you, very good work for the community

@patrix since you now implemented the auto populate option, i have 2 ideas.
how about a small function that returns every house classname used on the map without doing something with them.
its hard (in general) to keep track of which class names are already done. if we'd have a list we could spawn in the houses we need rather than moving through all map and see for class names that are missing =)
second, would it be possible to check if a class name was already done when we hit the init for a building or is that to specific to a map for beeing used in a tool like this? something like check all map buildings, set a var on each and as soon as we finish spot creation it chnages it. so we cant do a class name twice.

@San Thanks :)

Thank you Patrix87 Awesome mod!!

@Dizzturbed
Thanks :)

i totally understand, dont mind it =) appreciate your hard work!

@Dizzturbed

I though about it and it is fairly hard to do, sorry

i cant repeat it enough, this tool is friggin awesome!
for the wishlist.. would it be possible to implement a "save" and "load" option to be able to do the list? right now i need to do all buildings in one session to avoid double entries. maps like tavi are so huge that its hard to do in one session.
if its too hard, screw it. its already great as is stands =)

This is a mod, you subscribe, you start the launcher, you enable the mod you start the editor. Done

nothing downloads when subscribed? where are the files located?