Class Picker

Capabilities

What it handles

How to use it

Getting started

1. Place the module and sync itDrag Class Picker into the editor and sync it to the placement modules it's picking for. The sync lines decide what it offers, what it writes to and which buildings it labels.
2. Preview the missionStart on preview is No by default, so nothing is drawn until you ask. Open the ALiVE menu, choose Class Picker, then Start picking. Buildings of the chosen kind inside the synced modules' areas get labels, and anything those modules already hold comes up selected.
3. Take the buildings you wantPut the crosshair on a building and press Home; press it again to give it back. Press Delete instead to keep garrisons out of it. A building with nowhere to stand inside can't be taken.
4. Take the positions inside themLook at a building and its standing positions are numbered. Press End to take the one you're looking at. The order you take them in is the order they get filled. The ALiVE menu also has an entry to take every position in a building at once.
5. Copy a list only if you need it elsewhereGarrison picks and exclusions are written into the synced placement modules when you return, so you don't need to copy them. Open the ALiVE menu, choose Class Picker, then Copy for a setting, when you want a list on the clipboard instead, for example the vehicle, unit or group blacklists that go in init.sqf.
6. Return to the editorPress Escape. With On returning to the editor on Apply to synced modules, your garrison positions go into Preferred Garrison Buildings and your exclusions into Garrison Building Blacklist on the synced placement modules, and a notification says what went where. Ctrl+Z takes it back. You can also right click a placement module and choose ALiVE, then Apply Picked Garrison List (or Apply Picked Blacklist), to apply it to that one instead.
7. Start from the Khe Sanh Valley exampleOpen the ALiVE Khe Sanh Valley scenario in the editor. A Class Picker is placed, and a Military Placement module holds a preferred-positions list (a bunker tower and trench firing points) plus a blacklist keeping signal towers, showers and latrines out. Another holds a list for the hex pillbox bunkers.

Settings

Every setting, and what it does

The Class Picker is an editor helper: while you preview the mission from Eden, it labels buildings, vehicles or soldiers around you so you can collect classnames and garrison positions by looking at them. These settings choose what gets labelled, how far out, how the labels look and what happens to your picks when you return to the editor.

Quick setups

Highlights

What it brings

• No more hunting for classnamesThe setting that started this asks for building classes and the position numbers inside them. Both were previously found by alt-tabbing to a config viewer and running a line of script in the debug console to list numbers you then had to match to places in the building by trial and error.
• Position numbers you can seeStanding positions are drawn in place inside the building, so choosing which of them get manned is a matter of looking at them. Positions that read as the map origin are left out, since the seating code refuses to use them anyway.
• Keep garrisons out of buildingsPress Delete on a building, or any prop, and its class goes to the Garrison Building Blacklist of the synced placement modules when you return to the editor. It has its own list, separate from your Home picks, and it accepts buildings with nowhere to stand inside, which are the ones worth excluding.
• Adjust a list instead of rebuilding itOn the next preview the picker reads back the Preferred Garrison Buildings and Garrison Building Blacklist of the synced modules, so what you chose before comes up already marked and writing back replaces the old list rather than adding to it.
• The sync line does the thinkingWhat the picker is wired to decides which settings it offers to fill, which modules it writes to, and which buildings are worth labelling. There is no side or target setting to keep in step with the wiring, because the wiring is the setting.
• Safe to leave in a released missionIt runs only when previewing from the editor. Hosted and dedicated sessions ignore it entirely, so players never get the picking keys, and its settings and sync lines are still there the next time you want to change what gets garrisoned.

Status

Where it stands

Testing

How you can help

Sync a Class Picker to a military placement module that has a TAOR and preview, then open the ALiVE menu, choose Class Picker and Start picking, since Start on preview is No by default and nothing is drawn until you ask. Confirm only buildings inside the TAOR are labelled, and that a building with no interior positions, such as Land_dp_smallFactory_F, cannot be taken. While nothing is on the blacklist it shouldn't be labelled either; once the module's Garrison Building Blacklist holds anything, or you've pressed Delete on something, it will be. Take a couple of buildings and some positions inside them, press Delete on a latrine or shed to blacklist it. Escape back to the editor and confirm the module's Preferred Garrison Buildings now holds what you picked and its Garrison Building Blacklist holds what you excluded, then press Ctrl+Z and confirm it comes back out. Preview again and confirm the buildings you chose come up already selected, add one more, return, and confirm the field holds every class exactly once rather than listing any of them twice. Run the mission properly and confirm the garrisons fill the positions you chose, in the order you chose them. Then check the safety cases: host the same mission rather than previewing it and confirm the picker does nothing at all and never takes the Home or End keys, and place two pickers wired to modules of different sides and confirm only the one matching the side you are playing starts up.

Changelog

Updates to this page

• 2026-10-19
  Typed number settings now show their unit in the label, for example Range (m).
• 2026-09-25
  Range's tooltip now says that when the picker is synced to placement modules, only things inside their TAOR markers are labelled.
• 2026-09-04
  The Khe Sanh Valley scenario now ships with a Class Picker already placed, so there's a worked example to open. Its Military Placement module carries lists built with it: hex pillbox bunkers as preferred garrison positions, signal towers, showers and latrines kept out.
• 2026-09-04
  Delete now works on props that aren't houses. Aiming at a fuel bladder, camo net or sandbag wall used to do nothing at all. Aiming at a soldier or vehicle still refuses, and now says why.
• 2026-09-02
  The Class Picker can now collect buildings to blacklist against garrisons. Look at one and press Delete: it turns red, the monitor lists it, and coming back to the editor writes it into every synced module's Garrison Building Blacklist.
• 2026-09-02
  The right click menu carries the same option, and ALiVE, Apply Picked Blacklist writes the collected list in by hand if you need it.
• 2026-09-02
  Delete keeps its own list, separate from the Home picks, so a session that collects both writes each to its own setting. Unlike Home, Delete accepts a building with nowhere to stand inside it. Props with no positions are the ones worth excluding.
• 2026-09-02
  Start on preview is now off by default, so the labels appear when you ask for them from the ALiVE menu.
• 2026-09-01
  New module. Sync the Class Picker to the placement modules it picks for: it labels only their areas, offers only the settings they use, and writes the finished list into them when you return to the editor.