This guide will help you on how to setup your Headless Client server.
YOUR MISSION FILE AND YOUR ADDONS / SCRIPTS NEED TO SUPPORT HEADLESS CLIENT OR THIS WILL NOT WORK!
> HOW TO SETUP ON MAIN SERVER
- Stop your MAIN server.
- Go to Configuration Files button and edit server.cfg file with CONFIG DEITOR option.
- Find the following lines, and place your Headless Client IP between the "" like the example below
Single HC:
localClient[] = {"192.168.4.18"};
headlessClients[] = {"192.168.4.18"};
Multiple HC:
localClient[] = {"192.168.4.18","148.23.45.67"};
headlessClients[] = {"192.168.4.18","148.23.45.67"};
> HOW TO SETUP YOUR HEADLESS CLIENT
- Stop your HEADLESS CLIENT server.
- Go to Configuration Files and edit your Start.bat file.
- Add your MAIN server IP on the -connect= field, if your MAIN server is password protected, place the password in the -password= field.
> HOW TO SETUP YOUR MISSION FILE ADDONS / SCRIPTS TO SUPPORT HEADLESS CLIENT
Different Arma 3 game modes / mpmissions, @Mods, Addons / Scripts have their own way to be set up and configured to use Headless Client, you need to check what exactly you want to offload to your Headless server and follow the recommended instructions for what you want to offload, below follows some example links and more detailed documentation about Headless Client.
