Due to the fiasco with the last update, and with previews issues with swifty, its been dropped, so feel free to uninstall it. We've switched to a almost 100% steam workshop system now so it should be far easier for you guys. Theres still 2 external downloads because not all mod makers want their stuff on the workshop.

So how do you get it?

Open the Steam workshop and search for "SimHQ Retextuers and config edits" (without quotes) and it should be the first result that shows up. Open it up and click the click the nice big green subscribe button. You'll get a window that pops up showing you a list of required mods, scroll to the bottom of the screen and click continue.

Now open up the arma3 launcher, click on the little down arrow next to the "SimHQ Retextuers and config edits" mod and click on the "Fix dependencies" button


You'll have a window pop up, click the big button at the bottom


It'll disappear and steam should now go through each item and download it, how quick it takes depends on how fast your connection is through steam, its about 40GB, so make your best guess, either way, it'll take a while


Once thats done, download the following file and extract it to your main arma3 folder - http://arma3mav.co.uk//downloads/%40SHQ_Misc.rar

Now add that file as a local mod using the button at the top


When thats done, download this file and extract it somewhere safe, doesnt matter where, just has to be somewhere you know you wont delete it - http://arma3mav.co.uk//downloads/Arma%203%20Mod%20Preset%20SHQ%20Server%20Addon%20set_may_2017.rar

Now click the 'preset' button in the arma3 launcher and click import down the bottom, browse to the above file and open it


It should automatically create a preset where all the mods needed are auto selected and loaded, so when you want to play on the SimHQ server you just have to select "play with preset" down the bottom left


And thats it! This methods been tested and tweaked very slightly so we know it works, but any issues, speak up!

Also, feel free to delete any and all mods you've downloaded for our server before, there no longer needed !

Thanks for the handy guide meatshield. I'll be doing this over the weekend.

I tested this out earlier this week. It's pretty straightforward​ and quick. I downloaded everything in about 2.5 to 2.75 hours with a 60M connection.

and for comparisons sake, it took a good 7-8 hours for me on a 5ish mb connection

Starting the D/L now.

Steam Workshop is ridiculously fast. I'm getting 6mbs download steady.

Using the dependencies button so it auto-downloads all the dozens of mods is a great idea. Didn't even know that existed.

Just a quick question to make sure I'm crystal clear on this. We aren't getting rid of the mods we are currently using right? These new mods will be in addition to them?

No, panzer. You purge all previous mods. You can keep cba and shacktac.

Ok got it. Thanks Saghen.

Regarding bonchie's comment. I didn't realize you could do that until after meatshield posted that. I had already downloaded everything manually. ...

Same here, lol. Well that's good to know!

Correct me if I'm wrong, but in regards to Panzer's question, if you've already downloaded the RHS stuff via steam (didn't we all do that for the old modpack?), then you can save yourself several gigs by not deleting and redownloading that.

But it's so freaking fast that it doesn't really matter. I got the whole thing done in less than 2 hours.

We didn't download rhs from steam. It was part of the Swifty download. Check the old mod thread, you can actually see a rhs file downloading in the same screenshot.

I downloaded it all via steam anyway.

Ok, looks like I'm all set. The preset loaded up fine and Arma started with no errors.

Thanks for putting this together, Meat!