New to Armed Assault editing ?

[Balschoiw]

As Armed Assault and OFP have a lot in common, editing-wise you will most likely find answers on basic questions (waypoints, vehicles, triggers, game-logics, unit-setup, grouping, etc) in the Operation Flashpoint Mission editing section of this forum.

To browse the thread click here.

To search for a solution for your problem use the Forum search and make sure you choose the Operation Flashpoint Mission Editing & Scripting section and at the bottom of the search page enable "and older" to get accurate results.

You can also check the old OFP mission editing FAQ that provides solutions for common things like working with markers, mission objectives, parachuting, rearming, etc, etc.

Some of the solutions will not work anymore because of the changes with Arma like different weaponnames, unitnames, different syntax in scripting, etc, but generally this should be one of the first places to visit if you are running into a basic problem.
Link: Old OFP Mission editing FAQ

Have fun !

This thread is not meant for asking editing questions. It´s meant for posting references and tutorials or usefull links for editing newbies.

If you run into a specific problem while editing and can´t answer your question by using the search option of the forum, open up a new thread in the Mission Editing section and you will be helped.

[Kronzky]

Good idea about this thread!

And here are some more resources:

* Bohemia's Wiki - every command (ArmA, OFP, VBS) is covered there, as well as lots of other fundamental information regarding scripting, modeling, and even playing...

* OFPEC - Has ten of thousands of very deep and technical discussions and code snippets about pretty much any subject relating to OFP, and is now also covering ArmA. Any issues that are not specific to ArmA will most likely have been discussed there already. (esp. the Tutorial Pages are a good place to start.)

[[DirTyDeeDs]-Ziggy-]

A lot of the ArmA editing commands are the same or very similar to OFP

FOR REFERENCE :

OFP COMREF

[Mr-Murray]

You´ll find some informations about editing in my old OFP-Tutorial:


Mr-Murray´s OFP Editing Guide 2.0

Already pulicized:
Armed Assault Editing Guide - German Special Edition (100 pages/SE-Version)
Armed Assault Editing Guide - German Gold Edition (170 pages/SE-Version 1.01) *** *** *** DOWNLOAD


Coming soon:
Armed Assault Editing Guide - Deluxe Edition (>300 Pages) German/English


Best regards,
Mr-Murray

[fasad]

I've just created a Wiki article that covers (almost) every single option and dialogue in the mission editor. It would be a perfect reference for beginners since the ArmA manual was so lightweight.

[Kronzky]

For basic concepts and editor use, Merciless Creation's OFP: Uber Reference Guide (300 PAGES!!!) might be a good place to start.

Even though it was written for Operation Flashpoint, and some of the technical references (like object or weapons names) will not apply to ArmA anymore, it is still a very complete and useful introduction to editing.

I couldn't find a current host for this guide (seems like mercilesscreations.com went out of business), so I've posted it on my own server for now.

[cookj71]

Sorry, but this is a terrible post for beginners. ***I spent a solid 8 hours trying to find out how to quickly script and modify missions within the ArmA built in Editor. ***I looked here and throughout the WIKI. ***Everything is for very advanced users not beginners.

I then went to the WIKI and tried updating examples of scripting commands, but the WIKI forum removed everything!

Here are some rules for all the super advanced users who think this is a beginners sticky.

A beginner knows nothing and when trying to learn something new he needs to feel the data is relevant.

Giving a beginner a list of "functions" he can use just raises his frustration level exponentially as he has no reference to actually use all these cool functions.

Please reference my "BEGINNERS Scripting" post for how to write a beginners instruction manual on scripting.

"Frustrated"

fasad's post is excellent beginning material. I tried updating it some in the WIKI but the moderators removed all of it. Everything else is useless here. Beginners have zero point of reference so pointing them to OFP content does NOT work!!

Thanks fasad, excellent starting point.

[.kju [PvPscene]]

well said cookj71

People forgetting about their fromer life of suffering ... only a few
to be highly respected fellows cater for the beginner and
intermediate level.

PS: Also my respect to these people giving forum support, but
1on1 support is hardly efficient for basic learning. Tutorials and
examples are the way to go.

[Zonekiller]

has anyone thought of setting up a teamspeak room to help
beginers understand stuff

would it be of any use

[Junker]

has anyone thought of setting up a teamspeak room to help
beginers understand stuff

would it be of any use

cookj71 hit the nail on the head, I have seen alot of scripts released on these forums, even i cant understand what is going on.

Dialog script with about 30 scripts in the folder, where to start..?
How about a single simple dialog so people can understand what makes that dialog run.

Repawn scripts, again loads of scripts in the folder, where to start and why only Blufor side only
People need to make a simple pack for the beginners so they can understand the basics of how to use them.