Mondkalb's "How to create an Addon from scratch"

[Mondkalb]

Well, here we go:

In the follwoing I will explain to you in ten easy steps how you plan an addon, create the model, create the textures, put the textures on the model, how to get a working door in it, how to implement a proper damage simulation, how you get this addon to Arma 2 and how you can release it:

Mondkalb's Addon Tutorial.

I hope this tutorial will spawn many new addonartists and even more high quality addons to this great Arma2 Community!
A .PDF version of this file is already in progress, and currently I am on page 45 and half of the pictures aren't included yet. So expect a 60 page Manual on how to start an Addon from scratch.

This is an unoffical tutorial.

[.kju [PvPscene]]

Very nicely done!

You still need to adapt the formatting for the wiki in some parts.
Mainly for model.cfg and config.cpp.

You miss one very important part:
Always one has to use a sublevel for a model addon, like p:\MyTag\MyTag_Addon.
This is key to binarize an addon correctly.

Aspects you might want to add:
* Sign all your addons with an individual key, to allow server admins rule out addons
* Even doable to sign every release with a new key to rule out old addons
* Addon/Pbonaming.
* Copyright/permission.

Again very well done and thanks for putting this into the BIKI.

[PhilippRauch]

Lovely! Thanks for doing it, otherwise i would have felt the urge to do that... but honestly it wouldnt be nearly as neat and compleat as your tutorial is!
Kudos.

[Lt.Chris]

Good work on this manual, these are the type of things which gets new makers involved

[Soul_Assassin]

You miss one very important part:
Always one has to use a sublevel for a model addon, like p:\MyTag\MyTag_Addon.
This is key to binarize an addon correctly.

Really? :S it always binarized fine for me straight from the addon folder

In any case good job man!

[Herbal Influence]

Wow - a really teasing thing it is ...

By the by:
Found a whole german phrase in there ... sure it's something redundant.

[Mondkalb]

Thanks to all of you.

I'll try to get the typos and formatting-errores fixed during this weekend.

[Beton]

Thank you very much Mondkalb...

even if i have to redo some of my models now...

[Binkowski]

Very good Mondkalb.

[Mr Sarkey]

Excellent, I'll be using this. Great work so far.

One suggestion, it might be good to have a list of programs that are required at the beginning.