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Offline macguba

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minor suggestions
« on: 13 Sep 2002, 16:50:52 »
The new Ed Depot is looking great, but a few quick ideas:-

Make the Unofficial command ref more prominent:  there are a lot of queries in the forums from people who would appear not to have it, or even know it exists.   I solved loads of problems just by looking down the list to see if there was a word that fitted in with what I was trying to do and often there was.

Move "How to use objectives and init.sqs" from Mission Editor to Getting Started.

For the tutorials that have to be downloaded, show the the file size - most of them are quite small, and once you see how small it is that should encourage you to click on the link.

Getting Started has such an impressive array of tutorials now its practically intimidating - if you are a real noob, where do you start?    You could break it up with subheading something like this:-


Tutorials:  Getting Started

General

Abuu's Basic Editing Tutorial Abuu 0.7    
Getting Started  1.0  
Johan Gustafsson's Editing Tutorial Johan Gustafsson 1.0    
Macguba's Guide to Mission Editing Macguba 1.0    
The Unofficial OFP Manual Rob,Hangfyre,snYpir 1.0
Open Source Mission Editor Guide David Craven 0.3
How to Get Around Some Common Problems  1.0  


Specific

Basic Trigger Tutorial Jmaster33 1.0    
Basic Waypoint Tutorial Jmaster33 1.0  
How to use objectives and init.sqs


Scripting

Unofficial Command Reference Various 1.04a  (or this could be on the Ed Depot home page)
Johan Gustafsson's Scripting Tutorial Johan Gustafsson 2.0  


and then move to the Misc section, which is looking a little bare

Realistic Bases in OFP James Darbyshire 1.0    
Realistic Mission Design in OFP snYpir 1.0  
Speed up Loading / Command Line Args  1.0  




Plenty of reviewed ArmA missions for you to play

Offline snYpir

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Re:minor suggestions
« Reply #1 on: 13 Sep 2002, 23:21:59 »
EXCELLENT suggestions!

I'll implement all of your ideas - when i get a chance. Thank you. ;D
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Chudley

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Re:minor suggestions
« Reply #2 on: 22 Sep 2002, 20:15:12 »
I agree with macguba about making the unofficial Comref more prominent for newbies.

I taught myself to make missions, cutscenes and scripts just from the tutorials available at OFPEC.

The unofficial Comref and the uber Editor Tut are MUST HAVES for anyone wanting to learn how to make missions.


BTW. The site is looking smashing, keep up the good work.  ;D