I need help! Can you help me?

[Matt Walter]

Ok I am not new to mission editing, but I still got a lot to learn. There a bunch of questions I need to know. They may have been answered on other topic, but just be straight forward when ask- don't say, "Oh, Jimmy's topic explains this, go there" Explain to me like I don't know a thing.

1) I see in some cut scenes (and in game play some times) stuff soldiers are doing that I can't do playing. Ex: crossing arms, being in formation- and switch to at ease (arms behind back), hitting, push ups, etc. I would love to know how to make units do those things plus some I didn't mention.

2) I also see in cut scenes (and in game play) units doing things I can do, but don't know how to make other units outside of my squad do it. Ex: saluting, eject, sit down, crouch, pick up a weapon, parachute out of an aircraft, and so on. Can you tell me who to do those things?

3) You know when in the game you are radioed by HQ or something... how do you do that.

4) In a mission I make that has characters talking, I don't know how to make them talk without having to move to the next way point. I would like them to stay still to talk. Is it something with triggers? Any way, can you help?

That is all I can think of. Hope you can help.  

[Mud_Spike]

Ok I am not new to mission editing, but I still got a lot to learn. There a bunch of questions I need to know. They may have been answered on other topic, but just be straight forward when ask- don't say, "Oh, Jimmy's topic explains this, go there" Explain to me like I don't know a thing.

No it doesnt work like that, instead I'll provide keywords for you to use in further investigation.
That is, Search the forums, Search the OFPEC Editing section, read the command reference, etc.
Pretty much all common scripting/mission-making subjects have been covered in tutorials, we wont duplicate that work for the sake of your lazyness.

1) I see in some cut scenes (and in game play some times) stuff soldiers are doing that I can't do playing. Ex: crossing arms, being in formation- and switch to at ease (arms behind back), hitting, push ups, etc. I would love to know how to make units do those things plus some I didn't mention.

Commands (see the com.ref.): playMove, switchMove

2) I also see in cut scenes (and in game play) units doing things I can do, but don't know how to make other units outside of my squad do it. Ex: saluting, eject, sit down, crouch, pick up a weapon, parachute out of an aircraft, and so on. Can you tell me who to do those things?

Command: action

3) You know when in the game you are radioed by HQ or something... how do you do that.

Commands: groupChat, sideChat, globalChat

4) In a mission I make that has characters talking, I don't know how to make them talk without having to move to the next way point. I would like them to stay still to talk. Is it something with triggers? Any way, can you help?

Define 'talk'. Their lips moving, speech coming out of your speakers, text appearing on the screen, ... please be more specific.

[macguba]

There is a list of known actions in the sticky topic at the top of this board.

For play/switchmove animations, there is a demo mission in tutorials - references which shows you them all.

[Matt Walter]

Thanks for the help  ;D, I will check it out.

Anyway by talking, they don't have to open their mouths, just text is fine (voices seem too complicated). I can make the text, but as I said, I don't know how to make them have a conversation with out moving to the next way point.

[Dubieman]

In a camera scene?

Easy use titletext.

titletext ["You all are slaves, now drop your M16s and bow.","plain down",1]

Use it like after the code for a camera scene so when you're focusing on a face, that text comes up.

And "plain down" is the bottom part of the screen and "plain" is in the middle.