Im so confused!!!!

[danewillems 10]

ok im BRAND new to arma 2 and all of its addons i have been emailing bohemia trying to find what programs and stuff i need for modding and scripting, but they keep telling me dumb things that dont make any sense to me. Can anyone tell me where to find the basic programs for modding this game are i cant find any thing :/ i kno this sounds stupid but i need help

[noricum 10]

Welcome to ArmA

http://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Main_Page

This might help you!

[celery 8]

Seriously, if the stuff that Bohemia tells you are "dumb things that don't make any sense", my kind advice is to not even try. You will be better off enjoying the fruits of the established content creators.

[RKDmitriyev 0]

One thing you should know is that making content for ArmA2 is not too different from making content for Operation Flashpoint, which was released 10 years ago. For this reason, many OFP and ArmA1 tutorials still apply to ArmA2.

Anyway, do you want to create missions or addons? Mission and addon design are completely different.

To create a mission, all you need is the mission editor included with the game. Tutorials are available at Bohemia Interactive Wiki and OFPEC.

I've never created an addon, but tutorials for addon-making exist. There's the Bohemia Interactive Wiki, like Noricum said. Here's an addon tutorial.

There's also OFPEC (click here for the addons page).

Have fun!

[Beagle 684]

ok im BRAND new to arma 2 and all of its addons i have been emailing bohemia trying to find what programs and stuff i need for modding and scripting, but they keep telling me dumb things that dont make any sense to me. Can anyone tell me where to find the basic programs for modding this game are i cant find any thing :/ i kno this sounds stupid but i need help

It not easy, you need to have some programming experience already that is beyond Pacal and Cobol (that's the last I was last tought in University now decades ago).

I tried scripting in OFP back in 2002 and gave up as others did so much better.

[Gekkibi 11]

Making scripts in arma 2 is not that hard. It has the same rules and tricks as other languages. First you think what you want to do, then you create an algorithm etc.

As with any language all you need is to learn the commands and structure of the language. Start from small examples and try out how the commands works before creating something bigger. "Hello world" should be the first think to do. :)

[W0lle 1052]

Upon registering your account, the forum rules were shown. You also received a PM with a link to the rules again, just to make sure.

Obviously you simply ignored both chances to read them, otherwise you would have noticed this:

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Use the link in the first reply, we also have two sticky threads here with frequently asked questions and links to resources.