Sup everyone just wanted to post this video as a reference tool to anyone who wants to make a sound mod. I think the echoes should sound like this whenever you shoot. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4_Wyo6pC0A

[modedit]Thanks for posting V1p3r. I made this a sticky and renamed the topic, hopefully in the future people will post more links to reference materials.[/modedit]

Good idea, when I have some free time I'm going to write up a small guide on getting custom content working correctly in Armed Assault.

ok lets begin.

this first part will be divided into 3 groups:
1.blueprints links.
2.walkaround and reference pics.
3.texture library's

PART A:BLUEPRINTS.

1.the blueprints
2. hawker blueprints (alot of good reference
3.boing planes
4.good aircraft 3vu
5.mix old and new aircraft
6.aircraft
7.airbus
8.mixed air/land/sea
9.aircraft-good site
10.link to a resource site with more links
11.military factory
12.a great site with good quality 3d drawing
13.another reference site with lots of links

PART B:WALKAROUNDS AND REFERENCE SITES

1.prime portal-one of the best if not the best one
2.modelling links
3.fas-reference and data
4.global security
5.airliners
6.US army pictures-all of the press released ones in high res
7.flicker-yes alot of military pics there
8.military photos
9.good site for reference pictures(don't mind the Japanese)


PART C:TEXTURES LIBRARY'S

1.cgtextures
2.textures
3.textures2
4.cg-india
5.texturespace
6.textures3


that,s it for now.
next time i will add the modeling tutorials+ photoshop tuts and some macro demo from my work.
sfc.

If someone could provide a link to a tutorial that covers getting custom vehicles/aircraft in to Armed Assault, that would be great.

A link to many useful links.

A general addon making tutorial on the basics in making just about anything.
http://ofp.gamepark.cz/_hosted/brsseb/tutorials.htm

I'm sorry guys but this is a seriously noob question: Can original OPF mods be made compatible with Arma with relative ease? Some of the old mods are exactly what I want for Arma. I'm sure I am not the first to drool over the possibilty of this, and I've seen alot of content from OPF ie, Vilas vehicles, units. Again I apologise for the blatant noobilty of this question. I feel terrible for taking addons and not giving much back to the community exept praise, but hey I'm learning. And really the only thing I can give is advice based on my experience as a forward observer. I can tell you just about anything about fire support, because thats all I know.

I'm not tooting my own horn, but I was very good at my job. You guys know mods. If anyone has a fire support (mod) related question, please don't hesitate to ask.

"Let not the soul of a fallen trooper cry out... if I'd only been better trained." -unknown

Airborne.

A quick search found these:

Flashpoint Aircraft in Arma
How do I get opf addons to work in arma?
Can flashpint wapons work in ArmA?
From OFP to ArmA

Addons from flashpoint can be imported into ArmA but most require a reconfig, etc. Importing models is no problem, you will have to learn the new stuff in ArmA to get them fully compatible in game. But I don't see why the majority of OFP addons quality qise would be wanted in ArmA anyway.

Be sure to search next time before posting a question aske many times before and to post in the correct section. :thumb

You got it, thank you.


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I see your point about the quality. Really it is the vast amount of vehicles available in OPF like the Combat desert series that is atractive. I used to play OPF religiously, and could build batalion sized elements that were believeable ie, variety, bumper numbers. Arma has grown by leaps and bounds however and I know we'll get there. Keep it up. Airborne.


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Originally posted by Alloy007p

If you have never done any addon makeing/modding before your going need the tools and know how to do so.

Downloads

These are all the official Bi realesed tools
http://www.flashpoint1985.com/cgi-bin/ikonboard311/ikonboard.cgi?s=7f77e9d3aa3be74957686e7bea481ee7;act=ST;f=61;t=73569

These are the sample models- somewhere in the sample models will be the sedan
http://www.flashpoint1985.com/cgi-bin/ikonboard311/ikonboard.cgi?s=7f77e9d3aa3be74957686e7bea481ee7;act=ST;f=61;t=67070

This is the tool used to extract .pbo
http://www.kegetys.net/arma/ it's the one near the bottom called arma tools

Tutorials-

(VERY good starting point) Bresseb'z Tutorials may have been for operation flashpoint, but still for the most part work in Arma
http://ofp.gamepark.cz/_hosted/brsseb/tutorials.htm

And scince your doing skinning this will probley be of help to you
http://www.young.cliranet.com/cyp/spip/spip.php?article28


(optional)

learning even just the basics of c++ will be of great help to you when your makeing your configs and models.cfgs
http://www.cplusplus.com/doc/tutorial/

If your going to be doing alot of work with addons you might want to get a program with c++ highlighting- I just tried this out yesterday and all I can say is I don't know how I lived without it
http://www.flos-freeware.ch/notepad2.html


Other editing resorces

Ofpec
http://www.ofpec.com/ed_depot/index.php?action=list&game=ArmA&type=tu&cat=xyz

BI forums

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


If you plan on doing work with configs then I suggest downloading other peoples mods and inspecting them very carfully and compareing them to others, and read up on Biki.(It may be a mess but it has lots of valueble information to be learned from it)

Hope this helps:D

Originally posted by Bracks

Hmm, don't think this will help but can't hurt to add my limited exp so far :)

For modeling (if that was something you wanted to do?)
Ohh and take alook at this before you start ;)
Gameplay vs graphics

For learning how to model in O2 (OFP's editor)
http://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Oxygen_Light
try here for learning it
Note: you can't use the viewer without OFP installed.

If you want a more complicated program which has extra features like extrude try this program called blender
Program
Learning it

Or another good one
http://www.anim8or.com/

And for baking high poly models onto low (normal maps) grab this amazing program.
http://www.xnormal.net/
http://www.xnormal.net/Tutorials.aspx

Or for making normals in photoshop try here
by Linker Split

For configs, here is the best one (imo) by Vilas


For texturing, well i'm just slowly working through it myself trying to figure out :)...however if you are just after simple reskins, try
http://www.flashpoint1985.com/cgi-bin/ikonboard311/ikonboard.cgi?s=4c08369d407935b559e7d527b786463e;act=ST;f=80;t=65479

Will be able to help out more once I get my first few models working :)
Good luck.

Another great tutorial link:
http://www.dc3d.co.nz/Tutorials/Index.htm

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and of course the tools to do it all with:
BI Editing Suite (link)

Hay there. Im new to modding and I wanna do some basic reskins. Could some one link me to some good reskin tutorials etc. and then tell me how a config works. ive worked all day with a few poorly written ones I found via google like...OLD OLD stuff. I cant do any of it without something going differentely then they say in the tutorial. so...something recent ? I got the bi soldier DONE. he has his files etc. and hes ready to be made into a pbo..
but..I need to know what to do now...the tutorial said nothing. so....help?

hi, is there anyone who is willing to give tutorials on texturing and the lark, i dont want a link to a site because the human touch is so nicer, :D

Here is a list of different tutorials made by the OFP/ArmA community:

- brsseb's Operation Flashpoint O2 tutorials