EvilBivol-1 Posted March 17, 2011 Posted March 17, 2011 Hi all, The forum is not the ideal place to host educational content for the sim, because threads are constantly disappearing or require a ton of stickies. ED has a Wiki site available and this would be a much better place to host an organized set of resources for new pilots. We've prepared an initial set using some of the many guides/tutorials/docs that have been created by the community. Please feel free to expand on this list, but also try to maintain clarity and organization in the process. If you would like your content added to the page, but are unable to edit the Wiki on your own, please send a PM and we'll try to help. http://en.wiki.eagle.ru/wiki/DCS:_A10C_Training_Supplements 1 - EB [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] Nothing is easy. Everything takes much longer. The Parable of Jane's A-10 Forum Rules
TigersharkBAS Posted March 17, 2011 Posted March 17, 2011 Great initiative! [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] Creator of: F-18C VFA-195 "Dambusters" 1998 CAG Livery https://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=213788 F-18C VFA-195 "Dambusters" July 2001 CAG Livery https://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=215950 Pilot avatars for DCS Logbook https://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=221160 How to make a DCS A-10C Panel http://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=65998
Kenan Posted March 17, 2011 Posted March 17, 2011 The cockpit layout diagram thing is so cool I gotta get me one right nah! [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] Commanding Officer of: 2nd Company 1st financial guard battalion "Mrcine" See our squads here and our . Croatian radio chat for DCS World
Arakahn Posted March 17, 2011 Posted March 17, 2011 Very awesome!!!! I suggested something similar not long ago (having a section on the forum just for files, and for the exact reasons you mentionned) and was shot down quickly as there are files on the main DCS site (not from administrators but simply members). The wiki is indeed the best place for it, and I constantly forget about it due to it's current lack of content. I am very happy to read this; this is definitely where the documents belong, and especially for new users of the sim it's going to make it so easy for them to find what they need to learn this great piece of software.
Speed Posted March 17, 2011 Posted March 17, 2011 Some guys in the dev team were supposedly going to a release a lua scripting guide, but this has yet to happen. I've made a rough draft of one. Would this be suitable content to add to the wiki? How would one go about adding a page? I've never editted a wiki before... I'd rather it was a wiki page than a document, because it would be constant flux. Intelligent discourse can only begin with the honest admission of your own fallibility. Member of the Virtual Tactical Air Group: http://vtacticalairgroup.com/ Lua scripts and mods: MIssion Scripting Tools (Mist): http://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=98616 Slmod version 7.0 for DCS: World: http://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=80979 Now includes remote server administration tools for kicking, banning, loading missions, etc.
AlphaOneSix Posted March 17, 2011 Posted March 17, 2011 Would this be suitable content to add to the wiki? How would one go about adding a page? My personal opinion is that if it's useful to you, it's bound to be useful to at least one other person out there, and that other person just might one day visit the Wiki page to search for it. :) So yeah, basically anything you think is useful is suitable (that's my opinion, anyway). To add content, you'll need to create an account and log in..those links are t the top right of any of the wiki pages. To create a page, the easiest way (in my opinion) is to first do a search to see if there is already something there that relates to what you want to add. If there is already a page to which to would like to add information, just click the "edit" tab at the top of the article. If not, and you want to make a new page from scratch, I find that the easiest way is to just type the name of the page you want to add as the URL, and if it doesn't already exist, the wiki will say so, and ask if you want to edit that page...click edit and away you go. For example, if you wanted to write a page about LUA scripting for DCS: A10C, then you could use a URL like http://en.wiki.eagle.ru/w/index.php?title=DCS:_A10C_LUA_Scripting_Guide, and it will say that the page does not exist, and one of the options is to edit the page. Once you've got a page started and saved, go to the front page and edit the front page to add a link to your new page (otherwise people would have to search for it to find it...I find that in general, people are allergic to search buttons). As far as style guides go, there are various tutorials all over the web on how to edit wiki articles (the specific software in use for the ED wiki is called MediaWiki). Also, the editor is more or less WYSIWYG, so that should be easy enough for starters.
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