Okay, as we all know there is a mission editor's depot on this site. I have an idea for people who want to become new mission editors and for people who just want to brush up there skills in mission editing. My idea is kind of like a mission editing school of a training center. Meaning there can still the editors depot on the site, but then there will be a new section on the site that will take you to a training area for mission editing. Now we all know that mission editing for "some" people can be quite difficult.
You would click on this "training section", and you would be able to start fresh in mission editing if your knew, there could be like a main directory, say "mission editing", then you click on that and a bunch more subdirectories pop up, and they give you listing of, units, groups, waypoints, triggers, synchronization and markers. Meaning if you click on one of these sections, it will give you a bunch of new made tutorials, either on JAVA or HTML, and it will give you examples and pictures of exactly how to do pretty much every single little aspect in mission editing. Meaning, say if you click on units, it will give you numerous tutorials on how to use units in example mission, and how to find them in the mission editor and commands and command lines you can type in the initialization fields. Now these tutorials can have animations in them, they can have pictures that show exactly what your doing, any kind of color font.
Now the next section would be the same, it would be "groups" you could click on, and it would give you all different aspects on how to use groups, and give you example missions. Okay were done with just the basic part of mission editing now. Now we get on to the more advanced section you can get into. The next directory as you could call it, will be called "advanced Mission Editing". You click on that, and it will list a bunch of subdirectories below that. Meaning it will have subdirectories on how to use and do command lines for "on activation field" and the "condition" filed, and we will give you example missions on how to do this, and java or HTML tutorials. Now the directory would be called for the "on activation" and the "condition", would be "Advanced Triggers", or some sort like that.
All right, then the next subdirectory for advanced mission editing would be something like "game Logics, and we will give you example mission on how to do this, and tutorials, explaining on how to do everything, now a lot of things that will be in the advanced mission editing are, description ext files, sounds and how to write them out exactly and any new way to do it, and writing out string tables. Okay phew, were still not done with this yet. All right, then the next section after advanced mission editing would be the wonderful world of "Scripting". Now when you were to click on this directory, you could have topics like "basic scripting", "advanced scripting", then the next directory would be "camera scripting" and it would go over all aspects of camera scripting, how to do each command, the basics of it, all that fun stuff.
All right, that pretty much covers a lot of it. Now this idea can be fun also, if we have people come in and do this, and people who are new in mission editing, and people who just want to brush up their skills. Now after say a person has completed reading a section, on "units", we could have a paragraph at the bottom of the tutorial, saying if you would like us to keep track of your progress, please send us an email, and we will give you some mission example to make on how well you know on units. Then, after you have sent us in your example mission, we can examine your mission carefully, and go over and figure out where you at in the "units" section and how well you know it, kind of like a fun "progress report". Then as we all know if they need any help, they can go to the forums, or whatever, or even email people, we could add something like that, for more assistance to them.
This pretty much concludes the end of my idea, I have more ideas, but this is just some of it I would like to put down. If everybody who comes here read carefully and please give me lots of feedback on this idea, I know this sounds difficult to make, and yes we would need to probably recruit more people, but it is very possible. For this we would most likely need to create a bunch of new tutorials on "java" and "HTML" and not use the boring word document, it just doesn't look professional enough. Thanks for everybody's time on reading this and I hope this idea goes far.
Sincerely,
NightJay0044 (Team Leader)
JWMissions Team -
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