this seems to be the recommended way for making missions...

http://www.armaholic.com/page.php?id=11980


didn't really read up on it much

THanks dude. I'll look into it.

It was a pain to figure out the scripts on my own

Everything's a pain for you....THEN you kill it!!!

Brian

No pain, no gain

This game is the shit for killing stuff

variable names for the description.ext file:


http://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Description.ext

Here's a hotlist for mission editing
http://www.armaholic.com/forums.php?m=posts&q=10917

Should cover most of the issues one might have when creating a mission.
There are instructions on how to create halojump "flagpole"

ive added a halo flagpole in my mission already


though you dont get your height when you drop...

Meaning what? You can set the drop altitude with a script

yea i can set that...


but you don't get the display of how high you are as you are falling...