Note: admins, feel free to lock/delete/ whatever this topic if you feel it's unnecesary, I just thought it might be helpful to wright a tut for people new to odfs. I never understood the documentation ones, so I just wrote for the many newcomers. It's a little overcomplicated, but I think it's understandable enough to get the basics from the begining.
here's a link:
http://files.filefront.com/basic+explan ... einfo.html

Hope it helps.

Thanks! There is an ODF tut, written by Dann_Boeing, but I didn't understand much of it and have been trying to figure out ODFs on my own. Now, here's a different tutorial to look at.


EDIT - Well, I reviewed it, and it is very basic; but for someone who doesn't know the basics, I'm sure it's useful. Most of the stuff I found out on my own by tinkering with ODF's, but what did surprise me was that part where the child overrules the parent. I didn't know you could do that. I've always been getting around that by making an entirely different parent ODF and setting the child ODF to reference that parent. This way sure is easier. A bit.

Once again, thanks for the tut. I'm sure plenty of newbies will find it very helpful. It wasn't too long, either.

You're welcome. Glad it helped.

Fiodis wrote:Most of the stuff I found out on my own by tinkering with ODF's, but what did surprise me was that part where the child overrules the parent. I didn't know you could do that.

Yes and that is the only time a child should be able to overrule a parent


nice tut btw, now try to explain vehicles.

another good document for odfs is the odfguide.htm that came with SWBF1 mod tools, it is better and more complete parameter list wise than the .doc that came with SWBFII, but the one that came with II has better explainations of things
so try to get both if you can.