Complete Tutorial Index

[cephalopod]

Tutorial Index

100% sure you can't find a tutorial for your issue? Head over here - https://gametechmods.com/forums/index.php?topic=16951.0

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Starting Out on GTM
Downloading Robot Arena 2: Stock, DSL 2.1 and Ironforge
Beginner's Guide To: Installing Mods
Beginner's Guide To: Entering a Tournament
Making a Neat Splash with Paint
Guide to Making Good Screenshots
How to Host a Tournament

Basic RA2 Tutorials
Official Weight Class Guide
Beginner's Guide to: Building Styles
Beetle Bros Basic Building Techniques Guide
Self Advice - figuring out if your bot is good
Importing AI Bots into User Teams
Naryar's Weapon Tutorial
Naryar's Extender Work Tutorial
Rotating Extenders
Useful Pre-made Chassis in Stock
Beginner's Guide To: Ironforge
IRL - A Beginner's Guide

Bot Skinning
Sage's Skinning Tutorial
MassimoV's Standard Skinning Techniques
Scrap Daddy's Simple Replica Skinning Technique
Editing Component Skins to be Transparent/Have Transparent Areas

Advanced Bot Building and Glitches
Beetle Bros Advanced Building Techniques
Beetle Bros Expert Building Techniques
DSL Efficient Building Tutorial
Stock Component Stats
Stacking and Using Glitches to Build
Advanced Stacking
Trov Glitch Guide
Pause Loading
Hax Mode
Easy Axle Loading

Bot File Editing (BFE)
Guide to the Bot File
BFEing Chassis Height
BFEing a burst to 180 degrees
PyRA2 Files (Bot File Format)
BFE - A Beginner's Guide
Moving Chassis Points using BFE

Custom Component Installing
Installing Custom Components for Newbies
Unlocking Stock's 140cm Extenders

AIing - General AI Help Thread, if you can't find your answer below
Jaydee's AI Guide for Beginners
Commando38's AI Guide
Ianh05's How to AI for Newbies
Omni Smartzones
Adding New AI Teams

Modding (Advanced)
-Components
JoeBlo's Notes For Before You Mod GMFs
Component File Formating
3DS Max and RA2 - Modder's Basics
Component Attaching
How Power Consumption Works
GMF How-to's
Editing Wheel GMFs
Component Exporting
Lu-tze Wheel Tutorial
Modding RA2 Without 3DS Max
Jaydee's Component Copying Tutorial
-Arenas
Duck's Guide to Arena Modding
Arena Scripting
Creating Arena Hazards
-Other
RA2 Executable and You
Adding In-Game Events to RA2
Notepad++ tips
How to skin Components! (For Dummies)


If I've missed anything, please let me know. I will continue to update this when necessary and work out a better layout also.

[Lemonism]

List looks very comprehensive to me. This should be very useful to people, thanks for doing this.

[Resetti's Replicas]

This is excellent, Craaig.  You should put a link to this in the Tech Support thread; I believe there's a "read this before posting" sticky.

[Resetti's Replicas]

I have a recommendation for an addition; this is how to make a component see-through so that you can give it the appearance of having holes
https://gametechmods.com/forums/index.php?topic=7960.msg399097#msg399097

[Jaydee99]

I have a recommendation for an addition; this is how to make a component see-through so that you can give it the appearance of having holes
https://gametechmods.com/forums/index.php?topic=7960.msg399097#msg399097

I need this, thank you.

[cephalopod]

I have a recommendation for an addition; this is how to make a component see-through so that you can give it the appearance of having holes
https://gametechmods.com/forums/index.php?topic=7960.msg399097#msg399097

Awesome, will drop it in now. Thanks for that.
If anyone ever writes a more tutorial-ish tutorial for it let me know and I can update it, but that is more than sufficient for an addition.

[Lemonism]

There doesn't seem to be anything on making a 180 degree burst on this list, so maybe this topic (or an equivalent) could be added? https://gametechmods.com/forums/index.php?topic=16471.msg646764#msg646764

[cephalopod]

Added, thanks for that.

[G.K.]

#Shill

How to host a tournament:

https://gametechmods.com/forums/index.php?topic=11455.0

(Probsbly needs some updating with new rules but I'm happy to do that after next Wednesday and exams)

[yugitom]

#Shill

How to host a tournament:

https://gametechmods.com/forums/index.php?topic=11455.0

(Probsbly needs some updating with new rules but I'm happy to do that after next Wednesday and exams)

I remember following this closely when I started out with my first tournament :). I don't think it'll need that many adjustments because it did my first tournament good and that wasn't too long ago.

[Jaydee99]

https://gametechmods.com/forums/index.php?topic=17563.0


this hasn't been included

[cephalopod]

Edited the layout slightly, creating a new BFE section and dividing 'Modding (Advanced)' into relevant sub-sections.

[cephalopod]

Planning on giving this a big update over the next few days, if you're bored and wanna post links to some tut's I've not got listed as of yet it'd be muchly appreciated :)

[Billy5545]

Digging this, but good thing Hop updated the index with some new tutorials