Tuesday, April 14, 2009

VBS2 Online Help

In response to the repetition of queries on the official forums I've decided to create a set of videos on how to use the online help facilities provided by BIA to easily find the documentation you're looking for. This is the first such video, please ignore the background audio, my lounge room isn't exactly a recording facility!

What I will cover very briefly is how to use the onlinehelp search function, because 50% of forum queries can be answered by searching this documentation, and other provided documentation with VBS2.






Below is a list of documentation on VBS2 as well as Armed Assault that may prove helpful to newcomers and veterans alike, in addition I've included a list of hardware vendor websites that include drivers, as well as a download location for DirectX 9.0c straight from Microsoft, these drivers should only be used in the event that the VBS2 driver install fails, or you experience graphical issues with your nVidia or ATi graphics card. I have not included any resource that is restricted by forum access rights.

Homepage/News:
http://www.vbs2.com

Official Support Page:
http://virtualbattlespace.vbs2.com/inde ... &Itemid=77 -- Contains most of the links you see here, the ones I've omitted are not available to Serious Gamers due to forum access restrictions.

Online User, Editor, Administrator and other manuals (latest versions):
http://developer.vbs2.com/manuals

Online Developer Manuals (latest versions):
http://developer.vbs2.com/onlinehelp

If the manuals fail 
SEARCH the forums!:
http://support.vbs2.com/phpbb3/search.php -- e.g. "VBS2 Crashes to Desktop"

Resource sites/useful stuff:
http://www.ofpec.com/ -- General Editing, geared towards ArmA, however applicable to VBS2
http://www.kronzky.info/ -- Utility scripts for ArmA and VBS2 from BIA's own Kronzky
http://www.armaholic.com/ -- Armed Assault oriented content, however a useful reference that applies to VBS2
http://www.armedassault.info/ -- As per armaholic.
http://community.bistudio.com/wiki/ -- The official BiStudio wiki
http://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Cate ... g_Commands -- ArmA scripting commands
http://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Cate ... mands_VBS2 -- VBS2 Scripting Commands
http://www.armaholic.com/page.php?id=3782 -- Mr. Murray ArmA Editing Guide - applies mostly to VBS2 old editor [German/PDF]
http://www.armaholic.com/page.php?id=4847 -- As above [English/PDF]

Hardware Drivers (if the VBS2 supplied driver install doesn't work):
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/deta ... laylang=en -- DirectX 9.0c Web Installer
http://www.aladdin.com/support/hasp/enduser.aspx -- HASP Drivers, you'd be after the HASP HL Device Drivers
http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-us -- nVidia Display drivers
http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/Pages/index.aspx -- ATi Display drivers


I will probably add to this list as time goes on, so expect occasional updates.

Jamie.

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