UPDATE! The 3.20b patch for Linux included the wrong manuals. The correct ones have been attached to this thread and will be removed once the new patch is ready. These manuals are newer than the ones in the Windows patch, but not up to date on the upcoming mod commands.
Now that patch 3.20 is out, the old modding and mapedit PDF guides are gone, replaced by new versions. This thread is specifically for feedback on the new manuals. It is important that the people who use them give feedback so that if there are errors, omissions or unclear things in the manuals, they can be corrected.
The v3.18 Modding Manual is probably already familiar to most modders, since it is an upgraded version of the
v3.17 UnOfficial Reorganized Modding Manual (UORMM). Feedback is once more welcome, because there have been some changes (some of the reordering for editorial reasons, for example), but the document should be free of most big booboos.
The v3.18 Mapmaking Manual is another story entirely. It is completely new, significantly expanded and totally reorganized. It contains a fair bit of original new text as well. More importantly, only a very few people have seen it before the patch came out. Therefore feedback on the Mapmaking Manual is essential for its continued improvement.
It should be noted that the latest draft of the Mapmaking Manual did not make it into the 3.20 patch. The v3.20 draft has had all the typos and spelling errors corrected out of it, so it is not necessary to report those, the most glaring one of which is the "manipulatiopn" typo in section 6.
I need your opinions on the new manuals. I want to know it all, what's good, what's bad and what's ugly. So let me have it.
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