====== ArmA 2 Config Basics ======

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This page should help you understand the //basic function// of configs.


====== cfgPatches ======

This is where you setup your addon name and some small stuff like requiredaddons etc.


====== cfgAmmo ======

These are the ammo projectiles that are fired from weapon, these are doing the damage on anything they hit. Ammo can be bullets, rockets, bombs, etc.


====== cfgMagazines ======

Magazines are the items that hold the ammo, ie cfgAmmo entries. For example your usual M16 magazine says it hold 30x the 5.56mm ammo.


====== cfgWeapons ======

Weapons are the actual weapons that fire the ammo, which is stored in the magazines. Weapons can be held by Man class units, vehicles or static weapons.


====== cfgVehicles ======

Vehicles are pretty much everything that can be "played". The most common cfgVehicle item is a Man class soldier. Then there is vehicles, static weapons and objects which mostly are placed into mission editor, like bunker or a tree etc.


====== cfgWorlds ======

These are the terrains, everything about how terrain is setup in the pbo, its name and grid coordinates, name labels etc come from this config.


====== cfgRecoils ======

Recoils are for the man class weapons, they are linked to the cfgAmmo. When you fire a ammo, the cfgWeapons config is checked of the weapons recoils, which are setup here.