I've now added a link to the Modding forum archive where you can find every thread and reply posted on this forum.

If you look through them you'll find that there are many many threads with information in them at a basic and a more advanced level which is of great help to modders, but which was never fully compiled into the Guides forum for easy reference.

This leads to the situation where newcomers are often required to reinvent the wheel and ask the same questions time after time, while other members have to type out the same answer time after time as there is no guide that can be easily linked to.

I would greatly encourage every newcomer - and every other member - to the forum to look to contribute to the Guides forum (especially in this thread) when they discover how to do something that they couldn't find there already. It is an excellent method of both helping out your colleagues and gaining a reputation as a valuable member of the community. The more everyone in the community contributes to it, the more we shall all receive from it.