ACE3/docs/wiki/user/ace3-and-acex.md

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title: ACE3 and ACEX
description: Overview of what ACE3 and ACEX mods are.
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parent: wiki
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## 1. ACE3

**ACE3** is a joint effort by the teams behind **ACE2**, **AGM** and **CSE** to improve the realism and authenticity of Arma 3.

It provides many [features](../feature) which enhance realism gameplay, and provides [frameworks](../framework) which mission makers, modders and scripters can use to enhance their own missions and mods.

## 2. ACEX

**ACEX** was an optional package of mods that complimented the ACE3 modification.

<div class="panel callout">
    <p><b>ACEX was merged into ACE3 v3.14.0!</b> Remove it if you still have it installed.</p>
</div>
Add wiki ACEX sections and merge Mission Makers and Framework sections (#4307) * Update documentation guidelines * Add version info part 1 * Add version info part 2 * Add removed in version to frontmatter and tag testmissions as removed * Add version info part 3 * Seaparate ACE3 and ACEX Features/Framework menus, Add ACEX Headless documentation * Add ACEX support to extract_dependencies.py * Merge useful-functions into frameworks * Move class-names to main menu * Prettify class-names table titles * Fix table of contents on documentation guidelines and tips * Merge mission-tools into frameworks * Merge modules into frameworks * Rename to Frameworks (plural) * Fix capitalization in class-names * Improve wiki menu positioning * Add 'mod' to documentation guidelines * Update frameworks sections description for new content * Update wiki menu descriptions * Fix class-names 4 digit versions * More places for descriptions * Include documentation in PRs if applicable note * Add short ACE3 and ACEX description page, outlining the difference 2016-09-08 19:19:07 +00:00			`---`
			`layout: wiki`
			`title: ACE3 and ACEX`
			`description: Overview of what ACE3 and ACEX mods are.`
			`group: user`
			`order: 0`
			`parent: wiki`
			`---`

			`## 1. ACE3`

			`ACE3 is a joint effort by the teams behind ACE2, AGM and CSE to improve the realism and authenticity of Arma 3.`

			`It provides many [features](../feature) which enhance realism gameplay, and provides [frameworks](../framework) which mission makers, modders and scripters can use to enhance their own missions and mods.`

			`## 2. ACEX`

Documentation - Merge ACEX (#8526) * Documentation - Merge ACEX * Only show ACEX prefix note on framework pages * Documentation - Use ACEX prefix in Fortify events See #8553 * Cleanup acex from config.yml * English is weird Co-authored-by: PabstMirror <pabstmirror@gmail.com> 2021-10-21 16:27:25 +00:00			`ACEX was an optional package of mods that complimented the ACE3 modification.`

			`<div class="panel callout">`
			`<p><b>ACEX was merged into ACE3 v3.14.0!</b> Remove it if you still have it installed.</p>`
			`</div>`
Add wiki ACEX sections and merge Mission Makers and Framework sections (#4307) * Update documentation guidelines * Add version info part 1 * Add version info part 2 * Add removed in version to frontmatter and tag testmissions as removed * Add version info part 3 * Seaparate ACE3 and ACEX Features/Framework menus, Add ACEX Headless documentation * Add ACEX support to extract_dependencies.py * Merge useful-functions into frameworks * Move class-names to main menu * Prettify class-names table titles * Fix table of contents on documentation guidelines and tips * Merge mission-tools into frameworks * Merge modules into frameworks * Rename to Frameworks (plural) * Fix capitalization in class-names * Improve wiki menu positioning * Add 'mod' to documentation guidelines * Update frameworks sections description for new content * Update wiki menu descriptions * Fix class-names 4 digit versions * More places for descriptions * Include documentation in PRs if applicable note * Add short ACE3 and ACEX description page, outlining the difference 2016-09-08 19:19:07 +00:00