A guide to scripting - Ready at last!

mstrkaratakus · Post by **mstrkaratakus** » Sun, 1. Jun 08, 19:34

Its funny how this game keeps going, even after X3 has come out and been running wild for awhile. I blame it on Gametap! I hadn't even heard of this game until I found it there. Then I had download it from direct2drive so I could actualy play a version I could run scripts on. You guys got me hooked. Now I need to learn to script myself and I really would LOVE to have a copy of this guide. If anyone has it hidden away in some dark corner of their hard drive, or has a link to it somewhere, I would be most appreciative if you could suppy me with said files or link. PM me and I'll supply an email addy

Thanks in advance to anyone who can help, and a HUGE thank you to all those who have worked so hard at the scripts I'm already running in my games.

rkrisher · Post by **rkrisher** » Sat, 21. Jun 08, 00:31

I can't find anyones e-mail address or I'd send it. I have the Linux version of X2 It came with a mod kit to extract the scripts from the archive files and place them in the right directories and two docs, one for script editing and one for Galaxy editing. They should work for you winduhhs people too.

lutorm · Post by **lutorm** » Wed, 19. Nov 08, 18:49

Me too. You start clicking the X3TC tutorial pages to X3 tutorial to X2 tutorial and you end up looking for this guide which is the point of origin for learning about scripting. And it's gone. Can someone put it at an accessible location? Please?

kel187 · Post by **kel187** » Fri, 21. Nov 08, 18:17

lutorm wrote:Me too. You start clicking the X3TC tutorial pages to X3 tutorial to X2 tutorial and you end up looking for this guide which is the point of origin for learning about scripting. And it's gone. Can someone put it at an accessible location? Please?

i absolutely agree with lutorm. we want to learn scripting, and instead of bothering the experienced scripters, we followed the tutorials, to find out that x3tc SE is very similar to x3r SE. and then, second aha, we found out that x3r SE is very close to x2 SE. and then you land here, where noobs as me should start, and finding nothin'.....

sorry, i'm just a lil' bit frustrated, i didnt want to offend someone, just releasing some pressure....

baubsmyth · Post by **baubsmyth** » Fri, 21. Nov 08, 23:54

The Community Plugins sticky has links to tools & documents, as well as mods & scripts. If you look at the bottom of the first post you will see that Moggy2 provides a link to "the scripting handbook at Xai Corp". Lot's of fantastic scripting info there.

kel187 · Post by **kel187** » Sat, 22. Nov 08, 00:31

very nice, thanks mate

exactly what i needed. i hope i can realize what i have in mind...

tamaron · Post by **tamaron** » Thu, 16. Jul 09, 09:43

Hi
could you re-upload it please?
Your website is down
Thanks in advance
PD: or someone could send me his pdf

Wizlawz · Post by **Wizlawz** » Fri, 25. Sep 09, 19:15

hi, i am a beginner for scripting,.. the page 1 top post "link" is not dead but i cant open any of the "icons" does not say when the site wil be back up.

Lord Dakier · Post by **Lord Dakier** » Sat, 26. Sep 09, 14:11

Some websites like this are either down or just simply dont work now. Especially early guides like this.

You could always head on over to Xai Corporation they may have something. Just type it in google and you'll find it.

Or checkout the X3 stuff as some things may just be the same.

cattafett · Post by **cattafett** » Tue, 3. Nov 09, 07:36

i'm like 99.9% i've still got this somewhere if you pm me your emails i'll send it this evening. I can;t upload it as it's not mine
p.s. thank the RNG and a bad mouse as i was clicking XTC Scripts and Modding

expnobody · Post by **expnobody** » Tue, 14. Dec 10, 19:46

there are no download link on the site.

Post by **X2-Illuminatus** » Tue, 14. Dec 10, 21:31

The reasons, why there is no download link, didn't change in the last years. The author of the guide wasn't online for about 6 years and unfortunately there is nothing like eternal availability in the internet.
You could PM cattafett, which said a post over yours, that he still have the tutorial (though his post is also over a year old). Another possibilty would be to download a different tutorial. The MSCI Programmer's Handbook provided by Egosoft gives also some basic instructions into scripting and can be downloaded from the Download section -> X2 -> Bonus Material.

rangerdart · Post by **rangerdart** » Fri, 6. May 11, 14:06

Ive just got back from multiple operational tours in real life, x-source is coming back to life and ill get this scripting guide up as soon as possible.

Sorry for any incovience for last couple of years

Ranger (aka Raven)

therablueray · Post by **therablueray** » Sat, 16. Jul 11, 04:45

That large pdf is a hard to digest...A new tutorial would be awesome...

Brandrew · Post by **Brandrew** » Mon, 8. Dec 14, 16:38

Unless you like shopping for shoes that is

tawhitt · Post by **tawhitt** » Fri, 21. Aug 15, 04:12

Hey guys,this script editor thing is not working i have tried it in space and while docked with the T CAPPED. and in lower case nothing works,this is what i did i undocked stopped my ship clicked on the pilot tab then the change name then changed it to Thereshallbewings,and i get nothing am i doing something wrong?

Post by **X2-Illuminatus** » Fri, 21. Aug 15, 09:59

Which game are you playing now? X2: The Threat or X3: Reunion, as your other posts in the Technical Support forum suggest?

In X2: The Threat you have to type in 'Thereshallbewings' while being in space. Changing your playername was first introduced with X3R.

In any case, there are two reasons why activating the Script Editor may not work:
1. You made a mistake, when typing in Thereshallbewings. You mentioned the capital T already, but make sure that you also have the double 'l' (i.e. two lowercase 'L's). You need to make a little pause between the key press of the same letter. Otherwise the game will not recognize it.
2. The Script Editor was already activated.

See also the FAQ articles about activating the Script Editor for reference:

[X2-FAQ] How do I open the Script Editor
[X3R-FAQ] Activating the Script Editor

tawhitt · Post by **tawhitt** » Fri, 7. Oct 16, 02:16

Hey bro,maybe i am blind but someone asked for the link to your guide and u said at the top of the page,but if its there i can't see it i know this is an old post but i thought i would try,because i can't script at all.

Post by **X2-Illuminatus** » Fri, 7. Oct 16, 09:41

X2-Illuminatus wrote:The reasons, why there is no download link, didn't change in the last years. The author of the guide wasn't online for about 6 years and unfortunately there is nothing like eternal availability in the internet.
[...] Another possibilty would be to download a different tutorial. The MSCI Programmer's Handbook provided by Egosoft gives also some basic instructions into scripting and can be downloaded from the Download section -> X2 -> Bonus Material.

Quoting myself here, since this is still relevant. Only that the inactivity of the author meanwhile increased to 12 years.

Finlayson · Post by **Finlayson** » Sun, 7. May 23, 00:19

Yep, it is 2023, and I just felt the need to look into X2 scripting. And of course, the above mentioned scripting guide is no longer there, the domain now owned by some company as it seems.

But as the saying goes, the internet does not forget. So for anybody needing the guide in 2023 here is a link to the scripting guide on the internets eternal memory, a.k.a wayback machine / archive.org:

ScriptGuide.PDF

Cheers,
F.

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