Tutorial : Opening The Script Editor

[LV]

Tutorial Opening The Script Editor



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Once you are In game go to change name





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Be VERY careful how you write "Thereshallbewings"

It must be one word and it is VERY easy to miss a letter out.

If you names stays the same after typing it (e.g. above it would remain as "Player")

If it changes to Thereshall be wings then you have typed something wrong or already opened the SE



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Once open when you open your ship menu and press "s" on the keyboard it will open the SE





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Remember that sometimes if a script you have loaded seem not to work you may need to save your game and reload or press the "reinit script caches option" once.

[eskeemer]

I`m trying to get to the script editer told to go to the name change screen and type in there "Thereshallbewings" how do I get to this screen then what do i do?

[fud]

Go to your pilot menu, hit "m", then enter the name. There'll be a slight pause in the game.


Scotty, two to beam up.

[Cycrow]

onces its enabled, you can open it via the hotkey, or by going to your global commands menu

[eskeemer]

thanks for that but I still can`t sort it out do i go to personell box if so I can`t get to pilot name sorry to be a pain but I`ve tried everything so I need a little more guidance I think

[Deathifier]

[DitDog]

ive got the Script editor running, i see a long list of scripts in the script tasks, but when i open the AL plugin, nothing shows up...is there something i'm not doing?

[LV]

[canslow]

Having a heck of a time learning about scripts here, so much info. Anyways, I have a question, and not sure where to post it, perhaps you can help LV. Is there a way to get rid of Extension commands/hotkeys from the list in Options/Controls/Extensions? I have several of them that are no longer in use and want to clean up that menu. Thanks!

[LV]

the scripts may uninstall them for you, ask in the thread you got the script from as the author will be able to tell you then

[canslow]

Thanks LV, got them uninstalled.

[Thygrrr]

I have a question.... is this in-game script editor the only way to actually edit the scripts? It seems immensely clunky and unintuitive (to a long time 'traditional' programmer such as me, at least).

To think that all those amazing complex and trade management scipts were made using this editor boggles my mind so much that I actually refuse to believe it


So far, the script XMLs seem difficult to edit at best; I didn't bother feeding them into some kind of there-and-back transform/parser engine yet, but I doubt that'd really simplify things. So, how do the pros edit their scripts? I can't see anyone talk about that in these tutorials... (I promise to double-check, though).


I am actually starting to suspect a lot, if not all of the original stock scripts by Egosoft were made in this Editor, as well. Would kind of explain a lot of things...

[Cycrow]

you can tell you now, that all the built in scripts were made in the normal editor

as for editing the xml, thats not even that easy, because the xml you see in the file is not used by the game, and is generated to make to human readable when opening up using a style sheet.

the actual script coding that the game uses is all inside the <codearray>

[Thygrrr]

[quote="Cycrow"]you can tell you now, that all the built in scripts were made in the normal editor


Wow, this is amazing. Shocking from a technical standpoint, too, but also amazing. Kudos to you guys!

Thanks for the quick answer.

[Kabal316]

So i'm really new to this game but every time I try to activate the script editor by changing my pilot's name it causes the game to freeze and I have to kill the operation from the Program manager. I've searched the forums but haven't been able to find a solution. Anyone Have any ideas?