MD command list?

[Juggernaut93]

Hi, in the old X games there was a file which listed all the possible Mission Director commands (i.e. tags) with their parameters, etc.
Is there something similar for XR, or should I explore the existing MD files to find them on my own?

[wysiwyg]

If you extract the entire game you get a file called scriptproperties.xml that you can load and search in a browser (firefox seems the only one I can make work).

Also:

Look in /libraries at the *.xsd files - these list all the scripting commands for MD and AI as well as details of type defs etc. common.xsd contains commands iirc

If you use an XML editor you should make it point to these *.xsd files and you should get tool tip documentation and schema auto-complete and error/semantics checking.

[Juggernaut93]

Excellent! Thank you!

[w.evans]

There's also a lot of documentation on commands available in:

libraries\common.xsd (for commands for both md and aiscripts),
libraries\md.xsd (commands for md)
and libraries\aiscripts.xsd (commands for aiscripts)

scriptproperties.html is occasionally useful too.

edit: should've read wysiwyg's post after I've had more coffee in me.

[YorrickVander]

As a further help I'd recommend using visual studio 2013 community edition for your xml needs. It's free and will give you handy tooltips on commands and tell you if you've used incorrect parameters if you specify the path properly for your extracted XR files. In my case this looks like

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<aiscript name="YAT.mining.ship.collect" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="c:\temp\rebirth\libraries\aiscripts.xsd" version="5">

[Juggernaut93]

Thank you all!

@YorrickVander: yeah, I used VS for TC/AP too, very useful

[Juggernaut93]

Another question: to create a simple menu with a "text area", I have to use UI modding in Lua, right? Or am I missing something?

[YorrickVander]

ui modding is in lua yes