"A guide to scripting" - almost ready

marklaverty · Post by **marklaverty** » Mon, 26. Apr 04, 14:12

Hello everyone

just to let you know over at http://www.x2source.com we are preparing a guide to the script editor and script writing. It'll take you right through from enabling the script editor to concepts like Arrays, compound conditional statement etc etc.

Should be ready in a week or so and it'll be constantly expanded and updated. If you get the chance you can keep an eye on the thread in the scripting forum as it's updated daily with progress reports.

Whilst it won't teach alot of people in this forum anything new it should be pretty handy for those just starting out.

List of contents so far and progress....

PROGRESS UPDATE:-

1) Introduction DONE
2) Activating and Accessing the Script Editor DONE
3) Basic Script Editor use and Variables DONE
4) Basic Concepts
More variables DONE
Arguments DONE
Script calls DONE
Time outs DONE
Loops and If, If Not, While, While Not, GO TO 30%
Arrays

5) Init and Language files
Adding new commands to the command menus
Creating new scripting wares that people can buy at stations

Any further sugestions on contents/topics would be gratefully recieved

Kailric · Post by **Kailric** » Mon, 26. Apr 04, 17:39

Sounds super!!

marklaverty · Post by **marklaverty** » Mon, 26. Apr 04, 17:52

Sounds super!!

Cheers dude

It's taken days just to get it this far, and I'm only on 20 pages (and that's with no screen shots, just text), gonna be more like 40 when it's done.

Eldorado · Post by **Eldorado** » Mon, 26. Apr 04, 19:52

Sounds cool!

Reaper7 · Post by **Reaper7** » Mon, 26. Apr 04, 21:08

Excellent just whats needed

marklaverty · Post by **marklaverty** » Tue, 27. Apr 04, 00:32

Thought it would help things out. The 'official' documentation is non existent and everything else is just 'a bit here' and 'a bit there'.

I'll expand it as we go aswell adding to it as I find out new things

Argonaught. · Post by **Argonaught.** » Tue, 27. Apr 04, 03:54

marklaverty wrote:Thought it would help things out. The 'official' documentation is non existent and everything else is just 'a bit here' and 'a bit there'.

I'll expand it as we go aswell adding to it as I find out new things

marklaverty.........YOU THE MAN!!!!!!!!!!! please accept these ( infinity x

)

marklaverty · Post by **marklaverty** » Tue, 27. Apr 04, 12:12

marklaverty.........YOU THE MAN!!!!!!!!!!! please accept these ( infinity x )

Cheers

Should be ready by the weekend/early next week. If anyone's got anything they specificly want covered let me know or post over at X2 source.

If I don't know how to do it I'l find out.

Witchking · Post by **Witchking** » Tue, 27. Apr 04, 22:24

is there a "Scripting for Complete Morons", version planned cos I'll wait for that

jnrk · Post by **jnrk** » Wed, 28. Apr 04, 00:43

@marklaverty
Sounds very familiar to me...

@All
If you are able to understand german language take a look at the United-Script-Tutorial.

http://www.egosoft.com/x2/forum/viewtopic.php?t=38047

Yours,
jnrk

R4v3n · Post by **R4v3n** » Wed, 28. Apr 04, 12:54

Well i can read some german and i can see that it doesnt seem to have a walkthrough on a script, more how to write sections of a script and also, many people in the english community cant read german so and english one wouldnt hurt

jnrk · Post by **jnrk** » Wed, 28. Apr 04, 15:16

of course is an english one a good idea. I guess we can learn a lot from each other...

Yours,
jnrk

_Christian_ · Post by **_Christian_** » Wed, 28. Apr 04, 16:21

Will this guide be downloadable, or on-line?

I cannot access the Internet from home, so it will be useless to me in the second case. And I suspect that I am far to be the only one in that case.

R4v3n · Post by **R4v3n** » Thu, 29. Apr 04, 10:30

both, the details will be put onto the main site and also be downloadable in pdf format

marklaverty · Post by **marklaverty** » Thu, 29. Apr 04, 13:04

Almost ready, just being proof read and tested

PROGRESS UPDATE:-

1) Introduction DONE
2) Activating and Accessing the Script Editor DONE
3) Basic Script Editor use and Variables DONE
4) Basic Concepts
More variables DONE
Arguments DONE
Script calls DONE
Time outs DONE
While, While Not and GO TO DONE
If, If Not, and Expressions DONE
Arrays DONE

is there a "Scripting for Complete Morons", version planned cos I'll wait for that

This is the scripting for morons guide

takes you through form enabling the script editor to all kinds of funky stuff. 32 pages of it (no screen shots, just pure tutorial

).

samyotix · Post by **samyotix** » Sat, 1. May 04, 20:18

Fantastic stuff man, thanks for the scriptinh tutorial

Howlingmad · Post by **Howlingmad** » Sun, 2. May 04, 17:24

Please post a link soonest.

BradThorn · Post by **BradThorn** » Mon, 3. May 04, 10:32

Looking forward to it dude.

marklaverty · Post by **marklaverty** » Tue, 4. May 04, 16:09

Hey,

.doc and .pdf versions have just been passed to RAVEN ( <-x2 source admin) for uploading at X2 source.com.

Should be available soon.... enjoy!

kryptyk · Post by **kryptyk** » Wed, 5. May 04, 21:01

marklaverty wrote:Hey,

.doc and .pdf versions have just been passed to RAVEN ( <-x2 source admin) for uploading at X2 source.com.

Should be available soon.... enjoy!

sweet.....