Scripting site

[Mr.Cool]

Does anyone here know a site that has a tutorial how to teach you how to script??? I have been trying to find a site but I can't.

[macguba]

Oh dear.   Oh dear oh dear oh dear.    You have definitely said the wrong thing.    ;D

OFPEC is by far and away the best site for tutorials.    In fact in our Editors Depot (link at the top of this page) there are 31 tutorials devoted to scripting alone.

The best ones to get you started are snYpir's A Friendly Intro to Code Snippets and Johan Gustafsson's Scripting Tutorial.    I would also recommend that you spend an hour or two getting to know OFPEC.  

Oh, and

Welcome to the forum!

[bored_onion]

macguba is right - you have found the site just try and use it

i learned everything i know from ofpec and i wouldn't recognise myself in terms of scripting ability from a few months ago

do not underestimate the power of OFPEC....

[Fire-Fox]

macguba is right - you have found the site just try and use it

i learned everything i know from ofpec and i wouldn't recognise myself in terms of scripting ability from a few months ago

do not underestimate the power of OFPEC....

Oh yeah, same with me (and a LOT of other people here, I'm sure). Big thanks from me to the OFPEC community!!!  

ps: The only thing NOBODY, not even OFPEC, will ever be able to teach me is using dialogs and the drop command. ;D Yet I have to say that I do already understand some of the drop command parameters!!!

Well, thanks again, all of you!

[General Barron]

ps: The only thing NOBODY, not even OFPEC, will ever be able to teach me is using dialogs and the drop command.  Yet I have to say that I do already understand some of the drop command parameters!!!

Drop command is easy to use. Grab vectorboson's drop command tut for starters. Next, grab one of the dialog drop generators from the script section, and use it to get the hang of how the particles look. But when it gets right down to it, it takes a lot of trial and error to get a good looking drop.

Dialogs are more complicated, and I don't know them that well, but they aren't impossible. Grab vectorboson's dialog tut and read it. Also, grab Razorwing's dialog generator, which will save you TONS of time in the whole trial and error phase when you are trying to get it to look just right. Then, start with simple dialogs, like a "confirm save" dialog for example.

[ocnick]

Lol @ Mr. Cool.  It's ok, we all overlook the easy answers sometimes  .  

Might wanna add this question to the FAQ just to cover all ends  .

[Fire-Fox]

Drop command is easy to use. Grab vectorboson's drop command tut for starters. Next, grab one of the dialog drop generators from the script section, and use it to get the hang of how the particles look. But when it gets right down to it, it takes a lot of trial and error to get a good looking drop.

Dialogs are more complicated, and I don't know them that well, but they aren't impossible. Grab vectorboson's dialog tut and read it. Also, grab Razorwing's dialog generator, which will save you TONS of time in the whole trial and error phase when you are trying to get it to look just right. Then, start with simple dialogs, like a "confirm save" dialog for example.

Drop command: Did some experimenting with the drop command the last few days, and by now I'm actually able to create simple things, for example I just created a yellow smoke grenade for choppers to estimate the wind direction, based on a script by Babalon.

Dialogs: No advance here, this is too complicated, much more than "just" learning the 15 parameters of one command ;D. Thanks for the advise, I have downloaded the dialog generator and will start maybe on weekend.


ps: I finally managed to download your mission "Realistic Combat Patrol", will try it now (I have always problems when downloading from OFPEC). Your description sounds awesome