Elven scripting tutorials

[Elven]

Thanks Kyle ! I'll make special video about it next time then ! Very good idea ! My plan is to give all the basic and important stuff for scripter and to make them understand the scripting, not copy paste everything.

Can you explain that little bit more tho, just for myself: for (x = 1; x > 5 && x < 0; x++) { AddTimer("timer"x, x * 1.5, "TimerFunction01") }

Especially the beginning part

[Juby]

(08-28-2011 05:36 PM)Elven Wrote:  Thanks Kyle ! I'll make special video about it next time then ! Very good idea ! My plan is to give all the basic and important stuff for scripter and to make them understand the scripting, not copy paste everything.

Can you explain that little bit more tho, just for myself: for (x = 1; x > 5 && x < 0; x++) { AddTimer("timer"x, x * 1.5, "TimerFunction01") }

Especially the beginning part

for(int x = 1; x (greater than) 5 (and) x (less than) 0; x(adds 1)) { AddTimer("timer"+x, x (times) 1.5, "TimerFunction01") }

the information in the parenthesis explain what each part does.

[Kyle]

First, let me strech this out, so to say...

void OnStart()
{
for (int x = 1; x > 5 && x < 0; x++)
{
AddTimer("timer"+x, x * 1.5, "TimerFunction01");
}
}

Sorry about this, but it appears I was running too quick through this when typing it out those few months ago. The bolded parts are the areas where I should have put something.

Now the explanation.

A "for" loop is used to do something under certain conditions. It is mostly used with numbers that can be used multiple times to shorten your script. The parameters, or the things between the parentheses, "(" and ")", are seperated between a simicolon ( ; ). The first parameter, is the counter, which is the counting variable with it's inital value. The second one is the condition(s), this is where it loops when the conditions are true. The last parameter determines the change in the value of the variable, which is usually + 1 of it's current value (repesented by the variable++ (x++ in this case)).

When the loop is initiated, it creates multiple instances of the variable. Like any other AddTimer command function, there is it's local name, it's name before initiated, and then the name of the timer function.

With the code above in mind, I will create another piece of code which does the exact same thing, and as you can see, the code is much more repeated in a sense.

Code: (Select All)

void OnStart()
{
     AddTimer("timer1", 1.5, "TimerFunction01");
     AddTimer("timer2", 3, "TimerFunction01");
     AddTimer("timer3", 4.5, "TimerFunction01");
     AddTimer("timer4", 6, "TimerFunction01");
}

Go here for more information:

http://wiki.frictionalgames.com/hpl2/tutorials/forloop

[Elven]

Thank you Kyle ! I am not much smarter as well !

[Elven]

Hey. IT has been a while. School started and I was little bit busy. But I got part 3 up. This time title is "timers" !

[Elven]

Added Piano Scare tutorial

[Elven]

Many people had problems with adding credits. So I created quick tutorial just for credits. How to add credits

[Elven]

Feels so weird posting all alone. But here is something what was requested:

Setting up development mode!

[Elven]

Added this: Make your life easier: Notepad++ with plugin & Debugging!

[trollox]

i might sound retarded Elven but could you make a tortorial about installing that extra thingy to the
c++ ? i can't get it to work! I'm it's annoying me :C Would be awesome.
Trollox.

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That test installation just confused me