Scripting????

[5292nate]

Hey folks!

So, I've gotten the basic gist of scripting, but I honestly have no clue where on earth to begin applying it to anything in the game. I can't find it in any tutorials or manuals. Help???!!!

Thanks!

Nate

[eyein12]

Hey folks!

So, I've gotten the basic gist of scripting, but I honestly have no clue where on earth to begin applying it to anything in the game. I can't find it in any tutorials or manuals. Help???!!!

Thanks!

Nate

best to find a .lua that was done a while ago and study it. All my models come with a .lua instead of the new file that hides the code. I just studied Rick Grouts lua. thats what I did and since then I applied that knowledge and tweaked it to what I wanted to do.

ian

[Chacal]

Yes, that's good advice.

All my models come with a .lua instead of the new file that hides the code.

Thanks for that, Ian.
I wish all modelers would do the same.
Or explain why they don't want to share the knowledge.
Or maybe they don't have control over what DTG distributes.

[dogrokket]

Hey folks!

So, I've gotten the basic gist of scripting, but I honestly have no clue where on earth to begin applying it to anything in the game. I can't find it in any tutorials or manuals. Help???!!!

Thanks!

Nate

Nate, first thing I did was download a free lua editor. Here's a good one that I've used: http://luaedit.sourceforge.net/ There's also a helpful signaling tutorial in the TS developer docs. I had to do some scripting on a scenery object and got a lot of help from guys here and on UKTS. You can find it in the scenery design forum. Good luck!

[dogrokket]

Just remembered this one: https://docs.google.com/document/d/19gnyrDe553WTy6AJqqLCkGyMfFwIFDnR9oeVGCflcdE/mobilebasic?pli=1. Nice reference tool!

[Chacal]

Just wanted to add that a lua editor is not a must.
You can easily go with an advanced text editor like Notepad++, which highlights code and indents correctly.

[5292nate]

Thanks guys!