[HELP] Scripting Help

[Cycrow]

I've been asked quite a few times about making basic scripts, so i decided to make a small guide for enalbing the script editor and creating your first script.

can be found here

Guides Available

• Enabling the Script Editor
• Creating Your First Script
• Money Cheat Script - How to add script commands
• Manually Running Scripts
• Notority Cheat Script
• Creating Text Files
• Using Command Slots
• Conditional Statements
• Using Script Arguments
• Adding custom Wares
• Creating a Hotkey script
• Creating an AL Plugin

[Brand-X]

Thanks, Cycrow.

I'll probably find it very useful.

[Cycrow]

Added some more to the page, will most likly be adding more to it over time

so far its dealing with those you want to make a few simple scripts, like adding money/notorty, etc

[Brand-X]

I loaded a fresh copy of x3 on my second hard drive and started a new game, as the Bankrupt Assassin. Followed your directions and gave myself 10 mil. Easiest money I ever made. And it showed up as soon as I closed the editor window and looked at my player statistics.

So I tried the race rank thing and initially used a value of 40, but when I closed the editor and checked my stats, that part hadn't seemed to have changed. So I reduced the value to 20, saved and pressed 'r' , then exited to look at my stats. They still hadn't changed. Did I do something wrong?

Yout tut is very nicely presented, by the way. Looks good and loads up fast over dial-up.

[Stevo Primus]

Well, Cycrow, I'm shocked.....

In the "add notoriety" script the first variable is the race that you intend to add/remove rep to/from and the second variable is where you would insert "player" as the race!

Other than that the guide's looking nice!

Hope that clears that one up for you IntergalacticBadAss...

Stevo

[Cycrow]

ah i didn't notice that

that'll teach me to write it when im half asleep

i will update the corrected version

[Brand-X]

Yeah, that was it.

Thanks, Stevo

I can see how it could easily happen tho.
The syntax is somewhat misleading, at least to a noob like myself.

It literally says - 'Argon increase notoriety: race = player: value = xx'
Which works.

But it looked better the first way, more logical.

'Player increase notoriety: race = Argon: value = xx'
Which didn't work.

[Cycrow]

I've added 2 new sections of help.

Creating Text Files
Using Command Slots

[kylereich]

Cycrow. First off, thanks for the tutorial.

After I stumbled onto your large script library, I began to have a few ideas of my own. Having never scripted within X2 or X3 your tutorial has set me on my path. However, I noticed a couple typo's that should probably be fixed. Under the Using Command Slots section, you have the following code listed:

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<language id="44">
<page id="2008" title="Script Cmd Names" descr="">
 <t id="240">COMMAND_TEST_TRADE_COMMAND</t>
</page>

<page id="2010" title="Script Cmd Names" descr="">
 <t id="240">Test Trade Command
</page>

<page id="2011" title="Script Cmd Shorts" descr="">
 <t id="240">Test
</page>
</language>

In the section below, I've added "</t>" in the second and third code portions:

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<language id="44">
<page id="2008" title="Script Cmd Names" descr="">
 <t id="240">COMMAND_TEST_TRADE_COMMAND</t>
</page>

<page id="2010" title="Script Cmd Names" descr="">
 <t id="240">Test Trade Command</t>
</page>

<page id="2011" title="Script Cmd Shorts" descr="">
 <t id="240">Test</t>
</page>
</language>

Thanks again, and keep up the excellent work!

-Kyle

[Cycrow]

ah i didn't notice those

thanks

i must forgot to change the tag so it displays in html

[Cycrow]

i've updated the help page, now includes guildes for wares, hotkeys and AL plugins

[Cker]

Was thinking of looking at it, but...
Doesn't seem to be working, has the page moved or been deleted?

[Cycrow]

it was down, but it should be back up again now.

however, some ppl are having problems viewing the site for some reason.

u could try going to http://86.20.166.202/x3/scripts/help and c if that works

[Cker]

Huzzah, the first link is working again.
But your second link isn't, i better save what you've written quickly

[Metalic Crab]

neither link is working anymore

[Cycrow]

bad timing im afraid, i was moving the server.

try it now

[Neurosys]

I think I borked something. I was doing the loading text files portion. I made the 449000.xml just like it says... I double checked all the tags and whatnot i put it in X3\t and I made a script that has

load text: id=9000
return null

and I have a second that says

$bs = readtext: page=9000 id=1
write player logbook: $bs
return null

when I tried the second one it just wrote ReadText9000-1 to my log so I figured "ok, I have to get it to find my file and load it up via the first script"
so I go back to the first one with the load text cmd in it and I press r and execute it and viola! X3 crashes. everytime. Im confused. Did I miss a step?

[SymTec ltd.]

Most probably, the game cannot read your textfile. What did you write in it?

[Neurosys]

thanks symtec

[Cycrow]

paste the contents of your text file, perhaps u've made a mistake in it somewhere