Advanced Scripting Guide(s)?

[kyfohatl 10]

I think (/hope) I have a good understanding of the bsics of scripting (mainly SQF), and I'm looking for a guide that explores the more advanced functions and commands. Know any? I've searched both the OFPEC and BI forums, and though I could find some guides on individual commands, I couldn't find any "complete" advanced scripting guide if you know what I mean. Found alot of basic scripting guides thoug...

Thanks

[neokika 62]

I think (/hope) I have a good understanding of the bsics of scripting (mainly SQF), and I'm looking for a guide that explores the more advanced functions and commands. Know any? I've searched both the OFPEC and BI forums, and though I could find some guides on individual commands, I couldn't find any "complete" advanced scripting guide if you know what I mean. Found alot of basic scripting guides thoug...

Thanks

Hi,

This is your best friend:

Biki

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[shuko 59]

Basic.. advanced... there really is not a huge difference when it comes to scripting/SQF. Once you figure out the basic stuff, advanced is just using all the basics in more complex ways etc. :)

Something that might be considered as advanced is understanding locality and other stuff that multiplayer brings along.

[Muzzleflash 111]

Almost no command is advanced by itself.

As SHK says multiplayer (locality, jip) would be good to learn. Also I learnt quite a bit from looking most of domination, and a bit of ACE.

[kyfohatl 10]

The biki is deffinately very useful, and I use it alot. In fact the reason why I was looking for an advanced scripting guide was that there were a few things that I didn't understand, couldn't find anything about in the biki/basic guides, and yet they were used alot. Anyway, I might as well just ask about them:

1. The word "null" (just by itself, not objNull) seems to be used alot, either as a local variable (_null), or as a global one, or as other things. What is its significance?

2. I couldn't find the display ID for the map (to be used in displayAddEventHandler in the findDisplay part). Since advance scripting guides might containt information on displayAddEventHandler, I thought they might also have somesort of an ID list for each display as the biki din't have one.

Also I learnt quite a bit from looking most of domination, and a bit of ACE.

Yeah, I tried to learn by looking at Silola's DAC scripts, but I could understand very little. The biki didn't help much (it could explain each individual command, but I couldn't figure how they worked together). So I went looking for an advanced scripting guide.

Thanks for the replies

Edited October 26, 2010 by kyfohatl

[shuko 59]

1. The word "null" (just by itself, not objNull) seems to be used alot, either as a local variable (_null), or as a global one, or as other things. What is its significance?

The engine let's you do that but it's just bad coding to use null as a variable. However, in most cases it works just fine since most variable types have their own nulls; objNull, taskNull etc. There shouldn't be need to use it anyway, since you check it with isNull command.

[CarlGustaffa 4]

Advanced scripting guide? Domination ;) Pretty much my teacher...

[neokika 62]

Advanced scripting guide? Domination ;) Pretty much my teacher...

Hi CarlGustaffa,

What do you mean by that?

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