Scripting Questions

[sariel 11]

Hi,

i'm new to sqf scripting and i asked my self a few questions:

what ways are there to present the user some information (eg. like hints - these are the only ones i know so far xD)?

is there a way to show colorized images?

and can somebody tell me where i can find 'newbie-friendly' information about sqf scripting?

thanks for any answers!

sariel

[Väinämöinen 0]

Hi!

For scripting dialogs (and images)

http://forums.bistudio.com/showthread.php?144954-Dialog-Tutorial-For-Noobs-By-A-Noob

And some SQF basics and little more advanced scripting:

http://killzonekid.com/category/tutorials/

Hope that helps!

regards.Väinämöinen

[sariel 11]

you're so awesome ;) thanks a lot!

[SilentSpike 84]

Hey, I'm fairly new too and just thought I'd share how I've gone about learning to script in sqf:

• Visiting this page A LOT
  
• Searching for script releases on here and deconstructing them
  
• Posting a thread to ask
  

Sorted by order of operation.

That's basically it. If you know very clearly what you want your script to do, it's just a case of breaking that down into steps and finding the right commands to take them.

Here are some helpful resources I have bookmarked (excluding the above wiki page which I also have bookmarked):

Debugging (Haven't had to use this one yet)

Assets

Scripting for Multiplayer

It's also worth making a shortcut to launch arma3 with "-showscripterrors" at the end of the target path.

As for your other questions:

Hints the main one I know of. There are also commands to broadcast messages in the chat I believe.

No idea about the images, I read someone else asking about images in another thread recently though.

Edit: And now I've bookmarked the dialog thread linked above too. Thanks Väinämöinen!

[SavageCDN 231]

Mr. Murray's Editing Guide (old but still relevant)

http://www.armaholic.com/page.php?id=4847

[sariel 11]

thanks guys! think thats enough to read and learn for lets say next 3-4 min. ;)