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djeaton3162 — Beginners Guide to Scripting by-nc-sa

Published: 2008-02-12 19:56:07 +0000 UTC; Views: 21549; Favourites: 156; Downloads: 5063
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Description This is my first tutorial, so be kind to me. The people have spoken [link] so I spent several hours putting together a 14-page tutorial on some basic scripting techniques. Instead of providing fish, I thought I'd spend some time teaching how to fish.

Once you read through it, you should have no problem understanding the basics of what a script is doing, how to make some modifications to it, and even how to take a sample flame and make a script out of it.

I plan on doing a more advanced tutorial as well, but this one covers creating flames and transforms, modifying the transforms, and adjusting how the flame ends up in your preview window.

If you have any suggestions after reading it, I'd love to hear them in your comments. If you find it too hard or too easy, I'd like to hear that as well. If it ultimately helps you write one (or modify one in a useful way), I'd *love* to hear it.
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Comments: 61

mistywisp [2008-02-12 23:06:50 +0000 UTC]

Thank you... I'll read it and see what I can do... don't hold your breath, though!

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Rozrr In reply to ??? [2008-02-12 20:23:41 +0000 UTC]

Thanks Daniel. This will help me a lot.

Roz X

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djeaton3162 In reply to Rozrr [2008-02-12 20:25:13 +0000 UTC]

You're being optimistic! LOL Wait until you go through it and *then* let me know if it is helpful.
D.

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ShroomPills [2008-02-12 20:22:28 +0000 UTC]

There's only one thing I would like to 'critique':

You wrote 'buide' instead of 'guide' on the Deviation title *hehe*

Other than that, pretty nice tuto!

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djeaton3162 In reply to ShroomPills [2008-02-12 20:28:18 +0000 UTC]

Good catch! I was about brain dead when I posted this. It took me about 8 or 10 hours of solid work to write all that up. With my low oxygen count and poor blood circulation, my head is pounding! I think it is nap time....

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ShroomPills In reply to djeaton3162 [2008-02-13 12:15:44 +0000 UTC]

Oh, I know how it is to work long long hours on something and then see that your brain is 'dead' *haha*

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moforuss [2008-02-12 20:19:05 +0000 UTC]

Thanks daniel.I will most def give this a go.

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LadyLyonnesse [2008-02-12 20:01:48 +0000 UTC]

I will probably never use this, Daniel, but thanks for providing this resource for the more adventurous people.

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djeaton3162 In reply to LadyLyonnesse [2008-02-12 20:19:49 +0000 UTC]

I wrote it with people like you in mind. Even if you never want to write a script yourself, knowing how to read one and duplicate a particular effect on your own can be very beneficial. Don't be afraid to give it a shot. The worse that could happen is that you might learn something!

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LadyLyonnesse In reply to djeaton3162 [2008-02-12 21:48:06 +0000 UTC]

I have modified a number of scripts, but starting from scratch?

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