Tutorial for beginners

[daftagg]

Are there tutorials for totally beginners that just started scripting?

look at this crappy 25+ errors script i made, i dont even know what im doing myself

i probably only understanded 2% of the introduction of scripting

-- crappy 25 error+ rpg script

players = getElementsByType ( "player" )

root = getRootElement ()

function spawnPlayer (thePlayer)

local playerSpawnPoint = WHAT SHOULD I PUT HERE

fadeCamera ( source, true )

givePlayerMoney ( player thePlayer, 10000 amount )

end

function onPlayerKill (thePlayer)

playersname= getClientName(source)

outputChatBox("zomfgz bitchass you just killed someone you stupid f***face dmer/cheater your going to be banned!(or you get spawned 10 minutes later)", source)

KillPlayer(source)

setTimer(spawnPlayer, 600000, 1, source)

end

addEventHandler("onPlayerKill", root, onPlayerKill)

function onPlayerJoin ()

playerName = getClientName(source)

outputChatBox("welcome, " .. playerName .. ", you have been given 10000 for joining this server, and DON'T DM because its a RPG server, thank you.", source)

spawnPlayer(source)

end

addEventHandler("onPlayerJoin", root, onPlayerJoin)

function onPlayerDeath ()

outputChatBox("You died! Please wait 10 seconds to respawn", source)

setTimer(spawnPlayer, 10000, 1, source)

end

addEventHandler("onPlayerWasted", root, onPlayerDeath)

what does root mean?

what does (source) mean?

Edited January 5, 2008 by Guest

[BrokenGlass]

Might not want to start trying to make an RP script if you dont know lua...

[daftagg]

thats why i want a tutorial

and btw, how many errors are there?

[ChrML]

Root is the element that is the parent of all the elements on the server. If you do something with the root, it'll get done to all the players/vehicles/obects etc.. on the server.

Source inside event handlers is the element that an event was triggered on. For example in onPlayerJoin, onPlayerQuit and other onPlayer* events the source is the player.

[daftagg]

Is this script totally meaningless?

[Guest]

Hey Frank, I need the same thing, a tutorial or at least a hint where to start learning......

I only know VB.net and it seems to completely different to this!

[ShOtGuN]

Take a look at this: http://development.mtasa.com/index.php? ... troduction

You should really start to read the mta wiki

[daftagg]

Take a look at this: http://development.mtasa.com/index.php? ... troduction

You should really start to read the mta wiki

Did you just read this, and you understand it? because thats pretty creepy.

[xGj]

That's not creepy it's fairly easy... If you read it properly, don't just copy and paste it but try to write it yourself again without looking at the wiki, and trying to understand what's written there about all different functions, you'll get to know it pretty fast. Then again, if you can't understand that, coding/scripting might not be the thing for you.. take a look at this LUA Manual too tho: http://www.lua.org/manual/5.0/

[driver2]

The Scripting Introduction introduces into Lua Scripting for MTA, not Lua Scrpting in general. You still need to know how to code first.

[Hoss212]

I believe this is what the MTA wiki is supposed to be for? I'm sure the team will create tutorials for beginners, and if not there is always experts scattered around to help.

[Azu]

Coding/Scripting can be for everyone. It just depends on the will of the person.