GECK Scripting Tutorials - Interest In and Ideas

[Gribbleshnibit8]

Interest has been shown by several people now in a modding tutorial of some kind for scripting. I'm willing to create some tutorials, video or written, but I'd like some help coming up with the content.

So, give me some ideas of what you guys want to see, need help with, etc. I know NVSE usage is high on the list, as there's very little in the way of examples or usage for a lot of the NVSE functions without diving into mods that use them.

Here's what I have so far, as things I've been working on recently:

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  Overview of NVSE, setting up environment, tools, plugins, and workflow for scripting with GECK


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  Function calling conventions - roybatty


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  Arrays and Strings


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  Compiler Override


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  User Defined Functions


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  Ref walking - gallahorn


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  Creating an MCM.


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  Saving your mod's settings to a .INI file, cross character data loading.


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  Dynamic length message box menus

These ideas are almost entirely NVSE related, which I think is the bigger stumbling block for most people. After all, the vanilla script is all fairly well documented and used in the game.

[Gallahorn]

Examples on advanced scripts like refwalking how they could be used and modified? And a walkthrough of some more advanced scripts what different parts do and how they connect?

[rickerhk]

Items 2 thru 7 (mcm->arrays) would be high on my list. It's been awhile and all that stuff is new to me.

[RoyBatty]

Mentioned the other day I'd really like one on all the calling conventions.

 

[Puppettron]

script troubleshooting practices

[Gallahorn]

MessageBoxEx and simillar with buttons and how to format them.

Nvse functions and how to read them on your page or the wiki some are easy to understand and some are harder if you are like me with no background in programming at all.



how to make custom hotkeys and detect key presses

[Anacostia Crossing]

[quote=Gribbleshnibit8]

 video or written

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I find very complicated understanding certain written things, I think a video would really give a bigger possibility to understand what's happening in a script. However everything will be very fine, thank you.

[DoctaSax]

If this is still on, I wouldn't bother with actual refwalking - it may be a thing of the past now that NVSE has the GetRefs function, with similar object type filters and the cell depth parameter. It just dumps all such refs in an array at once, and then you can loop through that, sort it, delete stuff from it etc etc with the array functions. It's more flexible that way.

[TJ]

GetRefs / GetRefsInCell is still considered refwalking by most who do such things, it's just much quicker and more versatile.

[FiftyTifty]

Ooh, this is a thing? I've got a couple o' suggestions.

1. Persistent script packages; as far as I am aware, adding a script package to a ref will not persist through game reloads, loading save games and cell changes (might be misremembering that last one).

2. Making an NPC play an idle until made to do otherwise by the player. Ideally, this would be persistent through save games (you reload, the NPC will still be playing that idle in the same spot) and will not stop functioning when the player changes cells.

Learning how to do these would be a major boon.