Help me modders!

[kriegblitz]

I need someone to explain to me how to make my own scenarios. The wiki on this site doesn't make any since to me! Please help, I'm new at this!

[turin]

Posting in large green text won't make people any more likely to help you.

[Velensk]

The large green text was not part of his post, just his signiutre.

EDIT: Aye, I see.

[Mist]

I hate abuse of large and/or green/blue/red/underlined font [with a lot of excalmation marks] and nuke such things on sight without warning or explanation. There was A large green font there.

[kriegblitz]

I'm sorry, ok! I admit I'm a newbie at this, but please have pity. I have some great ideas but don't know how to put them in action.

[Velensk]

Basicaly you just have to code them. If you know the basics of coding WML is a easy language to learn. If not you can try to figure it out by looking at code for other senarios to try to figure out what everything does/means.

I don't know what help you excect us to give, it's not like we can or would do it for you, and trying to explain to you all of how everything works would probably not be very effective, and would waste allot of time as the wiki explains most of it.

[kriegblitz]

I don't know what help you excect us to give, it's not like we can or would do it for you, and trying to explain to you all of how everything works would probably not be very effective, and would waste allot of time as the wiki explains most of it.

Do you know a good website that could explain how? I don't want to waste your time or anything.

[kriegblitz]

I hate abuse of large and/or green/blue/red/underlined font [with a lot of excalmation marks] and nuke such things on sight without warning or explanation. There was A large green font there.

Are you kidding or not, Mist?

[Velensk]

The absolutly best (and olny as far as I know) is the one you've already tried and claimed not to understand (the wiki). This indicates a lack of the basic skills needed to do any coding. Those skills you can learn from any number of books, and probably a number of web-sites as well.

I learned them by looking at code and figuring out how everything worked from how it was set up. You may be able to do the same.

No Mist is not kidding. If there is no reason to assume that someone is kidding then don't ask them.

[Unnheulu]

I don't know what help you excect us to give, it's not like we can or would do it for you, and trying to explain to you all of how everything works would probably not be very effective, and would waste allot of time as the wiki explains most of it.

Do you know a good website that could explain how? I don't want to waste your time or anything.

Although, the ReferenceWML is a much better place to check instead of the tutorial, as is checking mainline campaigns for aid.

[zookeeper]

Download some add-on campaign, let's say Attack of the Undead (because it's small and simple). Copy it, and start changing and experimenting with things. Don't change anything without looking at the WML reference to check what your change actually does. Repeat until you understand how things work.

[cool evil]

Don't listen to the others, they're already good with WML and can't remember how hard it is for them to learn it at first. It'll be easier if you had previous coding experience. If not, that's okay. I wouldn't recommend you looking at the wiki or the codes, because its like reading a textbook with complex theories and equations but very little explanation and examples.

Here are two options for you, one is easy, one isn't, figure out for yourself:

1.Using the very basic examples given in the WML, try to make an extremely simple scenario with just a few dialogues and a few minutes of gameplay, 50 to 100 lines of WML should do. After a few tries, add in some more complex codes, but only after you had a more clear understanding of WML, otherwise you'll be giving yourself a serious headache. Beyond all that, you should be ready to fully experimenting with WML, its just a matter of adding in codes and playing around with them a bit, asking the people in the WML workshop is also a good way to gain knowledge. Oh gosh, i sound like my boring science teacher now!

2.Get someone to write a book called: "WML for dummies", especially targeted at WML starters. The only problem is to get a decent author who is capable of this*, hiring someone could be very costly, but begging is always an option

*I know you are in this forum, so stop hiding!

[Dveman115]

1.Using the very basic examples given in the WML, try to make an extremely simple scenario with just a few dialogues and a few minutes of gameplay, 50 to 100 lines of WML should do. After a few tries, add in some more complex codes, but only after you had a more clear understanding of WML, otherwise you'll be giving yourself a serious headache. Beyond all that, you should be ready to fully experimenting with WML, its just a matter of adding in codes and playing around with them a bit, asking the people in the WML workshop is also a good way to gain knowledge. Oh gosh, i sound like my boring science teacher now!

And how is he supposed to do that without reading the wiki?

[zookeeper]

1.Using the very basic examples given in the WML, try to make an extremely simple scenario with just a few dialogues and a few minutes of gameplay, 50 to 100 lines of WML should do. After a few tries, add in some more complex codes, but only after you had a more clear understanding of WML, otherwise you'll be giving yourself a serious headache. Beyond all that, you should be ready to fully experimenting with WML, its just a matter of adding in codes and playing around with them a bit, asking the people in the WML workshop is also a good way to gain knowledge. Oh gosh, i sound like my boring science teacher now!

Yeah except that you shouldn't try writing a scenario from scratch but instead copy an existing one and modify it. Again, Attack of the Undead is a really simple mini-campaign which seems like the perfect place to start.

[Unnheulu]

1.Using the very basic examples given in the WML, try to make an extremely simple scenario with just a few dialogues and a few minutes of gameplay, 50 to 100 lines of WML should do. After a few tries, add in some more complex codes, but only after you had a more clear understanding of WML, otherwise you'll be giving yourself a serious headache. Beyond all that, you should be ready to fully experimenting with WML, its just a matter of adding in codes and playing around with them a bit, asking the people in the WML workshop is also a good way to gain knowledge. Oh gosh, i sound like my boring science teacher now!

Yeah except that you shouldn't try writing a scenario from scratch but instead copy an existing one and modify it. Again, Attack of the Undead is a really simple mini-campaign which seems like the perfect place to start.

Oops, I've just been copy+pasting from other campaigns, no wonder I'm having trouble...

@Cool Evil, I've only been learning WML since last Friday, I'm no expert...