Basic questions

[j_mie6]

1: I really want to give you helper functions for this
2: You should read the textbook (fully, and make sure you understand it) and after you go back and read the tutorial so that you genuinely understand ALL of it then you start making simple helpers for yourself and build, make sure you use the API (one of my previous weaknesses, can be pretty hard to understand!)
3: I might be speaking a load of nonsense by now because I didn't read this thread fully p)

 

[Baldyr]

Being able to read the API is key to this Python thing. I understand it looks quite alien at first, and I suppose you really need to understand how it all relates to the C++ in the SDK. None-the-less I nowadays feel that I have more or less "full" understanding of it. So I should probably write-up a guide to the API, then. The class-less functions inherited from the SDK also needs to be documented, somewhere.

I think I have a writing project for the remainder of this year, then.

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[j_mie6]

hahaha I was wondering when that would happen Definately make a guide!

 

[Baldyr]

I'm definitely not gonna detail every single method (which would be nigh impossible, especially since I don't really read C++), but rather explain how the API is set up and how it works. Perhaps include some sample code.

The API is set-up quite logically, unless someone was under some other impression. So you need to understand the fundamentals and it all becomes pretty straight-forward. I guess the problem is that any guide would have to assume that the reader already knows programming. And most modders don't - they're copy-pasters.