what program is good to script with?
is word ok?
or are it another program you know about?(free)
how do i change gravity?
how do i change the camera to third person?
please help the noob
1. See teh1ghool's post. Taco HTML edit is one of best text editor I know.
2. No. Word is NOT ok. It's horrible.
3. See 1.
4. In the editor, open your map and choose "Map -> Settings" from the menu bar at the top. There is an input field for gravity there.
5. To change the camera to third person, open your map script (Data/Scripts/Courses/<yourmapname>.xml) or load your map in editor and click the script button that's next to the "Run" button. (It looks like a file icon). Now, in your map script, you will see a line that says:
Code:
camera.setting.type=DIM3_CAMERA_TYPE_FPP;
right below the "// setup camera" comment.
Change it to
Code:
camera.setting.type=DIM3_CAMERA_TYPE_CHASE;
for a 3rd person camera.
You will also have to define a few more things, like the camera distance and tracking speed. To find out how to do that, look in the docs, on the camera page. (
http://erikkemmer.er.funpic.de/dim3/docs...ject.html)
Example: To set the camera distance to 100, just put this right below the "camera.setting.type" line:
Code:
// setup camera
camera.setting.type=DIM3_CAMERA_TYPE_FPP;
camera.chase.distance=100;
You will have to add more, to customize your camera settings, but the commands are all in the docs.
Just play around with the numbers, until your camera looks the way you want it. It takes a lot of fine-tuning to make it perfect, but nobody said that making games was easy.
Program,
Smultron:
http://smultron.sourceforge.net/
Reason to use it,
I think that you should use Smultron (what I use) instead of Taco HTML. A nice thing about Smultron is you can open the scripts, change them, and save them without having to replace the origonal file (if you use TextEdit you would have to save it as a .js and replace the origonal script). Also Smultron will let you have multiple files open at once (they are organized as tabs) and it supports many syntax formats (such as Javascript, Perl, Ruby and about 40 others). Now I'm sure that Taco HTML is a great program (I don't know all the features but I know it's a better HTML editor then Smultron) but I think that it would be better if you used Smultron for editing the Dim 3 scripts (my opinon).
tanks but a question more...(maybe i dont have to script)
how can i change the water demage?
Or just select the water (the liquid segment), press comman+L (for the liquid settings) and set the harm value to how much damage you want it to do.