Just need some guidence. Thanks

[Murry]

ok here is the deal. I am mainly trying to learn how to script. What I would like to learn is how to make custom wepons,armor,animals, pretty much want to learn how to make anything custom. For quest's and event's and such.. before I went in the military I used to run a shard on sphear server. that was ohh about 7 years ago or so.. I really don't know much about run uo. I am a GM on a shard now and im interested in the best way to learn to script and the best tools to use. I downloaded every program on the pandora's box web page and downloaded RunUO for my own personal testing of scritps and to get a better understanding on how it runs.
I have been using this web page as a refrence on how to learn to use C# the only bad thing is that im not getting to much from it cause it's not really based on UO another words im starting to kinda understand it but It would be better if it was telling me how to make scripts for UO instead. if you know what I mean..
http://www.vijaymukhi.com/ That is the web page im refuring to. they have a online book that I have been printing out and reading..

Ok a little about me so you kind of get the idea of what im looking for.. I am very stupid when it comes to program's and things but im looking to start to change that.. I was in the army and was just a grunt in the infintry.. nothing to smart Now I am a correctional officer for new york state.. again not that smart.. and a part time police officer.. another words unlike most of the people on here I am not working as a web site designer or make programs for big companys or have much of a computer backround at all.. I am basicly just a gamer that wants to take it up a notch.

So what im asking for is somone that might be interested in taking me under there wing for a bit to help me understand this stuff. or refur me to some good tutorials like C# for dumbies or somthing I am more of a hands on person so reading all this stuff for C# is like learning arabic or somthing.

again I just want to learn how to script for UO. If somone says.. Hey I am interested in getting some custom armor for my shard.... I want to be able to just turn around and be able to make it and be done.

Also Im interested in knowing how to take the scritps that you make or get and be able to upload them onto RUNUO. I haven't quite figured that one out yet..

Anyhow anyone interested in helping a moron it would be greatly apretiated!! Thank you in advance! I have ICQ,Yahoo,and MSN messenger. I will pm it to you if needed thanks again!

[Malaperth]

Well, in order to code for UO, you will have to learn C# in any case. While you are learning from that site, just take a weapon script, for example, and look at the code to see if you can understand how it works.

Then, edit it to change the hue, the power, etc, and see if/how it works on the shard. That's how most people start, simply by copying and pasting to see what happens when they change code.

[Murry]

how do you get the code on to the shard?

[Malaperth]

just copy your code to the Scripts directory of the RunUO folder. If it is a completely custom script, it is advisable to make a new folder so you can easily keep track of what you have added and where. Then restart the server and your code will be compiled and used as long as there are no errors.

[M0nk3y]

I have been teaching myself to script. Didnt bother looking up site to learn how. The best thing that works for me was get in game and spawn a few things. Then use [props on the to see what all you can change in game and set the wep up the way you want. Then look for other weps that have that same thing. Say a bow that shoots magic arrow. Look for another wep in game that does this or close to this. Such as another att. like hit lightning or hit lower. Then look in the script for that wep to see how to write that line and change it to magic arrow. Not everything is writen in script like it is in game. Such as skills. In game its called Mace Fighting but in a script is refered to as Macing. The easiest way really is to steal and edit from other things already scripted. You should of gotten plenty of Arty scripts with your shard. After you learn what each line does you can then start adding more things to a script. I started out this way and now am up to fully custom monsters and items that i thought i would never be able to do.

NOTE: Copy your script folder into another directory other than RunUO for a backup. I never edit a script unless i have to. If im making a new item close to one already made i make a copy of that script then rename it. Then place it in my Custom folder.

[Murry]

Thanks for the info!! the more the better!!!
I also found a great place for some C# info. it's gamedev.net
check that out for other's trying to learn C#!!

[Murry]

Ok ran into somthing I am having a little trouble with. I downloaded a armor and wepons packet. I put the new verdata files in the UO folder and have not been able to create the new objects that should have been added. here is what I added http://uo-desktop.uoo.ru/pics/scr_wap_1.jpg
when I make a shield it looks just like the old one. I have tried many diffrent things and can't seem to get it to work. What am I doing wrong??
Thanks

[Malaperth]

Verdata.mul has not been used for many years, and thus if you add a new verdata.mul, it won't change anything.

[Murry]

so there is no way I can use that packet then??

[Malaperth]

Unfortunately, I don't know enough about patching muls to be able to answer that truthfully.

[Murry]

see I talked to somone who is rather very good at scripting but he's in the middle of opening a new shard so he's really busy doing scritps of his own and he said I can still use verdata.mul on 2.0 that it just must be installed properly. I had a verdata installer do it for me. but unfortunatly I don't think it worked and can't figure it out. so if anyone happends to have any idea's please let me know. Thanks