Learn to script!

[Devil_Lord2]

Originally Posted by fowlplay4

Well a decent challenge would be a hat system. It can be broken up into a few different assignments with varying difficulty, I've also written down a list of concepts that would be learned/tested at each step.

1. Start off with a basic sethat system, create a setHat function.

- Chat Commands
- Altering Player Attributes
- Functions

2. Create an Interactive script to choose from hats 1-100.

- GUI Objects / Showimg depending on your route.
- Math
- Loops
- Keyboard/Mouse interaction.

3. Create a Hat Item System, and then alter your Hat GUI to only display hats you have.

- Login scripts
- Player-joined classes
- Public Functions
- clientr flags

4. Create a Hat Database and a GUI tool to maintain it, alter your hat item system to use and validate based on the information from the database.

- GUI Objects
- Server<->Client interaction (triggerserver/triggerclient)
- Database Usage

It sounds like I could do 1-3, but I wouldn't know how to do the circular showing thing most hat systems would use, and I'd use a GUI to show it anyway.. I don't know how you'd get it over your head. :C

I don't even get number four.. D:
I've also tried to learn about databases but everything I've read didn't seem to help me understand why I'd need them or how to use them lol

-edit-
I take that back, may not be able to do three yet, but I'm sure in a few days I could learn it. D:
Sounds like I'd have to create a system to store their hats in an array or something so they would know the ones that are their own..

Originally Posted by papajchris

Happy to have you! There are now 18 of us!

I need an opinion from you guys. I am really leaning towards google wave as a way to communicate. Check out http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKUAqNGVwX0 to learn more about it, but basically its a big discussion panel. Everyone in the group can reply/make changes to other peoples posts, which would be really cool for when say jerret helps emera, i can see the changes. Furthermore its live, so as you make changes or w/e i can track it. Another good feature is that the contact list is right on the side, so you can see who is online (you can also Private chat). However some drawbacks are:

-anyone can edit/delete information (if they are in the group)
-must have a gmail account (IMO thats a positive, but still)

IMO i don't think it will be a big deal if anyone can delete/edit info. I don't know everyone in the group, but i have seen posts by them and all of them seem like dedicated people.

So how do we get it, and how will we contact each other to get on it?
Do we know if our time zones are near each others, and when do you think, if it does, will this start?