seifeldin Posted July 13, 2015 Share Posted July 13, 2015 It have been quit some time now since i was saving for lead werks and bought it , but i though it will be easy to learn Lua since i have learned from forums it's easiest language to start with for game developers , and am an Newbie noob game developer .. and i searched for hours and hours for lua tutorials and i got lost .. and i really don't like buy per class idea .. i just want few simple free tutorials to get me on my feet to make me able to develope simple games like horror genre action or adventure in 3d .. i only need scripting tutorials for lua as for materials and scuplturing i can mess around in lead werks for hours and figure how to do my game pretty well only scripts is needed and how to make them .. like how do i make a script after i finish the tutorial.. It's just things to see .. i just always my brain stops working after every tutorial right infront of the Scripting screen .. so if any one know a good source taught him please show me where to put my feet and ty. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Josh Posted July 13, 2015 Share Posted July 13, 2015 The marble game tutorial may not be the kind of game you want to make, but it teaches how code translates into actual gameplay with a very simple example: http://www.leadwerks.com/werkspace/page/tutorials/_/marble-game-r21 Quote My job is to make tools you love, with the features you want, and performance you can't live without. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seifeldin Posted July 13, 2015 Author Share Posted July 13, 2015 Okay i will see it , Thank you .. but if you got more please load me up iam ready to work hard thank's again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CreativeOcclusion Posted July 13, 2015 Share Posted July 13, 2015 Welcome to game development seifeldin.....It is a constant learning and relearning process...If you stick with it and apply effort to learn, there is nothing that you can't accomplish... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seifeldin Posted July 13, 2015 Author Share Posted July 13, 2015 Welcome to game development seifeldin.....It is a constant learning and relearning process...If you stick with it and apply effort to learn, there is nothing that you can't accomplish... Thank you CreativeOcclusion , But where people do start learning and relearning ? there is supposed to be a road to start walking on .. Iam currently finishing this marble game .. but i really don't get it where or when i will be able to start my own script while i actually know what i will write in it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarkusR Posted July 13, 2015 Share Posted July 13, 2015 my suggestion, make a script and write plain text your mind as remark, your conditions, the needings, the actions. which values you must store, if u need input from mouse or gamepad or keyboard. what actions you want call from extern. ... after all you add the language itself, often you can copy it from a exists script. about lua itself you can find here some examples. http://www.lua.org/docs.html a tutorial is fine but often it does not belong what you want to do. Quote PC : Win 10 Pro 64 Bit , 4x cores ~2 GHz , 8 GB RAM , AMD R7 265 2D : Photoline , Zooner Photo Studio 13 , Art Rage Studio 3.5.4 , Ashampoo Snap 7 , ... 3D : Shade 15 Basic , Carrara 8.5 & DAZ Studio 4.8 , Cheetah 3D 6.3.2 , Via Cad 8 Music : Samplitude Music Studio , Music Creator 7 IDE : Leadwerks Engine 3.x , Unity 5.x , (Unreal 4.8.x) , AGK v2.x , Construct 2 , (Clickteam Fusion 2.5) , ShiVa 1.9 , Game Maker Studio , MS Visual Studio .Net , Android Studio , Monkey , ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Megalocerous Posted July 13, 2015 Share Posted July 13, 2015 Easiest thing to do after finishing one of the Leadwerks tutorials (in my opinion anyway) is to take the template that you have just completed, and try to make small additions. This is part of what I am working on for the Summer Games Tournament, it is simple but it is helping me really get my feet wet with the engine. Now that you have the marble game template, what other small gameplay elements could you create that would enhance the game? (Moving platform, jump etc...) Then design new levels around the new mechanic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CreativeOcclusion Posted July 13, 2015 Share Posted July 13, 2015 But where people do start learning and relearning ? The starting point is deciding what you want to accomplish....Lets just say that you want to create a cube on the screen that spins around...All you need is a cube and a script attached to it that makes it spin around...Searching the forums here at Leadwerks will probably give you an example of this code...The API Reference at top of the page has many examples....If the code that you write doesn't work, post it here on the forums and someone will help you with what you are doing wrong.... Programming is just problem solving...Sometimes it takes me weeks to solve one problem, and sometimes solving that problem causes three more...This is game development...It is hard, and requires a "No give up" attitude to succeed... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reepblue Posted July 13, 2015 Share Posted July 13, 2015 When I started with the Source Engine, the learning curve was pretty easy as all the nasty bits where taken care off. You jumped into hammer, made rooms, learn about entities,how they communicate and made community maps. As the years past, I dug deeper and deeper with creating materials, models, scripts then compiling code. There was a point where I knew how exactly the engine was set up, how it worked, and other things that are now obsolete. When I jumped to Leadwerks, a lot of stuff seemed familiar to me because of the CSG creation tools and the pipeline just made more sense than Unity, Unreal or even Source which I knew about so much. The biggest hump for me was Lua scripting as I was so used to C++, and never did any Lua before. I did struggle with it until I had a light bulb go off. Example scripts, new and old forum posts helped a lot. Even I now prefer Lua for game logic over C++. Compiling the entire solution to test a few lines of code for one entity was kind of dumb. And this was back with 3.2 when they only had a few community tutorials which where outdated and somewhat hard to follow. They recently replaced that with the tutorial section you're following today, and a cleaner API reference. Over all, it will take time, but once you know how Leadwerks works, you'll enjoy it. Quote Cyclone - Ultra Game System - Component Preprocessor - Tex2TGA - Darkness Awaits Template (Leadwerks) If you like my work, consider supporting me on Patreon! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Posted July 13, 2015 Share Posted July 13, 2015 I teach 1 on 1 lessons of Lua and along the way share my experience in games and how to make them. It's $10/hr so if you are interested send me a PM and we can work out a time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cassius Posted July 13, 2015 Share Posted July 13, 2015 http://www.lua.org/pil/contents.html Learn lua here. Quote amd quad core 4 ghz / geforce 660 ti 2gb / win 10 Blender,gimp,silo2,ac3d,,audacity,Hexagon / using c++ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seifeldin Posted July 14, 2015 Author Share Posted July 14, 2015 Thank's guys really for all the help i appreciate it , i got all the ideas and the logics of never giving up i will follow all , and i sorry cannot afoord any payments atm .. so i will just go ahead and start doing what i can to get my feet on horror gaming creation and adventure like , Thank's alot all Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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