Where can I find a comprehensive, complete script tutorial?

[Platypus5]

It has been a while since I have been able to use sketchyphysics (you can thank a trip to mexico for that) and I must have missed out on a lot. I need to catch up with the new scripting techniques, but it is hard. The sketchyphysics wiki doesn't have a comprehensive tutorial yet (it is still somewhat obscure to me) so ya. What should I do?

For example, how do you create a variable?

[Physicsguy1]

For the example: setVar('variablename',value)
To get a variable, put in getVar('variablename')
for example: setVar('sketchy',1) getVar('sketchy')

[phy]

if key('e')==1;setVar('foo',1);elsif key('q')==1;setVar('foo',2);end

Means, if key('e') is down it sets the variable foo to one, but if key('q') is down it sets the variable foo to two.

Put

getVar('foo')

in a motors controller field and when you push key('e') the motor will act normally but when you push key('q') the motor will double it's speed.

Hope that will help.

[MrPlanet]

Well, to get you up to speed, most people now know what get/set/getSetVar do, and most people in the SP Warehouse Community can now write IF commands, so, yeah, you've missed out a lot

[Sgt.A.Johnson]

@unknownuser said:

most people in the SP Warehouse Community can now write IF commands

I guess im in the sector that cant write if commands. I can mod them but not make them

[Physicsguy1]

How to write an if command: if means if, of course. so, lets say "if frame=0 then blah blah". that means that if the frame is equal to zero, then do something. now you need to add the command to be executed. so, for example: if frame==0 then playsound('blah.wav');end. So now it will play the sound blah if the frame is equal to 0. be sure to add ";end" to the end of your if script. remember, you can also change the actions, for example: if getVar('blah')==1 then setVar('bounce',2);end, or: if getVar('blah')==5 then playsound('blah.wav');end. Hope this helps!

[Platypus5]

This does help, but when I tried the things you told me, no luck.

I have recently started to try to make an exploding artillery shell. In theory, an impact would push an object on a slider joint, into a magnet. This would trigger an onTouch event that causes the magnet to activate, blowing the shell apart.

Now, in the "ontouch" field, I put this in: setVar("Boom",1) In the section that designates the magnet's strength, I put this in: getVar("boom")*-1000

It isn't working. What am I doing wrong?

UPDATE: Fixed. I realized the variables are case-sensitive.