Don't be discouraged. FPSC is great. Just read the PDF manual with the demo to catch on about building the game, and read the script forum to learn how to modify and create scripts. Thats hard at first because its not basic and its not c, and nothing you write at first works, but in a couple of days you'll catch on its a simple language and can write your own fpi scripts in a text editior as long as they're saved with an .fpi extension. A semicolon is a comment--
;this is a comment
a command starts with a colon and all the first part does is say what "state" the entity is in, then there is one more colon ":" and beyong that is what the entity will do--
:state=0:setalphafade=100,runfpidefault=1
Notice there are only two colons per line. You have to gradually pick up on what keywords like "setalphafade" do. Read the answers people give here in the script forum, they're really helpful. I've only been using this a week and don't know much, but when you write a script put it in the user folder in files scriptbank. Just remember to save it as an .fpi extension, don't let a text processor give it a .txt extention, and you can attach your script to any active entity thats glowing green.
Building rooms has it's own learning curve but again you'll learn by doing. And the other answer was right, its worth buying at the price.
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