First off I would like to say FPSC is very very interesting and you guys sure as heck know what you are talking about. I am a complete noob looking for answers (I am sure you guys have covered them elsewhere already, but I haven't found them yet, at least not ones descriptive enough). I am sry if the questions I ask have been answered before, and if they have could you guys be kind enough to help me find it (with a link or something). I have also read the User manual it came with, it helped alittle but the more I learned the more questions popped into my head.
I have done some research and have found most of the programs I will need to get started. I have FPSC, FPSC Model Pack 1, Audacity, photoshop, Fraps, Entity Creator (the one by TGC), and I have 3DS Max on the way along with Powerdirector. I believe this is all the programs I will need, however if you have more suggestions, please state them.
Even though I may have the ability to do alot with these programs, I still dont know squat about what I am supposed to do and I am really into videogames and wish to make my own but cant as of right now.
All my noobness feelings started when I tried my first game. I cant get the script thing down. I know how the default ones work, but I want something different than those, and I would need to know how to do that. Do to this, I can't get anything going right, for instance, I wanted to make it when the player enters a Trigger zone, the AI character begins following a waypoint, or when a cutscene ends the AI character begins following a waypoint. I have already made some in game cutscenes so that really isn't a problem (I used to do mission design with Novalogic's game creator programs, however they were more noob than this program, and I currently have been making videos for about a year). Another problem I had run into was changing the Loading screen... how is this done? Also another problem I ran into was when my cutscene began the ingame music just kept playing, how can I get that to stop once a cutscene begins. How do you guys make your scripts anyway, I can't figure it out (*readers start to laugh*).
When I first downloaded Entity Creator, I watched the tutorial videos, seemed easy and everything worked as I followed along in the video, however, I don't want to use the autoslug or default weapon, I want to use one of my own created ones (haven't really created any yet, however when I do it will be good to know). When I make a weapon how is it done, do I use 3DS Max and then save it into a certain format?? This isn't all the questions I have but I don't want to ask to to many at once, please help, I really have a good idea for a game and would like to start it as soon as possible.
Wish there was a FPSC book for "dummies" like me, lol.
Also I have read the sticky "How to do just about everything in FSPC" as well, and it was really good, but all it did was give me more questions to ask.
Gameing is Life....
