Complete Noob Desperate for Help!

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eferhilda
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Complete Noob Desperate for Help!

Post by eferhilda » Tue Jan 16, 2018 7:07 pm

I am learning to use livecode slowly while in my master's course. I was an English major and want to combine my love of gaming with my love of writing. So far, I was having a pretty good time of it, but now I am like stalling out hard and I need some help.

Is anyone familiar with the Rocket Joy Ride assignment/application that is given out to students learning to use Livecode?

If so, are there some specific resources or tutorial videos that anyone could link to me so that I can conquer it? I am behind in work and just barely scrapping by at this point so any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you so much in advance.

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Re: Complete Noob Desperate for Help!

Post by Klaus » Tue Jan 16, 2018 7:20 pm

Hi eferhilda,

1. welcome to the forum! :D

2. Here some lessons from the mothership:
http://lessons.livecode.com

3. And here some very good stacks for the basics of Livecode:
http://www.hyperactivesw.com/revscriptc ... ences.html

Best

Klaus

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Re: Complete Noob Desperate for Help!

Post by eferhilda » Tue Jan 16, 2018 9:00 pm

Thank you very much. I will look at those later tonight.

Do you know where I can get some help with the Collision code? And Object collision detection?

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Re: Complete Noob Desperate for Help!

Post by jmburnod » Tue Jan 16, 2018 11:39 pm

Hi,
where I can get some help with the Collision code? And Object collision detection?
have a look to "intersect" function in LC dictionary should be useful
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Re: Complete Noob Desperate for Help!

Post by AndyP » Wed Jan 17, 2018 8:22 am

For game related code and ideas this is a great resource.

https://sites.google.com/a/pgcps.org/li ... rogramming
Andy Piddock
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http://livecodeshare.runrev.com/stack/897/ LiveCode-Multi-Search

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Re: Complete Noob Desperate for Help!

Post by eferhilda » Thu Jan 18, 2018 6:44 pm

AndyP wrote:
Wed Jan 17, 2018 8:22 am
For game related code and ideas this is a great resource.

https://sites.google.com/a/pgcps.org/li ... rogramming
Thank you so much!

Also, when I am adding in code does it matter where I put the code? Or does it not matter?

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Re: Complete Noob Desperate for Help!

Post by Klaus » Thu Jan 18, 2018 6:47 pm

Hi eferhilda,

it REALLY DOES matter!

Please read this article to get some more detailed info about the "message hierarchy" in Livecode:
http://www.fourthworld.com/embassy/arti ... _path.html

Best

Klaus

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