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    Default Holy Symbol Blessing

    Introduction:
    Hello everyone. I've been passively looking over SRL for a couple months now and trying to figure out what it's all about. Now that I have a pretty good idea, I'd like to take a crack at learning how to make script. First off I'm brand new to this. I have absolutely no programming background or experience, and at first it all looked incomprehensible to me, but now I'm starting to understand the fundamentals. I mainly started playing runescape with my daughter. The game seemed boring as hell to me, but then it became to be more of a challenge and a phenomenal time waster. I mean, who finds spending hundreds of hours of their life doing tedious tasks, like mining 100,000 ores to raise their mining level, really fun? It's not fun, the gameplay itself sucks. The fun is in the challenge it poses. Just like neopets, (another pointless game my daughter likes me to play with her.) So I've ended up wasting a lot of time on this. It's for the kids, I swear! Anyway...

    Goal:
    I'm looking for a starting point here I guess.
    My idea is to start learning to use the SRL by creating a very simple script that automates the blessing of unblessed symbols by bringing Brother Jared an inventory full of strung unblessed symbols. Just basically finding Brother Jared by the color of his robe, initiating and going through the dialogs that blesses the unblessed symbols, and repeating that step until the entire inventory of symbols are blessed. Seems simple enough for a very green beginner like me.

    Getting Started:
    I imagine I would need to:
    - Learn how to find the color of the robe, and click on it to start the conversation.
    - Recognize the various text parts of the dialog to automatically click on to step through the conversation properly.
    - Either to simply loop the process 28 times, or find a way to check the inventory for unblessed symbols vs blessed symbols (since they both appear to be identical in appearance) and repeat the process until there are no unblessed symbols in the inventory.

    Help:
    I imagine this would be a very simple task for most here, but I'm still learning my ABC's here. Super basic stuff. It will at least give me a foundation to grow on. I suppose I'm about to learn about programming fundamentals and pascal.
    Can someone recommend any tutorials to focus on that are specifically based on what I'm trying to accomplish?

    I've read that this community isn't very nice to newcomers which, to me, makes this forum seem somewhat intimidating, so please be gentle.
    And thanks a ton in advance!

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    rock on! Hey! it is great to have you here, to be sure .

    You are miles better than most of the idiot kids I have to deal with , lol, and you seem to have some good potential, and already a good understanding.

    This forum is VERY helpfull to new scripters, we arent very big on leachers who just mooch off of our hard work, but we LOVE it when people want to learn how to script and code here.

    To start off, you already seem to have a VERY good idea of what your script will need to do, obviously, putting that into code will take a little bit of learning, but you are already on your way to a good start. You need a plan before you can do anything, lol.

    Now, commng from no programming background, what is going to help you allot is reading a few of the begininer tutorials, and then trying them out yourself.

    (make sure you do it on a test account, because beginer script will be far from stealth)

    Once you start getting the hang of how to script, you can begin to use the srl library to simplify the steps.

    SRL has functions already made for you to help you do stuff (like detect colors, and text, etc) as you have already noticed.

    I belive this site has a link to a list of all the functions, what they do, and how to use them, this wil be EXTREAMLY helpfull to you.

    Anyhow, if you have any sort of instant messaging, feel free to add me, and ill help give you a push in the right direction.

    Good luck, welcome, and enjoy your stay DD
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    u4ia74, pls tell me if u find the tutorial on

    - Recognize the various text parts of the dialog to automatically click on to step through the conversation properly.

    my search efforts are obviously not working out. i'll post if i eventually find this.

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    Quote Originally Posted by sparkles View Post
    u4ia74, pls tell me if u find the tutorial on

    - Recognize the various text parts of the dialog to automatically click on to step through the conversation properly.

    my search efforts are obviously not working out. i'll post if i eventually find this.
    Browsing a branch of the SRL Include often gives you what you need Try finding SRL\Core\Text.scar. That should contain atleast some things you can use.

    @U4ia74: What you need to make is a simple process, but good training nonetheless. And what LordGregGreg says is right: We are only harsh to the new who come to steal and leech our hard work. People wanting to script are loved and adored You can also add my mail-address for Messenger if you'd like.

    -Knives

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    Quote Originally Posted by King of Knives View Post
    Browsing a branch of the SRL Include often gives you what you need Try finding SRL\Core\Text.scar. That should contain atleast some things you can use.

    @U4ia74: What you need to make is a simple process, but good training nonetheless. And what LordGregGreg says is right: We are only harsh to the new who come to steal and leech our hard work. People wanting to script are loved and adored You can also add my mail-address for Messenger if you'd like.

    -Knives
    ^ Loved and adored.

    @ U4ia

    Here are a few links that should cover most of what you need to know. I haven't worked w/ talking to npcs before, and I don't think theres a tutorial on it, so I'd start w/ these.

    http://www.villavu.com/forum/showthread.php?t=20934
    http://www.villavu.com/forum/showthread.php?t=20282
    http://www.villavu.com/forum/showthread.php?t=6413
    http://www.villavu.com/forum/showthread.php?t=11584
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    thanks for all the replies.

    i think findtext will solve this.

    - Recognize the various text parts of the dialog to automatically click on to step through the conversation properly.

    pls do correct me if i'm wrong, so that i don't waste too much time . hwr, have not got it working yet. i'm going to test getting milk from the kitchen larder in my house.

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    ..., why a symbol blesser thing? :S does it give exp or makes money or what..

    plz dont piss me of if I have stupid question

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    Quote Originally Posted by b3nkei View Post
    ..., why a symbol blesser thing? :S does it give exp or makes money or what..

    plz dont piss me of if I have stupid question
    Ehh I thought the same thing. It doesn't give experience, it just makes money if the right person comes along.
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    Originally Posted by b3nkei View Post
    ..., why a symbol blesser thing? :S does it give exp or makes money or what..
    maybe its just a learning curve. i know i found this thread from searching on how to do the dialogs and decided to post what i found to help each other out.

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