IT MIGHT SOUND STUPID BUT PLEAZE CONSIDER THIS

[ilikeUallNOgay]

i released some modmanagers before but just using logic and SCOtoolbox as an EDIT of other people s releases...
after i looked at the amazing stuff released by everyone on this amazing site i really wanted to do something mselfe to/....
all i want to know i how did you guys learn how to do this and how can i to?

[ribonucleic]

this belongs in the main GTA IV modding forum not this sub-forum, i am going to move it

[Colt]

Personally I looked at the code released here by Three-Socks (Mainly) every day for maybe an hour or two, till I got sick of trying to understand it and just attempted it.

Possibly not the best way, but I would say that looking at 3's example scripts are the best way for a new learner and re-writing them will help for sure.

Even if it's just to do something like (This was done on here, not a program so no hating please ) :

void PedGodmode(void)
{
SET_CHAR_INVINCIBLE(GetPlayerPed(), true);
}

That could even be wrong, I'm seriously tired right now as I'm writing this. But you get my point. Re-write the simple, small scripts till you get an understanding, then gradually build your way up but do NOT expect to learn it within a week. It's taken me since June last year to get to where I am and I still have an extremely basic understanding of C, the other dev's here probably tower over my abilities lol, but because it's productive site, people here will help.

Good luck.

[ilikeUallNOgay]

thank you one more thing..i know th scocl can turn .c format into .sco can i do it in reverse?
wich means can i turn back sco files back to there origin.?

[cp619]

No, you can't. If you start to learn and make your own stuff, you wouldn't need to do that anyways.

[ribonucleic]

thank you one more thing..i know th scocl can turn .c format into .sco can i do it in reverse?
wich means can i turn back sco files back to there origin.?

on a level it can be done with default game scripts openiv does this and outputs a pseudo C code, with scotoolbox sco's can be disassembled into asm but any work to decompile them further would have to be done by the user

No, you can't. If you start to learn and make your own stuff, you wouldn't need to do that anyways.

i think we have all looked at decompiled/disassembled code to learn from, so long as he doesn't intend to steal others work then i see no problem with asking what he asked

[zorg93]

thank you one more thing..i know th scocl can turn .c format into .sco can i do it in reverse?
wich means can i turn back sco files back to there origin.?

While it is possible to build a program to convert an sco created in scocl back to a c source, it would take ages to make such a program due to how inefficiency scocl makes the output sco, once you did that it would still appear to be meaningless as things like variable names arent included when a c file is compiled(its not as nice a net coding for reflecting). Also variables in sco are all stored as uints, this would make it appear to be even more confusing for you aswell, basically what im saying is its not realisticly going to happen

[coldmurda]

Personally I looked at the code released here by Three-Socks (Mainly) every day for maybe an hour or two, till I got sick of trying to understand it and just attempted it.

Possibly not the best way, but I would say that looking at 3's example scripts are the best way for a new learner and re-writing them will help for sure.

This.
I started learning from Three-Socks Example scripts, JDMAlex's v1 Trainer, and then finally when Muskelprotze released that stash everything came together (the goes for just about everyone)
Link:
https://bitbucket.org/ThreeSocks/gtaiv-example-mods/src
Thats Three's Example Scripts, "button input" was the first thing I had ever compiled and was were I first started understanding how it all worked.
From "my" first menu in Mod Manager, all the way up to now in Menu Lib, I have been using his work.

[ilikeUallNOgay]

THANK YOU ALL GUYS FOR YOUR SUPPORT (this place is awsome)

ok one more thing
if you say
SET_TEXT_FONT (0)
how can you identify what 0 is or later in that picture how can you identify numbers such as the ones in front of the SET TEXT DROPSHADOW
OR when you say set text color (r.g.b.a)
what is r and g and b and a

other stuff :
what does
bool
float
void mean ?
and how do you guy s understand the cordinates and offsets of stuff .......... it s like almost impossible to get stuff organized like three socks

[zorg93]

THANK YOU ALL GUYS FOR YOUR SUPPORT (this place is awsome)

ok one more thing
if you say
SET_TEXT_FONT (0)
how can you identify what 0 is or later in that picture how can you identify numbers such as the ones in front of the SET TEXT DROPSHADOW
OR when you say set text color (r.g.b.a)
what is r and g and b and a

other stuff :
what does
bool
float
void mean ?
and how do you guy s understand the cordinates and offsets of stuff .......... it s like almost impossible to get stuff organized like three socks

If im not mistaken that is from three-socks?? Text library.
anyway you dont need to use whats inside the function
just do something like this

set_up_draw(2, 0.3f, 0.3f, 255, 255, 255, 110);
draw_text("STRING", 0.05f, 0.1f, "Text To Display"); 

that needs to be looped every frame for it to show.
the type just determines how it looks,
width and height pretty self explanatory generally 0.3f for each is pretty good,
the r, g, b and a are the colours of it and they range from 0 to 255
r - red, g - green, b - blue, a -alpha(how bright the colours are)
for the draw text the first thing needs to be "STRING"
second is the x coord on screen, third is y coord. they both range from 0 to 1
last is the text to display