Modding:Tutorial - Revision history

Epyon at 12:01, 11 August 2025

2025-08-11T12:01:59Z

Game Hunter: new tutorial!

2012-01-25T04:24:41Z

new tutorial!

Game Hunter: warning label

2012-01-11T21:15:46Z

warning label

Game Hunter: added "Designing AI" with incomplete tag

2011-11-07T15:18:51Z

added "Designing AI" with incomplete tag

Game Hunter: removed "incomplete" sign: it's close enough to being done

2011-10-11T19:53:19Z

removed "incomplete" sign: it's close enough to being done

Game Hunter: wrong link!

2011-10-11T15:52:21Z

wrong link!

Game Hunter: added custom beings (enough there to display it here, anyway)

2011-10-11T15:52:07Z

added custom beings (enough there to display it here, anyway)

Game Hunter: added "The Infinite Arena" (still needs links)

2011-10-03T20:33:14Z

added "The Infinite Arena" (still needs links)

Game Hunter: tutorial isn't completely done but should be close enough, need review anyway

2011-09-23T20:02:50Z

tutorial isn't completely done but should be close enough, need review anyway

Game Hunter: added the tutorial "Recreating Hell's Arena", changed layout a bit

2011-09-16T16:54:57Z

added the tutorial "Recreating Hell's Arena", changed layout a bit

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-Welcome to the DoomRL modules tutorial. The objective of this guide is to explain how to develop your own modules for DoomRL as easily and as accurately as possible: therefore, its scope is fairly limited and will only cover basic techniques in customizing objects, maps, and game events. However, it is written at the level of one who has little to no background knowledge of programming languages, and so is ideal for a player who doesn't understand the fundamentals of scripting. Anyone who has the ambition to create a unique and enjoyable game out of the DoomRL engine should use this as a tool to get started.
+Welcome to the DRL modules tutorial. The objective of this guide is to explain how to develop your own modules for DRL as easily and as accurately as possible: therefore, its scope is fairly limited and will only cover basic techniques in customizing objects, maps, and game events. However, it is written at the level of one who has little to no background knowledge of programming languages, and so is ideal for a player who doesn't understand the fundamentals of scripting. Anyone who has the ambition to create a unique and enjoyable game out of the DRL engine should use this as a tool to get started.
-Modifying DoomRL content is done through lua, a scripting language designed to communicate with a variety of other computer languages. (You can find out more about lua by following [http://www.lua.org/ this link].) As such, a great deal of what can be done for the purpose of DoomRL modding is handled by the API, or application programming interface, which allows a modder to issue commands that are sent to the DoomRL engine (written in Pascal). The formatting and syntax is relatively simple and flexible, so there are a number of ways to write code in lua that will produce the same outcome. We will use a particular format, although alternatives will be explained as they come up.
+Modifying DRL content is done through lua, a scripting language designed to communicate with a variety of other computer languages. (You can find out more about lua by following [http://www.lua.org/ this link].) As such, a great deal of what can be done for the purpose of DRL modding is handled by the API, or application programming interface, which allows a modder to issue commands that are sent to the DRL engine (written in Pascal). The formatting and syntax is relatively simple and flexible, so there are a number of ways to write code in lua that will produce the same outcome. We will use a particular format, although alternatives will be explained as they come up.
 Writing lua code yourself is done in a text editor. What text editor you use depends on your operating system: for Windows, it is Notepad. It is suggested that you use a more advanced text editor that handles formatting more effectively. One such text editor (that is free) is [http://notepad-plus-plus.org/ NotePad++], which includes a number of options for easy-to-read and easy-to-write code. Creating a lua file in this manner is as simple as renaming the file with a .lua extension (rather than .txt, for example): NotePad++ itself can save its text files as lua scripts.

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 **[[Modding:Tutorial/Designing AI|Designing AI]] (incomplete)
-*Example Modules
+*Example Modules: Singular
 **[[Modding:Tutorial/Constructing a Map|Constructing a Map]] (the basics)
 **[[Modding:Tutorial/Recreating Hell's Arena|Recreating Hell's Arena]]
 **[[Modding:Tutorial/The Infinite Arena|The Infinite Arena]]

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 Much of the tutorial is written in this format, as it is far easier to diplay lua without the default formatting of Wikimedia getting in the way.
-'''Current tutorials:'''
+'''Current tutorials:''' (these have yet to be updated for v0.9.9.5)
 *[[Modding:Tutorial/Basic Syntax and Definitions|Basic Syntax and Definitions]]

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 **[[Modding:Tutorial/Custom Items|Custom Items]]
 **[[Modding:Tutorial/Custom Beings|Custom Beings]]
 *Example Modules

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	Welcome to the DoomRL modules tutorial. The objective of this guide is to explain how to develop your own modules for DoomRL as easily and as accurately as possible: therefore, its scope is fairly limited and will only cover basic techniques in customizing objects, maps, and game events. However, it is written at the level of one who has little to no background knowledge of programming languages, and so is ideal for a player who doesn't understand the fundamentals of scripting. Anyone who has the ambition to create a unique and enjoyable game out of the DoomRL engine should use this as a tool to get started.		Welcome to the DoomRL modules tutorial. The objective of this guide is to explain how to develop your own modules for DoomRL as easily and as accurately as possible: therefore, its scope is fairly limited and will only cover basic techniques in customizing objects, maps, and game events. However, it is written at the level of one who has little to no background knowledge of programming languages, and so is ideal for a player who doesn't understand the fundamentals of scripting. Anyone who has the ambition to create a unique and enjoyable game out of the DoomRL engine should use this as a tool to get started.

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 *Customization
 **[[Modding:Tutorial/Game Objects|Game Objects]]
 *Example Modules
 **[[Modding:Tutorial/Constructing a Map|Constructing a Map]] (the basics)
 **[[Modding:Tutorial/Recreating_Hell's_Arena|Recreating Hell's Arena]]