QC Tutorials for absolute beginners

[Boss429]

great work man! really informative.
you have a great way of breaking it down.

[MauveBib]

Cheers, they just take forever to write!

[Dark$oul71]

Hi all,

yes, I like reviving the dead

Zombies rule !

All kidding aside the qc tutorials seems to be down:
http://elf.planetquake.gamespy.com/tutorials/tut1.htm
http://elf.planetquake.gamespy.com/tutorials/tut2.htm
http://elf.planetquake.gamespy.com/tutorials/tut3.htm

Using the planetquake search also reveals no qc tutorial:
http://planetquake.gamespy.com/View.php ... obalSearch

Does any1 has those tutorials archived / mirrored ?

TIA,
D$

[MauveBib]

Apologies, I should have updated the links here when PQ cancelled hosting.

http://www.electronicliberationfront.co.cc/tutorials/tut1.htm
http://www.electronicliberationfront.co.cc/tutorials/tut2.htm
http://www.electronicliberationfront.co.cc/tutorials/tut3.htm

[Dark$oul71]

Apologies, I should have updated the links here when PQ cancelled hosting.

http://www.electronicliberationfront.co.cc/tutorials/tut1.htm
http://www.electronicliberationfront.co.cc/tutorials/tut2.htm
http://www.electronicliberationfront.co.cc/tutorials/tut3.htm

Thanks !
No need to apologize ! I am happy to have a look at your tutorials. Thanks for your efforts !

Have a nice weekend,
D$

[Urre]

When will we learn how to make it an entirely new weapon?

[MauveBib]

When will we learn how to make it an entirely new weapon?

Next time, as it says. I gave no timescales :p

[Junrall]

Next time, as it says. I gave no timescales :p

Do you work for Valve?
Just pitching you sh@#!

[Pulseczar]

Yeah, I've never really seen the point of copy+paste tutorials. Well, they're useful for people who know the basics of the language but struggle with programming methodology, i.e how to put their ideas across, but basically useless for beginners.

QC needs explained tutorials like these and the AI cafe ones, else it's a very sleep hill to climb.

I despise copy/paste 'tutorials' and 90% or so of this site's tutorials are like that. People can learn just by seeing your code if they already understand the language and just need some ideas, or they are stumped as to how to solve a particular problem, but for a new person to actually try to learn QuakeC just by seeing code, especially if they have very little programming experience, is very frustrating. When I didn't know much of anything about programming, I'd try to learn some QuakeC by looking at those 'copy/paste' tutorials and I'd get very frustrated and feel inept because I couldn't make any sense of it. I hate learning by example. I need explanation. Though example can be good, it's usually not for programming basics. You can sometimes 'wing it' with example, but by example alone you are only mimicking; you aren't learning why exactly things are done the way they are, and as such, you are very limited in what you can do with what you've learned.

[Lardarse]

There has been a move away from "copy and paste" tutorials recently, but that won't address many of the existing tutorials that don't really explain things. Although I think that 90% is a little harsh, and 80% might be closer.

I do have a tutorial that Supa wrote, which is very well explained (she has a real gift for explaining things). If I get her permission, I'll make it available (in her name, of course).

[Baker]

Looks like the domain expired.

[MonkRocker]

When will we learn how to make it an entirely new weapon?

Next time, as it says. I gave no timescales :p

These are great tutorials. Please keep going.

Also - there's an error in number 3:

You have:

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precache_sound (“weapons/plasma.spr”);  // plasma blast

and it should be:

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precache_model("progs/plasma.spr"); // plasma blast

Would love to see some explanation of cvars, how to declare your own and how to use them. But yeah - awesome stuff. Cut/Paste tutorials are the worst unless you already know the language.