New to Coding

TangoWhiskey88 · August 6, 2015

Hey guys,

I'm new to the coding game, took some visual basic in high school about 10 years ago, but I am wanting to start creating a callout script. I am a law enforcement officer and I think i could bring some more realism to the callouts. I just need some direction or pointers to begin the badassery haha. Thanks.

Straysify · August 6, 2015

Hey guys,
I'm new to the coding game, took some visual basic in high school about 10 years ago, but I am wanting to start creating a callout script. I am a law enforcement officer and I think i could bring some more realism to the callouts. I just need some direction or pointers to begin the badassery haha. Thanks.

Welcome to modding! You'll probably want to learn C#, as it's fairly simple to find support for, and the language that many of the developers on this site and others use. C# isn't that challenging to learn, and it'll help that you already know VB.

Once you've learned C#, LukeD has a great example on how to create callouts using the LSPDFR API and the RAGE Plugin Hook, two extremely useful sets of tools. There's quite a few informational topics in the API Development section to help get you started. Also, if you're going to use visual studio(which you should), I highly recommend using Community 2013, rather than 2015.

Edited August 6, 2015 by Straysify

Ashkarn · August 6, 2015

Welcome to modding! You'll probably want to learn C#, as it's fairly simple to find support for, and the language that many of the developers on this site and others use. C# isn't that challenging to learn, and it'll help that you already know VB.
Once you've learned C#, LukeD has a great example on how to create callouts using the LSPDFR API and the RAGE Plugin Hook, two extremely useful sets of tools. There's quite a few informational topics in the API Development section to help get you started. Also, if you're going to use visual studio(which you should), I highly recommend using Community 2013, rather than 2015.

Why 2013?

Hey guys,
I'm new to the coding game, took some visual basic in high school about 10 years ago, but I am wanting to start creating a callout script. I am a law enforcement officer and I think i could bring some more realism to the callouts. I just need some direction or pointers to begin the badassery haha. Thanks.

You could also use this guide to help you learn C#: http://rbwhitaker.wikidot.com/c-sharp-tutorials

Stealth22 · August 6, 2015

VB.NET works too, thats what I used to create my callouts. I went for realism too, haha. I'm not a police officer, sadly, so my knowledge was based on the ridealongs I've been on with my local police.

MulleDK19, one of the developers of Rage hook, recommended 2013 instead of 2015. Apparently there's a bug with the Intellisense.

~~Deactivated Member~~ · August 6, 2015

Why 2013?

I'm using Visual Studio 2015 and there is a very annoying issue with IntelliSense that crashes the software every time I want to do something with Game.LocalPlayer, so trust me, choose Visual Studio 2013 instead.

Stealth22 · August 6, 2015

I'm using Visual Studio 2015 and there is a very annoying issue with IntelliSense that crashes the software every time I want to do something with Game.LocalPlayer, so trust me, choose Visual Studio 2013 instead.

Is that a widespread bug, or is it something thats isolated to Rage development?

We use VS2013 at my workplace...we haven't talked about an upgrade to 2015 yet, but it might be worth mentioning to my boss, lol.

FtDLulz · August 6, 2015

I'm using Visual Studio 2015 and there is a very annoying issue with IntelliSense that crashes the software every time I want to do something with Game.LocalPlayer, so trust me, choose Visual Studio 2013 instead.

In my experience it crashes when putting my cursor near Entity.MemoryAddress and some other random ones. Really annoying, but if I ever need to do anything and it crashes I can just load up VS 2013 for that part, or even just Notepad++.

~~Deactivated Member~~ · August 6, 2015

Is that a widespread bug, or is it something thats isolated to Rage development?

I don't really know - but the software itself is really stable, I haven't experienced any crashes except this one, so yeah, it might be related to the RPH.