Hello World

Create your first script for EventScripts. This will show you how to create a simple script addon.

Tutorial

In this tutorial, we'll create a simple "Hello World" script to test that you've installed EventScripts properly. This tutorial assumes that you've installed EventScripts on your dedicated server. (See the EventScriptsGuide for installation instructions.)

Steps

• Navigate/explore to cstrike/addons/eventscripts.
  --> Note: If the directory doesn't exist, you need to create it. cstrike is the proper directory for Counter-Strike: Source, but replace that with the proper directory for your game.
• Create a directory there called hello
• Navigate/explore into that hello directory.
• Create an empty text file called es_hello.txt
• Open this es_hello.txt file in a text editor (e.g. notepad, or your server's web control panel)
• Copy in the following text into es_hello.txt

// My first script!
block load
{
  es_msg My hello script has been loaded.
}
 
block unload
{
  es_msg My hello script has been unloaded.
}
 
event player_spawn
{
  es_msg Hello World! event_var(es_username) has spawned!
}

• Save es_hello.txt (or upload it to your server to the corresponding folder).
• Connect to your server from your game machine (on Windows)
• log into rcon as normal with rcon_password yourpasswordhere (this step not necessary if you are doing a listen server)
• in the console, type rcon es_load hello (if doing a listen server, don't put the rcon in front)
• Choose a team and try dying and respawning.
• Whenever a player spawns, you should see a message like this in the bottom left of your screen:

Hello World! xxxx has spawned.

• Once you prove that it's working, type rcon es_unload hello so that you don't see it all the time. (Once again, the rcon prefix is not necessary if you are doing a listen server)

Did it work?

• If you see the Hello World message, your installation was successful. Congratulations! You should try the next section of the EventScriptsGuide.
• If you do not see the message when you jump, something is wrong with your installation. Visit the Install Troubleshooting section or provide a detailed question in our forums. There's also an IRC channel for help, too.