Part one explains the main commands used in Nightfire for building a basic script.

Below is a list of the key elements that are included in a script. These will make up a command lines which make up a script. A command lines fall into two basic formats, an alias and a key bound to a command or alias.

alias "[alias_name]" "[command it is to represent]"
bind "[key]" "[command]" or bind "[key]" "[alias]"

Alias (also known as) is used to define a command as another name. To make building a script easier and more compact it is always a good idea to use aliases instead of the long command names.

E.g. to change the command to show the console (con_toggleconsole) to something smaller it would look like this.

Alias"1a" "con_toggleconsole"

Bind is used as it's names suggests to bind a key to a command(s) or an alias, so that when you press a key it will execute that command.

E.g. to bind the key F1 to the con_toggleconsole command it would look like this.

bind "F1" "con_toggleconsole"

Commands are used to tell Nightfire to do certain things, these can range from changing your name to doing more complex things when you add more than one command together to form a command line.

Configuration files have the .cfg extension at the end of their names. These files hold the scripting language that Nightfire reads when the server starts or a key is pressed. The two main ones are config.cfg and autoexec.cfg. The default settings for Nightfire are kept in the config.cfg file found in ...\Application Data\Gearbox Software\Nightfire\bond folder. (The location differs with each O/S) The autoexec.cfg file is found or made in the ...\Nightfire\Bond folder. Configuration files are opened and made with windows notepad. What ever script you make in the bond folder it is automatically stored in the config.cfg file as a back up. This can cause problems which will be explained later.

Developer is used in a command line to display information on the top left of the Nightfire screen, often used to describe what the actual command did. To display the information that you want, the developer command has to be switched on, the information to be displayed is preceded by the Echo command, then the developer command switched off. Echo is similar to the DOS or PHP command, think of it as print or write.

E.g. to say 'my script' on the screen it would look like this.

"developer 1 ; echo my script ; developer 0"

If something does not work you will get an error message in the console. These are some common error messages and what they mean. "foobar" is an example word.

unknown command: foobar = This means that you have an error in your script where you have used a command that is not known to Nightfire, it is misspelled or the alias has been misspelled.

foobar is unbound. = This means that you have pressed a key or used the mouse to execute a command that has a blank bind, i.e. bind "F1" with nothing after it.

couldn't exec foobar.cfg = This means that Nightfire could not find the foobar.cfg file or that you have named the .cfg incorrectly for Nightfire to look for it.

Exec (execing) is used to call an external script in another configuration file, aka execute.

E.g. if you make a script in notepad and call it test1.cfg, then make a command line in the autoexec.cfg file to call test1.cfg it would look like this.

exec test1.cfg

Key is not a command but they are important. To make scripts work they need something to execute them, this can be nearly any key on a standard keyboard, a joystick or the mouse buttons or wheel.

So that a script can work in Nightfire, it uses special characters to separate and highlight certain parts.

Quotation marks " are to tell Nightfire where the command contents starts and stops. Semicolons; splits up the command contents so that it may include other commands too. Forward slashes / used twice one after each other like so //, are used for hiding text for information purposes. By doing this Nightfire will ignore all the content after the // when it reads the script. You can use them inside aliases too by placing // at the beginning of a command to stop it from working.

E.g. to put a title at the top of the script to say 'This is my Script' and so that Nightfire will not try to read it as part of the code it would look like this.

//This is my script

Unbind is used for freeing up individual keys so that you can use the bind command. Unbindall frees up all the keys at once.

The Wait command tells Nightfire to pause before continuing. The actual wait time is very short, 1/60th of a second.

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