Change Log:

• July .18th/2007
• Yeah, so....3 years have passed since I touched this thing, and I have been out of the Verge scene for a bit. I tend to take these breaks once in awhile, although you can probably blame this one on WoW. ^_^;
  At any rate, this is just a straight copy over of the original tutorial, since I still get e-mails for it and I'm guessing people still think it's a good place to start.
  A lot of people found the chapter 7 was actually working (tee hee) except it shouldn't have been up yet as it wasn't *quite* ready to go, so the files needed for the Basic Menu tutorial still aren't up yet. But, really there are only two new files, which you can make yourselves. One is for the Cursor, and the other is for the Menu Background. Call the cursor image "cursor.pcx" and the menu background "menuBg.pcx" and you can do the tutorial without problems.
  You'll have to forgive me, I'm a a little disorganized at the moment, having moved over to a new computer, setting up a new host and other fun stuff. But in the next couple of weeks I should have everything back up and running normally again.

  Furthermore, to people that e-mailed me about this tutorial on my actionsketch account, that isn't my current e-mail address. I've updated all parts of this tutorial to reflect that. You can currently (and from now on) contact me at: xRysenATgmailDAWT.com. I apologise if you have sent me mail and I have not replied.

• October.7th/2004
• I'm just letting people know that it may be awhile before the next update. I'm scheduled to write a "Creating a Basic Menu" section, however, McGrue has asked me if I could create a "Learning from Sully" (the verge pack-in demo) section, so that's where we'll learn how to do most of (if not all) the intermediate stuff we were going to be getting into. I'm just reviewing the code now, and trying my best to figure out where to start. The great thing about Sully is that for the most part is a complete RPG library (I believe the only thing lacking is a Battle System), so most aspects that are needed for an RPG are all ready coded and finished. So! I'm making a call to those of you who use this tutorial, what would you like to start with? There are many parts of a game that we can begin with, forming a party, creating the menu, databases (item/equip/magic systems), etc. etc. So if there are any requests for a particular part of an RPG that you would like to learn feel free to E-mail me with suggestions. If not, I'll try and think of what is the easiest thing to introduce first, and go from there.
• October.4th/2004
• I decided to add a change log to the index, just so when this is updated you can tell what's new, etc.
  For today's update it was mostly just spelling/grammer fixes. Nothing significant.
  

Table of Contents:

• Introduction: Verge 3
• Who is this tutorial for?
• What is Verge?
• Can I make 3d games with it?
• How do I make a game?
• Chapter 1: The Basics
• Sprites/Entities/Chr's
• Fonts
• Maps and Tilesets(VSP's)
• Music and Sound Effects
• Zones and Events
• .VC files and scripts
• VergeC: The Scripting Language
• Compiling
• Summary
• Chapter 2: Your First Verge Game
• What you'll need (Updated on: Oct.1st/04)
• Verge.cfg
• Your First Program
• Built-in Functions and Variables
• A More Rewarding Experience
• Summary
• Chapter 3: Entities; Populating your world
• Entities
• Methods for Placing Entities
• Maped3: Adding Entities
• Giving an Entity Meaning to Its Existence
• Summary
• Chapter 4: Zones; Where, What and How?
• Zones
• Maped3: Placing Zones
• Zones in Action
• Multiple Zones
• Summary
• Chapter 5: Music and Sounds
• Music
• Maped3: Loading Music
• VC: Loading Music
• Sounds
• Sound Project
• Summary
• Chapter 6: Fonts and Images; A Basic Textbox
• Introduction to Fonts and Images
• Images
• Fonts
• A Basic Textbox
• Loops
• Back to the Textbox
• Testing our new Function
• Summary
• Chapter 7: A Basic Menu
• Under Construction
• References and Further Reading
• Appendix
• A: Setting up Text pad for Verge
• Why use Textpad?
• Where can I get Textpad?
• Installing and Setting up Syntax Highlighting
• Workspaces