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Hey everyone, Zawmbee here... I was a coder a long time ago for css, but now I just got outta the military and want to figure out the CSGO structure. As I can tell SourcePython is the only language used at the moment. However, I can not seem to find any tutorials to get me started or to help me understand SourcePython better. I have looked at some coding and see the similarities with ESP and have adapted a bit from it. Was wondering if anyone could give me a good place to help me learn better? Haven't found any tutorials, so would appreciate it in order to understand this language...

Thanks
- Zawmbee

The project is still in Alpha, and anything can change at any given time. That being said, we have a decent amount of the current build documented in the wiki:
http://www.sourcepython.com/forumdisplay.php?37-Source-Python-Wiki

You can find that link along the top bar where it says "Wiki" for future reference.

Welcome to the forums!

Satoon

Language is still python, so the only thing different is the API. If you still renember some ESP it might be worth looking at [book]EventScripts Equivalents[/book].

Actually you can still do quite a lot in SP, few major things are still missing at moment though like wraps for Vectors (used for entity positions), a libary for popups and stringtables (like for adding downloads). But at the same time it is possible to use it for a bunch of purposes already

Also you might want to check out [book]Building From Source[/book]; that way you can get the latest version with the most recent featureset and API.

So does this mean that SourcePython is still in testing for CSGO? Meaning if I coded something now, it probably wont work later?

Source.Python is undergoing active development, it is not "finished" yet and some features are missing, while some others are still heavily WIP (as such may change a lot - like dyncall/signature stuff, as you can see in the respoitory, there have been a lot of changes to it recently). It works on CS:S and CS:GO, and probably TF2, DOD:S and HL2DM (cause they have the same engine as CS:S afaik)

If you code something, it might require some reworking later to get it to work if the API changes, though I'm fairly certain that will require little rework as I don't see anything like a major rewrite happen (again). So basically, if anything, code now will only need some minor adjustments in later development stages. Often it is just a matter of "search & replace" if the API stuff changes.

I'll post an example later

Alright, appreciate it... and if anyone doesn't mind tutoring appreciate that too :P

The most complex change so far in SP was the rewrite from CamelCase to under_score , so all it was was maily replacing methods with another.

A nice example to see how stuff evolved:

1. Original ES script http://addons.eventscripts.com/addons/view/pretty_status_list
2. Port to Source.Python before the rewrite: http://www.sourcepython.com/showthread.php?254-Pretty-Status-List-V-1-00-000-SVN
3. Version working with current Source.Python development version: https://german-slaughterhouse.de/svn/scripts-public/trunk/addons/source-python/pretty_status_list/pretty_status_list.py

I might add a small tutorial to the wiki soon on how to get started with Source.Python, but, as long you know python, it's not that different from ES.