posted 03-16- 12:17 PM CT (US)        

any advice would be appreciated

posted 03-16- 02:12 PM CT (US)            

To begin with DinkC I suggest you read Someone's DinkC Tutorial.

The Prowler-Pro (sic) FAQ is really interesting, and I think there's something in it about going outside from a house.

To go outside from a house, house need to place an invisible teleporter. To make something invisible, press 1 in DinkEdit after selecting a sprite, and enter the value '2'.
For the warp, press '0' or '9' (can't remember) to make the sprite become sprite a teleporter, and then type Shift + '1' to enter the map to teleport Dink to, Shift + '2' and Shift + '3' to enter the x and y coord to teleport Dink to in the new screen.
I think this can be found in the FAQ (better explained ;).

Then place this teleporter in the door of your house.
An invisible table is often used for it.

Btw, which tutorial did you read?
I know lots of tutorials, and I may help you find the right one.

posted 03-17- 05:22 PM CT (US)            

I have downloaded severl tuturials and printed some. ive downloaded CEdit 1.07 easydinkc and sceloton B
ive used dmod help by mike snyder and also several frontend programs. i cannot at this time tell you all the programs i have downloaded because i am not at my home computer right now.

i need the easiest scipting tutorial program there is. simply because alot of it looks alot like greek to me. LOL
although i am still learnin. im not as dumb as i sound I promise :))

posted 03-18- 03:35 AM CT (US)            

One of them is DinkC tutorial:
http://someone2.hypermart.net/dink/dinkc/dinkc.html

It teachs you basic of DinkC

To try to do a new DMOD, the best is to read tut1.txt in the /develop dir of your main dink directory.
It's a step-by-step learning of WinDinkEdit and some DinkC basics.
I really recommend you to try to do it entirely.

After, to start a new DMOD, then install skeleton_b and complete it; there's a lot of comments in the .c files to explain you what it means.

You can also 'rob' the other scripts, so as to study them.
The complete source of Dink .c scripts is in your /develop directory (source.zip).
You can also download some interesting sources of some DMODs at the url in the top of this post.

And if you have some problems you really can't figure out, then post at this forum.

About your problem, I understood that you need to place Dink somewhere when you click on start button, right?
The tut1.txt will explain you how to start a new game.

posted 03-18- 03:37 AM CT (US)            

Easy Dink C v1.2 should be release within some days.

posted 03-18- 02:13 PM CT (US)            

But, to baby37405's screen to screen problem:

I've experienced something like that before.
If you set &player_map to a non-existing screen, it will copy the contents of the first screen you made into the non-existing one.
But when you then try to walk to the next screen, which probably doesn't exist either, it doesn't work.
I don't know if this was your problem, but that was my solution.
Oh, btw, remember to set &player_map to the right screen #. ;)

posted 03-20- 09:12 AM CT (US)            

I remember when I was in ur situation! ;)
To make a teleporter, you build the inside of your house somewhere else (like in the very corner of the world) and block it off from the rest of the game, then what I do is take the farm, crop row of dirt thing, make it into a warp by pressing the zero key while holding the sprite, make it so small it is not visible, (press "[" ) and placing it at the exit of the house, do the same for the entrance, and pick up each warp and press "ctrl+w", you should hear a boing sound the first time, this means it worked.

And thats all there is to it!