Give me "tips and tricks" about learning Zscript

[Foxhead]

First off, I already know about the Zdoom Wiki as well as Zscript Basics Github, and some other obscure sites.
What i'm really looking for is stuff that helps me learn and develop with zscript, obscure tips, ways for doing stuff, wads that will help me learn, threads about zscript that might help me, examples, etc, you name it, even giving me some sort of "homework" is highly welcomed. I'm basically learning everything from a DECORATE perspective, i tried learning Zscript a year ago but didn't get too far into it, And nowadays i don't remember anything.

I'm currently trying to learn stuff for a gameplay mod i'm planning to develop.
any help is welcomed.

[Kan3]

After 2 years, ZSCRIPT is still kind of obscure to me, I stick to DECORATE hoping they never make it incompatible x)

I had to rely on ZSCRIPT when I tried to make a monster with a pulling attack, cause DECORATE didn't give me the wanted effect.

Since you already know about wiki and stuff, my best advice is to take a look at other wads, especially those that add new actors with more advanced way of attacking/interact.

Realm667 is quite a good place to start, there are quite a few monsters (I don't know if there are ZSCRIPT weapons) that have been converted to ZSCRIPT and some of them look interesting.

Otherwise look for bigger wads (if I remember correctly even Ramp uses some ZSCRIPT), the one that comes to my mind is Nash Gore, that is basically all Zscripts. 

[SMG_Man]

12 hours ago, Foxhead said:

threads about zscript that might help me

 

I would suggest looking around the zdoom forums for things like this. It'll be a lot easier to find people working with ZSCRIPT there compared to here on Doomworld.

[ramon.dexter]

SMG_Man speaks the truth. If you want to learn zscript, head over to the zdoom forums. People here are more inclined towards vanilla and dehacked. 

As others advice you to look for other mods, I'll do the same. If you want to look at zscripted mods, look at:

Lost Frontier by jarewill - used this to learn most of zscript, it's pretty easy to understand

High Noon Drifter - second one I used to learn zscript

Hideous Destructor - pretty complicated for a beginner

Edited September 10, 2022 by ramon.dexter

[IcarusOfDaggers]

If you find yourself stuck with definitions, look at scripting as a language, not as a code or mathematical formula.
or, if you approach from language already, thing of it as mathematics or code. Either way, scripting required quite flexible thinking.

Also, googling. A lot of googling, especially around Zdoom forums. Most likely if it's something you want to do, it has been done and some wad somewhere has a working script for it. Examples already given above.