RTS Format

RTS scripts are simple text files. On Windows you can create them with Notepad or another text editor. You cannot use word processor files (like "DOC" files), because these are not text files and EDGE cannot read them.

Some general points about RTS scripting:

  1. #CLEAR_ALL (if used) must be at the top of your script, or else everything before it will be cleared.
  2. #VERSION and #DEFINE values (if used) must be after #CLEARALL, but before the rest of your script
  3. You must place all your radius triggers between START_MAP and END_MAP.
  4. All other commands can only exist between RADIUS_TRIGGER (or RECT_TRIGGER) and END_RADIUS_TRIGGER.

Commands are not case sensitive, hence "start_map", "Start_Map" and "START_MAP" are all acceptable. Whether you use lowercase or uppercase is just a matter of personal taste.

You can include comments (text which will be ignored by EDGE) by simply placing a double slash "//" at the beginning of a line and then typing your text after it. For example: 

//This is a comment

//and this is another one

Commands in RTS scripts can be extended over two (or more) actual lines by placing the \ character at the end. There must not be any spaces after the \ character, otherwise it doesn't work.

General Tips

Check your spelling and values carefully, and add a few functions at a time, then test.

Just like DDF development, adding a lot of entries without testing makes it much harder to find problems. If you add a little and test often, you have less scripting to rummage through to find errors.