Wolfenstein - Enemy Territory Config Scripting (Beginners Lesson 1)

Creating a configuration script to handle your game settings and your binds is very important, it is a way to keep track of and enable your different settings for game play and your binds. We are going to start out with a simple lesson to create a simple script file known as a .cfg, where to save it and how to use it in game.

Step 1 - Creating a simple script

- Open notepad or wordpad (i prefer notepad++) and in it type the following

bind M "vsay Oops"

- Now go to file, save as, and call the file myscript.cfg (be sure that it is .cfg and not .cfg.txt as windows sometimes likes to do in notepad)

- Save the file in C:/Program Files/Wolfenstein - Enemy Territory/etmain
Or wherever your etmain folder is located...

Step 2 - Testing your script

- Login to server (be sure that is right mod server)
- When you get in to the game press the ~ button to open the in game console.
- in the console type /exec myscript.cfg
- if you have saved the script correctly in the right place you should then be able to close the console ~
- press M and you will vsay Oops!

Step 3 - Adding to your script

- Now you can add more binds to your script. Add any binds that you might like, here are a few simple examples.

// This one will play-dead on a server with playdead enabled.
bind P "Playdead"

// This one will suicide
bind K "kill"

// For ETPubservers with throwing knives
bind C "throwknife"

** A note, when binding keys, everyone is different, you may use C for something like crouch, so be sure to edit the binds to something that you do not use.

Stay tuned for Lesson 2, Basic Scripting