There are tools that handle injecting for you for common areas, so you don’t need to focus on scripting until the time is right. Tuning Error Notifier is to help you make sure you don’t make mistakes. TDESCs (make sure to build your folder right, it's TDESC Folder > Subfolder for each patch TDESC): TDESC Browser (when referencing the folder in your settings do the main TDESC Folder): XML Extractor if you want to update mods before S4S updates, and XML File Finder to see connections/references between each file without having to manually search for them. Scarlet's Beginner tutorials (starting on page 2): Zer0's tutorials (for beginners and beginning intermediate): How to Start a Custom Tuning File: And then you need the TDESCs and TDESC Browser as it helps you understand how files are built and what each thing does. Start with small tuning mods first, otherwise you're going to overwhelm yourself. Think of scripts as your computer and tuning files as a game (like Sims 2). Tuning is the data that you mostly see in the game and what EA's scripts read.

Scripting requires Python knowledge, and is usually only used for injecting your material to avoid conflicts, overriding EA's scripts, or bridging gaps for new material that doesn't exist. What are you making exactly, and do you know the difference between scripts and tuning? Because whatever you're making can more than likely be done without creating new scripts and instead done with just tuning and injectors.

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