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what do cogs do and how do i use them?

2000-12-12, 8:29 AM #1

Rogue15

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see topic.

I am lost and could care less if someone finds me.

2000-12-12, 8:46 AM #2

Jipe

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Cogs control all the functions in Jedi Knight - weapons, force powers, anything the player interacts with, or moves in-game, etc. Cog is a 'programming language' derived from C, created to make things happen in JK/MotS. There are tutorials in Massassi's Tutorial section that explain how to put door cogs in, camera cogs, etc. Pele wrote an excellent beginner's guide to cogs a while ago, you can find that here: http://www.jediknight.net/darkfall/dfsept98/cogframe.html

My (unfinished) tutorial is available here: http://battle4naboo.hypermart.net/tut1.html

You will probably hear the term JKSpecs used a lot. There is a link to it on the navbar on Massassi's main page. It has a complete list of all cogs and their functions - some are not complete, but Millenium ( http://millennium.massassi.net ) has the rest.

I recommend reading Pele's guide thoroughly, and with JKSpecs in hand, learning Cog slowly. The only way to learn is by experience - it may seem hard, but take a look at LEC's cogs and figure out what they did, by referring to verb fuctions in JKSpecs.

-Jipe