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There should be a .pdf file called "FPSC Hint’s & Tips" collected and written by Nickydude, in the Tutorial folder of your FPS Creator directory which offers answers for the most obvious questions and solutions for a lot of common problems. It also contains usefull tips on many aspects of game design.

I advertise it because it worked perfectly for myself. I learned how to retexture, how to script, how to use lights and even the basics of modelling all from this manual. And what's more important this incredibly well-written piece of work made me understand stuff, instead of just offering paste-it solutions.

Here is what "FPSC Hint’s & Tips" offers on 185(!) pages (some things might be outdated with 1.18 beta, like the Actions/Conditions lists) - and yes, a lot of these themes actually are in the most recent threads on the FPSC general, scripting and modelling forums

The FPI scripting language
Tutorial #1: - Light script explained
Tutorial #2: - Light Switch
Tutorial #3: - Half-Life AutoMed
Tutorial #4: - Custom Game HUD
Conditions list
Actions list
Script Bank
Talking npc/character Script
Homing in behaviour
Activate a light after entering a zone (like an alarm)
Entering a pin number of a door
Entering a pin number of a door #2
Use trigger zone to turn on fog
Use a trigger zone to turn off fog
Have an entity sitting down, like on a chair
Have text appear when you walk near something
Destroy object – lock door
Show objectives on screen
Game over when a certain NPC dies
In game cheat
Making a Camera Spawn Guards
Auto Quicksave
How to change the ambience lighting per level
Trigger a door when object is placed
Manual Lift
Move the player to a location
Randomise Character Animations
God Mode
Player locked on antigrav platform
How to change skybox per level
Opening a door using a trigger zone
Stop "door locked, requires a key to open" when carrying key
Shoot several enemies to open a door
Search for and shoot player
Swivelling wall (secret passage)
Killer Slime
Door open initially....trigger to close it
Present HUD Image when Entity is destroyed/killed
Open the doors like Resident Evil
Shootout lights Script with entity
Lights On In Sequence
Explode a barrel when stepping on a trigger zone
Zombie Melee Script
LEVEL DESIGN HELP
GUIDE TO THE ULTIMATE HORROR GAME
HOW TO USE .X MEDIA FILES
HOW TO MAKE A HUD USING GIMP
CREATING OVER-SATURATED TEXTURES IN GIMP
MAKE YOUR OWN FPS CREATOR SIGNS
HOW TO CREATE YOUR OWN PLAYER SOUNDSET
HOW TO CREATE YOUR OWN DECALS
CHANGING THE DEFAULT FPSC GAME.EXE ICON
SPAWNING ENEMIES WITH A TRIGGER ZONE
MILKSHAPE AND FPSC
HOW TO ANIMATE WEAPONS IN MILKSHAPE 3D
HOW TO CREATE DEAD PEOPLE IN MILKSHAPE 3D
PUZZELS
HOW TO GET YOUR GAME PUBLISHED
DUAL WEAPON WIELD
PREVENTING CHARS PASSING HALFWAY THROUGH FLOOR
TERRAIN CREATION
GRUNGE TEXTURING TUTORIAL
UV MAPPING
ALPHA CHANNELS USING PAINTSHOP PRO
A BRIEF TUTORIAL ON ALPHA MAPS USING PHOTOSHOP
ENTITY AND SEGMENT TIPS
LIGHTS AND ATMOSPHERE
THE SEGMENT EDITOR TUTORIALS
Basic Window Frame Segment TUTORIAL
Advanced Window Frame Segment TUTORIAL
Basic Room Segment TUTORIAL
Some solutions to FPSC errors
Display a hud while holding an object
Alter lift weight
Respawn Times
Distance + Size
Change lighting while playing
Fix disappearing labels
Dynamic entity & scripts
Reversed colours
Change character shadow
Infinite ammo
Movable teleport
Light from light marker
Level distortion fixed
Breakable doors
How to delete entities in one go
Rotating entities
Winzone with video
Disappearing Walls / Corridors Air shaft / duct lag open
How do I stop weapons and ammo floating up and down and glowing How do I get my player to follow a waypoint?
How do I change the backdrop (sky/ground)
How do I make dark rooms / lower the overall lighting level
How do you get a sound zone to play music from when the player steps into the zone?How do I change the player’s walking speed
How can I put the name of the game on the main menu
How do you make platforms move horizontally, like across chasms or acid
How do I get rid of all the blood from the enemies
Is there is a way to let an entity spawn when another is dead
I can’t get my teleporter to work, why
How do I have a flickering light
How do I make an object transparent
How can my enemies have low gravity
How do I align something with the ceiling, like a light
How do I make a door start open / broken
How can I play a sound when the player picks up ammo
How do you make a character start with a weapon in multiplayer
Whenever I run my game, the characters are all black, like shadows, why
How do I put non default weapons in allocation slots when building my game
I need a barrel that spawns from a trigger zone and explodes straight away
What image files can I use in FPSC
How do I get a weapon to lie on its side
Why are the blood splat decals flickering in my game
How do I get objects to rest on other objects
When I shoot once, there are two bullet holes
How do I change the footstep sounds when walking on something
Why aren’t my doors opening
How can I make curved walls that can be destroyed
How to do an enemy to walk until the end of the waypoint and to stop
How do you delete an enemy when it's reach the end of its way point
When I place a light on the wall and play the game, they fall off How do you turn lights on and off
How do I edit the loading screen without getting an error
Why won’t my barrels explode when I shoot them
How do I change the radius of a grenade explosion
Is it possible to turn a decal (like steam) on / off
How do I change the resolution of a build game
Why are there gaps around my doors when place them on a wall
How do I turn a sound zone off using a switch
What ports do I have to forward in order for me to start a server
Can I change the size of a decal, like blood
When I place a wall / floor down, the floor / wall next to it changes
When I export my character from my model program and import it into FPSC, it’s the wrong way round
How can I move part of my map to another part of the play area

Thats a lot of perfectly written hints, tips, Qs&As and tutorials. And apart from answering questions and solving problems, I always find the contents extremly inspiring for my own game design, because it shows what the engine is capable of, if one is ready to invest some time & effort.

Enjoy the read!

PS: Of course this forum is actually the right place to ask fellow game designers for advice, but a lot of stuff can't be better explained than it allready has been in the "FPSC Hint’s & Tips"

I have no tutorial folder. I think your referring to the 266 page Official Community Guide in the FPSC docs folder. Yes, this is a excellent resource.

You are somehow right. I think i got the Tips&Tricks guide with my original FPSC download (or from the harddisk), it seems to have been absorbed into the FPSC community guide.

my bad for mixing them up, because I have them both printed out and split into sections

I'll update the contents for reference.