Methods

Methods are like commands. Like commands, these can take certain arguments/parameters and do something with them. These are the building blocks of your scripts.

What classifies as a method?

For something to be classified as a method by the script, it needs to:

1. Be an existing method (findable in serhelp methods)

🚫 SendMassiveMessage "Hello, World!"
✅ Reply "Hello, World!"

1. Be the first word in the line (exceptions apply, explained later)

🚫 test Reply "Hello, World!"
✅ Reply "Hello, World!"

1. Be the exact same case-wise

🚫 reply "Hello, World!"
🚫 REPLY "Hello, World!"
✅ Reply "Hello, World!"

What methods can I use?

The serhelp command will tell you! If you do serhelp methods, you will get a list of all methods you have at your disposal.

By the time you're reading this tutorial, the command could've changed a little. I advise you to verify by yourself if the command matches what is shown here.

Here's a small part of the output:

...

--- Broadcast methods ---
> ClearCountdown                Removes an active countdown for players if one is active.
> Countdown                     Creates a countdown using broadcasts.
> Broadcast                     Sends a broadcast to players.
> ClearBroadcasts               Clears broadcasts for players.
> Hint                          Sends a hint to players.

...

How to get information about a specific method?

You can do serhelp <methodName> to get info about a specific method. Let's run the serhelp Broadcast command and see what it gives us:

=== Broadcast ===
> Sends a broadcast to players.

This method expects the following arguments:
(1) 'players' argument
 - Expected value: Player variable e.g. @players or * for every player

(2) 'duration' argument
 - Expected value: Duration in format #ms (milliseconds), #s (seconds), #m (minutes) etc., e.g. 5s or 2m

(3) 'message' argument
 - Expected value: Any text e.g. "Hello, World!"

How to use that information?

So, let's say we want a broadcast cool broadcast to every player for 3 seconds, how to do that?

Well, we have 3 arguments:

1. players argument

If we want this argument to mean "all players", we can just use *, which represents all players.

Broadcast *

1. duration argument

This argument provides an example of how to use it. We need to provide seconds, so we can use the #s format, where we replace # with our number, so we can use 3s.

Broadcast * 3s

1. message argument

This will be the text that will be displayed, so we provide "cool broadcast"

Broadcast * 3s "cool broadcast"

Providing text in SER

When providing text, you MUST put it inside quotes. If not, each word will be assumed to be a different argument, causing an error.

            #1     #2    #3   #4
🚫 Reply example message to print

          - - - - -  #1  - - - - -
✅ Reply "example message to print"

Using this information we can quickly make a player broadcast! Let's open the myScript.txt file in your SER folder, and add the following:

Reply "Hello, World!"
Broadcast * 3s "cool broadcast"

Now if you run this script, you should get a broadcast like this:

And that's it, you now know how to use methods!