thanks to the help of unicron I found two tutorials on ravensoft forums the one by lord dave covers more advanced subjects like camera movement but the tutorial on section 31 is excellent with full details and even downloads of his files to give examples I will soon have npc's moving about my map hear are the links
lord dave's tutorial
http://www.geocities.com/lord_dave122/gamestuff.html
section 31 tutorial
http://www.geocities.com/rellenbroek...alscripts.html
if any one finds or makes new tutorials could thay post them hear or make a new thred with links
thanks