[Razor-X]

Well... yah... by the subject title you can tell about the subject of the post (or should anyway). Our new forum has reinstilled morale in the members (that and Summer Break is coming soon). We have a secret project coming up and another possible project in the works which won't be under too much wraps. So visit the new Venosoft people!

[Ninkazu]

Once you get enough of that design doc done, try to condense it into a publicly releasable version (that means no spoilers).

::EDIT::
I'm working on the scripting engine theory right now. I'll post full details in the admin forum.

[Bjorn]

Always nice to know something good might be coming up. :-)

[Ninkazu]

Just an update, I had surgery on my foot this morning, so that may or may not be a bad thing. I'd be sitting down around my house for a couple weeks, so that'd give me time to program, but it's also very uncomfortable to sit at the computer at an angle since I have to keep my foot elevated.

I'm still working on my scripting engine design document, mainly because I want all loaded scripts to be able to talk to each other and have access to their variables (or I may add that to the messaging system, haven't gotten everything figured out yet), but also I want it to be somewhat threaded, if you know what I mean.

I'm thinking of having an _init function that's called only when the script is first loaded, then a _main, called every frame. But, since I don't want - for example - npcs hopping from tile to tile each frame, I'll have to add some kind of interpolation system, which I'm not 100% sure on how to do. I'm thinking, whenever a script uses a command that's not BAM Done, I'll have to send a variable that will be changed to true once the interpolation is 100%, that way I can do this:

[Happy]

[Joakim]

[Ninkazu]

I have been reading it, but it doesn't discuss what I want to do. It has multithreading covered, but that's a bit much. I just want the scripts to be able to execute each frame without causing the engine to pause for a certain action.

If you're talking about using Waitfor bUpd for basically what I want , I don't see how the script is to exit, without making the Waitfor command explicitly exit the script.

[Joakim]

Oh, the Waitfor command should exit the script, and not enter it again before the condition is true...

But anyways, what about proper assign operators and some proper syntax?

[Ninkazu]

[Joakim]

Well I'm just yelling at you.

[valderman]

You really should not use an ASM-style language for scripting... If I would try to force the others on my project to use something like that they'd kill me without hesitation.
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[Razor-X]

Heh, i don't mind. I', readn up on ASM, and many scripting languages are like ASN (IT BETTER HAVE COMMENTS!!)

[Joakim]

My opinion...
I dislike ASM like scripting languages becuase it's so far from the a scripting language idea.
A scripting language is the ultimate abstraction as long as you still want to write code. Scripting languages should be extreamly easy to use for everybody and never focus on small things. It should tell the engine how to act rather than act on it's own. The engine should be the slave, the scripting language the master and you the God.

I myself tried numerous approaches on scripting, including a reverse polish notation language (commands as well as calculations), but I always returned to the user friendly approach in the end. ASM is not user friendly. It's your foe. Get rid of it.

[Ninkazu]

This scripting language is not to be used by the player, so really its usability to.... muggles.... is inconsequential. I will be able to use it and that's that.

[Aptyp]

Yeah, well, you can easily wrap assembly-like scripts into high-level language by writing a compiler that takes C-like code and dumps opcode/parameter stream.