[ bzflag-Feature Requests-734758 ] Scripting proposal

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Feature Requests item #734758, was opened at 2003-05-08 12:04
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Category: BZFlag
Group: None
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Jeremiah (cobraa1)
Assigned to: Tim Riker (timriker)
Summary: Scripting proposal

Initial Comment:
While I was surfing the Internet, I stumbled across the 
Lua programming language, which can be used to add 
scripting to BZFlag.  I found this language in a scripting 
tutorial on GameDev.net.

This language could be used to add scripting 
capabilities to BZFlag, which could be used for defining 
flags, adding AI, or the ability to create bots to BZFlag.

-CobraA1

References:
http://www.lua.org/

http://www.gamedev.net/reference/programming/features/
lua/

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>Comment By: Jeremiah (cobraa1)
Date: 2003-05-19 00:02

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he he - with functional languages, it's relatively easy to
create other languages.  I could create an brainf*ck
interpreter in lua, and do the AI in brainf*ck, and drive
the others crazy :D.

I don't have access to the Whitepace webpage - their
webpages seem to be down - but from what I hear, it's a
puposefully obfusicated language.  Sorry, but I don't like
that idea - I'd like to be able to put clean, readable code
in my AI.  I don't plan on doing too many bot contests with it.

I'm thinking more along the lines of a single-player mode,
like in Spectre.  If you want obfusicated code, write an
interpreter for your favorite obfusicated language ;).

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Comment By: Dave Brosius (dbrosius)
Date: 2003-05-11 00:21

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If folks started easily writing bot code, i could imagine bot 
contests ala the now ancient 'core wars'. In this case, code 
obfuscation would be important. I din't think lua has enough 
support for this, I think 'whitespace' would be a better choice. 
see: http://compsoc.dur.ac.uk/whitespace/

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Comment By: Michael Hoffman (michaelh20)
Date: 2003-05-08 20:21

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It's an interesting idea and probably really  a good idea for some such 
thing in the long run.

I'm not sure it will really save the work needed be done to make 
effective bots -- would make it more flexible I suppose, rather than hard 
coding such efforts in c++. And I suppose if we had some bot / lua 
expert it would really help :)

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