Re: [GD-General] I just don't get it (Was: Scripting Systems)

[Brett B. <res...@ga...>]

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> I somewhat agree with you. I think that the only real excuse to use a=20
> scripting language for all the game logic is portability, specially if =

> you are targeting the mod community. However, if you design your=20
> language from scratch you can also add special features that ease the=20
> development of the scripts, for example, quakec provided a mechanism =
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> specify state machines and animations, and unrealscript also has state =

> machines and other nice features.
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> In most cases I think that a scripting languages are overrated. =
However,=20
> that doesn't mean that scripting languages shouldn't be useful for=20
> games, it's just that I don't see the need to code all the game logic=20
> using a scripting language.
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Or you might not want your level designers booting CodeWarrior and =
messing about with the code (and taking up licenses). Scripting is =
limiting to programmers, liberating to non-programmers.We regularly look =
at the scripts and if we see repeated logic we implement similar logic =
in a plugin and remove it from the scripts. Very nice system that allows =
the script logic to change hundreds of times a day and once it settles =
into the desired functionality it gets petrified into code. Iterative =
programming at its best.

Brett