[isugamedev-devel] scripting

[Kevin M. <ke...@vr...>]

I think chad knows this one, but if anyone else has ideas, i'd be
interested.

want to do a scripting interface to the tank game engine (in cvs)...

how easy is it to do a perl or python binding?  I'd like cross platform
(linux win32 irix mac).  I envision that most objects would be prefab in
the game engine code (like particle systems that i can just setup in high
level fashion, or objects that i can drop in and they just collide.)...
so not much low level logic in the scripting, hopefully just game logic
(like click button triggers open of door, where the button and door are
both defined in c++ code and have a simple trigger mechanism that can be
hooked up in python...)

anyway, pretty random thoughts.  mainly wondering how fast I could have
this implemented (assuming i had the game engine written... :)

and, what are the steps I should take?  (pointers to documentation on how
to do this are fine too)

kevin

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