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[ANtY]

I don't have an art slave.

Why so serious

[ChevyRay]

What makes you think I didn't say it in my Goof Troop voice? You'll never know

[Adamski]

Because you didn't say it, you typed it. 

[ChevyRay]

Says you! Doesn't everybody else read out loud what they type on the internet? Don't tell me I've been doing it all this time on my own.

But it's still true, art slave I have not.

[ANtY]

Says you! Doesn't everybody else read out loud what they type on the internet? Don't tell me I've been doing it all this time on my own.

But it's still true, art slave I have not.

I say everything I type lol, and I also read everything out loud the way I interpret it 

[twobitart]

But it's still true, art slave I have not.

 

[ChevyRay]

I don't remember saying you could speak. Don't you have pine needles to paint?

Bleeding hands? I don't care if you have to hold the stylus with your teeth.

[HyperDuckChris]

AAAAAAAAhahaha i did laugh out loud as internets famous lol would indeed, ahh.. suggest.

[BlackBulletIV]

Those scripts sound pretty awesome. Do you write them in a custom language or something like that?

[ChevyRay]

It's actually ridiculously simple. They're not really scripts, as much as a list of commands w/ parameters that I can type out in the editor.

So it just breaks it up line-by-line, determined which event to queue up based on the name, and passes that event the parameters. For example:

Code:

DisableAll();
CameraTo(500, -1000, 1.2, QuadIn);
Fade(1.0, 0x000000, 1.2);
Wait();
SwitchScene(OtherArea, 0, 1);
DisableAll();
Fade(0, 0x000000, 1.0);
Wait();
EnableAll();

That will disable all IActor objects (eg. disable player from controller, disable enemies). For in-game physics objects, it will disable their behavior components and make them just default to regular non-controlled physics (so in the case I want to move them around with events, I can do so).

Then, the camera will move to the target position in 1.2 seconds using a quadratic ease-in, and at the same time the camera will fade to black. The Wait() is a special type of call that suspends the event queue until all currently active events are finished (in this case, the Fade() and CameraTo(), and then it will switch the scene (opening up a level called OtherArea).

The event queue is persistent across scenes, so then it will DisableAll() in the new room, fade back in, and when that is done, it will re-enable all the actors.

Scripts will have control over other things too, such as particle emitters, screen effects, all in-game actors, and the speech/dialogue system.

[BlackBulletIV]

Awesome stuff, I like the looks of it. Are you parsing it as C# or doing manually? In the case of the latter I do wonder why the syntax isn't more like:

Code:

DisableAll
CameraTo 500, -1000, 1.2, QuadIn
Fade 1.0, 0x000000, 1.2
Wait
SwitchScene OtherArea, 0, 1
DisableAll
Fade 0, 0x000000, 1.0
Wait
EnableAll

(Not sure where parenthesis are needed or not.)

[Falmil]

Awesome stuff, I like the looks of it. Are you parsing it as C# or doing manually?

Looks like an interactive programming console.

[ChevyRay]

Doing it manually. Keeping it in function syntax 'cause that's what I look at all day long, so instead of having to jump back and forth between 2 different syntax, I can just script the event functions as I'm used to seeing them.

Would take like 2 seconds to switch to the syntax you're using though, if I wanted to. Haven't really seen a syntax that struck me as really good, yet, and I have no problem with the current one, but if people have suggestions, I'll take 'em.

[BlackBulletIV]

Fair enough.

On second thoughts, if it were me, I'd probably keep the parenthesis but drop the semi-colons; it kind of looks messy without parenthesis, at least when it's not syntax highlighted.

[ChevyRay]

In that case I'd have to just add one more bit of code to skip empty lines, 'cause currently it's split on the semicolons, not on the newlines.

To be honest, I put the semicolons in 'cause when I was typing the scripts, I kept on putting them there automatically without thinking, so either my scripts have to embrace 'em or know how to ignore 'em. C#, unlike ActionScript 3, dies if you don't use semicolons, so it's become automatic.