Lua

[randi]

I am seriously considering adding Lua scripting to ZDoom rather than roll my own based on UnrealScript. Lua is a cool little language, and I find it does most everything I could possibly want. Every time I start thinking about how to implement some language feature for "DoomScript," my thoughts always return to Lua. I just need to figure out a good way to interface it with the existing code. Unless I fail to do that, it's very likely that a good chunk of game code is going to get rewritten in Lua, hopefully sooner rather than later.

This post has been made as a public service announcement to warn everybody that if you "Wait For DoomScript," you'll probably be waiting a very, very long time.

[skadoomer]

I guess the question i have to ask is whether or not it will do everything you dreamed doomscript can do? I never really knew to what extent doomscript (or unreal script) would allow modders to have control over actors, data types, and level scripting.

Concerning its implementation, I'm a bit skeptical because of various additions in the past (floating pont and polymost) that are now vapor ware. Perhaps some members of the community share my skepticism in such a big decision for zdooms benefit. Re-writes are heavy things that take years and are often shrouded with secrecy.

From looking at this, lua seems pretty straight forward. If it will give us better flexibility with modding zdoom, i am very interested.

Speaking of which, why did floating point and polymost become discontinued?

[solarsnowfall]

My interrest is piqued, and I have all of the same questions skadoomer has.

[Niya]

Lua is very alien. Its has some strange constructs that seems drastically different from traditional ACS\DECORATE so people are going to have serious problems in the beginning. However, its appears that you can code extremely sophisticated algorithms with it and that will be great asset to Zdoom scripting, once "newness" phase passes and everyone learns to code it.

Go for it.

[Vaecrius]

Are there any easily-intimidated-n00b-friendly guides on learning how to code in Lua?

And do you need some huge compiler thing like with C++ to even get started?

[Niya]

The link that randy provided has all the info you need, including a vast array of examples.

[Nash]

I'd say just go for it. It does look a little different but nothing impossible. As long as DoomScript isn't something like this it should be okay.

[edward850]

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I’m sure that is the most retarded language known to... well... all of existence!
I hope reading that didn’t brain my damage.

[Kinsie]

I can only hope that Lua will not completely replace DECORATE and the like - the ease of creating new stuff in DECORATE is why I like editing for Zdoom.

[Grubber]

I personally don't like Lua. It looks ugly.

I’m sure that is the most retarded language known to... well... all of existence!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malbolge_programming_language

[edward850]

me got be You kidding to

Ok, my brain has left the building

[Niya]

I'd say just go for it. It does look a little different but nothing impossible. As long as DoomScript isn't something like this it should be okay.

Holy Shit! ....Alot of people really have nothing to to. Its the only way someone can come up with something that.......I dont even know WHAT to call this type of shit.

Its amusing to say the least. I can see that sort of this being used to test people and based on how well they handle it you can pretty much measure their logical capacity.

I personally don't like Lua. It looks ugly.

I’m sure that is the most retarded language known to... well... all of existence!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malbolge_programming_language

You gotta be f**kin kidding.

[Doomguy0505]

That's like Brain rape!

[Phobus]

Well, just checking out that little tutorial there has given me confidence that it's a language I can learn if I have an inclination to, and after reading a little of the site, I've seen that it can be used as a scripting language of sorts for other programs, so in effect, it'd be not too different from ACS scripting, just a lot more powerful, with considerable control over everything randy would want us to mess about with.

So yeah, sounds good to me.

[Graf Zahl]

I personally don't like Lua. It looks ugly.

I'd have to agree with that. I really, *really* don't like this language - at all!

It's a real shame that they had to use crap BASIC syntax as a guideline to design their language.