Moderator: GZDoom Developers
Enjay wrote: "doomscript is vaporware".
) because for most mappers it's as if they had to use C which they don't understand. The more complex its functionality the more likely it won't be used!
Quake 3's QVM works in exactly the same way -- by providing source code for both the server and client that can then be modified on either end of the connection to create differences in gameplay, or new games entirely. Because 100% of the game code is in the QVM's, modders have been able to do little things like dramatically increase the refire rate of all the weapons (that particular modification takes only a few minutes to implement -- the time it takes to compile the files will likely be longer than the time it took you to edit the source) to designing completely new games like TrueCombat or Weapons Factory Arena.The Unreal Virtual Machine consists of several components: The server, the client, the rendering engine, and the engine support code.
The Unreal server controls all gameplay and interaction between players and actors. In a single-player game, both the Unreal client and the Unreal server are run on the same machine; in an Internet game, there is a dedicated server running on one machine; all players connect to this machine and are clients.
All gameplay takes place inside a "level", a self-contained environment containing geometry and actors. Though UnrealServer may be capable of running more than one level simultaneously, each level operates independently, and are shielded from each other: actors cannot travel between levels, and actors on one level cannot communicate with actors on another level.
Each actor in a map can either be under player control (there can be many players in a network game) or under script control. When an actor is under script control, its script completely defines how the actor moves and interacts with other actors.
) and got 2.1.0 out and then started seriously thinking about shifting the code toward DoomScript support. But hey, in the end it's all up to Randy now isn't it. . Maybe he's been a way for a while so he hasn't replied (or had time to)... remeber that Animé convention he went too... maybe he just hasn't been near his computer/zdoom for a while... real life? I dunno, but it sure would be nice to hear from him... or her... whatever... 
randy wrote:I am in bug-fixing mode right now, not new feature implementation mode, so who knows when or if the fabled DoomScript will ever see the light of day. I still think it would be nice, but I haven't done anything relating to it in the last four years aside from dabbling with writing a compiler for it (which was scrapped long ago). In the interim, I probably will try to do something DDF-like.
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.ACTOR ZombieMan 3004
{
Health 20
Radius 20
Height 56
Speed 8
PainChance 200
Monster
+FLOORCLIP
SeeSound grunt/sight
AttackSound grunt/attack
PainSound grunt/pain
DeathSound grunt/death
ActiveSound grunt/active
Obituary "%o was killed by a zombieman."
DropItem Clip
States
{
Spawn:
POSS AB 10 A_Look
Loop
See:
POSS AABBCCDD 4 A_Chase
Loop
Missile:
POSS E 10 A_FaceTarget
POSS F 8 A_PosAttack
POSS E 8
Goto See
Pain:
POSS G 3
POSS G 3 A_Pain
Goto See
Death:
POSS H 5
POSS I 5 A_Scream
POSS J 5 A_Fall
POSS K 5
POSS L -1 A_Death
Stop
XDeath:
POSS M 5
POSS N 5 A_XScream
POSS O 5 A_Fall
POSS PQRST 5
POSS U -1 A_Death
Stop
Raise:
POSS K 5 A_XScream
POSS JIH 5
Goto See
}
}
ACTOR DeadZombieMan : ZombieMan 18
{
SKIP_SUPER
Spawn Parent Death+4
}
