Re: I just don't get it (Was: Scripting Systems)

> 
> I somewhat agree with you. I think that the only real excuse to use a 
> scripting language for all the game logic is portability, specially if 
> you are targeting the mod community. However, if you design your 
> language from scratch you can also add special features that ease the 
> development of the scripts, for example, quakec provided a mechanism to 
> specify state machines and animations, and unrealscript also has state 
> machines and other nice features.
> 
> In most cases I think that a scripting languages are overrated. However, 
> that doesn't mean that scripting languages shouldn't be useful for 
> games, it's just that I don't see the need to code all the game logic 
> using a scripting language.
> 

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


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