Scripting language

Dreglor · Post by **Dreglor** » Sat Nov 27, 2004 10:25 pm

I look around on the forums and the web for some sort of better explantion for this but it seams it not much of a disscussed topic
i did look into the "let build a compiler" document wasn't exectly what i wanted and the code he was using was a bit werid i couldn't convert it as well as i thought...

so, i am doing a 2d/3d engine for a game proablem is i want to put a scripting lang into it and im kinda lost on how to do the such, on top of that i want the lang to be compilable meaning that the text is converted to byte code so it faster for the program to execute (in therory)

any help would be nice

GedB · Post by **GedB** » Sat Nov 27, 2004 11:45 pm

Dreglor,

Why not use LUA?

FloHimself has already done all the hard work for you: http://www.florian-s.com/PBLua/index.html

Lua has already proven iteself in 3D engines and has been used in commercial games.

Dreglor · Post by **Dreglor** » Sun Nov 28, 2004 2:26 am

grr why didn't i find this earlier...
thx

PolyVector · Post by **PolyVector** » Sun Nov 28, 2004 3:01 am

Not sure if Flo fixed the examples, but if you run into problems having a script call a function in your program, try declaring it as a ProcedureCDLL since Lua uses cdecl

BasicGuy · Post by **BasicGuy** » Thu Dec 09, 2004 3:31 am

I remember someone in the Blitz3D forums who created a parser/compiler in Blitz (I think) that could read standard Blitz code like it was a scripting language. It was very cool because you didn't need to learn another language.

I've used LUA on a number of C/C++ projects and it works very well when it's integrated...

This: http://www.angelcode.com/angelscript/ is another very capapble and easy to use scripting language.