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Script Integration

Started by space warp Oct 10, 2006 at 10:37 AM 3 replies 1k views

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Oct 10, 2006 at 10:37 AM

Hello, I am trying to find any good beginners information on script integration. Meaning that you have a script file somewhere and then you want to run it from inside the program, and the script should be able to affect the program itself. Do I really have to program my own parser for this?

i deal napalm

Oct 10, 2006 at 10:52 AM

No, you definitely don't need to write your own. Three good alternatives are Lua, Python, and AngelScript. You can google for any of these to find good info for getting started. I use Lua myself.

Jon_Snow

Oct 10, 2006 at 10:59 AM

I'd say it depends on how much you want your scripts to do. If you're just using them to say, set up values for some object or something, just go with a simple script parser since that will probably actually be faster than integrating a 3rd party scripting language. But if you're doing more complex things or just want to learn more about scripting in general I'd definitely say to go with something like Lua.

Byron

Oct 11, 2006 at 3:52 AM

I was quite surprised to see that this book had a pretty good section on integrating LUA into an engine:

Programming Game AI by Example

zerotri

Oct 11, 2006 at 1:38 PM

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Original post by Byron
I was quite surprised to see that this book had a pretty good section on integrating LUA into an engine:

Programming Game AI by Example

I second that. I haven't actually embedded LUA into anything, simply because I don't like the structure of the language(more of a plain C or C++ person), but the book has a large section on embedding LUA, along with a good explanation on some AI topics.

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