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What is a good “easily” moddable and scriptable 3D game?
I've made a fair number of 2D games (and actually completed/released a few of them). I'm hesitant to move into the 3D realm, because of the order of magnitude (everything takes ~10x more work).
To ...
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What are the pros and cons of Lua vs. Python as a scripting language for XNA/C# platform?
I am thinking about giving a go to one of my ancient ideas for a game. The core point of this game would be the possible level of functional customization of the game environment and objects (such as ...
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How to bind a template method with tolua [migrated]
I need to bind a simple template method to LUA, something like:
void addComponent<T>(IComponent*);
I'm using tolua to do the bindings but it doesn't support class/method templates (tolua++ ...
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What's the most sensible way to implement lambdas in scripting language? [migrated]
I have this modified code example I took from the wikipedia article on anonymous functions.
comp(threshold)
{
return lambda(x)
{
return x < threshold;
};
}
main()
{
a = ...
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Exporting Blender bones
I wrote an exporter for blender models that works great for meshes. I'm attempting to extend that to bones defined in blender. However I haven't found good information for exporting bone data. How can ...
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How to make and render a simple game just with 3d max?
I want to make a simple EXE file, where there is one object in the scene and the user can rotate that object by using arrow keys (or mouse).
Is there any way in which I don't have to use a game engine ...
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Unity: Assigning a key to perform an action in the inspector
I am trying to write a simple piece of code in JavaScript where a button toggles the activation of a shield, by dragging a prefab with Resources.load("ActivateShieldPreFab") and destroying it again ...
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Changing properties for multiple objects in unity 3d free?
So my team and I need to assign values to specific values in the inspector to large numbers of objects.
For example, we have a script that's assigned to all the walls, and all the floors.
We want to ...
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Game State Management using Lua
I want to be able to (only) define game states using Lua script, but I'm not sure how I should do it. Here's what I have in mind currently:
For each state, I will create a .lua file that contains a ...
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Should scripts interact with an abstraction of the engine?
I'm using Java and Jython, and after some research I discovered giving scripts direct access to the engine interface could be a mistake, as it would tightly couple the two.
It looks like most ...
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When would I use “scripts” or “scripting” in a game, as opposed to the core language?
The terms scripts and scripting appear to be used interchangeably on the Game Development Stack Exchange, but other than reading questions about a scripting language choice, I don't understand the ...
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Storing Entity Meta-Data
The question is about how to handle data about entities, but not particularly useful to the entity itself. An example of such data may be the external script that controls the entity's behavior or the ...
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Entity position: In map or in script?
I'd like to know how others have handled the issue of storing the entity's position. (Or maybe it's not an issue and I just make it too complicated.)
I'm undecided on whether to store the position of ...
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Why place entity config outside of scripts?
I've seen a lot of games that define the entity components in script files, but when they configure each entity and specify what components it has, they use some other file format (like XML). Why do ...
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How useful would it be to know a scripting language when developing an iOS game? [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
Why do we use scripts in development?
I just starting learning iOS game development. I plan to make games using the cocos2d framework. While reading game dev related ...
