A type of programming, often meant to be easier to learn than more "traditional" programming. Scripting is often used when performance is less important than ease of use. Examples of scripting languages are: Javascript, Lua, Perl, Python, and PHP. Scripting languages are often interpreted instead of ...
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How can I toggle/cycle through settings?
I want to be able to cycle through names, scripts
or source commands.
By cycling i mean switching to another name, script or command after i press a button. Pressing this button repeatedly will go ...
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Unity3d NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object
I'm making a script to climb ladders in my game.
These are the variables used in the function.
private Vector3 climbDirection = Vector3.zero;
private Ladder currentLadder = null;
private bool ...
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How do I get coordinate information from .txt by unreal scripting?
I have following problem. I try to spawn some selfcreated .fbx static meshes into Unreal Engine by using unreal scripting. Therefore I have exported the coordinates in an .txt-file, where the static ...
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How to allow other games to communicate with my Lua scripts?
I am planning some small games that will all rely on a single system of Lua scripts to manage some unified data about:
Some achievements that are common to each game.
The player's progress in ...
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Coroutines in series
How would i go about stacking up a series of Coroutine calls that should be executed one after the other?
I have tried getting a flashing color effect looping a series of color lerps in a coroutine ...
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How to define data for an input sequence game?
I'm starting to program my very first game, it's a clone of DDR/Stepmania done for research purposes and learning.
I (at this early stage) get most of the UI/Music/input work that should be done, but ...
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Best practice child and parent script [closed]
What is the best practice coming to wher to place the code in this scenario.
I have a gamobject called player. It has lots of child objects. One of them is sword.
Like this:
Player
Body
Head
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How to implement scripted events?
I'm building a game in C++ (using SDL) for a college project, I'm trying to figure out how to script events that happens when a player does something, or some time passes etc.
I have a and idea of ...
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How is scripting done in games such as Zelda?
How do games implement their triggers and events that make up the plot of the story. For example, to be concrete how would one implement the story of a game such as The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the ...
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Scripting a game engine
I'm kinda new to scripting and combining languages with each other so i have a question about something that confuses me about it.
If you want to script a game engine, do you embed the script in the ...
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Where can I modify the default damage system on UDK
I want to make a custom damage system on my game but I can't find the function that handles it...
I looked on Actor.uc but the only thing I've found is the event TakeDamage, but there's nothing on it ...
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Game Logic Update Order
Is there a commonly-accepted general approach to the order of processing logic updates?
My current 2D platformer has objects that implement different concerns, including the following:
Notifiable - ...
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Advice on NPC architecture [closed]
I'm developing a 2D Zelda game with LibGDX in Java using TileD maps. I am now adding NPCs to the engine and I'm thinking about how to make them so it's going to be easy for me to add/edit their custom ...
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Advice on developing a random event engine [closed]
I am looking into creating a random event engine like the one found in the Paradox Interactive’s Europa Universalis franchise.
They use a ‘mean time to happen’ mechanic that applies various ...
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Binding globals to lua editors
Is it possible in any existing IDE for Lua to somehow define globals, modules etc. that my potential application would bind to lua_State?
It'd be neat to see code completion feature that works with ...
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Creating a game with in game programmable AI
I am looking to make a game where the player can access an in game terminal and then use this terminal to write AI logic in a programming language such as C++ or C#, then they can compile the code and ...
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Building a visual scripting component (like Kismet) [closed]
I'd like to know how can one get started building a visual scripting component (or what is the more accurate term for this type of component?) such as UDK's and Unreal Engine's Kismet.
For those who ...
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What ways are there for making vector types available in scripting?
I use Google V8 engine to embed Javascript into my game for scripting. As interface to my native code, I already registered some C++ functions to the scripting context.
In the native code, I make ...
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Unity third person controller and hills
So i've been building a game and using the out of the box unity thrid person controller demo stuff.
I found that even the tiniest of slopes seems to stop the "dude" dead in his tracks.
Is there an ...
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Abstract Java game objects for Jython
I want to create an abstraction layer between my Jython Script objects and my Game Objects. I am not making the all of the engine in Jython. Most of my game logic is in Java. I just want to expose ...
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How far should I go in securing Groovy mod scripts?
I am developing a game in java and plan to embed the Groovy script engine to allow for more robust modding options. This comes at a price, of course. Groovy can access anything java can by default, ...
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How to keep Lua bindings from cluttering up C++ code? [closed]
I'm writing a game engine that uses C++ and Lua (and Luabind).
Currently, I'm writing all the bindings inside the constructor of the class being binded. I really don't like this because it's ...
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Scripting a sophisticated RTS AI with Lua
I'm planning to develop a somewhat sophisticated RTS AI (eg see BWAPI). have experience programming, but none in game development, so it seems easiest to start by scripting the AI of an existing game ...
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How would one go about integrated python into a c++ written game for the use of user-made scripts
I'm quite new to game development (not the site) and I'm currently just trying to educate myself about some certain things before I really begin working and a game.
anyway, I'd like to know what ...
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how to link a c++ object to a local variable in Lua
I'm completing my scripting interface with Lua, but recently I've stuck at some point. I have several functions for my Entitiy events like Update(). I have a function called create_entitiy() which ...
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Sub-systems in game engines
So here's the problem- I'm writing my own engine library, and it works fine with stuff like menus and the actual game screen. The thing is, I can't really figure out how to integrate something like an ...
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Is implementing your own scripting language viable?
I am coding a beat 'em up game in C++ and the time has come to implement scripting for events, triggers, cutscenes etc.
I have read around on the internet and gotten a fair bit of information. My ...
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How to handle scripted events in a 2d java game?
I'm in the planning phases of a 2D java game. The game is a tile-based platformer with some action-y parts to it, like a Metroidvania formula game.
The static portion of each stage is expressed as an ...
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Implementing a wait function in a game script
I have been implementing behavior for enemies in my game and so far I have been doing it sort of like below:
public void update()
{
if (frame > 60 && frame % 30 == 0)
{
...
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Detecting if “Wall” To The Left or Right Of Player Unity3D
I am working on a 3D Platformer in Unity3D and I need to prevent the player from going through walls. The movement for my player works like this:
(A bird-eye-view representation)The areas the ...
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Game Development AI, NPC & Entities Definition using Scripting Languages
i am developing a Multiplayer(actually MMORPG) architecture for learning purpose.
I do have some game developement background, but all my engines were very rigid and completly developed for the game ...
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What to pass to scripting
I am using Java and libgdx to create a game and have decided to go a data driven approaching with Jython for this refactoring (just picked up Jython, have used Java for a while). The game is a ...
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How do I make someone walk in Skyrim?
I'm coding a mod for Skyrim with Papyrus and the Creation Kit. I can't seem to get an Actor to move from point A to point B. I know there's a function to teleport an actor, but how can I make them ...
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Playing different particle effects in Unity on the same ParticleSystem
The question really sums it up: What is the best way to use one particle system for playing different particle effects?
The scenario: GameObject is picked up and it starts playing a simple indicator ...
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InputManager in Unity
I´m having a rough time trying to figure out a proper way of dealing with key mapping and key bindings in unity.
The built-in unity input manager is useless to me since it doesnt support key mapping ...
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generating animations in runtime
i am creating my 3d game engine using Opengl.
this question might sound stupid to you but i am still in the process of learning, i have a 3d animated girl that slaps guys of different talls on the ...
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Batch mesh simplification
I need a script for simplifying meshes, to run on a server in headless (no GUI) mode. Are there open source (or at least gratis) tools out there I could use for this? Or, how would I script Blender to ...
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How does Unity use C# as a scripting language?
To my knowledge, thus far, I have thought that C# is and has always been a compiled language. I have recently started studying Unity3d and noticed that they give C# as an option for scripting and ...
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How to change Vectors due to change in it's dependent Base Vector?
PLOT :
I have been developing a game where the player falls down on Y axis and the camera is a Top-Down view camera. The camera, player (main character in the game) movements etc. have all been ...
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How do I change the window position in Unrealscript?
So when I start my game it starts out in the middle of my screen at 1024x768 resolution, but then when i change the resolution via a consolecommand("SETRES ..."); it resets the window position to the ...
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Does it make sense to use Lua scripting in a game developed in Python?
Well for C++ written games using Lua scripts for easy changing ai, quets etc is very reasonable and it's common. However now I'm going to write a game in pure python and I don't know if I should use ...
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How might I script the creation of CLR objects?
I am looking for a method to script the creation of entities (arrays of components) for delivery through my entity factory, i.e scripted creation of .net objects.
I have looked into Lua but it seems ...
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Are any scripting languages designed to be reloaded at runtime?
I'm currently working on my first game engine. So far, I have a cross-platform rendering framework and support for numerous file types, but game development is still a hard slog when I'm having to ...
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How do I create an actor class in UDK that will spawn a specific particle system?
I'm trying to write a new class that I can drag from actor classes window into the scene and it will spawn a specific particle effect. Its going to be a 'prop' that later will also contain a static ...
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Why released games usually contain their scripts sources?
AFAIK people like scripting because it's easier, and it makes development cycle faster. But what about when games are shipped. No one expects shipped binaries to be changed, unless there is an update ...
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A good approach on working on player controller for movable platforms?
I have got my player controlling working out decent enough, except with mediocre animation controller for the player, but oh well. All I have done so far is basic input: move, run, jump, multi-jump. ...
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Is there a logic game engine to be used in OS game? [closed]
Ludocore is a paper where a research on a logic game engine is presented.
For game I cooperate on -- Opendungeons -- it would seem fine to have separate abstract layer of code which would deal only ...
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How to dump the dom in Qt Script?
Good afternoon,
I’ve connected the Qt (4.8) script engine up within my application.
I’m still learning how to make my application accessible from scripts.
I’d like to debug it by enumerating ...
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How can I instantiate my variables in Boo?
I have a Player Attributes class:
import UnityEngine
class Stat ():
public current as int
public max as int
class PlayerAttributes ( MonoBehaviour ):
public Name as ...
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Torque2D default t2dTileMap object
When I start a blank project I have noticed that I get one t2dSceneGraph and one t2dTileMap (under the project tab). I selected the t2dTileMap and gave it a name 'tilemap'.
In my game.cs function ...
