hello ppl, i am working on a 3D game engine and i wanted to add scripting support to it. i have chosen LUA as the scripting language and have done some basic work.( still i am a comlepte noob in terms of LUA .....) wat i basically want to do is like this : for example a patrol script .... that wud enable an NPC to patrol between waypoint 5 and 6. MOVE(WP5) IDLE() MOVE(WP6) IDLE() i know the basics like exporting functions to LUA and stuff the problem that i am facing is that for that above script to work i need to stop further execution of the script once the move function is called ...... and resume execution (once the bot has moved to the given location .... ) from the next statement i.e. IDLE() well one of the reasons that i want this to happen this way is that the script is called(executed) at every frame to determine the bots behaviour. anybody has any ideas on this one ..... is there sumthin that i am doing wrong??? urgent help is needed. sorry for my poor english but i hope that i have expressed myself clearly .... enygmyx.

Hey there,

I''m having a similar problem as you. I''m thinking that an easy solution might be to read in the file, tokenize it around the pauses (Idle()) you want, and then use lua_dostring as warranted. I''m sure someone will post a better solution though.

-stilltjack

One possibilty is to have the script called back when the action is completed or when/if something caused the action to fail. For example, in your script you tell the program to move your object to a certain way-point and if the object encounters resistance, then the script would then be called to take whatever action you wish. Also you should have the script set up a time interval for the script to be called for any bot logic that you might want it to do along the way. An example: you could have the script set up a 3 second callback timer when the bot is moving to waypoints. This way, you could have the bot check if any enemy are in range and if so, it can take another action like "attack enemy".