Visual scripting vs Coding?

Tif Tif · 2016-02-11T04:43:29

There is a new engine again and I think it has a visual scripting editor same as Unreal. Question though when do you use Visual scripting and when do you do coding? VS is use mainly on gameplay I think and if that's the case then will there be a time that coding will be replace by VS on game engines? Cause Unreal have VS, Cryengine have VS and infact they all encourage people to use VS rather than coding(since most tutorial focus more on VS tbh. For example unreal. There are too many tutorials about blueprints.)

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Started by newbie_game_dev February 10, 2016 06:48 AM

11 comments, last by I_Am_DreReid 8 years, 2 months ago

Nypyren

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February 10, 2016 07:23 PM

There are certain things we do in programming where having some quick way to define our own DSL inside our source code itself would be ideal (ideally in a manner cleaner than preprocessor macros or template metaprograming). Visual and Text both have their own strengths and weaknesses, but they're both just different representations of information that could be represented in lots of different ways.

If we could quickly and easily define our own optimal representations ourselves, I think that would give us the most convenience, flexibility, and power.

Khatharr

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February 11, 2016 03:29 AM

I sort of like the animation state machines in Unity, but apart from that I really dislike visual scripting, since it's just faster and easier to write out what I want instead of wrestling with a UI.

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