Basic scripting engines

Fuzztrek · 2003-03-26T13:50:20

Hello Everyone I''ve been reading Mr. McCuskey''s book "Special Effects Game Programming with DirectX", and, while I find it *very* helpful and interesting, I was wondering what other methods of parsing files there are. Mason''s scripting engine is for particle engine files, and I plan on creating an engine with similar or more advanced capabilties than his. In SEGP, he cuts up the file into keywords which are put into a vector. The vector is then processed. I probably wouldn''t be thinking about this so much if it weren''t for the fact that particle system scripts do not just contain variable values. They also have some controlling info, like "at 0.5 color = rgba(255, 0, 255, 125)". I guess I''m not exactly sure how I should handly the file. Once I have the data I shouldn''t have much trouble getting it to do something, but I''m not sure how I should store it. Anyone have some ideas? I''m not sure if I''ve been to vague or not, and if so I shall explain in more detail. Any help is greatly appreciated. ¬_¬